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[PsychoIncarnate]

Y'all change your names too much. It's hard for old people like me to follow.

I like to pretend they are new people so I start off with a blank slate about them

 

[Deleted member]

...

It's spoilers okay?

When I meant it wasn't anything mean, I meant it.

What's it spoilers for? I love spoilers. Unless it's for Logan, don't spoil Logan. Because I'm looking forward to it and it's named after me, so it must be good. I love hearing my name everywhere with praise.

 

[Aetheri]

Holy **** this Rambi stage is kicking my ass!!!!

 

[Swamp Sensei]

What's it spoilers for? I love spoilers. Unless it's for Logan, don't spoil Logan. Because I'm looking forward to it and it's named after me, so it must be good. I love hearing my name everywhere with praise.

Is your real name Astrid?

Regardless, no.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Too bad she's by far one of the worst units in the series.


What specifically about Astrid? Which Astrid? Where to look? You kind find a special kind of horrible anything if you look in the right places. Just like how I used the mistake of using R34 this morning instead of elsewhere.


Luckily for me, I'm a new member.

HTTYD and R34

It's like all the members are making up their horrible twisted fanon and everyone is going off it.

 

[Deleted member]

Holy **** this Rambi stage is kicking my ***!!!!

Rambi? I think you mean Bambo.

Spoiler

Is your real name Astrid?

Regardless, no.

Yes, my real name is Astrid.

HTTYD and R34

It's like all the members are making up their horrible twisted fanon and everyone is going off it.

Oh god, I wish I could complain about what I saw today, but I can't, even in private. But yeah, in general don't go on R34 unless you're purposely looking for extremely low quality porn. Everything that is good can easily be found elsewhere.

 

[Aetheri]

Holy crap...that was something...from over 20 lives to 5...
I'd say I'm glad that's over but, I'm sure it's just gonna get worse from here on out...

The biggest problem was, when I went to run and jump sometimes Rambi just didn't run, so instead of leaping over a gap, it was a short hop into death...

Rambi? I think you mean Bambo.

Spoiler

Yes, my real name is Astrid.


Oh god, I wish I could complain about what I saw today, but I can't, even in private. But yeah, in general don't go on R34 unless you're purposely looking for extremely low quality porn. Everything that is good can easily be found elsewhere.

Close enough I suppose...

 

[Robert of Normandy]

Too bad she's by far one of the worst units in the series.

Depends on the game.

In FE9 she's considered quite good due to her high growths, Paragon, and having a horse.

In FE10 she is quite bad. Though IIRC she can be okay with transfer bonuses. Though I don't think even then she's considered as bad as Wendy and Sophia in FE6 or the "Free Silvers" of FE12.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Spoiler

Freaking finally. I hated seeing this at a B

 

[Lord Dio]

hellllooooooooo!!!!!!
been busy past couple weeks with school and college and whatnot.....
so for my lit class we get to do weekly blogs on whatever we want, so I chose anime and video games, and for the first video game, went with Shovel Knight. Thus, I got it out and went through it again.
Spoilered due to length.

Spoiler

Tbh, I feel like I played it a lot smarter than I did the first time. First time I waited until I unlocked the Tower of Fate before doing a massive grindsing for all the items and for max magic, that combined with the difficulty of the Tower Entrance caused me to basically stop playing. This time, past knowledge of levels and bosses really helped. One example being it only took me two tries to get through the last part of Lich Yard, and iirc I beat Specter Knight on the first try. I did a lot better with items and magic, grinding for them before going off to newer stages, and by th etime I unlocked the Tower Entrance i already had max health, max magic, and only the alchemy coin, propeller dagger, and war horn left to buy. Got those, and then through determination, got through Tower Entrance and beat the game! Very happy about it.
Then I was reminded that Plague of Shadows exists, so I've been doing that for most of the day. Currently on the Propeller, Polar, and Tinker Knights and their stages. I love Plague Knight, he's definitely just as much fun to play as , if not moreso than Shovel knight. Bomb spamming for daaaays. Right no, the hardest things to go through that I've beaten were Baz, the Iron Whale (not Treasure Knight, he's always easy), and ironically the explodatorium and Shovel Knight's fight. Seriously, Shovel Knight gets to use items that I couldn't until after the Explodatorium! It was just really, really annoying and difficult. Also, looking through comments of PoS related stuff on Youtube, people constantly say Propeller knight is hard for Plague knight. Idk about the actual boss fight, but The Flying Machine has by far been very, very rough for me. 6 or 7 checkpoints until the fight, and I can't even get to the first checkpoint, and I think I've tried TFM over 20 times now.....uggggghhhhhhhh.
On a lighter note, Lich Yards was actually shockingly easy with Plague Knight.

On a bit of a heavier note, i asked a girl in my grade out to Prom (which, I kid you not, is on April 1st). She got to me later saying she had someone else she wanted to ask out, but thanked me for asking her. Took the rejection well, but it's left me in a mood since i got home yesterday.......I feel depressed, and according to google I may well be deressed by it, idk.
That's what's new with me!

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Prom

I almost forgot prom existed, I didn't go to mine, I stayed home and played on my 3DS all night

 

[Opossum]

Ialmost forgot prom existed, I didn't go to mine, I stayed home and played on my 3DS all night

Insert anime fan joke here


Nah but all joking aside, I enjoyed my senior prom. Hard to believe it was already almost three years ago.

 

[Lord Dio]

Ialmost forgot prom existed, I didn't go to mine, I stayed home and played on my 3DS all night

That's been me up until end of junior year. Didn't really know, and if I ha, I didn't care. Do now though.

Also forgot to mention with the second playthrough of Shovel Knight: The chaos Spheres and Throwing Anchorsm are miracles from heaven. Beat Tinker Knight and Propeller Knight with the anchors, and they were very helpful with Black Knight's bird form. The spheres massacred Plague Knight as expected, and while facing Polar Knight I wondered how well they worked. It was like Plague Knight but only a little bit harder. Shoutouts to Flare Wand for being a big help with Baz.
Also with PoS: I FINALLY get to Flying Machine checkpoint #1. And one thing that really upsets me is Plague Knight's health. Mona's powered me up twice now. I get i have tonics that increase my health, but they're not only somewhat hard to find, and you can only carry 5 at a time, but also if you die any tonics you used immediately go away. Just annoys me a ton.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Insert anime fan joke here


Nah but all joking aside, I enjoyed my senior prom. Hard to believe it was already almost three years ago.

I view prom as nothing important unlike graduation as thats where most of the drama happens and I aint about that life. So i just went home

 

[PLATINUM7]

I took my 3DS to my formal. I had a pretty crap time there.

 

[Z25]

<_<
>_>

Opossum

What are the odds?

Spoiler

Anyway I did a new hero summon in Heroes:



Five Star Cadea gets armor Slayer+ RIP entire knight force! Now I don't need a mage.

 

[Lord Dio]

One of my best friends never goes to parties or dances we have. He went to one earlier this month, but only because it was absolutely reuiqred. H esat by the wall playing his ds, it was amazing. We got him to do some dancing though!
Tbh my ability to get someone to go to a dance with me is nonexistent.

.finally reaches first checkpoint in Flying Machine
.sees there are six more before the Propeller knight fight
Hello darkness, my old friend......
I have gotten through two of those, but that's still four checkpoints....and I know that either the last part, or the last two parts, are going to be get carried in a certain direction by the wind to either the checkpoint or a pit or spikes. And it's going to be hard as **** to get through with Plague Knight.

 

[Aetheri]

WHOOO!! 'O,O'

OH GOD THESE LEVELS!!!

The autoscrollers in this game are pretty brutal, especially the Rambi level which was very unforgiving, if you fall off of Rambi you're pretty much screwed, and there were times I died after bouncing off of an enemy after I was doing so well...

The Sawmill was pretty fun though, also rather creative how pieces of the track get destroyed by a giant sawblade and I have to time my jumps to land on the pieces as they fly through the air...one of my favourite levels so far...

Then the boss for this world, which is a FRIKKING VIKING OWL!!!!
Was a pretty fun boss although it took me a couple tries because I needed to get used to his patterns of feather flinging and egg chucking...

I find myself favouring Dixie Kong as the Kong of choice...She can glide similarly to Diddy but I also gain vertical momentumwith her making it easier to land on platforms, especially after miss timing some jumps...Cranky's fun with his pogo-sticking but unless it's a level that he's needed I won't ever choose him...

Edit:
oh gawd...

I think SilvaGunner fans may appreciate this....

One Winged Owl!

 

[A Distant Demon]

Someone else: "What's your favorite Left 4 Dead 2 map?"

me: "Disney Land"


Yeah, so me Swamp, Jaedrik and kingofphantoms all went to disney land in left for dead. It was amazing. I mean im a Disney world guy, but there was so much cool disney stuff. Singing pinnochio and woody, The stretching room from the haunted mansion, and we literally rode Splash mountain from beginning to end. The kid in me that grew up with Disney movies and shows, and loved nothing more than going to Disney World had a blast while blasting a zombie or two

It was amazing. Thank you Phantom for the ride

 

[Swamp Sensei]

In today's L4D2 adventure...

A Distant Demon
KingofPhantoms
@Jaedrik
and I all went to...

DIDNEY WORL

Edit: Disney ninjas.

 

[Deleted member]

....So you guys went to disneyland.... But not really disneyland? You guys are weird. That's the nerdiest thing I've read in a long time.

 

[A Distant Demon]

Edit: Disney Magic.

Fixed that for you

 

[FalKoopa]

The word you two are looking for is "Disninja".

Starting my day with a pun, how original

 

[Kurri ★]

I wanna play L4D with peeps here. That sounds fun.

 

[Erureido]

It's been a few hours, so now it is time to announce the final results from the two polls I posted yesterday:

The first is the favorite 1st-gen playable Hoshidan poll, and here were the results:

3rd Place: Kagero, Setsuna, Subaki, Hana, Orochi, Kaden, Shura, Yukimura, and Izana (1 vote each)

All are pretty nice choices. Nothing much to say.

2nd Place: Kaze (3 votes)

I predicted he'd be one of the winners alongside Oboro, and it seems like I was almost right. Kaze got 2nd place, and he ended up being the most popular ninja.

1st Place: Oboro (6 votes)

Best Hoshido girl gets the dominating win in the end. Glad to see she won!

And now it's time for the favorite 1st-gen playable Nohrian poll results:

3rd Place: Benny, Jakob, Silas, and Gunter (1 vote each)

Those are some nice choices for the most part.

2nd Place: Laslow, Selena, Niles, and Keaton (2 votes each)

I'm glad to see my boy Laslow got the 2nd place. Niles doing this well was another happy sight. I'm not the biggest Selena or Keaton fan, but I understand why they are popular, so their placing is understandable.

1st Place: Odin and Arthur (3 votes each)

And we got a tie in first place! The chosen hero of darkness and the champion of justice have both taken the gold in a narrow victory!

Since pairing two polls at once worked better in the end, tomorrow will also feature a set of polls. These will be the final ones before the American anniversary of Fates kicks in, and this time, we'll be examining favorite 2nd-generation characters from both nations. I also decided that the royal children will also be grouped with the other kids this time around, unlike how the 1st-gen royals were treated a few days ago.

 

[Opossum]

It's been a few hours, so now it is time to announce the final results from the two polls I posted yesterday:

The first is the favorite 1st-gen playable Hoshidan poll, and here were the results:

3rd Place: Kagero, Setsuna, Subaki, Hana, Orochi, Kaden, Shura, Yukimura, and Izana (1 vote each)

All are pretty nice choices. Nothing much to say.

2nd Place: Kaze (3 votes)

I predicted he'd be one of the winners alongside Oboro, and it seems like I was almost right. Kaze got 2nd place, and he ended up being the most popular ninja.

1st Place: Oboro (6 votes)

Best Hoshido girl gets the dominating win in the end. Glad to see she won!

And now it's time for the favorite 1st-gen playable Nohrian poll results:

3rd Place: Benny, Jakob, Silas, and Gunter (1 vote each)

Those are some nice choices for the most part.

2nd Place: Laslow, Selena, Niles, and Keaton (2 votes each)

I'm glad to see my boy Laslow got the 2nd place. Niles doing this well was another happy sight. I'm not the biggest Selena or Keaton fan, but I understand why they are popular, so their placing is understandable.

1st Place: Odin and Arthur (3 votes each)

And we got a tie in first place! The chosen hero of darkness and the champion of justice have both taken the gold in a narrow victory!

Since pairing two polls at once worked better in the end, tomorrow will also feature a set of polls. These will be the final ones before the American anniversary of Fates kicks in, and this time, we'll be examining favorite 2nd-generation characters from both nations. I also decided that the royal children will also be grouped with the other kids this time around, unlike how the 1st-gen royals were treated a few days ago.

I love how weird the results for Hoshido are.

For the most part, there's no consensus among those who didn't pick Oboro. Seriously. Third place has a nine way tie.

 

[Deleted member]

The funny thing is, all I had to do to split that nine way tie was just vote Izana instead of Subaki. Izana was who I was originally going to vote for.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

@Shishœ

I found a clean version.

 

[FalKoopa]

After sinking 150 hours into Fates, I feel I'm finally ready to give a rant review of sorts about the game.

Spoiler: First, the positives

Gameplay: The gameplay of Fates is easily among my absolute favourite in the series, rivalling Radiant Dawn.

• Pair up as it in this game is a very interesting way of changing up the gameplay and is really fun. It also makes for some really great battle scenes, seeing four fighters at once, sometimes attacking together, other times defending one another.
• The addition of a large number of Japan based classes was a plus too.
• The simplified RGB triangle was alright and probably necessary to make sense of the large number of weapon classes in this game. (I just wish the magic triangle returned. rip).
• The removal of limit on supports is a huge plus, as it really lets people grind for supports and get a much better picture of the character in just their first run.
• The removal of weapon durability... didn't take away that much from the game. Although it did prevent the "Too awesome to use" dilemma that players earlier sometimes had.
• My Castle is neat. It is quite useful to see your characters taking on different job in the various buildings, which adds to the immersion.
• The... *ahem* Bonding feature is tacky. While some people may appreciate it, I don't think it adds anything worthwhile. Then again, this exists, so I can't complain.

So, overall, I have no complaints with the gameplay. I wouldn't have sunk 150 hours into the game otherwise.

Level Design: Conquest and Revelations hit it out of the park. They are by far the most innovative maps I've seen in any Fire Emblem game, which is saying a lot. Dragon veins feel like a lame excuse to add changes at first, but they seriously do run with it in some really fun ways.

Characters: This is really subjective territory, but in general, the character designs are pretty par for the course of the series. Generally likeable personalities and designs, with a personal quirk or two. No complaints there. While the addition of child characters was kind of pointless for the story, they are quite well designed, so I'm not complaining there either. As Erureido 's poll shows, people in general like the characters.

Music: Oh god, the music.The music in Fire Emblem Fates is absolutely phenomenal. Fire Emblem had always had top notch music, and Fates even managed to surpass that. Absolutely incredible. It knows how to get the player pumped up for any battle. Rena Strober did a wonderful job with Azura's song too, and the endgame battle theme is fan-tas-tic.

Spoiler: And here comes the negative part

Story: The story of FE Fates is arguably its weakest point. It has numerous issues, such as

• The lopsided nature of the branch of fate. The game makes it seriously hard for anyone going in blind to pick Nohr, due to how Mikoto and Garon behave. Moreover, Conquest never really makes you feel like you did the right thing by choosing Nohr, unlike how it is in Birthright. I thought the favouritism ended there, but apparently nope. Revelations takes it even further, with Mikoto and Sumeragi getting expanded upon while Garon remains a one scene wonder.
• To continue on the point, the fact that no villain in the game is from Hoshido. Iago and Hans are both Nohrian and later on so the another late game Revelations villain. To give then credit, it's not all black and white, as Mokushu is also based on Japan is treated as evil.
• Now, world building. This is one area where the game falls seriously flat. You may remember older games like Path of Radiance, Sacred Stones and Binding Blade all began with introducing the continent the game is based in, as well as the various countries in it. Or at least they were explained between the chapters. Very little of that happens in Fates, to the point that the continent doesn't even have a name.
• As for problems within the story, Conquest in a mess. Besides never feeling that you're on the side of Justice (Arthur's battle cries do start feeling bittersweet and ironic towards the end of the game), the way in which the plot progresses makes no sense at all. I can give it a slide as real wars do sometimes have flimsy reasons like this, but if you really want people to get invested in your story, then please avoid it. It also took away from the sacrifices that came in later. I personally felt more like they died for a foolish cause.
• Revelations is okay... it would have been better if Valla was actually mentioned beforehand. The supposed curse on mentioning Valla was a rather weak way to keep the story moving forward. If they instead treated Valla as something only believed to exist in legend but actually exists, it would have been better. Though I am grateful for the Ace Attorney esque twist towards the end. That was amazing.

Fire Emblem Fates is a good game. While the story is not quite as good as compared to the rest of the series, it does enough with its gameplay mechanics and level design to make the games enjoyable and worth your time.

Would recommend, especially to first time Fire Emblem fans.

 

[redfeatherraven]

I wanna play L4D with peeps here. That sounds fun.

Agreed.

Need to find some free time to get in on this.

 

[Deleted member]

Sorry to hear about that mate. I do hope you get better and you'll be back to your old self.

In the meantime, here's another poll.

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This time with another fan favorite starter and everyone's favorite Patient Pokemon.

Went with Heracross.
I'm not a fan of the others.

 

[Mythra]

I stumbled into the kek side of Bulbapedia.

>End of Evangelion coma scene

Dude.

 

[praline]

Too bad she's by far one of the worst units in the series.


What specifically about Astrid? Which Astrid? Where to look? You kind find a special kind of horrible anything if you look in the right places. Just like how I used the mistake of using R34 this morning instead of elsewhere.


Luckily for me, I'm a new member.

Pah. I used her in my last play through of Path of Radiance and she was really good.

 

[FalKoopa]

Pah. I used her in my last play through of Path of Radiance and she was really good.

He might be talking about Radiant Dawn.

Astrid isn't bad in it per se, just doesn't get a lot of opportunity to grind.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

Okay.

Here's a challenge.

Give every character ever included in Smash Bros a unique victory theme.

Some rules.

• Characters cannot share themes, even if they're heavily remixed like 's themes.
• are required. You don't have to do if you don't want to. You can though.
  
• can still share the same theme. That's fine.
  
• You are allowed to keep current themes as long as only one character has it. For example, can keep the same theme he currently has, but would need a new one.
• Please be somewhat specific. You probably don't have to specify what part of the theme plays for things like jingles, but for longer themes, explain what parts are used in the victory theme.
• Costumes don't count. Unless you want to give a unique theme for every Koopaling. could be a neat bonus though.
• If you post video, use spoilers.

And with that, go at it.

I'm excited to see what you can think up.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Someone else: "What's your favorite Left 4 Dead 2 map?"

me: "Disney Land"


Yeah, so me Swamp, Jaedrik and kingofphantoms all went to disney land in left for dead. It was amazing. I mean im a Disney world guy, but there was so much cool disney stuff. Singing pinnochio and woody, The stretching room from the haunted mansion, and we literally rode Splash mountain from beginning to end. The kid in me that grew up with Disney movies and shows, and loved nothing more than going to Disney World had a blast while blasting a zombie or two

It was amazing. Thank you Phantom for the ride

It was a pleasure to introduce the map and campaign to you all. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it so much like I did.

I have no idea how someone managed to recreate the park in the game so insanely accurately. Granted not all of the parks are seen (of course meaning they weren't remade for it), but for what you do get to see and explore, it's so accurate it's almost hard to believe.

And yeah, shooting up zombies while running through the whole place adds plenty of fun to it as well lol

 

[Swamp Sensei]

It was a pleasure to introduce the map and campaign to you all. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it so much like I did.

I have no idea how someone managed to recreate the park in the game so insanely accurately. Granted not all of the parks are seen (of course meaning they weren't remade for it), but for what you do get to see and explore, it's so accurate it's almost hard to believe.

And yeah, shooting up zombies while running through the whole place adds plenty of fun to it as well lol

We should go to Universal Studios next.

 

[Baskerville]

Some new stuff got annouced for KOF 14 today.

Spoiler

Man I need to get back into KOF sometime.

 

[WeirdChillFever]

Okay.

Here's a challenge.

Give every character ever included in Smash Bros a unique victory theme.

Some rules.

• Characters cannot share themes, even if they're heavily remixed like 's themes.
• are required. You don't have to do if you don't want to. You can though.
  
• can still share the same theme. That's fine.
  
• You are allowed to keep current themes as long as only one character has it. For example, can keep the same theme he currently has, but would need a new one.
• Please be somewhat specific. You probably don't have to specify what part of the theme plays for things like jingles, but for longer themes, explain what parts are used in the victory theme.
• Costumes don't count. Unless you want to give a unique theme for every Koopaling. could be a neat bonus though.
• If you post video, use spoilers.

And with that, go at it.

I'm excited to see what you can think up.

All characters that are the series' sole representatives keep their current victory theme ofc,

: Current
: First eightish notes of the Luigi's Mansion theme
: The jingle that plays when rescued
: "Intro" of MKWii's Bowser Castle theme
: Airship theme exerpt
: Current

: Current
: Intro to the Ballad of the Goddess
: Great Fairy's theme looped
: He prolly has a boss battle theme somewhere.
: First "line" of the Aria of the Earth or w/e

: Jungle Hijinx Remix
: Current

: Lost in Thoughts All Alone intro (Instrumental before Azura starts to sing)

: Current
: His own theme
: His own theme

Not really well versed in other series' music tbh

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I was just watching a thing on "Age of Empires" and thought

They should totally add Elephant riders to Fire Emblem. Because that was a real thing in history