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[Pakky]

Alright, last meme on Google Stadia. But I can't help when they announce a gaming platform that totally 100% works, but at the same time, shifting dozens of hardware employees recently.

"It seems the majority of employees subject to cutbacks are hardware engineers, product managers, and related support staff, and after being notified of these changes in the last two weeks, those “floating” workers have been looking for positions in Google’s smartphone department or one of Alphabet’s other hardware businesses like Nest."

https://gizmodo.com/uh-oh-looks-like-googles-hardware-team-might-be-in-tro-1833260639

Now my optimism wanes

 

[osby]

even before the advent of Cellphones making Wristwatches pointless.

I mean, I don't have to charge my wristwatch in every five minutes and protect from the elements all the time.

 

[Idon]

The +/- boosts in Pokémon aren't IVs, those are Natures.

Pokémon IVs are the inherent, mostly invisible values that each Pokémon has from 0-31 across each stat (0-15 in Gen 1 and 2) that determines their maximum stat values, it's why they're called "IVs", it stands for "Individual Values" (as opposed to "EVs", Effort Values, the points gained from battling).

"IVs in a Fire Emblem game" would be if each unit's Star Ranking was individual to each stat (like, they could have ★★★★★ in HP but ★★☆☆☆ in Strength).

Listen man, I ain't gonna start saying "Brave Brave Lyn"

 

[SoccerStar9001]

They're basically the ultimate luxury item. Especially 2. Who the **** needs to wear 2 watches at once?

I mean, yeah it is a luxury item. But it doesn't cost more than a car or building does it?

 

[Shroob]

I mean, yeah it is a luxury item. But it doesn't cost more than a car or building does it?

https://www.rolex.com/watches/yacht-master/m116680-0002.html

Actually, yeah, they do cost as much as a car.

 

[KMDP]

I need one...

I need to show people I'm better than them. /s

(That was a joke)

Buy an "I have a PHD" Game Grumps shirt.

Oh wait, they don't make them anymore.

Bug the Game Grumps to start making the "I Have a PHD" shirt again.

 

[Mythra]

Imagine wasting a ton of money to buy Rolex and have it damaged in a week


This post was made by the Casio gang

 

[SoccerStar9001]

https://www.rolex.com/watches/yacht-master/m116680-0002.html

Actually, yeah, they do cost as much as a car.

Damn. Good thing I am not into watches or cars or other luxury stuff. Only thing I am into is video games.

 

[KarneraMythos]

Me: "I have a will of steel and the patience of a mountain. I am the eternal rocks across the shore; may the temptations of gacha crash against me, and be broken."
Also me:
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Okay, what exactly am I looking at? And do I want this?

Also, if anyone needs a 101 on gacha rolls, this is how you channel that gambling energy:

 

[Diem]

Okay, what exactly am I looking at? And do I want this?

Also, if anyone needs a 101 on gacha rolls, this is how you channel that gambling energy:

Hell, while you're at it, just watch the highlight reel of all of 2016.

 

[Deleted member]

I'm gonna meet the Pope and give him Etrian Odyssey so the 11th Commandment can be put into place so that every christian will have to play it.

 

[Shroob]

I'm gonna meet the Pope and give him Etrian Odyssey so the 11th Commandment can be put into place so that every christian will have to play it.

Considering he hated Undertale, he'd probably start a ****ing crusade against Etrian and all its lolis.

*I could make a really insensitive joke about the Catholic Church here but it'd be too easy*

 

[Deleted member]

I'm gonna meet the Pope and give him Etrian Odyssey so the 11th Commandment can be put into place so that every christian will have to play it.

I would play Etrian Odyssey if I had a 3DS

 

[SoccerStar9001]

Considering he hated Undertale, he'd probably start a ****ing crusade against Etrian and all its lolis.

*I could make a really insensitive joke about the Catholic Church here but it'd be too easy*

Undertale? Seriously? I need context.

 

[Diem]

Considering he hated Undertale, he'd probably start a ****ing crusade against Etrian and all its lolis.

*I could make a really insensitive joke about the Catholic Church here but it'd be too easy*

Pretty sure the pope never played Undertale. The gift was purely symbolic. So I don't know where you're getting your information from.

 

[Shroob]

Pretty sure the pope never played Undertale. The gift was purely symbolic. So I don't know where you're getting your information from.

I remember hearing he didn't play it but went on a tangent about how video games were making young people slothful.

 

[Deleted member]

I remember hearing he didn't play it but went on a tangent about how video games were making young people slothful.

Considering how the current Pope is actually pretty chill, I severely doubt that

 

[Idon]

Okay, what exactly am I looking at? And do I want this?

Also, if anyone needs a 101 on gacha rolls, this is how you channel that gambling energy:

The crossover event for smt:dx2 liberation x DMC5.

And unless you're a gacha freak or into the SMT combat and demons, no.

Considering how the current Pope is actually pretty chill, I severely doubt that

Eh, chill as he is, still sounds like typical old people talk.

 

[Mythra]

Considering how the current Pope is actually pretty chill, I severely doubt that

>Francisco installs huge ass speakers

*F O E is blasted at full volume in the entire Vatican*

 

[Shroob]

>Francisco installs huge *** speakers

*F O E is blasted at full volume in the entire Vatican*

Even in the Vatican, F O E?

 

[KMDP]

Listen man, I ain't gonna start saying "Brave Brave Lyn"

Adamant Hector
Relaxed Draug
Modest Lugh
Timid Merric
Naughty Chrom
Mild Sakura
Sassy Clarine
Lonely Charlotte

 

[Diem]

I remember hearing he didn't play it but went on a tangent about how video games were making young people slothful.

Well, "video games in general making people slothful" to "the pope hates Undertale specifically" is a bit of a jump in logic.

What you're referring to is an address he gave in Poland about three years ago where he encouraged everyone to reject escapism and instead seek activism, saying "Dear young people, we didn't come into this work to 'vegetate', to take it easy, to make our lives a comfortable sofa to fall asleep on. No, we came for another reason: to leave a mark." That is, don't commit your life to just making yourself comfortable and escaping the problems of the world through video games or computer screens, but rather go out and do what you're able to make the world a better place.

I wouldn't call that disagreeable.

 

[Idon]

I wouldn't call that disagreeable.

Yeah, but that's haaaaaaaaard.

 

[Deleted member]

Adamant Hector
Relaxed Draug
Modest Lugh
Timid Merric
Naughty Chrom
Mild Sakura
Sassy Clarine
Lonely Charlotte

I was finally able to breed my perfect IVs Timid Noire yesterday

 

[SoccerStar9001]

Well, "video games in general making people slothful" to "the pope hates Undertale specifically" is a bit of a jump in logic.

What you're referring to is an address he gave in Poland about three years ago where he encouraged everyone to reject escapism and instead seek activism, saying "Dear young people, we didn't come into this work to 'vegetate', to take it easy, to make our lives a comfortable sofa to fall asleep on. No, we came for another reason: to leave a mark." That is, don't commit your life to just making yourself comfortable and escaping the problems of the world through video games or computer screens, but rather go out and do what you're able to make the world a better place.

I wouldn't call that disagreeable.

Damn, this pope sounds chill asf.

 

[Idon]

I was finally able to breed my perfect IVs Timid Noire yesterday

Oh yeah, now this is definitely the type of thing where the main subject matters.

 

[Shroob]

Well, "video games in general making people slothful" to "the pope hates Undertale specifically" is a bit of a jump in logic.

What you're referring to is an address he gave in Poland about three years ago where he encouraged everyone to reject escapism and instead seek activism, saying "Dear young people, we didn't come into this work to 'vegetate', to take it easy, to make our lives a comfortable sofa to fall asleep on. No, we came for another reason: to leave a mark." That is, don't commit your life to just making yourself comfortable and escaping the problems of the world through video games or computer screens, but rather go out and do what you're able to make the world a better place.

I wouldn't call that disagreeable.

Didn't he also blame 'da debil' for the 'issue' a lot of priests seem to have.

 

[KMDP]

I was finally able to breed my perfect IVs Timid Noire yesterday

Noire: Mother, why can't I be Jolly?
Tharja: BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO WIELD THIS SHINING BOW! IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE AN ARCHER YOU NEED TO ONLY USE MAGIC BOWS.

 

[KarneraMythos]

The crossover event for smt:dx2 liberation x DMC5.

And unless you're a gacha freak or into the SMT combat and demons, no.

So literally and unironically

Wow, and they have Bayonetta in it as well. I will be hurt if Demi-Fiend doesn't show up in the game as an in-universe guest character. I need to see Dante recall his time with him, even if to just tease the ambiguity of Nocturne's canon in relation to his own series.

 

[osby]

So literally and unironically
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Wow, and they have Bayonetta in it as well. I will be hurt if Demi-Fiend doesn't show up in the game as an in-universe guest character. I need to see Dante recall his time with him, even if to just tease the ambiguity of Nocturne's canon in relation to his own series.

Or Serph, there's a lot of potential with SMT crossovers. I wonder if there's any other demon related guest characters that they can add from non-ATLUS franchises, though.

Idon , thoughts?

 

[Mythra]

lol my 25,000th post was an Etrian Odyssey joke.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Didn't he also blame 'da debil' for the 'issue' a lot of priests seem to have.

I mean tbf last I checked all hardcore Christians and Catholics do this

 

[Shroob]

I mean tbf last I checked all hardcore Christians and Catholics do this

Sounds like trying to pin the blame on a force you have no control over instead of looking into the people you're hiring to hold positions of power.

 

[Diem]

Damn, this pope sounds chill asf.

Pope John Paul II from a few decades ago was pretty similar. Famously, in 1981 there was an assassination attempt on him by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a member of a Turkish fascist group. The pope was actually shot and critically wounded, but survived and made a full recovery, while Ağca was arrested and imprisoned. I'll just quote Wikipedia's summary of what happened afterwards:

"Following the shooting, Pope John Paul II asked people to "pray for my brother [Ağca] ... whom I have sincerely forgiven." In 1983, he and Ağca met and spoke privately at Rome's Rebibbia Prison, where Ağca was being held. Ağca reportedly kissed the Pope's ring at the conclusion of their visit; some mistakenly thought the Pope was hearing Agca's confession. The Pope was also in touch with Ağca's family over the years, meeting his mother in 1987 and his brother, Muezzin Agca, a decade later.

Although Ağca was quoted as saying that "to me [the Pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism", and attempted to murder him, Ağca developed a friendship with the pontiff. In early February 2005, during the Pope's illness, Ağca sent a letter to the Pope wishing him well."

In December 2014, some years after his release from prison and after the death of the pope, Ağca visited the pope's tomb and laid roses on it.

Didn't he also blame 'da debil' for the 'issue' a lot of priests seem to have.

That's a much larger and touchier subject, so I wouldn't know where to start to look for and explain whatever you might be referring to. Though in a general sense, the concept of the devil being an instigator of temptation in order to lead people to sin is nothing new in Christian theology.

 

[KarneraMythos]

Or Serph, there's a lot of potential with SMT crossovers. I wonder if there's any other demon related guest characters that they can add from non-ATLUS franchises, though.

Idon , thoughts?

Raidou XIV is kind of an obvious one too. It'd be interesting seeing him interact with V. Then with Serph, you've got Nero on the other side of things. Sheep!Vincent would be hilarious to see too.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Sounds like trying to pin the blame on a force you have no control over instead of looking into the people you're hiring to hold positions of power.

I mean, that's exactly what it is. My super religious colleague does this **** too alongside about divorce is terrible and bringing up Mission Impossible 2 as an allegory for Christ or some ****

 

[Shroob]

I mean, that's exactly what it is. My super religious colleague does this **** too alongside about divorce is terrible and bringing up Mission Impossible 2 as an allegory for Christ or some ****

I don't even know.....

 

[Idon]

Or Serph, there's a lot of potential with SMT crossovers. I wonder if there's any other demon related guest characters that they can add from non-ATLUS franchises, though.

Idon , thoughts?

This is the game that will literally uniroinically have both "Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry^TM Series" and "& Knucles" in it. Mark my words.

Either way, they can do as many crazy Crossovers as they want, but with a .5% pull rate, I won't ever be seeing them.

 

[Deleted member]

I thought I had read Pope Francis condemned the pedophiles in the church but turns out he rejected a resignation of a priest involved based on "presumed innocence"

 

[Idon]

Dammit Matpat, why do you always bring us back to either the pope or sans.