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4 minutes ago, Armagon said:

True true, but hey, it is pretty funny how Brazil is the one country in the continent that doesn't speak Spanish. Yes, I know it's because it started as a Portuguese colony but still.

Well there are the Guyanas, and there's Belize also.

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1 minute ago, Armagon said:

I know you meant the Latin America of Europe but the bolded part obliterates Brazilians lmao.

Lmao, look in my defense: I know you know what I meant so I didn't feel inclined to write 50 different clauses for my joke.

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4 minutes ago, Armagon said:

Unfortunately, in current year, a few Eastern Europe countries still have segregated schools specifically to give Romani kids second-class education.

Eastern Europe honestly sounds like the Latin America of America, lol. Minus the speaking the same language part.

4 minutes ago, Armagon said:

Reading up on it, the word gypsy is kinda slur for them over in Europe but in America, it doesn't really have negative meanings anymore.

I see. Yeah I tried to avoid using that word.

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3 minutes ago, Armagon said:

Like I get that you can't just let people freely come in but maybe streamline the immigration process then? It's bad if the borders are too tough but you also have to let people in too. It's a balancing act but also the average illegal immigrant pays more in taxes than Jeff Bezos so maybe we should strip his citizenship instead.

Yeah, I don't understand why their pea brains can't process such a simple damn thought 🤯

4 minutes ago, Armagon said:

For example, ask a European what their opinion is on the Romani.

On that topic, I always get confused. I know Romani are not Romanians or have anything to do with Rome, I forget, don't they come from like central asia or something?

5 minutes ago, Armagon said:

although you could argue the World Wars were just a single war with a truce period.

You could, but I wouldn't. I think the conditions were different enough to warrant it being a different war. Like I don't think WW2 was caused by WW1, it was caused by everyone liking the Nazis secretly so nobody said anything when they rose to power (except for socialists but those got suppressed more heavily) and did their shit until they got their doorsteps threatened (France, England, and the US, literally).

9 minutes ago, Armagon said:

I like it but it does have Cold Steel moments.

Words cannot describe how dull CS1 felt, and how terrible CS2 was. I hear it gets back to being really good with Hajimari and Kuro so I want to get to them, at least.

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16 hours ago, Acacia Sgt said:

More swing. It's something of a trend that Hispanics, specially religious ones, vote Republican. Though if I recall, it tends to be over specific reasons (abortion, stopping the "commiecrats" in the case of the Cuban-Americans, etc.), otherwise, the Republicans' WASP-ness would've turned them off a long time ago.

Republicans also are at least competent in reaching out to them. They aim for Hispanics who know little to no English to spew their propaganda.

Yeah this is specifically true, it always hurts me to see my hispanic family vote Republican cuz it's so dumb. Also because they are zealously homophic and transphobic and they won't ever budge on those because "muh religion"

Also, in large part it's the Democrats who do nothing to appeal to Hispanics.

14 hours ago, Lightchao42 said:

Ouroboros actually explaining what their plan is? Impossible... (Cold Steel IV, after the fifth Rivalry)

No but ACTUALLY? I haven't gotten to CS4 yet (I beat CS2) but Ouroboros falls off so hard after Sky... it's quite sad.

13 hours ago, Armagon said:

Spain (and Portugal) saw the Reconquista, the longest recorded war ever fought, at like 784 years. Slowly pushing the Muslims out of Iberia. Would not surprise me if a lot of Spaniards can trace their lineage to Middle Eastern ancestors.

Hell, Latinos fall into that too if you go back far enough. 

I find it also quite unfortunate that despite years of cultural cohesion and mixture, they ended up being completely kicked out and outlawed, and even to this day, at least as far as I can tell, there is a strong anti-muslim sentiment in Spain.

Maybe it's just an alt-right thing.

Also, 784 years? But was it continously one war, or was it like the 100 years war, where it was actually more like 3 wars but all super long and only with few years of peace?

13 hours ago, Armagon said:

They still didn't explain shit tbh.

About what I expected from CS4 lol, my friends tell me it sucks ass hahahaha.

5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Don't people usually start with 6? That's the one with all the characters everyone knows, right? Aren't the older games harder to find?

Yeah because the PC-98 games are all like, different. The character designs are different too, even though some of them are the same like Reimu or Marisa.

I started with 1 because I wanted to work my way up, lol.

Also they are really easy to find on the Moriya shrine website, so that's what I did. It even has a handy emulator guide.

5 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I am pretty white, though I get tanned easily. But it's mostly my hairstyle. I have long black hair that I wear in a ponytail, a round beard and a stache that just can't seem to reach the beard. All in all, I do look rather arabic, I guess, even though I've no muslim blood in me that isn't as diluted as any other Spaniard's.

Long hair gang 💪, though I can't make mine into a ponytail just yet, but I can let the bangs out and the hair flow through the front of my shoulders it's pretty awesome  (not as exaggerated as this, unfortunately)

I've also always been fascinated with people who have those big ass moustaches, how they do it? Mine doesn't seem to ever grow that way but then I see people get full on bushes lol. Genetics, probably, and for me I'd have to really look into how to condition the stache to grow. Not that it bothers me tbh. I like the little facial hair I get.

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3 minutes ago, Armagon said:

I feel like a lot of Puerto Ricans don't consider themselves Americans the same way Americans do.

I mean, it makes sense, PR is basically it's own country, aside from the fact that it's not a sovereign country.

Strange, because I thought there was a movement to make it an official U.S. state.

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2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Meanwhile I'm told I look like a taliban.

Ayo what the fuck! That's, messed up.

2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Yeah, except this is the leader of a nation. Imagine trying to do diplomacy without understanding the other dude.

Yeah lmao.

2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I play Touhou music lol. Though I curious to try at some point, they look like fun games underneath the anime.

I started playing Touhou 1, then 2, and now I'm on 3. 2 is my favorite so far, I still haven't beaten the extra stage but I think I'll move on before I try to beat it.

2 hours ago, Armagon said:

Bro, Puerto Rico hardly teaches it's students English. I've spoken with enough Puerto Ricans who barely understand English. A coworker tells me some schools do teach it but the same way high schools have foreign language classes. Most who attended those end up forgetting it anyways.

It's literally a U.S. territory you'd think they'd try harder bruh.

2 hours ago, Armagon said:

The world cannot handle such a crossover.

Damn two epic composers... that'd be insane.

1 hour ago, gnip said:

...am I a warmonger?

Conquer the world!

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2 minutes ago, Acacia Sgt said:

Ah, what a shame.

For long I've wondered how it could go being able to meet another member on SF in person. But well, I think the closest one lives in San Diego, but it's not someone who I converse with. Ah well.

It wouldn't be impossible, but also we haven't talked all that much 🤔

It's not like a 4chan meet-up though, lol. So it'd probably go infinitely better than you think.

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1 minute ago, Acacia Sgt said:

Oh, interesting.

I'm from Baja California. Can't get any more north than that, hahaha.

Shucks different sides of the North, Tamaulipas in my case. I have another friend I met recently who was also from Baja California... dang it.

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6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I don't exercise lol. I'm a soft boy who's had an easy life. Yesterday my dad broke this boulder in half with the sledgehammer after two blows that I could do nothing against. He's 68.

...Later he told me my problem was that I brought the hammer past my head. That's not how you do it, that's how they do it in movies. God fucking dammit.

Lol. Soft boy Nation 💪 (ironic I use this emoji) If you saw me irl you'd think you were Thor Bjornsson lol.

6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Hah! Not bad, but somehow I doubt that man knows English. Right wingers overhere don't tend to know. Our last president told then UK president David Cameron, "it's very difficult todo eso" and grinned dumbly.

Lmfao. "it's very difficult todo eso", this is just like Mexico.

I mean, we have a country very close by that speaks English, yet the education system can't seem to try hard enough to teach it to it's students! A shame, really.

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He was so fucking funny, he could not speak to save his life.

Lmfao, again.

6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I did, that's why I commented on the language!

Das ist der moderne Inquisition
gegen Dich, und die Sowjetunion!
Arbeiter, Bauern, fester die Waffen...

6 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

While he waits for his wanted criminal escaped to Saudi Arabia dad to arrive on a plane for his Christmas holiday in the country where he'd have been jailed years ago if he didn't happen to get pooped out of a royal vagina, yes.

Ah Spanish politics... and kings. 

At this point it seems like the kings are just kept there to be there, like a special aristocrat family and then nobody touches them with a 10 ft pole.


By the way, anyone play Touhou?


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Oh? Really? I'm Mexican, born and raised.

Ooh nice, what region? Me? Up north.

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1 minute ago, Armagon said:

To be fair, having a strong military is good. Whether the US was right to spend so much on it compared to everything else, to the point where it's stronger than foreign militaries 2nd to 10th combined, is debatable.

Personally, I think we can cut down on it. I mean, it's massive, redirecting the budget to social services isn't gonna dent them.

Yeah, I agree.

1 minute ago, Armagon said:

Oh you're Italian?

Nah American, raised in Mexico.

Based Italians however. 

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5 minutes ago, Sidereal Wraith said:

 

These videos are always so goofy

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4 hours ago, Armagon said:

Defamation laws in general are pretty weak in Europe. It's why JK Rowling can legally threaten anybody in the UK that calls her a meanie.

The other thing the U.S has over Europe is the military. I say this because even with NATO, Europe has to keep an eye out on Russia while Asia has to keep an eye out on China (and Australians have to keep an eye out on the emus). US sees China as an economic rival and Russia's just always been on our shit list but literally no other country in the world would dare a direct military attack on the US.

I don't wanna sound like I'm hacking off to the US military if that's what it sounds like, I'm just saying, it is a fact that we do have the strongest military in the world and it's not even close.

I see. Yeah US has some based things. Except the huge ass military. I mean, it does provide security but like at the expense of everything else!

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

You don't want to hide behind me, I'm a weakling and haven't fought a fight in my life.

That's so mean 😞 no you're strong and awesome. The beard gives you the power of an ox! Maybe.

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His current political opponent, Feijoo, sees names more along the lines of Frijolito.

...The one that doesn't seem to get any witty names like that is the leader of the alt right party, Santiago Abascal. That one just gets called "please leave" when he and Feijoo try to negotiate with other parties to put the two of them at the helm of the country.

SantiaGO aWAYscal imo.

Frijolitos pintos, claveles morados; Ay! Como sufren los enamorados.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

I cannot speak a lick of German beyond what the TF2 Medic yells, but I get the message.

...German's such a fucking badass language.

And the song is badass too! Listen to it!

Schreien die NATO-minister
Hoert, hoert ihr es nicht?
Er schrei is nicht mehr gefluster
Hoert, ja hoert ihr es nicht?

Yeah I memorized parts of it 😅

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Palanca is starting not to sound like a word anymore. Better fix it. With the palanca.

Palanca la palanca palanca palancada... por palanca.

4 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Emperor of a paper boat, perhaps.

I imagined him in his bubble bath playing with his boat toy

4 hours ago, Armagon said:

Mussolini went out much less pleasantly.

It was very pleasant for me. o7 It's been done before and I won't hesitate to do it again.

2 hours ago, Shrimpy -Limited Edition- said:

Reminder that the current PM of the UK is of indian descent and he is the most alt right one UK has seen in like, forever. Or here we some higher up in the Nazis being Lesbian. Or or or. 

Some peeps who belong to minorities like to think that acting all nationalist and part of the group might save them. Spoiler: It won't.

Really stupid, it annoys me too. Like, sure I guess if they are the ones *on* power they will be saved, but that's so much effort and self-hate too.

21 minutes ago, Sidereal Wraith said:

 

Look I'm an avid fan of the roman empire, but it being influential doesn't actually make it a good empire. You could make a claim for stability, but it very frequently had emperors overthrowing each other too.

I wouldn't actually consider it "evil" though.

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11 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Hah! Ahh, that's hardly true. 'Sides, all it's good for is bump my head on my apartment's lamps.

Well it's also good for me to hide behind! Not speaking about you of course but someone of that height could.

11 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

His name is Pedro Sanchez and they call him Perro Sanchez, meaning "Dog Sanchez." It's a highly witty play of words, you see. That's the most common example, but far from the only one.

Jajajaja, que buena burla.

I guess the one called Basileus would be the king instead then, because the last Byzantine Emperor died (alongside the Empire) and his son or nephew idr, sold the title of Basileus to the first king of Spain. This I guess makes Felipe VI the living Byzantine (thus Roman) Emperor. Holding the province of Hispania, awaiting for the vessel of the Imperium Romanum until its spirit can come back from the dead.

Of course, if he began saying he was a "Basileo", he might just get even more ridiculed.

11 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Heh... Ain't that the truth.

Arbeiter, Bauern, fester die Waffen! Heut ist das heillige Pflich!

I am referencing this

Spoiler

 

11 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Palanca works. And if it works, don't fix it. With the palanca.

Would be a real shame if someone threw a wrench huh? Might need the palanca after all. Or maybe a palanca instead of the palanca.

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41 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Except I'm over 1.90 lol

woah! I am looking up rn, I think I can find you if I look for the tallest thing... over 3000 km of sea!

42 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

My president gets called all sorts of shit

I bet Basileus isn't one of them, however

43 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

...The world's rotten to the core. Humanity needs a patch already, God plz fix.

The patch is called socialism! 😉 

And yeah I also don't know how to say crowbar in spanish lol, palanca seems like the closest thing.

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1 hour ago, gnip said:

Your being a dwarf would explain the fixation on beards...

Yeah but he's probably not 5'4 I am but not a dwarf

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole! Digging a hole!

1 hour ago, gnip said:

"The Union [conservative party in Germany] supports, no Ifs and Buts, the social state. But it can't be maintained if more and more support is promised without demanding anything in return from those who are able to work."

48 minutes ago, Armagon said:

Conservatives and hypocrisy go hand in hand.

Lmao even with the bolding I didn't understand what was wrong with this statement.

Tbf they probably meant like, the first is their support and the second is their opinion on what will happen. Still pretty poor wording.

49 minutes ago, Armagon said:

Yeah so you know how Europeans are always like "as a European, American's politics are so bizarre to me" whenever they find out about American shit, yeah well now it's my turn. Let me have this one. As an American, the fact that there's European countries that will punish regular people because they called them a big poopyhead is so bizarre to me.

Yeah, it is one thing the U.S. has over Europe I guess. Then again people exaggerate how much better Europe is at times, living there is good sure but uh let's not forget how they got this far more advanced than the rest of the world, capiche?

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7 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

The three main characters' personal battle themes are some of the best in the game, too. They're also awful to find online. Roland's doesn't even seem to have a dedicated upload, you gotta dig in the full OST uploads lol

Big peeve of mine to be honest. When you can only find remixes, or 1 minute versions, or 30 minute versions like, GIVE ME 3 MINUTE VERSIONS FROM THE GAME REE

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3 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

That's a pretty good suggestion too.

I have family that moved to Spain. I suggested they go there too, although I wonder if they'd be as entranced as I'd be, LOL.

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15 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Just the ROM and the patch, which you can find here. Prepatched versions online might be outdated (current version is 2.3), but don't worry, the translation patch's thread includes an extensive guide on how to apply the patch, with a link to the patching tool included and all.

Wonderful!

47 minutes ago, Armagon said:

Me and my dad were talking plans for the Spain trip. @Saint Rubenio any touristy places you can recommend that isn't like, the obvious stuff (like museum visits is something we'll obviously for example do so I don't need recommendations for those).

Go to Lugo up north. It has a full set of intact Roman walls that encompasses the entirety of the ancient city. I think that alone is very fascinating.

17 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:

For something more natural, Las Medulas was one of the biggest gold mines of the Roman Empire. They are well known for their red sand, which gives them a unique landscape. A most excellent place for hiking.

Ooh Rome!

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2 minutes ago, Acacia Sgt said:

Yes, it's on the GBA.

Awesome, that means it's easy peasy for me to try and emulate.

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1 minute ago, Acacia Sgt said:

J is one of those that require a fan translation, by the way.

30 can be bought on Steam, though.

Ah, well, I'm gonna be stingy xd. Maybe I'd try J, is it on like GBA or some super easy retro console to emulate, btw?

1 minute ago, Sooks said:

I’ve been needing to replace my joycons/buy a second pro controller for multiplayer but I still haven’t. Although I do have the excuse of not having needed it yet.

Anyway I hope you enjoy.

I will just say fuck the joycons, and get the pro controller. Let's see if this one is good.

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9 minutes ago, Sooks said:

YES reject SRPGS, play the best Zelda. And you know, get a new controller.

I should have ordered one ages ago lol idk why I haven't. Here I go. Gotta love gift card money 🙌!

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SRW, short for Super Robot Wars, is a SRPG series. Its main appeal is that it's a mega-crossover between licenced mecha series (though SRW has long added variety). Because of this, the series has been largely Japan-only, with some exceptions, mostly those that only make use of original content. The series began in 1991, and only until 2021 did we finally got a licenced game to be sold internationally. That said, a few do have fan translations, and lately the games have been receiving official English translations even if they still are only sold in East Asia, mostly thanks that online shops are no longer region-locked for the most part.

Admittedly, it might be too specific to cater to anyone. But I'd say there's still worth to try it out at least.

If I were to recommend a specific game, I've always considered SRW J to be a good entry. If not, SRW 30 has quite a few of "freeform" elements to built up a playthrough however you want.

Oh I know what SRW stands for, didn't know all that however. SRW J or SRW 30... ok I'll look into it!

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2 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:

Listen Heintz, I really think you should play Berwick Saga.

Hmm, I have the PS2 emulator set up. What do I need? Is there a prepatched version somewhere or will I have to learn how to patch a PS2 rom?

2 hours ago, Acacia Sgt said:

Or SRW.

Which game? What is it like? Come on sell me on the idea haha.

Wait I need to play Tears of the Kingdom lol... I need to get me a new controller first however.