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So I recently got Forza Horizon 5, and it's been an absolute blast; probably one of the best racing games I've played in a good while, but I'm not very hard to please in in that regard. The visual car customization isn't as extensive as Need for Speed, but I can look past that with how many more cars are available (and Forza actually has Toyota, lol). Oh, and you can actually change the view to see what's in the cockpit of each car, which is absolutely awesome. Great attention to detail. Except in some cars. See, when the driver changes gears, you'll see their hand move to shift the transmission, which is typically what I've come to expect out of stick shift. It looks cool and feels cool. But then when you drive some of the more modern cars, they have these little buttons on the steering wheel to change gears. Not a stick shift, just... buttons. On the steering wheel. That's probably the lamest thing I've ever seen not just in a video game, but in a car. It might be more practical, but like... stick shift is so much cooler. And this leads me to ask: What's the lamest thing you've ever seen in a video game? Or just a lame thing in general?

Man, I swear, getting older makes time go faster. It's not fair.

I know, this account is old enough to start kindergarten. It's crazy how time flies.

My account turned 5, anyway. 5 years doesn't sound like a long time until you reword it to half a decade, then it sounds like a long time with the benefit of making me sound smart. Since I've joined, I've learned a lot and come a fairly long way (or so I would like to tell myself). It's also actually kind of bizarre how much has and hasn't changed in that span of time. Regardless, thanks for the memes, memories, and knowledge. I hope I'm making someone somewhere proud. Oh, and shout-out to my join-day twin @Ottservia. He's fallen off face of the planet for almost a year at this point, but I hope he's doing alright. Yeah, I'm sure he's fine. Here's to another half a decade!

Yeah man, I really despise characters like that, too. If I had to put them in a list, I would rank them:

Nope, it's not just you.

I've always wanted to say this in real life. i am now until december 23rd

no u Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! Enjoy your meals. Or else.

No, that's definitely true. There are concepts that some people just won't get, and that's fine. Something like science isn't one of my strong suits, for instance, but I do well with other topics like history and writing. It's different for everyone. but with all these tiktok social media trends, no one is gonna have any attention span left to learn anything

Every student has different learning styles, and every teacher has different teaching styles; some mesh together better than others, but there are also just straight up teachers that can't teach, whether that be due to ineptitude for the material their teaching, poor execution, or just general temperament, which is probably the most likely case. If your tutors were ready to give up on teaching you (lack of patience, probably), then they were never good teachers to begin with.

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i shall vehemently await the arrival of this

uh oh, now i have to actually defend my arguments The "weakest" Link and the "strongest" Lord would probably be pretty subjective, but like I mentioned with Byleth, he's essentially a demigod, so we'll give him the slot. As for Link, I'd probably go with Spirit Tracks Link, but I would still say he's pretty tough. ST Link still has access to revival items through Purple Potions, which act the same as fairies, so no amount of Divine Pulsing is going to stop that. He also has the Bow of Light and the Lokomo Sword (which while not nearly as powerful as the Master Sword, it's still somewhat comparable in power), so he would be able to fight against the range and power that the Sword of the Creator has. ST Link also has an Engineer's License and can drive a whole-ass train while Byleth has to walk everywhere. So ST Link has, arguably, better range and speed, not to mention he's a smaller target so he'd be harder to hit. I can't forget that he's got an impenetrable shield, as well. Even then, ST Link also has the feat of defeating the Demon King Malladus, who's power is comparable to Ganon, albeit probably not as powerful, but still quite potent. Link was able to come out on top as the superior conductor when battling the Demon Train, and then he and Zelda defeated him once and for all with the power of friendship. It only took two people to defeat Malladus whereas it takes Byleth and, what, 11 others to beat the likes of Rhea and Edelgard? I'm biased, so I'm going to give it to Link again. He's also, like, 12 to 14 years old, and he's a train conductor, so he's probably just as intelligent as Byleth, if not moreso. he could also just run over Byleth with his train, choo chooooooo

From a first impression, I would say Link wins a majority of these fights, mainly for the fact that fairies exist, which act as revives, and depending on the game, he can hold up to 4-6 of them at any given time. Oh, and then there's the Hylian Shield. He could win through sheer attrition, but I think it's important to first count out how many Links and Lords there are; I'll stick to just in-game appearances, though. Sorry, Al. I'll keep a running total in parentheses next to each entry. So in a total brawl, there would be about 2-3 lords per Link. Even then, I think Link would fairly easily dispatch a majority of the Lords. Link has such a massive arsenal at his disposal, not to mention he has access to steeds like Epona, so he would be able to keep up with mounted Lords just fine. He's also got about as much access to magic as the likes of Celica and Micaiah, maybe more. If things get dicey, he can just play a song on his flute or play on his ipad and teleport away. There's also things like fairies and Mipha's Grace to revive him if he needs it. A lot of the Links have also single-handedly fought countless monsters far bigger than them and come out on top, not to mention a lot of them have gone up against the purest incarnations of evil and won (sometimes multiple times). I would say each Link individually has far more notable feats than a good majority of the Lords, and he can outlast them without much trouble. (there is also the Four Sword, which splits Link up into four versions of himself, easily quadrupling his power) I'm also going to cite Link's battle with Pit from Palutena's Smash reveal trailer. Dude kicks an angel's ass and is then willing to fight a goddess immediately after. There is absolutely no length that Link will not go to in order to win, a testament of the unquantifiable courage that he possesses. He's unstoppable. (I also absolutely adore this moment (spoilers, obviously) from the final boss of A Link Between Worlds. There's just such unadulterated, raw character in his gesture of courage, and it's legitimately one of Link's best moments in the entire series, even for how short it is). I think the only Lords that could give a Link any legitimate trouble would be Sigurd, Seliph, and Byleth. The first two would canonically be one-man armies with Tyrfing, and Byleth is the closest thing to a demigod that we're going to get out of a main character. But considering some of the insane threats Link has faced and conquered, like Demise (a dude who gave the goddess Hylia a run for her money), Vaati (a dude turned eldritch horror monster that takes four Links at a time to defeat), Majora (some whack-ass evil spirit that created a whole ass moon to drop on the land of Termina and made Link have to reset 3 days over and over again in order to just get a chance at fighting him), and Ganon (the reincarnation of Demise who revives about as much as Castlevania's Dracula), I don't think they'd be too much issue in the grand scheme of things. However, if I were to pick a single Link to fight each Lord in a 1v1, I'd probably go with the Hero of Time in Majora's Mask. He can transform into other forms (like Fierce Deity), he can manipulate time in ways beyond just reversing it like Byleth (he can slow it down or speed it up... granted he has to play the Song of Time, but time freezes when he pulls out the Ocarina of Time, so it should be no trouble), and the best part is that he's, like, 10, so most of the Lords will probably refuse to fight a child, so then Link can just bonk 'em on the head and win. ez, gg, I'm totally not a Zelda fanboy, not at all. Forgive me for the length of this post, but I love the Zelda series a little too much, and I had to put Fire Emblem back in its place.

Hey, welcome! We hope you enjoy it here! What work have you done in regard to voice acting? Is there anything in particular you'd like to be apart of?

Sir Jotari, your manliness is showing. "Sir" is definitely another weird one. I've been called sir a good handful of times, and it's always so weird because I wouldn't expect someone to call a 21 year old "Sir" (which sometimes comes from people my own age). I might say "Excuse me, Sir/Ma'am" to someone that I can visually identify as older than me, but I generally drop the "sir/ma'am" part with people that look like they'd be around my age. I dunno, I don't think I've ever really been the most comfortable with formalities like that.

I can definitely sympathize with that. As I've been getting older, I also feel weird considering myself as a "man" because I sure as hell don't feel like I'm old enough to call myself that, nor do I think I have the kind of presence or establishment that someone calling themselves a man might have. However, I feel just fine calling myself a young man, if that counts for anything, but then again, I don't really consider myself to be any kind of specific title in particular. Even so, you're still a person before you're whatever sex or gender or title you go along with, so whatever expectations that you have of being a "man," I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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While I do sincerely hope the rest of the lords are added in at some point, I think it's just fine for Marth to represent both Shadow Dragon and Mystery of the Emblem; he's the main lord for both of those stories, not to mention one of the most well known characters in and out of the franchise. Besides, I thought most people didn't really like Kris?

Hey, welcome! The deadline is pretty lenient here, but it's typically at the end of the month, give or take a couple days (I would ask @Benice for an exact date to shoot for). You can submit your work anytime before the deadline, but if you need an extension, don't be afraid to ask.

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The song "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd was used in the 2008 movie Speed Racer, in this scene specifically. As of this post, the Wikipedia page for the song does not list the song's appearance in Speed Racer in its pop culture section.

just pick one and roll with it, or i'm taking away your extra credit