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AkiraKurusu

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  • AkiraKurusu
    Welp, Red Dead Online and RDR2 have now been officially abandoned; not like it was any real surprise, since RockStar couldn't milk it like with GTAO. Still sucks for RDR fans, and that they didn't bother increasing the supposedly-fantastic singleplayer content.
    AkiraKurusu
    Just saw a movie ad in the train station; why is Marvel making female-Thor canon? Thor's a guy, always been a guy, and this Thor is interesting; female-Thor is worthless Rule 63 nonsense.
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    RyRyIV
    RyRyIV
    @AkiraKurusu I admittedly didn’t read much of the Mighty Thor (Thor’s just never been my preferred Avenger so I don’t much care for their solo stuff), but what gave Jane that right was Marvel returning to an old plot device that is the worthiness enchantment on Mjolnir; (1)
    RyRyIV
    RyRyIV
    Jane Foster took up the mantle at a point in the story when Thor was deemed unworthy of his title, and began operating under the name Odinson. Jane was deemed worthy and, per the enchantment, was imbued with the power of Thor. This same plot device has also been used for Beta-Ray Bill, Eric Masterson (later known as Thunderstrike), and Donald Blake before Marvel retconned him to just be an amnesiac Thor. (2)
    RyRyIV
    RyRyIV
    All of this is to say, someone who isn’t the mythological Thor taking up the hammer and gaining those powers is far from something new, and is something that has a ton of precedence in Marvel comics. Jane’s just the first woman (that we know of) to be deemed worthy. Personally, it doesn’t bother me in the slightest; especially with how loose Marvel comics plays with Norse mythology - and the MCU even more so.
    AkiraKurusu
    If Web 3 is NFTs and junk, then I dread to see what Web 4 would be.
    x65943
    x65943
    Pay per view websites, each click is 1¢
    1B51004
    1B51004
    NFT: the sequel
    the government just breaks into your home, snaps a picture of you and posts it to opensea
    AkiraKurusu
    So, DOOM Eternal has cosmetic DLCs, for the first seven "seasons"; that does resolve the whole 'limited availability' criticism I had about them, but it seems like the DLC is way behind, considering we're up to, what, season 18 or something?
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    A little overpriced as well, in truth.
    Just need to release the rest of the old seasons, remove Denuvo, and remove the Bethesda login, then the game will be near-perfection.
    AkiraKurusu
    Watched the XC3 Direct this morning, and...wow. Can't wait for the game to come out!
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    Apparently the Ouroboros form differs depending on who's in charge, so it's not just one design per pair, and characters can change jobs. There was also a rather obvious pixellated-censor job done when showing the "Heroes", so major spoiler it seems. Oh, and apparently the Shulk amiibo switches the Swordmaster blade to the Monado; wonder what the Aegis amiibos do...
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    I do hope XC: DE's "Appearances" make a return, so I can dress my characters however I want - and that XC2's Custom difficulty also returns, since that was amazing for both accessibility and for just general use; it's a shame it was locked behind NG+ for T:TGC, unlike the main game.
    AkiraKurusu
    Is it weird that the only Aussie Prime Minister I remember is John Howard? He was PM when I was a wee lil' bairn, yet he's the only name I can recall.
    Dark_Phoras
    Dark_Phoras
    It is weird. There's Anthony Albanese, Tony "The Onion Man" Abbott, Scott "Get Off My Lawn" Morrison, Malcom Turnbull.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    I don't recognise Albanese at all, but the other three do ring a bell, I admit.
    AkiraKurusu
    I don't get the appeal of Prof. Sada, in Pokémon Scarlet; she just looks too wild and feral to be attractive. Just...ew. Juniper was better, even though I don't care for her - which just shows how much I care for goddamn Sada.
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    I also dislike how both the male and female PCs wear the exact same outfit, instead of different ones - like all previous games. So boring, disappointing, and gross.
    VinsCool
    VinsCool
    "wild and feral" is precisely the reason why she is attractive
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Oh. Maybe it's just me, then.
    AkiraKurusu
    Well, apparently pokemongts.com is gone now; such a shame, since it used to have a great list of AR codes for DS Pokémon games.
    At least archive.org has it backed up.
    AkiraKurusu
    Remember the days when double-posting automatically joined your two posts together with a "Please don't double post!" conjoiner?

    Yeah, me neither.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Frankly, I'm surprised the style-creating team haven't added this in yet; it's been, what, months since the new style was brought in, yet still not in.
    AkiraKurusu
    Fire Emblem tacticians...who would win, Robin (Awakening) or Claude (Three Houses)?
    The Catboy
    The Catboy
    My actual name is Robin, so going with Robin
    AkiraKurusu
    I still believe Super Mario 64 DS remains the pinnacle of 3D Mario, due to its almost-complete non-linearity and its total lack of frustrating/bullshit collectibles. Sunshine's crap, Galaxy doesn't come close, and Odyssey's decent but not as great.
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    The Real Jdbye
    The Real Jdbye
    Horrible controls though. That alone prevents me from considering it the definitive edition of SM64.
    The Real Jdbye
    The Real Jdbye
    Honestly, SM64 hasn't aged well. It was the early days of 3D platformers and they hadn't perfected the formula yet and it shows. It controls fine, but the camera leaves a little to be desired. It's the level layout, half the stages seem like they're thrown together from random pieces they didn't find anywhere to put, the pieces don't fit together and don't follow a theme, and this especially shows in Rainbow Ride.
    The Real Jdbye
    The Real Jdbye
    Still a good game, but far from a masterpiece. Banjo Kazooie is far superior.
    AkiraKurusu
    I would love to see another Bravely game; the series always has great characters and gameplay, not to mention music.
    AkiraKurusu
    So there's a BlazeBlack 2 Redux ROM hack now...hmm, nah, original's better, since it doesn't have the buggy Fairy type (not fully implemented) nor does it unnecessarily and unjustifiably nerf Steel. Nor does it replace moves with newer ones.
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    I generally don't like ROM hacks that do such things, as it ruins the feel of a Gen 3/4/5 ROM hack - if I wanted Fairy and was braindead enough to want nerfed Steel, I'd play the actual 3DS or Switch games. Not DS.
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    Also, I don't like how it replaces a bunch of so-called "useless" moves with newer ones - I like Spike Cannon and Luster Purge, thank you very much, just changed to be Ground or stronger respectively. Why remove Sacred Fire? Why lower PP counts a la Legends? Why implement Gen 6+ nerfed special moves?
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    So yeah, no thanks, you ruined the ROM hack. I'll stick with the original BlazeBlack 2.
    AkiraKurusu
    What's the best way to preserve games - physical, or digital? Both have inherent flaws that prevent them from being THE answer.
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    Sono
    Sono
    Digital dumps rule. They can also be used in an emulator (assuming one is made) once all the original hardware rots away irrepairably.

    For PC games, sadly the best way is NoCD hacks. By NoCD I also mean fake steam_api.dll
    Sono
    Sono
    The only console I can think of where raw dumps haven't been done yet is the PSP. Apparently games are stored encrypted on the UMD itself, but the disc drive coprocessor already gets you the data decrypted, and there is no way found yet to switch it to raw mode.
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Old cartridges with real ROM chips are very, very long-lived. Pressed optical media are better than their reputation (if treated with care).
    But preserving a physical copy is preserving for you only. At some point everything must be dumped to ROM files to potentially survive centuries. (Yes, people laugh at me for thinking that far ahead, but think of classic literature – already centuries old)
    AkiraKurusu
    TIL that the Unreal Engine was named after a 1998 game, developed by Epic MegaGames and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive; I always thought it was just a "cool" word chosen to sound "cool".
    AkiraKurusu
    1 April now, and there was a neighbourhood-wide power outage early this morning; it only just got fixed.

    Not a good omen, that.
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