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So the game is out in Japan today and... the gay characters basically sound like terrible people. Syalla is also heavily implied to be a reincarnation of Tharja, the predatory stalker character that they made that creepy figurine of. One step forward, eight steps back, I guess.
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It looks like there's actual action being taken to get the confederate flag taken out of government buildings and such. I noticed someone today with a confederate license plate on their car, and it's not the first time I've seen it here. What a weird fucking thing for a symbol of such a specifically, objectively terrible thing has simultaneously managed to distance itself from its context enough to pop up in a completely uninvolved country.
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For anyone who missed it, Nintendo stated today that the upcoming Fire Emblem: Fates will be their first game to finally include gay relationships.* I'm super happy that they're finally taking their first baby steps into the 21st century, even if there's some caveats: 1) so far, only the player character can get gay-married, and only to one character, and only in one version. I'll be playing the "Birthright" version, where a female player character can marry a woman, but you need to play "Conquest" if you want to marry a man as a male player character. The DLC "third version" will include both characters. 2) there's a weird sort of "seperate but equal" quality to the fact that you apparently can't S rank your gay relationship, only "A+ rank" it... which... is actually not equal, come to think of it. A+ is below S in, like, everything. *To be fair, the Gen V Pokémon actually did it first, but they were super-tame "dates" with little to no romantic undertones.
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I FINALLY got a complete set of golden tools. This took two years of my life.
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Another, less stupid Steven Universe theory:
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Oh, right. I got two bingos. I counted a combination of Pelé and Hoop God for the athlete square, the terrible Just Dance bit for plastic instruments, and the Skylamiibos for Toys To Life.
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So you guys may have noticed this in the Life topic earlier, but I think I can get away with giving this its own thread. Quoted from my tumblr:
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
tegan replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
I like to listen to the Bombcast while I'm drawing or doing chores, so I like it loooong. I wish Idle Thumbs were longer, actually.- 1367 replies
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While we're on it, did anyone else find that the PS3 online store was usually unreasonably slow? I have pretty fast internet, and although I prefer to buy all my games digitally, downloads on that system were an absolute slog for some reason. I assume it's a server-side thing. Did Sony ever fix it?
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I would like to echo this. OG Metroid doesn't hold up even a tenth as well as Metroid 2.
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Obligatory Comical YouTube Thread II: The Fall of YouTube
tegan replied to pabosher's topic in Idle Banter
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Largest opening weekend of all time, guys.
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Metroid II is super short, easy (though you'll want a map), and insubstantial. It's the only Game Boy game I've ever beaten. It ties into Super, but in a very easily-explained way. It would probably be a better use of your time to just read a synopsis or watch a video of the ending, because a lot of its additions to the mythos are either never really addressed again (namely the Metroid Life Cycle. A Metroid Queen appears in Other M and there's an Omega Metroid in Fusion, but that's it) or arguably trivial (it's the first game where Samus has the big round shoulders, for instance). I like to play Super with the Wii U Pro Controller, but I did beat it with the Wii Classic Controller and I've played a lot of it with the gamepad. I wouldn't bother getting a special controller unless you were already interested in getting one.
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I'm surprised that the first article didn't realize that the t-shirt the Xbox guy was wearing was part of a reveal. After they announced the Rare collection he walked back out onstage with the jacket open so that you could see the shirt had the Rare logo on it.
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I'm prettty sure a standard military uniform includes underwear, unless that's why they call it "going commando."
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To go under her clothes that she also doesn't need, obviously. This game is kind of a gut punch sometimes.
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I worked out how to get to Fredericton and get my passport done. I just need to nail down actually getting the forms for the Tax ID number and where to send them.
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So they announced that instead of regular weekly episodes, they're gonna air reruns until around this time next month, then air another Stevenbomb. I think I kinda like this idea of just delivering the show in monthly five-episode blocks, but I dunno if it's paying off for them.
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I FINALLY GOT MY GOLDEN NET YESSSSS
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the only actual confirmed exclusives I know of from this year were Halo, Gears, the entire Nintendo presentation, Uncharted, Horizon, Media Molecule's dream thing, and -strangely never mentioned- Nier 2.
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Another thing I briefly wanted to mention: The terrorist was also noted as specifically referring to the Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin shootings when referring to why he hated black people. I feel like I have a much deeper understanding of the costs of the demonizing and blame-shifting that the media tried to pull in those cases.
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STEVEN UNIVERSE PREDICTION:
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I'm having a hard time expressing my feelings about Charleston. I just wanna say that it seems like the terrorist made a lot of racist jokes, rants, and eventually threats to a lot of people close to him; and none of them took him seriously. That's a real problem.
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I would at least watch a Let's Play or something. *cough Metal Gear Scanlon 3 cough*
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Sean/your dad also share a birthday with Dan Ryckert. Happy belated birthday, Sean!