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You forgot Nintendo’s online friends system and Capcom’s netcode.

game concept: blizzard’s writing+ubisoft’s gameplay+EA’s microtransaction (ft.bethesda’s bugs)

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I don’t see if mentioned in any comments, so just so people are aware, that column in Task Manager that’s shown in the screenshots is not showing disk space. It’s disk activity/usage.

So it’s doing a bunch of read and/or writes, but it’s not filling up your hard drive.

windows 10 is garbage so every time i boot up the computer i have to run command prompt and enter

net.exe stop “Windows Search”

so that the shitty goddamned search/cortana feature that i never fucking use stops running in the background taking up all my fucking disk space

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Hell yes.  I’ve been wanting a Mai for a few years, but nothing really caught my eye.  This looks fabulous.  Hopefully it’s not super expensive.

メガホビEXPO -2017 秋- 【ホビージャパン編】

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I keep saying to myself that I need to stop watching stuff about this game and yet I keep watching stuff about this game.

WANNA PLAY

Also, if anyone wasn’t sure if #21 was evil, this trailer makes it pretty obvious.  There was a rumor that Mira (from DragonBall Online and Xenoverse) would be in the game, and I feel like it’s a good chance that #21 is actually her.

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Man, it’s nice to see Eiji and Ankh (OOO) and Gentarou (Fourze).  Shu Watanabe is one of my favorite Rider actors, and it’ll be nice to hear the genuine “UCHU KITAAA” again from Sota Fukushi.

Pity no Drive, but I suppose they ran out of reasons for Shinnosuke to get Belt-san back  :)

This movie is still gonna suck but at least there’s bound to be some good highlights!

A pair of posters for the upcoming Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Rider movie. The first features the heroes of the film, including the returning actors while the second shows off their transformed alter egos.

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Universe 6 fighters:  Wow, Hit has immobilized Jiren and has him at the edge of the stage!

Hit:  Leave this to me and go take care of the other fighters!

Me:  Orrrrrr... push Jiren off?

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Dunno if I like Goku’s new form.  I think because it doesn’t really make any damn sense.

If it was just that he got forced to a new form after absorbing the energy of an epic genkidama, I could get that.  It would have been a nice tease of an eventual new SS form (hell, maybe it still is).  But instead he somehow unlocks this “ultra instinct” or “mastery of self-movement” or whatever?  Ehhh.  I mean, I guess absorbing all that energy pushed him to some new state of being where that was a natural thing for him, but aaaaauuugh... 

I’m sorry, it just feels so half-assed.  Like they wanted to give him a new form, but also do this ultra instinct thing too.  So they just gave up and smashed them together and ran with it.

(I think it also bugs me cause it just strikes me as something better for Gohan.  Visually, if nothing else.)

Anyway, how the hell is all this getting resolved now?  Goku in that weird, god-scaring form was at absolute best only maybe equal to Jiren.  Now he’s completely tapped out.  It doesn’t seem like Vegeta’s gonna be the one to beat Jiren.  So maybe Freeza?  If not him I’m not sure what else it could be, unless Goku and Vegeta do fusion.

Or hey, maybe Ultra God Master of Self-Movement Super Saiyajin?

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S. H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Build (RabbitTank Form)

Woo, available for preorder.  Seems like it doesn’t have any accessories other than some alternate hands, but that’s ok with me.  I rarely pose them with weapons or anything anyway.

On the plus, it is cheap (like $24 at HLJ)!  It’s the 10th anniversary of the S. H. Figuarts line, so special price.

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OK, thankfully plasma beam and screw attack do make running around a bit simpler.  Those little robots that do the EMP-like attack can go to hell though.

The last three bosses were a lot of trial and error, but overall not too bad.  I’d probably have done a lot better against the final if I didn’t keep screwing up space jumping somehow and if I hadn’t lost so much energy trying to counter a move that turned out to not be counter-able.

I’m kinda annoyed the final boss was who it was.  And the final teaser scene after the credits bothers me a little bit as well.  But oh well.

Also amused that Theta and Omega metroids quickly became the easiest fights in the game.  And that original metroids were almost more trouble than anything else (though that’s more so because of how ice beam works in this game).

Metroid: Samus Returns

Picked this up over the weekend.  I’d never played Metroid 2, though I did briefly try the AM2R game, so had a vague idea of what to expect.

The graphics are good and the music and sound are good.  However, the controls are a little wonky and I think they put a little too much emphasis on the melee counter.  That really shouldn’t be the most effective way to kill everything.  I’d love to just avoid enemies to save time, but there’s so damn many it’s hard to do that.  It takes a lot of shots to kill anything, so I’m constantly stopping and waiting for things to charge at me so I can counter and one hit kill them.  It kinda ruins the exploration aspect for me.

I’m hoping that once I get more powers (like super missiles or plasma beam), I’ll be able to deal with minor enemies more easily and that will make it a bit more enjoyable.  I just wish MercurySteam had taken a bit more inspiration from Super Metroid or Fusion and not Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

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Metroid: Samus Returns

Picked this up over the weekend.  I’d never played Metroid 2, though I did briefly try the AM2R game, so had a vague idea of what to expect.

The graphics are good and the music and sound are good.  However, the controls are a little wonky and I think they put a little too much emphasis on the melee counter.  That really shouldn’t be the most effective way to kill everything.  I’d love to just avoid enemies to save time, but there’s so damn many it’s hard to do that.  It takes a lot of shots to kill anything, so I’m constantly stopping and waiting for things to charge at me so I can counter and one hit kill them.  It kinda ruins the exploration aspect for me.

I’m hoping that once I get more powers (like super missiles or plasma beam), I’ll be able to deal with minor enemies more easily and that will make it a bit more enjoyable.  I just wish MercurySteam had taken a bit more inspiration from Super Metroid or Fusion and not Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

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Feels like Kyuuranger has lost a lot of steam ever since they beat Scorpio.

The “Naga turns evil” subplot in particular feels like a waste.  It’s been a month since that happened and only one episode has actually focused on it.  And judging by the preview for ep 31, they’ll probably be resolving it already.

I hope the reveal for present-day Don Armage is good.

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Man, that’s the best Play Arts Kai I’ve seen.

And pricey, which is probably why it’s the best I’ve ever seen.

【ディシディアFF】PA改「ライトニング」可動フィギュアが予約開始！2モードのブレイズエッジが付属 : figure news

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I do hope in 10 years they come back and release an iPhone 9 and 10.

Amusing, and made me think of @jthurteau

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It’s almost Chinese New Years! I wanted to paint Chun-Li for this week’s episode and here’s something I did to prepare for it 🦀🎉

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Well, that last episode of Ex-Aid was kinda disappointing.  The fighting was good though.  But did they really have to repeat what happened the last time Parado “died”?  They couldn’t think of any other way for Emu to still be able to transform?  Meh.

Also, Nico invested her money in Genm?

The corporation that created the Bugsters?  And the Game Syndrome virus?  And Kamen Rider Chronicle?  And was run by two lunatics with god complexes?  The one that was directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of at least a few dozen people and blatantly threatened the safety of the country, if not the whole world?

Seriously, how is that sound investment?

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Holy crap that sucked.

That movie’s only single worthwhile moment was Hiiro punching Emu in the face.

Dear god I’m only thirty minutes into Chou Super Hero Taisen and I want to bash my head into the wall.

How did they manage to make this worse than the last three?

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Dear god I’m only thirty minutes into Chou Super Hero Taisen and I want to bash my head into the wall.

How did they manage to make this worse than the last three?