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    The problem with Tauriel isn't so much that she was added, but that it's Tauriel. They're drawing a lot on Tolkien's other writings. They're not just telling the story of The Hobbit. Even with that, though, the second movie most definitely could have been half the length and not lost anything of value.
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    Fire Emblem needs good writing. There have been a bunch of great stories and characters in them, and there is a huge amount of potential in the stories we've seen. It's just that those stories tend to be not-so-well executed. Though there are other difficulties that come with being a video game that I don't think FE will ever be able to get past.
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    There is a long and proud history of making fun of stereotypes in comedy. So long as the stereotype is being played for comedy, not to actually be commentary on real Asians (or whatever group) then it should be fine. I can't actually comment on this specific case, since I'm not familiar with it, but that's my philosophy on the issue.
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    Scots one is not the Scottish language. It's just poking fun at the Scottish dialect, I think, although I'm not 100% up on how people view the Scottish dialect since we don't have many Scots here. This is what you get when you search for "Scottish Gaelic" in the language search.
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    This tier list for bottom tier. But seriously trying to objectively rank Disney movies relative to each other is a pointless endeavor.
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    Can we go back to Gordon Ramsay's dwarf porn double being found dead in a badger den in Wales? (Even if that was just a hoax.)
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    Yes, technically dialects refer to different ways a language is spoken by native speakers, while accents refer to how nonnative speakers speech is affected by their native language. Icelandic is just generally awesome.
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    what about game of all time?
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    I read that as "Flemish accents". My theatrical background makes this sort of a hard question for me, since I'm more used to fake stage accents/dialects than the real ones. I do rather enjoy received pronunciation, west Irish, and the various stereotypical foreign accents. Generally I don't much care what someone talks like. Except "y'all" still rubs me the wrong way. On the topic of theatrical stuff, received pronunciation is the English counterpart to what is officially called "Standard American," so saying "standard British" to mean received pronunciation is maybe not too outrageous? I mean, I don't really think it's reasonable to expect Americans to know all the specifics of British dialects, but it should be fairly apparent that there is no such thing as "just British."
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    Rewjeo replied to TheBattyOne's topic in General Gaming

    Not that hard if you just pick a corner to keep your high tile in. And also it helps if you're patient enough to make your moves slowly past a certain pint, though...
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    Not really. Living to 60 in the middle ages was not some outrageous thing like people think it was. And most people got married in their twenties. The confusion comes from the difference between average lifespan (includes all the people who die as babies) and life expectancy (how long people actually tended to live if they got through infancy and weren't killed violently) for the former and, for the latter, from nobility tending to marry children very young for political reasons. I mean, a 17 year-old was more grown up than now (where you can very reasonably be in school into your mid-twenties and beyond) but it's not like that was middle-aged back in the Middle Ages. Anyways, I'm not really sure what's up with this, since my understanding is that in other ways the west has more of an obsession with youngness while the east tends to think of age as a good thing.
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    Gordon Ramsay used to have a dwarf porn double. Unfortunately he was found dead in a badger den in Wales.
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    As a dog owner, I can confirm that I do, in fact, regularly sic my dogs on people and then send my victims to jail for animal abuse. I can also confirm that my sisters never, ever complain about their cats running into their bedroom doors repeatedly at three am and then yowling. I can also confirm that the dogs in my neighborhood will attack you if you try to cuddle with them, while the cats will never, ever hiss/bite/scratch you if you try to pick them up.
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    based on how college application results are going no
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    Could Jigglypuff perhaps get anything interesting out of the new fairy type? That's the only thing I can think of that she might have going for her, even though I'm personally fond of her for nostalgia reasons.
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    Last film was Frozen. It was good, but decidedly overrated. I didn't really think it was anything special among Disney films. I've seen stage productions of Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet since then, if that counts at all.
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    Why is Sonic hitting Pit with Sauron?
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    It's been a long time since I've read anything really substantive, but I just today read most of Tolstoy's short story The Death of Ivan Ilyich. I'm getting the feeling from this I get from a lot of older texts - the writing style just really doesn't work for me, but I'm sure once I finish it I'll appreciate the content and like it a lot more than I do right now.
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    Oh, I did not mean that buffing enemies was bad, just that I find difficulty from super buffed enemies to be not nearly as interesting as difficulty coming from other things, and if I had to pick between either stronger enemies or other stuff, I would pick the other stuff.
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    I would argue yes. Difficulty should not, imo, come from one super big challenge but rather from a bunch of smaller ones coming together - i.e. dealing with dismounting, fatigue, no funds. But I don't know how games could really fix that without making at least one of the modes feel poorly done most of the time - either normal mode is lacking or hard mode has extra stuff just tacked on. I mean, imagine if there was a normal mode to FE5 where you actually had funds, for instance.
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    They do. My friends had them for a while, but they were not particularly functional so they just stopped using them.
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    Really? I regularly hear of schoolmates waking up to carcasses on their bed/outside their bedroom doors.
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    The way I see it, there are two acceptable plans of action: Accept that Russia gets Crimea, but only in exchange for Kaliningrad. In the name of good borders. or Crimea goes to Turkey
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    How many times does this have to come up? Seriously, it's plain not true. She tries to get out of it without fighting, but in the end has to fight the laguz. Really, how many people here, if they were told "go to war or literally your entire country dies of a horrible plague" would choose to kill their country?
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    Apparently ironically, I like it because I find it to be the only game in the series that (besides when I first played the series) challenged me without frustrating me. I find most "difficulty" in FE games to basically be a test of patience. FE5 has you juggling things and you need to figure out how to balance them. Usually I just feel like I'm climbing up a bigger mountain than on Normal mode or H3 or Maniac or whatever.
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