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Teleporting Ramza outside the wall during the one-on-one with Gafgarion was one of my favorite ways to gimp the game back in the day. Not so much in this version now that Teleport is so ridiculous to acquire. That fight can be pretty hard if Ramza has to fight Gafgarion one-on-one and isn't in a...

For me it's less "politics" and more "culture". At this point I'm really interested in gleaning where the cultural zeitgeist was at when I watch an old movie. So I pay attention to what year it was and what messages it sends about the state of culture, attitudes, etc at the time. The first...

So the idea is that the shots are more "genuine" if they aren't retake #7 and they just use the first one? That or Eastwood is just lazy. I'm definitely a big fan of Clint now, so I've made a list of his movies and I'm going to check them all out. Might try to go chronologically if it isn't too...

I'd say it handled all those things well. Yeah, Dirty Harry 2's villains were a bunch of corrupt cops that were murdering people outside of the justice system. However, the movie didn't demonize them by having them be psychopaths or anything, and made it a point that the guys they were killing...

Oh yeah, that's another huge part of what I like about this series. Being brought back to the way things were before things went to shit (literally). The beginnings of that decline can be seen here, with the movies frequently portraying the local government as clueless and more worried about...

Been watching the Dirty Harry series for the first time, after 40 years on Earth. Goddamn, more people need to know/talk about these. I've only seen the first three (of five) but they're probably the most enjoyable movies I've watched in years. A cop doing his job and having to deal with a...

Why did they have such a hate-boner for Teleport? They made it the most expensive thing in the game by a mile AND nerfed it into near-uselessness. They didn't do that with anything else, and Teleport wasn't even particularly OP before (it failed a lot if you moved further than how far you could...

I should have poached Boco. Only took like an hour for my roster to start filling up with chocobos. The merchant has a lot of "my wife and kids left me on Tuesday" energy.

Seconded that TO is worth playing, and debatably better than FFT. If looking at the old-school PS1 versions I'd give FFT the edge over TO, but comparing the modern remakes, I'd put TO over FFT by a margin. Then again, right now FFT is kinda pissing me off. Would it kill this game to not always...

The original version was like that (on Super NES and PS1) I think. Not sure about the PSP remake or the Switch remake. I played all three and they get better with each iteration. I tended to stick to the same group for the entire run. Hero, Canopus, Deneb, a few ninjas. IIRC Squaresoft poached...

Fell Seal is really good and not many folks know it exists. I played it on Switch a few years ago and actually played the entire game. It's a worthy successor in the FFT lineage. Still not liking the new menus. L1 and R1 being used for things that should be right/left (and vice versa) makes...

I'm really not into the menu changes for equipment, abilities, etc. Looks like a phone game UI. The old skill learning window was fantastic and was like scrolling through an old parchment or something. Don't know why any of the menus had to be altered. And the circular wheel of classes is...

Skills worth getting and equipping: Secondary Skills Item (Chemist) - Being able to heal or Phoenix Down can be extremely beneficial, and Item goes well with virtually any class. Mettle (Squire) - Early on, everyone popping Accumulate a few times at the start of a fight gives you a...

Welp, I got the game. Plowing through Chapter 1. In the interest of doing something new, I was either going to do Hard Mode or just focus on getting the Platinum (or both lol). Ended up deciding to just go for the plat, especially considering it isn't tied to the difficulty. Definitely intrigued...

Not to derail the depression thread, but that isn't what's happening over here. The study I'm in gave me a significant dose and I believe it's in some sort of "extended release" format. They said it probably wouldn't even have much of an effect until around two weeks later. I believe it's...

Added an addendum/TLDR to the above post. Whatever gets the most votes will be up front on Jan 1st, then Fallout 2, then the other two. I really like PoE1. I created a bad-ass monk in that game when I was trying it out before.

After giving up on NWN after a few hours during my last two swings at this, it's almost time for my annual revival of the CRPG quest. I'm pretty much locked-up for the rest of 2025 (as in, everything I'm playing up through the end of December is already decided) but I've got a big "take time off...

IIRC grinding everyone's Bravery to high levels and Faith to low levels was the main way I broke the game last time (that definitely counts as cheese, hardly anything could hit my characters). Looking over the trophies, a platinum looks pretty doable. A few of them will be a pain, like "get...

That actually describes it perfectly, I think you nailed it. In that case, add me to the proponents of TRT because the good vastly outweighs the bad. Now I just need to get my doctor to put me on an actual TRT program (I'm getting shots via a medical study, and only get 3 shots out of the deal...

Fuck off, Sucker Punch

My friend got prescribed "several new antidepressants" a week before she offed herself and by all accounts they contributed to making things worse. I don't know what they were, but it just adds to my antipathy towards those types of medications. No idea how this works for women, but whoever...

Totally agree from everything I've seen. This is a must to get to eventually. It's so antiquated visually though and that's tough to get into now (see also my struggles getting into Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, and the early Armored Cores). I'll throw Deus Ex onto my CRPG master list and get to...

I've heard of Eglin running interference on Reddit but I think this is the first time I've ever spotted it firsthand. WTF is the "Buga Dildo"? The Buga Sphere is pretty interesting. If it is an Atlantean-era artifact, that's amazing, though I wonder why we haven't found more like it under...

Kind of baffling that they completely ignored Cobra Kai in terms of the overall story, considering Cobra Kai is probably the only reason people were interested in seeing this. It should have been a sequel to the show with Daniel, Miguel, and a returning Jackie Chan (Johnny's busy).

Anyone try the hard difficulty level? Do the difficulty levels just affect enemy stats, or what? I'll probably give hard mode a try whenever I play this, just to have a new spin on the game.

Ghost of Yotei? More like Ghost of Nope-tei

I don't know a single person who was actually helped by anti-depressants. Setting goals for yourself, getting exercise, and so forth would do a lot more good. For example, I spent the last week planning an overhaul of where I live (as it has fallen into being a mess, again, this year). Took a...

Black Ops 6 is actually a direct sequel to Cold War, which I didn't expect. Cold War seems to be retconned as "Black Ops 5" officially now too. Noticed a lot of soldiers wearing keffiyehs (usually semi-hidden, like here). Was this attire a normal thing during the two Iraq wars, or something...

Weirdest thing about the Buga Sphere is that when you google it, you get a bunch of Reddit thread results and all of them are 100% people shitting on the sphere and not taking it seriously. There's one where everyone is calling it a "three year old's science project" and everyone on that thread...

I don't have time for this any time soon, but I'm looking forward to hearing about it. Feel free to post some screenshots and whatnot. The single best thing they can do is get rid of being trapped in multi-battle map stages so we don't have any more first-time players getting buried at Riovanes.

Never played Deus Ex, always wanted to. It's very dated now and I can't really justify playing it over all of the other 200 things on the list, and I was really hoping it'd get a sharp remaster at some point. ...so they blew it?

Is it an Orange Man Bad movie?

https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/news/ana-de-armas-sydney-sweeney-eden-836817-20240917 So wait a minute... They had Ana de Armas and Sydney Sweeney for a movie that has a "crazy threesomes" in it... ...and it turns out the "crazy threesomes" aren't involving the two of them. It's Ana and...

Story time, don't know if this will help or anything, it's not really intended to, only you can help you, and the beginning of that is to stop wallowing. All this wallowing isn't going to solve anything and it's going to keep you swimming in circles in your head. What you said here is basically...

I love "quick fire dialogue between snarky characters"! It's often found in movies with my other favorite thing, "immediately follow every emotional beat with a quirky joke so you don't have to actually stop and process any feelings" Looking forward to not seeing this!

I'd just like to get that castle battle from the top screenshot on the case, and maybe an optional uberboss fight with Duma (since his sprite was finished and he's in the game's code). Alas, I doubt either of these things are going to be forthcoming. Wish remakes would be used as an opportunity...

This is what needs to happen, yes. Unfortunately, all of them will probably get swept up. Maybe not though, I think RFK was specific about 7OH being the issue. Extract powder capsules (the "Gold" ones that are typically two to a pack and like $10 a dose) are really potent/nice and could...

Trying Call of Duty Black Ops 6 (along with Modern Warfare 2019). Thoughts: I like MW2019 a lot, looks incredible and feels like an old-school COD. Is this new MW trilogy supposed to be a remake/reimagining of the first MW trilogy back in the day, or sequels? Might as well have called them...

This having cut content added back in is the main thing making me interested in maybe actually getting it at some point. Wondering what content that's referring to though. Things that were in the Japanese version, probably, nothing huge, but we'll see. There are screenshots on the back of the...