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Atmostphere and “looks” wise. It does a great job of evoking the original, sure.

And it’s far from a FF7 remake issue alone. FF12 kind of flirted with it, but starting basically at Crisis Core, combat went from something strategic to simply “mash a button until your ATB meter fills up and then perform a quick combo (usually the same one every time because you don’t have time to think about it so you rely mostly on muscle memory)”. There’s no thought involved in the combat. There’s no “what is going to work best against which enemy”. You might as well be playing Street Fighter.

When I go up against a tough enemy in the original, I don’t immediately start slashing. I’ll have one person immediately focused on casting barrier on everyone. The second person will throw out a summon. And one person will have transform/mini set up with the added-affect materia and will do a basic attack. If I’m lucky, that enemy will turn into a frog or immediately shrink, making the combat that much easier.

There is no thought process like that in new final fantasy. It’s just slash, slash, slash, combo. slash, slash, slash, item. over and over and over again until either the enemy is dead or you are.

I get it. That’s what modern audiences want. And I know I fall squarely into the “old man yells at Cloud” demographic (ba-dum-tiss). But I had at least hoped that the remake would try to retain the old mechanics rather than just copy-pasting the button mashing of the new games.

I will say this though… Until the remake, it never even occured to me that Jessie was a girl.

Nothing against “new” and “modern” and “flashy”. But the remakes lack the unique charm of what made FF7 actually FF7.

I’d have more respect for our Canadian leaders if even ONE of them would just stand up at a podium and say “nope…we’re ignoring it. Everyone knows it’s a pump and dump scheme to deflate and reinflate stocks. And in a week he’ll be removing them.”

Everyone KNOWS he’s a fucking grifter, but politicians don’t want to say it out loud.

Trump: Putting the “fat” in “fatwa” since 1946.

That’s good to hear. It’s been many years since I’ve stayed in touch with either my extended family or my friends who live down there. (Most of my family moved from Portugal to Canada, but a couple of distant cousins moved instead to Brasil…around Niteroi if I remember correctly)

I last spoke with them in the early 2000s, and back then it was a pretty crazy contrast between the rich and the poor. Almost no true middle class. You either were wealthy enough to have servants, or you WERE the servant and went home to your favela that (if you were lucky) had electricity.

This is unquestionably a good thing. But it’s also kind of weird that it’s Brasil of all places in on this, since the inequality there between the super wealthy and the folks living in the favelas is just an accepted part of life…kind of like the caste system in India.

I’m not saying that that’s a good thing. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t imagine the Brasilian authorities would actually give a shit considering the state of their own inequality and how it’s just kind of taken as a “reality of life” down there.

That game shaped my gaming life in a thousand ways. It still stands as one of my most memorable experiences.

I don’t know if the emulation is the problem or not, but I’ve tried replaying it on multiple Genesis Emulators and found it almost impossible due to something imperceptible that makes firing the gun just a millisecond too late after pushing the button. And the group you’re fighting moving just slightly faster than you. Combining to result in very quickly getting beaten to death in your very first encounter with gangers.

I’ve tried multiple settings on multiple emulators and I can’t solve it.

That really depends on your definition of “holds up”.

For example, to me the original Final Fantasy VII is still a better game than the remake because what was a well thought out RPG combat system got turned into just another button mashing combat experience with a Final Fantasy VII wallpaper applied to it.

Is the remake better graphically? sure. Does that matter to you? Than yeah…the original isn’t going to hold up for you. But if you prefer the classic design from those times, the game holds up great from a gameplay/story/character perspective. And I personally would take it over whatever mash-fest modern games use for combat systems.

How was tiny little Serbia a factor triggering WW1?

Little things spiral into bigger things, which then spiral into yet bigger things.

It’s been a long time since the six-day-war. Most states in the middle east are more technologically capable than they were in 67. I’m thinking it’s time for that coalition to form up again and gang bang Bibi and his buddies. We’d see some different results.

The world doesn’t run on “probably”. Nothing ever gets accomplished by assuming “it’ll probably happen anyway.”

Would it have defeated it if they hadn’t performed their protest and maybe made a few other legislators rethink how unpopular of a bill it was? If they hadn’t protested, would legislative complacency just allowed the bill to pass unremarked on.

The purpose of a protest is to draw attention to something so that other that have the power to do something about it might do something about it.

I’m not saying the bill failed specifically because of the protest, but to think the bill was guaranteed to have failed anyway even without it is naive thinking.

I agree. That’s why it’s called “having the courage of one’s convictions”. The people who are protesting are willing to accept the consequences of their actions in order to shake up the system.

But when the system makes up and applies consequences retroactively, it starts a very slippery dilemma where a person can’t protest for fear of “hypothetical” repercussions.

You can’t have the courage of your convictions if you don’t know what the consequences of those convictions are going to be. And you can’t know what the consequences of your actions will be if they’re just made up ex post facto and applied punitively in order to stifle debate rather than following an already established protocol.

disrupts the parliamentary process

That’s the entire point of a PROTEST though…

I’m sure he only means it as “this is the shitty way the world actually works”. Not that he personally believes it himself.

This is basically going to make the population choose between smoking and having kids.

Hell I’d start smoking again.

Someone please put razor blades in this fuckers twelve daily bigmacs already please.

I know it makes me a terrible person. But I have trouble coming up with any response to this except “good. The time for bullshit words is over”

The only thing that has kept circling my brain for the last half a year has been the scene in Demolition Man when Wesley Snipes says:

“Please just kill this guy already…”

Why is the ICC not on something European like Proton Mail?