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Yeah, Persona 5 (Royal) is, uh... long. Like 100+ hours long. It's also excellent. It's not really like any other game, or at least not others that I have played. I suppose you could say it's like Persona 4, but that's not going to help you It is very anime, and if you're not into anime you may find yourself not enjoying it for bit. I went from not really enjoying it to it being one of my favorite RPGs, but it was a slow burn to get there. The game is so long that I came around to enjoying it for the vast majority of it, but it was probably like 10 hours before I was digging it and then it got better from there. Persona 5 was also the catalyst for me getting into anime itself. Here are some interesting aspects to it. The game has an unusual schedule. You spent a lot of your time out in the city as a mostly regular guy and interacting with people you meet there. But You have to be really choosy about what you do, because the game advances on a calendar and doing one activity in one afternoon means you're not using that time to do other things in that slot. When you get to the end game, if you didn't use your time well, you *will* miss things and you can't just spend more time to make up for it. A lot of fans do new game+ so they can do everything, but if you're careful, you can do everything in one go. Beyond that every day activities and socializing, you will infiltrate "palaces" and then you have somewhat more standard turn-based combat. The combat relies heavily on on finding and exploiting weaknesses of your enemies. You can also go down a deep rabbit hole of making godly "Personas" by mix and matching them. Your Persona's basically define what abilities you can use in combat. You can avoid doing this and just kind of use what you get, but it is fun running around with OP personas if you invest the time into making them.

I didn't put Kill la Kill on my previous list, but it is pretty good. It's super fucking weird and it took a bit for me to get into it, but I liked it and certainly is unique. Yeah its pacing in season 1 felt off to me. But I ended up liking it a lot as got into season 2.

Don't ask me how I got this because I could lose my job. But here's the prototype for the 40 series

Just to add more to the discussion, I decided I wanted to get into anime more after I ended up loving Persona 5 (which took me a while to love, but god damn it eventually got its hooks in me). I started by with One Punch Man on my own, which was a great starter. Then I decided to try more and got my wife to reluctantly try it with me since she sensed it was something I was probably going to get into more seriously and felt she should give it a try before she got left behind. But she wasn't otherwise really interested in watching any. We watched FMAB together, because I remembered the earlier one being one of the few animes I enjoyed sometimes watching while at college. We both loved it. Then we watched Death Note. We both loved that too and L is one of my wife's all-time favorite anime characters. Progressively, my wife got more and more into it and she's probably more of a fan of anime than I am at this point.

I guess I would take either "objectively" (to the extent one can) and your favorite. I exclude influential because plenty of works of art may be highly influential but be easily surpassed by those they influenced, so I don't think that's as relevant for this discussion. Nauto Kai might be good. I tried watching it and bailed in the first 15 minutes lol. It was like I could feel the filler coming Similarly, I watched season 1 of Bleach, really liked it, and then bailed in season 2 when it felt like endless battle speech filler. I guess I'm the inverse of a lot of you. I've mainly watched recent animes since I didn't watch many until recently. I have to think hard about my top five, but here are some (more recent) series that I really enjoyed and would be contenders for my top list. - FMAB (as we discussed) - Death Note (the last act gets bogged down, but ends well and everything before is incredible) - Attack on Titan - Steins;Gate - One Punch Man - SAO (gets better after season 1) - Kakegurui - Akame ga Kill - My Hero Academia - That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime - Dr. Stone - Parasite

What are your guys top 5? There's still a lot I haven't seen, but I have now seen a lot and Brotherhood is still in my top 5.

I absolutely think FMA Brotherhood is amazing. It's one of the tightest anime's out there. Nothing felt like filler. At most something early on might feel like filler, but then you realize later it wasn't. It still holds up because I only watched it recently and still think it's one of the best I've seen.

I mean, if you only got halfway through season 2, there is still shit tons you don't even understand yet about the world

FWIW, there are voting systems already designed that are clear, give you a receipt that someone else can't decipher by seeing it, but which allows you to verify that your vote counted through an online system. In many ways, the work is already done. But there is no chance in hell we'll ever get effort for a good system in place. The government is too fucked and corrupt for that to happen any time soon.

@TwinIon Okay, so it turns out it's not true, but Apple *has* made it even harder than before. Before in your settings you could just choose to allow apps from anywhere. Not they've removed that option by default. You now have the following fall backs: 1. After trying to open an unidentified app, open your system settings, go to privacy and it will show that it blocked a recent app from opening and you can select to allow that. 2. You can enter a command line command to make them allow from anywhere option re-appear and then can set it globally. Also, this only really applies for standard mac os apps (other binaries or scripts are fine). But I think that's only the article being "technically" wrong. These measures Apple's taken to block that is frankly absurd and irritating as hell. They really are committed to making macOS worse with every update it seems. Its peak was 10.6 Snow Leopard, IMO and it's just been down hill since then.

Hmm. I'm going to double check that, because I don't think that's true. That wasn't how it worked just a couple years ago.

Really? I don't use my mac that often anymore, but previously signing was just to get on the Mac App Store or past default security settings, not to just run period. There are security settings that default to them checking for signing even when downloaded from the web, but you could always turn those off. It would be next to impossible to do actual development if all programs required signing especially with the wide ranging languages you can use to make binaries so that would be pretty egregious to require.

I think some of the constraints of the app store are a feature. I could even see requiring alternative payment mechanism approval if it's not through them. But requiring buying through the app store with a 30% cut is bad.

Fuck me. My sign up time was August 2000 as well I believe.

I mean, no one is going to force you to refrigerate your milk either, but you should still refrigerate your milk.

And if I had decided not to fire my personal chef for some strange reason, him having to take a leave of work because of Covid still would not be a deciding factor. Possibly. I can absolutely imagine a world where MS mandated they work on engine tech and that delayed everything, or required re-shifting how they were building Halo, etc. There's just so many weird variables that go on in these spaces it's hard to know who is responsible for poor planning. I say this having been forced to plan lower-level details even though you think the higher-level planning you are working under is bad and indeed ends up being bad It's a tough spot.

It was probably this year for some time. You say they had this full five years as if they had this one self-directed vision that they'd been working toward and were struggling to make it in five years. Often times things are forced to change on you from above. There's a reason Bungie spent considerable money getting out from under MS. It's entirely possible that 343 is just plain bad and all fault rests on them. But I don't think we can assume that and certainly not from this. I wouldn't have made up my mind about the chef because he had to close the restaurant for a bit because of Covid. That just shouldn't be a factor in the analysis.

While I vastly prefer Bungie's Halos, I don't think that's quite fair. They had a target of the end of this year and then a global pandemic happened. Game developers are worked like mules as it is. Lets not contribute to that culture by putting them down for not working through the pandemic toward their target date at the same rate developers are often forced to work.

I have a number of colleges who are affected. These are talented people who we're pushing out because of bullshit. It's going to have serious ramifications down the road and it seems like it will be hard to gain immigrants trust back. Though it is remarkable we had any interest at all given how bad our baseline was before all this.

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I don't take any issue at all with the changes: I loved this game. However, some of the criticism may be attributed to the fact that this isn't really a remake or a remaster. It's more of a

It's not just visuals that core tech brings (even though I don't think that's nothing); it's creating more complex worlds in which to immerse yourself. If you don't really care for that kind of stuff that's one thing, but the game worlds of today are leagues better than they were of 15 years ago and there is still a lot of room for them to improve. To put it another way, I think there are very few devs who would say they wouldn't care to have more compute power. If that's the case, I'd rather empower them than limit them.

Yeah I totally sympathize with that. It will be some time before we really see the benefit, but I'm very excited for what this gen can be.

My reasoning is independent from when you, as a personal user, get a console. Even if you wait, you will have implicitly benefited from a better hardware baseline. And being able to release better consoles midstream doesn't change the core issue with the initially released consoles being the baseline performance that developers will have to work around for the rest of the generation. Better hardware won't stop good games from being good, but it may make it possible to make things you couldn't with lesser hardware. And fortunately, one of the most exciting things is the great new storage options that will now be a baseline. If the consoles only got great storage capability on a midstream refresh, it would have dramatically affected how much games would be able to be built around that feature. I'm so fucking happy they went with this stuff out of the gate.