Skynstein
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6 hours ago, Azzurohr said:
Fifthly, I do not say she uses autism to excuse her behaviour on a whim. I was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome when I was 17 years old, on the week of my graduation on a Wednesday at a 3pm appointment, if you REALLY need me to prove that I'm not joking for validation. If Ana had used her autism to explain her behaviour and not as an excuse, then it would be completely fine, but she hasn't. It is never okay to use your disability to excuse your actions, let alone anything at all. Also, mistakes and consequences made in life are generally very harsh. They make you cry, they make you sweat and feel like you've broken an arm or leg. Then you get patched up and given a crutch to stand on with two choices; go on with the crutch until you're off it, or stay on it. Ana so far, has stayed on the crutch. Will she eventually escalate to coming off it, or even do so after what I've said to her? Who knows. All I have done is warn her that I will call her out if she treats any of my friends with disrespect ever again or tries to weasel out.
You do know people deal with mental conditions quite differently, don't you? Just saying.
I'm diagnosed with depression. My depression is not anyone else's depression. The symptoms are consistent with what other depressive people feel but people have different coping mechanisms as well as different life experiences. Just because you supposedly learn from your mistakes (I don't know you so I can't judge you) doesn't mean others can do it without difficulty. That's why it's called an autism spectrum.
From the way you speak, you sound like Ana is an absolutely horrible person. I won't deny Ana is very difficult to deal with when she gets invested in the fandom, and she's a fair bit immature for her age, but let's not pretend people haven't been horrible to her as well, including people who she thought were helping her but were being harsh for the sake of being harsh (you know who you are, I won't call you out), and including even myself at one point as I had little idea how to deal with someone like her. In fact, the way she gets defensive over the things she likes does not seem related to her autism, as I find that people who went through a lot of abuse (such as myself, both on and offline) do get quite defensive as well and don't take criticism nicely. Her autism, however, does make things harder for her.
I don't think your post was called for, nor that it was particularly relevant, but as her friend I feel necessary to stand up for her because, although I'm aware of her mistakes, there's a lot of crap people throw at her that really makes me frustrated. And I would expect a bit more sympathy from someone who claims to have the same condition as her.
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Well Ana I can't force you to do anything but I believe you should stay, I think it will be better for you if you do. :)
What I think you could do is perhaps spend a bit less time on the forums, I know you have a lot of troubles that make it more difficult for you than for most, but online conversation is taxing for quite a bunch of people, myself included. A couple months ago I was burnt out from all the drama, the reason I haven't been caring as much is because I've been on a high and found some nice people to hang out with (both IRL and online).
You've contributed many good things to the forum as well, such as your art threads and sports discussion. I believe you're a more valuable asset to the forum than me, haha.
If you need a break, feel free to do so, but it would be sad to see you leaving for good.
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It's funny how such an amazing lineup can still be this underwhelming, but that's only because the SNES was one of a kind when it comes to quality games. :D
Speaking of Street Fighter, I believe Turbo might be the preferred version to newcomers because from what I can recall it's a bit faster and thus closer to the speed of the modern game. SSFII is quite slow and, despite having more characters, I find its soundtrack largely inferior to the one from vanilla SFII.
I must say we're getting the better games than the Japanese. No FE kinda sucks but they wouldn't localize FE3 just for this release, sadly.
This one might actually be worth the price since the Raspberry Pi is terrible at emulating almost anything requiring a supplementary chip. In this lineup there's Star Fox 1 and 2 and Super Mario RPG which are quite hard to emulate with inaccurate emulators. There's also Super Mario Kart but anything runs that anyway.
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2 hours ago, Fryer said:
Anyone got tips for getting in more calories during the day? Like I have mentioned before, I graze on foods because eating simply based on hunger does not work for me (won't be able to maintain weight). I need about 2400 calories to maintain my weight and lately, I've noticed I lose about a pound per week and I simply wish to maintain. I can barely consume 2000 in a given day so lately I've been using olive oil for my coking and having a shake before bed, though I really hate having to force myself to eat. Not so fund of nuts by the way and I feel like total crap whenever I eat processed foods, leaving me to rely on fruits and vegetables which honestly are not that energy dense.
If you don't feel hungry and you lose weight when you eat only when hungry, you might want to seek professional help, because your body needs the intake (otherwise you wouldn't be losing weight) yet there's something telling the brain not to signal hunger, so there's an inconsistency there. Excess hunger and the lack thereof could be related to problems in metabolism.
But that really depends on your body as well, you might be losing weight because that's simply how your body works.
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Hope they do one of every character. :D
(except the kids of course, Nowi already pushes it in default attire, no need to lure even more demented people)
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11 minutes ago, Locke087 said:
Okay first off games have already reached Hollywood levels and above Uncharted, The Last of Us, and The Walking Dead Season 1 are as good as or better than their Hollywood contemporaries. Other games like Shadow of the Colossus, and Mother 3 are some of the best works to ever grace any form of literature or media, games have absolutely showed that they can be a extremely good art form. There's absolutely no reason we shouldn't continue to push Games to further themselves as an art-form, or that they're "just games" and we shouldn't take them seriously we absolutely should. This is still a young medium it still has a lot of room to grow and we get to see it blossom, we should encourage it, push it, and support those that seek to push it forward. Don't just dismiss it and say we should lower our expectations. Just because there is a commercial side to the medium doesn't mean that art can't or shouldn't be encourage to come from it.
When a game tries to have a good story is absolutely in the consumers interest to make sure it is written well. The consumers is going to complain if the company tries to sell them by saying they have a good story when it in fact does not. That being said there's plenty room in this world for games that don't try and most people wouldn't bash those for their stories. Nobody cares if Mario has a good story and that's fine but games that do want to make their story one its selling points deserve to be criticized for it just like anything else that's selling itself on its story.
The real major problem with the industry right now is the chase for pretty graphics, it's not better storytelling, it's not better music, it's not better writing, it's not better gameplay, because they don't cost that much money it just requires talent. Heck it is not even necessarily those massive worlds believe it or not something like Uncharted is just as expensive if not more then those Open World games Ubisoft loves so much, in fact I would bet you handover fist that Uncharted was exponentially more expensive to make then Breath of the Wild.
But you know what does require boatloads of cash and asinine budgets those shiny pretty graphics, that the new console love so much, those new technologies that make the faces slightly more realistic, that is what is ballooning budgets. We shouldn't lower our expectations of games as art form but want we should start doing is stop expecting Games look so gosh dang pretty. Thank goodness for the Indy circuit may the rest of the industry one day realize that nobody cares that much about graphics.
I must say I disagree with the view that videogames are art per se, they sure do contain art but the thing that sets games apart (gameplay) is not artistic IMO.
When it comes to games, I really don't think we have to spend so much money to push their limits. Perhaps in graphical terms, but that's pretty much the only thing, as gameplay is basically all code, and the rest is artistic elements, and the way art works is more related to trends than progress, I mean the current trends do build up from past ones, but not always. If there's no escalating progress, there's no limit to speak of.
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Just now, Fryer said:
Aren't carbs not as unhealthy as most people think it is? I mean as long as you do not eat above your TDEE, people shouldn't gain weight.
I have this weird issue where I only get hungry about twice a day: once around noonish and again late at night. I choose to graze since if I eat based on my hunger patterns, I would be underweight, especially since my lifestyle forces me to do a lot of walking leaving me an active individual.
Carbs are energy. Energy is what keeps you alive. Cutting carbs off is like trying to run a car without gasoline.
But I gained weight because I have indeed eaten a surplus of carbs (mostly from junk food) for quite some time. I do have trouble losing some of it because my constitution is large and I don't burn fat easily, but that's more of a long-term goal. Whenever I tried dieting my weight was pretty much a rollercoaster, so now I eat according to nutrients rather than numeric goals (although I try not to eat excessively, of course).
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I eat a bit of everything whenever possible. Carbs (the least processed, the better), vegetables (it's mostly lettuce, tomato, carrot and broccoli, really), and meat. I'm overweight but I don't sacrifice carbs, been there, done that, it sucked, so I don't care about low carb crap anymore.
On breakfast I usually eat sweets of some kind in addition to whatever I have (usually bread), gives you a good boost early in the morning.
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39 minutes ago, Zera said:
@Cerberus87 Broski, I think you and I may have a similar idea about the perception of games.
Personally, I don't give a crap about anything that's not gameplay, unless it's visual feedback or something else that actually affects gameplay. Graphics, music, voice acting, cinematics, side quests, DLC, those things are "nice to have" but mean nothing if the core interactions are not solid.From my very brief research of Ryse, it got a 60 Metascore not because it is short, but because it is ALSO shallow and repetitive. Frankly, if a game is shallow then I don't care how long it is. A boring game is a boring game, yes? If an action game boasts "over 50 hours of gameplay", I immediately remove it from my radar, as I know it will have a lot of padding. On the flip, if a game is deep and fun, I only consider length to be another plus, assuming the quality doesn't degrade.
If you enjoy Ryse, you might enjoy other combat-focused games even more. (I am currently playing Bayonetta, so I can confirm that it is "probably better than Ryse".)Ryse is somewhat repetitive but I think its kind of repetition is more desirable than the kind you see in most RPG games (grinding). It's never truly the same in Ryse. Enemies are relatively smart and gang up on you quite easily, they won't attack you without regard for their own safety but they'll actually let their fellow comrades leave you open to their attacks. There's some interesting variety in the game despite the employment of the same archetypes across the campaign.
Essentially, Ryse is all about timing and placement. The lack of a proper single player survival mode had me replaying the campaign on Legendary shortly after beating it on Soldier and I enjoyed every minute of this second playthrough as the Legendary difficulty has several perks that are not found in the lower ones and completely change the game (enemies don't glow red when preparing heavy attacks, and you don't get bonuses for Recruit executions). I think the game is probably a bit too easy and maybe Legendary should've been the Centurion difficulty, but it's still plenty of fun. Of course, it did cost $60 when released, as it was a high profile Xbox One exclusive (also on Steam), so it may not have been worth the price back then, but it's still undeserving of a 60 Metacritic score IMO.
Besides, the dub is amazing in my language, so there's that as well. Many of the VAs also worked on the Gladiator dub. Marius in particular is spectacular, haha.
And Bayonetta is in my list of things to play. :D It's also a harder, more complex game.
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After getting back into console gaming I've been wondering this for a while.
In April Microsoft gave away Ryse: Son of Rome in GWG. It was one of the Xbox One's launch exclusives. Reception to it was lukewarm at best, which is kinda bad for an exclusive, and average score is like 3/5 or something.
So I decided to play it and see if it's so mediocre as people thought.
What I found was a game with excellent replay value despite being short. It has a lot of the bad things modern games are plagued with (excess tutorials even in the hidden Legendary difficulty, excess linearity, excess tips), but the gameplay is incredibly fun and satisfying. I always find myself itching to come back to it and perfect my skills. Combat system is easy to learn but somewhat difficult to master, you can get through the game with button mashing but, especially on Centurion and Legendary difficulty, you can get killed very easily if you do so, even when fully upgraded. Storywise, this game is pretty much "Gladiator meets 300", which is a fantastic thing at least to me since Gladiator is one of my favorite movies of all time and I loved 300 as well, and I've found myself cheering for and enjoying controlling Marius and laying waste to hordes of Briton barbarians and traitorous Praetorian guards. Marius himself is a vastly better character than the likes of Kratos could ever hope to be, despite not being all that unique. There's some cheap and unnecessary female nudity in it but that shouldn't really be as much of a bother as people make it out to be, especially since one of the last bosses is a female warrior who is not sexualized despite having much exposed skin.
Seriously, it baffles me why this game got such mediocre reviews. Which leads me to the point I'm trying to make.
Aren't we trying to overanalyze games? I mean, we do spend hard-earned cash on them, and the contemporary gamer's average age is older than it was before, so gamers are more vocal and have better judgment than before, at least in theory. But people often misunderstand what's like to get your money's worth for a game. They associate it too much with length, and we end up with massive games that take 200 hours to get 100% in and even more to reach platinum in. There's no more room for us to replay a game time and time again, and hone our skills in it until we can play blindfolded. We were able to do this in the past with games that lasted 2 hours at best, games that were mostly derived from arcade games, which had to be short and difficult. But now, an Assassin's Creed game for example takes around 35-40 hours to complete all the quests in, sometimes even more, and there are a lot of small things that you may still miss, such as 100% sync and guild objectives. There's no more time for you to perfect your skills unless you dedicate your efforts to that series exclusively. Ironically, Ubisoft usually gives you three save slots (Watch Dogs had only one, which I consider a flaw in that game, but still).
I remember when the Switch got released people would say "you beat Zelda, now what?". I have the perfect answer. Beat it again. Enjoy it again. Beat it better. Look for details you've missed first time around. Go online and swap strategies with people. Try different things. Don't drop it after beating the story. There's so much more to a game than the campaign. There always is. Being hardcore, or at least being a fan of gaming, means you invest time into the games you love. When you always keep looking for the newest thing, you're starting to tread casual territory.
Furthermore, I feel like people are asking more and more for Hollywoodian levels of game script and production. Sorry, not gonna happen. Hollywood itself is stuck in a deep creative rut as of late, and historically games have always had inferior storytelling to other forms of entertainment. I see this a lot here at SF, people really do expect an FE to have storytelling on the level of LotR or something like that. Richer environments and lore than ASOIAF. And one day this push will break the industry. Games are not selling enough to maintain the high production values people ask for. And we shouldn't be asking for this stuff either. Videogames have always been the field of cheap fun and satire. And they were better for it.
In short, we're just caring about this stuff way too much. It does cost money of course, so we're entitled to complain, but there's a point when we must wonder whether we're pushing it too far.
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Basically, this.
When I got Awakening I pronounced it "Fall-key-on", but Rey in his LP of the game pronounced it as "Fall-shee-on". In Japanese it's "Farushion", but things get adapted, so...
"Fall-shee-on" feel so weird to me, but I actually believe it's the right one. I thought it had to do with birds (an adaptation of "falcon", of course), but it's probably wrong as it's linked to dragons instead.
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1 hour ago, Azz said:
The irony is that I'm pretty sure we translated it correctly despite getting the same censored 4kids version as everyone else in the West.
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We have canon proof of some food in the Pokémon games. Berries, as @Anacybele said, but also Moomoo Milk and the regional delicacies such as Lava Cookie, Old Gateau and Casteliacone. Those are eaten and drank by humans and Pokémon alike.
Lumiose City in Kalos is full of restaurants as well.
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According to Meowth's experiences, Magikarp aren't edible despite looking like sushi material.
Tropius are a source of bananas, I guess.
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Zero, because I take proper care of my dog. :D
Seriously though, I have no idea what to suggest if carpet bombing is not working. Fleas are tough to get rid of because they're very mobile, and they're annoying to deal with because they also feed on human blood. During his time with me, my dog has never had any problem with fleas, as the products I use work very well on him. In fact, it's been almost a year since he last had any sort of medical condition.
At this point I'd try more serious pest control measures, the kind of which you have to take when dealing with cockroaches and other pests like those. This is no longer only your cat's problem, as the fleas have taken over your home and they can bite everyone there.
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10 hours ago, Lord Raven said:
How many of those Latino voters were Cuban? Because I imagine older Cubans tend to vote more conservative, and some may not be fond of Obama relaxing restrictions.
Largest community of Cuban Americans in the US is in Florida by far. The others are negligible and live in states where Latinos are more likely to vote Democrat.
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Story-wise a bad FE character is a bad character everywhere else, no mystery here.
So I think a bad character is simply one that's not useful enough. In Awakening for example I really don't like using Vaike, he's not fast enough to double enemies and he's not sturdy enough to endure too many hits despite his bonus HP from his starting skill. He's a berserker archetype (not the class, the historic Norse soldier), so he has high Atk and average/bad everything else. Not very flexible IMO.
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Weren't spears made obsolete by bows? Just saying. ;)
Anyway, the one you linked to looks short. As someone not well-versed in this stuff, my advice is the simplest one: pick something light and short and work your way from there. Perhaps you could even become an Olympic javelin thrower (yes, this is actually a sport and you earn Olympic medals for winning at the Summer Olympics).
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I know I already picked cocoa but the others go really nice with sugar. Just saying.
An espresso is superior to a Red Bull in keeping you awake, which is a plus, I guess.
Most people drink sugarless tea, which I get the point of, but I tend not to like things which require some effort to feel the taste of.
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Save before fight, get it to red, paralyze or sleep, and pray to the PokéGods. Reload and repeat if you run out of Ultra Balls.
No Dusk Balls in LeafGreen either, so it's all about the drama.
People are spoiled nowadays. :D In RBY it doesn't even get in the ball unless you sleep it. Compare that to Reshiram, Xerneas or Solgaleo which will happily comply when you throw something as measly as a $200 Poké Ball at them (yet another reason why competitive Pokémon is slowly ruining the game itself).
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8 hours ago, Nobody said:
This is off topic, but since we're from the same country, i feel like i need to adress this. The poor being conservative is true, but the consequences it has here in brazil are the opposite of what you said. PT's (which is who i assume you are refering to by left wing, since psol is sort of irrelevant and PCdoB are basically miniPT) bulk of support comes from the poor, specially in the northeast, who are probably the people with the most conservative views in the country, and the consequences it has is that PT gives up and doesn't push liberal social stances in order to keep their votes, rather than losing their votes by enforcing progressivism. That's why they never came in support for drugs legalization, abortion or same sex marriage before it became a non issue due to the stf legalizing it (in 2014 all the 3 of Dilma, Aecio and Eduardo Campos oppenly supported it, and only Marina didn't -while supporting same rights legal unions- due to her own religion). They only lost this support due to the recession they created, and i'm not even sure they really lost it. The poor on Brazil definitely don't vote for the right in significant numbers (or at least didn't between 2002 and 2014).
The Democratic party is in no way comparable to what we have here, and you can be sure people like Obama would be called 'neoliberal' here. They're more social progressive while being more economic liberal (not liberal in the american sense), i.e. more in line with mainstream economics rather than the bizarre economics of 'desenvolvimentismo' most of the left (and a significant part of the right and center) follow here.
I actually agree with you, thanks for pointing that out. Brazil is so large and diverse that people experience different things everywhere. In the Northeast the poor were tired of getting crapped on by the right and decided to vote left, and they've stuck with the left ever since.
I was speaking more of the poor people who live in Southern urban centers, I think those are more likely to vote right than left, which would be a problem for them in the long run.
But let's get back to the US before we deviate too much! :D
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1 hour ago, Rapier said:
When characters stay roughly the same or develop little, if nothing at all.
I couldn't stand Hikari Shinji because for the entirety of Evangelion he is depressed and moping around despite almost the entire cast rooting and supporting him, Asuka, the girl for whom he harbors romantic feelings for, responding well to him and making advances, as well as him having a successful career as an EVA pilot. The only thing he shows to care about is his father, who was an asshole everytime he was on screen and treated him like dirt. Then he proceeds to consider a guy who he just met 15 minutes ago as the only person who truly understood him and the best friend he ever had, despite all the rooting he previously received from characters that supposedly were dear to him (what happened to his romantic feelings for Asuka?) until he forgot about them entirely after falling into crippling depression again. He's an Eeyore on early Evangelion, a slightly better Eeyore on mid Eva and he's back to square one near the end.
I hope the End of Evangelion movies have a different, more developped Shinji.
Oh, and characters like Kururugi Suzaku, who stubbornly stand up for the most ridiculous things while pretending that their reasoning is sound even though he sees living contradictions to it every single day, making them unlikable hypocrites whose faces you feel like punching every time they're on screen. For people who don't know him or Code Geass, he's basically the equivalent of a jew who chose to become a nazi to change Nazi Germany's government for the better from the inside, despite seeing jews like him being sent to concentration camps and being treated badly daily. Characters can be stupid, but it starts bothering me when it feels like he's being forced to hold the Stupid Ball(TM) and ignore every contradicting evidence all the time, especially when they point contradictions between his values and actions.
Shirou during Saber's route also qualifies, never tell your overpowered armored waifu who you've seen beat a guy who ultimately manhandled you to stay in the kitchen, then proceed to put yourself in risk because you're too stubborn and stupid and then you end up putting her in risk anyway because of your actions.
I think Suzaku is naïve, but he's important to the story because he's pretty much Lelouch's foil. Lelouch is not an angel, and he does terrible things for the sake of his goals. He's always treading the fine line between selfishness and justice (or at least what he thinks is justice). The fact Suzaku keeps having his ideal challenged doesn't mean his ideal is wrong, as Lelouch faces the same problems (or, at least, we as the audience see that Lelouch's path is corrupt despite his sincerest intentions).
And Shirou is never portrayed as an exemple to be followed. All of the other characters always point that out to him, that his borrowed ideal is foolish. I haven't played Fate in ages but I'm pretty sure that Fate!Shirou is the least developed of the three but still develops and takes something from his time with Saber. In fact, I find HF!Shirou the worst of them, because HF!Shirou would end the world to be with Sakura if needed be, he just got lucky the events unfolded in a way he got put in a position to exorcise Angra Mainyu from her.
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5 hours ago, Jedi said:
No idea what this has to do with the game at hand. Or speaks of quality against quality.
It was just to point out how far we've come.
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Everyone idolizes those SNES games, but this literally destroys them and exposes them for the overrated stuff they are. My jaw dropped when I saw the trailer.
This has the potential to be not only the quintessential DBZ fighting game, but also one of the best fighting games of all time. I'll definitely get it!
Do you force yourself to complete every single game you buy?
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Define "complete".
I'll usually reach the end, but I'll only 100% my favorite games.