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@meanttowander @J19_Gaming89 I try to go out of my way to defend stuff like this FF7 scene when it catches totally unwarranted strays from bandwagoners. Some media has actual issues that might be called "woke", but those problems get obscured when people throw that word at anything that moves.

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@FF8_Garden @griever_gf @willieged The same applies to "RPG". That one's even less a literal description, because you could call most games "Role Playing" in a literal sense. It really describes a cultural family of games.

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@FF8_Garden @griever_gf @willieged I think to be meaningful, the J must describe actual features or properties of the game. "Made in Japan" says nothing about the game beyond speculative profiling.

That's why it's used to describe a style (genre) that originated in Japan, just like "Mexican food" outside Mexico.

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@memecrashes Please tell me Google Translate has O(log n), I can't take worse than linear, I have a looong paper due tonight.

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@jack_17th I remember that's the one with the reset pad right at the exit. I stepped on it on the way out and had to redo the whole thing 😢

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@RinoTheBouncer FF7 Rebirth is my personal favorite of these. But modern FF7 can be an acquired taste.

E33 is the most perfect, but there's less game there than BG3 or Elden Ring.

On balance I'd pick Elden Ring.

We'll see how I feel about E33 in a couple years, maybe it's more deserving.

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@jack_17th It's really fun to level strength in the sphere grid because iirc damage increases with strength^3, so a +4 strength increase is a really big deal.

But then I neglect accuracy and all of my guys struggle to hit some of the later enemies.

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@jordannoone @Ki_fun_thoughts Right hand rule is just a convention. The left hand rule is fine for physics, you'll get some negatives that cancel in the final answer.

But you must never mix left and right.

And all the people who intentionally defy the convention really are nuts and immoral.

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@Rawameriwani @MidlifeCrysis_ FFX just doesn't jive with me the way the other two do. I've finished the HD Remaster twice, once in English and once in Japanese.

I'll play the PS2 version someday though. Maybe it's easier to take seriously if it looks & sounds like a great PS2 game instead of a lazy PS3 game.

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@jack_17th I had lukewarm feelings about this one my first time playing.

It's probably become my favorite FF to play around with though. The sphere grid is surprisingly addictive.

I'm replaying it with Japanese audio and it's a different experience. Eventually I wanna try the PS2 version.

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@DireRavennn I first played Wind Waker and Twilight Princess only a couple years ago.

Wind Waker somehow feels nostalgic even though it was new to me. Twilight Princess has fantastic atmosphere and aesthetic.

Always liked that about certain Nintendo games, they feel like poetry.

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@QuanticASI With so many possible outcomes, reality still had to pick one.

Or is there a more meaningful conclusion to take from this?

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@128_mhz Sometimes I look at a super high-budget game and think, if I had made this myself, I wouldn't even be proud, just because the result isn't interesting to me, even though it would take me years upon years to come close to replicating it.

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@Kyut_osu @mamabriel @summoningsalt I think that'd require a RAM edit, since the code expects serial input. If we were willing to do that, maybe there's another spot in RAM you could use instead for a bigger speedup.

Speedruns allowing freely editing 1 address of your choice could be interesting.

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@mamabriel @summoningsalt I was wondering that too.

I vaguely remember hearing that SMB is NP-Hard. It's probably one of those things where we can't yet definitively prove that there isn't a better run, but there probably isn't.

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@lauriewired The Nintendo 64 is neat too. Performance is almost completely bottlenecked by memory access time.

Kaze Emanuar's YouTube channel is where I learned about it. He has a ROM hack that looks halfway to GameCube fidelity, and he has to fight memory accesses at every step.

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@Dshoopy0 @kalomaze You'd also need to correct for real cosmic ray events.