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The color choices in that winning poster makes my inner designer cringe.
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You won't write a good book in any spoken language if you don't have a solid understanding of what makes literature good. You can learn and be fluent in French, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Latin, any and all languages you want, but it won't make you a good author or speaker.
Yes, but you don't need to have a doctorate in linguistics to write a good book.
You would be surprised at how common it is for people to skip on the basic foundation though. I personally know several people that think they can write a good story when they clearly don't know the basic rules of English. They can get by in communication, but you couldn't really even call them skilled, let alone excellent.
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Okay let me rephrase:
dark souls is an rpg lore doesn't matter ;)Okay, so. Bloodborne. Bloodborne is so good. DS1 was already one of my favorite games of all time but it's just unpolished by comparison. The lore is just so much more engaging, and the combat... I'm not even sure if I can justify using sword and board anymore, not when I've made it that far on a hunter that dies if anything so much as looks at her.
The lore is a platform to allow me to fight Werewolf Cthulhu with a flaming whip sword
That is literally the only thing I have ever wanted in life.
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Okay, so. Bloodborne. Bloodborne is so good. DS1 was already one of my favorite games of all time but it's just unpolished by comparison. The lore is just so much more engaging, and the combat... I'm not even sure if I can justify using sword and board anymore, not when I've made it that far on a hunter that dies if anything so much as looks at her.
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i would just have to wonder how a parrying blade would be expected to deflect projectiles without specialized training
Heroic reflexestm?
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I'm surprised they released this. I thought PvPers were in a teeny tiny minority these days since everyone seems obsessed with skilling and PvM. I'll be impressed if this game remains consistently populated
I'm more surprised that it took them so long to do this. Scape PVPers might have been getting shafted for the last 8 years but there's really no shortage of open-world slaughterfests out there. This is probably what PVP worlds back during the trade restriction days should have been.
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On a similar note: 17gb worth of updates yesterday. That sure was a fun thing.I've been home for like 15 mins and my playstation is still on 'preparing to download update' -.-
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For bonus fun, during the beta Elvarg was literally made of murder, capable of outright ignoring the fact that you had a dragonfire shield. Honestly though, isn't that damage pretty close to the limits of F2P healing? Especially at lower levels when the quest unlocks your T50 chest gear and you're doing like 1/5 of the target audience's health :vAdded patch notes. Jagex logic: oh we made a quest excruciatingly easy and marginalized with the onset of EoC? Better wait
43 years to fix it [Dragon Slayer] :P.And now Ruler of the Tower seems somehow even more obnoxious to get! I didn't think it was possible~
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Holy shit. It'll be 10 years for me soon, also. O.O I remember before I knew about Tip.It, having to go to GameFAQs for those horrid text-only quest guides. When I learned about Tip.It it was a dream come true. Then someone said they had a forum and I'm like "so?" and then I joined like 6 months later. Yay for Tip.it.
Yeah I visited GameFAQs first too. It sucked cuz most of the guides were written for RS Classic instead of RS2. This was back in like July 2004.
Yup. That was the first time I saw heavy use of ascii-art. ... and pretty much the last time.
Ernest the Chicken - Text-only guide. Dear god. That took my 10 year old brain forever back in 2001/2002.
The fun thing is that GameFAQs hasn't changed very much :-D
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It's only a trap if it consistently makes you unhappy.
Which is sort of where willful ignorance becomes a trap: you won't know that your 'solution' isn't viable and you have every incentive not to find out why that is, or how it could be improved.And a lot of these things apply to your other "solutions." Disagree with the tax code? Finding ways to legally avoid paying taxes is not as easy as a Google search, it can require the deep understanding of the law that comes with a law degree, or the equivalent amount of time researching and studying laws. Sure, you can pay someone to do it for you... Unless you already can't pay taxes because your income is too low.
But you also wonder why people tend to reject your advice, right? I can't say I've seen many situations as black-and-white as you tend to make them out to be. Oversimplifying the issues or trying to turn the conversation in an entirely unrelated direction isn't the best way to get a point across: the trap is that you can't really help solve a problem that you don't want to understand. At that point it's less about 'helping' them and more about affirming your own world view.
It's like, I got into a discussion about conservation with one of my cousins over the summer: the conversation was more frustrating than enjoyable because his 'easy' solutions weren't just wrong, they were irrelevant.
Do you have a region freeor Japanese DS? I wouldn't think that you could play the Japanese cart on an American console.
Games prior to BW2 aren't region locked (and as above, neither were consoles before the DSi). Even if they were, the current homebrew/region-free exploit is extremely easy :mrgreen:
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And a lot of these things apply to your other "solutions." Disagree with the tax code? Finding ways to legally avoid paying taxes is not as easy as a Google search, it can require the deep understanding of the law that comes with a law degree, or the equivalent amount of time researching and studying laws. Sure, you can pay someone to do it for you... Unless you already can't pay taxes because your income is too low.
Which is sort of where willful ignorance becomes a trap: you won't know that your 'solution' isn't viable and you have every incentive not to find out why that is, or how it could be improved.
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In main series news:
Zygarde Brain/Cell/Dog/[bleep]huge mecha forms
Greninja that is either a mega/form/something or Ash, or both
Z version is most likely a thing based on the fact that the anime called it that. Mega Specials will probably have details, maybe.
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I did that for a while but then I decided I should care about things that could dramatically alter my future
I did the same before finding out that it was actually pretty interesting. I'd go as far as to say enjoyable, if not for the fact that 'objectively wrong about basic science' would be a vast improvement for a lot of politicians.
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Will be getting the game on Tuesday or so. Is there anything I should know in advance?
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That ripper demo though. Hell yes.
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wonder why they didn't stick to the model they had of her from FOTG
It was too NSFW/18+.
We have anime maid outfits and tentacle-themed attacks. That ship has sailed.
The ship in question being the HMS Naughty Tentacle, of course. Because we also have that.
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Just picked up a Gamecube, should be some fun if I can find some older RPGs.
Considering picking up a PS4, because it seems like it's trying to say "come for Bloodborne and Persona, stay for all the stuff that was at E3".
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Today...
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Was it necrosis? Necrosis is fun.
By which I mean the opposite of fun