This isn't something Nintendo can be concerned for.
Also, I don't think the $400 model which is the closest price point to the switch makes it adequate. You can expand the storage, sure, but you are basically spending more than you bargained for. You have the basic unit, but you don't have a dock, you are only given one controller, so the expenses actually is upwards to $500 just for the cheapest unit alone. If you're going to play PC games, then you play it on the PC. PC games are notoriously uncompressed compared to Nintendo games and as it is an exclusively digital downloads, yeah, you'll run out of storage fast.
If you really are going to invest your money on this, I'd recommend to get the $700 model, get the microSD's and all the necessary bells and whistles.
@Alpha008 spoken like someone with the privilege who has never been gagged or threatened with real violence for voicing an opinion. The problem with that train of thought is that censorship is a powerful tool of both setting narratives and implying false context.
Case and point, a new vaccine against Dengue fever was launched a few years ago and primarily released to sub-tropic/tropical nations where the disease is endemic. The vaccine was released with little fanfare initially until a study of seronegative patients suffering from a worse form of dengue if the vaccine was given. Two things happened in one particular country:
First is the coverup, links to the study were deemed dangerous and these links were blocked by the previous regime. It effectively removed all autonomy to patients who are on the fence about obtaining this said vaccine while the regime that followed it deemed the vaccine as dangerous and fatal and that some people even without a proper investigation who were mandatorily given this vaccine died of a severe form of dengue that was sensatiinalized thus creating a false context concerning the vaccine and these people in third world countries were used as experiments.
And this was done as a manipulation tactic where the majority now know that the vaccine is bad, never mind the other studies that prove the efficacy and effectivity of said vaccine. In the minds of the masses, the vaccine has proven to be a mistake.
If you think censorship still should be situational even if wanted by the majority, then it is entirely a falsehood.
I currently live in a semi-totalitarian state. Let me tell you why censorship is evil and why the release of something like this in its pure state should not be tamperred with.
Censorship start with moral sensibilities, it coaxes you to stop things in the name of morality. Where the concept of blocking out those that question moral imperatives as heretics/perverts/dirty people that should be re-educated or scorned in the name of the majority.
So far, the thoughts of the many outweigh the iconoclast. In this sense, society does not view it as a threat, they just ostracize those that they think can lead society to ruin.
Second, once that moral imperative is entrenched after a repeated cycle of false narratives, they come to blot out these works completely, make it harder for people to find these works and starve the people of points of view that do not align with their own. They start labeling these people as incurable and that the only solution is to "rehabilitate" or shame them that they become ineffectual.
In this state, society starts to ponder but does not bat an eye. They will turn away when the people they don't like is tossed on a cliff to die. In fact many of them will secretly support the ruination of a single person to keep their own conviction in tact without question. A good example of this is how a government can have a ban on sex education where its moral imperative is abstinence and responsibility while hypocritically saying that they should teach responsibility to children.
Third, once the active purges increases, the state will begin to implement harsher and harsher forms of censorship to the point where their narrative is the only one that will suffice. In this state, people are grouped merely on to two sides, for and against. And it is here that people die in the droves. Society sees this injustice but it is far too late. It either bends or breaks.
Censorship is the tool of of the despot. The ones who asks for censorship in all forms is asking a small leak from a deteriorating dam.
Don't be like my country. Anyone who asks for the control of anything should be questioned. Don't be sheep to a slaughter.
It works well as a BOTW offshoot. Reflect guardian beams with shields? You can do that. Parry Lynel attacks? You can do that too Perfect dodge and Flurry rush? Try it. Shock or freeze the water? Yep. What makes this combat differ is the weakpoint gauge and obviously, the lack of weapon durability. The window of opportunity is considerably narrow for some of them but you know what? That makes doing them absolutely worth it.
Three houses for me is a damn good FE game just because of how perspective works for each house. You get to understand the choices your students make, their reasoning and you find that you can agree to their actions. No one is ENTIRELY wrong on their reason for their actions (Edelgard and Claude) except for the real villains yet once you play their opposite routes, you can sympathize with them (Dimitri and Rhea) and you understand the reason behind them, and the same way that you agree with them, you get to understand why you disagree with them too. You see their flaws and those flaws were pretty good. I say this is the most unclear cut FE to date and it was pretty well done.
@fafonio imagine making CP ironically to tell CP is bad by making CP. It's an argument that defeats itself because this is like me telling my patients' parents to not angrily hit their children... By demonstrating to the parents when I hit their children.
@Tempestryke All fandoms are toxic. If you've been to even the most "wholesome ones" like say, Steven Universe or Knitting, it has ebough toxic fans that will make you vomit.
I live in a third world ***** hole and let me tell you my experience as a pediatrician. We have an obligation to see and report patients of child abuse and seeing the aftermath of these inhumane acts are absolutely horrible. Imagine a train that you saw a mile away, you try to avoid it but you know it will still hit you hard. Being prepared isn't as much as actually seeing abuse victims. Some can go to be as young as 4 years old committed most likely to be the caretaker.
Seeing this in the Smash Community is only an effect of what total strangers online meet up. There will be good meetups but there will be things like this. You do NOT place your trust in a complete stranger unless you are an incredibly good judge of character. And even then, you do NOT let that person think that you are vulnerable to whatever it is that they are planning to do to you. Think for a second and ask yourself why they would do this to the people that you just met. If you are going to socialize, do it public where everyone can see. I can't blame the victims to stuff like this but people who are old enough to know something is wrong need to lead better by examples and NOT let this happen unless you want your little meetups to be sanctioned by the state.
Hardly. His reputation is in ruins but his power has barely diminished. He's not in jail, for one, not even compensating his victims. MeToo was a good idea, but it is made less credible by false accusations. Then again, good ideas should not be left to the interpretation of other people.
@nessisonett harvey weinstein has hardly lived in misery after this. He has powerful friends in his circle, friends who the supporters of his accusers have connections to.
Nintendo majorly dodged a bullet here. Imagine being responsible for creating a beloved game only for it to become a nesting ground for child molesters and rapists with the whole community asking for you to support them and Nintendo being reluctant enough to see the problem with a lax community only held up by online connectivity and a single minded obsession of the game. If I were Nintendo, it'd be better to blow it up rather fostering more of these kinds of sick and twisted people and start from the ground up.
This EVO scandal has reinforced my thoughts on one thing, that the phenomenon of cancel culture is outright stupid and is mostly done by hypocritical moral busy bodies who want everyone to like them. Even if you are skeptical to all alegations, others will not be as skeptical as you and will resort in outrage first before thinking. The community is dead. It will never hold any weight to its name ever again.
@JamesR I didn't have time to watch the CM movie but when I saw her in endgame, I thought she was bland, a boring version of Stark and can't draw a crowd. She is easily outshined by everybody else based on character and that's it. CM isn't hot garbage as others have claimed but her character is too one dimensional.
Weakest MCU film, though, is Thor: Dark World and Ironman 2.
That aside, I'm pretty stoked for Detective Pikachu. It looka and sounds like a real good time
@Obitokamui64 That's why he's taken on an adbisory role rather than being hands on with projects.
Those that strive for greatness are those who know that the people around them could do better. Working on a demanding environment brings out the best and worst of people.
Miyamoto here is just an example but he was without a doubt, a lynchpin in his time. His advisory role is much less stressful but his opinions on matters still hold an impact. That's a sign that people hold him in high regard.
Goong to miss the guy. He's been a pretty solid Pres for the American branch. Remember, this guy was responsible for some off the good relations Nintendo has with some of the 3rd party developers like Ubisoft (putting Starfox in Starlink? Why didn't Ubi think of that from the getgo?)
@DartBuzzer Like Ready Player One? It'll take off once the tech is cheap enough to do so. That or it offers more than the kind of immersion that doesn't have to take a large part of the room. The most impressive I've seen VR had usage of was in Ace Combat 7. But the tech is as restrictive as it is innovative. It greatly enhances immerssion but the trade off is the perspective that limits many devs. Many will try to go the first person view again just because its VR.
@faint merely an assumption, but there are news reports I've been hearing coming out that men have to put on a much more scrutinized filter to become firemen and the physical exam treshold (for lack of a better term) is lowered on a woman. I would argue that such an endeavor is counter-productive but I digress. But on point, what most other countries need is a change in familial structures as it is, foremost, the basic unit of a community and society as a whole.
In fact, the best way to approach it is to be externally patriarchal on familial structures but internally, matriarchal. Meaning, the father manages things outside, but the mother is always the center of the home, she sets the rules inside, but dad sets the rules outside, he manages things when going to vacations or simply going out, sets the rules for curfew, for friends, etc. And the mother manages the budget, she says what goes and what doesn't in the house and expects her children to do the same. The boys protect and keep the place orderly along with the girls. Remind yourself that empowerment always starts at home. Mistakes are hard to be repaired but change is always going to be for the better not sincerely for your own but for your children or those whose going to suceed you.
@skywake that's your problem, in our part of the world, it really isn't ours. Things will fall to where they are sooner or later without forcing things or forcing change or lowering standards in training or in careers. The doors are always open for others to enter and try. We have one of the closest gender pay gaps, close to zero, number 1 in Asia and it happened not overnight or under a decade but as a slow trickle for everyone to get used to. In High School, we weren't given a choice in what we had to take as a preparation for college and we had to take all subjects from Science to Art to get a glimpse of a career choice that is for life. We were given a choice, however, in our courses rather than forcing us out of our grades or looking at our advantages. There's a saying here, "If you want it, take it. And do your damnedest in making it because you need to love what you do."
The view of a "boy's world" existed before even in our place. But what that got out of us is merely viewing that stereotype as more of a perception rather than rule of thumb.
To us, hostility is a perception rather than a "structure". Thus it is your "choice" to do or not. To be intimidated means to lack grit and confidence in your abilities. You are who you choose to be.
It's not quotas you need to fill but rather, a presentation to attract or make it appealing to whatever you want to put people in. You are given the opportunity as much as the next person beside you, but the outcome solely rests on your shoulders.
A decade ago, it was rare seeing a male nurse here, but after a while, things started to balance fairly with a huge population of that profession still filled with women. Stereotypes exist, but people are facing the problem wrongly if they think skin color or gender has anything to do with ability or competence. The Marine corps and I think the Scout Rangers training (viewed as one od the most hellish training applications for soldiers in the world) here accepts females but standards are not lowered and everyone is given a fair shot. Nobody here cries sexism over these professions as you are pointed to an objective rather than your peers. Everyone around you isn't out to get you and you are given a clear view, your enemy isn't the people around you, it's yourself and the goal you have to accomplish. If anything, the ones that need to have a changing outlook is not the microcosms of occupational cultures, but people outside of it because they are skewed to view things that they percieve as hostile towards them but actually different once you do get into it.
I will say this, a true conducive and diverse workplace needs only 2 things that will make people stay, conduct of profession and a worthwhile salary.
Your perfect world exists, but perfection is a matter of perspective in this context rather than true norm.
Best approach to any profession ib my opinion, let trends appear as they may and the distribution will shift to what it will be. My work is female dominated yet the chair of the department is a man because he earned it. The opposite can be said with thenother department that is filled with men yet the chair is a woman.
I am part of the 2 males out of 15 total workers in our department yet we don't see much of a problem with it.
Let the pieces fall to where it may. The only quota that companies should have should be employee slots based on someone's skill and performance prior to employment and not on something that we have no control over.
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How about running a joke into the ground turning it into unrecognisable powder that meme pages snort like coccaine?
I remember people voting in a music awards show when rickroll was a thing. It was so stupid to vote Never gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley even after 2 decades since its debut. People were actually sincere in their choice there. It's fine online but doing it IRL is cringe as all hell.
Look at what meme culture brought on to mainstream media: dangerous, stupid challenges, unfunny image macros from edgelord levels to religious or political subliminal messaging that piss people off, forced memes like minions or whatever the heck it is something now. Memes have always been like fireworks, it's short, quick, a spectacle, and quickly fizzles out as it came. Yet there are people who. Keep. Digging. A. Dead. And. Burried. Meme.
That ok meme? People actually, sincerely believe that it was a white supremacy hand sign when it was a plant from 4chan to make juvenile and gullible memers believe and spread it online to the point people want to ban it.
Meme culture brought out the worst in people. Satire was blurred with reality.
Good thing. Now MK players feel like how I felt when people wanted to seriously add Goku on SSB. God I hate meme culture so much.
Also, LOL at the "no Shaggy, no buy" crowd. Seriously, screw them. If you're going to buy the game out of that novelty, don't even bother. You are not buying this game for what its worth and you are seriously only doing it because of a meme. Get out.
Tanabe really needs a supervisor for his works because he's been blundering a very large part of the 2010's. I'm not going to lie, I'm disappointed but not as much as I should be if they weren't being honest.
Tanabe, if it took you 2 years to realize the problem, maybe have someone who can slap you on the head with a paper fan if they think a prjoect is going downhill.
@DavidMac if Iron Blooded Orphans are already dubbed then get that. One of the best alternate timeline stories to date. I'd put it up there with Gundam X (has great characterization and has one of the rare happy endings in the franchise) and Turn A (a deviation in design but a really good series IMO) but those never really reached western shores.
SD Gundam is pretty good IMO. At least, its customization game is better than SRW. But seriously, Bamco, we need to add more timelines to this. Like After War, Correct Century and Future Century.
But since you already put in the total mess that was SEED Destiny, you can add advanced century
@Tupin That's just it, though. Japan certainly had a lot to answer for. But I am not waiting anymore for an apology that is 70+ years old with the Japanese today ignorant of their own history due to omission, there is no more use to apologize to the dead. The nuance is that Japan still has a certain disconnect with the rest of East Asia and South East Asia and the historical context maintains the distrust within Asian countries. I don't want to throw stones in glass houses, but in order for me to take China's outrage seriously, then they should look in the mirror of their own skeletons.
Yet when these points are even raised, they do so with the same deniability as the Japanese. Sure, we can all point at all these atrocities and tell them "You should apologize!", and I'm amenable but, really, China? Maybe you should:
1. Acknowledge the massacre in Tienanmen Square, the numerous deaths of the Great Leap forward
2. stop the oppression of Tibetans and Uyghurs, stop funding the Venezuelan regime
3. Apologize to many of SEA nations and get military expansionism out of the West Philippine Sea and negotiate for a free economic zone for every country surrounding it.
The Japanese may be glorifying their imperialistic past but China sure loves glorifying Mao and would let people like Jiang Zemin commit the same atrocities to their own people (massacre, organ harvesting, persecution of Falun Gong members) and suffer the same omission-remission problem that the Japanese has.
Basically I'm saying, "Look, I'm going to over you being a s***head before, but do that again and I'll smack you upside the head."
@Tupin Let them. Again, I don't see the point of outrage anymore. They are dead. Familes have moved on. It's Japan's religious right to express it in their country. And this is coming from a country ravaged by the Japanese and where they also raped women, sent men to their deaths in a long march, and tossing babies in the air before being bayonetted for fun and some of them were comitted by Korean POWs.
Yet here we are, dealing with Japan the most for their automobile industry, researchers in agriculture sharing information about rice, and outsourcing jobs. I understand the pain the Chinese and the Koreans have gone through but to act like they were wronged without the introspection that they had done human rights abuse in the past really decreases the validity of their indignation.
@Mando44646 the comparison is very little when compared to the millions of names written there. I mean 1,600 names is less than 1%. It's probably more like putting a criminal in a cemetery meant for heroes.
@andrew20 The Tienanmen Square massacre for me was a scary sight being so close to China. Although that was done by a faction (Jiang Ze Min) within the CCP that now has little power compared to Deng Xiao Ping's faction these days, I still find it worrisome that many of their politicians are political hardliners that managed to slip through Xi Jinping's cracks who himself has consolidated power by cracking down on Jiang Ze Min's group. Many of us here don't trust China with a ten foot pole.
@Darlinfan It's ironic that modern China of all things, is angry at imperialist actions when they are imperialist themselves and will not let the Uyghurs or the Tibetans give them the freedom that they want. I find it hypocritical of the Chinese to think that way when I see them building man made islands with military bases of the coast of my country.
@aiden0309 I don't think they should, their country, their rules, their tradition.
All of the people involved tgat time are either too old or dead. Time has passed, and people have lived their lives after WW2.
Speaking from the Philippines here, a nation that was the Poland of the Eastern Front in World War 2 and the place of the famous Bataan Death March.
We never really recovered enough after World War 2 and we just have to live on and let everyone else do so. But apologies from them to do their fulfil their traditional obligation is kind of like asking our muslim friends down south to stop doing their Haj because a specific group terrorized our citizens there and beyond as long as they don't impinge upon our traditions in the same manner. Just grab a bottle of Soju and I'll grab my coconut wine and meet in Japan for Sake, my dude.
Ever heard of the saying "play stupid games, win stupid prizes?"
Here, it's like "Write trash articles, expect trash levels of reading comprehension."
Of course people are going to take this the wrong way. I don't expect an internet news site that reports on nintendo games to have Pulitzer levels of journalistic integrity or writing, but certain standards have to be met. And people instead of correcting themselves, decide to double down.
How utterly stupid. I know a lot people in the gaming community in general tend to be highly opinionated, but some opinions here are garbage stating ad if it was absolute fact that nintendo would shift exclusive to mobile when all that was said was they were not putting all oftheireggs in one basket. Sounds like the most sensible thing I know of when it comes to business and finance.
I played Link a couple of times and I must say he's fun to use especially when playing with mind games instead of doing things in straight forward fashion. Try and get the bomb? Detonate before they get close! Bomb too short? Hit it with a boomerang to surprise your opponent!
Link has a lot of edge guarding options, though he suffers from ledge, he greatly benefits with his better Air game and the has too many tools in his bags to either KO or gimp.
I'm getting mine on Sunday. I have a 36 hour shift tomorrow, a case presentation on Saturday and an in-service exam on Sunday. It would be fun on Monday to get back to the kids in the ward playing with them, one is a massive fan of Zelda and Megaman so this would be like Christmas Morning to him.
Kirby is an infant of a race of eldritch gods who, if you mind the lore, are cosmic horror entities that Lovecraft would have loved to ponder over and Kirby, in more than one occasion, has taken on galactic level threats. The warp star is just one of Kirby's many tools of the trade to use in his adventures. If there's anyone that can defeat Smash's current threat, it's Kirby. And the lore agrees with me. It would be more head scratching if it WASN'T Kirby.
Next time, when you want valid reviews, maybe put in the code of a valid copy before posting them on a website where sites like Amazon or Gamestop will validate your copy. No need for censorship, no need for fraudulent reviews that questions the credibility of a review at best.
I've been skeptical of review sites for many years both from critics and the community alike. It's like trying to talk with an anti-vaxxer, spout incoherent non-sense that tries to act and think like a real expert but has few understanding of what the theory is all about.
@Steevil V and X was released on the western market with complete translations and these are the latest games to be released. If it's releasing on PS4 in the West, it's releasing on the Switch on the west too.
@retro_player_22 It's a different style of gameplay compared to Project X Zone, instead of comboing, you get to select what armaments/weapons/techniques you use before initiating a fight and you can access stronger attacks the higher your level of focus is.
They all follow the same turn based tactical RPG's of old, and it rewards you with accomplishing hidden or difficult objectives such as killing five enemies with a single weapon with a single unit in a single turn.
@MongolRaider I had the displeasure of awkwardly asking an Indian and bangladeshi classmate of mine back in my school days at the risk of sounding stereotyping, fortunately, they knew me enough and they sounded amused.
Indian and Bangladeshi names are harder to pronounce compared to Persian or Arabian on foreign language.
Even my Pakistani friend finds the name Haddaji quite familiar.
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Re: Random: Ed Boon Responds To Mortal Kombat X Street Fighter Requests
Doesn't seem to fit, IMO.
A better crossover is with Killer Instinct
As for the Capcom vs titles, I'd say with the vice grip that Disney has over marvel, Capcom should seek out Shounen Jump.
Re: Gabe Newell: Pricing Valve's Switch-Like Steam Deck Was "Painful"
This isn't something Nintendo can be concerned for.
Also, I don't think the $400 model which is the closest price point to the switch makes it adequate. You can expand the storage, sure, but you are basically spending more than you bargained for. You have the basic unit, but you don't have a dock, you are only given one controller, so the expenses actually is upwards to $500 just for the cheapest unit alone. If you're going to play PC games, then you play it on the PC. PC games are notoriously uncompressed compared to Nintendo games and as it is an exclusively digital downloads, yeah, you'll run out of storage fast.
If you really are going to invest your money on this, I'd recommend to get the $700 model, get the microSD's and all the necessary bells and whistles.
Re: Nintendo, Creatures And Game Freak Register Trademarks For "Pokémon Wonder" and "Fusion Arts"
DNA evolution? Next you're telling me we'll get armored evolution as well
Re: Top Hat Studios Issues Statement Regarding Demands To Censor Sense - A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
@Alpha008 spoken like someone with the privilege who has never been gagged or threatened with real violence for voicing an opinion. The problem with that train of thought is that censorship is a powerful tool of both setting narratives and implying false context.
Case and point, a new vaccine against Dengue fever was launched a few years ago and primarily released to sub-tropic/tropical nations where the disease is endemic. The vaccine was released with little fanfare initially until a study of seronegative patients suffering from a worse form of dengue if the vaccine was given. Two things happened in one particular country:
First is the coverup, links to the study were deemed dangerous and these links were blocked by the previous regime. It effectively removed all autonomy to patients who are on the fence about obtaining this said vaccine while the regime that followed it deemed the vaccine as dangerous and fatal and that some people even without a proper investigation who were mandatorily given this vaccine died of a severe form of dengue that was sensatiinalized thus creating a false context concerning the vaccine and these people in third world countries were used as experiments.
And this was done as a manipulation tactic where the majority now know that the vaccine is bad, never mind the other studies that prove the efficacy and effectivity of said vaccine. In the minds of the masses, the vaccine has proven to be a mistake.
If you think censorship still should be situational even if wanted by the majority, then it is entirely a falsehood.
Re: Top Hat Studios Issues Statement Regarding Demands To Censor Sense - A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
I currently live in a semi-totalitarian state. Let me tell you why censorship is evil and why the release of something like this in its pure state should not be tamperred with.
Censorship start with moral sensibilities, it coaxes you to stop things in the name of morality. Where the concept of blocking out those that question moral imperatives as heretics/perverts/dirty people that should be re-educated or scorned in the name of the majority.
So far, the thoughts of the many outweigh the iconoclast. In this sense, society does not view it as a threat, they just ostracize those that they think can lead society to ruin.
Second, once that moral imperative is entrenched after a repeated cycle of false narratives, they come to blot out these works completely, make it harder for people to find these works and starve the people of points of view that do not align with their own. They start labeling these people as incurable and that the only solution is to "rehabilitate" or shame them that they become ineffectual.
In this state, society starts to ponder but does not bat an eye. They will turn away when the people they don't like is tossed on a cliff to die. In fact many of them will secretly support the ruination of a single person to keep their own conviction in tact without question. A good example of this is how a government can have a ban on sex education where its moral imperative is abstinence and responsibility while hypocritically saying that they should teach responsibility to children.
Third, once the active purges increases, the state will begin to implement harsher and harsher forms of censorship to the point where their narrative is the only one that will suffice. In this state, people are grouped merely on to two sides, for and against. And it is here that people die in the droves. Society sees this injustice but it is far too late. It either bends or breaks.
Censorship is the tool of of the despot. The ones who asks for censorship in all forms is asking a small leak from a deteriorating dam.
Don't be like my country. Anyone who asks for the control of anything should be questioned. Don't be sheep to a slaughter.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Character Designer Celebrates Third Anniversary With Some New Artwork
@Angelic_Lapras_King I think we have some stock here in my country left. Want tonresrrve a copy? i think I can send some over to yours.
Re: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Is Already The Best-Selling Warriors Game Of All Time
It works well as a BOTW offshoot.
Reflect guardian beams with shields? You can do that.
Parry Lynel attacks? You can do that too
Perfect dodge and Flurry rush? Try it.
Shock or freeze the water? Yep.
What makes this combat differ is the weakpoint gauge and obviously, the lack of weapon durability. The window of opportunity is considerably narrow for some of them but you know what? That makes doing them absolutely worth it.
Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Now The Best-Selling Entry In The Entire Series
Three houses for me is a damn good FE game just because of how perspective works for each house. You get to understand the choices your students make, their reasoning and you find that you can agree to their actions. No one is ENTIRELY wrong on their reason for their actions (Edelgard and Claude) except for the real villains yet once you play their opposite routes, you can sympathize with them (Dimitri and Rhea) and you understand the reason behind them, and the same way that you agree with them, you get to understand why you disagree with them too. You see their flaws and those flaws were pretty good. I say this is the most unclear cut FE to date and it was pretty well done.
Re: Rumour: Spider-Man Actor Wanted By Netflix For Possible Legend Of Zelda Movie And TV Show
@fafonio imagine making CP ironically to tell CP is bad by making CP. It's an argument that defeats itself because this is like me telling my patients' parents to not angrily hit their children... By demonstrating to the parents when I hit their children.
Re: Talking Point: What Do Abuse Scandals Say About The Smash Bros. Community, And Its Future?
@Tempestryke All fandoms are toxic. If you've been to even the most "wholesome ones" like say, Steven Universe or Knitting, it has ebough toxic fans that will make you vomit.
Re: Talking Point: What Do Abuse Scandals Say About The Smash Bros. Community, And Its Future?
I live in a third world ***** hole and let me tell you my experience as a pediatrician. We have an obligation to see and report patients of child abuse and seeing the aftermath of these inhumane acts are absolutely horrible. Imagine a train that you saw a mile away, you try to avoid it but you know it will still hit you hard. Being prepared isn't as much as actually seeing abuse victims. Some can go to be as young as 4 years old committed most likely to be the caretaker.
Seeing this in the Smash Community is only an effect of what total strangers online meet up. There will be good meetups but there will be things like this. You do NOT place your trust in a complete stranger unless you are an incredibly good judge of character. And even then, you do NOT let that person think that you are vulnerable to whatever it is that they are planning to do to you. Think for a second and ask yourself why they would do this to the people that you just met. If you are going to socialize, do it public where everyone can see. I can't blame the victims to stuff like this but people who are old enough to know something is wrong need to lead better by examples and NOT let this happen unless you want your little meetups to be sanctioned by the state.
Re: EVO 2020 Has Been Officially Cancelled
Hardly. His reputation is in ruins but his power has barely diminished. He's not in jail, for one, not even compensating his victims. MeToo was a good idea, but it is made less credible by false accusations. Then again, good ideas should not be left to the interpretation of other people.
Re: EVO 2020 Has Been Officially Cancelled
@nessisonett harvey weinstein has hardly lived in misery after this. He has powerful friends in his circle, friends who the supporters of his accusers have connections to.
Re: EVO 2020 Has Been Officially Cancelled
Nintendo majorly dodged a bullet here. Imagine being responsible for creating a beloved game only for it to become a nesting ground for child molesters and rapists with the whole community asking for you to support them and Nintendo being reluctant enough to see the problem with a lax community only held up by online connectivity and a single minded obsession of the game. If I were Nintendo, it'd be better to blow it up rather fostering more of these kinds of sick and twisted people and start from the ground up.
This EVO scandal has reinforced my thoughts on one thing, that the phenomenon of cancel culture is outright stupid and is mostly done by hypocritical moral busy bodies who want everyone to like them. Even if you are skeptical to all alegations, others will not be as skeptical as you and will resort in outrage first before thinking. The community is dead. It will never hold any weight to its name ever again.
Re: Early Impressions Of The Pokémon Detective Pikachu Movie Are Amazingly Positive
@JamesR I didn't have time to watch the CM movie but when I saw her in endgame, I thought she was bland, a boring version of Stark and can't draw a crowd. She is easily outshined by everybody else based on character and that's it. CM isn't hot garbage as others have claimed but her character is too one dimensional.
Weakest MCU film, though, is Thor: Dark World and Ironman 2.
That aside, I'm pretty stoked for Detective Pikachu. It looka and sounds like a real good time
Re: Nintendo Veterans Discuss What It's Like Working With Shigeru Miyamoto
@Obitokamui64 That's why he's taken on an adbisory role rather than being hands on with projects.
Those that strive for greatness are those who know that the people around them could do better. Working on a demanding environment brings out the best and worst of people.
Miyamoto here is just an example but he was without a doubt, a lynchpin in his time. His advisory role is much less stressful but his opinions on matters still hold an impact. That's a sign that people hold him in high regard.
Re: This Is What Sonic The Hedgehog Probably Looks Like In His Upcoming Movie
Deviantart the movie
Re: Poll Confirms That Sobble Is The Most Popular Pokémon Sword And Shield Starter
If Grookey's evolution line is going to be an homage to Sun Wu Kong, he's going to be the one I pick.
Re: Reggie Fils-Aime Is Retiring After 15 Notable Years At Nintendo of America
Goong to miss the guy. He's been a pretty solid Pres for the American branch. Remember, this guy was responsible for some off the good relations Nintendo has with some of the 3rd party developers like Ubisoft (putting Starfox in Starlink? Why didn't Ubi think of that from the getgo?)
Re: Nintendo Allegedly Cancelled Localisation Of Mother 3 Due To Its Controversial Aspects
Everytime somebody says that fetus bull, Itoi-san cries.
Re: Video: Sakurai Declined Offer To Work On Oculus VR Games Because Of The Small Audience
@DartBuzzer Like Ready Player One? It'll take off once the tech is cheap enough to do so. That or it offers more than the kind of immersion that doesn't have to take a large part of the room. The most impressive I've seen VR had usage of was in Ace Combat 7. But the tech is as restrictive as it is innovative. It greatly enhances immerssion but the trade off is the perspective that limits many devs. Many will try to go the first person view again just because its VR.
Re: Takahashi, Miyamoto And Shiota Discuss Proportion Of Female Employees In Nintendo’s Development Departments
@faint merely an assumption, but there are news reports I've been hearing coming out that men have to put on a much more scrutinized filter to become firemen and the physical exam treshold (for lack of a better term) is lowered on a woman. I would argue that such an endeavor is counter-productive but I digress. But on point, what most other countries need is a change in familial structures as it is, foremost, the basic unit of a community and society as a whole.
In fact, the best way to approach it is to be externally patriarchal on familial structures but internally, matriarchal. Meaning, the father manages things outside, but the mother is always the center of the home, she sets the rules inside, but dad sets the rules outside, he manages things when going to vacations or simply going out, sets the rules for curfew, for friends, etc. And the mother manages the budget, she says what goes and what doesn't in the house and expects her children to do the same. The boys protect and keep the place orderly along with the girls. Remind yourself that empowerment always starts at home. Mistakes are hard to be repaired but change is always going to be for the better not sincerely for your own but for your children or those whose going to suceed you.
Re: Takahashi, Miyamoto And Shiota Discuss Proportion Of Female Employees In Nintendo’s Development Departments
@skywake that's your problem, in our part of the world, it really isn't ours. Things will fall to where they are sooner or later without forcing things or forcing change or lowering standards in training or in careers. The doors are always open for others to enter and try. We have one of the closest gender pay gaps, close to zero, number 1 in Asia and it happened not overnight or under a decade but as a slow trickle for everyone to get used to. In High School, we weren't given a choice in what we had to take as a preparation for college and we had to take all subjects from Science to Art to get a glimpse of a career choice that is for life. We were given a choice, however, in our courses rather than forcing us out of our grades or looking at our advantages. There's a saying here, "If you want it, take it. And do your damnedest in making it because you need to love what you do."
The view of a "boy's world" existed before even in our place. But what that got out of us is merely viewing that stereotype as more of a perception rather than rule of thumb.
To us, hostility is a perception rather than a "structure". Thus it is your "choice" to do or not. To be intimidated means to lack grit and confidence in your abilities. You are who you choose to be.
It's not quotas you need to fill but rather, a presentation to attract or make it appealing to whatever you want to put people in. You are given the opportunity as much as the next person beside you, but the outcome solely rests on your shoulders.
A decade ago, it was rare seeing a male nurse here, but after a while, things started to balance fairly with a huge population of that profession still filled with women. Stereotypes exist, but people are facing the problem wrongly if they think skin color or gender has anything to do with ability or competence. The Marine corps and I think the Scout Rangers training (viewed as one od the most hellish training applications for soldiers in the world) here accepts females but standards are not lowered and everyone is given a fair shot. Nobody here cries sexism over these professions as you are pointed to an objective rather than your peers. Everyone around you isn't out to get you and you are given a clear view, your enemy isn't the people around you, it's yourself and the goal you have to accomplish. If anything, the ones that need to have a changing outlook is not the microcosms of occupational cultures, but people outside of it because they are skewed to view things that they percieve as hostile towards them but actually different once you do get into it.
I will say this, a true conducive and diverse workplace needs only 2 things that will make people stay, conduct of profession and a worthwhile salary.
Your perfect world exists, but perfection is a matter of perspective in this context rather than true norm.
Re: Takahashi, Miyamoto And Shiota Discuss Proportion Of Female Employees In Nintendo’s Development Departments
Best approach to any profession ib my opinion, let trends appear as they may and the distribution will shift to what it will be. My work is female dominated yet the chair of the department is a man because he earned it. The opposite can be said with thenother department that is filled with men yet the chair is a woman.
I am part of the 2 males out of 15 total workers in our department yet we don't see much of a problem with it.
Let the pieces fall to where it may. The only quota that companies should have should be employee slots based on someone's skill and performance prior to employment and not on something that we have no control over.
Re: NetherRealm's Brutal Response To Fans Who Want Shaggy In Mortal Kombat 11
@itsyaboiiiii
How about running a joke into the ground turning it into unrecognisable powder that meme pages snort like coccaine?
I remember people voting in a music awards show when rickroll was a thing. It was so stupid to vote Never gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley even after 2 decades since its debut. People were actually sincere in their choice there. It's fine online but doing it IRL is cringe as all hell.
Look at what meme culture brought on to mainstream media: dangerous, stupid challenges, unfunny image macros from edgelord levels to religious or political subliminal messaging that piss people off, forced memes like minions or whatever the heck it is something now. Memes have always been like fireworks, it's short, quick, a spectacle, and quickly fizzles out as it came. Yet there are people who. Keep. Digging. A. Dead. And. Burried. Meme.
That ok meme? People actually, sincerely believe that it was a white supremacy hand sign when it was a plant from 4chan to make juvenile and gullible memers believe and spread it online to the point people want to ban it.
Meme culture brought out the worst in people. Satire was blurred with reality.
Re: NetherRealm's Brutal Response To Fans Who Want Shaggy In Mortal Kombat 11
Good thing. Now MK players feel like how I felt when people wanted to seriously add Goku on SSB. God I hate meme culture so much.
Also, LOL at the "no Shaggy, no buy" crowd. Seriously, screw them. If you're going to buy the game out of that novelty, don't even bother. You are not buying this game for what its worth and you are seriously only doing it because of a meme. Get out.
Re: Metroid Prime 4 Development Scrapped, Will Be Restarted Alongside Retro Studios
Tanabe really needs a supervisor for his works because he's been blundering a very large part of the 2010's. I'm not going to lie, I'm disappointed but not as much as I should be if they weren't being honest.
Tanabe, if it took you 2 years to realize the problem, maybe have someone who can slap you on the head with a paper fan if they think a prjoect is going downhill.
Re: Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster Are Both Included On The One Game Card In Southeast Asia
@subpopz IIRC $70 or $80
Also: yeeeeessss finally, Japan recognizes the huge market in SEA
Re: Bandai Namco's SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays Confirmed For Switch
@DavidMac if Iron Blooded Orphans are already dubbed then get that. One of the best alternate timeline stories to date. I'd put it up there with Gundam X (has great characterization and has one of the rare happy endings in the franchise) and Turn A (a deviation in design but a really good series IMO) but those never really reached western shores.
Re: Bandai Namco's SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays Confirmed For Switch
SD Gundam is pretty good IMO. At least, its customization game is better than SRW. But seriously, Bamco, we need to add more timelines to this. Like After War, Correct Century and Future Century.
But since you already put in the total mess that was SEED Destiny, you can add advanced century
Re: Nintendo Issues Official Statement Regarding The Allegations Made Against Nintendo Russia CEO Yasha Haddaji
So now he's on a very short leash. If he got fired, he'd have a very, very bad resume in his portfolio with no job. He has to answer to NoE now.
He f**** up and he now his coworkers will look at him in a bad light.
Working in a hostile environment on all sides is worse tha getting axed.
Re: Some Fans Are Calling For A Boycott Of Pokémon After Creatures Inc Shares Controversial Tweet
@Tupin That's just it, though. Japan certainly had a lot to answer for. But I am not waiting anymore for an apology that is 70+ years old with the Japanese today ignorant of their own history due to omission, there is no more use to apologize to the dead. The nuance is that Japan still has a certain disconnect with the rest of East Asia and South East Asia and the historical context maintains the distrust within Asian countries. I don't want to throw stones in glass houses, but in order for me to take China's outrage seriously, then they should look in the mirror of their own skeletons.
Yet when these points are even raised, they do so with the same deniability as the Japanese. Sure, we can all point at all these atrocities and tell them "You should apologize!", and I'm amenable but, really, China? Maybe you should:
1. Acknowledge the massacre in Tienanmen Square, the numerous deaths of the Great Leap forward
2. stop the oppression of Tibetans and Uyghurs, stop funding the Venezuelan regime
3. Apologize to many of SEA nations and get military expansionism out of the West Philippine Sea and negotiate for a free economic zone for every country surrounding it.
The Japanese may be glorifying their imperialistic past but China sure loves glorifying Mao and would let people like Jiang Zemin commit the same atrocities to their own people (massacre, organ harvesting, persecution of Falun Gong members) and suffer the same omission-remission problem that the Japanese has.
Basically I'm saying, "Look, I'm going to over you being a s***head before, but do that again and I'll smack you upside the head."
China needs to get that across.
Re: Some Fans Are Calling For A Boycott Of Pokémon After Creatures Inc Shares Controversial Tweet
@Darlinfan I see a limited worldview from them to be honest. If anything, all I have is pity.
Re: Some Fans Are Calling For A Boycott Of Pokémon After Creatures Inc Shares Controversial Tweet
@Tupin Let them. Again, I don't see the point of outrage anymore. They are dead. Familes have moved on. It's Japan's religious right to express it in their country. And this is coming from a country ravaged by the Japanese and where they also raped women, sent men to their deaths in a long march, and tossing babies in the air before being bayonetted for fun and some of them were comitted by Korean POWs.
Yet here we are, dealing with Japan the most for their automobile industry, researchers in agriculture sharing information about rice, and outsourcing jobs. I understand the pain the Chinese and the Koreans have gone through but to act like they were wronged without the introspection that they had done human rights abuse in the past really decreases the validity of their indignation.
Re: Some Fans Are Calling For A Boycott Of Pokémon After Creatures Inc Shares Controversial Tweet
@Mando44646 the comparison is very little when compared to the millions of names written there. I mean 1,600 names is less than 1%. It's probably more like putting a criminal in a cemetery meant for heroes.
Re: Some Fans Are Calling For A Boycott Of Pokémon After Creatures Inc Shares Controversial Tweet
@andrew20 The Tienanmen Square massacre for me was a scary sight being so close to China. Although that was done by a faction (Jiang Ze Min) within the CCP that now has little power compared to Deng Xiao Ping's faction these days, I still find it worrisome that many of their politicians are political hardliners that managed to slip through Xi Jinping's cracks who himself has consolidated power by cracking down on Jiang Ze Min's group. Many of us here don't trust China with a ten foot pole.
Re: Some Fans Are Calling For A Boycott Of Pokémon After Creatures Inc Shares Controversial Tweet
@Darlinfan It's ironic that modern China of all things, is angry at imperialist actions when they are imperialist themselves and will not let the Uyghurs or the Tibetans give them the freedom that they want. I find it hypocritical of the Chinese to think that way when I see them building man made islands with military bases of the coast of my country.
Re: Some Fans Are Calling For A Boycott Of Pokémon After Creatures Inc Shares Controversial Tweet
@aiden0309 I don't think they should, their country, their rules, their tradition.
All of the people involved tgat time are either too old or dead. Time has passed, and people have lived their lives after WW2.
Speaking from the Philippines here, a nation that was the Poland of the Eastern Front in World War 2 and the place of the famous Bataan Death March.
We never really recovered enough after World War 2 and we just have to live on and let everyone else do so. But apologies from them to do their fulfil their traditional obligation is kind of like asking our muslim friends down south to stop doing their Haj because a specific group terrorized our citizens there and beyond as long as they don't impinge upon our traditions in the same manner. Just grab a bottle of Soju and I'll grab my coconut wine and meet in Japan for Sake, my dude.
Re: Future Business Shift Could See Nintendo Move Away From Home Console Development
Ever heard of the saying "play stupid games, win stupid prizes?"
Here, it's like "Write trash articles, expect trash levels of reading comprehension."
Of course people are going to take this the wrong way. I don't expect an internet news site that reports on nintendo games to have Pulitzer levels of journalistic integrity or writing, but certain standards have to be met. And people instead of correcting themselves, decide to double down.
How utterly stupid. I know a lot people in the gaming community in general tend to be highly opinionated, but some opinions here are garbage stating ad if it was absolute fact that nintendo would shift exclusive to mobile when all that was said was they were not putting all oftheireggs in one basket. Sounds like the most sensible thing I know of when it comes to business and finance.
Re: Future Business Shift Could See Nintendo Move Away From Home Console Development
This comment section is par for the course coming from this article. LMAO
Re: UK Charts: A Solid Week For Switch, But Smash Bros. Ultimate Can't Hold On To First Place
@tourjeff There's a how to play video in the vault section, movies.
Re: Here Are The Best And Worst Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Characters According To Pro Players
I played Link a couple of times and I must say he's fun to use especially when playing with mind games instead of doing things in straight forward fashion. Try and get the bomb? Detonate before they get close! Bomb too short? Hit it with a boomerang to surprise your opponent!
Link has a lot of edge guarding options, though he suffers from ledge, he greatly benefits with his better Air game and the has too many tools in his bags to either KO or gimp.
Re: Review: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - The Absolute Pinnacle Of Nintendo's Fighting Series
I'm getting mine on Sunday. I have a 36 hour shift tomorrow, a case presentation on Saturday and an in-service exam on Sunday. It would be fun on Monday to get back to the kids in the ward playing with them, one is a massive fan of Zelda and Megaman so this would be like Christmas Morning to him.
Re: Sakurai Reveals Why Kirby Was The Only One Who Survived The Smash Ultimate Apocalypse
Kirby is an infant of a race of eldritch gods who, if you mind the lore, are cosmic horror entities that Lovecraft would have loved to ponder over and Kirby, in more than one occasion, has taken on galactic level threats. The warp star is just one of Kirby's many tools of the trade to use in his adventures. If there's anyone that can defeat Smash's current threat, it's Kirby. And the lore agrees with me. It would be more head scratching if it WASN'T Kirby.
Re: Bandai Namco Announces Super Robot Wars T For Switch, Included Anime Franchises Revealed
@Gamerhenky Licensing issues aren't much of a hurdle these days if its predecessors (X and V) were released in the west for the PS4.
Re: People Are Review-Bombing Pokémon: Let's Go Across Major Sites, Amazon Japan Blocks User Scores
Next time, when you want valid reviews, maybe put in the code of a valid copy before posting them on a website where sites like Amazon or Gamestop will validate your copy. No need for censorship, no need for fraudulent reviews that questions the credibility of a review at best.
I've been skeptical of review sites for many years both from critics and the community alike. It's like trying to talk with an anti-vaxxer, spout incoherent non-sense that tries to act and think like a real expert but has few understanding of what the theory is all about.
Re: Bandai Namco Announces Super Robot Wars T For Switch, Included Anime Franchises Revealed
@Steevil V and X was released on the western market with complete translations and these are the latest games to be released. If it's releasing on PS4 in the West, it's releasing on the Switch on the west too.
Re: Bandai Namco Announces Super Robot Wars T For Switch, Included Anime Franchises Revealed
@retro_player_22 It's a different style of gameplay compared to Project X Zone, instead of comboing, you get to select what armaments/weapons/techniques you use before initiating a fight and you can access stronger attacks the higher your level of focus is.
They all follow the same turn based tactical RPG's of old, and it rewards you with accomplishing hidden or difficult objectives such as killing five enemies with a single weapon with a single unit in a single turn.
Re: Feature: Inside The Twisted And Abusive Culture Of Yasha Haddaji's Nintendo Russia
@MongolRaider I had the displeasure of awkwardly asking an Indian and bangladeshi classmate of mine back in my school days at the risk of sounding stereotyping, fortunately, they knew me enough and they sounded amused.
Indian and Bangladeshi names are harder to pronounce compared to Persian or Arabian on foreign language.
Even my Pakistani friend finds the name Haddaji quite familiar.
Re: Feature: Inside The Twisted And Abusive Culture Of Yasha Haddaji's Nintendo Russia
@MongolRaider French Arabian from what I could pick up about this guy.
Haddaji is a very uncommon name in India from what I could learn.