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FirstAidKite posted:we've managed to work together crippled master style to get through life. I appreciate this reference.  It's just very atypical since doing that has a high chance of creating problems for the therapist, like if there are codependency issues or issues where the solution is for the two to separate, stuff like that. Like every therapist my wife and I went to flat-out refused to do this outside of in the form of couples' therapy, which is a different thing. Even for stuff where the partner is helping, the therapist doesn't generally interact with the partner directly and the "plan" is just given to the actual patient to go over with their partner, maybe there might be the odd session where the partner is brought in but even that's pretty rare.
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Phantasium posted:good god drat loving luck with Adventure Island I grew up trying to beat Ghosts N’ Goblins, I have accepted failing to beat difficult NES games
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I know our therapist has had one-on-one sessions with us before and I know she's never told me that she thinks it'd be more helpful for her to see us separate. Just that if we want to do that, that's fine, but that because both of us are so important to the other's mental well-being and both of us are pretty much willing to do whatever it takes for the sake of the other, we just get a double session with one focused on me and the other focused on her and switching back and forth or mixing as needed.
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Adventure Island's continuously draining life bar unless you keep on picking up fruit to live is, like, one of the most stressful game design choices ever It's like underwater Sonic near drowning except all the time CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Adventure Island's continuously draining life bar unless you keep on picking up fruit to live is, like, one of the most stressful game design choices ever I really like the implicit speedrun mechanic, most of the levels would be really bland if you weren't just running through them super fast, but what really fucks the difficulty (at least in the first one) is that they start with okay level design in the first few levels and then everything after that is the same levels but with more poo poo to dodge. So not only does it gently caress with your muscle memory, it's also just harder in general, until you get to some of the final levels with platforms that are just long enough for you to get to a precise speed to continuously jump across like 20 of them in a row and if you don't do it perfectly you're just hosed. This is actually reminding me that I forgot to post about this during the Steam sale, but I bought a game when it started called Miles & Kilo that is a mobile port of a runner game and somehow it's one of the better platformers I've played in years. I mention it now because it felt pretty obvious that they had some sort of influence from Adventure Island, since the way you throw fruit in that game looks like how Higgins throws axes, and you there are snakes that move one pixel at a time like AI snails, enemies like frogs with multiple patterns based on color, etc. It's weird because for the PC version they added the ability to turn off the autorun (and it's off by default) but the game feels super wrong without it, like playing a DKC minecart level where you have to keep moving the cart.
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Adventure Island has the slipperiest controls I've ever seen in a platformer. The whole game is an ice level
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Please Sinderion, enough with your Nirnroots. I'm trying to save the world, I'm juggling three guild jobs to pay for my skooma habit and being a property magnate across Cyrodiil does not come cheap, I do not have time for this!
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lets hang out posted:Adventure Island has the slipperiest controls I've ever seen in a platformer. The whole game is an ice level and they also have ice levels
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Also the continue feature is a huge middle finger after the first few worlds because you fully need powerups to get through stages and they expect you to have them coming in, which you won't if you're continuing.
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also the continue feature is a hidden powerup at the end of the first level
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Adventure Island is a kind of bad game that the people that got good at it will not allow to be called a bad game because of how much time they put into getting good at it. Unrelated, finally beat Hollow Knight. This would have happened like a week ago but the game kept crashing on the final fight and nothing takes away the will to try again and again at a pain in the rear end, hard as nails, overly long boss fight like the knowledge that it could also just crash at any second. Still, finally got through it and while there is still a few things I could do, I think I'll take my 101% and move onto another game (at least until they get the Hornet campaign done).
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gently caress you master higgins!
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It's weird to me that the main character in Adventure Island was some random Japanese celebrity and when they brought it to the west they kept him looking exactly the same but changed his name which I guess was necessary for...reasons.
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FirstAidKite posted:I'm gonna be blunt and say I don't understand why we should be worried about this at all since all the psychiatrist does is prescribe the meds depending on how we're doing and the info they get from the therapist since they operate out of the same building. The whole thing's purpose is exactly so you don't influence each other during sessions or that the psychiatrist themselves isn't influenced by the other during one's session but if the medical professional is fine with it, sure, it must not be harming both of you.
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 Mashing doesn't even help in adventure island
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glam rock hamhock posted:Adventure Island is a kind of bad game that the people that got good at it will not allow to be called a bad game because of how much time they put into getting good at it. 3 is legit good.
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exquisite tea posted:I can't believe a movie as gay as Call Me By Your Name had zero dicks in it. Boobs yes, schlongs no. Nada! What a disappointment, or should I say, a dicksappointment! That's one of the many reasons why this is the far superior gay movie of 2017.
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The Colonel posted:did you hang out with the friend? the more reserved endings are pretty low-key but the ending where you hang out with your friend's friend is probably the best one to end on cause it just ends on you awkwardly talking about being gay in the hot springs together and then afterwards you both go out for a night on the town. i think it actually makes for a better ending than the world is kind that's the one I got, she knows already when you're in the hot springs together and then best friend's boyfriend is coming over and she's like "haru n me are going out actually." e; oh wait but you go to another hot spring on the attendant's recommendation It said something in the credits like "sometimes the world is kind."
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High level bj sounds in call me by your name though
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I thought the age difference in Call Me By Your Name was gross and never watched it Love, Simon was great though.
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Simon sounded hmmm but some woman on Amazon was extremely mad about its positive portrayal of fujoshi so that's one thing going for it
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tag urself, I'm Captain Falcon's buns https://twitter.com/EdbotnikThe/status/1014551030061846528
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glam rock hamhock posted:It's weird to me that the main character in Adventure Island was some random Japanese celebrity and when they brought it to the west they kept him looking exactly the same but changed his name which I guess was necessary for...reasons.
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i hit the time limit in the octopath traveller demo and I want the rest of that game right now!
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Wonder Boy/Adventure Island makes a lot more sense when you look at it as the prototype for endless runners. The idea came along when the devs were run over by a Ghosts n' Goblins machine on a skateboard then played SMB in the hospital for weeks.
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I can't decide what to play first between Capitán Todd and O.C.T.O.P.A.T.H. Traveler
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I can't decide what to play first between Capitán Todd and O.C.T.O.P.A.T.H. Traveler Captain Toad for sure
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yeah but octopath 8ever, can't argue with math
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Is Octopath Traveler a game where you pick a character from the start and that's your main character for the rest of the game, 7th Saga style, or is it a game where each character has their own story and you need to play through all of them to complete the game, Live-A-Live style?
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FirstAidKite posted:Is Octopath Traveler a game where you pick a character from the start and that's your main character for the rest of the game, 7th Saga style, or is it a game where each character has their own story and you need to play through all of them to complete the game, Live-A-Live style? I don't know for sure, but it seems like the latter ala Saga Frontier.
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Samuringa posted:I don't think I ever watched a Bond movie. Nothing against them, just never did it. Thought of watching the Craig movies more than once but just kinda forgot about it. they're toxic, congratulatory machismo in movie form, and only the most recent ones have (poorly) attempted to address that
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FirstAidKite posted:Is Octopath Traveler a game where you pick a character from the start and that's your main character for the rest of the game, 7th Saga style, or is it a game where each character has their own story and you need to play through all of them to complete the game, Live-A-Live style? its a lot like romancing saga or saga frontier but more open ended
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FirstAidKite posted:Is Octopath Traveler a game where you pick a character from the start and that's your main character for the rest of the game, 7th Saga style, or is it a game where each character has their own story and you need to play through all of them to complete the game, Live-A-Live style? No. You pick a character to start and go around recruiting the other 7.
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Consider this very important negative toward Octopath Traveler though: Captain Toad himself is not in it. So
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Man I picked up a lot of weird games from this Steam sale. I hope everyone else had some neat finds!
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