Guide Zelda Social: But also the FE Heroes Internet Cafe

[EODM07]

Just watched the Regional Crews between Japan and East Coast.

It was HYPE. Especially the last match.

 

[Lorde]

I just finished the final novel of the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series

Overall, they were very good books and I would highly recommend them

Finishing a novel has such a bittersweet feeling. It's nice, but I'm kinda feeling down now

 

[ZephyrZ]

The Sun/Moon animation is still a far cry from X/Y's, regardless of if you cherry-pick freeze frames or not.

Maybe they were trying to take a more silly approach to this anime with the whole Trainer's School thing and all? I don't see why it can't be silly and have beautiful animation, but whatever. I don't really watch the Pokemon anime anymore anyway.

 

[ElderLolz]

I mean you can freeze frame almost any anime and find a bad shot

The overall quality of the Sun&Moon anime is low if you don't pause it.

For example, the shading on the characters is absolute garbage. That and the artstyle change makes the entire show not only seem unprofessional in terms of writing, but also in terms of animation.

 

[EODM07]

I got the feeling that the Pokemon Sun & Moon anime is trying to be a sakuga anime. Which is a show where it has the animation improve drastically, some studios like ufotable and kyoani are well known for making good use of sakuga in their works such as Unlimited Blades Works, Kyoukai no Kanata and even movies like The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

I'll leave a clip of the Haruhi movie (Dubbed) in a spoiler.

Spoiler: Clip from the Haruhi movie here

I'd find a clip from ufotable's works. However since I haven't even fully watched any of their shows yet. I'll instead leave a clip of an example of sakuga from Joshiraku in this spoiler. :V

Spoiler

 

[ぱみゅ]

I really don't get the hate on SunMoon. That animation style is very common in movies, it sacrifices high-quality frames for smooth transitions, the movements are fluid and they generally use it pack fast-paced movement without it looking different from the rest of the animations.
See: Digimon first OAV and Bokura no War Game.

I personally like it.

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

True. Like this famous one:

What even?

 

[EODM07]

I really don't get the hate on SunMoon. That animation style is very common in movies, it sacrifices high-quality frames for smooth transitions, the movements are fluid and they generally use it pack fast-paced movement without it looking different from the rest of the animations.
See: Digimon first OAV and Bokura no War Game.

I personally like it.

I guess the hate is just the art style looking completely different from XY&Z, which is understandable. Since most of the time, XY&Z had high quality frames and little sakuga every now and then (Mostly during battles). But Sun & Moon looks like it'll be all sakuga animation from the trailers we've seen; which I'm all for. I like seeing fluid and smooth animations/transitions. I may check out a few clips when Sun & Moon airs.

But for now, I'll stick with KyoAni and their second season of Sound! Euphonium along with Studio 3Hz's Flip Flappers show which looks like it'll be a sakuga show itself (Shame is I can't watch it due to having to wait a week for the episode to become available to those without a subscription to Crunchyroll. :V)

 

[Cenizas]

Etrian Odyssey V

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN, AND WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT IT

 

[Lavani]

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN, AND WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT IT

Probably because there still isn't an announced US release date.

The Japanese version was announced awhile back and was released at the start of August.

 

[Erotic&Heretic]

Erotic&Heretic Nice videos gorl. I actually took note of a few cool things you did

- Phantom>Dash Attack sweetspot breaks shields wtf
- Those wavebounce Phantoms and Din's were pretty smooth. I should try using them more
- Why do you land Din's so often lmao

Good stuff

Thanks! About Din, I don't know. I'd like to say that it's 14 years of experience, but it's probably the magic of For glory Although I do land it against friends, too.

 

[ZephyrZ]

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN, AND WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT IT

Because it's Etrian Odyssey, and no one ever talks about Etrian Odyssey.

Everyone just kind of silently acknowledges it exists.

 

[Buddhahobo]

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN, AND WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT IT

It was announced way back when, alongside EOUII: The Fafnir Knight's announcement in Japan. EOV has been a lloooooonnnnnnngg time coming.

 

[Lil Puddin]

ןɹoƃ uʍop ǝpısdn ɹn 'ou

oooooooo

 

[Virtue]

Anyone want to play some smash?

 

[Ffamran]

Late replies!

nah

imo, a ddr mat or a steering wheel controller would be optimal for that game

Guitar Hero controller or get out.

You shouldn't be forced to buy a dual core if you want a good $500 PC.

Or buy AMD CPUs ever.

Or be forced to use Windows 10.

The first two can be summed up as "AMD ****ed up". When you release a new generation of CPUs that its strongest, "flagship" series essentially competes with the competitor's "budget" series, then you really, really ****ed up.

Disclaimer: I am not an expert on CPUs.

Spoiler: AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)

Spoiler: The failure that was AMD FX

Was it good on paper? Yes, AMD's FX series has strong multi-core performance. Here's the problem: in everyday scenarios, there is not a lot of applications that are very heavy on multi-core usage. In gaming, that was the case as well; it's slowly becoming not so as shown with the i3 showing signs of struggling in recent games. It's only at stuff like streaming and video editing. Probably animation, graphic design, and modeling too. There's also the issue with their cores not being cores; they're modules if I remember correctly... something about "half cores". The other problem is that in having strong multi-core performance, its single-core performance was very lacking. For reference, the FX 8000's are weaker in single core performance than i3's. In other words, the top of the line AMD FX chips were weaker than the lowest of Intel's i-series chips. Add in poor efficiency and temperature compared to Intel's and you have a series of CPUs that basically had nothing on not only their (only) competitor's, but even their predecessors.

AMD's previous series, I think they're called K10 or 10h, CPUs were competitors to Intel's i-series. Couldn't afford an Intel i3, but wanted similar performance? AMD Athlon II. Couldn't afford an Intel i5, especially the i5 2500K which was the best gaming CPU you could get that wasn't overkill like the i7's? AMD Phenom II. AMD didn't have an answer to the i7 as far as I know, but they did have an answer to Intel's server CPUs, the Xeons, with their Opteron CPUs at the time -- emphasis on: "at the time". Now? Can't afford an Intel i5? Intel i3. Can't afford an Intel i3? Intel Pentium. Can't afford that? Yeah... Want an alternative to the Xeon? Welp, you're SOL. The only disadvantages to the Athlon II and Phenom II might have been efficiency and temperature, but it wasn't as stupid as the FX ones -- Phenom II to FX 8000's that is -- which actually lead to AMD making a new stock cooler for their most recent FX 8370 be actually good compared to the previous stock coolers not being up to the task or Intel who really does not care -- one of Intel's highest offerings doesn't even come with a cooler since they know it wouldn't be able to handle it. The advantages would have been pricing, they were viable alternatives, and they were all overclockable unlike Intel's where you needed to buy the K series. They were also "weird" in that some of the models had disabled cores like the Athlon II X3's, triple-cores, were basically the X4's, quad-cores, but with 1 core disabled. I think you could enable it to make it quad-core, but I don't remember. That also leads to the thing where Athlon II's, depending on the model, could vary from being dual-cores to quad-cores competing with the dual-core with hyper-threading i3's and the Phenom II varied from dual to hex-cores to compete with the quad-core with hyper-threading i5's and also i7's which at the time didn't have hex-core options.

Spoiler: Curse of FX on AMD's APUs

Their APUs at least cover a market that pretty much nobody really cared or cares for. Having a CPU have strong integrated GPU performance was never a reasonable thing until the APUs came along. They existed like I know Intel and Nvidia have APU-like chips, but I don't remember if Intel had some out before AMD. Problem with Intel and Nvidia's was that they were "exclusive"; Intel's costs a lot and Nvidia's were restricted to their Nvidia Shield tablet-thingie and I think some laptops -- Chromebooks? Great, right? They're still pricey which is a given since they're relatively new, but they're slowly getting there. They also have the problem of being based on the FX series for their CPU part. So, you get good GPU performance for an integrated solution (iGPU), but bad compared to discrete solutions (which is a given) compared to say, AMD's RX 460 or Nvidia's GTX 950 and you also get pretty crappy CPU performance as a whole. It's okay, but if it was at least as efficient or as powerful as an i3 while keeping their low, competitive pricing, AMD's APUs would be much more successful.

Considering that there will be AMD Zen APUs in the future, that might be the case where their APUs will be successful and not too niche-y. Is it too late is the question.

Spoiler: More **** ups by AMD

AMD has issues with calling stuff... Their GPUs are one of their strongest products right now, but for some dumbass reason, they felt like there wasn't demand or a good market for high-end GPUs e.g. AMD's R9 X90 (X) and Fury cards, Fury and Fury X, or Nvidia's GTX (X)X70 to (X)X80 (Ti) and Titan cards. Right now, AMD has no answer to Nvidia's GTX 1070, 1080 (Ti), Titan or even 1060 6GB -- go to hell, 3GB -- which their currently strongest GPU, the RX 480 kind of loses -- slightly or noticeably -- to in power, efficiency, temperature, and even price. Budget, low-end and mid-range cards are a large market, but so are the high-end cards. By high-end, it's those cards around ~$300 USD like their R9 X90 (X) and Nvidia's GTX (X)X70 not the extreme-end of their Furies and Nvidia's GTX (X)X80 (Ti) and Titan which range from ~$400 to $1000. Fantastic, now you're only competing at the "budget" end of GPUs and losing out on a market you have or rather, had. It's not as bad as their FX CPUs which was a whole different architecture and wasted money spent. AMD's Polaris GPUs are great, but AMD needs their Vega GPUs out soon. This is more of a timing failure and prediction. Prediction is stupid...

This is the same goddamn company that made dual-GPU solutions look viable again with their R9 295X2 which is basically 2 R9 290X's slapped together as one card and with an all-in-one liquid cooling solution by default. Dual-GPUs had issues with heat and frame-pacing which the R9 295X2 addressed. This is the same company whose previous high-end GPUs, the Furies, used HBM (high-bandwidth memory) to make them compact as HBM is "stacked memory" to GDDR5's "spread out". High-end GPUs tend to be rather large. They even made a mini-ITX version of it, the Nano, that was pretty awesome except for the fact the Furies were small enough that many mini-ITX cases could already fit them, so... Basically, AMD's a legitimately good CPU and GPU company -- thanks to them buying out ATI way back then --, but some of their calls are really stupid for some reason.

Spoiler: Zen

All hope and unfortunately, hype, rides on AMD Zen's CPUs as their GPUs aren't really suffering outside of a stupid call this generation. If Zen can at least replicate K10 / 10h's position compared to Intel's i-series, then that would be fantastic. Can't afford an Intel i5? AMD Zen i5 equivalent. Can't afford an Intel i3? AMD Zen i3 equivalent. Can't afford an i3 and GPU budget solution? AMD Zen APU. The fact that there will be competition would be great for consumers even if AMD Zen will be behind Intel's i-series. There's doubt that AMD Zen will even beat recent and upcoming i5's, but if it can compete with them, then great. AMD wouldn't be able to "force" Intel to find ramp up their development on stronger CPUs instead of fine-tuning them -- higher efficiency -- and refreshing stuff for what to some is considered low gains -- 5% differences. Seriously, i3's should at least be quad-cores by now or have a quad-core option, but that's not likely to happen soon.

The third is just Microsoft's basically monopoly on a lot of things. Almost all games run or need to run on Windows, DirectX, etc. Linux isn't really there for various reasons despite that it really can be a simple, inexpensive solution for everyday computer usage and Mac... If Mac GPUs could be upgraded, gaming on Macs could be feasible, except it's not since Macs tend to use iGPUs which aren't that great, especially if it's Intel's. External GPUs are a thing, but they're really expensive if you want an enclosure and don't want to have a "test bench" and have the poor thing be exposed to everything. The irony to this all? AMD has been fighting all of this. AMD's Mantle API could be considered a way to coax DirectX 12 to be more lower-level friendly -- pre-DX12, DX was a high-level API. Nobody really uses Mantle anymore -- part of that is because Vulkan replaced it -- as far as I know, but developers have liked low-level APIs. AMD supports Linux more even though their drivers aren't that great -- not sure about recent drivers. Compare to Nvidia kind of neglecting Linux. AMD also supposedly supports external GPUs: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/03/amd-wants-to-standardise-the-external-gpu/. There's also other "good AMD" stuff like FreeSync monitors to combat Nvidia's exclusive G-Sync and AMD being more open-source-friendly.

AMD's kind of like the nice person who's incredibly stupid and/or clumsy. Their "niceness" doesn't exempt them from any of their stupidity and clumsiness. If someone was working at a nuclear plant and while nice, smart, and all, they end up causing a nuclear meltdown somehow, would you go, "Oh, that Arthur M. Douglas and his two left feet!" *cue everyone screaming about how they're all going to die*

 

[Berserker.]

Late replies!

Guitar Hero controller or get out.

lol

just remembered those days when me and my bro played devil may cry 3 with a guitar controller

 

[Ffamran]

lol

just remembered those days when me and my bro played devil may cry 3 with a guitar controller

Meanwhile, in Dark Souls feat. DK.

Part of me really wants to buy Stardew Valley. It looks so chill...

 

[McKnightlíght]

lol

just remembered those days when me and my bro played devil may cry 3 with a guitar controller

My friends and I liked to play Ultimate Alliance and Brawl with guitar hero guitars.

 

[Lord Renning]

I tell you gorls here because nobody of my locals would read it:
A local store is planning on starting a Professional FG Team, and I was invited as founder member, as well as part of the organizing/scouting team.
Tomorrow is the day of the real meeting with the fat fishes and tune the fine details to formally begin our league.

This is what I wanted for the longest time and I can't believe it is actually happening, even better than the babysteps I've had on my own.

Congratulations!

@Cenizas

Thank you for helping me find my way back to this page. Smashboards sucks with alerts.

I don't know who it was who said the animation and overall quality of the new pokemon sun and moon anime looked near perfect, but..

Ash's mom is the rich girl from Digimon.

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

 

[EODM07]

Morning girls. How's everyone doing?

Checked a bit more of the Sm4sh tournament. So far, only the Crew Battles were hype for me. But I'm looking forward to the Top 64 and what will happen during those.

Spoiler: Yuri pic of the day~

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

Morning girls. How's everyone doing?

Checked a bit more of the Sm4sh tournament. So far, only the Crew Battles were hype for me. But I'm looking forward to the Top 64 and what will happen during those.

Spoiler: Yuri pic of the day~

I enjoyed Pools at bit, although I screwed up by missing the first few by thinking it was on VGBootcamp after Melee Pools.
Melee Pools were quite fun too, there was a cool Marth ditto and M2K went Pichu against somebody.
What I saw of Smash 4 pools that I enjoyed was Z's Pikachu and Tweeks and M2K Cloud's.
Only bad thing was that Logic was on commentary for some of it, who I consider to be the Toph of the Smash 4 community:Not
nessecarily bad, but boring.

 

[FullMoon]

Halloween boiz

 

[EODM07]

Decided to check out the endings of that Five Nights at Freddy's game, since it already came out. :V

Spoiler

There's a secret ending where the protagonist (Named Eggs) goes home and finishes watching a TV show that was currently airing its season. He also has a bucket of popcorn which you can press Space to eat, an Animatronic comes crawling into his room while staring at you.

This is Eggs right now when that Animatronic crawls into his room:

Thank you for reminding me that TF2's Halloween Update will be soon as well FullMoon .

 

[Lorde]

Here's to hoping those are some of the actual Halloween skins

Junkrat would finally have a usuable skin (and I would definitely start playing him more often; I've really started taking a liking to him)

That witch design for Mercy is kinda lame, imo. If her skins look like that, then Eidgenossin would probs still be her best skin. That witch isn't bad-looking, though

The Reaper one is just lol

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

Decided to check out the endings of that Five Nights at Freddy's game, since it already came out. :V

Spoiler

There's a secret ending where the protagonist (Named Eggs) goes home and finishes watching a TV show that was currently airing its season. He also has a bucket of popcorn which you can press Space to eat, an Animatronic comes crawling into his room while staring at you.

This is Eggs right now when that Animatronic crawls into his room:

Thank you for reminding me that TF2's Halloween Update will be soon as well FullMoon .

That series has taken even more of a fall than I expected.
How unfortunate.

 

[EODM07]

Rayquaza07 vs. Kie in a nutshell:

 

[Lil Puddin]

Halloween boiz

Junkrat with a shirt and probably no soot/gun powder? Is it even Junkrat anymore???

Still waiting for the skins that show how kawaii desu moe Jamison and Mako can be.

 

[EODM07]

Here's that video I mentioned I worked on. :V

If I had Adobe Premiere, I feel like I would have a better time with editing.

 

[Cress!]

GORLSGORLS
NEW OVERWATCH COMIC WAS LEAKED, THE WHOLE THING. IT SHOWS OFF A TON IF NEW OUTFITS AND REIN LOOKS PERFECT LIKE I NEED THAT
http://rhv.tumblr.com/post/151509851196/overwatch-9-junkenstein-english

 

[EODM07]

So a Japanese player named Ri-Ma managed to beat Larry Lurr and send him to Losers.

I wonder what character he played.

Also, Wadi just beat Ally 2-1.

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

So a Japanese player named Ri-Ma managed to beat Larry Lurr and send him to Losers.

I wonder what character he played.

Also, Wadi just beat Ally 2-1.

Rima plays Toon Link.

Spoiler

Wadi 2-1 Ally

 

[Lil Puddin]

GORLSGORLS
NEW OVERWATCH COMIC WAS LEAKED, THE WHOLE THING. IT SHOWS OFF A TON IF NEW OUTFITS AND REIN LOOKS PERFECT LIKE I NEED THAT
http://rhv.tumblr.com/post/151509851196/overwatch-9-junkenstein-english

Cress wants dapper super buff old men at ha disposal. That might explain the odd "videos you might like" suggestions I've gotten yesterday and today. All I've watched over the 2 days was like 2 Cress videos and rewatched Zelda's Only True Kill Confirm. Video being of some clearly non-gorl flexing and I was confused because why and how???

 

[McKnightlíght]

Something huge could be going on at work...

Is this the future?

Spoiler

 

[Eddie The Pacifist]

For anyone watching the Big House rn
I think you'll agree
That
Was
So
Close.
I'm glad the one who won won personally, because I don't want to see that one drown in pools

 

[Lorde]

possible sombra leak (obviously, link contains spoilers)

i'm so excited for this halloween event, you gorls don't even know

 

[EODM07]

I'm curious on what new cosmetics will be added to TF2 for the Halloween update, since they also add a new Halloween Themed map, an achievement or two and maybe a contract as well.

...And the bugs will come along as well.

Wonder what the Engineers will do to glitch out of the map when the next update appears.

 

[Deleted member]

Y'ALL MAKE SO MANY NEW PAGES.

I'M GONE FOR A COUPLE DAYS AND THERE'S 10+ NEW PAGES.

I really should start talking more ;-; I miss this place

 

[Suicidal_Donuts]

When you really have been wanting to Smash for the past week but you got sick with the flu then once you got better Hurricane Matthew knocks your power out and your phone dies and you have to get in a car to charge it and drive around aimlessly. Good times boys and gorls.