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26 minutes ago, Chris- said:

Read the comments...It's in a fucking strip mall!  Who takes a chauffeur to a strip mall to pay for a $79 handy?

Now I'm just imaging his chauffeur in a Rolls, parked outside a skeezy strip mall, waiting for his boss to come back from his "massage".

1 minute ago, Bloodporne said:

The checkpoint and fast travel systems made me quit eventually. I realized I was spending a low percentage of my last 10 hours or so on actual progress and/or fun and most of it simply backtracking for huge blocks of time. I don't mind that concept, but it was poorly and tediously executed and the bench placement combined with it being too big and obtuse for its own good killed it for me ultimately. 

 

I'm tempted to buy it again on PS4 at some point and give it another shot for some reason but we'll see. 

The fast travel system gets better with a warping ability you pick up later in the game, but it doesn't help that much. I don't think the fast travel system is what makes the game feel tedious at times. Now, I love the game, but I can see the fault here. The bigger issue is the last of benches. You look at Super Metroid and there are save rooms leading up to boss battles. It makes retrying a boss a simple task. Face someone like the Traitor Lord in Hollow Knight and the closest bench is behind a series of spiked room platforming segments. Also, since there's no real health indication on bosses, you never know how close you are to beating them. Right now I'm facing the Watcher Knights and I haven't a clue on how many times I need to go through these guys before they're down. Then again, I can probably look it up, but I've been trying to avoid FAQs for this game.

3 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I really like hard games and even I thought Hollow Knight veered into obnoxious territory often honestly, be prepared. 

Hollow Knight definitely veers into annoyingly difficult territory every once and a while. I had no issue with Celeste's difficulty. It ramped up nicely and there was no real penalty for retries. Hollow Knight needed more benches in more strategic places. Since boss battles could often pop up out of nowhere, it could make backtracking annoying.

14 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

So the question is, if his order gets upheld and he does appropriate funds to build any of the wall, does that set precedence for future Presidents to do the same on any scale? Could a Democrat President declare an educational emergency and get billions to build new schools? Could a Republican President declare a military emergency and get billions to hire a force of military contractors outside the military's chain of command?

 

Like, where does it end if the precedent is set that the executive branch can now approve spending measures unilaterally? And then what is the point of Congress? 

For the executive, I can see the idea of moving military money to cover "emergency" costs. I don't see how that would work moving other federal dollars into the military. That said, if this passes muster, I see no reason a future Democratic president couldn't declare a climate change emergency and reappropriate military dollars to green initiatives.

13 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

If this is true, I have huge doubts they will pull it off.

 

Technical issues were partly why it was cancelled in the first place.

If Platinum is busy with Bayonetta 3 and Astral Chain, this seems like the perfect game to have Monolith Soft colab on. We don't even know what they're working on right now.

10 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

Ehhhh - I personally do not classify him as a "mass shooter".

I'd categorize him as a serial killer, not a mass shooter. That, however, leaves him just as much a outlier.

1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

There's net domestic migration from California of about 100k people. There's also about 315k people who newly came to California from abroad as well. All from 2017 numbers via the census bureau.

I shouldn't have rushed that one.

Either way, point stands. The state looks to be growing about an average rate when compared to the rest of the country. Looks like expensive col states and states with a weak job market suffer the most, but it's probably not something the state really notices since California has a pretty young population compared to the rest of the nation.

3 minutes ago, Dodger said:

So even immigrants realize CA is a shithole. It doesn't matter what race you are in that state anymore, if you're going to live in Baldwin Park and make 40 grand a year and work in some random office in Glendale and sit in an hour plus of traffic each way you're going to be broke and miserable. But you'll at least be broke and miserable in decent weather. There's nowhere left to escape to anymore either. All the areas that were cheap but you just had a long commute 20 years ago are no longer all that cheap, and traffic is a nightmare. 

 

There's a reason people are leaving CA. If you aren't Jason making six figures two blocks from the beach, it's not really worth living there anymore. 

Who is leaving California?

11 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

FF9 harkens back to older FF, but it combines that the good stuff about the PS1 FF games. The story is charming (though it turns to somewhat nonsense in the last few hours lol), the character development is well-paced and actually genuinely good, it has great bosses, it’s challenging if you want it to be (leave it on active instead of wait mode), it’s got fun side stuff, the card game is great. 

You just described like every Final Fantasy.

He's going to shocked when he realizes there are actually minorities that post on these boards.

This sucks for kids shoes. They're the only retail store that carries toddler shoes in wide and half sizes that isn't unreasonably expensive for a shoe that's only going to fit for like three weeks.

That said, they have WAY too many stores. I can think of three or four stores a short drive away.

3 hours ago, DarkStar189 said:

After reading the article, it's clear his store was in the hole before his Nike decision. Pulling Nike products sure wasn't going to get him more customers either. 

Pulling Nike products hurt, but selling $320k worth of Nike stuff half off out of spite is ridiculous.

3 minutes ago, Slug said:

Something like that.  When they heard the song that was written it ended up playing more empowering than sinister and something something marketing girl toys and boom, Elsa is a hero now.

Ah, yes. The empowering power ballad about throwing away your home and family to live as a hermit that doesn't care about the wintery death you've laid upon the innocent citizens of the country you just promised to shepherd like two hours earlier.

1 hour ago, Slug said:

Yeah, that's partly because they kind of decided to do a 180 on the story with part way into production.  Elsa was originally supposed to be the villain.

Kubo was so good.

Wasn't that purely for marketing reasons? Like, her song was too good for a villain, so let's switch things up. That's how you tell a good story, right there. The movie is just so unevenly paced, but it never becomes truly bad. It just slinks away into forgettable territory.

I just rewatched the movie like three times, so the mess is very fresh in my head.

Kids. I'm so happy my kids like Moana and Coco a lot more than either Tangled or Frozen.

How are there this many people that enjoyed Frozen? The movie is just a mess. Characters don't act in ways that make any in-universe logic nor does the story make a lick of sense. The movie flows like a film that was rewritten in the lead up to post under a new director that had nothing but contempt for film's original direction.

None of Frozen's problems are ones that Moana or even Tangled has. Moana is just neat and tidy all the way through. It's also the closest, I believe, Disney had ever gotten to recreating the magic Studio Ghibli has been cranking out for decades; only they also managed to throw in a ton of great music on top of it.

Tetris 99 is pretty great. It's wildly simple, but just works. The game really picks up one you get into the top 50. I think it keeps speeding up from there, but I haven't really noticed it until I get into the top 10. That's when it goes crazy followed by the top 5 where everything is just an instant drop.

Just now, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

I still need to watch Moana and Coco.

You should fix that. They're both so very good with some incredible soundtracks.

Biggest surprise for me, outside of Link's Awakening had to be Rune Factory 5. I was positive that franchise was dead. I wonder if they'll go top down 2D like the handheld titles or full 3D old the console ones.

40 minutes ago, EternallDarkness said:

 

From what I've rad it definitely don't think it's a cash grab. It's going to make a buttload of cash, of course, but they took it seriously.

 

Word is they've come up with something different but just as catchy. I freely admit I absolutely loved Let It Go, or at least the song got so stuck in my head that I thought I loved it. It was really the sound of the music more than the lyrics, because I actually enjoyed hearing it sung in other languages. 

I'm fully ok with a Frozen sequel if it's better than the first one. I'll be extra ok with it if the soundtrack is actually good. The two most recent Disney music-heavy animated films are Moana and Coco and those both have phenomenal soundtracks. Cars 3 was a good, earnest effort. It wasn't great, but at least Pixar was trying. Let's see if Disney can pull off the same effort.

9 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

SMH continues to undo Obama's legacy

 

Trump is totally going to take it with him when he leaves the White House.

I actually have zero issue with this. Presidents need downtime and if that downtime can be had on the White House grounds, then all the better. That said, Trump has a whole lot of executive time, so I'm not all that sure he really does need any more down time.

1 hour ago, DarkStar189 said:

God damn Elsa its called a boat.  Find one and use it.

Yeah, but a boat killed her parents.

25 minutes ago, Firewithin said:

is this the same blob that just said hed "drown" his kids if they were gay?

Yeah, this has been a pretty solid season so far. If the worst we get is that pickup episode, then we'd be in pretty good shape.

1 hour ago, legend said:

I don't care that much about the first one, but that was a solid teaser!

I hate to admit that it was.

I really did not care for Frozen. The movie was forgettable and the music, doubly so. Moana is leagues better. Even Tangled was. I really hope Disney is actually going for something good here other than a cash grab. I know with Frozen, it's really tempting to just go the cash grab, route, but still.