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fresh bane
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Steam Page doesn't have the trailer I saw with the fully animated sequences and more gameplay shown but damn

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This is just Blasphemous but mexican instead of spanish and I'm more than down for that

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There we go there's the full trailer

thorny loom
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Formatting the memory of your #PS5Slim will unregister your detachable disc drive. Not even a full factory reset. This confirms that the new @PlayStation console has indeed a massive preservation issue.

In this scenario, once the service you need to connect to is gone, you can no longer use the disc drive.

Tested by our community.

little badger
thorny loom
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Not surpised

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RE4 was definitely horror game of the year

visual hill
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I just finished RalliSport Challenge 2

little badger
river veldt
visual hill
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(the AI is really easy to beat, and there is no difficulty selection to bias it towards making it harder)

little badger
visual hill
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TIL you can loose wheels in this game (just tried this out in a single race, with heavy damage model)

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it's possible and even rather fast and easy to drive with 3 wheels, using the handbrake to do anything more than a slight turn

little badger
visual hill
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they do, I just realized I could force 16× anisotropic filtering on Xemu which makes the game look a lot better

thorny loom
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No surprises here

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We're honoured to have won the Golden Joystick Awards for the following categories:

  • Best Storytelling
  • Best Visual Design
  • Studio Of The Year
  • Best Game Community
  • Best Supporting Performer (@NeilNewbon )
  • PC Game Of The Year
  • Ultimate Game Of The Year

Thank you @GoldenJoysticks, along with everyone who voted and played Baldur's Gate...

little badger
mossy flume
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Oh, Golden Joysticks already?

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Neat

teal cliff
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okay so like

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they didn't even nominate Goodbye Volcano High for best indie 🙄

mossy flume
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Whaaaaat

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Oh that's absurd

gaunt marten
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Well there's been a lot of good indie games this year

teal cliff
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At least GVH is probably going to win uh... whatever that one category is called at the Game Awards, games for impact?

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my game of the year always tends to be that one Kekw

mossy flume
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TGA games for impact will likely nominate it, yeah

gaunt marten
rose rose
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Can't nominate every game so ppshrug

teal cliff
gaunt marten
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Though I would not count Dave the Diver as Indie

teal cliff
gaunt marten
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A non-Indie company

teal cliff
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I have never ehard of Mintrocket before admittedly

mossy flume
gaunt marten
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From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics to unravel a cosmic mystery.Worlds within WorldsCOCOON is a unique take on the puzzle adventure genre, where each world exists within an orb that you can carry on your back. Wrap your h...

Price

$24.99

Recommendations

1611

Metacritic

88

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Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.Viewfinder is a mind-bending first person adventure game in which you can bring pictures to life by placing the...

Price

$24.99

Recommendations

3408

Metacritic

84

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teal cliff
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oh Viewfinder is that puzzle game

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okay I have seen that

gaunt marten
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Yeah, we talked about all of these games in this channel

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Mintrocket is a developer that's under Nexon, the Korean MMO company

mossy flume
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Mintrocket is a subsidiary of a bigger company, Nexon

gaunt marten
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Very big AAA company

mossy flume
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For example

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MapleStory you've likely heard of

teal cliff
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I have heard of Nexon

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I thought they were just the publisher but I see, they own Mintrocket.

mossy flume
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Yeah, I didn't know that 'till just now either

teal cliff
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then yeah not really an Indie probably but w/e

gaunt marten
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If I had to nominate a list of the year's best indie games, I'd probably pick Goodbye Volcano High in the top ten

teal cliff
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It is my current GOTY but I have not played Spiderman 2 yet.

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We'll see how that goes.

gaunt marten
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It's weird how Brotato is not included

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Considering it's one of the top performing indie games of the year

visual hill
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RIP, no Godot games in the nomineees

little badger
teal cliff
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I should maybe play an Alan Wake game sometime.

gaunt marten
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Dome Keeper would also make the list but it was released in 2022

teal cliff
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I know nothing about either of them aside from them being like, horror-adjacent action games I think?

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kinda like the Evil Within?

mossy flume
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Oh boy I can't wait for Metroid Prime 4 to make GOTY soon [insert pony skeleton pic here]

little badger
mossy flume
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Pretty easy win there

teal cliff
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what else was even going to compete for the Nintendo game of the year lol

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Fire Emblem Engage I guess? I assume Super Mario Wonder was past the cutoff point

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Oh right Pikmin 4 happened

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-- Pikmin 4
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (winner)
Fire Emblem Engage
Metroid Prime Remastered
Octopath Traveller 2
Fae Farm

were the nominees. I suppose in any other year Pikmin probably takes it but my favs here are Octopath and Engage

little badger
mossy flume
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Everything about Phantom Liberty's visuals was incredible, in-game and all the cinematics they made. Well deserved.

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The end credits sequence they made was awesome.

teal cliff
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I think best trailer is a bit of a weird category

mossy flume
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It is indeed. I just would've called it best CG cinematics or something and called it good.

teal cliff
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Like are they rating it as the coolest trailer as an individual thing or the one that advertises its game the best or what?

mossy flume
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I assume the intent is best artistic execution.

teal cliff
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bc a really cool looking trailer might have literally zero gameplay footage or information, which would be annoying to me if I was trying to find out more about the game in question, but it might be a badass CG cutscene in it's own right

rancid herald
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I’ve made a thread for this

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Embrace it

teal cliff
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I do think that a thread might be weird bc the discussion of it might just be over like really quickly, since the awards are over with, but I'll move there for now.

mossy flume
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There's a thread?

rose rose
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It has zero posts but it exists!

mossy flume
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Just made

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#1172610917356277910

rancid herald
river veldt
gaunt marten
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They don't even offer the maximalist option

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All costumes are one part instead of having many interchangeable parts

thorny loom
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Sigh

dense crypt
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er i mean maximalist

river veldt
thorny loom
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“How bad can warzone microtransactions be”

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looks up the weapon skins alone

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Keep in mind theres about 10 skins per page

harsh kestrel
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Ubisoft, I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of the reasons why Tencent had to bail you out of bankruptcy

fresh bane
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Going through MGS2 I'm learning holy hell this game is tough

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I've gotten found out like 4 times already in this area alone and direct confrontation is not this game's suit

fresh bane
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also one of my favourite details I literally just found out about this game is Raiden's codec is shaped like a gun, and it's always pointing at his head the entire game

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it could be a stretch, but the fact that Pliskin's Snake's codec is the same during the Tanker mission and knowing how Kojima is like, I choose to believe this was an intentional change

river veldt
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YIPPEE

fresh bane
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this feels like a very unsafe method of defusing claymores rdsnrk

fresh bane
visual hill
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it has everything I wanted (native Linux port, HUD scaling)… of course, after I finished playing that game sweetiestare

visual hill
fresh bane
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It's a real challenge, the only thing I wish this game had is better controls and all the options at my disposal like MGSV, then it would be a perfect game because I'm a big fan of classic MGS stealth but damn if I wish I could crouch walk and dive into the floor and stuff

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I didn't catch it myself, which is why I only learned about it now rarityduhrling I happened to read someone mention it and that's when I realized

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I got played like a fiddle all these years

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I don't know how different MGS2 and 3 are mechanically since I never actually got the chance to play 3 myself but I do still think that these games have crazy amounts of options and little details to exploit to create your own way to express yourself through the way you stealth (or not)

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It's just not as apparent as MGSV because you need to really learn all the intricacies of the mechanics

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One thing I learned from that video which I think works in MGS2: You can shoot the radios on the soldiers' chests to completely disable their comms and the backup group coming should they not respond

visual hill
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yeah, it works in MGS2

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you can also shoot cameras in 1st-person view to disable them

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(it may be obvious but I've only started doing that last week)

fresh bane
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Which is also a crazy good detail, makes the people I stealth around in Cyberpunk look like goofs in comparison

river veldt
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it unlocks next week

fresh bane
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The cameras are only destructable with lethal weapons right? Not with sleep rounds?

visual hill
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yeah, you need to use a pistol/rifle

fresh bane
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That's gonna be a problem ajwhomstdve I'll have to save up on chaff

visual hill
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it's 1-shot on any part of the camera, no need to headshot the camera like in GoldenEye

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(because yes, you can headshot cameras in that game by shooting their lens)

fresh bane
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I sure wish I could put a silencer on the lethal weapons

visual hill
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you can find one for the pistol

fresh bane
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Snake gets a silencer on his socom in MGS1 why can't I get one?! sweetiegrump

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Oh nevermind

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I'll have to find it then

visual hill
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I've found it by chance, without specifically looking for it

fresh bane
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I assume I'll find it eventually so I'm not gonna look it up right now, I'm trying to find the last bomb on strut E right now

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It's fun looking up stuff about MGS2 because all you will find, or at least the first results, will all be old ass forum discussions and old websites

visual hill
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yeah, I regularly stumble upon forum posts from 2002-2006

fresh bane
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I don't know if I'm in the right spot here....

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None of the doors under there open

visual hill
visual hill
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or you have to crawl below something next to the locked doors at the end of the staircase on the left

fresh bane
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Oh no I'm looking for the last bomb

visual hill
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ah yeah, it's upstairs. Look on the right

fresh bane
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I'm so used to 'modern' stealth that I forget in these games the stealth suit makes it so that your steps are barely audible at all unless you're running around on some noisy floors

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As in, by default, no upgrades needed or anything, just no noise at all so you can do that kinda stuff

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I love that she was talking to someone on the radio and was like ''I saw some weirdo running around in a cardboard box'' rdsnrk

visual hill
fresh bane
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Thief has been on my ''gotta play this sometime'' list for so long and I haven't gotten around to it yet abflat

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If you see a floor with a different texture never walk on it, that's what i learned

visual hill
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it is possible to walk quietly on metal floors in Thief, but you need to 1) crouch, 2) walk, 3) tap the forward key, all at the same time

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it's super slow but enemies won't hear you

fresh bane
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You can also slow walk on this game too but I'm always too afraid of using it, enemies move too damn fast and they could turn around at any time while you slowly make your way there, way easier to just get them from afar

gaunt marten
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Couldn't you just wear padded shoes?

fresh bane
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I am wearing padded shoes

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the floor is just too creaky

gaunt marten
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More padding

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Make your shoes out of aerogel

fresh bane
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The pressure and weight applied would still make it creak, it's not the noise

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gonna need hover shoes

gaunt marten
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Yeah, Aerogel

fresh bane
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I wanna say Raiden's skull suit is probably made of something way more advanced than aerogel considering tech in MGS's world, but I never actually looked it up

gaunt marten
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It's made of skulls

fresh bane
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The funniest part is, now that I'm looking it up, it seems like all stealth suits in MGS are more focused around providing enhanced strength and endurance/defense to the user than actually making you stealthier rdlol

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All of them provide you with some sort of protection against elements and other hazards mainly but they're all just loosely made of some rubber like material and have some vague sound dampening tech

slim thorn
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I got Thief 2 on sale a while back and keep not quite feeling like it when I have the time

fresh bane
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I was planning on pirating thief because the games are so old I doubt I'm hurting anyone by doing it but they're dirt cheap on GOG I just never got around to actually getting them

visual hill
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lol, I tried sniping a flying object and a bird just went past my scope and got shot instead

fresh bane
thorny loom
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A streamer i watched got to the escort mission in mgs 3

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They were told of the strat just knock out the escort and drag them around to your objective because its faster. So its honestly been hilarious

fresh bane
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''Vamp lost his family in a church bombing when he was a kid, he survived off of drinking blood until he was rescued''
''Oh, so that's why he's called Vamp...''
''No, it's because he's bisexual''

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I still love how Snake says this, he says it like ''No dummy it's because he's bisexual, duh'' rdsnrk

little badger
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visual hill
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I just finished the Harrier boss fight

fresh bane
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I just fought Fatman, got him first try, non lethal too starlightgrin

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ayyyyy pipppipphooray

dense crypt
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MORE BOMBS

fresh bane
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''In a couple years, you too will be in one of these twilight''

visual hill
wind stump
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i beat episode 3 of Umineko
pain

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all i feel is pain

fresh bane
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The Paaaiiiinnn! 🐝 🐝 🐝

fresh bane
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disguise time! lurking

visual hill
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Amogus Gear Solid: Sus of Liberty

quiet swift
fresh bane
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Aw man, Rose just told me she looked into where Solid Snake was buried and that it's 100% confirmed he's dead so the Dead Cell leader can't possibly be Solid Snake
Bummer, would've loved to meet him face to face pippcry oh well...

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Pliskin will have to do I guess

fresh bane
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Oh my god getting this damn AK from the Strut F warehouse is such a pain rdlol

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I'm getting found out a million times

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I'm not good at this game...

visual hill
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me neither, I tend to bruteforce a bit

fresh bane
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Oh my god I just fired off the M4 as soon as I got it and alerted everyone

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What am I even doing

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I did get the SOCOM supressor finally

robust spear
gaunt marten
river veldt
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how did this happen again

gaunt marten
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I'm excited because this is a win for preservation

fresh bane
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that didn't take long

river veldt
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it's not even out yet

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this happened with Wonder too

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and then it was 2 weeks early for TotK

fresh bane
river veldt
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what does this mean

young creek
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hopefully they will have this fixed for the next console

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im sure thats a big priority for them at this point

fresh bane
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People would find a workaround

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they always do

gaunt marten
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Survivor bias

young creek
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would they

gaunt marten
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It's not a guarantee

young creek
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from my understanding this is only a problem with nintendo exclusives

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i didnt hear anything about spider-man leaking weeks in advance or baldurs gate

mossy flume
mossy flume
rose rose
mossy flume
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It's where it comes from. Don't ask me how the keys are acquired, though.

gaunt marten
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Well on a switch where you control the OS through other exploits

mossy flume
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Every time preload happens the game hits the torrent networks within a few hours.

rose rose
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Controlling the OS would not help in a sane system

gaunt marten
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Indeed it would not

rose rose
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They just wouldn't give out keys until it actually ships

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If their preload system actually trusts the system to just not launch the game then a) that is insane and also b) surely they would just stop using it until they fixed it

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I figure there must be something deeper going on.

mossy flume
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Having checked with a Switch emulator developer, I stand corrected; it's always from a physical cart.

rose rose
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Seems much more plausible.

mossy flume
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But Nintendo did used to ship the decryption keys ahead of time

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But that was on 3DS

mossy flume
gaunt marten
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Makes sense to me

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No runtime fee

mossy flume
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Runtime fee doesn't apply until next year's LTS version

teal cliff
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More people should play

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goodbye volcano high

gaunt marten
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I'm waiting for a good sale

teal cliff
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isn't it like 20$?

gaunt marten
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$12 in my region, but I'm poor

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Typically, I'm fine waiting for a few years until a game is cheap enough to buy, and polished enough to have all I could expect from it, and this works because games don't become less good with age and I rarely interact with the community

sage raptor
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4k screenshot, game runs perfectly on ryujinx

gaunt marten
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You already have it running?

sage raptor
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Yuzu wasn't playing any music for some reason

gaunt marten
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You should make sure to tag it with spoilers because there's a few people here who don't want to know much about the game before they can play it

sage raptor
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I'm not going to post anything else

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just letting everyone know it works

river veldt
thorny loom
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as for how the game leaks early. Min wage Gamestop or other workers steal or take a copy and upload it on the internet

dire gate
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Physical cartridge/cd leaking is quite literally impossible to prevent

thorny loom
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yes its why most companies nowadays dont even have discs or carts in "physical media"

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or they do but you have to install a patch to get the game working anyway as that weeds out any leakers

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but yeah if your wondering how the keys and stuff are decrypted its via Model 1 switches which are running homebrew software. It's impossible to patch so there is nothing nintendo can do about it other than take down download leaks as they happen

mossy flume
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The other Switch models like the OLED version are possible to mod as well, but it requires a modchip.

thorny loom
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also very specific firmware installations

mossy flume
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I'm not actually seeing anything on the modchip pages that say you need a specific firmware version... are they just... forcefully overwriting the NAND?

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I don't get what they're doing here

rose rose
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Once you own the hardware it does seem reasonable the firmware version wouldn't matter.

thorny loom
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AH thats how its done

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the chip makes the cpu glitch so it fails a check that prevents unsigned payloads from running

mossy flume
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Oh ha I was just about to link that

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That's not the v6 Instinct, which seems to be the leading chip, but I can't find info on where to buy it. Finding the proper modchips seems to be a lot harder than it used to be.

thorny loom
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my guess. most went underground when nintendo was going after TOTK stuff

mossy flume
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Last modchip I got was for the Wii rdwut

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Wasn't hard to find a seller

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But now the best I can find are forum posts

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But yeah, a pi pico would make sense

thorny loom
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but yeah i wont be surprised if nintendo starts moving away from PM with the switch 2 and adopts the practices of Xbox and Playstation DRM

robust latch
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im soo glad i have a V1 switch. i could never do the fine soldering for modchips

mossy flume
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I haven't yet felt the need to mod my Switch.

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Once Nintendo stops supporting it I probably will.

bronze abyss
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id mod mine if it wasnt a redbox PinkieSnapped

mossy flume
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Oh I found a modchip seller

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Looks like a DIY kit goes for about $90

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A RP2040 would just cost you like $5

bronze abyss
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wonder how much do the local console modders mod switches for,since it would probably be cheaper than buying the chip and a soldering kit

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and potentially fucking it up

mossy flume
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It requires precision soldering, yeah

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Not too hard, but it is possible to brick it

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Gotta have soldering skills up to the task.

bronze abyss
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i hvae really shaky hands so i probably physically cant do it

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not to mention the nerves adding up to it when theres potential to lose a 300$ tech item

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same reason why i paid someone to solder my keyboard waaa

gaunt marten
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What did you solder the keyboard for?

bronze abyss
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the switches need to be soldered to the PCB

gaunt marten
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Oh that makes sense

bronze abyss
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since my primary PCB doesnt have hotswap for reliability reasons(playing rhythm games can often break hotswap sockets and changing them individually is inconvenient as fuck)

bronze abyss
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honestly think epic should just leave in og br as a permanent mode at this point,if they did it with zero build which completely violates the fundamentals of the game then they should be able to do this too

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theres very clearly a demand ffor it,from culture relevance to the numbers to actual enjoyment of it its a huge jump from what it was becoming

random steppe
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People like it because of nostalgia

gaunt marten
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Nostalgia is a huge cash cow nowadays

random steppe
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3 months form release Vanilla WoW servers were dead, I expect this will go down the same way if they make it a permanent thing

bronze abyss
random steppe
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They were actually really smart to make it a season each week for a bit

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IDK I didn't play enough fortnite to tell, what I know tho, that not always the most balanced and well designed game is the one that people like.

bronze abyss
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like the pre-og fortnite was actually a horrific needlessly overcomplicated mess of gimmicks from NPC raids in games to items that overpower anyone with no way to fight back and more NPCs that sell overpowered guns with currency that is kept between matches

river veldt
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yeah it was funny

bronze abyss
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not to mention that they already have the ability to seperate it, and to some degree have(badly) but just refuse to do so properly*

gaunt marten
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    mon 1 consumes item

    switch to mon 2

    mon 2 gets knocked off (probably in double battle)

    mon 2 uses recycle

    recycle overwrites mail permanently
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It's faster than the TAS speedrun without that trick

mossy flume
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Ohhhhh nice

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New ACE is always fun to see

gaunt marten
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Yeah, there's now a credit warp in every game prior to gen 5

fresh bane
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woaaahoohoooo

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a Ghost Babel reference

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wow

minor plover
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this was a good recommendation. Thanks. She's enjoying it.

astral steeple
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how the fuck did the ripoff version of fall guys get a spongebob collab lmao

minor plover
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awww yeah, wordle in 2. I usually do both starting words, but sometimes I get so many letters that I'm like "lemme just check to see if I can do this without the other word"

mossy flume
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Given the trajectory of sales over the past few sales reports, it appears to me that the Switch is on a likely trajectory to become Nintendo’s best selling console ever. Which would mean it’s also threatening to overtake the PS2 to become the bestselling games console, period.

https://www.gameinformer.com/news/2023/11/07/nintendo-switch-surpasses-132-million-units-sold-alongside-great-tears-of-the

Game Informer

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has sold 19.5 million units while Pikmin 4 is the series' best-selling at 2.61 million units sold already.

rose rose
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Unless sales suddenly drop to zero because it's replaced

visual hill
quiet swift
wind stump
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i now headcanon that FNaF and Umineko/Higurashi share a universe
i will accept no questions about this

dire gate
wind stump
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(Umineko) ||oh my god i'm going to die||

dire gate
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die(physically)

slim thorn
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I respect that

bitter stream
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understandable

feral tulip
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Gamers and gays

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We won

river veldt
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@feral tulip I had to delete it because it's from a leak, please be wary of spoilers as the game leaked just yesterday and doesn't come out for a week

feral tulip
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Well I mean it's a game older than most of us ajlie

slim thorn
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remakes usually aren't identical to the original, so they get their own spoiler period

mossy flume
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Also a lot of us haven’t played it before

feral tulip
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Yea ik, I'm just saying it's a scene everyone's seen. I was just showing that it's still in the remake

quiet swift
wind stump
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(Umineko Question Arc Episode 4) ||You know aside from the clearly murdered child this scene is really wholesome. The CGs in this game are good shit.||

fresh bane
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I've never been malding so hard before at a game I went from nearly reaching Plat with Juri to barely hanging on in Gold 3 and losing literally every single match for weeks

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Either I suddenly suck or suddenly every single dude playing this game is acting like there's a million dollars on the line every match
or both

chilly mural
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are you drive rushing more?

fresh bane
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Not particularly I have a lot of bad habits I keep doing but I've never had a losing streak this bad for this long starlightexhausted

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I always keep losing matches when they're just a light punch away from me winning which makes it worse

chilly mural
fresh bane
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Probably should watch some high level matches to try and learn anything at all

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My biggest weakness by far is my mental game is weak as shit I get tilted so easy if you're dominating me and start tbagging to show off I'd probably lose my mind rdsnrk

graceful bridge
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Okay, when even Adam Savage is reviewing a thing, you've nailed it.
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chilly mural
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infact, with my experience seeing and playing fighting games for years, thats what it really comes down to when you play

fresh bane
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I could go into training or combo trials and practice my combos for days unless I get better about that I'm never climbing up or getting better, I do need to practice combos just to get the muscle memory down so I can maximize the damage I do but I never aim to practice these crazy long combos just simple easy stuff I can reliably do everytime

chilly mural
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I don't practice the crazy long combos either

fresh bane
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Something I keep doing that seems harmless but isn't is I keep defaulting to using heavy punches and kicks as my pokes and I really need to stop doing that because it just leaves me wide open every single time and I don't know why it's a thing I do

chilly mural
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just simple reliable stuff that will get me a knockdown so I can start my Okizeme/Pressure/Mixups

fresh bane
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I need to practice using my fuhas more with Juri because I'm not taking full advantage of that mechanic yet

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Once I get back to gold 4-5 I'm probably gonna take it easy on ranked because this is soul crushing rdlol but I need to get back up first I can't stay barely hanging onto gold 3

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I can't allow that flutterwaaaugh

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I actually need to go back to GGST too I heard they added new stuff a little bit ago so I wanna see what's new

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I haven't played with my corner queen waifu in a long time

chilly mural
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i-no?

fresh bane
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Ram

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I do play a bit of Ino too but I'm not great at it

gaunt marten
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Neat channel

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The person making it is clearly an amateur, but he's nice

sage raptor
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Lmk if you want to spar in SF6. I'm low platinum with ken and ryu, so about your skill group.

fresh bane
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I hate Kens and Ryus

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They always beat me up

wind stump
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shoto

fresh bane
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with their damn fireballs and dps and strong solid inputs

sage raptor
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I love their gameplay twimerp

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But Juri is super cool too

flint iron
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I always flinch in person whenever Ryu hits me with a collar bone breaker because out of every street fighter move, that seems the most painful for me

chilly mural
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at tallcat

sage raptor
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SotC is one of my alltime faves

wintry canopy
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I finally got back to Gold rank in master duel.kirinhappy

river veldt
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Hades is coming to iOS through Netflix some how

gaunt marten
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Gee, I wonder what would happen if I break this golden pillar

quiet swift
wind stump
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(Umineko Question Arc Episode 4) ||WAS THAT THE BITE OF '87||

gaunt marten
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'87

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She looks too young to know 1987

dire gate
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That's 1998

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At least that's how it is set up

gaunt marten
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Oh she's born 1980 and the story is 18 years after

gaunt marten
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Excellent twin sick shooter. A bit short

rancid herald
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does anyone know what the age rating of the nintendo switch is?

gaunt marten
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The switch itself?

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There's no age rating for consoles. Age ratings are for videogames

rancid herald
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but usually there's age ratings for like, 3-80 or whatever

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like most toys have such ratings

gaunt marten
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Yeah, the Switch itself is not a toy though, so the rating is dependent on the games you run with it

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On toy age ratings, Wikipedia says Manufacturers often display information about the intended age of the children who will play with the toy. In the U.S. this label is sometimes mandated by the CPSC, especially for toys which may present a choking hazard for children under three years of age.

hushed onyx
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So, my sister has been playing Spore recently and was wondering what other games existed that might match the appeal (to her) of the space stage. I asked what she liked about the space stage and she said:

I like the economics of getting goods from one area and finding places to trade them at a higher price, and the expansion of an empire

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Based on that I suggested Elite Dangerous or Stellaris, with a more questionable suggestion of No Man's Sky, but I was wondering if you all had any ideas.

uneven epoch
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civ v?

hushed onyx
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If she had wanted something like that wouldn't she have asked for something similar to the civilization stage?

uneven epoch
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uh. civilization stage in spore doesnt really have the more indepth trade of goods aspect to it as space stage does

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so if lookin for resources and expandin is what she liked about spore space stage, then that sounds similar to civ v to me

hushed onyx
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What I was saying was that I think she thematically wanted a space game, hence my suggestions of space games.

dire gate
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beyond earth

uneven epoch
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well she didnt specify she liked the space setting

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or at least ur message didnt seem to suggest that

gaunt marten
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Offworld Trading Company

uneven epoch
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i focused on the "I like the economics of getting goods from one area and finding places to trade them at a higher price, and the expansion of an empire" part

gaunt marten
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# uneven epoch i focused on the "I like the economics of getting goods from one area and findin...

Right, but like I played a lot of Spore back in the day so I know a lot of that in the space stage involves flying around in a spaceship and interacting with the space environment, so I suspected that the space element was alos appealing. Also, she noted that she had already encountered the recommendation of Stellaris a lot. And of course I know my sister better than you do rdsnrk I might bring up the idea to her though.

arctic fern
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You could suggest the Anno series of games, they're literally all about logistics

gaunt marten
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I also liked Space Pirates and Zombies 1, Galaxy on Fire 2 (it's an android game)

arctic fern
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Off world trading is also good

gaunt marten
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uneven epoch
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since there was no "make sure its space game"

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but thats a null point anyway. hope she has fun whatever she ends up with

hushed onyx
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(Or rather I didn't think about it because it seemed so obvious to me)

random steppe
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Ok so, for Warframe players

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You should watch this, because it's really funny

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It's so blatant

slim thorn
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still great

mossy flume
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Such a good game

alpine haven
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4 man squad all with same skins, on bronze 4

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💀

chilly mural
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sure, yeah I guess

river veldt
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that guy is nowhere near as beefy as Ryu smh

chilly mural
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ryu, from streets

visual hill
sour hill
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That disclaimer can't stop me because I can't read

rancid herald
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I see

fresh bane
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It can't be!

visual hill
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I got a fair bit further than you at this point, I'm starting to feel the true MGS spirit. 👀

visual hill
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(I've never played MGS2 before, I won't spoil)

fresh bane
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Solidus was the original Armstrong, he's so cool

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No need to worry about spoiling me, I already know all the MGS lore like the back of my hand twimerp

visual hill
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ah, you use the English dub

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I know there is a French dub which is apparently quite good, at least for MGS1

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I still played in English because I'd have to suffer PAL framerates otherwise

fresh bane
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There's no spanish dub of MGS that I'm aware of, this is the default settings for some reason it defaulted into spanish

visual hill
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a lot of games default to your system language on PC

random steppe
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On Steam they deaful to the settings you put in Steam

fresh bane
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That's what I thought but my system language isn't Spanish

visual hill
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…or it tries to guess based on keyboard layout

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I've read somewhere that GTA III and Vice City censor themselves in countries like France based on keyboard layout, rather than system language

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(to make things worse, the censorship affects gameplay in many ways, making it much more challenging)

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I played the game with censorship initially and didn't realize that

random steppe
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Sucks to be french canadian I guess

sour hill
visual hill
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so far, MGS really feels special, it's one of the few games where I really pay attention to the story, watch all cutscenes, etc

fresh bane
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Rules of Nature! flutteryay

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I love RAY

slim thorn
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I am glad I played MGS 1-3 before MGR because it made the opening RAY fight much more hilarious

fresh bane
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|| Raiden does still fight like 3 RAYs at once at the end of MGS2 way before he was a cyborg ||

visual hill
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oh by the way, do you know you can zoom during a cutscene?

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I found this by chance early on by mashing buttons during cutscenes

fresh bane
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I do flutternatureissofascinating

visual hill
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that, and making your character reply positively/negatively during codecs

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and zoom on their faces with L3/R3

fresh bane
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I knew about the zooming in but not the other one

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I love that Raiden just now finds out Pliskin was Snake and immediately goes into a fangirl mode

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'Y-you're a legend!!! pippwhoa ''

visual hill
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the reply also varies depending on the character you're talking to

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it has no effect, it's just cosmetic

fresh bane
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Oh my god I'm dying over and over trying to pick up this stupid ration lol

visual hill
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it's hard but it is possible

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never stop running, do a 180 with a large enough radius at the bottom of the staircase

fresh bane
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I got it but ended up dying at a falling platform rdlol

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I'm at Shell 2 now thankfully

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Oh god the uniform shows up in cutscenes

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Looks good on ya Raiden

chilly mural
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Ay dios mio!

fresh bane
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Ponytail Juri is so pretty sunnybeam

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my Juri's got her hair down and glasses and the Js 👟

fresh bane
dense crypt
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nnnnNNNEEEEEEEEEEERD

fresh bane
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Oh no I have to carry this nerd now

white phoenix
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just knock her out

visual hill
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you now have the stealth escort mission, the gamer's favorite. 👀

visual hill
white phoenix
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lol kojima thought of everything

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tranqing her probably makes it easier

fresh bane
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''You know about GW?''
''Of course, I created it''
''Huh?''
''You look surprised. What's wrong, cat got your tongue? twiimply ''

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Don't sass me you nerd

fresh bane
fresh bane
harsh kestrel
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You know your game is down bad when this man up and leaves you

https://youtu.be/deg5xMOAUnU?si=6udJPHUHsAjsk95V

fresh bane
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Rose : There wasn't anything in your room -- only a bed and a small
desk. It looked like a prison cell... No television set... no
family pictures... not even a poster...
Raiden : Rose, I only use that room for sleeping.
Rose : A lifeless room... almost like your empty heart. twicry

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Jesus christ Rose chill out, the man's a minimalist nothing wrong with that rdsnrk

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Rose literally unironically just ''men really live like this and think it's okay'' 'd Raiden

rugged flax
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for all of y'all with BG3

hushed onyx
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(For exactly the reason given by Raiden...I only use the room for sleeping and spend most of my time elsewhere)

fresh bane
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To be fair the reasoning for Raiden's room being like that is meant to be because of his deep trauma as a child soldier and the fact that he has no family and suppressed the hell out of his childhood but yeah ajlie some people are just minimalist

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also speaking of MGS, Kojima's review system is great

gaunt marten
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Yeah, you mention everything good about it

dapper cedar
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does VRChat qualify as game? someone uploaded a world and it's my favorite thing ever

teal sonnet
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sure it does

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what world? show mee

dapper cedar
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a recreation of the old Figment ride, cannot visit without crying

teal sonnet
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this looks awesome

dapper cedar
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is simply called The Imagination Pavilion in search
no doubt i will be going back several times, very comfy map

peak berry
mossy flume
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Been a minute since I’ve played New Leaf

rotund forge
# mossy flume

This is why I'm nervous to jump on Tomadachi Life again...my NPC's must hate me for abandoning them!

mossy flume
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Another one of my villagers just straight up thought I was dead

quiet swift
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"Thought you were dead. Well anyway, lay out your arms..."

visual hill
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once I move, I will probably add a poster or two

dire gate
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As you would expect, people are yet again coping for Silksong

rotund forge
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I want someone to make an indie game called indie game or indie world. Just for the joke: I created the indie game! or I got a whole Nintendo Direct to myself! or something lol

arctic fern
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that woud... result in 3 lawsuits before you even finished the first line of code

thorny loom
arctic fern
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...no

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thats horrible

rotund forge
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I swear to EVERYTHING in the universe, this is one of the dumbest waste of money I have seen from a hardware company...

dire gate
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"Edible controller" is such a misleading term

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It's a controller shaped chocolate and a chocolate colored controller

wind stump
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... that's not hard drive

thorny loom
dense crypt
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Alternatively, get Dungeons 4 which came out a few days ago

thorny loom
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Thats also a good game yes

rancid herald
slim thorn
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gaunt marten
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The GTA 6 trailer isn't getting nominated for game of the year? Corruption!

teal cliff
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I KNEW IT LMAO

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Games for Impact is always where they shove the best games.

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oh wait we have #1172610917356277910

gaunt marten
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Games for impact is the "We thought this game was bad but a lot of people disagreed." Category

river veldt
quiet swift
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lfg? ppenk

river veldt
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"let's fucking go"

teal cliff
gaunt marten
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Let's fucking go

quiet swift
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God damn whippersnappers taking over acronyms

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That's Looking for group, clearly

gaunt marten
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Tchernobog knows it as Looking for Group

quiet swift
gaunt marten
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Man, university WiFi is so slow

quiet swift
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I just type fast ppenk

gaunt marten
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Yeah but CaptainMario doesn't

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I just get posts slow and send them slow

fresh bane
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also where's Dead Space?

teal cliff
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We are not nominating remakes that don't change anything

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If a remake wins GOTY it has to be like, the resident evil remakes, where they're effectively new games.

gaunt marten
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In other words remakes are eligible but remasters are not

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I have never heard of Tchia and Venba

river veldt
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i havent heard of any of the games for impact games

quiet swift
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dinosaur high school band with incoming extinction meteor

gaunt marten
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We've talked about Chants of Sennar, Goodbye Volcano High and Terra Nil repeatedly on this channel

river veldt
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i guess i just never saw ponkshrug

teal cliff
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the art direction category is very limp this year tbh

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there were games with cooler art direction than the nominees.

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fwiw spiderman 2 SWEEPS this category

fresh bane
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SF6 has incredible accessibility options

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Best in any fighting game to date

teal cliff
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eehh, still pretty badly implemented in some respects.

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game is basically unplayable for people with limited motor function because of the really questionable way modern controls work.

green fulcrum
gaunt marten
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SF6 has the best fighting game accessibility so far, but there's a long way to go

green fulcrum
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But no, Destiny 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 are nowhere near good enough to win the community support award.

teal cliff
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what is community support supposed to mean in this context

thorny loom
green fulcrum
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Although Cyberpunk might win a "best expansion" award if such a thing exists.

thorny loom
green fulcrum
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As well as listening to feedback and implementing changes that positively affect a user's experience.

teal cliff
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dammit where is GVH

green fulcrum
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So yeah, Destiny 2 at the very least shouldn't be anywhere CLOSE to this category. They're dead last.

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GVH?

quiet swift
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...There's an award for "most anticipated game"? ppenk

green fulcrum
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BG3 has that in a bag.

quiet swift
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mashes the Hades 2 button

green fulcrum
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Or maaaaybe Starfield

fresh bane
gaunt marten
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Hollow Knight Silksong had the highest number of steam wishlists recently

green fulcrum
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For best indie game I personally think Sea of Stars should win, but I am biased towards RPGs in general, soooo...

fresh bane
teal cliff
teal cliff
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it's sad that the anticipated category is way more enticing to me than the goty category was.

green fulcrum
fresh bane
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Of course you can't, but that's not really the point

fresh bane
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So PL is considered a new game I guess

teal cliff
green fulcrum
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It was veeeeeery niche

fresh bane
river veldt
young creek
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why isnt Silksong on most anticipated

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are they crazy

bleak lintel
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DeadAyaka Everyone has given up hope.

teal cliff
young creek
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no its coming soon trust me..

fresh bane
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Nobody really talked about it either

teal cliff
fresh bane
teal cliff
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In an entire mode of play that serves as one of the game's main draws you cannot use them

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I don't think you can use them in the story mode either?

bleak lintel
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BronyaHacking Anticipated feels like it should go to Hades. Star Wars is hyped but it is Ubisoft.
FF7R2 is looking good but it is the middle game of a trilogy.

teal cliff
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so like where are you supposed to use them

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I'm voting for Hades 2 but Infinite Wealth is also huge

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same with Tekken 8 and Rebirth

bleak lintel
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FF7R2 being exclusive hurts it too.

gaunt marten
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Dynamic controls are usable unless you want to play the game in a competitive manner, which kinda sucks because a lot of people buy the game with the idea they may be able to compete

fresh bane
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Dynamic controls are not meant for competitiveness

gaunt marten
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Right, they are not, and that's an issue for accessibility.

bitter stream
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Don't modern controls exist too? They seem decent for accessibility, if not to the same extent as Dynamic?

teal cliff
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To do anything effectively on modern controls you still need to be fully capable of playing the game at a normal level.

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They barely remove any complexity in the inputs aside from supers. Combos and specials are the same as ever.

bitter stream
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hmm interesting

fresh bane
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I wouldn't say they don't work for accessibility at all

rose rose
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I also don't think introducing a control scheme that isn't deliberately actively hostile is really all that innovative.

fresh bane
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For fighting games it is

bitter stream
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I wonder if FGC games just have to take the L on this one, on account of motion inputs being design implements as well as execution barriers.

bleak lintel
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It is a big shift for fighters.

gaunt marten
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It's a start

fresh bane
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Visually impaired players needed all the sound cues that already exist on fighting games by design when playing competitively before but SF6 added options to help with that with things like sound cues based on proximity to your opponent

teal cliff
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They do not like it when people can pick up and play games easily so there needs to be a cultural shift within the subcommunity for anything to change.

fresh bane
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That's not true at all

bitter stream
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...? That doesn't seem to be true at all, especially given the warm reception games like Power Rangers has, and that IIRC hasn't got complex inputs at all

fresh bane
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Most of the FGC community is perfectly fine with accessibility options

teal cliff
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There is literally no reason for complicated motion inputs to be the standard for fighting games, we live in an age where more elegant control options exist but are often disabled for tournament settings.

bitter stream
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Project L is following in Power Rangers footsteps too, and people are hyped for that game

teal cliff
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See, Tekken 7's move macros. You can execute specials in that game through traditional motion inputs or by binding them to R1 + another button. The binding option is disabled in tournaments, and it is the only way I can perform special moves.

bitter stream
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It's designed to be playable even with keyboard in mind.

fresh bane
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There's definitely a subset of hardcore sweaty players that pride themselves in playing older games with complicated inputs, and they should be, because these games are very hard to master, but painting the whole FGC and even the developers of fighting games as elitist gatekeepers that actively refuse accessibility is just not true at all

teal cliff
bitter stream
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Brawlhalla then? that game is one of the biggest on the market, and has controls as simple as smashbros.

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Also in that line, the other platformer games, like Rivals of Aether.

fresh bane
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Even if that's the case one thing doesn't immediately mean the other, just saying that the community and devs pride themselves in gatekeeping and inaccessibility is just wrong and it's purposefuly painting them in a bad light when that's not true

teal cliff
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Games like Smash Bros are discounted by fighting game players and called "not fighting games" or games for children because of their simpler controls.

fresh bane
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Plenty of the community is perfectly fine with and want more accessibility so these games can be played by even more people

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Saying ''players and developers pride themselves on gatekeeping and inaccessibility.'' is wrong

teal cliff
gaunt marten
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Brawlhalla is a party/smash bros fighting game, a different genre and style from high control complexity fighters

bitter stream
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Sure, then back to Power Rangers and Project L

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They are high complexity 1v1 2D fighting games

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or 2v2 in the case of Project L

teal cliff
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Just bring up Stylish controls to Guilty Gear players, a huge chunk of them are glad that the simpler control option was straight up removed moving from Revelator 2 to Strive

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The FGC is anti-accessibility

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always has been.

bitter stream
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You're tarring a whole community with one brush... that's just not useful to anyone.

teal cliff
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Because the community made it clear where they stand

fresh bane
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Now you're just purposefuly making assumptions lol

bitter stream
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No, There are subsections and groups inside that community that have different opinions and takes on good fighting game design.

teal cliff
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Just because a community trends towards one direction does not mean every person in that community does; CSGO is a toxic game, not every single CSGO player is toxic but enough of them are to make a statement about the playerbase as a whole. Same thing applies to fighting game players and gatekeeping accessibility options.

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That's why absolutely nobody seemed to mind that Modern as an accessible control option is actually pretty inaccessible and dynamic is unusable for most of the game's content.

bitter stream
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what on earth are you smoking? did you miss the uproar about modern Chun Li in CPT?

teal cliff
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in addition to the other examples I gave (Tekken's binding options being disabled for tournaments, Guilty Gear removing Stylish mode)

bitter stream
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It's good enough to compete at the highest level fo the game

fresh bane
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Yeah this whole thing is turning stupid

teal cliff
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To compete with modern you have to be fully capable of playing the game on default controls.

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It offers absolutely 0 assistance to disabled players because the technical inputs required remain the same.

bitter stream
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It changes the basic inputs

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some of your M and H kicks are straight moves

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I can't recall for M H punches

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It's got the option for the complex inputs

fresh bane
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Saying modern controls offer absolutely 0 accesibility is also not true, it may not offer assistance or accessibility for some people but to say that it flat out doesn't offer anything is just completely untrue

teal cliff
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That still doesn't change that playing SF6, even on modern, requires execution of inputs and combos that most people with motor issues couldn't manage.

fresh bane
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There's so many people who said they previously couldn't play but modern controls made it so that they could get into the game way easier than anything else before

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Are those people just lying?

bitter stream
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^this

teal cliff
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Either those people are playing at such a low level that modern's singular auto-combo is enough for them or they're fully able to do complex mechanical inputs anyways

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Playing well with modern still requires you to perform complicated mechanical inputs and therefore it is of no help to people who can't do that.

wintry canopy
bitter stream
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fair enough Obsidian haha, they are very cool lightning horses

thorny loom
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The compeltionists charity “the open hand foundation” has been found to storing money and not actually donating money https://youtu.be/Rb0dMF1zHyA?si=CDy_TkBZ4Wk0bHeX

The Open Hand Foundation, founded in part by Jirard Khalil (The Completionist) has been keeping and storing donations for 10 years.

Muta's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QItBdql_8FI
Open Hand filings and responses: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yYd-nXexW1sekCT6RDQmBTdwDrzelwES?usp=drive_link

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bronze abyss
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dont worry hes just doing it for the life achievement of being cancelled to get the plat 💯

fresh bane
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Karl Jobst making a video about you could either be the best thing to happen to you or the worst with no inbetween

thorny loom
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Muta went into more depth with it

bronze abyss
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gg wp ez

thorny loom
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Either way. Hes gonna have a fun time with the IRS now that its guaranteed people are gonna send notices to them about it

fresh bane
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Oof

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That's worse than being publicly outed and chased off the internet

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Could be looking at jail time maybe

thorny loom
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Another red flag. He disabled comments on all his videos

chilly mural
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We are so fucking back pony bros

thorny loom
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I mean. This has been going on for 10 years

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Doesnt help he said he found out in 2022 and in 2023 still did a fundraiser for said organization

little badger
chilly mural
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We have never been more back

thorny loom
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(For context for him scroll up)

wind stump
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❤️FlanPoke

dense crypt
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Oh shit its veigar

wind stump
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oh wait
this is a LoL character?
OH GOD N O

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(joking aside, fun character)

fresh bane
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Yes lol

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He looks cooler in his splash art....

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Wild Rift makes him cuter

dense crypt
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Its only a short way? Is that a SHORT JOKE!?

wind stump
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ah, that splash art is his character art in StS
also his basic Attack card

fresh bane
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He's one of the super old champions that are basically just standing there waiting for Riot to do something with them

gaunt marten
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Spyro ass villain

fresh bane
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One of the reasons I stopped playing League and started disliking Riot is how they have all these awesome characters they do absolutely nothing with because ''muh new champions to keep people interested''

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Shaco is another old champion who is pretty infamous for basically having no lore at all

fresh bane
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rood

teal cliff
random steppe
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Heavily modded Slay the Spire

teal cliff
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I see.

random steppe
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At least the character is modded but knowing HC there are probably a few dozens mods involved

green fulcrum
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So apparently Armored Core 6 and Starfield weren't nominated for GOTY.

There's gonna be a lot of people on my ship tomorrow who are gonna be pissed that I was right. cadancewheeze

teal cliff
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Slay the Spire is what i was looking for, I recognized Veigar but not the game.

teal cliff
random steppe
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Yeah I am a huge AC6 fan and I agree with that decision

teal cliff
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AC6 got the nom for... best action game, was it?

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I think that's appropriate

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it's the type of game to win a genre category rather than goty.

random steppe
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Also I don't hate Starfield (even tho the more I think about it the less I like it) and that also doesn't deserve a GOTY nomination

green fulcrum
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There were soooo many people on my ship who were adamant that BG3 was gonna get destroyed by Starfield in the GOTY poll.

teal cliff
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Sleepfield 💤

random steppe
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I like a lot from it, my main problem is that it completely fucks up the fantasy

teal cliff
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It has the bethesda classic of absolutely 0 impacts of your decisions, to the point where I don't know if I'd classify it as a roleplaying game anymore

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Bethesda games of the modern day are more akin to open world shooters.

random steppe
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I don't even care about that

teal cliff
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I care greatly, and Bethesda continues to spit in my mouth about it.

random steppe
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The fantasy, the pitch of the game is "explore the galaxy" every bit of the writing casts you as this intrepid explorer taking risk and going in impossible places to reach.
Yet, everywhere you go has structures built and inhabited by people...

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?!?!?!

fresh bane
random steppe
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Why?

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It was the one thing I wanted

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Not the Hi-Fi rush thing

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That I expected

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I love the game but it's too nichè sadly

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That said it should have been in the visual design category

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And it's a crime it isn't there

rose rose
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It is in "art direction"

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Unless we're back to Starfield again

random steppe
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Ok that's definitely a fair place to put it

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I meant Hi-fi rush

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I didn't check the music category actually

rose rose
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Hi-Fi Rush appears in Art Direction, Score and Music, Audio Design, and Action Game

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Which seems appropriate

random steppe
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Oh I think the one I was mad about, was the golden joystick thing then

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I would be very curious to see the split of the people that voted the normal categories but skipped all the esport ones

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It would be interesting to answer the "of all the people that are commited enough to gaming to vote in TGA, how many actually also follow Esports?" question

rose rose
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I skip all the eSports!

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I don't know why the voting is even there. This isn't a popular vote award.

little badger
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We're honored that #FFXIV has been nominated by @thegameawards for:

🎮 Best Ongoing Game
💖 Best Community Support

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rose rose
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Marketing, I guess

green fulcrum
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Ikr?

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It's bonkers

fickle garnet
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I keep seeing xbox fanboys being super pissed that Starfield wasn't even nominated for GOTY

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Imo its not GOTY material. Its good but not GOTY good

river veldt
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idk anything about Starfield

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does it have aliens

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it's in space so i assume so

slim thorn
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from what I've heard "it's a bethesda rpg... IN SPAAAAAACE" mostly covers it

river veldt
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what's the craziest alien

fickle garnet
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Also i saw someone say that Spider-man 2 is a buggy messcadancewheeze

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I ran into like one bad bug on my playthrough

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I definitely think BG3 will win

mossy flume
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Starfield has no chance

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Starfield was arguably one of the weakest RPGs of the year

fickle garnet
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I saw someone on twitter say that Starfield should have been nominated for best art directionrdsnrk

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Hi-Fi rush better win best art direction

wind stump
slim thorn
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I enjoyed Hi-Fi Rush so much more than I expected to

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and I will probably never have the energy for a second playthrough

mossy flume
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I was disappointed by Starfield because it was basically a late 2000s RPG with modern graphics rdwut

visual hill
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I remember when Starfield was hyped a lot

green fulcrum
slim thorn
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so... what's changed in RPG-land since the late 2000s

mossy flume
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BG3 can be quite boring if that sort of thing isn't for you

rose rose
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(I think BG3 is boring)

green fulcrum
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Methinks they didn't like the turn-based combat

slim thorn
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other than Larian Studios getting all the hype apparently

dense crypt
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I like turn based combat but not when its done like XCOM where one missed attack can mean the death of the entire team

random steppe
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I think that if you mean proper RPGs not that much happened fro a while

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Disco Elysium, and Persona, and probably some nintendo stuff

dense crypt
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Final Fantasy is more of what i like, though ironically i dont play them as much as i should...

random steppe
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As in, stuff only on Nintendo console so I wouldn't know about it

slim thorn
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...huh, and I've played or watched 2/3

astral steeple
random steppe
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Most of the RPG crowd I feel were gobbled up by Souls gamers.

slim thorn
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oh interesting

random steppe
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Which is a RPG in the sense of it has some RPG mechanics

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But not really

slim thorn
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I mean DS1 is certainly an RPG the way I'm used to that term being thrown around

fickle garnet
astral steeple
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hopefully not

random steppe
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The subgenere of RPGs that were the largest in the past few years was definitely souls

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Which culminated in Elden Ring

thorny loom
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Oh god genshin again

slim thorn
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I guess those are separate in my mind since every Souls-adjacent game I've actually enjoyed was mostly not an "RPG"

thorny loom
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Look i like the anime women but the gatcha aspect isnt great

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Furina is especially adorable

fickle garnet
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The combat and constant grinding also suck

random steppe
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They totally are different genres but they are lumped up together because of some similar mechanics

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And to be fair, souls games have quests, they just aren't explicitly marked on a hud

slim thorn
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I mean, that's what a genre is lol

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RPGs and Soulslikes have always struggled to get a clear definition

random steppe
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Yeah but like, BG3 and DS are both in the same category and yet they have a less in common than for example, Dark Soul and Devil May Cry

Sometimes it's a bit silly

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(to be clear, DS and DMC don't have much in common, but it's more than BG3 has with DS)

slim thorn
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Ixrec — 08/14/2021 1:17 PM
Dark Souls was the first game ever to have a parry button rdwut

visual hill
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speaking of DMC, I learned about a DMC meme last week because of a random tweet I made

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I posted a image of a plastic chair to showcase an example of runtime model loading in Godot and everyone replied with the meme with Dante sitting in a plastic chair

random steppe
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lol

visual hill
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it's not even the same chair though, the model I used has fewer "holes" in the back

random steppe
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I do own that chair

fresh bane
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Erm, that's Vergil, not Dante twilight ☝️

grave tide
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Based

visual hill
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ah right, I'm not familiar with DMC

thorny loom
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Come on now

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Wheres your motivation

fresh bane
random steppe
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Vergil ability to style his hair perfectly with one hand in half a second is the least belivable thing anyone does in all the games

fresh bane
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He uses his devil powers to tuck his hair back

rancid herald
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are the game awards tonight?

river veldt
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no

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they're on December 2017

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sorry

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December 7th

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why did i type 2017 what on earth

rancid herald
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I'm already halfway into my tardis

minor plover
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you were thinking of how many cookies you've given out so far

quiet swift
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2416450/Mouse/ cease and desist speedrun any%? ppenk

Step into a world of cartoon animation and retro action-packed adventure in Mouse. Inspired by the best of 30s rubber hose animation and the classic noir style, this retro shooter is a story-driven experience that will take you on a thrilling journey through a dangerous and corrupt city.Armed with a variety of mid-century firearms and explosives...

Release Date

To be announced

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river veldt
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this game looks fucking awesome

quiet swift
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It does but I can't imagine DIsney being okay with it ppenk

green fulcrum
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But it's just an art style. They cannot copyright an art style, otherwise Cuphead would've never seen the light of day.

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Or Bendy and the Ink Machine

fresh bane
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That actually looks legitimately super creative

dire gate
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But it's The Mouse™️ cozynotevil

hushed onyx
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On January 1, 2024, the copyrights of the first three animated Mickey Mouse cartoons will expire, and they will enter the public domain. They are the silent cartoons Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho, and the sound cartoon Steamboat Willie.[a] Newer versions of Mickey Mouse will remain copyright protected.

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Given that the style here is definitely more similar to those cartoons than "newer versions" of Mickey, Disney really will not have a leg to stand on.

dire gate
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While it is just about time for it to become the public domain, I sincerely hope that someone don't try that pooh slasher movie shit with it

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That was genuinely so horrible

gaunt marten
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It was Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, and the students got to watch for half an hour before he found out

river veldt
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i would fire him for putting on a shitty movie

gaunt marten
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It's a school

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They're not showing anything remotely exciting at a school

river veldt
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that's not true

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one time we watched Jurassic Park in biology

green fulcrum
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It's literally called...BLOOD and Honey. Did that not tip him off? Was it not obvious enough? Was he blind?

gaunt marten
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Where I live if there's anything in any way one parent questions, that movie is not allowed (not that we got to watch more than one or two in total)

green fulcrum
gaunt marten
green fulcrum
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You can always tell the landlubbers from the true pirates... ppenk

hushed onyx
# green fulcrum It's already becoming a thing, iirc.

Mickey is such an icon of America that it started happening long, long ago, though mostly in countries that don't care about Disney's copyrights or trademarks. I would be more surprised if there weren't slasher movie shit-type things in, say, Iran or North Korea than if there were (Mickey would be the villain, of course).

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Also you know Disney itself did a cartoon as early as 1929 where Mickey became a soldier and machine-gunned invading cats, soooooo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barnyard_Battle

The Barnyard Battle is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on June 1, 1929, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the seventh Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the fourth of that year. As the title implies, it features a battle between an invading army of cats and an army of mice trying to defend their homes and farms.

gaunt marten
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That short was fucked up

thorny loom
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Dont forget mickey mouse goes to vietnam where he gets drafted and dies

rotund forge
wintry canopy
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I've heard that there's going to be inde Nintendo direct soon, it'd be sick if pizza tower gets ported to the switch.

mossy flume
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Yep

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Tomorrow

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Replaying Pokémon BDSP right now and it just…. looks so much better than Scarlet/Violet it’s not even funny

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And no stuttering

chilly mural
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but, Zapdos doesn't have toxic....

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it's over

mossy flume
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IMO the world design here is still much more interesting than the more recent games annoyedavali

river veldt
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it's shocking going from Galar or whatever ScVi's region is called to Sinnoh or even Kanto

mossy flume
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Kanto, Hoenn, Johto, Sinnoh are all so much better designed

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G5 too

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Then it started to fall apart after that

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I would argue that music design has also lost its luster as well for thematic consistency and depth

hasty patio
rotund forge
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It's become a semi-rule I live by that I will never play a Pokemon game. Never have and probably never will. Heck, I've never even seen a full playthrough of any game ever on youtube...

dire gate
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I feel like that's an unpopular opinion

dense crypt
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hmm, hmm... yes, unpopular, DISCARDED

wintry canopy
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Most of the music in scarlet and violet is meh, but ogerpon's fight theme and every theme from area zero are sick.

mossy flume
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S/V are just generally really sad to the point where I’m convinced that they are years from being finished

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Also no model and texture pop-in

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Also things like shadows

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Having also checked the release history it’s clear that Game Freak, Nintendo, and the Pokémon Company need to reevaluate their 3 year release schedule for mainline Pokémon games because it is clearly not enough.

flint iron
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Its harder to memorize the layout of the new gen regions, like Unova will change the layout of the region depending on the season of the year, unlocking new paths and sealing other paths for each season and changing the pokemon found

mossy flume
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BDSP just makes me even angrier at S/V

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And it was done by a third party studio

flint iron
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Yeh

mossy flume
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Yeah

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The new regions are just uninspired

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And much more linear with like… no branching paths at all

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All the Pokémon world designs have been loosely linear, but it’s even moreso in recent titles

river veldt
#

Gen5 also has my favourite legendary Pokémon, Kyurem

mossy flume
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Sword & Shield is just… go north.

flint iron
# mossy flume BDSP just makes me even angrier at S/V

Pokemon is one the highest grossing companies so it cannot be budget as the reason, they also don't give their developers time to flesh out a game like legends arceus and scarlet and violet didn't even have a year gap with releases

flint iron
mossy flume
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Game Freak is understaffed and they refuse external help.

flint iron
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Yep

river veldt
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like maybe the mystery is better, but idk

flint iron
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A Pokemon Legends Kyruem will be the only way

river veldt
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yes please

mossy flume
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The Legends idea is great. Too bad they aggressively floundered at their first swing at it, I suspect no sequels will happen

rancid herald
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wasn't the combined form in BW2?

flint iron
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Both forms were 2/3 of the full form, they never had all 3 combined yet

river veldt
#

yeah

rancid herald
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Does that even exist?

river veldt
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cause Zekrom, Reshiram, and Kyurem are each 1/3 of a big Pokémon

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in lore yeah

mossy flume
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It was supposed to but they cancelled that plan

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They basically had to reshuffle their plans

flint iron
#

The elusive Pokemon Grey

rancid herald
#

Pokemon Grey is hanging out with Pokemon Z

mossy flume
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Grey and Z were planned but both cancelled and they’ve since decided to never do a third version again

rancid herald
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that's fair

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the third version wasn't really a good idea anyway

mossy flume
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DLC is the new plan

river veldt
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Game Freak should make Pokémon Grey for the Switch and it's all pixel art again

mossy flume
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I thought it was a great idea because it let them go back and refine the whole game as opposed to just tacking on some extra content at the end

rancid herald
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Pokemon Grey and Pokemon Z: Grey is all pixel, Z is all vectors

rancid herald
mossy flume
#

Platinum was a phenomenal iteration

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Yeah

rancid herald
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Maybe

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I always saw them more as like... experimental versions of the game

mossy flume
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But these days they just literally do not have the time

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I always viewed them as definitive editions

river veldt
#

they never did a

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uh

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idk LungsCrystal

rancid herald
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Like a place where they tested out ideas, like how Pokemon Crystal had gender for the main character before it was introduced fully in Ruby/Sapphire

river veldt
#

idk what would HGSS Crystal be called

flint iron
#

Lungs Crystal sounds pretty epic for that

rancid herald
#

RS is really where they seemed to solidify the idea of two normal games plus a third game, because Gen 1 and 2's third games were kind of weird. Yellow version was, inexplicitably, an anime adaptation and crystal had something going on with one of the legendary doggos

river veldt
#

i love Pokémon Yellow and the remake too

rancid herald
#

Anyway, circling back to Legends, I sort of suspect we'll see more legends games in the future

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I really don't think Gamefreak wants to keep making remakes of their old games, which is why you ended up with the weird BDSP/Legends thing

icy crescent
flint iron
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I was about to say remake pokemon coliseum and xd gales of darkness but one of the main attractions to that game was that it was a 3d pokemon game years ago, they did have the action replay ability to snag other trainers pokemon tho

mossy flume
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HG/SS was the best remake they ever did

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It’s sad that they’re trapped in DS land

flint iron
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Yeh the ost, amount of post game to do, 16 gym leaders, walking with your pokemon, pokewalker, pokeathlon and trainer/pokemon sprites were really good

mossy flume
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They’ll probably re-remake it someday, but probably not anytime soon

river veldt
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i still think Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee are underrated

mossy flume
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I agree that they’re likely to take the trajectory of making new titles for a while