River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[Tektonic]

Yikes :

Perhaps derived from yoicks, a hunting call used to urge hounds after a fox, which is attested from 1765-1775, that also is sometimes used as an exclamation of excitement or triumph. Yoicks is perhaps related to the earlier hoicks. Hoicks (alternatively hoick, hoic or hoik) is a variant of hyke, which was used as an exclamation of encouragement to hounds hunting deer. Further etymology unknown.

 

[Jenkem]

I think ERA likes to say yikes because it's suspiciously close to a slur they really wanna say. 

[Momo]

Date's [sic] VA was defending Vic Mignonga and dismissing BLM/MeToo in an interview recently too

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Die on this hill breh, the Vic Malnutrition stories are questionable as fuck. 

[Jenkem]

[Momo]

meant for the person you quoted

[Snoopycat_]

C A N C E L L E D

[VomKriege]

Centrism is best explained by Kingdom Hearts' main antagonist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-centrism-mean-to-you.105954/page-4#post-18951839

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-centrism-mean-to-you.105954/page-3#post-18950883



And on the heels of that...

From an American standpoint (the only one I can even have an opinion on): the side that says "Can't we all just get along".

No, boogie. We will not "all get along".

Boogie

[Jenkem]

Centrism is best explained by Kingdom Hearts' main antagonist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-centrism-mean-to-you.105954/page-4#post-18951839

Xehanort is trans. Xehanort is a person of color. Xehanort is an immigrant. Xehanort is a lesbian. Xehanort is a gay man. Xehanort is the disabled.

Xehanort is everything. And so are you, Sora.

Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know or understand. No one wants to hurt you. We are all just looking for our happily ever after.

[VomKriege]

Dox Emperor Conqueror of Youngblood GAF Slayer Era Mod Admiral Idi Amin Benji will be pleased to know the following discussion is still going on :

You're not going to get perfect comparisons because the footage was taken by different photographers and equipment, but we can deduce a few things based on the available evidence; you can fit more people in a room without seats than with them, and the area behind the podium at Bernie's rally is filled with people (all the way up to the stage with curtains) and that same area at Kamala's rally was not. Looking at the rally footage from both you can see that the people fill the space all the way to the back of the room in both events, so using basic physics, arithmetic and deductive logic it's pretty clear to me which rally held more people.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2020-democratic-presidential-primary-ot-beto-joins-the-race.91234/page-276#post-18952209

[VomKriege]

Also a little bit before, someone trying real hard to label Ichthyosaurus a white supremacy apologist and lover.
 

If you told me Yang was being pushed by alt-righters pretending to be Dem's just to mess with people i'd believe you wholeheartedly.
Well, that is what is happening more or less lol.

Yang's "Yang Gang" is full of 4chan/8chan trolls. Searching Yang on social media results in lots of Pepe shit.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2020-democratic-presidential-primary-ot-beto-joins-the-race.91234/page-274#post-18947638

[VomKriege]

https://mobile.twitter.com/gop/status/1107314663023353864

I reported that GOP tweet for targeted hate against a group of people. Fuck them

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2020-democratic-presidential-primary-ot-beto-joins-the-race.91234/page-272#post-18935565

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wait-capcom-hired-a-white-dude-who-pretends-to-be-black-and-says-nicca-to-voice-morrison-in-dmcv.105965/

I think some people on ERA have a wildly inflated sense of how much vetting goes into voice actors.

As a forum that prides itself on fighting for representation it's interesting that they keep ignoring that the model for Nico is half Malaysian

[BisMarckie]

Should have posted the full post Vom because it is glorious.

Today at 5:42 AM
#151
Centrism is best explained by Kingdom Hearts' main antagonist. That centrist dipshit pretends he's all about "Balance" whenever he opens his mouth, blabbering about the importance of both Light and Darkness. When it's actually time to do stuff though, he sure magically seems to lean towards pure Darkness every single fucking time though, and never Light. 🤔

[bork]

https://gematsu.com/2019/03/super-real-mahjong-pv-for-switch-temporarily-pulled-from-nintendo-eshop-in-japan

[joeboy101]

https://mobile.twitter.com/gop/status/1107314663023353864

I reported that GOP tweet for targeted hate against a group of people. Fuck them

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2020-democratic-presidential-primary-ot-beto-joins-the-race.91234/page-272#post-18935565

Waitaminute, RE told me you can’t be racist towards whites??
 

[Propagandhim]

That's a really tasteless tweet, though. 

[porkbun]

it's nice to know enzom's got a job 

if they ever do a Fat Albert reboot, he'd be perfect for Mushmouth.

[ToxicAdam]

people who think turn based games are antiquated can suck my dick.

I love tbs games it's my favorite genre, but when is the last time you played one that was innovative?

At this point, they are all just reboots/reimaginings of old archetypes.

[Momo]

when was the last time you played a game of chess/shogi/mahjong that was innovative, the point of those games arent to be innovative (although some are with their battle systems, gear systems and magic systems) but to use the tools you have, or know when not to use finite resources to out-strategize the enemy. Strategizing is a timeless endeavour, it's so fundamental to many boardgames and table top games. Making these games play like kingdom heart is fucking cancer.

That a lot of popular turn based games' difficulty curve is so broken that you can 'attack,'attack','attack' is another story though.

[Transhuman]

I pretty much play every single turn based RPG identically though. (Attack, Attack, Heal, Attack, Attack, Heal...)

[joeboy101]

That's a really tasteless tweet, though.

Oh granted, a total d-bag tweet, but it’s the GOP Twitter. I expect no less.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I love tbs games it's my favorite genre, but when is the last time you played one that was innovative?

At this point, they are all just reboots/reimaginings of old archetypes.

whens the last time you played anything that you can attach a genre label to that was innovative?
TBS has emphasis on the S, because taking away time pressure and reflexive skill puts the strategy element front and centre.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/public-shaming-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-hbo.105985/post-18951281

So that's John Oliver joining hbomberguy as era approved figures holding up a mirror and indirectly calling era posters pieces of shit.
Whats next? A contrapoints about fauxgressives?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/professional-team-sports-are-degenerate.106005/post-18954466

 

Friend, have you ever heard about these extravagant multi-million dollar budget time-wasting productions called "video games"?

You mean "art", "cutting-edge engineering", and "hobby with active participation"?

 

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/professional-team-sports-are-degenerate.106005/post-18954466

 

Friend, have you ever heard about these extravagant multi-million dollar budget time-wasting productions called "video games"?

You mean "art", "cutting-edge engineering", and "hobby with active participation"?

 

multi-million dollar art

 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wait-capcom-hired-a-white-dude-who-pretends-to-be-black-and-says-nicca-to-voice-morrison-in-dmcv.105965/

I think some people on ERA have a wildly inflated sense of how much vetting goes into voice actors.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/reuben-langdon-dante-of-devil-may-cry-victim-blames-sexual-harassment-victims-thinks-me-too-and-black-lives-matter-goes-too-far.106010/post-18954883

huh, they really have cacpcom in the crosshairs right now.

Appalling that the company that brought us jill sandwich and fill your dark soul with liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight don't spend the money that era often cite as a AAA needless extravagance to hire VO artists who have the media training of a Brie Larson to stay on message at all times.

[ToxicAdam]

I love tbs games it's my favorite genre, but when is the last time you played one that was innovative?

At this point, they are all just reboots/reimaginings of old archetypes.

whens the last time you played anything that you can attach a genre label to that was innovative?
TBS has emphasis on the S, because taking away time pressure and reflexive skill puts the strategy element front and centre.

I think Hearthstone did a good job of incorporating RNG into a TCG. The digital space allowed them to randomly generate minion/cards in hand or on the field of play. Other variables (such as damage given/taken) helped create games that felt very different from each other, even if you played a Bo3  with the same decks.

How would you even innovate Turn-Based gameplay which due to its name must stay based in turns?

I guess kind of innovation would be to have limited time for performing actions within a turn (real-life limitation i.e. 60 secs) but that would suck.

Isn't that what BoF:Dragon Quarter basically did and everyone loved it?

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wait-capcom-hired-a-white-dude-who-pretends-to-be-black-and-says-nicca-to-voice-morrison-in-dmcv.105965/

I think some people on ERA have a wildly inflated sense of how much vetting goes into voice actors.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/reuben-langdon-dante-of-devil-may-cry-victim-blames-sexual-harassment-victims-thinks-me-too-and-black-lives-matter-goes-too-far.106010/post-18954883

huh, they really have cacpcom in the crosshairs right now.

Appalling that the company that brought us jill sandwich and fill your dark soul with liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight don't spend the money that era often cite as a AAA needless extravagance to hire VO artists who have the media training of a Brie Larson to stay on message at all times.

I'm about 15 minutes into the indicated timestamp from the OP and they sound like decent people making very reasonable points.

[VomKriege]

Turn based with simultaneous resolution has a few good examples (Frozen Synapse, Frozen Cortex and an interesting Fulda Gap late Cold War game I forgot the name of).

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dead-or-alive-6-photography-thread.105859/



"Photography thread" 

Surprised this hasn't been closed yet TBH

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I think Hearthstone did a good job of incorporating RNG into a TCG. The digital space allowed them to randomly generate minion/cards in hand or on the field of play. Other variables (such as damage given/taken) helped create games that felt very different from each other, even if you played a Bo3 against with the same decks.

Its more convenient to do stuff like that in the digital space, but anyone whos played shit like Talisman is familiar with having multiple decks to simulate random penalty / reward generation.
You could totally turn Hearthstone into an RTS rather than a turn based game, and its strategic depth would suffer due to time pressure.
In fact, isn't there a legendary card that when in play dramatically reduces the time allowed to play cards to simulate what HS would play like if you were forced to play it like speed chess?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dead-or-alive-6-photography-thread.105859/



"Photography thread" 

Surprised this hasn't been closed yet TBH

【ｃｏｒｅ　ｖａｌｕｅｓ】

[Jansen]

"ERA"

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

This is Kratos as depicted in God of War ONE by the original creators of God of War. Why people think this character is caucasian boggles my mind. Same with Lara Croft’s whitewashing but that’s another topic.

[Uncle]

How would you even innovate Turn-Based gameplay which due to its name must stay based in turns?

- fancy 3D graphics and camera --> already got that with XCOM2
- simultaneous movement of you & the enemy --> kind of Overwatch but if it goes full-time then it's no longet TB but Real-Time with Pause
- skills, cover & shit --> already done by lots of games, Mario vs Ubisoft the latest example

I guess kind of innovation would be to have limited time for performing actions within a turn (real-life limitation i.e. 60 secs) but that would suck.

What do you want? 4D Chess?

On the flip side how is anything non-turn-based labeled "innovative" anymore, how is an active battle system innovative


To get away from turn-based RPGs I would call the game Baba is You innovative and also turn-based/Sokoban based

i.e. one of the oldest game types ever made

[BadAss2961]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wait-capcom-hired-a-white-dude-who-pretends-to-be-black-and-says-nicca-to-voice-morrison-in-dmcv.105965/

I think some people on ERA have a wildly inflated sense of how much vetting goes into voice actors.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/reuben-langdon-dante-of-devil-may-cry-victim-blames-sexual-harassment-victims-thinks-me-too-and-black-lives-matter-goes-too-far.106010/post-18954883

huh, they really have cacpcom in the crosshairs right now.

What's funny is this idea of looking through an entire cast and crew for bad apples and condemning an entire game based on a couple people out of probably several hundreds that were involved. First it was the lead singer of a song in the game, Capcom cancelled him. But this latest bunch started with the Michael Jackson nod. After that comes the Morrison actor, and now Dante's actor (also Ken) who's been around for a very long time but somehow is only exposed just now.

ERA is childishly unrealistic with these things. I mean, good luck finding a large team of people who all have never said or done anything shady and align smoothly with your political views.

[Straight Edge]

Capcom’s infractions with DMC are arguably worse than THQ nordics but so far no one is calling for a complete boycott of Capcom softwar. This is probably because they actually make good games and doing so would actually inconvenience them.

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/capcom-hired-a-white-dude-who-pretends-to-be-black-and-says-nicca-to-voice-morrison-in-dmcv-yt-channel-full-of-transphobia-racism-and-antisemitism.105965/page-11

I'm pretty sure DMCV had a different casting director and supervisor than Resident Evil 2 Remake, Mega Man 11, Monster Hunter, etc.

Yes, they should still be vetting their performers, but it's a problem that a LOT of video game companies still face. All of the following characters are voiced by white actors:
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I think this particular VA's more problematic views, however, only make the casting significantly worse.

 

BOYCOTT CAPCOM
BOYCOTT SONY
BOYCOTT NINTENDO
BOYCOTT TELLTALE (RIP)
BOYCOTT UBISOFT

Add 'em to the list with THQ Nordic.  And remember...the 'T' in 'THQ' stands for 'Terrorist."

[Straight Edge]

Nintendo made 2 black characters in Smash have ape spirit animals and no one wants to boycott the company yet.

[bork]

ResetEra should just ban all video game discussion and remove the gaming forum entirely- problem solved!

[BIONIC]

Nintendo made 2 black characters in Smash have ape spirit animals and no one wants to boycott the company yet.

Still waiting for NoA employees to return to work after Christmas break. Any day now…

[tiesto]

Centrism = nazism, got it ERA, thanks!

If you're not fighting the good fight by posting nonstop on Era and watching every single Marvel movie, you're enabling the alt right and neo nazis to thrive!

[tiesto]

I guess kind of innovation would be to have limited time for performing actions within a turn (real-life limitation i.e. 60 secs) but that would suck.

Eternal Sonata did this and it did suck.

Really, the main way to "innovate" would be new rulesets and incremental changes here and there. Maybe more environmental interaction.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Is there ANY game anyone can think of in the last couple years where developers haven't been afraid to state they have a political message? Or are they all cowards?

If you dont count AAA, the 2064: Read Only Memories devs tell Trump voters to skip their game.

era problem with discourse about gaming in a nutshell; they don't know the fucking difference between textual reference and metatextual authorial intent or commentary.

[paprikastaude]

oh damn capcom has made too many awesome joyful games recently, time to stir shit up and fuel our rotten shit cores with drama and hate.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

ResetEra should just ban all video game discussion and remove the gaming forum entirely- problem solved!

if you consider this to be their mission statement as to what they think a gaming forum should be:

it becomes more obvious how every day they stray further from gods light abandon their founding principles.

Discussions about games? "Better served in the OT"
Sales figures?
Reviews? Give so little of a shit they have review threads without any fucking reviews in nowadays.

Gossip? Oh yeah, they fucking love their gossip.
but its not about the actual games themselves. Its about people, and increasingly people so tangentially related to games you wonder why they are even being brought up.

[Don Rumata]

This is Kratos as depicted in God of War ONE by the original creators of God of War. Why people think this character is caucasian boggles my mind. Same with Lara Croft’s whitewashing but that’s another topic.

At some point she was supposed to be LatinX, IIRC, but that was before the first game even came out.

[HardcoreRetro]

Laura Cruz

Edit:

They'd have no problem with this character at all. What with her tits hanging out.


Second edit:  The tough latina woman might also be a stereotype, so even more for them to like about this character that could've been.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

At some point she was supposed to be LatinX, IIRC, but that was before the first game even came out.

yeah, one of the archetypes a concept artist toyed with before a single line of code was written isn't an example of "whitewashing" a character.

So she'd be LateenX with british accent?

No, it predated literally anything else about the character outside of broad job description and general look

[HardcoreRetro]

She's white in the concept art as well. Literally.

[stufte]

Oh fucking shit. now because they choose a British white woman FICTIONAL CHARACTER *concept* to go with BEFORE THE GAME CAME OUT, it's white washing?

I was white washed because my mom dated a black guy for a while but ended up having me with my white father instead. 

This is 4D oppression chess.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

She's white in the concept art as well. Literally.

I'm sure its easier for that era member to imagine what a wonderfully realised character Laura Cruz would have been, and what a missed opportunity for promoting intersectionality the world lost.

Until you think about it for a minute and realise it would have been big tits sex kitten doing an outrrrrrrrageous accent

e: because honestly, bored little rich girl toff lara was inspired and made her an actual likable character. Something Crystal Dynamics still haven't figured out.

[Boredfrom]

oh damn capcom has made too many awesome joyful games recently, time to stir shit up and fuel our rotten shit cores with drama and hate.

I mean, I m starting to feel this is the real reason for the outrage meltdowns on RE.

[nachobro]

BAN ATLUS
BAN THQ
BAN FF9
BAN CDPR
BAN REDLETTERMEDIA
BAN THE WORD BOYS
BAN SMASHBROS
BAN YOUTUBE
BAN MEMES
BAN CAPCOM

DO IT ALREADY YOU COWARDS

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Y'all remember the iconic Dr Kimberley Stride from Blam! Machinehead, amirite?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i’d-rather-have-a-bunch-of-stereotypical-good-intentioned-characters-for-representation-than-no-representation-at-all.106059/

Tokenism is okay.

[VomKriege]

Is there ANY game anyone can think of in the last couple years where developers haven't been afraid to state they have a political message? Or are they all cowards?

If you dont count AAA, the 2064: Read Only Memories devs tell Trump voters to skip their game.

era problem with discourse about gaming in a nutshell; they don't know the fucking difference between textual reference and metatextual authorial intent or commentary.

Man, they really ran the "cowards" thing into the ground in true GafEra fashion.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i’d-rather-have-a-bunch-of-stereotypical-good-intentioned-characters-for-representation-than-no-representation-at-all.106059/

Tokenism is okay.

"I don't mind stereoty-"



"ATLUS DID WHHAAAAAAAAT?"