Twig

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  1. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

    I fucking hate the opening. It was awful. I don't want to go back and S-rank it. ):
  2. Idle Thumbs Readers Slack & Discord

    did i just get schooled ):
  3. Idle Thumbs Readers Slack & Discord

    gifs are trash U R 2
  4. Idle Thumbs Readers Slack & Discord

    slack is hot trash everyone go back to irc bonus: no gifs!
  5. Yeah I want this game. And I want to play it with a cool friend person.
  6. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

    I bought a circle pad pro (ten bucks on amazon, what-ho!) and now the game is infinitely more playable than it was before, which is to say, playable at all. It's still got issues with diagonal camera movement because... why? I don't know. But, much much better. So I might actually play this game now!
  7. Recently completed video games

    Heh. I liked Thane a lot, though, I would've been okay with that. The internet fetishization of Tali weirds me out, though, and although I think Jack isn't a bad character, I don't really like her. (My real one-true-love is, OF COURSE, Garrus!)
  8. Recently completed video games

    ME2 definitely gave me relationships I didn't ask for. Jack and Tali, if I recall correctly. This is reminding me that I want to replay 1 and 2 (as Femshep!) because I still haven't played 3. And it's been a long time.
  9. Recently completed video games

    All of my romances in every Bioware game are purely accidental because I'm nice to people. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, I stopped being nice and just ALWAYS picked the flirt option with everybody, since they provided it so clearly and blatantly and I thought that was kinda dumb. Of course that meant I ended up with Dorian, the hunk. <3
  10. anime

    Actually... Oh you already corrected yourself, teehee. Well, also, actually... All Goku really cares about is fighting strong dudes and getting stronger by doing so. He gives maybe a tiny shit about whether or not said strong dudes are evil, but for the most part he just likes fighting. I think it's just 'cause most people were introduced to the franchise with Z that everyone assumes he's a straight up Good Guy. He'll help people out here and there, but, like, in original DB, he had no qualms with killing anyone and everyone. But here comes Vegeta, a guy who literally wanted to destroy Goku's home, and Goku's like "nah let the guy live, I wanna fight him again". The English dub, I believe, tricked people into thinking he did it because he thought Vegeta might be good, or because he didn't like killing, but that's not how it was supposed to go down. Hah! Goku. What a clown.
  11. Half-Life 3

    I like the gamification crap! When it works, anyway.
  12. anime

    Well, also, make no mistake, Rokka is violent from minute one (no one dies, but the MC establishes pretty clearly that he has the power to do so and probably no qualms using said power), and it's never intended to be anything but. They're god-chosen Braves on a mission to kill the demon king (ostensibly (? (shit happens)) as heroes) and... well, that's really all you get until the room is locked and oops they have a seventh Brave instead of only six. You never even see the demon king! Hell, they don't even get to the demon REALM. Which is a big part of why I think Rokka is so interesting and good. It's not at all what you'd expect it to be, going in blind. Certainly wasn't what I expected. I was only in 'cause director of Spice and Wolf (delivered!) and Maoyuu (also delivered!).
  13. anime

    Nope! I wouldn't have even remembered Kenshin umprompted, even though we literally talked about him over the weekend. Remembering Trigun was a happy mistake. My memory is terrible! That said, in Rokka, the culprit never killed a single person, so that trope doesn't even apply!!! PHEW! In fact, someone else killed a bunch of people with the goal of peace (for her race).
  14. anime

    I know I've seen plenty of Violent Protagonists Fighting for Peace, though! Anyway Rokka is great and that's all that matters!!
  15. Criminey, It's Christmas (2015-)!

    it hasn't stopped being annoying but at least it's slowed down
  16. anime

    Maybe. I am unfamiliar with this trend. I feel like... I've seen more examples that are the opposite of what you say. Well, maybe I've seen enough examples that are the opposite of what you say, often alongside exactly the thing you're talking about. There's been a ton of Main Characters fighting for piece in anime. Maybe more typical to the shounen genre? I don't know. (EDIT: Your favorite, Trigun!!) I figured out who it was much later, assuming it was someone else entirely because there are a million red herrings in this show. In my experience, talking to other people (mostly GAF people), early on, barely anyone suspected the actual culprit. It wasn't until the series progressed that people began suspecting the actual culprit. So, that's where my "lucky" accusation came in. Also apparently I was grumpy this morning (I was definitely grumpy this morning) and that post came off as such. Sorry! (I still stand by my point that knowing who the culprit is doesn't at all ruin the show, because the tension comes less from WHO it, and more from what happens BECAUSE they did it. I believe this with all of my heart!)
  17. anime

    Rokka no Yuusha was the best thing from last season. The ending was ultimately unimportant to what made the show great. The mystery was fine, but it's the ever-present tension that made it good, not the whodunnit part. I'll also just say that for the vast majority of people watching the show, they didn't figure out the seventh right away. So, sucks for you that you got lucky, I guess? Like, you act like it was obvious, but there are lot of cues for every other character's "obvious" guilt, too. Ultimately, I feel like if all you cared about while watching the show was "who is the bad guy", then, well, of course you didn't like it.
  18. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

    I just unlocked suppressor for Quiet's tranq rifle, so now she's unequivocally the best. Fulton everybody! Although I'm aware D-Dog cant fulton people later. Seems like any time I tell him to attack somebody, though, he just gets shot repeatedly. I abuse the sonar pretty regularly (also has the advantage of luring nearby people over so I can knock 'em out), so I don't necessarily need D-Dog marking people. I wanna mess around with the walker next. Seems super expensive, though, to build up to where it'll be really fun. I've reached mission 22. Unlocked FOBs, and built one, and invaded two successfully last night. I dunno how I feel about potentially losing real resources to other people, but I'm glad I can finally have more people in my various divisions.
  19. Painting tabletop miniatures

    I've got this in my Amazon cart, ready to buy once I get my paycheck! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BMZVBQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_sfl_title_4&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER I had not seen that. Seems useful!
  20. Criminey, It's Christmas (2015-)!

    seriously updating all these threads constantly is really annoying
  21. Timesplitters 2 is so good. I miss that game.
  22. Recently completed video games

    I wish you didn't have to be so wrong!
  23. Far Cry PRIMAL

    That's better!
  24. Far Cry PRIMAL

    Maybe, but cynicism is boring and just brings me down all the time. I'd rather be hopeful any day of the week. Even if I expect the worse, I much prefer to talk about the potential best.