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[Circus]

omg don't even get me started

 

[#HBC | ѕoup]

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_20?url=search-alias=videogames&field-keywords=fire emblem awakening&sprefix=fire emblem awakenin,aps,228

both games are under $30 used. I don't see the prices dropping much more than that for a long time. Could totally wait and see, though.

nah i just gotta wait for my next paycheck which will be a week from now, but i just don't wanna wait is all

 

[#HBC | Nabe]

not bad but i better enjoyed the avatar immediately prior to this one

 

[#HBC | ѕoup]

i just want to know where acrostic gets his avatars honestly, i usually like all of them but he changes so frequently i only wonder where they're coming from

 

[Gova]

He once linked the source on Skype and I gave up looking through them because there were literally thousands of icons to choose from.

 

[#HBC | ѕoup]

also does anyone really enjoy the 3d on the 3ds

i don't even see how it works and it just hurts my eyes

 

[#HBC | J]

I do with some games, most games I have it off. I loved it with Pokemon and Legend of Zeld: OoT. VLR was good with it too. But like Yoshi's Island and Mario and Luigi Dream Team, didn't really like it.

@ #HBC | Acrostic

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation of Nintendo. I really appreciate it.

 

[ranmaru]

also does anyone really enjoy the 3d on the 3ds

i don't even see how it works and it just hurts my eyes

I avoid it to save battery

could care less

I just treat it as a DS-lite. I loved my red ds-lite.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

i just want to know where acrostic gets his avatars honestly, i usually like all of them but he changes so frequently i only wonder where they're coming from

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This one is House Baratheon's logo from Game of Thrones. It's basically a house composed of men the size of giants who squashed their enemies in war with maces and hammers. For my female interest pictures I usually get them from doing a google search of fashion or on tumbler for female fashion. The anime pictures I'm mostly getting from pixiv, although usually again from tumblr that links back to an artist's pixiv. Other than that, I steal a number of icons from other users and use them on another site. Like off-hand I have:

From you iirc. Plus some other Dangan Ronpa avvie that I reverse image searched. If I am ripping off a tumblr though, I usually don't go through the entire directory of pictures since tumblr does the whole streaming images thing that I never bothered getting around. So I just run an image capture program that rips the pictures from the entire site and just saves it into a given folder where I don't touch it until two or three months later.

@ #HBC | Acrostic Thank you very much for the detailed explanation of Nintendo. I really appreciate it.

No it's really my pleasure. I actually learn more about a topic as I do a read and reply on it. It's actually how I retain a large amount of information. I don't think that I really hit the core of the topic because that would require serious investigation and monetary inquiries that I doubt I would even know where to start. But I feel that Smash Bros 4 is coming out at a relatively high point for Nintendo.

omg don't even get me started

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To be candid, I think female attractiveness being marketed is an issue, however I don't believe it is the issue. And I don't believe that the issue is something that is resolved with simple advocacy and posting a dissenting opinion every time a female's breasts show up to the market. The issue here is systemic to the point where the cover image on a youtube icon was a woman in a skimpy bikini top with a sexual title when in reality the video was of a man telling the viewers that they just got conned. The video received over a million views.

When it comes to morals, I don't really consider it right or wrong. I do believe though there is a problem for men when our fascination with soft porn eye candy takes away from time we could be spending to fixing real problems. The Occupy Wall Street Movement which I happened to a part of by simple nature of me being stuck trying to get home from work against a literal army of people rushing to get to Zuccotti Park was fruitless because it was directionless. The real problem is that people here tell you that they feel that a discussion is meaningless because their opinions have no form of representation or value of change in contemporary America. To be honest they have their head on their shoulders.

When it comes to creating change, change is no longer hinged on any moral landscape. It's founded upon influence and what you can do to promote whoever is in charge to the next level. If you look at congress, our representatives retire from their position only to be hired soon after as lobbyists to go back to the hill to convince their colleagues to insert dialogue in their legislation to promote whoever has employed them i.e. oil drilling, engineering crops, and malfunctioning cars. Campaigns run millions of dollars and a lot of these men aren't millionaires.

But I concede that money isn't all there is when you consider a discourse over a topic. However, it usually is the only thing that matters. When you buy into a game like Bravely Default you encourage Square Enix to put skimpy clad underage girls into their next market metric for character development. It is one among a variety of data that not only Square Enix, but a series of other game publishers will use when their market and development team leads a new game design with female characters.

It's not that they're fascinated with the contrived females that they sell. It's that they know that whatever they have contrived, will sell to a male demographic that has a tendency to buy these games. Their end goal isn't to sell females, but to make money and nothing we discuss matters if the end game is that they make money from it. Dragon's Crown would be a solid game without having the sorceress or amazon be T&A girls. A good contrast of this would be the elf character who is moderately clothed and is still hugely attractive with a male audience. To be honest, the elf and the female characters in F.E. Awakening are still dressed to sell to a male audience, just because they aren't oozing sex appeal doesn't mean that they weren't designed with the male audience in mind.

The root of the problem you have is with the female character being used as a sales factor in market trending data to promote sales of a product such as a videogame. The unfortunate fact is that no matter what you discuss on the online boards, gender is always going to utilized as a filter for products to see who are the major buyers and similarly gender is going to be used as a marketing feature in order to sell to a demographic that is seen as being the most profitable. Women have always been up for market. And this trend has always been enabled by a consumer base that has indicated time and time again that it is always willing to buy.

 

[Raziek]

Skip Bravely Default til it's bargain bin. Game is great but it turns into a slog by the end. Fire Emblem you should def pinch your pennies for.

You're a man after my heart, Circus.

I can see where you're coming from on BD. I hit Chapter 5 and it now kinda feels a little 'uuuuughhhh'. It's been a swell 50 hours (on hard mode) so far, though. And Edea is the best.

Fire Emblem tho. 350 hours.

 

[Vinylic.]

I'm just gonna post this again because I like it.

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

Rice. Falco player.

Oh hell yeah. A lot of FL players know of that guy. He WAS top 10 back in like 06/07, and last time I checked he was able to beat XIF as well as hold his own against Lambchops so I don't doubt that he could be top 10. Most new players in Fl wouldn't know him but he's not terribly unknown to those who've been around awhile.

The only thing is is that Fl has like, a **** ton of sleeping giants, with Rich just being one of them, so it's hard to say that he'll be top 10 for sure. He'll probably be in the upper top ten if we counted all of our hidden talent.

 

[#HBC | Gorf]

Circus did anyone ever tell you that you're like the Martin Luther King Jr of all non-straight-males?

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

Zamus isn't exactly my favorite character anywho. Yoshi is announced, and he's all... standing upright and ****. That's good, right?

Yeah man, you know how Sakurai was talking about how he buffed several characters up? Standing upright was Yoshi's buff.

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

Oh hell yeah. A lot of FL players know of that guy. He WAS top 10 back in like 06/07, and last time I checked he was able to beat XIF as well as hold his own against Lambchops so I don't doubt that he could be top 10. Most new players in Fl wouldn't know him but he's not terribly unknown to those who've been around awhile.

The only thing is is that Fl has like, a **** ton of sleeping giants, with Rich just being one of them, so it's hard to say that he'll be top 10 for sure. He'll probably be in the upper top ten if we counted all of our hidden talent.

He finally started giving me advice on how to play better aside from pick Fox. He's given up on me picking a better character than Roy.

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

ZSS conversation:

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I thought the shows were eh, like, "Is this Samus?"

But w/e, gives her some nifty kicks with Down B now.

 

[BarDulL]

regarding bravely default: lmfao @ Circus i knew that was going to happen once you finally beat it. slog by the end...couldn't have said it better myself

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Should I buy BD even with the end being a slog?

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

regarding bravely default: lmfao @ Circus i knew that was going to happen once you finally beat it. slog by the end...couldn't have said it better myself

I heard that the game has high replay value.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

Don't open this if you haven't gotten to Chapter 4/5.

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Like you could replay the game four more times and it would still feel like you're like still playing the game for the first time.

 

[BarDulL]

i honestly liked the game a lot with the exception of post chapter 5. the music is really great, the plot's great, game play is great, graphics are fine, but post chapter 5 the plot progression essentially comes to a halt and you're forced to grind a lot. there are methods of speeding up this process but if you're playing it straight then times are definitely going to be tough for a while. outside of the main plot, there's plenty of side-quest content to go around and lots of uber hard hidden bosses as well. nemeses are fun if you like challenging boss fights. all around i would say it's worth the buy, yeah.

@ #HBC | Acrostic LOL if you mean what i think you mean that's pretty funny.

 

[Circus]

Circus did anyone ever tell you that you're like the Martin Luther King Jr of all non-straight-males?

Martin Luther King Jr actually told me that in a dream.

 

[Circus]

No pun intended.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

Finding out Circus is gay makes me question my heterorientation.

 

[Circus]

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i've made this joke before but it's still funny shut up

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

Wait Circus is gay?

I guess as a person who's attracted to women I'm just weird for agreeing with Circus's opinion.

 

[#HBC | Gorf]

Circus doesn't have an opinion. He's gay, remember?

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

Finding out Circus is gay makes me question my heterorientation.

 

[Handorin]

wow. rice. I haven't heard that name in ages.

FL Melee is so beast.

 

[BSL]

Mrgrgr

 

[#HBC | Nabe]

@Bravely Default
i am playing the demo and am not a huge fan
i hear it is not a fantastic demo
but why is this game considered good and not just get numbers higher: the game

 

[BarDulL]

so in other words you dislike all turn-based rpgs?

i mean, when you cut down to the nitty gritty, it's all numbers. i'm just surprised to hear that from you since i know you really like the persona series.

 

[#HBC | J]

Persona =/= BD though.

Both are great in different ways.

 

[Raziek]

Anyone looking for a short, emotional story game should give 'Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons' a go. I just finished it.

Takes about 3 hours to beat, absolutely amazing story. Very emotional. Highly recommend.

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

If you boil it down, Persona is still get your numbers higher the game. It just depends on how long it has to simmer to reach that point.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

There's a big difference between the two games though. We all know why Nabe loves Persona.

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[#HBC | J]

And hello new phone background.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

 

[#HBC | Joker]

There's a big difference between the two games though. We all know why Nabe loves Persona.

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not enough butts