Sorry to see you go, but glad to see you’re taking a break. Looking forward to seeing where you end up, and reading you there too. :)
Sorry to see you go, but glad to see you’re taking a break. Looking forward to seeing where you end up, and reading you there too. :)
I don’t know. I feel like Sunshine Coastline and Gen D’armes from VIII give it a run for its money. There’s some tracks from Origins that are also just... hot damn.
Okay, the entire series is just great. And then you add in the recent Trails games, and you can see the Falcom music department is just superbly gifted.…
This is time to plug the most energetic piece of Ys music there is, from VIII. The guitar around 0:35 is particularly nuts, and this music plays while... climbing a mountain.
The series is just full of ludicrously good music and I’m kind of in love with their music team.
There’s an updated version of I & II with remastered music that can be much better (at times) than the Turbo CD release, called “Ys I & II Chronicles”, and you can get it on PC pretty easily.
Some of the music is really phenemonal. For example, this track plays between the games, when you’re travelling between the…
The demo sucked, honestly. I was very bored by the Ys IX demo, but the actual game has really sucked me in. The dungeons in IX are actually really good, with lots of small secret paths and the open-ish-world city has a fair amount of differentiation in it. It looks like you (eventually) get to travel a bit outside the…
I had to deal with this when I pre-orderd Ys VIII from Gamestop. Had to spell it for them. :)
I haven’t ever played any of the Atelier games, though I’d considered Ryza on the Switch. But... nope, full in on Ys IX and still going through Trails of Cold Steel IV. Just getting my Falcom on.
Isn’t the fact that it’s 4k/60fps indicative that this ISN’T what it would have looked like on XBLA, given that the 360 could only have run at 1080p?
Neat, but...
I’m in a similar position. My main finished the Night Fae campaign quests, and while I’m interested in furthering the main storyline it’s going to come out in drips and drabs... and the current last bit of story is gated behind finishing the Raid, which I probably won’t ever do.
I’m popping in every night or two to do…
The problem is that politics really IS hard.
Look at the Impeachment effort. It’s a no brainer, right? Why did it take Dems 6 days to put it up for a vote?
Because it’s a complicated process, even on something this straightforward. There has to be an explicit actual article. That article will get debated within the…
I think the difference here is that being truthful doesn’t require you to align with an extreme.
Sure, the far-left and far-right are both pretty whack. The difference is that the far-right controls the Republican Party while the Far-Left just has some influence (generally social) on the Democratic party.
But it isn’t…
Totally true. And then we get into the question of “How do you prevent 45% of the population from being total shitbags?”, which is another question.
A big chunk of that comes from the social permission structure - they got permission from Trump (and from Republicans in general for decades prior) to be absolute…
The thread seems pretty good so far. 4 replies, but all thoughtful.
Yes. Giving equal weight is another symptom of the “both sides do it” canard that just drives me NUTS.
Comparing the Dem and Rep positions on climate change is a really good example. Talking about “election fraud” is another. The problem is that media is lazy and doesn’t generally want to piss off conservatives too…
This does happen, but the fact is that legislating is a LOT harder than most people think it is.
Take for example Impeachment round 2, which people have been yelling about how Dems aren’t taking it seriously or doing it fast enough. It turns out that impeachment is a long, hard procedural slog and it wasn’t initially…
Gonna out myself here: I never did quite get the “lady with a wang” poster as particularly transphobic. What it seemed like it was saying for the game was that it was fine to have whatever genitals you wanted, which seemed somewhat friendly to me.
That said, I’m a CIS white dude and will defer to actual trans folk…
I don’t know - it feels like one of the major problems we have (beyond Tech companies only doing the right thing when it’s safe or financially advantageous, even not enforcing their own policies to do so) is that there is a huge epidemic of bad-faith argumentation on the Right that we don’t treat as bad faith.
It’s…
The House and Senate CAN vote on this, but expelling a member from either group requires much more than a simple majority - it would require a significant amount of Republicans to vote in favor and I can’t see that happening.
The other alternative is that the 14th amendment says that someone who has been part of an…
That Pink+Black is just phenomenal looking.
I might have to play with this. That or a Yellow+Black might look really good.
In Valhalla, they straight up state that Reda is way older than they look.