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I thought he was triggering a kill switch. Which would have made a lot more sense if we skipped the exposition section and went right to the bulkheads. I wonder if that might have been the original intent, and the cutscene was shoehorned in later?
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However, Wet and Wallpaper carrying Robocop around is one of the first actually fun cutscenes in this game, so I'm glad he got blown up.
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Pork Lift posted:However, Wet and Wallpaper carrying Robocop around is one of the first actually fun cutscenes in this game, so I'm glad he got blown up. Despite my confusion about how pathetic that grenade was, this is true and that cutscene was genuinely great. Ruined slightly by them wasting time standing around talking about the power of friendship, but still pretty great. I especially like Limb pretending that she's helping when let's face it, she's not doing poo poo here.
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If Bacchus' race are the 'guardians of the galaxy', as he said, then Bacchus is clearly Drax.
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Spatula City posted:for the love of SamReimi, are you ever going to buy Fresh Sage? or are you just going to get wiped out in a battle and go, "oh, we forgot to buy Fresh Sage, whoops"! The second one, for sure.
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The existence of a universal currency is a mere artefact of convergent evolution.
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goatface posted:The existence of a universal currency is a mere artefact of convergent evolution. I just figured everyone in Star Ocean accepted the gold standard.
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 I miss The Last Story and Prank Banana so much. I was trying to make this funny, but none of Bacchus' poses are very dynamic. Have a very low effort callback.
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Episode 33: Insect Legs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXSQBRmBKgA
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That video is such a dick move and I'm sorry
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You're like Jim Jeffries to a heckler and I like it. Thank you.
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'E for Effort' is very much a phrase (apparently American only?). It's specifically not a letter grade, meaning that you neither really failed nor succeeded, but you definitely tried hard. (Actually it means you sucked, most commonly). Pass/Fail grades are either just that, or Complete/Incomplete in most places. The other American thing associated with Welch Vineyard: Welch's is a popular brand of grape juice, and was once known for having an adorably annoying little girl in their commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yZTSLLTSWM Kangra fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Kangra posted:'E for Effort' is very much a phrase (apparently American only?). It's specifically not a letter grade, meaning that you neither really failed nor succeeded, but you definitely tried hard. (Actually it means you sucked, most commonly). Pass/Fail grades are either just that, or Complete/Incomplete in most places. Pretty sure the phrase is, "Well, you get an A for effort." Or in other words, "I'm impressed by the work you put in, but the results..."
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Honestly, that video was a breath of fresh air. The longest part of those battles was the intros and the victory posing, so it was nice to see you just casually steamroll things for once. Also we got to see mining in action. Finally, Bobbin is correct. The phrase is "A for Effort," meaning "good effort" with the often additional meaning of "the results were poo poo."
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No, 'E for Effort' dates to 1940 at the least, as a line Bing Crosby says in the Road to Singapore as this review of it from the same year mentions. Possibly it was influenced by the Navy's 'E' award, which could be what Crosby's line is about, but I think even he may have been using it in the euphemistic sense of not being desirable. More discussion and citations can be found here. 'A for effort' as a 'correction' of the phrase is almost certainly more common now, but Welch clearly uses the older version. I'm also dead wrong on 'E' never being used as a grade; apparently it did get used in some classes for 'excellent', but the discussion linked above suggests this goes counter to the old meaning of the phrase.
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The Biorhythm Tester supposedly affects/tells you your Luck stat, which is hidden and fluctuates. There's an early pre-release screenshot of SamRemi's status screen showing the luck stat so they at one point had it visible. Luck effects chance to crit, chance to survive death via Fury and battle skill trigger rate. I don't know if it has any effect on rare item drop rate as that is balls anyway. You can reset the Biorhythm Tester by reloading.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Pretty sure the phrase is, "Well, you get an A for effort." Or in other words, "I'm impressed by the work you put in, but the results..." I've seen both used. "A for effort" is usually the more complimentary of the two. It's a bit condescending, but it's usually delivered in a spirit that, well, appreciates the effort. Often comes with a little tip at the end, too, which sometimes actually helps. "E for Effort" is pretty much saying you suck, and all the effort in the world won't help.
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Kangra posted:No, 'E for Effort' dates to 1940 at the least, as a line Bing Crosby says in the Road to Singapore as this review of it from the same year mentions. Possibly it was influenced by the Navy's 'E' award, which could be what Crosby's line is about, but I think even he may have been using it in the euphemistic sense of not being desirable. More discussion and citations can be found here. This is super interesting!
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I learn so much from these threads. It struck me as weird because over here an E is a grade, a REALLY bad one (I think I have at least one E grade from back in school) so saying "E for effort" to me implied "You did bad AND you didn't try"
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Pork Lift posted:"You did bad AND you didn't try" Takes me back! God, I hated school.
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'E' is the top in schools here.
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Yeah, both of them sort of reference the American grading system in different ways. Some (American) schools give grades like C-for-credit or W-for-withdrew or I-for-incomplete or other things like that, especially for cases where, due to the nature of the class or the student's results, a normal ABCDF grade wouldn't make sense. Like some phys ed classes won't give you a full grade, just C-for-credit or NC-for-no-credit. So I always read "E for Effort" as "How well did you do? Well, you tried!" which is definitely not a nice thing to say. A-for-Effort sounds more like you're getting graded on several different aspects, like you got an A for Effort but a C for Execution and a D for Presentation etc. So it's more complimentary... but still not great.
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I always thought it was like the scale from A to F where E is the lowest passable grade and F is fail, and "E for Effort" meant "I should really fail you, but I'll give you a pass since you made the effort of actually handing in something".
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I thought it was just being graded E because effort started with E. Like saying "well at least you tried?"
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We used to get graded for effort when I was ~14, it got put in your school report and everything. I once got an A in maths with an E for effort, I look back on it with a mixture of shame and perverse pride.
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My various teachers would make that joke all through grade school but it wasn't until grade 11 an American teacher explained it to me.
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Shoeless posted:The more Welch talks, the more I dislike her. Is this normal? Yes.
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Shoeless posted:The more [SO4 character] talks, the more I dislike them. Is this normal?
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AltaBrown posted:Yes. Excellent. No, you know what? I don't mind anyone else. They have lovely writing, but at least their voices aren't.... that. That don't actually hurt my ears to listen to. Also they're not trying to be a "cute" anime character because they're hackers of reality which is also an MMORPG apparently? But Welch is. gently caress Welch. gently caress her "E for effort" bullshit. gently caress this game. God her voice is almost as bad as the female best friend from Will and Grace. Shoeless fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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I forgot about the leg quest and thought you were going to get new legs for That was disappointing, although I am glad you killed Lizard Boss and his poo poo hair and sent all his friends to Planet Zog.
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I like the place you're heading next but jesus I really did not remember in which order you went to them.Shoeless posted:gently caress Welch 
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MrLonghair posted:I like the place you're heading next but jesus I really did not remember in which order you went to them. Having a lovely character who's barely present in the plot and exists only to pander to the worst kind of fanboys?
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"E for Effort" is definitely a well-used backhanded compliment/cushioned mocking phrase in the US and surprisingly common despite the fact that not a lot of school systems in the US actually use E's. I think it's definitely a primary school thing, because far as I can tell nobody grades on Effort past middle school.
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Episode 34: The Wet Maverick Appreciation Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbni4Y-RlY
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Ain't no Awkward Social Situation like a Star Ocean Awkward Social Situation because a Star Ocean Awkward Social Situation lasts the whoooooole game!
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