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Messages - ๐ Aria ๐ฎ
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« on: June 13, 2020, 01:51:57 PM »
Oh cool, 2064 REM is in it. That's a snap buy.
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« on: June 13, 2020, 01:49:35 PM »
although now the Vita lost the one game it had going for it.
Freedom Wars is the only big Vita title left I can think of. It's a shame that it doesn't have more going on, but that's a failed console's fate I suppose.
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« on: June 11, 2020, 09:00:15 AM »
Just went and got tested this morning. Not a pleasant experience, but at least it was free and quick. Sucks that I can't work until the results come back, but I have been so exhausted lately that it's probably a good thing for my health.
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« on: June 03, 2020, 10:29:04 PM »
-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (CE)
would CE be with or without the holographic label?
With! The box also says "collector's edition". I believe it's the least "collectory" ce I've ever owned.
cool, that's the one i have too, then
do you think you'll actually play it this time? ๐ค
It's on the backburner for now. I have a lot of shorter games I'm rotating through right now, trying to get some completions under my belt before I jump into something more taxing.
While I find the time limit mechanic to be a novel idea to incentivize players to action, it also frustrates me for those same reasons. It's not really a criticism or anything, it's just a personal barrier to truly getting into the gameplay loop for any longer period of time.
yeah, that's understandableโalthough the mechanic becomes significantly more manageable once you learn the inverted song of time, you still can't really afford to dick around too much, which can be stressful (exclusively eustress for me, though)
what else are you playing
Celeste, Ori and the Blind Forest, and I'm attempting to finish up the content in Pokemon Shield before the expansion comes out. Valorant is finally out now though so I've been putting a lot of hours into that recently.
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« on: June 03, 2020, 05:58:59 PM »
-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (CE)
would CE be with or without the holographic label?
With! The box also says "collector's edition". I believe it's the least "collectory" ce I've ever owned.
cool, that's the one i have too, then
do you think you'll actually play it this time? ๐ค
It's on the backburner for now. I have a lot of shorter games I'm rotating through right now, trying to get some completions under my belt before I jump into something more taxing. While I find the time limit mechanic to be a novel idea to incentivize players to action, it also frustrates me for those same reasons. It's not really a criticism or anything, it's just a personal barrier to truly getting into the gameplay loop for any longer period of time.
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« on: June 03, 2020, 05:44:35 PM »
-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (CE)
would CE be with or without the holographic label?
With! The box also says "collector's edition". I believe it's the least "collectory" ce I've ever owned.
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« on: June 03, 2020, 05:19:30 PM »
Recent pick ups:
PS1:
-Spider-man
-Tonka Space Station
-Toy Story 2
N64:
-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (CE)
-Pokemon Snap
-Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
PS3:
-Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (reaquired)
Lately I've been trying to pick up small, fun games more than heavy hitters. Sometimes I forget that licensed stuff can actually be pretty good.
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« on: June 02, 2020, 10:40:52 PM »
Team Fight Tactics is the superior game anyways
I tried it, legitimately didnt know what the fuck I was doing.
1) Build Irelia with 3 infinity edge 2) throw out some cybernetics and blademasters to buff Irelia 3) enjoy victory
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« on: June 02, 2020, 03:02:46 PM »
So there are protests going on all over the country right now. I won't comment on the protests but people are gathering in large crowds at very close proximity and shouting, releasing particulates into the air. I'd be concerned about COVID spikes in these areas. Organizers of these events should really be encouraging wearing masks
Thankfully I've seen most people wearing masks in my area, but I'm worried the teargas is going to help this spread. It stimulates a lot of bodily fluid production (tears, mucus, saliva, etc) and with crowd density being an issue this will make things MUCH worse.
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« on: June 02, 2020, 02:59:28 PM »
Team Fight Tactics is the superior game anyways
It's like shit. I won't get close to it at all
You main Yasuo, don't you
Don't act like you know me. I main Warwick, Jungle. I'm Silver 1 at level 40. I think I can reach plat if I keep trying and learning, but right now my skill level is at gold level. I either play Jungle, or bot. I'm mediocre in bot and it hasn't clicked yet like it has with jungle.
Jungling is a complex position tbh. I stick to Soraka because it's simpler to watch gauges and anticipate action than to remember camp pathing/git gud at last hitting. ADC is a high pressure position, but if you're a competent jungler then you're already halfway there.
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« on: June 02, 2020, 02:17:44 PM »
Team Fight Tactics is the superior game anyways
It's like shit. I won't get close to it at all
You main Yasuo, don't you
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« on: June 01, 2020, 06:44:53 PM »
Team Fight Tactics is the superior game anyways
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« on: June 01, 2020, 04:02:05 PM »
I know a lot of people who play League, but very few who enjoy playing League. It is one of the most toxic game communities I have ever witnessed.
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« on: June 01, 2020, 01:14:36 PM »
There's a reason MLK said that, "darkness cannot drive out darkness, only the light can do that." His movement didn't go around singing kumbaya, but they didn't go around hurting people for no reason either, and yet they somehow managed to get the civil rights act enacted and abolish segregation and Jim Crow laws.
don't forget stopped racism!
oh wait he didn't do that because peaceful protests have demonstrably done fuck all to stop racism, fucking whoops
Also MLK was assassinated just like Malcolm. I can understand the moral superiority of non-violence but let's not pretend it will protect protestors.
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« on: June 01, 2020, 12:44:24 PM »
How do you de-escalate a rioting crowd? I think that is the key question here. I doubt there is a right answer.
What will end the riots in the US now? Do people even understand what they are rioting about? I think most were just frustrated by all the other things going on at the moment and this riot just happened at the right time.
If it has reached the point of a riot then there WASN'T a focus on de-escalation. We have some pretty good scenes of police dropping their gear and joining the crowd. In ATL on Day 1, before they started rolling in military vehicles and shooting teargas, Chief Shields sat with the crowd and engaged with the crowd. Nobody tried to touch her because there was no reason to. When you listen to protestors, you don't get rioters. When you pre-emptively bring in riot shields, you're creating a barrier and not empathy. As well, clearly if the cities are burning while armed police are present their presence isn't stopping anything. If it doesn't deter crime, what purpose does it serve but to show power? Also class issues highlighted by the pandemic are pretty obviously tied to but not ultimately the reason for the protests and riots. There's also 40% low-income unemployment, meaning working class people in this country no longer have loss of healthcare access or income to dissuade them from speaking up and sharing the cause.
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« on: June 01, 2020, 10:27:59 AM »
The issue is further complicated by the fact that everyone is the States is packing heat, (so cops are on edge at all times anyway) and now they are on extra-edge because several states have gone full revolution-mode.
So protestors are going to be seen as targets by the police, regardless of their actual threat. Why are they in charge of maintaining the peace again? And given guns?
Not defending the pig's behaviour but Nick does have a point about the prevalence of guns and gun culture in the states. Given how liberal it is for basically anyone and everyone to carry a firearm it would be really silly for the police not to come armed for the potentiality of self preservation.
I'm not disagreeing with his point, I'm just piggybacking off of it to make another point. I might be coming off a bit harsher than I mean to in general here, and that's my bad. Police need de-escalation training, not guns. Bringing more vectors of violence into an already tense situation doesn't neutralize the problem, it fuels it.
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« on: May 31, 2020, 06:36:21 PM »
The issue is further complicated by the fact that everyone is the States is packing heat, (so cops are on edge at all times anyway) and now they are on extra-edge because several states have gone full revolution-mode.
So protestors are going to be seen as targets by the police, regardless of their actual threat. Why are they in charge of maintaining the peace again? And given guns?
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« on: May 31, 2020, 02:00:42 PM »
The issue: Police brutality.
Solution: Provoke police brutality.
What should be the actual solution? Hard to say.
Existing at a protest ""provokes"" police brutality. How many people do we have to watch get run over by SUVs/shot/teargassed before we admit it's the police stoking violence?
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« on: May 30, 2020, 11:28:20 AM »
One thing I just remembered about a Switch Port, what are the implications of MP3 in it? Considering MP3 was pretty much a demo in all aspects for the capabilities of motion control, thereโs quite a few gimmicks in it that make me wonder how Retro would manage to change it to Switch controls.
I'd hope they would take a page from Mario Odyssey's book with joycon gyro control options; it could roughly the emulate the Wiimote pretty well I'd think. Pretty excited honestly, I've always struggled with motion controls so it'll be nice to have the trilogy in a more convenient place than the Wii.
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« on: May 30, 2020, 11:19:30 AM »
Riots aren't performed by homogeneous groups with a specific goal, it's an emotional reaction to structural issues. Trying to qualify the intentions/goals of protestors by the actions of rioters avoids addressing why people are angry enough to start burning things to the ground. Doesn't help that there is clearly a lot of pigs with pent up aggression waiting for a chance to crack skulls instead of "maintaining the peace".
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« on: May 27, 2020, 10:31:16 AM »
Was there one event or was it a gradual slide into despair
I don't think it's honestly possible to hate "life" based on one event. There are many things that must have factored into it, even if I don't remember them consciously.
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« on: May 24, 2020, 10:37:58 AM »
When I accepted that the human condition IS suffering, and that the goal of society ought to be addressing and correcting its symptoms.
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« on: May 21, 2020, 04:19:01 PM »
i am happy to see it's still doing well.
You're the first person I've seen suggest that the current state of this site is "doing well."
It's doing better now than it did 6 months ago
but at what cost?
I can't eat at Applebee's anymore
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« on: May 21, 2020, 11:23:18 AM »
Is it obvious yet that I keep hesitating to start practicing bodies?
Every master was once an apprentice. Don't give power to negative thought and let the shadow of the task dwarf the actual task: struggle gives over to strength, and tackling issues will preserve comfort better than putting them off. You have practiced this aspect of your craft to (from my perspective) your satisfaction. Now it's time to practice more outside of that!
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« on: May 20, 2020, 07:27:00 PM »
I recently had an argument with someone who believed that monopolies based on market dominance were completely justified, and that companies should be able to extract any price from dependent consumers they please because, in his opinion, the market is always just. In his opinion, if you make a product that is superior to all other similar products to the point you squeeze competition out of existence, even if that product is something people, or society as a whole depends on, you should be able to charge much more than a reasonable profit margin, and he did not see that as taking advantage of consumers. It's not that I'm unable to understand his viewpoint, I'm just completely unable to understand how he could justify something like that. Should I even consider his argument when my fundamental values are so misaligned from his that where he sees acceptable business practices I see blatant abuse? Honestly, I don't think it would even be possible for me to seriously do so; what we believe is just too different on a very basic level.
You hold value in life and that person doesn't. I cannot believe the lack of empathy some people have.
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« on: May 20, 2020, 07:18:18 PM »
Oh so this is the kind of discussions you guys want
I thought we were a chill forum of friends not a high school debate team
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Calling anything in this thread a "debate" is a pretty big stretch. Do you mean that it's boring you?
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« on: May 20, 2020, 07:10:16 PM »
It's a quote from second KOTOR by Kreia. To believe into something is to show your confidence in it, in that it will be successful or, in current context, that it will withstand critique. You can't have full confidence in something that you haven't thoroughly checked, and so you have to check everything. But in checking you automatically admit to possibility that the thing in check is flawed and that you betray it for something better. That certainly sounds like Kreia! What of axioms? As knowledge that is self-evidently true, there is no need to question it. From there, it seems there are two types of knowledge: certain and uncertain knowledge. How would you identify the differences between the two?
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« on: May 19, 2020, 11:02:09 PM »
Not necessarily valueless. You would be more healthy.
for what greater purpose
what good is health if i have to be miserable every day to obtain it anyway
The mind is a part of the body just like everything else, so it follows that your health affects it just like everything else. "Working out" is a vague concept, anyway, and I'd say most of the happiness that comes from it is closer to satisfaction from making progress on a goal. Exhausted and satisfied can be a good mixture, I think.
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« on: May 19, 2020, 10:51:28 PM »
I couldn't find the physics demo, so this is the UE5 engine demo.
Yeah it looks amazing, but good luck utilizing all that while also having a game in there and not running your metal at hotter-than-sun temps.
I'll wait for the tech demo before I cum.
My original point is highlighted at the UE5 front page
Weโve just released a first look at Unreal Engine 5. One of our goals in this next generation is to achieve photorealism on par with movie CG and real life, and put it within practical reach of development teams of all sizes through highly productive tools and content libraries.
They are leading with visuals but my wish is for a shift from this photorealism race to a race of game simulation realism. Can you have your cake and eat it too? Not with current hardware, something has to give and I doubt it will be the visuals. You'll get your gorgeous but empty Anthems and your dazzling Battlefield 1s that look better but play just like their predecessor from the time of X360.
The games that chase photorealism are well aware of how strenuous it is, and that's why resource management and design play key roles in development. Naughty Dog is pretty good at it, in fact. Tech demos are intended to show off how far the limitations are, what room there is to work with in the engine/on the hardware. Some games will aim for photorealism, but plenty of others aren't. They can take advantage of a large overhead too. I would like to see more information too, I'll agree with you there. There's so much PR speak in the video that I would rather see some hands on with it to better gauge how big of a leap this is.
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« on: May 19, 2020, 10:42:27 PM »
To believe in a ideal is to be willing to betray it. Interesting concept. Could you expand a bit? Whether it's okay or not depends on how you presented it and your intentions. You can criticise without knowing full material behind topic but you have to let whoever you criticise know what gaps in knowledge you have, whether you do it or not showcases whether your intentions are good for who are you criticising or not and whether you want to learn. Even if you don't know full extent of problem you are criticising it still might be good for who you criticise as showcased in example above. I'm uncertain of the general application of debate outside of a neutral setting with monitors. Cults and conspiracy theorists infect people through rigorous (and insidiously deceptive) debate. Argument can be dangerous, and if you're not on your toes you can end up helping spread disinformation. Never. From what I read there have been a lot of people blindly following ideas and it caused a lot of deaths. Never become slave to ideolodgy, always look for opportunity for reshaping it into something better, because good is the enemy of better, and the world changes every day. Keep critical thinking on, don't trust anything, even don't trust yourself and ideas that you took for your own that in fact might own you.
We are molded by our environments; it's silly to think that we couldn't pick up some nasty understandings along the way. Exposing one's self to criticism is the most honest way to develop; it will sting sometimes, and there will be plenty of cringing down the road, but ultimately it makes one a better person.
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