Dr. Tarrasque
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Nope. Plenty of cases where I've found different entries that I prefer.
Metroid - Fusion was first, Super and Zero Mission and preferred
Fire Emblem - Binding Blade was first, favorite is Thracia 776
Megaman X - Megaman Xtreme 2 was first, X6 and X1 are preferred
Ori and the Blind Forest - Played them in order and much prefer the 2nd game
Kingdom Hearts - Played them in order, prefer the 2nd game
Super Mario Bros - Played Mario 1 and 3 first, prefer Super Mario World.
20xx - Played 20xx first, prefer 30xx.
Sonic - Played Sonic 1 and 2 first, refer Sonic 3.
Super Robot Wars - Played Alpha Gaiden first, favorite is W followed by Z2 Saisei
I could go go on!
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As much as I'd like to see other states follow Colorado and bar the Orange Turd from the ballot, I'm not holding my breath on it and expect the Supreme Court to shoot it down despite how hypocritical it would be.
DNC appears to be moving to cancel the primary in several states such as Florida which they've pretty much given up on at this point and doing this kind of shit is just gift wrapping 2024 to Trump. It's bad optics and it's a situation where they may as well let the primary play out regardless. The fools need to starve the Republicans, not feed their propaganda.
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15 hours ago, Jotari said:
Hot take. Every single Fire Emblem protagonist is a horrible person because they all reinforce a system of absolute authority of a dictator (except for Ike, but he kills people for money). I think most, if not all, of you will find that to be an absurd statement, and I honestly don't believe it myself. But it's true. All of them believe in the power of a monarch with the inherent absolute authority. But we give them a pass because they don't live in our real world, they live in a fantasy medieval world where that is the standard. But we have our own medieval world and this is something that crops up when we do analyze history. And it's a bit inconsistent and steeped in bias as to how we apply it. Here are some examples of how I think things are perceived by general western modern culture.
A monarchy is a monarchy. It is not inherently evil and the possibility of a benevolent monarch/dictator is as existent as the capability for humans to do good and bad. Monarchies have just been plentiful throughout history and probably seen as simpler for storytelling purposes.
As they say, hindsight is 20/20 and even if there are people that understood that the atrocities they were committing at the time were evil, unfortunately popularity and self-preservation do have to come in to play because a man that may try to protect others from being burned because they're considered witches would likely just end up burning alongside them as they may not have the backing of others. Here, it's a gamble of your life to throw in your support. Similar thing with the pro-Palestine and pro-Israel camps today.
As for why some are perceived differently or why people defend it with "it was a product of our time", it often comes from identity protective cognition. If you're someone who's detached, you won't care much when someone says horrible truths like George Washington was a slave owner, many of our previous presidents were jerkbag politicians just like Trump, our most successful 3rd party candidate ran on Segregation.
Whereas your typical American will play defense because being American is a part of their identity and like with most people, if you attack something that's a part of their identity, chances are that it will be backfire or be ignored to protect themselves.
I'm for history just being delivered raw and factual, not just telling the good parts and leaving out the bad, it's why I detest the pro-confederate American history.
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20 hours ago, Jotari said:
I'm sure their logistics analysts have some data to believe that's true, but it sounds like complete nonsense. The only way that would have an impact would be if the majority of people who wouldn't otherwise vote are democrats, which just sounds highly unlikely to be untrue. Having a job interfering with personal life is a pretty omnipresent thing (well at least for middle and working class, I assume those rich folk just sip champagne and snort coke on yachts all day).
That's the beauty of it. It sounds like nonsense but it really is just them admitting out loud how worthless they know they are in terms of being a governing party. They're more interested in just taking the bribes as they have been for years and enabling corporations to do what they want so long as the rich keep donating to anything that backs the Republican party. They count on suckers, religious and old people falling for their culture war BS to hold on to power without providing a real platform or solutions to the problems people face.
What, you need a second job to get by? You're upset that CEO pay has gone up 1400% or so since 1978 while your wages haven't kept up with inflation? You're tired of the ridiculous health care costs? You just found out the absurd tipping culture we have here isn't a problem in other countries? It's your fault and you just don't understand capitalism. We're in DC to get paid to say no to raising taxes on the rich and we'd have no problem taxing you normal fucks if we could enough enough suckers to give us total control:
20 hours ago, Sunwoo said:I'm assuming that their logic is that with the way things are now, just enough Democrats are unable to vote or inconvenienced enough to not vote to keep the Republican Party competitive. And that making it easier to vote would enable more Democrat-leaning voters than Republican-leaning voters.
Or at least, that's just my assumption.
Pretty much. They understand that they banked too hard on the whites that resented the Civil Rights act and the white population is decreasing while the nonwhite population is increasing and they don't really have a solid way to get more non-whites without alienating the ones they hold on to. Cubans in Florida have become a boon for them in that state but it's still not enough in the grand scheme of it all.
Places with lower voter turnout tend to be low-income areas packed with people and whenever you see that term, you assume it's non-whites so opening up that pool isn't something they're confident will get them votes without giving Democrats more pieces of pie. It's the same logic they use for denying convicts that have served their time the right to vote.
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34 minutes ago, Jotari said:
Because democrats are the only ones who work weekdays?
Because if more people turn out and vote, "you will never see another Republican president".
Again, in their own words.
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16 hours ago, Jotari said:
On a Wednesday!? How devilish. You guys get a day off for it yet (I say that as if it's a holiday where I'm from when it's not {well, I think, been a while since I've lived there}, course we don't have the issue of people fainting in lines because they need to wait so long either).
Can't get Election Day as a holiday because it would be a Democrat Power Grab according to the Republican Senate leader.
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12 hours ago, Etrurian emperor said:
Eh. I'd say its about as gentle inclusion of ''woke'' they could have gone for. If you have a setting in revolutionary France then escaped slaves from a French colony seems an intensely logical thing to include. Now its true the original Annette wasn't a black former slave, but the original Annette wasn't a character either. And as for more original content you can certainly do worse then an Aztec vampire demigod.
I'd have to disagree. A better way to have handled it is to have kept Annette and Tera as they were previously and introduce the 2 new characters much in the same as fashion as Sumi and Taka from the original series instead of trying to shoehorn one of them into a lead role when the source material has them as a "non-character" as you suggest.
Doesn't mean that have to work the same way as Sumi and Taka did, it just means that have a lesser role that takes less time away from the show with a character who is so far unlikeable and rather one-note despite the narrative trying to suggest otherwise.
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1 hour ago, Jotari said:
I took that to just be society in general, but I guess the church is a glove hand fit for such a plot point.
Sypha and Tera
Yeah the way it's worded implies the populace itself but like you said, the glove fits lol
That's interesting about Sypha. All I remember about the character from the source material was the manual and game referring to them as a "he" which they reference in the show.
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4 hours ago, Jotari said:
While I wouldn't categorize it as woke pandering, one thing where I'd definitely accuse the series of having an agenda would be in it's anti church rethoric. Course the church, especially the medieval church, is an institution deserving criticism, Castlevania just isn't the most suitable series for such a soapbox, as the games put the church very much in the "Good holy powers" category vs the "Bad hell powers" antagonists with killing Dracula's wife being the only really questionable thing they do. And if they just explored that then fine, but they go so far as to retcon characters that were church affiliated in the original games to be victims of the church just so there's no confusion between good and bad characters.
Without a doubt, the original series does have an anti-church rhetoric emphasizing altruism and sciences over blind belief in the church. At least the source material had details in it to make it all plausible..
Lament of Innocence (1094): Leon Belmont's game, Monsters started attacking nearby and his betrothed was captured by a Vampire. The Church forbade him from doing anything about that as they were more focused on fighting heretics. Leon relinquished his title of Baron and went off to find Sara on his own.
Dracula's Curse (1476): While it wasn't directly state it was the church, the bit about the Belmonts being exiled and nearly extinct because they were feared by the people is a detail in the bare bones story of the NES game.
but they go so far as to retcon characters that were church affiliated in the original games to be victims of the church just so there's no confusion between good and bad characters.Who?
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20 minutes ago, Jotari said:
I don't necessarily disagree with you. She is a somewhat unlikable character who didn't need to exist and in a show with such few episodes no doubt did take away from Richter. I'm just not necessarily sure woke pandering was the main intention and that her story might have developed naturally from what they wanted to do with the setting rather than deliberately targeting an audience. It is not off brand for the series to change stuff to try and make things work. Like, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is absolutely no indication that Elizabeth Barthory is some kind of vampire messiah from ancient Egypt in the games, she was just another generic revive Dracula villain. But they needed a villain and Elizabeth was there as an existing character so that's why she got that role.
Now when they change stuff as much as they did with Anette should they bother keeping the name at all? No, they probably shouldn't. It's not really going to please fans of the original. Tera's character was probably better off with the name Anette (and Tera could have been an actual nun) and the Caribbean pair could have been original characters (or not in it at all), like Alucard's Japanese friends. They weren't from the games, where they?
And while I'm at it, they should have just given the Abbot the name Shaft, the actual evil Priest from Richter's game.
Correct, Erzsebet Bathory seems to be an original. The closest thing to her in the games is Elizabeth Barthley from Bloodlines who is a niece of Dracula and shares the same historical figure referenced for the name, Elizabeth Báthory and her design seems pretty similar to Carmilla from Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust.Because of the ending of the original series, creative liberties in what they could use as villains was expected and I have no issue with the villains. The same does not hold true for good guys though lol.
Alucard's Japanese friends were not in the games.
I was fine with Shaft's absence but yeah, he could've been the abbot used here.
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14 hours ago, Jotari said:
Woke pandering...eh..I get why someone would say that but it might just be the end result rather than the intention. After all, they race lifted Isaac in the original animated series too and he ended up being pretty popular. So they were probably just trying to replicate that. Course, Arab Isaac wasn't exactly a woke character, being a villain devoted to murdering all humans and self flagellation. Anette being a slave with magic might just have come naturally from the setting. They knew they wanted to throw the whole French Revolution idealism into it. And Vampires feeding off of slaves is something of a natural fit for the time period. George R.R Martin came up with something similar in the 80s with Fevre Dream.
Though if I'm right and they do go to the future time period with Soma Cruz next, will they make Julius Belmont vaguely black or will Anette be bred out of him by that point? Feels like either would be an unpopular choice.
It's hard not to think it's woke pandering. The original character of Annette was just a damsel in distress who was Richter's girlfriend and Maria's older sister. The PSP game then gave her a boss fight in which she was turned, that's something they could've reused here and the evidence to that is basically what they did with making Tera be Maria's mother and what happens late in the season. With those elements, it really feels like they just wanted to shoehorn in some new creations (Annette and Edouard) into major roles while repurposing someone to keep a similar structure (Tera as mother instead of sister to Maria and caretaker instead of girlfriend to Richter). A damsel in distress with a boss fight, you really didn't need to do much else with the character but they chose to recreate her and have her take time away from developing Richter and the others. Her short temper and anger issues does not make for a likable character, she made those early episodes miserable. Why change an existing character into this and make it sap so much time from the main duo? Eduoard himself is a new character and he is fine (at least compared to this Annette), why didn't they just make Annette another character without doing all these changes just to make this new character replace Annette?
Isaac probably works better because like Annette, he was a minor character altered but he was developed from what he is in the source material and introduced slowly AFTER the main characters had their time. Annette was kinda just shoved in our faces early on as this character we're supposed to cheer for who is of African descent and is "more than someone just born into slavery" but EVERY SINGLE THING about her character revolved around her having been a slave.
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The latter episodes were the best part about it, most of the first season I found rather miserable because early on the show wanted us to focus on Annette to justify having changed her from being Maria's sister and damsel in distress to a girl who's entire character revolves around her having been born a slave who conveniently got magic powers. The change gets even weirder with Tera being repurposed to be Maria's mother.
I went in curious as to what they'd do with the antagonists and what kind of creative liberties they would take given how the previous series ended. The villains are fine/meh with Olrox being the most interesting of the bunch so far. Juste being there makes sense because his game takes place literally before Richter's Rondo of Blood and by the time he showed up it felt as if they finally threw a bone to the fans of the games. The new characters, I either didn't care for or just wish they didn't exist (Annette). I don't normally listen to reviews or comments of shows that plaster the word "woke" in it but I honestly cannot see the show as anything but woke garbage at the moment. I watched it with someone who has 0 knowledge of the Castlevania games and they shared the same sentiment.
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The first instance of a playable Warrior in the series and Axe fighters promoting into that class was in FE4 with Johalvier.
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Most of the Ys fans I knew from here are no longer around, but there were definitely a few back in the day. Before XSEED picked up Oath in Felghana and put it on Steam translated, a few of us had played a fan-translated version that had some interesting history behind it lol.
As for myself, I've beaten Ys I and II on the DS, Felghana before and after it was released on Steam, and Origin with all 3 characters A friend of mine has been recommending Ys 8 for a while now, maybe I'll look into it if I ever feel that Ys itch again.
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8 hours ago, Acacia Sgt said:
Well, that aged well.
https://apps.npr.org/election-results-live-2022/?#/states/PA/S
Fetterman won and flipped the seat. Though there's some concern with the Nevada one and Georgia going once again to runoffs, it seems the Democrats have retained their Senate majority.
That was surprising and hilarious. The rage from those expecting a massive red wave has been pleasant to see.
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Fetterman seems to be quite the perfect example of Democrats snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Sounds like we need to add "Attack their pockets" to the usual "Follow the Money".
Here's hoping the Fox News lawsuit costs them dearly.
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Serious Sam would also be low effort.
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9 hours ago, Etrurian emperor said:
Party of small government strikes again I see.
American conservatives are kinda shameful about state rights and have been since the 1800's. When they're not in power they demand states to decide matters, but the moment they get a chance they want their preferences settled into federal law.
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2 hours ago, Lord Raven said:
Also @Dr. Tarrasque how do you feel about the messaging the last few weeks?
There's been improvement. The White House tweeting the amount received in loan forgiveness in response to Republican politicians bashing it for students is the kind of shit they need to do more of.
Biden calling MAGA ideology semi-fascist also works and it was great to see conservatives getting triggered by it since it's the goddamn truth.
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4 minutes ago, Lord Raven said:
My question to you is, what makes you think this vilifying will make it to MSM outlets?
These things are happening. Look at Fetterman's campaign, look at Warnock's campaign against, respectively, Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker. Stacey Abrams and just about anyone running against a Republican in America is literally saying this on the campaign trail. Like, look at this by Beto O'Rourke.
https://mobile.twitter.com/travisakers/status/1557546910101250051
How much will this be repeated in the mainstream? MSNBC and CNN and NYT and shit tries to counterbalance Republicans, creating a false symmetry between the two parties. They did this with Trump.
As it currently stands, Clinton did exactly that, people were fence sitting to say it's all political bullshit. The media has no interest in actually reporting things. Basket of deplorables and some stupid fucking emails were more heavily emphasized than the fact that "basket of deplorables" was actually a speech about empathy towards certain parts of rural America. Or the fact that Clinton stated repeatedly she did not want to raise taxes on the middle class.
The message gets muddled because the media is intent on making things a horse race. Or they're Fox News. You should be aware of this, too. I advise you look up on what Steve Bannon actually did with Breitbart, because he did a lot of things to astroturf Breitbart to a mainstream audience that gets facebook addicted dumbasses to believe dumb shit. All messaging is met with "they're lying, they're playing politics, it's all a part of their games" by indifferent voters. This article gets at it better than anything else I've read or listened to. Dark Brandon is exactly the type of messaging the Democrats need.
It would reach their audiences if they did this on their live appearances, you literally see this from the Republican side all the time. They need to be smarter with how they frame their message.
For example, Abortion is one that should doom the Republicans this midterm if they can frame their arguments better. Highlight how the Abortion bans serve no real purpose to the people, it doesn't put food on the table and will just contribute to poverty. Highlight that this is the kind of actions Republicans take with their power while ignoring actual issues like the minimum wage, healthcare, inflation and the price gouging of necessities. Shit on the Republicans for suggesting the defunding of law enforcement due to a search of classified documents on one idiotic individual.
I understand quite well that mainstream media tries to "both sides" everything but that shouldn't be something that dissuades the Democrats from vilifying the Republicans, it's the reason for them to keep trying AND respond to attempts at "both sides"ing by calling it out and highlighting that this is the reason why the public gradually turns against MSM.
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1 hour ago, Lord Raven said:
Come on, this is a dumb point. Considering how Trump was literally raided by a D appointed DOJ, the last few weeks of Democrat legislative wins, and the literal fact that right wing uprisings are happening everywhere -- look at Macron vs Le Pen mark 2 -- nobody is doing a great job dealing with this in the west. It's far from just an American problem.
Hell, Poland is already lost to the extreme right wing. Republicans have a propaganda wing that the Democrats lack. It should never shock you how imbalanced it is, considering the mainstream media constantly insists on trying to bothsides the parties and people buy into that shit. No amount of messaging will get through to this country that's gerrymandered to all hell and has a Senate, when you can just criticize a Democrat and make it sound almost as bad as a literal treasonous conspiracy.
I hope the non-Fox News MSM actually wakes up after this. Because Armchair General is literally what the average indifferent American voter looks like.
The issue is that the right here is still incredibly stupid and the Democrats fail to capitalize on things as they should. When gas prices were outrages, the Democrats tried to pass a bill to stop the price gouging but the Republicans voted against it and then go back a few months where Rick Scott had the brilliant idea of increasing taxes on the middle class. Cases like that are instances where Democrats should be vilifying the Republicans and framing it for how it is: That this party has no interest in Democracy or earning your goddamn vote.
For how irrational and incompetent the Republicans tend to be, the Democrats just don't do enough to capitalize on it. If they did, our last presidential election would've looked more like 60%-40% of the popular vote. That's where we need to be to get rid of this asinine party.
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One thing I found interesting from the FBI raid is that now the right is also chanting to defund law enforcement.
The left calls for that due to an abundance of cops killing unarmed people that didn't pose the perceived threat.
The right calls for that because their god emperor was raided.
Then when you look at what conservatives are doing in European countries with better health care and it's amazing to see how much closer we are to Fascism than them. Just amazing how pathetic the American right is and how weak the Democrats have to be that they can't end the Republican party.
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Zookeeper's Burden is a hell of a drug.
Also, no mention of the 2 characters (with a 3rd coming soon) because we just ditched Ace since Nina becomes the safer and better DPS at higher entropies.