Ghost_MH

4 hours ago, Biggie said:

First thing I did was visit every characters town and recruit them. Then rotate them in and out. 

This. That's pretty much all I did. I made a beeline for each character to recruit.

Also, Ophelia and Cyrus are two of the most useful characters to have. My Cyrus is a crazed killer and Ophelia is a healing tank.

21 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I can't sneak.

I tried to run away from a pack of boars 3 times and it failed every time.

Cyrus and Ophelia will help. Cyrus's first passive skill will lower the encounter rate. Ophelia's third passive skill will make it easier to run away.

Also, steal...Steal everything. Those consumable magic items are completely independent of your characters elemental attack power. A medium level item will one hit kill many enemies under level 20. Do that once or twice and you'll find yourself leveling up pretty quick.

12 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Thought I could take on a danger level 15 area with my character level 14. Got my ass kicked still.

Don't be afraid to use up all your items exploring areas that are a higher level than you are. I was sneaking through 45 areas when I was still around level 25. It just involved a lot of magic items and running away. Totally worth it for the high level gear I could steal from whatever towns I found in those areas.

23 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

This is going over my head. Is Luke Savage on the right? And saying this conservative is hilarious for changing her mind on things, or . . . ? I must be missing somethign here. 

That conservative woman didn't changed her mind. She was talking about how if she didn't know any better, it would be easy to be convinced for the thing she listed. However, she's good and smart, and knows those things aren't good in spite of how good they sound on the surface.

1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

And my point is don't put yourself in that position in the first place... these are unforced errors.  Folks are posting dumb shit PUBLICLY for some reason and then act surprised when they get held to account for it. YOU did this shit... no one forced you to... for all the attention whores on Twitter, there are plenty of people who use these platforms responsibly... there are also plenty of people who don't use them at all... so yes, it's fucked up that trolls can dig through your digital history in order to use things you may have said against you, what's even more fucked up is that YOU gave them the ammunition to use against you in the first place. It's not like he was taken out of context or it was a one off... he did it. He's gotta wear that and companies should absolutely not give a pass to folks Twitter accounts. Not at all.

 

And where do felons get second,  third and fourth chances in this country? For the most part if you're a felon and you're not rich and famous, you're fucked.

Let's also note that Gunn isn't a kid or some young guy that was posting this shit. We aren't talking about someone digging up some stupid stuff a teenager posted on Twitter while in high school. Gunn is in his 50s. These were off color jokes by a guy in his 40s. That's well past the age where he should know better.

At a minimum, he should have just deleted all of this stuff when he apologized. There's no need to open yourself up to that kind of scrutiny down the road. This was a grown man bringing these problems upon himself.

51 minutes ago, Biggie said:

I’m trying to level all 8 characters as I go by switching them out. I have my first 4 at level 20 and the next group near 20. But it’s taking forever and I see you’re already at level 40. Wow I’m 25 hours in and looks like I could be playing this 100 plus hours. lol. Maybe I shouldn’t try to be so efficient. 

 

I find leveling up weaker characters is easier when you have a few really strong characters. I just head over to some level 45 or 50 zone and put Ophelia on keep alive duty. Also, since the game doesn't artificially prevent you from going nearly anywhere, I was wandering around those level 45 zones when I was still in my low 20s. That's it much where I spent all my items. Screw saving those for bosses. Also, stealing high level weapons and armor made that but easier with every town.

So I completely forgot Alfyn is a person in this game. My main cast of characters are all around level 40 with the less often used down in their mid-20s. Alfyn is down at 8. I guess I'm up for some grinding to get him up to speed before jumping into his second chapter.

Balloon Fight would be perfect on mobile. Tap on the right side of the screen to float up and right, tap on the left side to go up and left. No need for anything more complicated than that. Would work perfectly and they can just keep the NES sprites.

Thinking about it, that just sounds like a more interesting Flappy Bird with more than one direction to travel in. Yeah, that could work.

11 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

All 80’s cartoons were created with selling toys as the first priority. But to laugh them and the people who care about them off is pretty lame. Let’s not pretend like all of those cartoons were terrible, shallow programming with zero merit. There was a good amount of substance to a lot of them and many of them still hold up today. 

In this specific case, we're talking about people complaining that the lead in a series designed to sell toys to little girls isn't sexy enough.

Just because a cartoon might be designed to sell toys doesn't mean it can't also be good. In this instance, it's just insane that we know nothing about the actual story. Hell, we don't even have a trailer yet. Literally, the only thing anyone has anything to go on are some screenshots. To complain about the integrity of the character designs in a series that gave us Bow is insanity. Like, I'm half certain most of the characters in the series were designed to just allow Mattel to reuse old Barbie and He-Man molds with sight tweaks. Any character design without those restraints is going to be an upgrade.

As for the design, I think it's fine. She Ra was supposed to be He Man, but for girls. If this reboot is supposed to target the same demographic, this style works perfectly fine. Honestly, I have two daughters, and I wouldn't want a cartoon aimed at them to star someone that's supposed to be sexy.

That all aside, I do find the idea of complaining about the integrity of a series created with the specific goal of selling little girls themed dolls to be hilarious.

9 hours ago, IdeaOfEvil said:

The design and aesthetic look aside, it's the animation that looks crappy to me. You look at any of the other past iterations of Masters of the Universe, and this one looks like it's going for a weird Dr. Katz/not-serious scribbley-line toss away toon in comparison. Almost kinda like how the new Thundercats being previewed looks... just like there's no effort coming from Mattel's wallet.

I didn't even know there was a trailer in the wild. Link?

I need to stop wandering from town to town and start following the story. I just keep trying to fight my way at level 24 through all those Danger 45 zones to get to later game towns.

Remember when DC was rebooting all of their comics with New 52? Remember when they reboot the Titans and everyone was pissed and completely befuddled by why DC didn't capitalize on the success of the Teen Titans cartoon and not go all grim dark? That was nearly a decade ago. Good to know DC hasn't learned anything.

1 hour ago, brucoe said:

I feel kind of bad for the guy who brought this lawsuit because his reasons are valid (even if his legal complaint might not be). Unlike the complainers who are upset about the costs of the game, or the ones who complain because it's taking so long, the developer literally changed course in development and is no longer creating the type of game he originally sold to the public. The plaintiff was expecting a game that he'd be able to play, but because of his ailment, he literally can't compete in that new type of game. For PR reasons, they should have just worked with him, but they took the asshole approach instead. And yeah, they're legally allowed to do that, but it's caused people, like me, to think there's no way in the world I'd give money to an entity like this.

 

The plaintiff didn't sue the company because of the amount of money. I get the impression that he's not suffering a financial burden but sued more out of principle than anything else. But I still feel bad for him, which is never a justification a court has ever used for deciding in one's favor.

It's not the asshole approach if giving him the refund opens up some crazy can of worms. Imagine having to refund everyone that is unhappy with the direction the game is going on? Even then, if you make an exception for him, are they going to make the same exception for everyone that claims a medical issue? Are they going to all for doctor's notes?

That's just too many questions and no company would/should have to ever put themselves in that situation.

2 hours ago, Emblazon said:

So, once you finish a chapter, you just up and pick another character on the map?

 

Olberic is hilarious with his "challenge everyone" ability. Until you challenge an old bar maid and she wipes the floor with you. 

Just head toward the next town where you can recruit/play through the first chapter of the next character.

I went into this game knowing nothing and I'm happy I wound up going with Therion. It's nice not having to go back to other towns to pick pocket random NPCs.

1 hour ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

Coupon Carl is trembling  

You would be too if you were dealing with a criminal mastermind trying to steal a pack of adult diapers.

Here's a dude really triggered by this woman wearing a Puerto Rico shirt...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2152660761432069&id=908009612563863&__tn__=*s*s-R

Let's just make this the official scary minorities thread...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/black-woman-police-pool-access-idadam?utm_term=.ff7eJOWQJK#.tcARZLwXZk

Why do I feel like this is just legend's weak attempt to crowd source his settings for Skynet?

1 hour ago, Paperclyp said:

And she’s totally right, the cost is absurd. 

I may have mentioned this story here before, but I had to deal with this shit with my son. At just two weeks old, he wasn't keeping even half an ounce of food down. We took him to the nearest ER and he needed an IV. At that time of the night, however, they didn't have anyone that could get the IV in him or perform the surgery he needed, so he had to be sent over to Tufts in Boston. Since he was still under hospital care, we couldn't opt to just drive him there ourselves. Since we, apparently, took him to the wrong hospital, insurance didn't cover the cost of the 35m ambulance ride. We wound up getting stuck with the cost of that and the IV they failed to get in him.

It was great. It took months to pay down that bill. So many others would have just gone bankrupt with the charges. Yay!

2 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

The expectation shouldn't be death threats. Obviously. But that's how it is. That's how it has been, and that's how it's going to continue to be. It's not that he should just "suck it up," it's that someone should've prepped him that this is exactly the kind of bullshit you can expect in the industry.

 

Unless someone has a good fucking plan to deal with anonymous crazy people.

 

If you say so. Again, if anyone ever comes up with a fucking solution, lemme know. You're not going to talk sense into crazy people, and crazy people are the ones who are obsessed enough to give death threats most of the time. Ergo, this is an expected part of the business and no amount of "It shouldn't be like this!" is going to fucking fix it.

There's a very easy solution. Just start banning these shitty people from social media. There's a difference between shitting in a character in a movie and shitting on the movie. If Facebook and Twitter made it easy to just report and get these people off the, this wouldn't be such a problem. The issue is that neither company really wants to do anything about it and will normally just play lip service to the toxicity. Twitter is, by far, the worst in this aspect.

If you can't dislike something without harassing people and making death threats, maybe you just shouldn't be allowed to interact with your fellow humans online.

44 minutes ago, johnny said:

LeSecondRoundExit 

 

He needs Kawhi + another star + decent role players (they'll lose their good youth in a kawhi trade) to even compete with GS and Houston. 

So what you're saying is that LeBron, a perennial finals player, is going to end his career in a series of conference finals exists?

1 hour ago, SFLUFAN said:

@Ghost_MH - I preordered the game for you.  I'll send you the keys upon its release.

Sweet. You didn't have to do any of this, so it was much appreciated. Thanks!

This is the sort of thing that always gets lost in the both sides talk. There's a big difference between spinning and trying to be deceptive with how you're telling the truth and straight up making up facts pulled out of thin air.

Also, yay. Using government agents to intimidate people is always cool.