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she’s filming some new movie right now and pro-Palestine activists have been showing up and ruining the shoot lol

much respect to Yemen for actually doing something about this genocide

Because it’s been like 20 years since I’ve played it I unfortunately can’t recommend any mods by name so instead I’ll tell you about this goofy mod I installed once: It added a pretty long quest in which the creator added their own fully-voiced NPCs—including children—so when you interacted with a kid you’d hear them talking in a voice that was very clearly a grown man trying to pitch his voice as high as possible. That memory has stuck with me all these years because it was so unexpected I burst out laughing the first time I heard it. I have to give them credit for going through the trouble to record all that dialogue though.

Also if this is your first playthrough be sure to do the Dark Brotherhood quests at some point; they are some of my favorite quests in the game. My only other suggestion would be to occasionally stop and watch NPCs interact with each other. Oblivion has a well-earned reputation for having some really funny NPC interactions.

What is even the point of them posting this lol. This is such a reddit-tier “own” which looks even more ridiculous given what’s currently going on there. Like bro don’t you have bigger problems to worry about right now, like losing a war or your country being scrapped and sold for parts?

it cracks me up how Quora has become the current generation’s version of Yahoo Answers

I pretty much only watch these things for the new game announcements so I had it streaming in the background while I did other stuff but had to close the tab because I kept cringing lol. Honestly just reading a recap of the announcements the next day is a way better use of time. Excited for the sequels to Slay the Spire, Solasta and Okami. Also I can’t wait to see what Fumito Ueda’s new project is about because I love his previous games.

Just checking but have you equipped your characters with materia? Pairing something like Healing materia with the Magic Efficiency one will allow you to heal more often (or MP Absorption paired with damaging magic will refund you a little bit of MP when the damage hits). Using the Speed Up materia also increases how fast your ATB fills which in turn allows you to use abilities more often.

A couple things off the top of my head:

• Barret is a pretty easy character to play since he’s ranged and has an ability (Steelskin) that boosts his defense by a lot. Enemies will usually target the character you’re controlling so it can be useful to switch to him and use that if someone else is getting their ass beat. Also his Focused Shot ability is really good at staggering enemies.
• Like someone else here said you’re kind of meant to switch between the characters often. Also remember to fill out their Folio skill tree thing because you can unlock a lot of really powerful synergy skills that way.
• Always have at least one character with the Assess materia and always cast it on every enemy the first time you fight one. It shows you exactly what strategy you need to beat them (usually in yellow text) and what elements they are weak against. The First Strike materia will also let you cast Assess pretty early in the fight.
• Aerith is a really good. Aside from healing the whole party, she can also put wards on the ground that do things like double cast offensive magic, change her attacks to hitscan-type lasers that build a ton of ATB and stagger (good when you need to heal ASAP) or temporarily stop any enemy that tries to melee attack her. By the end of the game she was my favorite character to play.

Also this isn’t really related to the difficulty but one piece of advice I’ll give is: don’t feel like you need to 100% each map as you get to it. I started off doing that and around ~60% through the game I was getting really burned out. Just do what looks interesting and you’ll be fine. After you beat the game you can go back and finish any stuff you missed anyway. Damn, typing up this reply made me want to go back and play the game again lmao.

I wanted to play the new Dragon Age game so I’m trying to blitz through Inquisition before I start it. Origins is one of my favorite RPGs and DA2 wasn’t as good but I still liked it, but I’m not totally sure how I feel about Inquisition. I think if I had played it back when it released and had time to explore everything I would have liked it a lot more but as it stands now I’m just trying to rush through it lol

ah I was referring to the plane in which they crashed, which was in Washington state during some kind of training mission or something. I agree with the spirit of your comment though

I just had someone who was apparently a part of Operation Prosperity Guardian reply to me on reddit really mad that I made fun of the two US pilots who bombed Yemen and later died in a jet crash in the US. I told them if I were flying the jet it wouldn’t have crashed lol

Biden: hey cmon guys. what’s going on over there. knock it off, will ya?

“The spartans did not enjoy being gay” is a very funny sentence to utter

Regarding the performance, I tried the demo on PS5 and it ran pretty well. I haven’t finished it yet but got about ~2 hours in and liked it a lot. The whole “monsters are called ‘humans’” thing was a bit on the nose but I don’t mind that much. There’s something about the art style of the game that I can’t quite describe; it almost feels like a watercolor painting but also cel-shaded? Either way it’s unique and the UI is pretty striking as well.

Like you I will shovel into my mouth whatever Persona/SMT slop they give me so I’ll probably get it when it comes out.

I remember years ago when I was getting into the game I found MTGO, and it was the most janky client I’ve ever played on. The way you bought cards was like, topping up an account with credits and then opening a trade with some random bot and trading for the cards. Then a friend was like “you can just play with any cards for free” and showed me Cockatrice lol. Same thing happened when a group of us wanted to play D&D during covid lockdown so we all got tabletop simulator, downloaded the rule book pdfs and played that way.

A friend of mine plays warhammer and just 3D prints all his miniatures because fuck paying hundreds of dollars for what is essentially like 50 unpainted army men.

For what it’s worth the new GPU is a decent upgrade and it will support that PSSR AI upscaling tech they’ve been working on. I still don’t think it’s worth it, especially if you already have a PS5 or a relatively modern PC. This seems more aimed at people who have an outdated PC and haven’t bought a current gen console yet.

The price is still nuts, though. I would be interested to see how well it sells because with everything being so damn expensive now I would imagine not many people are racing to spend $700 on a console (with only one game included lol).

I’ve never been much of a movie person (I watch maybe one movie a year, if that) but every time I unwillingly see a clip or meme from those marvel-style movies it’s just so off-putting. It’s such a relief to be oblivious to it all

i love having strong connections to the Disney brand

if that’s actually a comrade that would be a really funny bit

Okay I haven’t really paid attention to whatever the hell Truth Social is other than it’s some kind of twitter clone, but are the posts on there really called Truths? lmfao

I remember when Genshin first came out people thought it was Japanese, and once they realized it was Chinese they tried organizing a boycott lol. Seems like it didn’t work considering the mountains of cash that game brings in now.