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18 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Who is covering the bill? Campaign money?

Well, there is like $100m in inauguration money missing.

Just now, legend said:

Trying to extrapolate from memory to what it would feel like on my head, but seems like it would be on the heavy side, no?

Maybe? The bigger is the screen resolution. It's just way too low for good VR. Nintendo might have been toying with the idea in the past, but I doubt they have any plans for it with the current Switch. Then again, maybe they do something with Labo and keep the colors and graphics simple so that the low resolution ins't too straining on the eyes.

2 hours ago, mikechorney said:

Click on any IGN or Gamespot review.  Look at their picture on twitter.  Try to find one person who has been doing reviews there for 10 years (let alone 20).

 

Actually, I think the ones making money are streaming on twitch, rather than doing reviews on YouTube...

It's ALWAYS been like that at IGN. I don't even think I was of drinking age yet back when I wrote for them. These sites just churn through kids. There just isn't a lot of money to be made.

I didn't think season two would be so far away. There's plenty of manga, so I have no idea what the hold up is. Season 1 was already three years ago.

5 hours ago, ALIEN-gunner said:

Add this to the heaping pile of generic indie platformers to be forgotten a week after release. 

Even if the gameplay ends up being weak, the art alone keeps this from being just another generic indie platformer.

23 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I think everyone here agrees with that sentiment, just that it's now an order of magnitude worse than it used to be. 

The problem is three-fold. One; brown people. Two; Trump just stirs so much shit there's something new to discuss everyday. Three; brown people.

23 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

Keep the MCU and X-Men universes separate, please. The MCU is already bursting at the seams, and the X-Men movie hit rate is MUCH MUCH worse than the MCU’s.

X-Men has a lower hit rate because Fox doesn't know what it's doing with them.

That said, I don't think Marvel needs to keep them completely separate. They also don't have to completely merge the universes. I'd actually prefer they keep X-Men in the Logan/Deadpool vein and focus those characters on the more R-rated, not exactly family-friendly, universes. They can then pick and choose specific characters to bring over into the MCU. I'd love to see Storm brought over and have her team up with Black Panther, for instance.

This could probably go in either thread, but let's put it here...

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/08/07/cincinnati-police-deploy-taser-11-year-old-shoplifter/929492002/

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Officer Kevin Brown, 55, was working an off-duty security detail at the Spring Grove Village Kroger, police said. He was investigating a group of juvenile girls suspected of stealing from the store.

According to police officials, Brown approached one of the girls, but she ignored his commands to stop and kept walking out of the store. Brown fired his Taser at her striking her in the back.

Nothing like tasing an eleven year old in the back because she ignored you.

So... Is this like the last Smash Bros ever? Are we getting to the point where future versions will just be this game ported to new consoles with a new season pack of characters, stages, and music?

Seems crazy to try to top this in the future or scale things back any.

Just over an hour to go...

If we have a wish list going; I'd want Twintelle, Shovel Knight, and Rex with Pyra/Mythra.

19 minutes ago, Biggie said:

One of my top three favorite video games of all time. 

One of the best games on a handheld that had a lot of great games.

Now, if only SE could come up with an actual sequel and not another re-release.

I hadn't seen this posted yet. It looks like we're getting a Smash Bros focused Direct tomorrow morning...

It has to be new characters, right? The only other thing that would warrant a full Direct would be if they were bringing some sort of story mode to the game. Not necessarily something like Subspace Emissary, but something a little more hefty for players going through it alone.

Or Waluigi. He deserves his own Direct.

5 minutes ago, The def star said:

Him being taking off YouTube is a long time coming. He has definitely violated their TOS. Plenty of videos and channels that have done the same as his have been taken down. What makes him different?

The size of his user base and how many of them find themselves among mainstream conservatives. Facebook and YouTube, Facebook especially, have been tripping over themselves to not come across as partisan one way or the other. The issue is that the most mainstream of these sites like Infowars are primarily right-wing. Swatting them all down as they should have ages ago would come across as right-wing targeting, so they've avoided doing just that. Also, the ad revenue doesn't hurt. That's just emboldened these guys and, as a result, they've cranked their rhetoric up passed 11. Since then, the social media giants have just been sitting on their thumbs waiting for someone to make a move so the rest can follow along and that's what's happening here.

8 hours ago, Man_of_X said:

S.H.I.E.L.D says hi.  

2 hours ago, legend said:

T2 has a far more nuanced and compelling story that sadly doesn't really seem to reach a lot of people. T2 challenges the very idea of the first: that AI are dangerous monsters who will kill us if we develop them. The thesis of the second is that intelligent machines can be a force for good, or evil. It's a reflection of ourselves. It succeeds in building an actual relationship between the humans and the T800, including even Sarah Connor who is forced to confront her worst nightmares to do so. It makes you feel for the uncompromising emotionless machine.

 

T1 is just a monster movie.

Written like someone trying to convince us he's not going to kill us all.

Finally got my first advanced class when I took down the archmage. I probably could have done that a lot earlier, but I think I prefer being a bit stronger than the bosses rather than killing myself with them. I thought I could make then go on to take down the warbringer, but that wasn't happening. Toward the end of the fight, she'll have five attacks per turn and it just wrecks me. I could probably survive long enough to break her if I equipped everyone with Saving Grace, so I'll try that later. First, I'll tackle the other bosses first; after which I'll move on to everyone's chapter fours.

27 minutes ago, brucoe said:

I know it's easy to joke about, but I seriously believe it could lead to some pretty horrible shit, if it's not challenged. Which it won't be until it leads to some horrible shit.

Easy way to get it closed down would be to flood them with requests from mosques. Once even a tenth of the money going into this program goes into defending Muslims, it will be shut down.

2 hours ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

I finished collecting all 8 characters. I am surprised how low level I am for the second chapters. My main is only 17 and everyone else is 13 or lower. I really don’t want to grind levels so do I need to be at the target level to beat the second chapters?

You don't need to be, it's just a lot harder if you aren't. Enemies and bosses do not scale with you, so if a chapter recommends you be at level 20, the boss isn't going to go easy on you because you aren't there yet.

That said, you don't have to keep everyone leveled up. I just dragged level 30 Primrose through her level 40 chapter without any issue because the rest of the party was at level 55. That was a bit exaggerated, but the same applies for everyone else MINUS H'aanit and Olberic. Since those two can challenge people to fights, you'll likely find yourself challenging people in their respective stories. As a result, those two really should be at the recommended level for their story. You could probably skate by with H'aanit if you managed to nab a beast a lot stronger than her. Olberic, though, will have a really hard time on some of his 1 on 1 fights.

16 minutes ago, best3444 said:

So...I started the game with Cyrus. "Technically" after I beat his story I have completed the game in a sense, correct? 

 

How long does it take to beat the story for one character? I'm just confused how the eight characters are being utilized. It seems there are 8 games in 1 here. 

Nobody here is really saving the world. For the most part, these are all pretty personal stories. Yeah, it's sort of an 8 in 1 kind of game, by JRPG standards. The only difficult part about trying to beeline through a single character's story is making sure everyone is strong enough. If you can manage that, then there's really no issue there. The game is sort of designed in such a way that if you do all of chapter one and then all of chapter two and so on, you won't really find yourself having to grind for a few levels. That's especially true if you give every character a chance and swap party members out pretty regularly.

I don't really care about doing any of that, so I have three juggernauts that drag the rest of the team around when they need it. When someone is pretty low level, I just run into one of those option level 50 dungeons and quickly grind up. When the rest of the team is around level 50 and Primrose is level 15, it's quick and easy to level her up when I'm fighting level 50 enemies.

2 hours ago, best3444 said:

Played the 3 hour demo and really enjoyed it. I'm on the fence if I should pay $60 for this game, though. I'm also a complete noob in jrpgs and I'm worried I will get too confused later on. Like sub jobs and figuring out who to use in my lineups etc. 

 

I'm confused in how this game is setup in general with all the characters. 

This game also isn't that confusing. Every time you start a new chapter with any of the characters, there's a brief recap of the previous chapters. Gameplay is also pretty straight forward and easy to keep a hold of. Octopath Traveler has a great battle system with a good amount of depth, but it's also pretty straight forward. This isn't Mother 3 having you attack enemies to the beat of the music or Chrono Cross that has you keeping track field colors and matching those up with musical notes.

Jobs are pretty easy to keep straight and you aren't committing yourself to any roles you put on characters. You can change them at any point you want. Everyone is also going to have a completely different set of characters they like traveling with. You'll see people talking about ideal lineups based on stats and whatnot, but that's completely unnecessary. Just grab the characters you like best.

I like traveling with Therion, Tressa, Ophelia, and Cyrus. There are eight characters to choose from. Everyone has their own personal preference. Hell, my party came about because I recruited the characters in one order and then decided I didn't really care for the Pokemon-like beast capturing aspect of H'aanit. Some people love it. Just not for me. Some people are spending quite a bit of time with Alfyn's ability to concoct elixirs and attacks, but I'm already up to level 55 and never found a need for any of it.

This game is only as complicated as you really want to make it out to be.

4 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

I picked this up to play while traveling recently. I'm about 15 hours or so in. I just figured out secondary jobs after stumbling across a shrine. Man has that made a world of difference. I'm now rarely, if ever, stuck in a situation where a baddie is vulnerable to only one character.

 

I picked up every character and then did some grinding to get my core party up to the point I could think about starting Chapter 2. I think I underestimated how much stats are tied to gear vs levels. I've leveled up quite a bit, but I don't have much more HP and I'm not doing much more damage. I need to go out and really gear up. I got to the boss of Tressa's chapter 2 and it was taking forever. I was scraping by, but it wasn't worth the time.

 

Anyone have any good tips for the best way to go about gearing up?

Learn Evil Ward, the third passive skill for clerics, and Evasive Maneuvers, the first passive skill for scholars. From there, run through the scary areas that are a good deal higher level than your own. Fight using every magic item you have or just straight up run away as often as you can. Look at the world map for towns you've never been to. It doesn't have to look pretty. Just make your way to those towns. Once there, steal everything. What you're really trying to steal are weapons and armor and accessories of a higher level than anything you can buy if you follow the storyline. All the best weapons and armor are going to be items you either steal, buy off a random NPC, or find in an optional dungeon.

26 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

On 2., it is a legitimate question and anyone that doesn't think so doesn't understand that this is several fold more than the unpaid for DoD increase.

How will we pay for something that's cheaper than what we're currently spending? If we as a people are already spending this money, why not use it more wisely?

18 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

How much of that accounts for cultural cooperation with the police? Not that the police have not fostered a breakdown in trust and cooperation with black and other minority communities. 

My wife's aunt was beaten by a group of six people at a party. When the cops were called, they jumped in a car and drove over her, killing her. Multiple witnesses, all cooperating. After many months, they arrested only one of the girls involved. This was in spite of the driver of one of those cars leading the police on a chase and crashing into a house. Half a year later, the one girl was let go, and the driver of the car was never arrested. The guy driving the car was on Facebook threatening to kill anyone that spoke, on a public profile. None of it mattered. The police dropped it and left it as a case of self defense for the six on one. Even the guy that drove over her, lead the police on a chase, crashed into a house, and broke into a hotel to hide was never arrested.

So yeah... This is all anecdotal, but that's quite a lot happening for police to just up and throw out a case. I highly doubt the case would have been dropped if it weren't a murder involving a bunch of Hispanics at a party.

On 7/26/2018 at 8:09 PM, Pent said:

Are you guys doing secondary jobs?  I have Cyrus with Ophelia's job as his second job.  Tressa with the hunter job as her second, Olberic with the Thief job as his second, and then I switch the first person out as needed.  I like Therion, but right now he is around L.25 and he doesn't really hit that hard. i use him mostly because he can unlock chests and has a dagger.   I really wish that characters could use their second job Y commands too.

 

Anyone know if there is a way to raise the percentage of Scrutinize (or whatever it's called) or Stealing?  Does the percentage get higher than more you level?  I just don't like having to pay 10,000 leaves once I fail at something and my town rep goes down...   I do apologize for not remembering character names, skill names, etc...

Secondary jobs are a must. You're just giving up free stat boosts without them. Also, the passive skills you learn remain even without the second job being active. Everyone on my squad is part merchant just for the half SP perk.

As for those skills, they level up with your character, but there are also random NPCs you can scrutinize that will give these skills a boost.

Much better version of the Aquaman trailer...