3 wasn’t quite as bad at the whole forcing classes thing until the end; you basically required two Sages (or two Devouts) to survive Cloud of Darkness’s AoE.

I’m the exact opposite: I want a fairly uniform difficulty curve that ranges from ‘not overly challenging’ to ‘tough, but fair’ depending on selected difficulty. Nothing turns me off more then doing 100% of all optional content, then one-shotting the final boss (I’m looking squarely at you, FFXII).

To be fair, this has been Squares MO since FF3 (the NES one).  The want and expect you to play with certain characters/classes, and design their games around it.  That why, honestly, I haven’t purchased one of their RPGs in ages.  Other developers (Falcom, etc.) have passed Square-Enix by, even if they don’t sell…

Unlikely; Manchin won’t go for anything much farther left then we have, and with the Filibuster in place (Manchin won’t vote to remove it) there’s not much Democrats can do on that front.  About the best Democrats can do is patch the biggest issues with the ACA.

Well, as some of us pointed out from the start: Tariffs don’t work if you don’t have the means to produce the goods you tariff locally; all they do is jack up prices and reduce sales across the board.

Yeah, but then you get into a lot of hairy discussions about means testing, which then spirals into how to count wealth, and so on. And don’t even get me started on the political attacks on “handouts for the lazy” the GOP will immediately attack with.

Mainly because Manchin is playing politics since he’s up in a very red state in two years. This would be relatively easy if he backed nuking the filibuster, instead everything needs to get done via reconciliation. And since there’s a limit how often that can be used, Democrats are forced to cram pretty much everything…

Agreed.

Personally, I have no problem with center-right Republicans; most of my family comes from the wing of the Republican party that got exiled after Raegan won. As one of my aunts explained to my sisters boyfriend: “We’re all Nixon era Republicans; that means we’ve voted Democrat every election since ‘88".  But the…

Oh, at the party level Democrats are idiots; no one can really claim otherwise. They get torn so much between “we have to be moderate to win elections” and “we have to satisfy our liberal base” that the party generally tears itself apart internally and settles on either the most bland candidate, or the most liberal,…

It’ll be out the door once one of two things happen:

It’s a fair point, especially on Clinton (who I felt lost as far back as the “basket of deplorables” comment) who was legit the worst candidate I’ve ever seen run. Yes, Trump was horrible, but at least he had a platform; Clinton really didn’t.

The real problem is the negotiations, and the necessary give and take, and whether Democrats should (or even have to votes to) get this done via reconciliation (which I note prevents them from doing other things they would *really* like to, like increasing the minimum wage).

Is that really surprising? Most of the smaller studios have long since been absorbed, so you are often left with just a handful of very large titles in each genre of games, fighting over the same audience. It’s also important to consider that because of how long-lived these titles are, you need to actively pull people…

For those wondering, Pinnacle Station was basically a slimmed down version of the ME3 arena from the Citadel DLC. Beat all the high scores/times on each map, get to choose one high level gun for yourself.

For the record, VSS is absolute garbage. Try moving a file location in one revision, then moving the file back in another. Oh right, VSS can’t handle that.

My thoughts pretty much match yours: Unless they used tape drives for backups (those things are reliable as f), pretty much every other backup options is statistically likely to have degraded by now.

Highlighting why short-selling should be illegial.

But AMD hardware in consoles would result in AMD optimized ports! That’s what we were promised!

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