Author Topic: DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009! (Read 249082 times)

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1625 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:02:55 PM »

If Dune plays PB, he's probably never advancing the plot again the minute he unlocks the Fusionist and the Titlist. Walnut's fail doesn't start getting impressive until past that point.

superaielman · « **Reply #1626 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:07:17 PM »

You unlock the Titlist in C1? Walnut's fail was pretty legendary in C1.

Every game needs a Cauldron to come along and kick the shit out of it's losers. "If you see someone talking bad about Marona, beat them up!" Seriously.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1627 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:16:15 PM »

Quote from: superaielman on September 05, 2009, 03:07:17 PM

You unlock the Titlist in C1? Walnut's fail was pretty legendary in C1.

Every game needs a Cauldron to come along and kick the shit out of it's losers. "If you see someone talking bad about Marona, beat them up!" Seriously.

I'm actually not sure Dune would advance plot past the Fusionist, although now I'm remembering how Walnut managed to cheat Marona out of her pay on E2. I was just remembering that Castille started existing by C2, and she makes Walnut look about seven hundred trillion times worse by appearing in the screen.

superaielman · « **Reply #1628 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:21:17 PM »

Right, Walnut was C2. C1 was that village with Owls.

The really great part about Walnut is his Kresnik like devotion to his sister. YES clearly never speaking to her or letting her know you're alive is the best way to be a good brother. The only thing that saves him from being a complete joke in PB is the game considers him as much of a loser as everyone playing does.

Random: Dhyer and I were talking about annoyingly bad forced characters in RPG's. Is there anyone who is forced on a regular basis that is less useful than Dart?

Sierra · « **Reply #1629 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:22:38 PM »

Dude, Freed.

superaielman · « **Reply #1630 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:23:44 PM »

Freed blows but isn't forced for too long. Plus, Dart is argubly the second worst PC in his cast and you have to use him the entire game.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1631 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:25:37 PM »

I direct you to Suikoden I and its slavish devotion to shoving either Gremio or Viktor into your party whenever it felt you were actually using PCs that weren't a waste of space.

superaielman · « **Reply #1632 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:27:31 PM »

One PC out of six though, and there is some rotation. While that blows, you can at least stick a holy rune on them?!

My ideas were S1 scrubs myself and Lazlo, who is Lazlo and needs to burn. ...Wait, Riki in Riki's quest. Actively makes the quest harder even before awful monster LP makes the magma slime fight a bitch.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1633 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:31:32 PM »

You could always not use Riki's party in fights!

superaielman · « **Reply #1634 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:32:15 PM »

NOPE. It forces Riki (Or whoever is your leader) in boss fights. I'm very sure on this.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1635 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:33:53 PM »

-RIGHT-. I keep forgetting Riki quest is SaGa's gentle way of saying "I banged your mom in the ass for a nickel".

superaielman · « **Reply #1636 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:37:38 PM »

The 'best' of the easily gettable monster jobs is Black Dragon, which has 4 JP. This is a fight where you would KILL for Time magic and of course you can't access it in any form. Annoying. But it fits the rest of that rapequest, where they take away your best mage right at the end without warning and force you to endure Tanzer.

Saga Frontier is great. I'd still like to blame Riki's quest on Nomura freebasing mushrooms and doing a guest quest. It has all the usual traits- Young boy travels the world with a bunch of men and one token women, drug induced paths (You fight the immortal tranny Virgil and make her happy with COMBOS or die!), and the ending is bad and mostly out of nowhere.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1637 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:39:52 PM »

I think even Nomura could improve on Riki's quest. That thing's like half a step above Leisure Suit Margulis.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #1638 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:42:24 PM »

Riki is the least of SaGa Frontier's problems.

Veryslightlymad · « **Reply #1639 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:42:41 PM »

HOORAY! My stupid meal plan thingy went through and I can FINALLY EAT FUCKING LUNCH.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1640 on:** September 05, 2009, 04:18:04 PM »

Whee, caffeine buzz is gone. Those last two hours will be complete dreck, and I still have to get a haircut.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #1641 on:** September 05, 2009, 05:00:00 PM »

Time for my first Realm Qualifier this season in the WoW TCG.

I shall be playing Searing Light Holy Priest. Ash is playing Death Knight. Considering my recent discovery that one of the best decks in block reams me much harder than I thought, I don't have much hope.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1642 on:** September 05, 2009, 05:38:13 PM »

uuuurgh less than thirty minutes to leave and the body starts complaining it haven't had lunch yet fuck your organic functions

EDIT: off off off off off three-dayweekendhereicome

Grefter · « **Reply #1643 on:** September 06, 2009, 12:02:47 AM »

Riki as black dragon is enough to get by in Rikki's quest. No need for tears. It is Saga, you just need to have 4 other broken people. You can manage that even within the fail frameworks of Rikki quest.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1644 on:** September 06, 2009, 04:29:44 PM »

So, I did some TA training on Tuesday and Wednesday. We learned some really interesting stuff, especially on Day 2. We learned a lot about cultures and how they learn and stuff. If your students frustrate you, maybe it's because they were taught to learn a different way! Also learned about learning styles (I am apparently the intuitive learning style) which was neat and we learned how to adapt to each learning style.

Probably the biggest surprise was the grading section. We were doing an exercise on grading, and this guy next to me was being really hard on the students' little essays. He was talking about putting a standard deviation and statistical significance and good lord you think first-year chemistry students actually know this shit? They are answering the question to the best of their knowledge, and if you are expecting them to talk about things clearly beyond their knowledge, then you have forgotten what it is like to be a freshmen.

I really have a lot of respect for the Chinese students. They were about 1/3rd people from China in my TA training, and it's really great because... I mean, I moved to a different country, but they are moving to a new language/much different culture and they don't really know anyone. Just taking a leap because they think it'll be awesome. One of the professors I interviewed told me that graduate studies is the best part of North American education, and I guess that's why they take the chance.

Other than that, I've been spending my time picking out a research professor. I've talked to four with varying interests. The two people who I legitimately liked was a guy trying to design a better way to separate materials without using fucktons of solvent. He's also working on using this new technology to try to test a better drug for bypass surgery.

The second researcher is this lady who is trying to design more biodegradable polymers using metals, basically.

I'm talking to a third professor who is also in polymer chemistry, but he is designing inorganic equivalents of petro-based polymers. Pretty sweet.

Classes start Tuesday, I have class at 10/11 on MWF. I'm not sure when I teach labs yet. I'm excited.

Problem is, the first researcher and the second and third have very different interests and the classes I'd be taking are based off them. I think I am going to go with the polymer courses though.

Ultradude · « **Reply #1645 on:** September 06, 2009, 05:59:44 PM »

Learning styles are pretty interesting, even if I can never get totally consistent results for my own.

The first researcher sounds pretty interesting, but that's probably partly a friend of mine working in a chemical plant that handles a lot of them. Apparently he improved one of the formulas by accidentally doing it wrong and he's... somewhat accident prone in general, so it's probably good that he's going back to college in two weeks. I'd hate to know the guy that blew up my hometown v_v

Idun · « **Reply #1646 on:** September 06, 2009, 08:07:59 PM »

Congrats Ciato~

Time to go to work on Sunday. I'm not devout, but I do believe this day IG should be off limits just because.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1647 on:** September 06, 2009, 08:58:47 PM »

That's stupid. Sundays suck because people hold to that philosophy--so many stores and restaurants here have terrible hours on Sunday. Look I agree that everyone needs days off but it is just inefficient to have them all take it off on the same day. Don't have your day off on Sun/Sat? Take it during the week. If you can't do that, then why the hell are to working Sun/Sat anyway? That's stupid on another level.

But there are a lot of people who could viably be working weekends and taking days off during the week who don't for no other reason that an archaeic tradition.

Idun · « **Reply #1648 on:** September 07, 2009, 04:35:26 AM »

Well, I'm pretty sure that stores who get good volume on Sundays bulk up the manpower necessary. We're open regular hours on Sunday. Otherwise, depending on your area, frequency of customers and their involvement with church/business/work on Mondays in general, it'd probably be better to not be open. I don't think something is stupid just because it's old. There's no reason for many stores to be open where I'm at on Sunday unless some loafer wants to come in at 9:00PM because he's craving some cookies.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1649 on:** September 07, 2009, 05:12:59 AM »

It's not stupid because it's old. It's stupid and we only follow it because it's old. Were it not a tradition, we wouldn't be doing it because it doesn't make a lick of sense. Why does everyone need to have the one day they set aside to relax be on the same day? We fucking don't.

Now, if it seems I'm overreacting, it's probably because we basically have given up on it here in the US. Sure, some things close and there are still archaeic little idiocies flitting about (I can't buy beer before 5 on a Sunday... why?), but in the US we've largely gotten over it. It's horrible in the UK. While I was there, I was living in a relatively small city, with no car or bicycle. It quickly became a problem that, even in the town's major business district, on Sundays the shops all were open from something ridiculous like 12-4PM, if they were open at all (most weren't). (IIRC, pubs remained open to the late hour of 10PM... but those Euros are bigger alcoholics than us Yanks, yeah.) So, effectively, it became impossible to get food on a Sunday unless you wanted overpriced bar food or happened to be able to make it to the store in those 4 hours.

Let's not even go into the public transit (which I needed to get to campus, and I regularly needed to get to campus on Sundays to do homework).

I've experienced living in a place that does shut everything down on Sunday and lets just about everyone have that one stupid day off. The benefit of the day off is utterly crushed by your inability to do much with it. It is moronic, inefficient, and has no real reason to be implimented. Quit bitching about working Sundays, you'll get your fucking day off sooner or later.

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Author Topic: DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009! (Read 249082 times)

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