Which user would you go on a date with?

[Mr. Daddy]

Sorry for changing the subject, just a thought that occured right now:

Has anyone else started having less patience for LOUD-ASS games the older you get? I'm only 29 but games that are too loud get really grating for me nowadays.
I was checking out some gameplay of Dark Souls 3 while working and this shit is obnoxious as hell. Every enemy just screams their lungs out like crazy non-stop.

I also noticed it when playing Banjo Kazooie last year. The constant upbeat music and loud sounds were just really annoying (the compositions are great, it's just the loudness of the entire game I'm speaking of), and I was really glad when I got to Tooie and it had a much more subdued soundtrack.​

The only sound I can think of that's ever bothered me in a game is that ear-bleedingly terrible ringing sound from the Kalameet fight in DS1.​

 

[Gorse]

the length really isn't that bad as a read.

Mr. Daddy, if you don't mind me asking, when did you get into One Piece? Are you a longtime fan? Most of the people who I see are fans of the series seem to have followed it for quite a while.

I actually remember watching, of all things, the 4kids dub of the very earliest episodes (I think I even started with the first one) years and years and years ago on YTV, but it never really grabbed me at the time.

 

[Prism_Red]

What if there's a canonical crossover between Bass and Hatsune Miku where they F each other? Will you two explode, or will something more beautiful be born?

I'm sure there is a fanfic of this exist somewhere out there.

 

[fake-kun]

I'm sure there is a fanfic of this exist somewhere out there.

STOP BRINGING THIS UP.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

I made a post a long time back in the "Sequel Decay" thread, but I think it still sums up my thoughts more or less, even though they're somewhat abridged in this post since I was listing an entire series:

That being said, I enjoyed it when it released, but the honeymoon phase wore off fairly quick.
All in all, I don't like how it's so safe. It's not unique like 2 and not impressive like 1 was, so it sort of falls short for me on all ends compared to its peers.​

Holy moly! Our opinions couldn't be farther apart.
I think Dark Souls has proper clunky movement mechanics and half-baked multiplayer components when compared to its sequels. Build variety is at its most limited, and as you mention the map design gets pretty wack in the final third. It's still a tremendous game though.
For my personal taste it's the weakest DkS title. Though I do appreciate the way it uses narrow spaces better than any other entry in the series.
I also think Dark Souls III is positively bursting with colour when compared to the muted pallettes of DkS and DkSII.
I'd actually say with the exception of Bloodborne, no game feels like DkSIII, and that it succeeds at establishing its own identity whilst also being a true and authentic sequel to the narrative and themes of DkS, whether that's what players wanted or not.

But hey, agree to disagree! It's just nice to hear another considered opinion​

I actually think the movement in DS1 is probably where it's my favorite. When I first started playing it, I was right with Kamako on it being clunky. I was fresh off the heels of just having finished Bloodborne when I played DS1, so you can probably imagine why that would be jarring, but then there's a neat trick I learned that completely changed how I play and got rid of every problem I had with the movement to the point that if anything I have problems with how the rest of the series feels. I just stopped locking on to enemies. You move faster, have finer control, and can dodge in whatever direction you want so you can take more advantage of dodging through enemies to play overly agressively like a crackhea- er, like I do. I know that's not for everyone and it's gonna be a preference thing, but I think it helps a lot.

As for multiplayer that's more... complicated. I think DS1 has phenomenal multiplayer in terms of covenants, their lore and theming, their interactivity, and how easy it generally is to find activity, but the actual experience itself is a bit more awkward. Lower build variety almost doesn't even matter with some of the worst latency issues I think I've ever seen, and the times it devolves into backstab fishing certainly doesn't help either. Multiplayer's definitely way, way better in terms of the actual quality of the encounters on average in DSIII, but I just feel like the covenants themselves are just kinda lacking. Both do it all better than DSII though, with the exception of build variety.

I've always felt that DS1 and DSIII are largely equal games in terms of quality, largely because where I think one is great, I think the other is pretty bad, and if I had to pick one over the other it's usually only going to be DS1 because it lets me run around more areas of the game earlier.​

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Let's see...

RanmyakuIchi and Antilocal
Zega Zonic and LiberoVulpes
RanmyakuIchi and Antilocal
Yousef and half of RGT
RanmyakuIchi and Antilocal​

I'm genuinely surprised the list is that short.​

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If me and Gorse did the fusion dance, would we be Gorseberry or Torse?

Goonberry.​

 

[Tonberry]

Goonberry.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

Which user would you go on a date with?

Full circle, baby!​

I would genuinely at least consider dating pretty much every regular to this thread.​

 

[Prism_Red]

I would genuinely at least consider dating pretty much every regular to this thread.​

That's why you're the Daddy.

 

[Tonberry]

Do you guys think burping or farting is funnier? Grossness notwithstanding, just plain and simple fun factor.
If you answer none you're a filthy liar.

 

[Gorse]

Groseness

I NEVER DO EITHER OF THOSE SICKENING ACTIONS

 

[Tonberry]

Why the hell did I spell it like that...

 

[fake-kun]

Do you guys think burping or farting is funnier? Groseness notwithstanding, just plain and simple fun factor.
If you answer none you're a filthy liar.

I'm a wannabe robot, I wouldn't know anything about it.

 

[Prism_Red]

Do you guys think burping or farting is funnier? Groseness notwithstanding, just plain and simple fun factor.
If you answer none you're a filthy liar.

Farting is always funnier to me cause you have plenty of gameplay approach, if you're a rogue kind of guy you can go silent but deadly, or if you are someone who prefer a frontal action you can try a nuclear meltdown.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Do you guys think burping or farting is funnier? Groseness notwithstanding, just plain and simple fun factor.
If you answer none you're a filthy liar.

Depends on the context of the joke, but I feel farting generally has more humor potential and flexibility.

 

[Antilocal123]

OHMY GOD GUYS So I was just playing fortnight and i look up at the sky and seen a metor AND a commet BOTH falling at TILTED TOWERS oh my god it is the asteroid!! Nobody land tilted towel for the rest of the DAY if u want to LIVE!! Don’t believe me look up AT the sky!! If you look closely you will find the meteor and commets are falling everywear! Mabey it will be new game mode hmm Do NOT land at tilted tower or elts u WILL die there and hav 2 start over and u LOSE your skins and batle pass!

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

OHMY GOD GUYS So I was just playing fortnight and i look up at the sky and seen a metor AND a commet BOTH falling at TILTED TOWERS oh my god it is the asteroid!! Nobody land tilted towel for the rest of the DAY if u want to LIVE!! Don’t believe me look up AT the sky!! If you look closely you will find the meteor and commets are falling everywear! Mabey it will be new game mode hmm Do NOT land at tilted tower or elts u WILL die there and hav 2 start over and u LOSE your skins and batle pass!

I work for Epic Games. We're directing a meteor into Earth to wipe out all known life as a part of our announcement for the Sephiroth Battle Pass.

 

[Tonberry]

OHMY GOD GUYS So I was just playing fortnight and i look up at the sky and seen a metor AND a commet BOTH falling at TILTED TOWERS oh my god it is the asteroid!! Nobody land tilted towel for the rest of the DAY if u want to LIVE!! Don’t believe me look up AT the sky!! If you look closely you will find the meteor and commets are falling everywear! Mabey it will be new game mode hmm Do NOT land at tilted tower or elts u WILL die there and hav 2 start over and u LOSE your skins and batle pass!

 

[SageoThyme]

 

[Mr. Daddy]

Mr. Daddy, if you don't mind me asking, when did you get into One Piece? Are you a longtime fan? Most of the people who I see are fans of the series seem to have followed it for quite a while.

I actually remember watching, of all things, the 4kids dub of the very earliest episodes (I think I even started with the first one) years and years and years ago on YTV, but it never really grabbed me at the time.​

My history with One Piece is a little complicated. I too, started with the 4kids dub, and since I grew up as a young anime fan in the states in the 2000s, saw a lot of 4kids dubbed shows. I loved that dub then, but it's so far and beyond just butchering the story that I wouldn't even begin to know where to start without just dropping major spoilers. In general I can say that One Piece definitely leans more into the "middle teen" age range of what you could expect from a Shonen series and required even more censorship than Yu-Gi-Oh! did, if that tells you anything.

I didn't really watch or read One Piece for years after the 4kids dub was airing, though. Not out of a lack of interest necessarily, but I did spend a lot of time trying to find and finish other series I was more interested in like Bobobo, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Zatch Bell, etc. Around the time I had started Bleach (my simultaneous favorite and least favorite of the big 3 from the 2000s, curse you and your mixed quality writing, Kubo), Toonami had come back and started airing the fourth saga of One Piece (which I would also say is probably one of the two parts of One Piece I would understand someone saying is their favorite part of the first half), and decided to try to get back into it by jumping on there. It was great, but I eventually hit some filler that made me want a break and I didn't get back to it for years again.

Around 2023, I saw that One Piece went from being the "somewhat niche but still really popular with anime fans" series to the "this is pretty much the biggest thing in the world right now" series, and knew that I would be risking more spoilers than I was comfortable with if I ended up waiting longer to get caught up, so I just decided to binge read the whole thing over time when I had downtime at work, which, working at a non-chain local convenience store that's open seasonally, there tends to be a lot of. I'm still not caught up in the anime though, but I'm technically kinda working on that. I knew that One Piece would be something @Nidoking would love (he really likes water, the ocean, naval things, pirates, etc.) but he was put off by the art style and just not knowing much about it for a long time. I got him to try it though, and every now and again he, @King Koopa and I watch it together, and they're about to start Dressrosa soon (tied for my personal favorite part of the story so far.) So, technically I've been a longtime One Piece fan in a sense, but really only actively and with it being any major part of my life in the last few years.

If you do decide to give it the chance, there's an arc before that 100 chapter goalpost I mentioned called Arlong Park that I think is the closest to how good One Piece gets later on in the story. That in particular would probably be the first point of potential failure if you were to try it out, because if that's not something you're into, then later One Piece probably wouldn't be either. I would say the final deciding area for if you really, really have any chance of being in or not would be around Chapter 441. I know that both of those chapter numbers are far longer than entire other manga series, but I'd say if by those points you were either turned off from the series or just not really into it, it'd be fair to stop at those points.​

 

[LiberoVulpes]

My friends are very into One Piece, i don't watch it, i just know about it by osmosis.

 

[Ume]

I NEVER DO EITHER OF THOSE SICKENING ACTIONS

Lmao oooookay

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

@ObscureJigglypuff, THIS IS A CHALLENGE:

MEET ME IN FRONT OF THE OLD SALOON
AT HIGH NOON FOR A SUDDEN DEATH GOON-OFF.

THE PRIZE FOR SUCCESS IS INFINITE GLORY.
THE PUNISHMENT FOR DEFEAT IS STILL GOONING, BUT IN A SORT OF DISAPPOINTED WAY.

SEE YOU THERE.​

Is someone trying to make a move here?

I accept the challenge, BALD(dur's gate) sempai!!!!

 

[LiberoVulpes]

I accept the challenge, BALD(dur's gate) sempai!!!!

OMG! Is that Punished Gorse? A man denied gooning?

 

[Gorse]

HOW DID YOU GET THIS PHOTO OF ME??????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[GardeniaSky]

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