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Lago PARANOIA
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I kind of wanted a sequel to FFT just because the ending is so soul-crushingly depressing in several ways that I want something nicer.
But apparently that's never going to happen.
But apparently that's never going to happen.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
I'm starting up Fire Red.
Using these old Pokemon feels weird. Like, I'm wondering what the hell to build my team as, since I don't have access to a passable Fighting-type or Dark-type.
I picked Charmander, but have access to an end-game Leaf Green and Ruby.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Using these old Pokemon feels weird. Like, I'm wondering what the hell to build my team as, since I don't have access to a passable Fighting-type or Dark-type.
I picked Charmander, but have access to an end-game Leaf Green and Ruby.
Anyone have any suggestions?
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Quantumboost
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For fighting types, you can get a Mankey pretty much right after defeating Brock, and Machop later on. You could potentially also trade over a Tyrogue with Egg Moves or something from the other games, once you get the Cascade Badge so that traded Pokemon don't go crazy on you.
For Dark-type attacks, you pretty much have Bite on Meowth, Growlithe, and Gyarados (and Poison-types). It looks like Meowth also gets some Dark-type attacks later. If you can get a Houndour or Poochyena over, those should work even better.
You also can't evolve things into their post-Generation-I evolutions until you defeat the Elite Four. So no Umbreons until then unless you trade it over pre-evolved.
For Dark-type attacks, you pretty much have Bite on Meowth, Growlithe, and Gyarados (and Poison-types). It looks like Meowth also gets some Dark-type attacks later. If you can get a Houndour or Poochyena over, those should work even better.
You also can't evolve things into their post-Generation-I evolutions until you defeat the Elite Four. So no Umbreons until then unless you trade it over pre-evolved.
I'm getting annoyed at random drops in the Final Fantasy games.
Basically, I have to play for a few hours where I turn the game on, order up my weapons (in crystal chronicles) and how I get the right version. If I don't, I reset the DS and try again.
Or in the revamped III and IV, I have to kill a monster for an hour, then stop, and start again until the .02% drop happens.
In order to complete the story. So half my play time involves this really boring part where I'm turning my DS on and off.
But otherwise, the games are really fun.
-Crissa
Basically, I have to play for a few hours where I turn the game on, order up my weapons (in crystal chronicles) and how I get the right version. If I don't, I reset the DS and try again.
Or in the revamped III and IV, I have to kill a monster for an hour, then stop, and start again until the .02% drop happens.
In order to complete the story. So half my play time involves this really boring part where I'm turning my DS on and off.
But otherwise, the games are really fun.
-Crissa
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Sir Neil
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I traded in a bunch of old games for damned Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.
The story was alternating layers of dumb and WTF. In part one, Nick Fury finds out Latveria is hiring supervillians to attack the U.S.A., so he suckers a bunch of superheroes into attacking Latveria. Latveria is so pissed they cyborg up and attack the U.S.A. because . . . ?
In part two a supervillain kills everyone in a school and people blame superheroes, so they decide to draft every metahuman into government service because . . . ? Captain America, the Living Legend of World War II opposes that draft because . . . ? Anyway, the superheroes are fighting each other until they remember they're supposed to fight supervillains and stop.
I don't know what happens in part three, because I remembered how much fun I had with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1, and since it was still sitting on my shelf, I went back to it. The graphics and controls in 1 are so much better it makes me want to punch a fish. MUA 2 has some nice passive powers like in XML2, the characters Psylocke and Songbird, and a better looking double jump for Captain America.
The game makes an excellent coaster for resting your drink on while playing a good game, like X-Men Legends 2 or Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1.
The story was alternating layers of dumb and WTF. In part one, Nick Fury finds out Latveria is hiring supervillians to attack the U.S.A., so he suckers a bunch of superheroes into attacking Latveria. Latveria is so pissed they cyborg up and attack the U.S.A. because . . . ?
In part two a supervillain kills everyone in a school and people blame superheroes, so they decide to draft every metahuman into government service because . . . ? Captain America, the Living Legend of World War II opposes that draft because . . . ? Anyway, the superheroes are fighting each other until they remember they're supposed to fight supervillains and stop.
I don't know what happens in part three, because I remembered how much fun I had with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1, and since it was still sitting on my shelf, I went back to it. The graphics and controls in 1 are so much better it makes me want to punch a fish. MUA 2 has some nice passive powers like in XML2, the characters Psylocke and Songbird, and a better looking double jump for Captain America.
The game makes an excellent coaster for resting your drink on while playing a good game, like X-Men Legends 2 or Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1.
Koumei wrote:If other sites had plenty of good homebrew stuff the Den wouldn't need to exist. We don't come here because we like each other.
That is good to know. I enjoyed MUA1 a lot, and I played some MUA2 on New Year's with some friends. At first we tried to figure out a cunning strategy for dealing with the first few bosses and died repeatedly because they have hardcore attacks that are nearly impossible to dodge if you also want to also get hits in. Then we ran up and mobstabbed them over and over and they died painfully. It was...a little underwhelming.Sir Neil wrote:The game makes an excellent coaster for resting your drink on while playing a good game, like X-Men Legends 2 or Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1.
I think MUA2 is supposed to be based on that whole Civil War storyline from Marvel.
So you basically got to play through the Cliff's Notes of many, many months of comics.
So you basically got to play through the Cliff's Notes of many, many months of comics.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Lago PARANOIA
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But I also heard that Civil War was soul-crushingly awful. Not as bad as One More Day, but worse than that same character's clone saga.
Why would they bother to make a game off of the worst-received Marvel comic in years is a mystery.
Why would they bother to make a game off of the worst-received Marvel comic in years is a mystery.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Probably because they haven't found a way to retcon it away yet, so they're stuck with it.Lago PARANOIA wrote:
Why would they bother to make a game off of the worst-received Marvel comic in years is a mystery.
Highlights include:
-Peter Parker publicly reveals his identity as Spider-Man. J. Jonah Jameson freaks out and feels betrayed. Turns out he'd never let on, but he'd respected Parker as one of the last honest men in America and didn't have to buy all those pictures of Spider-Man over the years, but did it because it was Peter Parker selling them. He flips out and tries to sue Peter for all the money Parker had made off him.
-Tony Stark and Reed Richards are good guys who are going super-overboard in their support of the registration stuff, making them bad guys.
-Captain America is taking a stand against the government in this because Marvel wanted a dig at the Bush Administration's policies on some issues.
-I'm hoping it gets disappeared from the Marvel universe soon.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Lago PARANOIA
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What about the Punisher of all goddamn people taking of Captain America's mantle, Speedball becoming an uber-emo whiner, clones of Thor, and Sally Floyd's rant at Captain America for being out of touch with American values (such as NASCAR and YouTube)?
I really do want to read the entire series one day to bask in its awfulness, but I do not want to send MC a goddamn red cent of my money so what the fuck, right?
I really do want to read the entire series one day to bask in its awfulness, but I do not want to send MC a goddamn red cent of my money so what the fuck, right?
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Username17
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Civil War was so bad that I don't think there's even a bit that I would want to preserve out of it. Characters acting out of character left and right, and worst of all: major characters being just unlikable. Having Hank Pym abuse his wife was just one of those WTF moments, because it actually made him so unlikeable that you didn't even want to see him as a villain. It generated a torrent of criticism, and well it should have.Lago PARANOIA wrote:What about the Punisher of all goddamn people taking of Captain America's mantle, Speedball becoming an uber-emo whiner, clones of Thor, and Sally Floyd's rant at Captain America for being out of touch with American values (such as NASCAR and YouTube)?
I really do want to read the entire series one day to bask in its awfulness, but I do not want to send MC a goddamn red cent of my money so what the fuck, right?
-Username17
really hank pym abusing his wife started in the old ultimate series, me thinks. they just brought it back.
also, neil, sadly, most of MUA2 is based on actual stories. the first part is Secret War.
which was pretty decent and then it went off the rails so quickly that it's not even funny.
also, neil, sadly, most of MUA2 is based on actual stories. the first part is Secret War.
which was pretty decent and then it went off the rails so quickly that it's not even funny.
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
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Lago PARANOIA
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My brother's apartment has a Contra arcade cabinet nearby and I was so psyched at first. But the arcade version kind of sucks. The NES version controls better, has more levels, and believe it or not has better music.
I think Contra has to be one of my favorite video games ever. I mean, the sequels (even Hard Corps) are better in every way but they take too much time. If you have 20 minutes to kill Contra is a great way to do it. Take for example the SNES version; it's an epic game, bordering on 16-bit masterpiece, but it takes around 40-45 minutes to beat which is just too long if you want a game that will get you PUMPED.
I also really, really like Super Mario Bros. 2. I just love farting around in the game. While Super Mario Bros. 3 has greater variety of environments and bigger levels, it's just not as fun because there's less an emphasis on exploration. Of course, SMB3 is so fricking good that this statement is like me claiming I'd rather have five million dollars than 4.8 million dollars.
Come to think about it, the main Mario games in the series have rarely had any stinkers in it. The worst Mario platformer in the series has to be Super Mario Sunshine and that game's not bad or even mediocre or average. It's like Bug's Life--a lightly entertaining and fun movie that looks like shit because it's sandwiched between epicness.
Best Mario platformer? Hmm... probably either Super Mario 64 or Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
I think Contra has to be one of my favorite video games ever. I mean, the sequels (even Hard Corps) are better in every way but they take too much time. If you have 20 minutes to kill Contra is a great way to do it. Take for example the SNES version; it's an epic game, bordering on 16-bit masterpiece, but it takes around 40-45 minutes to beat which is just too long if you want a game that will get you PUMPED.
I also really, really like Super Mario Bros. 2. I just love farting around in the game. While Super Mario Bros. 3 has greater variety of environments and bigger levels, it's just not as fun because there's less an emphasis on exploration. Of course, SMB3 is so fricking good that this statement is like me claiming I'd rather have five million dollars than 4.8 million dollars.
Come to think about it, the main Mario games in the series have rarely had any stinkers in it. The worst Mario platformer in the series has to be Super Mario Sunshine and that game's not bad or even mediocre or average. It's like Bug's Life--a lightly entertaining and fun movie that looks like shit because it's sandwiched between epicness.
Best Mario platformer? Hmm... probably either Super Mario 64 or Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
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Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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angelfromanotherpin
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No, it started over 25 years ago in Avengers #213 (I think). Ultimates just made it a long-running part of the relationship, instead of something that happened once when Hank was in the middle of having a nervous breakdown.Cynic wrote:really hank pym abusing his wife started in the old ultimate series, me thinks. they just brought it back.
I'm really surprised it took him as long as it did. A distressing percentage of Wasp's dialogue in the early issues of Avengers is her openly flirting with everyone else on the team (except the Hulk) right in front of Hank's face.
I bred up some eggs to trade over.Quantumboost wrote:For fighting types, you can get a Mankey pretty much right after defeating Brock, and Machop later on. You could potentially also trade over a Tyrogue with Egg Moves or something from the other games, once you get the Cascade Badge so that traded Pokemon don't go crazy on you.
For Dark-type attacks, you pretty much have Bite on Meowth, Growlithe, and Gyarados (and Poison-types). It looks like Meowth also gets some Dark-type attacks later. If you can get a Houndour or Poochyena over, those should work even better.
You also can't evolve things into their post-Generation-I evolutions until you defeat the Elite Four. So no Umbreons until then unless you trade it over pre-evolved.
I have to say, Aerodactyl is a surprisingly good pokemon to have early on. It's fast, it's got high attack, Wing Attack is a solid move, it's a rock-type so it holds up to that torrent of Normal-type moves in the early game...
Now, if it'll just let me trade over the Mudkip egg...
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I'm trying to disagree with this, because I played Sunshine recently for the first time and discovered that it's actually a very good game; not the best of the best by any means, but a solid addition to a gaming library. So I'm trying to think of a worse main Mario game, and...Mario's just too good. Like, geez. What a champ. Super Mario Bros. 3. Super Mario World (which still has a very active modding community). Super Mario 64. Super Mario Galaxy. Can't wait for Galaxy 2 to come out; 2010 should be a good year for gaming.Lago PARANOIA wrote:The worst Mario platformer in the series has to be Super Mario Sunshine and that game's not bad or even mediocre or average. It's like Bug's Life--a lightly entertaining and fun movie that looks like shit because it's sandwiched between epicness.
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angelfromanotherpin
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Cielingcat
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wat
Men can be abused too. It happens all the time, but our culture teaches men that they by definition can't be abused, and so they don't even believe it when it happens.
You are wrong. You are not only justifying abuse of women, which is sickening, but you're also justifying abuse of men, which is similarly sickening.
Blaming the victim is a despicable practice, and you should feel horrible for doing it.
Honestly, I expect better from you people.
Men can be abused too. It happens all the time, but our culture teaches men that they by definition can't be abused, and so they don't even believe it when it happens.
You are wrong. You are not only justifying abuse of women, which is sickening, but you're also justifying abuse of men, which is similarly sickening.
Blaming the victim is a despicable practice, and you should feel horrible for doing it.
Honestly, I expect better from you people.
CHICKENS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO COCAINE, SILKY HEN
Josh_Kablack wrote:You are not a unique and precious snowflake, you are just one more fucking asshole on the internet who presumes themselves to be better than the unwashed masses.
Yes, that would be abuse.
But the reason we don't normally call that abuse is because women aren't generally physically stronger, more imposing; or wield more fiscal and social power in a relationship. That doesn't make it right.
-Crissa
But the reason we don't normally call that abuse is because women aren't generally physically stronger, more imposing; or wield more fiscal and social power in a relationship. That doesn't make it right.
-Crissa
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Draco_Argentum
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Thats not a very good explanation. Its not called abuse because men are ashamed to admit they got beat up by a woman due to society's dumbass gender stereotypes. Still, female domestic violence is on the rise. I'd be interested if its increased reporting or a genuine increase.Crissa wrote:Yes, that would be abuse.
But the reason we don't normally call that abuse is because women aren't generally physically stronger, more imposing; or wield more fiscal and social power in a relationship. That doesn't make it right.
-Crissa
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angelfromanotherpin
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Emotional and social abuse can be just as bad as physical violence, and that's what someone who habitually and publicly disrespects their spouse is doing. Anyone who does that shit deserves to be smacked. Whether or not they should be is another matter.Cielingcat wrote:You are not only justifying abuse of women, which is sickening, but you're also justifying abuse of men, which is similarly sickening.
Blaming the victim is a despicable practice, and you should feel horrible for doing it.