Each game gets better, almost linearly.

Speaking from experience, the biggest problem between LRIP and FRP is generally when a key parts supplier either goes under or discontinues a part. Then you need to quickly find a replacement supplier, verify the replacement meets specs and can be produced in the necessary quantities (I’ve seen this step fail a ton…

Unlikely.  They’re doing what the Doom64 guys did: Providing an engine that doesn’t do anything without the ROM image.  Since they aren’t using any assets, there’s nothing for Nintendo to do legally.

SWAT4 was bloody excellent; we need another entry into that series.

From past experience, Nintendo likes to C&D a day or two before any planned release. [See: Chrono Trigger Resurrection, Pokemon Uranium, AM2R, etc.) So for the love of god: DON’T ANNOUNCE A RELEASE DATE.

Yeah, the Bongcloud is one of the openings you can use to try and play Blacks defenses, with tempo. In certain situations, that can work wonders. And yes, Carlson breaking it out against Hikaru was hilarious.

Question: Some jurisdictions in the EU are starting to treat Ultimate Team as a form of gambling. It follows, if there is the *ability* to do something like this, that there could be some sort of criminal liability. How much trouble could EA get into here?

Well, yeah. Keep in mind that a decent chunk of the current Democratic party come from families that left the GOP post-Reagan. That’s why the liberal wing can never get any real traction, since they aren’t even the majority within their own party.

There’s actually good reasons why the Xbox is damn near impossible to emulate properly. I can’t dig up the original post, but one of the devs for one of the emulators made a big forum post on the topic. I’m posting based on my memory of said post, so a few of the details might be a bit off, but it should give the gist…

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: