Skynstein
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5 minutes ago, OakTree said:
Fangames are not legal, people have to just accept that fact already, Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist because someone was infringing in their copyright, while yes, companies and creators who are supportive of fangames of their porperties exist (see profile pick), they are the exception and not the rule, what Nintendo is doing is not in any relative terms "shitty", unless you consider the very standards of copyright law to be "shitty".
Not legal, but sending cease-and-desist and having the game become vaporware is a really crappy way of dealing with things. This is just Nintendo being draconian with their IPs once again.
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Metroid Prime 4 and Super Mario Odyssey. In only 25 minutes, Nintendo showed more than Microsoft and Sony did in two hours and a half.
FE Warriors is good, but it's not a mainline FE game so I don't know how much of an impact it'll have.
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17 hours ago, Glaceon Sage said:
If I remember right, the rarest type as of Gen V was ghost, actually. It's Fairy in Gen VI, due to obvious reasons, and it's Ice as of Gen VII.
But Ghost is also one of the more powerful types, itself. Hence its rarity.
Ice used to be rare because it was the main counter to Dragon, but, since Gamefreak does not know the meaning of the word "balance", they gave Ice moves to every other Water-type, making Ice-types useless. The addition of the Fairy-type was the final nail in the coffin.
It has to be said, though, that much of the numbers of the Dragon-type consists of legendaries. Those are powerful by default, whether it's due to stats or usefulness.
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1 hour ago, hanhnn said:
Don't worry, we'll soon be living in a socialism society with another name.
All the rights you have in our capitalist society are thanks to socialism.
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Among Nintendo folk it's definitely Falco.
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Capitalism: System founded on competition and profit. Thus, unequality, which is inherent to the system and necessary for its sustenance. Best system to generate wealth, terrible in its distribution. Suited to human nature.
Socialism: System founded on equality. However, it requires existing without any competition whatsoever as well as complete cooperation of all individuals within (even against their will). Therefore, easy to corrupt. Antithesis of human nature.
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59 minutes ago, Gustavos said:
Ice types barely resist their own type. They shatter whenever you look at them sideways. 'Course that's why they call it Mean Look.
I liked the idea of dragons being so powerful, rare, and difficult to raise. But the charm was lost once you're done with a casual playthrough and battle other players who do not care about your precious difficulty curve.
Hence why Pokémon is the Cowadoody of RPGs nowadays. Sad thing indeed.
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7 minutes ago, Anacybele said:
But when you have stuff like Lance and other E4 members and gym leaders who specialize in dragons, it wasn't so easy to battle them if you didn't have an Ice type or Ice type moves. And Ice type Pokemon in general have not been that good. They don't even resist Water!
Yeah but that's their point. To be hard. :D
I think Ice should've resisted Water, actually, because Ice and Water cancel each other out.
I think Garchomp is the only overpowered one, but Garchomp is broken anyway, he's too fast, bulky and powerful, so he's difficult to take down even with Ice-type Pokémon or moves.
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Dragons were powerful but they were, like, kinda supposed to be powerful. They're the rarest type.
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1 hour ago, Køkø said:
Now that I think about it, Awakening has good looking spells too. I'd say second best to Radiant Dawn. When you say 2D, do you mean GBA or SNES? I feel like Tellius and the 3DS games have the same melee animation quality as the GBA games.
GBA, but I've only seen FE7.
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Arcfire and Bolganone. Flaming kamehameha is teh shizz. :D
Bolganone from the top of my head looks like a supernova or something, that's kinda awesome.
The wind tomes are usually kinda unimpressive, though.
Melee animations in Awakening are somewhat generic, I think my favorites are Pegasus Knights wielding lances. The 2D games have better melee animations due to artistic license vs realism.
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14 minutes ago, Etrurian emperor said:
Actually I think its starting to get better in Europe. The Dutch didn't grand Wilders the monster victory predicted for so long, a standard politician did get his act together in France and kept Le Pen out of office and in Germany most things point to AFD falling just as fast as they have risen.
I think it would be a shame to see May go. If this weakens her position then that means the Brexit negations will be led by people less dependable and with more reasons not to strike a good deal. I don't think the hardcore Brexiteers who kept downplaying the risks have anything to gain by making the concessions needed for Britain to remain in the single market. Its far easier for them to walk out, claim the EU is being unreasonable and avoid the compromises that highlighted they painted to rosy a picture for everyone.
"Getting their act together" means being honest and taking strong, wise, meaningful decisions, not winning polls. Macron is a wax figure, overly clean and overly afraid of hurting people's feelings. He won because people voted against Le Pen, not for him. The media has been trying to create the image of a strong leader while he really doesn't seem that strong, he got support because he won't "get in the way" of powerful people. His conciliation talk looks a lot like indecisiveness rather than strong resolve.
If Le Pen would outright sink the boat, Macron will let it head into the iceberg and only try something when it's too late.
None of the current European leaders look capable enough to me, and none of the contestants look capable either. But it's all too easy for me to say things like these. Managing a country is an extremely difficult task and, unless you're a dictator, you'll never be able to do as you please. Biggest obstacle being all the economic interests at stake.
I recommend watching that show from Netflix (Narcos) to get an idea of how hard it is to rule over a country with chronic, endemic problems. Gaviria is in office for most of the show's duration. The amount of crap he has to deal with is too much for most people. Gaviria himself being portrayed as someone "softer" doesn't help matters either. In the end he did what he thought was best, but it's all futile when others keep failing him.
People are dying by the dozens every other month. I remember someone telling me Europeans have to deal with terror attacks as a "fact of today's world". I strongly disagree! They're not at war with anyone, at least not officially. Yet people keep dying as if they were. However, there's no magic solution to this problem, because:
1) If you declare "war on Islam", what to make of the European nationals who follow Islamic faith and don't engage in terrorist activity?
2) If you keep indiscriminately allowing people into Europe, how do you tame the outrage when a terror attack does happen and is carried out by someone with Muslim background?
3) If the ones responsible for terror attacks are Muslims born and raised in Europe, how can you blame Islam for it?
I understand why European leaders would be lost when faced with something like this. But it's time for them to be more honest. Speak clearly about the problems. Try to get closer to the people they're responsible for. But there's no easy route. People are trying to find an easy solution that doesn't exist.
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17 minutes ago, Tryhard said:
Essentially, for those who don't know, Teresa May the Prime Minister called a snap election (after she said she wouldn't) in the hope to get more power and seats for her Conservative party, but has shown herself to be such a bad candidate (including when she didn't even bother turning up to debate the other parties and sent a representative of her party instead) and pushing terrible policies in the Conservative manifesto (including regulating the internet to "stop terrorism", cutting help to people with dementia, etc) that she has literally lost a 20 point lead in the period of a single month over Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (which for those in America is sort of a Bernie Sanders style of politician although Corbyn is further left than Sanders) who has been roundly criticised since he took over as Labour leader. Now if the exit poll is correct (which remains to be seen, as the 2015 exit poll predicted the same IIRC) and there is going to be a hung parliament, it will be a huge failure for the Conservatives, even if they lose any of their seats because of the powerful position they were in when Theresa May called this snap election.
You can do that in Britain? That's TOTALLY cool, haha. Over here they ask questions to an empty chair. :D
Not sure what to think of it, though European elections these days are very depressing. People like Le Pen gain visibility because the standard politicians can't get their act together.
Actually, elections are depressing pretty much everywhere as of late. Take the USA, for example. The choice was between Trump (who is totally inept), Hillary Clinton (who's as establishment as it gets), Bernie Sanders (who was ready to sacrifice Western military leverage against total world domination by the Russians and the Chinese), and some random Republicans who are, well, average Republicans, with all the connotations the phrase carries.
So far the Tories are earning themselves a hung parliament as you say, which is hilarious. Their timing with polls has been absolutely horrible, from Brexit to today's election.
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47 minutes ago, Hylian Air Force said:
Hitler commited Treason. And guess what? They still elected him. If Hitler could commit the ultimate crime and still end up in power, nothing will truly bar anyone from being in a position of authority. Also, even though high crimes and misdemeanors is in the Constitution to remove the President should he do something illegal, it doesn't say that you can't run for President if you have been accused or even convicted of crimes in your past. Most likely, anyone who has that wouldn't win, but since when has anything about the 2016 election been the likely result of anything? Sure, enough is enough, but everything about the system in place right now is incompetent, meaning he may not face any consequences other than loosing the election in 2020 (and even then, he might not lose it).
I rest my case. Trump is not the first, and won't be the last person to be elected in such circumstances.
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As long as there are small joys every day, I'm fine.
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5 minutes ago, MediocreLee said:
Since I played through Moon when Gen 7 came around, I'm gonna go for Ultra Sun this time around. Also, I kind of prefer the way Prism Solgaleo looks over Prism Lunala. I'm generally very excited though because I do adore the Alola region.
New Anabel is best Anabel.
seriouslylookathernowshe'sgorgeousPrism Solgaleo/Lunala? Well, now is all too clear why a certain romhack was taken down by Nintendo...
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9 hours ago, ChibiToastExplosion said:
Unlike Yellow, which completely changed the starter structure (by just making it Pikachu), Crystal was the definitive version of G/S.
If they released Crystal, it would have been almost a waste of time and resources to port G/S, because it's easily the definitive version of the game. I bought Blue/Yellow, but I probably would have only bought Crystal. At that point, G/S version exclusive pokemon would be lost for trading, etc.
I'm sad that there was no Crystal, but I'm a Silver guy all the way.
Except that the VC releases support trading, and Crystal did not have all the Pokémon in the Pokédex. There are quite a few common ones missing, like Mareep.
There's zero reason for Nintendo to hold back on Crystal's release. I actually think it's related to the phone adapter support, which was absent in the Western releases but was there in the Japanese ones.
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Yes.
But instead, they took a dump on the lore with ORAS.
The only serious flaw in those games was the Exp. Share. If there was a fairer way to grind exp, they would've been ace.
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2 hours ago, Anacybele said:
People are forgetting one key difference here between Sinnoh remakes and Alola ones.
Sun and Moon just came out last November. Diamond and Pearl are over ten years old. Which really deserves a remake more? I'm not against remakes themselves.
Also, there being two versions and seemingly the same adventure with a few differences screams remake to me. I'd love to be wrong tho.
Also, new protags mean nothing when Lyra was in HGSS instead of Kris.
I think these seem more like Director's Cut versions than remakes, don't they? They're being made for 3DS so they're probably just expanded versions like Emerald and Platinum.
Considering the whole theme of Sun/Moon, these games look like they're an adventure in a parallel dimension to the previous ones. I think it's likely that Gamefreak concludes this gen with Sinnoh remakes to wrap up the whole dimensional theme.
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Considering there's dimensional travel in Sun/Moon, the new games might be very similar in a lot of things yet completely different in other areas.
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Just now, Pikappa93 said:
Um, what are you talking about? USUM are for 3DS.
Really? So it's Pokken that's for the Switch? Oh well, that's a missed opportunity for them, haha.
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So glad I didn't waste my precious money on Sun/Moon. :D
So sad it's for the Switch... :( Right now, playing these ones is not financially viable for me, as I'd have to buy a Switch.
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4 hours ago, Black_Knight said:
Surely you be jesting. You can believe it or not, but certain politicians put principles like the 'common good' first over ideology if it helps the country. Sadly that's never the case with the right.
No, I'm not. There are no angels in politics.
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I like female Corrin design, but the young version looks like jailbait, so perhaps I shouldn't like her too much. :D
The older male Robin in Awakening looked ok, but he would probably look a bit better if he seemed a bit younger. They could've make him a bit more like Frederick and less like Gregor.
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I voted the two obvious choices, of course! Gen 8 and DP remakes. Not necessarily in this order.