AkiraKurusu

AkiraKurusu

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  • AkiraKurusu
    If being rich demands long hours at work, sacrificing valuable time to myself in the evenings...then I'd rather just be 'decently well-off'. Get enough money to get by comfortably, while still maintaining nighttime relaxation and de-stressing.
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    poughstings
    answer my question brodie
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    I responded - why ask me that? What's the context behind it?
    I just want to know why you'd ask me that, of all questions.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Also, why not PM/DM me, instead of writing it on my public wall?
    AkiraKurusu
    Don't you just *hate* it when you wake up at 2am due to being thirsty, then after having a drink you find yourself unable to fall asleep again, leading to you still being awake two hours later and knowing you'll be suffering later on in the day?
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    In the past. Know it only from the past.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    AncientBoi
    AncientBoi
    Also, somewhere in there, you'll have to get up from the chair again to go to the restroom, for all the water you drank. Samething if you did finally go to sleep. Losing battle I'd say
    poughstings
    Was pokemon ever alive?
    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    Yeah.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    It was, on the DS and earlier.
    It started dying on the 3DS, before being put out of its misery on the Switch - in other terms, the quality was lowered noticeably on the 3DS, before falling off a cliff on the Switch.
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    Skyward Sword HD, huh...while I'm glad motion controls are now optional, and redundant text boxes are no longer present or easily skipped past, I do wish they had removed the damn stamina wheel and given us FAR more Pouch space - eight slot's nowhere near enough.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Why not give us 10 or 12 slots, since so many things were moved from the Gear or Items screens to the Pouch? Shields, Bottles, Medals (including two Heart Containers), ammo bag upgrades - all now Pouch items, despite how puny that is.
    They could've improved the game so much more, but didn't; what a letdown.
    AkiraKurusu
    It's a shame most people these days wouldn't understand the context of this music, but at my funeral I want this to play.


    It's a very emotional song for me; even all these years later, I can't help but tear up whilst listening to it.
    FAST6191
    FAST6191
    These days? Implying many people did PMD back when.
    x65943
    x65943
    Beautiful song, had never heard it before

    I too have a song I want played at my funeral but am 99% sure my family won't respect my wishes :(
    x65943
    x65943
    AkiraKurusu
    I'm almost done with Tales of Arise now, and it's a great game. It's a shame that the English subtitles aren't always accurate, though, with a handful of typos and not always matching the VA.
    Also, I'm getting real tired of 'hot spring' tropes, and there's two quests that involve hot springs...sigh. Why is this so pervasive through Japanese media?
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    AkiraKurusu
    And of course there's how Law is treated by the rest of the cast, especially Rinwell - constantly mocked, demeaned, belittled, seen as unintelligent and frequently assaulted by Rinwell's magic or Hootle. All when Law is a very sympathetic character.
    I also want this 'butt-monkey' trope to die, just like the hot springs tropes; why is it okay for a girl to beat up a boy with no consequence, like this?
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    As for me, I love hot springs. I wonder why 😋 ...

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    AkiraKurusu
    Tales of Arise is surprisingly good. It's my first "Tales of" game, and I was looking for something to play after finishing Spider-Man, SM Miles Morales, and Ghost Trick - and Tales of Arise turned out to be that 'something new'.
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    AkiraKurusu
    I like Arise's combat, and while I still only have the main two characters (Iron Mask and Shionne), I find their characterisation and situations interesting and intriguing.
    ...I also like Shionne's beginning white dress over the more elaborate one she soon gets; simple dresses are best, IMO.
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    AkiraKurusu
    NEWS: Skullgirls 2nd Encore has pushed an "update" to their 10+ year old game, that replaces costumes, voice lines, and combo announcements deemed 'too sexualised' or 'racist' with sanitised, censored ones.
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Personal opinion:

    In the 1990s and early 2000s we reached a maximum in tolerance. Racists, sexists, intolerant people of any kind existed in every time frame – but generally people just did not care about gender/sex, religion,…
    It was possible to make some jokes without getting tared and feathered or getting some kind of *phob stamp on the forehead.

    Nowadays we have a lot of people actively searching a reason…
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    …to feel offended and discriminated. Under the banner of tolerance and diversity we are now (often successfully) pushed to behave uniform. Anybody opposing gets pushed into corner. Arguments aren't considered or listened to. Once a negative buzzword is attributed to a person, said person is socially finished.

    This has a big impact on society – as can be seen with such censorship: Do not discuss!
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    As so often: The profile comments are unsuitable for discussing this.
    For quite some time I've been considering writing a blog entry about the topic. What is going on regarding eradicating any kind of pluralism of opinions is scary. Yes, your example is just a video game. It is also a symptom of some larger problem.
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    How can people *still* believe Elon Musk is in any way "smart" after failing at rocket design (something we had more-or-less figured out in the 60s), failing at 'revolutionising' city travel (Hyperloop - century-old idea he stole), and now failing at Twitter with post-read limits?
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    AncientBoi
    AncientBoi
    I thought elon MUSK was a fragrance of some kind :unsure:
    rvtr
    rvtr
    But you're forgetting that he's a billionaire so he must be smart! And what about his earth to earth rockets? He's such a brilliant guy, reinventing things like planes but making them flashy and cool (and impractical but shhhh).
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    impeeza
    The reading limit is a sales strategy like the blue check, if you have a big base of sheeps customers, you give them the order to buy something they will buy without think, you will see lots and lots of sheeps buying acces in the next days. Something like what Netflix did, and instead loosing subscriptors they sell more than ever...
    AkiraKurusu
    Playing through Black 2 (alright, fine, the original BlazeBlack 2) again, and man do I appreciate the PWT; it's a solid recognition of all previous games and regions prior to Unova, as all previous Gym Leaders and Champions return for it.
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    The only flaw is that it doesn't include Elite 4 members, and thus no Koga (who was a Gym Leader, but moved up to an E4 member, and thus doesn't appear), and for the Type Expert tournaments there weren't enough Gym Leaders for every type, resulting in throwaway NPCs filling the gaps.
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    If only Game Freak could be arsed to bring back a bigger and better PWT in their newer games...with much more powerful hardware, more storage space, and four more regions having been added, a PWT revival could include all Gym Leaders/Elite 4/Champions, and thus more than enough Type Expert challengers.
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    SAIYAN48
    SAIYAN48
    I really hope they don't butcher the gen 5 remakes.
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    Is there anything worth buying a PS5 for? Quite a few games are being ported to Steam, or I've played them on PS4 Pro before, so is there any reason to spend $649 on the console?
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Spider-Man 2 for sure, but apart from that...?
    Ghost of Tsushima PS5 does have more content, I hear, but that's not a must-buy when I've got it on PS4.
    BORTZ
    BORTZ
    If you like Final Fantasy, I think FF16 will be at least a timed exclusive? But like... Yeah.
    AkiraKurusu
    Ever since PvE was removed from Overwatch 2, there's been a ton of videos discussing it and calling the game 'dead' and (rightfully) getting upset over this rug-pull, this multi-year deception.

    I've never been as interested in this crappy FPS as I am now. Fuck Blizzard.
    AkiraKurusu
    I recently watched a few episodes of Kim Possible again, just a few nights ago, and...eeeh, it could've been better.
    I understand the need to have a "strong female character" in Kim and Shego, but...did they need to make Drakken and Ron such wimps in return?
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    It just seems like they 'overcorrected' in that regard; make Kim and Shego capable fighters, sure, but don't wimpify the boys in return; make them, y'know, equal. Like what the point of "equality of the sexes" suggests.
    Ron only becomes capable when he's turned evil, in those two episodes; Drakken...never is.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Ah well, it's an old show - but then again, so are Justice League and JL Unlimited, and they did that better.
    JuanMena
    JuanMena
    Totally different target audiences.

    Justified in Kim Possible since she's the main protagonist.
    For example, Dexter's Lab has an annoying DeDe, it gives the character a reason to be.

    Anyway, Kim and Shego should french kiss. It's a shame they never did that possible.
    No pun intended.
    AkiraKurusu
    Wow; now I can't even connect to GBAtemp via VPN. It just goes to a white page, tries to load, insta-fails, tries to load, insta-fails...
    Goddamnit WHY
    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    Try clearing your cache and use a different VPN or country.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Had to use a different VPN; thanks.
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    Seems like Xbox hasn't been doing well this generation; that Halo game was crap, Redfall is essentially a deadfall, and I can't think of much else going for it.
    If Starfield (the only other major Xbox exclusive) flounders, would that risk turning the brand from Xbox to Exbox?
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    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    @x65943 Starfield is being developed and produced by Bethesda, and...well, they don't have the best track history when it comes to initial releases (Skyrim's always been a bug-filled mess, even with years separating ports; same with Fallout, especially 76). So...considering that, I wouldn't use language like "will not disappoint", as that just seems too certain, too much of a guarantee.
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    BORTZ
    BORTZ
    The Xbox has historically, never done well
    x65943
    x65943
    BGS didn't make FO 76 (a tiny branch company with separate employees made that mess), the games BGS made - Skyrim, FO4 were massive successes - their next game will be too
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