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« on: January 20, 2019, 02:18:33 PM »
i am still right here
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« on: January 20, 2019, 02:10:18 PM »
 The Pastels - Mobile SafariIndie pop 3rd album Independent Scottish band makes some music that I believe qualifies as jangle pop, or at least indie rock with jangle pop trappings, but it never left a huge impression on me either way. It's decent lax wallpaper music, I suppose, since it does create a nice vibe in the vein of something like shoegaze, without actually being shoegaze, if that makes sense. 6/10
 Slowdive - PygmalionDream pop 3rd album Speaking of shoegaze, Slowdive is a pretty great band if you're into that genre, and are worth (pun warning) DIVING into if you've never DIVED into that style of music before. This album in particular is a slight departure from that style, however, and seems to be on some Kid A shit. And this album predates that one by five years. This album is perfect for this time of year, too—if you ever needed some icy, chilled out music to go with waking up to twenty inches of snow from last night's blizzard, or you just wanna listen to the aural equivalent of taking a cold shower, then definitely give this one a spin. It's probably my main "pick" from this batch. 7/10
 Simple Minds - Good News from the Next WorldPop rock 10th album The only reason you probably know this band at all is because they did that one song from The Breakfast Club. Which is a good-ass song, but don't let it distract you from their other material, some of which is pretty solid as well. The albums Life in a Day, Real to Real Cacophony, New Gold Dream, and the second half of the double-LP Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call. So, just Sister Feelings Call. The first half is only all right. Those would be my primary recommendations if you're into some good 'ol '80s-style energetic rock music with somewhat inventive riffs and a lot of charmingly dated rock tropes as well. But as for anything they made in the '90s, including Good News, I have some bad news: I find these albums quite boring and unadventurous. Not without merit or without a catchy tune here and a solid track there, but for the most part, I feel the same way about this album as I described earlier with The Pastels. It fades into the background and asks little of your attention as a listener to enjoy it. Plus, it's their tenth album. I like to think that bands tend to only have so much juice, and they were clearly out of it by the time this record was released. Nonetheless, they went on to make ten more albums anyway. Christ. Sadly, being prolific doesn't always translate to being prolifically great. 6/10
 Shania Twain - The Woman in MeCountry Sophomore album Country music is weird to critique, because it's one of the few genres that I'm inherently biased against. Since I don't enjoy the genre on its face, I can scarcely relate to what a country fan would consider "good" or "bad" country, so I find it difficult to know what to criticize while being 100% fair. That said, I went into this Shania Twain trying to figure out what makes country music appealing—and I think I figured it out, somewhat. A lot of times, you're gonna have to put up with the instrumentation and the vocals. Those two things are part and parcel for the genre and can't really change all that much if you wanna maintain the country sound, so if you absolutely cannot get over the guitar tones or the baritone Southern twangy vocals, you'll probably never find a country artist you can get behind. That aside, a big part of whether you'll enjoy a country artist is if, after listening to them, you feel like you "know" them in a way. If you dislike country, chances are you probably still like Johnny Cash. Why? It's not just because he's the GOAT; it's because you saw Walk the Line, or you had a grandfather who listened to him all the time, and you couldn't help but subconsciously memorize all the lyrics to Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, Jackson, A Boy Named Sue, or maybe even (if your grandpa was cool) 25 Minutes to Go and Hurt. His musical talent was commensurate with his amazing storytelling, and his songs all felt so real and intimate, even if the story being sung really was just a story and not an actual reflection of his real life (at least, not literally). Even if he wasn't singing a true story, you can tell that the story means a lot to him on a deeper emotional level. It also kinda helps that Cash's music infused country with rockabilly and a lot of other more digestible genres. That in a nutshell is what I'm looking for when I listen to new country artists. Is it 100% fair to compare every country artist I try out to Johnny Cash? Fuck no, but I reckon it's better than an outright dismissal. Anyway, Shania Twain's second album here is apparently considered one of the best ever, and admittedly, it did not bore me as much as the Wade Hayes or the Neal McCoy from January '95, but it's kind of difficult to say why. Does her music sound like it comes from the heart? Yeah, I suppose, perhaps more so than Hayes and McCoy. Does her music infuse other styles? Yeah, there's a little bit of rock and pop in there with the way she plays and sings. It's definitely not pure country. Do I feel like she sang nothing but "the truth" on this album? I guess. She seems like a nice enough lady, but maybe that's because she's Canadian. Did she help me accept, come to terms with, or cope with the way things are? Not really, and I never quite got the sense that she was trying to do that anyway. Which is... good, I think. I don't know, man, I feel like I'm still trying to figure it out. All I can say with certainty is that I liked it more than the two other country albums I gave scores to in this thread, so I'm comfortable giving it a positive score. I feel like the more music I listen to in this genre, the easier it will become for me to articulate my thoughts. As of right now, I'm still working on it. 6/10
 Stratovarius - Fourth DimensionPower metal 4th album And now for some Finnish power metal. I quite enjoyed this record. It's quite fun, but in order to fully appreciate it (along with any other power metal record, for that matter), you'll have to embrace copious amounts of cheese. Thankfully, it's not too hard to handle on this album, but there are several tracks on here that do sound very DragonForce-y, so take that as you will. Best not taken too seriously, and bear in mind that DragonForce wasn't around when this album came out, so in all likelihood, they were inspired by Stratovarius and not the other way around. I love the chorus on this track in particular: 7/10
Next up: Lita Ford The The Slash's Snakepit Belly Nevermore Noooooooot really excited about any of these, so hopefully I'll be surprised.
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« on: January 19, 2019, 05:08:05 PM »
- weapon degradation is a horrible mechanic. In general, yes, but BotW is one game where I'm actually perfectly okay with it. The abundance of weapons and high emphasis placed on resource management does a great job of teaching the player not to become too attached to his weapons anyway. They're just tools. Grab them when you see them, don't be afraid to use them, but save your best ones for when it really counts. The fact that the game practically hands you two or three weapons for every one that you break (if you understand how to play) makes the speed at which weapons break a total non-issue for me. The only thing I would add, maybe, is a cookable potion that has the effect of repairing your shit. Having absolutely no option but to let your weapons eventually break is not how I would've designed it, for sure, but it's still not a huge deal if you ask me. Dark Souls handles weapon degradation FAR worse, in my opinion, because of its utter lack of presence in the game beyond being an arbitrary tax on your souls every once in awhile, to where it may as well not even be a mechanic at all. Majora's Mask also played with it once, and it was handled pretty stupidly there, too. Yet BotW somehow found a way for me to appreciate it. - menu management and swapping stuff is awful (which doesn't help since you've got all the cooking and whatnot to do) It's literally fine. Perfect, I might even say. I wouldn't change anything about it. Maybe you'll get used to it later, but I found it extremely fast, intuitive, and very natural. - fighting monsters already feels like a chore 3 hours in because they'll just respawn, you won't get anything good from them anyways, and you'll just break your weapons doing so The push-pull mental debate between attacking an enemy encampment headlong or preserving your weapon's durability is one of the more thrilling aspects of the game, imo, especially knowing you don't even have to fight them directly. You can use a variety of techniques to pick off the enemies as stealthily and as efficiently possible, which I find incredibly fun. Choosing not to invade a camp at all is, of course, a valid choice as well, especially if you don't think it'll be worth the spoils. The only problem is that the chests can't be opened unless you've taken out all the enemies, which, in my opinion, if you manage to make it over to the chest without alerting a single monster, you should be rewarded for that. - stamina runs out way too quickly (I imagine this well get better later on but it's still a pain) It does get better, but it's also not really a problem anyway if you're using it efficiently (ie. sprinting in short bursts rather than letting it drain, not climbing things that are obviously too high for you, and cooking stamina-boosting elixirs). Plenty of options are given before you can sprint as long as you need. - exploration so far doesn't feel like it's been terribly rewarding I don't disagree, but at the same time, BotW is a game about atmosphere and appreciating the journey. I find the game's exploration rewarding in and of itself (mainly because of how beautiful everything is). Finding things is just a bonus. - abilities have felt underwhelming outside of the dedicated shrines I can kinda understand feeling this way, but at the same time, I don't really know what you want. They do the job, I don't really need anything too fancy personally. A hookshot or a wind baton (to control rain) would've been nice, I suppose. Where are you, critical path-wise?
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« on: January 19, 2019, 01:31:50 PM »
That's cool but not as useful for me with my dual monitors. 
i'd imagine that would make it all the more useful
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« on: January 19, 2019, 12:46:06 PM »
double right click a video and there should be a "Picture in Picture" option
from there you can just drag it around and resize it on any other tab at will
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« on: January 18, 2019, 11:01:30 AM »
i have never once been compelled to purchase a product after seeing an ad for it
except for movie trailers perhaps, especially back in the day, but generally speaking, if i'm going out to see a movie, it's a movie i would've gone out to see anyway regardless of how much advertising it got, unless it came out of nowhere
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« on: January 17, 2019, 02:47:36 PM »
I hope they change up the formula. If it’s just the same “John wick kills everyone and is unstoppable”, I don’t know how excited I am.
is that premise not the whole point
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« on: January 15, 2019, 05:46:49 PM »
come on Jake, youre better than shooting green beams out of your hands
this is a step up for such a weak actor
Take it back.
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« on: January 15, 2019, 04:59:59 PM »
Good
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« on: January 13, 2019, 10:55:34 PM »
you will enjoy probably none of this
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« on: January 13, 2019, 01:15:04 PM »
cannot stand anything calarts
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« on: January 11, 2019, 07:23:51 PM »
I finally made an anti-Death Persona... on accident. The game doesn't even tell you that she absorbs Death-type skills.
Oh well, I guess, at least I have one now. Finally out of that horrible toilet dungeon, too. Hopefully she resists Death for the rest of the series, too, so I know exactly what to fuse for from now on.
Literally every single you've said about this game / series sounds so unappealing.
it really isn't great, i barely even scratched the surface tbh i've been told that everything changes after persona 2, though, so i'm gonna tough it out if i didn't think the game had anything going for it, i'd have dropped it a long time ago
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« on: January 11, 2019, 03:50:43 PM »
I finally made an anti-Death Persona... on accident. The game doesn't even tell you that she absorbs Death-type skills.
Oh well, I guess, at least I have one now. Finally out of that horrible toilet dungeon, too. Hopefully she resists Death for the rest of the series, too, so I know exactly what to fuse for from now on.
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« on: January 10, 2019, 03:01:29 PM »
Why are you all you stupid cunts in this thread afraid to say the word nigger? I'm not afraid.
Hahahaha Nigga How The Fuck We All Afraid Of Saying Nigger, Hahahaha Nigga Just Stop Posting On This Backwater Forum Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Hahahaha
did you know that limmy streams on twitch apparently he has been for a while so you probably did, but i just now learned
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« on: January 10, 2019, 01:02:10 PM »
More or less, been thinking I haven't posted on BUNGiE.net in over a year after they executed order 66 on non Destiny players, then I remembered sep7agonis probably the next best thing.
How's challengerX been? lol
Who are you?
I'm a young man from Marcy projects who really made the thing called—that thing that they say, "the American Dream"—come true. Because I'm not supposed to be here speaking to you. You know. There's a lot of people that come from where I come, and there's a lot of skilled people who come from where I come, who are not here right now.
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« on: January 10, 2019, 12:51:59 PM »
Mine is pretty monstrous to the point where prattling off a complete list would be less productive than just getting a few of them done, so I'll just mention a few things that I've been meaning to finish lately.
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona (leading up to Persona 5, main thing on the plate)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (World of Light, which I don't enjoy at all, so that's gonna be a while)
Fallout 1 & 2
And I wanna beat every NES game put out for the NSO service, as well:
River City Ransom
Solomon's Key (with or without suspend points)
Pro Wrestling (beat Great Puma)
Tecmo Bowl (beat every team with the Raiders)
Ice Hockey (win a game)
Ghosts'n Goblins (with or without suspend points)
TwinBee
Mighty Bomb Jack
Ice Climber (all mountains, probably never gonna happen)
Soccer (win a game)
Ninja Gaiden
Adventures of Lolo
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« on: January 10, 2019, 01:21:31 AM »
wii remote + nunchuk, yeah
doesn't seem like the gamecube controller works either which is a SHAME since motion controls were introduced in prime 3
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« on: January 07, 2019, 04:21:19 PM »
been listening to the self-titled Daughters album and i find myself enjoying it more than YWGWYW
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« on: January 06, 2019, 05:28:53 PM »
oh, and just so you're aware, the Metroid games have a non-linear chronology
the prime games actually all take place before super, and prime 1 is the second game chronologically after the NES game
Metroid 1 -> Prime series -> Metroid 2 -> Super -> Other M -> Fusion
- Zero Mission is just a remake of the original NES game
- Samus Returns is a remake of Metroid 2
- Hunters and Federation Force are not important
- We don't know anything about Prime 4
- We don't talk about Other M
i think that's all
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« on: January 06, 2019, 05:00:52 PM »
Uh... I don’t think I did. I made it back to the ship with 15 seconds left.
i see well, it's no big deal you fucking monster, but during the emergency escape, if you look, you'll actually find a door containing the animal helpers that you met throughout the game (the ones that teach you to wall jump and stuff), and opening it allows them to survive it's totally understandable that you'd miss it if you're just gunning for the exit, though (i did on my first run as well) this will give you a slightly different ending where, during that cool shot where samus's ship flies toward the screen, you can see a little pixel flying over to the right of the exploded planet (an escape pod, or something), letting you know that the animals made it out okay (shown at about 1:15) super metroid is a legendary speedrunning game, as i'm sure you know, and during GDQs, it's common for the game to be played as the grand finale—often with an overarching donation incentive which involves allowing the viewers to choose whether the runner saves the animals or not, so it's a bit of a meme
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« on: January 06, 2019, 04:38:34 PM »
Congrats
important question: did you save the animals
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« on: January 05, 2019, 06:19:01 PM »
What even is the point of friend lists if I can't ask Verb to cone kick my ass with Jigglypuff without going to some shitty backwater forum that had nothing to do with the game?
i can tomorrow
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« on: January 05, 2019, 04:16:38 PM »
not seeing any news about it
look at this dude😂😂😂
yeah it didn't happen stupid
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« on: January 05, 2019, 02:23:55 PM »
not seeing any news about it
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« on: January 04, 2019, 11:01:34 PM »
All time turners were destroyed during the battle for the department of mysteries read cursed child
I would rather never ever do that ever
a wise decision
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« on: January 04, 2019, 09:10:39 PM »
All time turners were destroyed during the battle for the department of mysteries read cursed child
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« on: January 04, 2019, 06:09:16 PM »
ah, i see
just wondering, did you ever end up finding Screw Attack?
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« on: January 04, 2019, 03:21:55 PM »
Best game of all time
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« on: January 04, 2019, 09:24:22 AM »
did you know that, in harry potter, there is an in-universe rumor that draco malfoy's wife was impregnated by voldemort after they got married? (who proceeded to give birth to the antagonist of harry potter and the cursed child)
do you know what that makes him?
dracuck malsoy
literally how would that even work
time turner
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« on: January 03, 2019, 11:38:07 PM »
did you know that, in harry potter, there is an in-universe rumor that draco malfoy's wife was impregnated by voldemort after they got married? (who proceeded to give birth to the antagonist of harry potter and the cursed child)
do you know what that makes him?
dracuck malsoy
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