God this sucks, and is emblematic of the worst problems of the Compilation. Cloud being a rando who happened to be there when Sephiroth went crazy, as opposed to the ultimate warrior destined to take down Sephiroth, is absolutely crucial to his character.

This is weird. The demo defaulted to Graphics Mode for me, and I had to switch it into performance mode.

It’s pretty funny because this is the exact cycle we got with Elden Ring. The devs didn’t really share anything, to the degree that people decided it was vaporware, until they were finally like “nope it’s done, here it is, enjoy.”

Really prefer this to a 5 year hype cycle with a drip feed of every secret in the game

It’s beyond depressing seeing activist organizations with very specific missions get dragged into completely unrelated bullshit to the degree that it threatens their entire organization.

“capitalism finishes ruining everything else, but apparently they’ll be straight-up vibing as the world burns.”

Begging that asshole Spanfeller to give writers better healthcare so they can afford therapy.

Not really. Hasan got a ton of well-deserved criticism for doing exactly that.

“birds and crickets, which Rayburn said were often in the audio mix depending on whether the scene took place during the day or at night.”

I don’t know how I never noticed this but I’m never NOT going to notice this now. Is this a standard practice for animation?

I’m generally a fan of Rogen but his singing in the The Lion King was absolutely unlistenable. If that's what we're avoiding here, I'm okay with it.

Yes, she was the "reality show cinnamon roll" of Strip Search and it's so exciting to see her talent being recognized!

I hate to break it to you, but our current “grounded” reality contains a ton of cartoonishly evil people.

I don’t get this. I don’t understand this criticism, I never will. “The stories don’t intertwine.” And? Might as well complain that two Twilight Zone episodes didn’t have a connected plot. It’s an anthology.

I care if the stories are engaging, interesting and entertaining. In OP1, some were, some weren’t -- there’s…

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The embedded source explains you need 330 skill points for the top rank. So 45 bonus points is significant.

The funniest part is I’m pretty sure you could convince it you have it in checkmate at the beginning of the game

A little actually!

“Somewhere I bet Seinfeld’s buddy, Dave Chappelle, is applauding the bundle of 1s and 0s for its uninspired human-fed trash excuse for a joke.”

Hey now. You shouldn’t bully Chapelle for being transphobic and Seinfeld for supporting him. That is not true activism. You should write to your congresspeople instead! https://…

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The important thing to remember though is that your teacher dies at the end of the game regardless of ending and that Rookwood is the one who cursed Annie.

Hell yes, I hope the plantiff takes him for all he’s wor—

“The plaintiff, a Texas police officer”

Fuck.

The problem with tech cards like Shang-Chi is that they’re dead cards in like 50% of matches; against any deck that doesn’t rely on a single big threat, he actively makes your deck worst.

Against the other 50% (an estimate, obviously), many of those can easily play around him or even just naturally dodge him. Shang…