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but then i couldn't say "where you at" which i say all the time and also suffers actual real grammatical issues and i ain't even give a!

It's Super Mario Maker. I want an expansion or something that adds co-op levels.

Probably a good idea

Oh I was definitely goading the original argument back up, but I certainly wasn't begging anyone in particular to participate!

I've never seen Perfect Blue! Also someone finally fixed evangelipoop

The laws wouldn't exist without someone decided they should exist in the first place, and "should" is inherently subjective, as well.

Legality is not synonymous with morality. People know it's within Nintendo's rights. But that doesn't make it inherently not shitty of Nintendo when it does happen.

http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-s-cracking-down-on-speedrunning-and-rom-hacking-videos-310152.phtml because ethics

The iOS port is probably infinitely easier than the GBA port, at least in terms of adding stuff like cheesemints, Steam cloud support, etc. Same thing for FF3 and FF4 (which I didn't realize were iOS ports, which themselves were originally DS ports). Just talked about this in IRC, and imo they just don't care because it's such a small target audience that taking the easiest way out is the quickest way to earn an easy buck. It is sad. At least FF3/4 look good, UI aside. (Well, I like the low-fidelity 3D aesthetic, I know it's not some people's bag.) But FF5 looks really really bad.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-laymans-guide-to-the-new-iphones-and-apples-other-ne-1729643905 e: worked for me!!! were you trying to do this?: theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-laymans-guide-to-the-new-iphones-and-apples-other-ne-1729643905 'cause without the http:// it won't work

Sorry, I'm a bad person, I didn't mean to snap at you. I seem to get a lot of "well if you just eat well and stay active, you'll be good!!!" sort of advice, which after a while has started to grate on me because duh that's what I'm trying to do, geez, and I react emotionally instead of rationally when I see it, even though I know no harm is intended. U:

Yeah I've lived in cities where it's mandatory to ride on the sidewalk and cities where it's mandatory to ride on the road and cities where you do whatever the fuck you want. I don't get it.

Congratulations if you're capable of doing that without a lot of external and ever-present motivation. I can't! As I've stated a thousand times in this thread, I find it all tedious and boring and stressful and I fucking hate it. Stuff like tracking apps and whatnot help me, though. Fitbit giving me cold hard numbers would help me. Sounds like it might be worth getting, root! Hmm, hmmm. Can't get it for a while, though, since the costs of physical therapy for a few weeks has ruined any chance I had of saving up money. Hurray being active and discovering I have tendonitis in my knee.

I also use MyFitnessPal! I find the mobile interface to be a bit tedious to navigate, but overall, it's served me well in the past. I just kind of get lazy after a while... ): I'll check out Strong, that sounds like the kind of thing I'd find useful. I don't mind paying for apps, either, they're so cheap and I can replace some shitty junk food purchase with the app and that's a win-win, right?? Fitbit is I think supposed to track more than just steps taken. But I don't know how, it's all basically magic to me, I only recently started looking at it.

I've decided to cancel my current gym membership because it's too expensive (it's like embarrassingly expensive, but I picked it because it was close and the gym is really really nice). I also learned that my health insurance will pay/offer-large-discounts for certain gyms (L.A. Fitness being one of them, I think, not that it really matters, point is it's much cheaper). So now I need to motivate myself to work out instead of relying on a team class. This won't end well. I also as of yesterday started keeping track of my food intake again. Hopefully I'll keep the habit up, so I can know really what I need to know. Is a Fitbit (or some equivalent) worth getting? I'm really dumb and bad at keeping track of this kind of stuff on my own, so if one of those fitness devices is actually helpful, I want to get one.

Well, I mean, yeah, that was kind of my point. Any game is easy once you figure out how to break it. (Well, any game like this.) I'll also say that I replayed MGS1 recently after years of having not played it or Twin Snakes, and it was still easy, and I promise you I remembered very little about guard placement, etc. The only hurdle was re-acclimating to the strange controls.

Me and NS recorded a podcast yesterday and briefly talked about Flowers of Evil, and yeah I touched on basically everything in your post, heh. I didn't mention the melodrama, though, forgot about that... Whoops! (Hopefully the episode will be out in a timely manner...) I don't know if the rotoscoping feeling weird was intentional, but it definitely affected my discomfort with the show as a whole. I want to believe it is intended, but really this is one of those cases where I wouldn't even care if the creators didn't intend something I liked. It's just kinda part of the package. The series is a really good example of something that's greater than the sum of its parts. Also, I feel like the show ended at a very good point. Well, "good" maybe isn't the right word, heh. It felt complete. I kind of want to read the manga, but that crazy sequence of Future Scenes at the very end was basically the perfect end to the series for me, like, yeah, the story goes on, and shit gets even more fucked, so here's a brief taste of just how fucked. So even though I've heard the manga is really good, I kind of... don't want to read it, at the same time. I honestly probably will, some day. But not yet. I need some time off, haha. I mentioned that I binged the entire thing in one day, I think? Well, yeah, it fucking floored me, it's so rare for something to affect me to such a degree, too, just... too much, so yeah, a break, need one. edit: that song goddamn

Hah! I legit hate this series at this point, and it's because all of the characters are so annoying. The worst most generic moe blob shit. I am stillllll watching, though, for some reason. Reportedly, the manga is actually good. Not sure I believe, but at the very least it's gotta be better than this.

I hope they all die.

The game is very easy, anyway, except for the dumb Liquid boss fight sequence at the very end. Also the cutscenes were just brought in line with MGS2, which is the better game, anyway!

"People of color" means non white people, not just black people. It's not the"politically correct"way to say anything, as far as I know. It's the inclusive way to say "non white", because otherwise people default to saying black, which is unfairly exclusive to other people of color who often suffer the same types of discrimination, but are also often not explicitly included when we talk about discrimination.

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poor bear is so distraught

Also, I'm currently playing through MGS2. That game feels incredibly self-aware. I don't know if that changes in 3 or 4 or 5 (since I've never played past 2), but from some of the stories I've heard (on this episode of the 'cast, and elsewhere), it sounds like the games continue down that track. Codi describes pretty well, too, the rapidly changing tone that's inherent to the series. I don't think (know?) that any of the following has been happening in this thread, but it's a fairly common to see or hear: It's always struck me as a bit off-target to accuse Kojima of being too full of himself, taking his fiction far too seriously. I'm sure there's an element of that in his direction, but I mean in one sentence Campbell is telling me to go to some destination, and in the next, he's, fully in character!, telling me exactly which button to press to flip over a rail. At no point is the player unaware that he or she is playing a video game. Not much longer after that, one of the bosses is in a cutscene talking about how she saw someone hiding under a box on a bridge. Everyone knows what she's talking about, even though she never mentions Snake by name, because that was a mechanic in the first game (and the second game up to that point), so that's a nice wink to the camera. I dunno. I've got a coworker who looooves to hate Metal Gear Solid. His excuse is that the MGS fans are unbearable and never stop praising the story, but honestly, he's spent more energy angrily ranting about the story of the MGS series than anyone I've ever talked to has spent gushing about how fun the games are. I'm not sure how I ended up here in this post. MGS is weird. I like MGS.

Twin Snakes is the better MGS1. It's kind of crazy how many people dislike it.