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[Ramen Tengoku]

I really want a dragon eeveelution

I know that feeling, bro

My most wanted eeveelution, alongside a bug-type

 

[DaybreakHorizon]

The first half of the Square Enix thread sounds a lot like 1900s Europe fighting over which sections of Africa should be taken. Geez. Sounds like a massacre.

It really was. Not a good time.

Especially when you’d have an argument with someone, resolve it, and then someone who wasn’t there for it or forgot about it would bring up the same point(s) again.

I swear I could list all the common points used against Erdrick after seeing them so many times.

Think that was clear the moment you willingly decided to join Smashboards.

Look bro GameFAQs banned me and I had nowhere else to go. My original reasons for coming here were nothing more than genuine.

Now, me deciding to come back, that’s another question altogether.

 

[MainJPW]

That would be the single most delicious case of irony in human history (or at least gaming history). The sad thing is that I’d welcome something like that with open arms.

Same, honestly. Just look at my sig.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

...Is praline pronounced "Pray-leen" or "Prah-leen"?

Life's most important questions.

I think its Pray-Lean at leaste from what I remeber from Bravely

 

[Mythra]

My damn stereo doesn't wanna read my Dream Theater albums, but my Avenged Sevenfold ones work fine.
Guess my neighbors will hear edgy music for the rest of the day.

 

[KMDP]

says that as if it wouldn’t be hype

Who ever said I didn't think that would be hype?

 

[-crump-]

I really want a Poison-type Eeveelution, it feels long overdue. I know Espeon has those weird Pokédex descriptions about being venomous, but that’s no excuse.

Game Freak you cowards, give me Trasheon already

 

[Deleted member]

Oh, it is the 7th anniversary of Xenoblade.
ARE YOU FEELING IT NOW, MR. SHULK?

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Sorry if I’m a bit late to the party, but I think I’ve got something constructive to offer regarding Minecraft.

Spoiler: My essay

I’ve been playing Minecraft on and off for almost half of my life at this point (first started around 2010/11 during beta 1.8) and as an aspiring game designer I’ve thought a great deal about what Minecraft is. Many people either really like Minecraft or just don’t see the point to it, and that makes a lot of sense when you examine the primary method of engagement of unmodded Minecraft: creative expression via practical construction. If this isn’t appealing to you, Minecraft simply doesn’t offer what you want — and that is OK, and natural for any game.

Minecraft finds itself with many comparisons drawn to it. Some compare it to legos, others to art/painting, others to Terraria and other video games. People who dislike Minecraft will often like Terraria, for example, while Minecraft players will tend to like Terraria but enjoy Minecraft more so. Often these comparisons (especially to Terraria or other games in general) can devolve into mild flame wars because 1.) these comparisons are actually of activities that have fundamentally different appeal and, as a result, 2.) neither side really understands the other. Allow me to demonstrate.

In what ways is Minecraft enjoyed? From the beginning, it was simple creative expression through building. Later, when Survival mode was added, it became more structured and incentivized because the game offered reasons to build. In creative, you build not out of any form of need but out of your own inspiration or desire. In survival, the game offers incentive to build (hence day/night cycle, hunger bar, use of mob farms, inability to fly to travel quickly, etc.) and necessity thus inspires invention, without the loss of the creative element. In a sense, in Survival mode you are left to “repair Eden” by working to make the world less hostile and shaped to your own desire.

You are hard pressed to find another video game that engages the player in the same way. Most big-budget games are story based or are competitive multiplayer or are more about progression than expression. Terraria, while closer to Minecraft than many other popular games, still is primarily about progressing by collecting resources (which is the primary role of the sandbox environment; to offer resources) and beating each boss one after another, all so that afterwards you an have a shinier set of tools, a more powerful set of armor and more free set of movement options. Terraria is primarily about progression and challenge. While I would agree that Terraria does feature a creative sandbox element similar to Minecraft, the comparison only strengthens my point. Terraria, with its 2D plane, inherently deprioritizes construction for the benefit of it’s dungeon-like caves and well-constructed boss fights. The creative element remains in part as a way of giving value to the progression system of the game; you can gradually build at the start of the game, but if you make the better set of tools by beating this boss 5 times, then you can get the hover boots and gather resources to finish your base twice as quickly!

I find your critique of Minecraft in comparison to irl art particularly interesting, as it is one I haven’t heard before. I’m no artist myself, so pardon my ignorance on that front, but I would venture to guess that the reason why you paint or draw (or whatever the proper term is) doesn’t align with the features of Minecraft’s gameplay. Because Minecraft, while being a creatively fueled game, isn’t about the artistic imagining of a carefully drawn character, or the painting of an epic narrative set piece. Minecraft, creatively, is an experience confined to the player’s personal world, which I imagine would be unappealing to the artistic type who wants to have a more flexible medium, or wants to use their art for profile pictures, narrative illustrations, ideological commentary, etc. But what Minecraft offers, in survival mode especially, is an experience of taking the world around you and transforming it. Making it suitable to you, and making it yours. Shaping it to your own desire, which is not only a creative act (though, as previously established, falls short of free reign creativity) but is also mentally a therapeutic effort.

In the end, Minecraft offers something in a way that no other game does. But like any game, whether or not the experience it offers is worthwhile is entirely dependent on each individual’s perspective.

I like this. It’s the first explanation that actually makes sense to me.

 

[Noipoi]

I really want a Poison-type Eeveelution, it feels long overdue. I know Espeon has those weird Pokédex descriptions about being venomous, but that’s no excuse.

Game Freak you cowards, give me Trasheon already

You mean Umbreon

 

[Michele]

Hoo boy, guess paid online is going to be investigated by the UK government. Yes, it also includes the Switch online service...

https://www.vg247.com/2019/04/05/playstation-xbox-switch-online-legal-contract/

Just wait unill you need a license to breath.

 

[KMDP]

Look bro GameFAQs banned me

What did you do to get banned from GameFAQs, if you don't mind my asking?

I really want a Poison-type Eeveelution, it feels long overdue. I know Espeon has those weird Pokédex descriptions about being venomous, but that’s no excuse.

Game Freak you cowards, give me Trasheon already

According to the Spaceworld Demo, Umbreon was originally going to be Poison type.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Continuing my trek through Midgar. Just got to the cross dressing scenario and.... I gotta say some of the dialogue made me a little uncomfortable.

 

[KMDP]

Hoo boy, guess paid online is going to be investigated by the UK government. Yes, it also includes the Switch online service...

https://www.vg247.com/2019/04/05/playstation-xbox-switch-online-legal-contract/

Just wait unill you need a license to breath.

Oi oi, yew godda loisence fer dat oxygen yer breathin' mayt?

 

[praline]

...Is praline pronounced "Pray-leen" or "Prah-leen"?

Life's most important questions.

I pronounce it the first way you said.

 

[Pyra]

@Rex

Run.

Run while you can.

Into my arms

 

[Michele]

Oi oi, yew godda loisence fer dat oxygen yer breathin' mayt?

*Calls police*

This two-tailed pirate here is trying to get me drunk! /s

Into my arms

Well, that's a nice thing to say. Actually, that kimono I think, the one on your avatar, looks cute with you.

 

[Deleted member]

Most of the start of the thread was pretty much a civil war between pretty much everyone, I arrived mid December and we used to have some pretty awful arguments against Erdrick. You know anime swordsman, right issues being a pain in the ***, Sugiyama, and so on. I actually appreciate @Luigi The President since she actually standed for us a lot of the times.

Also I have a lot of respect for DaybreakHorizon since he also stood for us even when he is a Sora fan. Honestly though, I would love Sora in the game as well.

 

[Idon]

Hoo boy, guess paid online is going to be investigated by the UK government. Yes, it also includes the Switch online service...

https://www.vg247.com/2019/04/05/playstation-xbox-switch-online-legal-contract/

Just wait unill you need a license to breath.

Hopefully I never have to pay for online I already own ever again.

 

[KMDP]

I pronounce it the first way you said.

Then we are on the same page.

*Calls police*

This two-tailed pirate here is trying to get me drunk! /s

Pirate? I see no pirates here.

Just a friendly London Police Fox.

...You might be thinking of my cousin, Long John Foxy.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I pronounce it the first way you said.

I used to always pronouce it as Pra-Line pff

 

[Deleted member]

And now, let’s see how some people imagine Disney whenever they buy a company:

 

[Idon]

Online it's a 50/50 whether people pronounce my username I-don or E-don.

 

[staindgrey]

Also I have a lot of respect for DaybreakHorizon since he also stood for us even when he is a Sora fan. Honestly though, I would love Sora in the game as well.

The fact that "standing for us" is a needed action at all speaks volumes about the Smash speculation community.

 

[praline]

I used to always pronouce it as Pra-Line pff

Yeah same lol

 

[Michele]

I used to always pronouce it as Pra-Line pff

Then what about my name?

When I go online, there's like a 50/50 chance that someone will call me Michele, one L, or MicheLLe.

 

[Deleted member]

If I needed a house, would you let me in?

 

[Deleted member]

Oh, it is the 7th anniversary of Xenoblade.
ARE YOU FEELING IT NOW, MR. SHULK?

aw hell yeah

tho technically it's the anniversary of it's na release but still

 

[NonSpecificGuy]

If I needed a house, would you let me in?

Nah, I wouldn't be so cruel as to put you through that ****ing nightmare.

 

[Idon]

If I needed a house, would you let me in?

I'd double lock the door.

... And windows.

 

[staindgrey]

Hoo boy, guess paid online is going to be investigated by the UK government. Yes, it also includes the Switch online service...

https://www.vg247.com/2019/04/05/playstation-xbox-switch-online-legal-contract/

Just wait unill you need a license to breath.

I know we want to gravitate to the gaming related things, but we need this quote for context:

The investigation into online gaming is part of a wider super-complaint that also looks at mobile contracts, broadband, anti-virus software, savings, insurance and mortgages.

There is far, far more at stake in all the other subjects of this investigation and the gaming services were kind of added as a "yeah and that too, sure" sort of thing.

Gaming is entertainment. Internet, phone, insurance and property are necessities in today's society. And the consumer extortion is far and away more egregious in all those areas than online multiplayer subscriptions.

 

[Michele]

By the way. Looks like something about Pokemon has leaked, and it's for Pokemon GO, but if you don't like this, then it's not looking good at all. It's actually just some text, but I'm unsure about this. What do you think of this?

There was a problem fetching the tweet

P.S. Pokemon anime Sun and Moon EP120 will have Kyogre in it, it's going to be the first episode where an Legendary Pokemon that's from a different generation appears in the anime. We're at Gen VII currently but it's a Gen III pokemon. I just learned about this from a 'japanese preview', sort of.

 

[staindgrey]

If I needed a house, would you let me in?

I've done that twice in the last eight months.

I'm not doing it again.

 

[Idon]

By the way. Looks like something really has leaked, and it's for Pokemon GO, but if you don't like this, then it's not looking good at all. It's actually just some text, but I'm unsure about this. What do you think of this?

There was a problem fetching the tweet

Man, I'd be pretty hyped if I didn't quite Go the week it came out.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Can we explain how Victor S. Court looks cute enough to be a real male escort?

Then what about my name?

When I go online, there's like a 50/50 chance that someone will call me Michele, one L, or MicheLLe.

hmm, I think I just pronounced that Michelle all my life.

 

[Deleted member]

I've done that twice in the last eight months.

I'm not doing it again.

i promise not to sing, invite randos, or eat your food

 

[Michele]

Can we explain how Victor S. Court looks cute enough to be a real male escort?

hmm, I think I just pronounced that Michelle all my life.

Oh? So... I'm your damress in distress?

 

[Gentlepanda]

Can we explain how Victor S. Court looks cute enough to be a real male escort?

hmm, I think I just pronounced that Michelle all my life.

tfw i'm only now realising the 's. court' pun

damn you bravely

 

[Scoliosis Jones]

The fact that "standing for us" is a needed action at all speaks volumes about the Smash speculation community.

I mean unfortunately, the Smash speculation community is:

1) a conglomerate of several different fanbases, made up mostly by people who have mostly Nintendo experience
2) a variety of age groups, with some of the more...vocal, being younger and in some cases less mature or experienced with discussion
3) dictated by favoritism, as in fans will fight everyone else if it means their character gets into Smash.

It’s weird, because that makes Smash fans unique. It includes several different fanbases which means plenty of different perspectives. However, the salt is endless. It’s just extra bad with Smash and while I get why people love the game, the salt seems kind of over the top.

Can’t say I entirely know why though.

 

[Deleted member]

If I needed a house, would you let me in?

I guess I would as long as you didn't try to kill me.