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I thought the bike chase was great, I'll watch more. Should be fun. I just hope the story isn't too dumb and/or convoluted. Keep it simple plz.

You've gotta play Contra and Super C, they're classics. Though once you get good at them, they aren't very long games. If you're not crazy about them then perhaps there is not much replay value there. I also think Golden Axe is one of those "you've gotta play it before you die" kinda games as well. It was even featured a bit in Hi Score Girl IIRC. Do it for Akira! Second look at the first list, and I actually would back Ikaruga and Neo Geo Puzzle Bobble. Probably should have given a vote to one of them. I guess it comes down to what genre you think you're going to get the most out of (puzzle, run'n'gun, shmup, beat 'em up)

If you manage to learn Catch with all your characters then you can hit NeoExdeath with four Breath Wings for major damage, that's always fun Requires a bit of ABP grinding though.

Yep, it was trash

@Eizan @Rulkster where you guys at? #4 is in the books. I nearly blew it at the end because I was not keeping track of HP totals carefully enough. I narrowly avoided get destroyed and got off one last attack for the win (PHEW)

Nothing really grabs me in the first list. I voted for Streets of Rage 2 and the Contra Collection. You haven't played the NES Contra games??? And Streets of Rage games are fantastic. I also back Gunstar Heroes and Golden Axe big time. Surely you've played Golden Axe before though..?

Lots of jazz. Really been enjoying some of the tunes from Oscar Peterson's Canadiana Suite. Also some Turboprop:

Still going strong in Final Fantasy V Just about to wrap up my fourth run.

I haven't checked out anything new yet, maybe I'll watching something tonight. Really happy that Digimon is back, anyway. It's been great so far.

I like this short and sweet take on it: A mask is not a political statement; it's an IQ test.

glhf

This is going to be absolute trash but if I get bored enough this weekend then I might watch a few minutes

Still having fun, so I'm still playing Run #4's job progression is Monk -> Berserker -> Ranger -> Ninja. I just skipped the Zerker since I've had enough of them this summer. Ninja will have plenty enough fire-power to beat NeoExdeath, I'll just need to get the luck factors to line up. Not being able to equip a Ribbon or the Aegis Shield leaves me vulnerable to Petrify and Death... but all it takes is a few good dice rolls in a row to get past that silliness and then it will be an easy win. So far this Fiesta I haven't had too much overlap in jobs from run to run: #1 Blue Mage / Berserker / Summoner / White Mage #2 Thief / Berserker / Beastmaster / Dragoon #3 White Mage / Summoner / Geomancer / Dancer #4 Monk / Berserker / Ranger / Ninja All I'm missing are: Knight and Black Mage for the Wind Crystal; Red Mage, Time Mage, and Mystic Knight for the Water Crystal; Bard for the Fire Crystal; and Chemist and Samurai for the Earth Crystal. Just enough for two more playthroughs if I feel like throwing the remaining jobs in a randomizer and putting together two more teams

It's the web browser for sure (Firefox). On my laptop provided by work then I guess the most vital program is the VPN client to connect to our server, and then once I'm logged in it's the ERP software, Outlook, and Excel (ugh) that I spend all of my time in. When I had more time for hobby projects, I'd always have Emacs running on my MacBook with something to work on, and I'd spend quite a bit more time in the terminal. But really these days my MacBook is more of a paper weight than anything else. I spend the whole day on a computer at work when I'm not travelling or out on sales calls. Evenings/weekends I try to keep away from my computer. Any browsing/emailing/messaging I need to do can be accomplished on my phone. My MacBook Air is a 2013 or 2014 IIRC, still going strong, but whenever it kicks the bucket, I'm not sure if I'll even bother to get another laptop of any sort.

Masks are still a tough sell for quite a few people up here too. I don't see what the big deal is, but I have also lived in Asia for several years where it is totally normal and common to see people wearing masks everywhere even if there isn't an illness going around. It's not a big deal. But apparently many North Americans don't see it the same way.

I knew I forgot something today!

Run #3 (solo run #2) is in the books. Many people do not like the Dancer, but it is one of my favs. Certainly not a "best in game" kind of job, but the randomness and risk vs reward of the Dance command is so fun (if at times also frustrating). When you're setup with the right items at the end of the game, Sword Dance does 9999 damage every single time. I never get tired of seeing that When I got to the final boss I was short on HP so I had to grind up a few levels to get over 2800 HP total to survive Exdeath's Flare and Holy spells. Once I was lucky enough to dodge his pesky Meteor spell, I got into the battle with NeoExdeath and finished him off on the first try

Stick around and keep posting more please Happy Canada Day birthday MT, I hope you're having a good day

I love drinking at noon, and then all through the afternoon. Of course drinking in the evening is good too.

I would offer to be a mod but I already spend enough time breaking up arguments at home between my wife and 9 year old

A separate forum will definitely make it easier for people who don't care about political discussions to ignore them.

The big catch-all threads become hard to follow after a while (unless we can improve the board's search tools or do something else to make it easier to browse and participate in threads that are many pages long) I don't think it's necessary to limit the number of threads. I'd rather see more threads each focusing on different issues. It won't make a difference of there are one or 100 politics threads, we still need to be tactful and nice to each other even if we disagree. Anything that really goes of the rails can be cleaned up by a moderator.

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I feel asleep during an episode last night, that's usually the kiss of death for an anime for me... but I'll give it another shot anyways.

Alrighty, I guess it'll go on my watch list then I also checked out the first episode of Dorohedoro on Netflix a couple nights ago when I couldn't sleep. I think that was from the Winter season...? Pretty weird, but I think it's the kind of weird I like. I'll give it a couple more episodes for sure.