yukichigai 5mo ago • 100%
Which ones and why?
I sense a fun story and I'm here for it.
yukichigai 5mo ago • 100%
I just ate a burrito for the glory of the Empire!
yukichigai 5mo ago • 93%
...trying?
yukichigai 5mo ago • 100%
From everything I've read, most of the "devs" haven't done any actual work on the game past the initial brainstorming session. The "demo" video shown was just a mock-up.
I mean I'm not surprised since everything relating to the Amico seems to be lies and vaporware, but it's still disappointing.
yukichigai 5mo ago • 100%
Who would've thought that making your product more readily available would increase sales? That's so much more counterintuitive than "double down on NFTs and release schedules that require knowledge of calculus to figure out."
yukichigai 5mo ago • 90%
Seriously. For the same price as McD's I can go to In-n-Out. That's just comparing fast food places. For the price they're charging for a Quarter Pounder I may as well go to a sit-down restaurant.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 94%
If you compare that to the average cost of living in Japan it's a bit closer to $300 in terms of spending power.
Either way it's a lot cheaper than I'd expect to have to pay anyone for sex work, much less something that blatantly illegal.
Oh, as for the age of consent thing that change just made it a national crime. Every prefecture in Japan had already raised the age of consent to 16 (or higher) well before last year. The only places it didn't apply were some remote military bases and IIRC the portion of Antarctica that Japan claims. Still a good move but it's not like Japanese pedos were just having sex with 13-year-olds without consequence before then.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
If you want to bypass grinding entirely then you'd need something like that, but it might trivialize certain parts of the game. Won't trivialize all of it though since several of the key fights rely on strategy.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
That was someone's insane interpretation of the ending of the first Mother game (a.k.a. Earthbound Beginnings). It's not as out there as the guy who filled the Silent Hill wiki with claims that it was all symbolism for circumcision trauma (yes, really), but it's still kinda nutters.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
Yeah, you do have to grind a bit. Nowhere near as much as some games (looking at you, basically every Final Fantasy game) but the leveling is designed around you doing some extra fights for XP. Every new area generally has a "grind spot" that is moderately to incredibly obvious, typically some grouping of enemies that are enough to fight but not enough to overwhelm you, placed within reasonable walking distance of a bed, hotel, or other way to refill your HP/MP for cheap/free.
For the first town, before you take on the punks roaming the streets you should get some levels fighting crows, dogs, and snakes up near your house. Once you can kill them in two turns or less head into town and try taking on a single punk. If you survive that fight without being nearly dead, keep fighting punks. If you almost die, go heal up and farm a little more. And if you DO die... well you only lose half the money you have on you, so as long as you keep most of it in the ATM you haven't lost much of anything.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
EarthBound was the first JRPG I ever completed and the first JRPG I ever enjoyed. Before it I'd never been able to get into JRPGs: there was just too much complexity while also having too little going on. Wandering an overworld only to be randomly pulled out of it for no apparent reason was maddening. As a kid, trying to piece together the backstory of some undefined thoroughly detailed fantasy world while also taking in the emerging plot in the opening sequence wasn't anywhere near as appealing as firing up Mario or Mega Man and getting straight to the action.
EarthBound neatly sidestepped all of the things that had stopped me from liking JRPGs. The equipment system was simple without being braindead. The setting was a pastiche of suburban life that I could easily understand. The stakes were high but the tone was still whimsical and amusing. And above all I knew why I was suddenly getting dragged into battle with a snake or a crow or a dog instead of just being clotheslined by combat.
EarthBound still is my go-to recommendation in the (increasingly unlikely) event that someone says "I've always wanted to get into JRPGs, what should I start with?" It is the perfect "intro to JRPG" game without feeling trivial or like it cannot stand on its own. It singlehandedly made me love the JRPG genre, and I probably would not have played literally every other JRPG I've ever played if it wasn't for EarthBound.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 86%
There? Really? There is where you draw the line? Killing a dog is fine, but lying about meeting a dictator is too far? Just trying to keep track here.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
Rolled Japanese style, aka tamagoyaki. That is really difficult.
Over easy is as easy as the name though.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
Screw it, go make the actual Starship Troopers game not suck. That thing is in dire need of help.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 99%
While 177 countries sounds like a lot, it's not where the majority of players are. PSN operates in the top 15 countries by GDP and the top 4 by population.
Of course there's still the question of why they work in so few countries when literally none of their competitors (that I know of) have those limitations.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
Could be a mix of the two, like Valve saying "look if you continue on with this plan we're going to issue blanket refunds to anyone in a non-PSN country" and Sony realizing they're putting their asses on the line (legally speaking) if they let sales in those countries continue.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
The scuttlebutt is that they don't get to make that decision because the PSN mandate is a part of the contract they signed with Sony.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
Let 'em frown. You have Cinnamon Toast Vodka now.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 100%
Zero. Every time I've been on the verge of blocking a community (or instance, since kbin can do that) it winds up vanishing anyway.
yukichigai 6mo ago • 84%
Most anticheats don't have the track record of repeated data breaches that Sony does.
Parent, student, or staff, what's the dumbest damn regulation you've personally come across at an educational institution?
Tacos are the greatest food ever and I cannot be convinced otherwise. [#tacos](https://kbin.social/tag/tacos) [#taco](https://kbin.social/tag/taco) [#food](https://kbin.social/tag/food)
I'm getting rid of an old Hi8 camcorder and figured I'd throw in the tapes with it, but I want to wipe the contents of the tapes before I do. I don't have a huge magnet or anything I can use to quickly erase the tapes, so the only option is to record over them using the camcorder. Instead of being boring and just muting it and leaving the lens cap on I figured I might put something vaguely interesting on there. The camcorder is one of those fancy units where the audio/video outputs can be used as audio/video inputs when the thing is in tape playback/recording mode (VTR). I do have an HDMI -\> Composite converter, so I can actually record video and audio together, albeit at 480i with bleeding colors. Alternatively I can leave the lens cap on and pipe audio directly into the microphone jack, which is stereo. As for what to record, my spouse and I have come up with a few ideas: * Vaporwave (generally) * Weather Channel Vaporwave (specifically) * \~2 hours of the Lo-fi Girl stream * Everywhere at the End of Time (broken across 3 tapes) * A public domain serial radio drama (Have Gun Will Travel is my vote) * Public domain films (Laurel and Hardy or maybe some Charlie Chaplin) * [Steven Soderbergh's silent black & white recut of Raiders of the Lost Ark](https://extension765.com/blogs/soderblog/raiders) * Analog horror of some kind (e.g. Backrooms, Gemini Home Entertainment, Local 58 except it's way too short) Aside from that, generally anything that might look better with proper analog distortion is an obvious win. The camcorder can only record at full speed, 2.5 hours per tape, so no way to add extra distortion that way. Also I do have a capture card and can turn around and re-record whatever I put on these tapes, so if you want to see the results I can show you. Anywho, what's your suggestions Lemmy? What treasures can I leave on these Hi8 tapes?
Apropo of nothing, a Final Fantasy 2 meme. [#FF2](https://kbin.social/tag/FF2) [#FinalFantasy](https://kbin.social/tag/FinalFantasy) [#gaming](https://kbin.social/tag/gaming) [#games](https://kbin.social/tag/games) [#canoe](https://kbin.social/tag/canoe) [#FFII](https://kbin.social/tag/FFII)
I've just learned that Romhacking.net is planning on removing their HomeBrew section entirely, probably during the next major update to the site. Sad, sad news. Source is BillytimeG on Xitter: [https://vxtwitter.com/BillytimeG/status/1719793558763299328](https://vxtwitter.com/BillytimeG/status/1719793558763299328) [\#retrogaming](https://kbin.social/tag/retrogaming) [#gaming](https://kbin.social/tag/gaming) [#romhacking](https://kbin.social/tag/romhacking) [#classicgaming](https://kbin.social/tag/classicgaming) [#games](https://kbin.social/tag/games)
A couple nights ago I watched The Great Silence and holy hell is that a damn good western. I get why it wasn't released in the US at the time, but it is GOOD. [#western](https://kbin.social/tag/western) [#movie](https://kbin.social/tag/movie) [#movies](https://kbin.social/tag/movies)
When I think "Genesis/Mega Drive twang" I think Fatal Rewind, a.k.a. The Killing Game Show. Maybe there's a better game that shows off that signature sound, but I'd struggle to name it. Any ideas? Maybe The Ooze? [https://youtu.be/wJAoZJEDeSs](https://youtu.be/wJAoZJEDeSs) [\#retrogaming](https://kbin.social/tag/retrogaming) [#games](https://kbin.social/tag/games) [#gaming](https://kbin.social/tag/gaming) [#SegaGenesis](https://kbin.social/tag/SegaGenesis) [#Genesis](https://kbin.social/tag/Genesis) [#MegaDrive](https://kbin.social/tag/MegaDrive) [#Longplay](https://kbin.social/tag/Longplay) [#Sega](https://kbin.social/tag/Sega) [#FatalRewind](https://kbin.social/tag/FatalRewind)
I'm old enough to remember when cable providers had to keep Nickelodeon on channel 36 or lower because otherwise some TVs and VCRs couldn't tune that high. [#TV](https://kbin.social/tag/TV) [#FuckImOld](https://kbin.social/tag/FuckImOld)
A relative of mine spells potato "potatoe" and I can't tell if it's a Dan Quayle joke or they're really that bad at spelling.
I now like pasta salad and for some reason that makes me feel old. [#pastasalad](https://kbin.social/tag/pastasalad) [#food](https://kbin.social/tag/food) [#FuckImOld](https://kbin.social/tag/FuckImOld)
Just a thread for anyone else out there who prefers the layout of a 6-button controller to the more dominant ABXY layout. What I wouldn't give for a dual stick, dual trigger gamepad that also had six face buttons.