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General Chat / Re: Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

« on: February 29, 2016, 07:40:03 AM »

Ultimate Seymour mastered.

Lenna (curaja, protectga, mako might)
Faris (steal power, mug time, thunderstroke)
Terra (quake, ruinga, witch of succession)
Kimahri (lifesiphon, venom buster, ace striker)
Gilgamesh (retaliate, draw fire, dragoon's determination)

Sentinel Grimoire RW.

Mainly just played it super safe and had defensive abilities queued up when crossing ultimate dispel thresholds.  Hard to pick an mvp because everyone had a role.  Kimahri blocked Total Annihilation and Gravija.  Come at me bro was important for mitigation.  And Terra was main source of damage via Mortisorption.

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General Chat / Re: Record Keeping Final Fantasy Record Keeper

« on: November 07, 2015, 06:24:27 PM »

If action efficiency is the problem, then POIZN is indeed your best bet.  If you run out of actions you can just stand there and let the poison kill him.

It's a very good source of damage if you land it early in the fight.

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General Chat / Re: 2015 Miscellaneous Links: Cat pictures go here

« on: May 21, 2015, 07:46:00 PM »

Haha this is great.

http://shoryuken.com/2015/05/20/unstoppable-jason-voorhees-doesnt-need-legs-or-even-a-head-to-revive-in-mortal-kombat-x/

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General Chat / Re: Webcomic Recommendations

« on: March 18, 2015, 06:54:38 AM »

I don't remember if I've mentioned Paranatural before or not, but yeah, it deserves a mention for this if nothing else.  Frieza backpack.

http://www.paranatural.net/index.php?id=335

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: March 15, 2015, 06:26:59 AM »

Codename STEAM: So Henry Flemming, John Henry, the Cowardly Lion and Tiger Lily all took down a giant ice spewing Lovecraftian Horror with a giant cannon on it's head, while Abraham Lincoln insures the safety of Queen Victoria.

...why don't History Books tell us this part of world history?

I Streetpassed Abe Lincoln the other day, that dude really gets around.

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General Chat / Re: 2015 Miscellaneous Links: Cat pictures go here

« on: March 14, 2015, 04:08:54 AM »

Actually never read any of his books, but I feel your pain guys. 

Any particular place I should start reading his stuff?  Discworld book 1 or something else?  Keep in mind I'm poor atm and won't be buying like 700 books at once.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: March 11, 2015, 05:12:57 AM »

That is a lot of attack patterns to memorize.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: March 10, 2015, 04:03:21 AM »

Dragonball Xenoverse:  I have become an official member of the Ginyu Force.  Life complete.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: March 10, 2015, 03:25:33 AM »

Everything is Awesome totally got robbed at the Oscars.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: March 09, 2015, 06:57:44 PM »

So I am officially Smashscum now. I joined smashboards.com and now I am meticulously learning the inner workings of a freakin' fighting game.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3SM8yOKKwU8PYqwsNP5rGA

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: March 07, 2015, 06:51:50 PM »

Dragon Ball Xenoverse:  So it's a DBZ fighting game with light (very light) MMO elements.  The story mode is actually pretty neat.  The premise is that there are these people changing the history of DBZ in bad ways.  Like Raditz dodging Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon and living, or Frieza deciding to skip the theatrics and just go straight to his final form (which doesn't give Goku time to finish healing and get to the battle).  So your custom character travels through time to get the course of history back on track by kicking the shit out of these people that were supposed to be dead already.

There's also a side-questy area where you do most of your grinding for gear and special attacks.  The main bad thing is that you have to beat all of story mode (which gets difficult very quickly) before you get any additional character slots unlocked.  I have all these DBZ-style names for characters picked out but I can't use them until I finish the game with my Namekian (named Viola!).

MH4U:  Finished all 4 star quests, trying to beat the Urgent Mission for 5 stars.  Why thank you, I would like to be punched in the nuts some more game.

Puzzle & Dragons:  Kind of in a rut where the lower content is really easy but I'm in no way capable of beating Descends.  Mainly just need to grind and level a lot.

Pokémon Shuffle:  Free puzzle game, it's not great but the music is actually pretty awesome!

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: March 07, 2015, 03:00:09 AM »

The Nintendo Powers of the time actually hyped him as best character!

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: March 06, 2015, 03:39:25 AM »

Nobody is mentioning High Anxiety.  You all suck.

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General Chat / Re: 2015 Miscellaneous Links: Cat pictures go here

« on: March 04, 2015, 02:09:41 AM »

Officially I'm red-green, although I don't have much trouble with those unless they're faded/pastel-y.  Anything that's close together on the color spectrum could be confused for something next to it, like blue and purple.  But really it's not so much that I don't see color, as I don't notice it/pay attention to it.  Like the little girl in the article who never paid attention to what color the sky was until someone asked her to look at it.

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General Chat / Re: 2015 Miscellaneous Links: Cat pictures go here

« on: March 04, 2015, 12:41:20 AM »

As a colorblind person, I choose to believe that this whole "color" thing is an elaborate prank played at my expense.  And the entire world happens to be in on it.

Especially annoying when my wife wants me to get an object.  The first adjective she defaults to is color.  Never mind that there are a dozen other descriptors that more adequately describe it, the color is so fucking important.

Here's a typical conversation had when I'm shopping and on the phone with her:

Wife:  Oh can you get some more soy milk?  We're out.
Me:  Hmm, there's a lot of different kinds and flavors here, which one do you use?
Wife:  Oh, the letters are blue on it.
Me: *facepalm*

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: March 01, 2015, 09:16:16 PM »

As for monster health, I suspect the reasoning behind not displaying it is largely obfuscative and/or psychological.  There's almost certainly an element of trying to minimize the "gamey" aspects of the game, that is, presenting the game as a fantastical monster hunting simulation moreso than as a simple game; this is, IMO, (weakly) reflected in the fact that the game gives you the option of toggling the HUD off completely, so you can't see your own health/stamina either.  I don't know of anyone who actually plays like this, but it does expose a bit of the design mentality in play here, I think.  Really, though, I think the much stronger argument for why this design choice was made is one of subtly manipulating player psychology; the player is going to approach each encounter much differently in the absence of such information.  A player who knows the monster only has 75 HP left is going to take much larger risks to burn that 75 HP off than one who only can see that the monster is limping, and "limping" could mean 75 HP or it could mean several hundred and you have no way of knowing.  (I can speak from definite experience here: Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the PSP had cheat codes to display boss health on-screen which I used, and I *still* haven't completely "unlearned" the much more risky playstyle I adopted in that game, to the point where every friend I play with constantly points out my general lack of caution in multiplayer.)  MH's design is built all around rewarding caution over speed; there's a reason that they give you 50 minutes to complete each quest, and it isn't because you actually need it, because most of them can be completed in 10 or less.

And that's fine, except why exactly is there a timer at all?  If you want to simulate slowly stalking a giant monster to its death, why not let the player slowly stalk it to death?  Like the Edge battle in MGS3?  The timer forces players into a mindset of "gotta go faster"; combined with the huge stamina loss from how much you have to eat in those 50 minutes...

Archaic design principles aside, I am enjoying the game.  Just finished the Tetsucabra armor set, still doing 4 star missions.

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General Chat / Re: Good morning 2015: Creative topic title goes here.

« on: February 28, 2015, 07:03:36 PM »

Eh, it's a pretty obvious joke; only you and I have the balls to actually say it out loud.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: February 28, 2015, 07:02:16 PM »

70s Bond is best Bond.  Also go see Kingsman already.

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General Chat / Re: Webcomic Recommendations

« on: February 28, 2015, 01:31:24 AM »

Enough talk about shitty xkcd, Let's Speak English instead!

http://www.marycagle.com/index.php?id=1

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General Chat / Re: Good morning 2015: Creative topic title goes here.

« on: February 28, 2015, 01:30:23 AM »

Leonard Nimoy died today.  But it's okay, he comes back in the third movie.  #blackhumor

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: February 27, 2015, 03:44:37 AM »

MH4U:  So basically this game is Dark Souls, except bosses don't have hp gauges to tell you if you're making any progress and every boss is The Pursuer.  As in, you don't have twitch skills to dodge these attacks in time, you have to know what they're going to do beforehand.  And the only way you learn these tells is getting your face smashed by them repeatedly.

So it's decent, but feels unpolished compared to Dark Souls.  Which is a bit odd considering how much longer it's been around.  It's pretty though for a 3DS game.

Currently on the four star quests.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: February 19, 2015, 01:26:02 PM »

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate:  Decided to buy this on a whim.  Never played a MH game before except 3's demo, which I disliked.  But I heard this one was more accessible so went for it.

Started off with sword and shield, but found myself whiffing attacks past enemies too much.  Changed to Switch Axe which I like a lot, good range and speed.  Just finished the 2-star quests in the first town and did an expedition.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: February 16, 2015, 01:21:51 PM »

Seventh Son:  Extremely meh.  Disappointing since the trailer was so good.  The "witches" are hyped up so much and amount to so little.  They have no personalities and so little screentime that they might as well just be minions.  The whole thing comes off as an episode of Power Rangers.  Curious if the books are any better since the concept of the Spook itself is interesting.

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General Chat / Re: 2015 Miscellaneous Links: Cat pictures go here

« on: February 16, 2015, 12:06:36 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaoB7lnOiXM

Now this is how you make a proper leak.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: February 15, 2015, 01:19:17 AM »

Kingsman:  Absolutely fucking great.  It's Men in Black 1 crossed with 1970s James Bond.  Just the right measure of campiness to where it can still take itself seriously.  There's a scene in there that I can't spoil, but pretty much every DLer will greatly appreciate it.