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[Sleepstate]

Sonic Superstars is an ok game

 

[Android 18]

People who consider listening to an audiobook to be the same/as enriching an experience as reading that same book on the screen, much less a physical book copy, are deluding themselves simply because they don't want to read. There isn't anything wrong with audiobooks themselves, but pretending they are as up to par as text you intellectually engage with using your eyes is just silly.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

People who consider listening to an audiobook to be the same/as enriching an experience as reading that same book on the screen, much less a physical book copy, are deluding themselves simply because they don't want to read. There isn't anything wrong with audiobooks themselves, but pretending they are as up to par as text you intellectually engage with using your eyes is just silly.

Is actually easier to get distracted from listening to audiobooks

 

[Cantarella]

Well, I think the issue would be that, if you're listening to an audiobook, there's a good chance you're also doing something else at the same time. It happens to be the case that people use them as background noise. This is impossible with a book.
But if someone just listens to an audiobook with their eyes closed, IDK why they couldn't have the same level of active engagement as someone reading the words.

 

[Ikagura]

Most traditional fighting games suck

Why?

Sonic Superstars is an ok game.

And ok Sonic game isn't just a mediocre video game?

 

[Ikagura]

People who consider listening to an audiobook to be the same/as enriching an experience as reading that same book on the screen, much less a physical book copy, are deluding themselves simply because they don't want to read. There isn't anything wrong with audiobooks themselves, but pretending they are as up to par as text you intellectually engage with using your eyes is just silly.

The only thing I'm fine listening to are informational books such as encyclopaedia and history/mathematical books.

For a fictional story I cannot get immersed well enough with them, I need paper and words to have a better "grasp" on the characters and universe they're living in.



Radio series, podcasts and even audio drama work better because they're narrated in a way specifically for audio (like different voices instead of one reader taking different tones and sound effects). An Audiobook works better if you are doing nothing else.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

anti-cheats are ruining online gaming more than actual cheating

we need more games without any anticheat that just handles it the old fashioned way of banning anyone that's ruining the vibe

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

Freezer meals are actually pretty tasty if you're too lazy to cook.

 

[Ikagura]

anti-cheats are ruining online gaming more than actual cheating

we need more games without any anticheat that just handles it the old fashioned way of banning anyone that's ruining the vibe.

The issue is that while banning cheaters is understandable big online games are also trying to ban anyone they may think they'd say something harmful (because of the faulty algorithm/voice recognition program).

Also some tricks are not cheating per se so what could define something "ruining the vibe" if they're just being good?

 

[Ikagura]

How many people are still doing well past 60? I feel that out of the entire life expectancy of someone we should take the "effective" aspect of it like how we aren't really self aware before 3 and not fully developed until 20-25. Out of around 80 years of life we have 50-60 of actual effectivity.

 

[Amag0k1]

Freezer meals are actually pretty tasty if you're too lazy to cook.

Can make your own on a Sunday and feeze them for the week. This is what we do in my house, unless we are rapping tortilla, then we just chop the veggie and heat up the meat.

 

[guiraran]

Final Fantasy as a franchise is overrated, not saying it's bad but it's not so extraordinary or fun as people say

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Why?

Too complex

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Dio had a better voice actor in the arcade game than in the David productions anime

 

[Deleted member 598440]

I saw somewhere that saying "goodnight" and "good morning" is a sign of mental disparity and it makes want to "goodnight" (knock out) whoever said that. It takes 5 seconds

 

[Ikagura]

Dio had a better voice actor in the arcade game than in the David productions anime

I love Koyasu's voice but I agree, he sounded more monstrous/otherworldly in there.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

I love Koyasu's voice but I agree, he sounded more monstrous/otherworldly in there.

Just listen at this:

 

[Ikagura]

Just listen at this:

It's still incredible how close the modern voice was to that one.

Maybe the low-fi sample made him even more threatening.

PS: I don't mind his OVA voice but he sounded more... raspy? Like an old man (which is what he technically is since he is around Jotaro's great great grand-father's age).

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

It's still incredible how close the modern voice was to that one.

Maybe the low-fi sample made him even more threatening.

Dunno why the David productions guys didnt hire him back

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Worrying about the others makes me a bad person

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

I don't like the art style of Final Fantasy past VII, with the software upgrades they should've stick with making the games look like Amano's art as much as possible, anything past VII is not aesthetically cohesive to me at all

 

[Ikagura]

I don't like the art style of Final Fantasy past VII, with the software upgrades they should've stick with making the games look like Amano's art as much as possible, anything past VII is not aesthetically cohesive to me at all

FFIX was more classic but I kinda agree that VIII and X onwards made it more realistic instead of keeping the "fantasy" part of the series.

Post automatically merged: Jun 22, 2025

While I find it very interesting I think that the Half-Life² we got in 2004 is much better than the fabled "Dark and Gritty" beta

 

[Big Finger Jim]

I don't like the art style of Final Fantasy past VII, with the software upgrades they should've stick with making the games look like Amano's art as much as possible, anything past VII is not aesthetically cohesive to me at all

I'm guessing you just mean Nomura's art in general.

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

No I meant Yoshitaka Amano, I expressed myself wrong

 

[Big Finger Jim]

No I meant Yoshitaka Amano, I expressed myself wrong

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They should've used this art style for some of the remasters, but I know that requires WAY more effort and creativity than Square is willing to put in.

Post automatically merged: Jun 25, 2025

One day, maybe someone'll do a throwback rpg inspired by his style, or there could already be one out there.