Okami lacks proper voice acting.

Getting useful items in FFXII is a nothing short of a pain in the ass.

Here in central FL the weather is always all kinds of WTF but summer last year was nothing short of fucking brutal and now winter is fluctuating like crazy. Three nights ago we were as low as 31 and now we're back up to high 60s. Winter has always been more consistent but this is anything but predictable.

I'm more surprised at how high Pitch Perfect 3 is considering it's getting universally canned.

http://www.ksro.com/2018/01/08/jumanji-welcome-to-the-jungle-blasts-star-wars-the-last-jedi-out-of-first-place-with-36-million-weekend/

ABSOLUTELY LITTY

No because it's one of the best Star Wars films.

[$00.02 has been deposited into your account by: The Walt Disney Company.]

Everything made after Disney bought the rights needs to be removed from the canon. "Lol bleeding crystals!"

To be fair, your chances of getting a good card from a pack solely depends on how you go about buying the packs. You're guaranteed at least one card from the new set if you buy a whole booster box, including the monster used to promote the set so the odds are never as low as loot boxes are.

What unworly level of cognitive dissonance does it take for people to see TCG booster packs as anything different from loot boxes....Hell Loot Boxes and MTX are less intrusive all things considered seeing as you are still capable of playing without them, even if it is at a disadvantage.

Lol stock went down 4.13%.

Getting lunch with my brother and then going to work.

That's what you get for not following my orders.

Let's be honest, JJ Abrams was too much of a hack in VII to not write Snoke as the discount faux-Sheev.

Where was it said Snoke was the most powerful. Everything in TFA and TLJ points to him just being some old, force-sensitive, rich, bully.

by the time ANH and Empire were out, it had been firmly established that the good guys, jedi, used BLUE lightsabers, and the bad guys used RED lightsabers

then comes rotj and introduces GREEN, and what else could that mean other than moral ambivalence?

they don't just make these design choices for no reason, you know

as for the black outfit, darth vader's suit is black, which in itself is a symbolic parallel

that doesn't mean he's a straight-up grey jedi in rotj, or anything, but he very often shows signs that he's torn, and isn't afraid to use the force in perhaps less-than-scrupulous ways to get his ends meet

do not accuse me of looking "too deep" into this, because these are fairly surface level observations if you understand anything about how symbolism works

The black outfit might have been a good parallel, but the only reason he had a green lightsaber in RoTJ is because a blue lightsaber would've looked bad during during the fight in the Tatooine desert with the clear blue sky in the background.

http://www.forcematerial.com/home/2016/10/23/the-real-reason-luke-skywalker-has-a-green-lightsaber

"Remember - Luke had a green one because the effects sequence had it against a blue sky. That's as deep as these things tend to go." — Pablobot Hidalgonk (@pablohidalgo) October 18, 2016

it shows that he's a morally-upstanding dude who ultimately saved the universe, yes

but that does NOT make him space jesus

he's still not a paragon of virtue, and was never stated or shown to be

EDIT: I see the response was in relation to my comment on his character. If what he did wasn't morally admirable then what is to you? Willing to die to redeem your father and not turn to the dark side seems like a paragon of virtue to me. He was written with these traits because he was written to be a role model.

i just disagree

and even if you're right, i would still argue that this led to a FAR more interesting story

i think that sort of fleeting heat-of-the-moment type thinking is a very honest portrayal of how people tend to function when presented with some extremely scary and potentially threatening shit

If episode VII and VIII existed in a vacuum like the OT did at the time they were written I would agree (and I would also agree with everything on Snoke), but these movies exist after the OT was released and everything was established. Why have a build up to Luke's character in RoTJ if you're just going to get rid of that? It was a build up that now leads to nothing and completely throws away everything Luke did throughout the OT that changed him.

luke never became a jedi master in the OT, just a very skilled knight imo

Fair enough, but he gets pretty close.

also his morals and ideals were shown to be questionable at best in rotj, which is symbolized by his black outfit, green lightsaber, and the fact that he speaks almost like vader does at jabba the hutt: "you can either profit by this, or be destroyed. i warn you not to underestimate my powers," etc.

What does the black outfit or green light saber have to do with anything? Also he bargained with Jabba, several times. Vader would have never done that.

not to mention, he's visibly conflicted with darth sidious is goading him to join the dark side

It's not a blight on his morality for showing care in his friends and family, nor is it a blight when he sticks by his ideals through it all. Why do you think he threw away his lightsaber in front of the emperor? To show off? In the end he overcame that weakness. That was crucial moment that established two things, that Luke IS a morally-upstanding character, allowing himself to be defenseless in front of the most powerful force user in the galaxy to stand by his ideals; and that he wasn't all powerful, as shown when Sheev begins to go Mike Pence on him.

so what was poorly-written about it

"i didn't want it to happen that way" is not a reason

What about it was believable for him as a character? As I mentioned several times, he had always attempted to diffuse/talk out a situation first. Going straight to "Better fucking kill my nephew" first is something Luke would have never done, especially after his success in bringing his father back to the light. Yes, he did ultimately not go through with it and realize it was a terrible thought process, but it was one that post-RoTJ/pre-TLJ Luke would have never done.

If he's so powerful in the force, he should've been able to sense that he was in danger.

there are two dark force users left in this galaxy that we're aware of

framing it as though that somehow makes him omnipotent seems silly and presumptuous

why do you want characters to be boring, i don't get it

>Supposedly the most powerful dark force user in the galaxy
>Can't tell with dark side that your apprentice is about to kill you

If Snoke is that inept than Kylo isn't so beneath him in power that he would've put up with his shit.

he dies, but he doesn't die "like a nobody"; it all happens during a very plot-heavy scene where the only reason he died at all is because of his failure to account for his apprentice's true allegiances, which makes for an excellent establishing character moment for kylo

Accidentally posted in Charlie's thread:

Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary t-shirt
Okami HD for Xbox
Game of Thrones seasons 4-6 on DVD (plan on getting the blurays)
Some other clothes

I have a friend from work who did a painting of Stitch with some ducklings, she even framed it for me too.

I didn't say I wanted flawless EU Luke, I wanted OT Luke. Luke sure as shit wasn't flawless in the OT.

He's 30 years older, and had failed as a jedi, leading to disaster; it's almost exactly the same character arc as Obi Wan. Why would you want to see a flawless character with nothing to overcome? That's all he ever was in the EU, and it's good TLJ changed that.