What was actually even more common than the “last lifeboat” thing was people doing exactly what Mr Beast is here - claiming they were due to be on the Titanic, but had cancelled at the last minute. I saw a screenshot of a headline in a newspaper from back then which was saying the number of people claiming they were…

I mean, she is a chef for a small, weird business. If she wasn’t high as fuck I’d be more surprised.

No. Your logic is inverted and senseless.

Come on, this is 100% your fault. 100%.

Honest question - can you explain the upside to pre-ordering when buying digitally in 2023? You imply that there is a very significant upside but I can see none unless there’s a discount, which is almost never the case with AAAs.

The issue with the Elder Scrolls games is a non-issue if you’re role-playing though, isn’t it? It’s only min-maxers who are intentionally trying to game the system who create a problem. If you actually role-play in, say, Skyrim, the progression is far more natural, immersive, and related to what your character…

Agree on all points lol.

I’ve seen both. Often the attribute gains are linked to a class or the like, but I’m pretty sure you have played JRPGs where you did make choices unless, say, you skipped FFX, for example, which has the extremely famous Sphere Grid, which rivals the Path of Exile skill tree in terms of topology.

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Shit, that would actually have worked. I hadn’t even thought of it.

Definitely, but the issue is that this darkness is covered up by Akira Toriyama art, relentlessly upbeat characters, ghastly blaring music (soz but I have limited tolerance for that - though IIRC in DQ9 it is less awful), cutesy dialogue and so on. In fact I seem to remember discussing DQ9 with my wife (who was…

None of which is particularly happening with Twitch itself - which there are valid criticisms of, just not those ones. There’s no doubt Amazon is grotesque, but between these two services, both of which serve their Dark Masters (big gambling and Amazon), Kick is the service which is itself more actively evil.

Sure, but those are GIGANTIC bonuses. They’re not 1.5% (tiny amount) to critical damage (specific damage situation that isn’t normal) to a single creature type, which is what you see in some games.

There’s something truly sad about how some people can only see caring about an issue as coming from trauma. It’s like you were raised by a television, and have zero understanding of reality or real humans. In the real world, outside of anime and mawkish US TV shows, people care about stuff because they care about it,…

Because of comments made by Squeenix around FFXV particularly, which basically indicated they didn’t believe that the FF fans in Japan had any interest in female leads, and that they were largely young men who wanted to play young men. You might remember this because there was kind of a kerfuffle at the time.

I don’t know if you’re disagreeing with me, but yeah none of the characters in FFXIII were great. I think you’d get into an argument with my wife if you tried to tell her Lightning was purely for people with OCs to obsess over though lol. I can’t think of anyone less likely to have an OC.

I don’t entirely disagree but that’s a separate “Are JRPGs RPGs?” argument. What JRPGs usually do have is a metric ton of RPG elements in the form of mechanical stuff like party management, character development, spells (not just combat) and abilities, and so on - often more than Western CRPGs. You’re wrong to assert…

Lack of caffeine is always forgivable imho, been there.

It’s not crafting in any meaningful sense.

I mean, they totally fucked up FF6 pretty much every time there’s been any kind of remake, so I definitely don’t want to an HD2D attempt, which will no doubt also be cheap and ghastly.