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  • De_NarmtoFunhole@lemmy.sdf.orgContent is happening!
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    3 天前

    While they have added a rainbow flag, which does improve the situation, the biggest thing still is a German flag at its core. They even started one of these obnoxious long flags, too.

    I support the pride flags. Their message is important. For the sake of the event, the canvas is still dominated by flags.



  • I support this for multiple reasons, of course, but flags also simply destroyed these canvas events. The only fun one was the first one with it’s wild tribalism and weaved in artworks. Blue corner vs Void vs Green Lattice was just more fun.

    There are still artworks there, but of course, the most pronounced thing is a German flag - same as every year.



  • Glad you enjoyed Xenoblade X! As you said yourself in the other thread, I’m probably just salty thanks to years of theories - all of which existed outside any other Xeno canon, I didn’t knew better when I first palyed the game.

    Anyway, I went deeper into Star Ocean Second Story R. Thus far, I can only recommend it. The games throws so many options at you, it’s just a delight to try and break the game. As per usual, I started by stacking tons of EXP multipliers. This weekend, I’ll dive ibto item creation.

    The game has a lot of interesting things you don’t see often within games. Some whacky, some dark. I’ll list one of each below, they are story spoilers, but I don’t mention names or anything.

    Story stuff
    • You can get a guy that’s seemingly permanently merged with a monster after trying to kill it on screen.
    • In a moment of total tonal whiplash, a whole town gets destroyed while you’re there. People you just talked to are even mentioned to have died.

  • De_NarmtoLinux@lemmy.mlOkay why is your distro the best?
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    6 天前

    Arch.

    I’m vegan, german and into fitness. There really was no other choice. /s?

    Also, it’s lightweight, you always get the most recent software, pacman is superb and it’s super stable. In about 10 years on multiple systems, I never had anything break. The worst of it are simple problems during updates, which are always explained on their website.

    Lastly, there is the wiki. The single best source of Linux information out there. Might as well be using the distro that’s directly explained there, albeit a lot of information can be used on other ones as well.

    With arch-install, you don’t even need to learn much, but learning is never a bad idea and will be great if something does break. Every system can break. Arch prepares you for that.




  • Finished Xenoblade X. I did chapter 9 and then quickly finished maxing all classes and reaching max level. Afterwards, I was laser focused on the story. I initially planned to continue side quests afterwards, I was sitting at just under 50% completion for Mira as a whole, but Chapter 13 was such a let-down, I quit afterwards. I wrote more about the new story in the monthly JRPG thread.

    (TL;DR: I preferred not having any answers over the ones we got.)

    Now, I’ve just started Star Ocean Second Story R. I’ve only played Divine Force before and weirdly loved it, despite people mostly hating on it. I don’t have any opinion on Second Story R yet.



  • A lot of the combat comes down to whether or not you like tweaking your build over and over. There are so many things you can change - active and passive skills, equipment, equipment augments, Skell equipment and Skell augments - all for up to 4 characters, although you have quite a bit more freedom over your main character. If you’re not into that, the combat can feel slow and like you don’t make much of a difference.

    However, there’s a new feature in the Switch version that does help with that. You now have a sort of MP bar you can spend to re-use skill without waiting for their cooldown. It’s quite generous, automatically refills for each battle and can be increased even further.

    That being said, you don’t have this feature for Skells until you beat the entire story. Skell are overall the worst part for me to be honest. Once you unlock them, nothing else really matters in casual play. They are leagues above your ability to fight without them, but they don’t scale at all with your level or any stats. Just their equipment and augments, which are more limited than for ground combat. The only thing your level does is unlocking more Skells at Lv 50 and 60. The Ares 90 - the last one I unlocked - is so strong, I basically one-shotted everything in the last chapter without even changing anything.




  • De_Narmto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneIt's time to RULE!
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    13 天前

    I’ve got good news for both you and people physically close to you!

    I’ve only seen them in Germany, but they’ve got at least all three Kanto starters, Pikachu and Mewtwo for shower gels and Charizard, Lapras and Jigglypuff for bath additives!

    We even have a Pikachu toothbrush and Pokemon themed tooth paste. All available at your average grocery stores around here.


  • Spent the whole month playing Xenoblade X DE, which I finished just two days ago. I quite enjoyed the original release and did enjoy my time with this one as well. Knowing the game already, it was fun to kind of break it. I maxed both my level and all classes around chapter 9 out of 13 and got the best Skell available. However, the new content kind of took the wind out of my sails. I originally wanted to do all side quests after the story, but now I feel like I’m done. I knew the new lore could never hold up to expectations and theories I held for such a long time, but I still didn’t feel it.

    Story stuff

    My favorite theory has always been that Mira is Purgatory. It explains why all these races strand there and why there is no escaping it - neither with spaceships nor with an actual time machine. L, the one weirdly present in the story, the only native of Mira except for Nopons and the only member of his race being named Lucifer - just jumbled up - fits just into it. It would also explain the whole Lifehold situation, since it being destroyed was the moment everyone died. The other races even saw a bright light upon entering Mira. Even Lao made sense, since he wasn’t ready to give up on life just yet, so he came back to Mira. The Ganglion were there because they lost the initial war against the other aliens.

    Now, none of that is true. You could still claim that Mira is a metaphor for Purgatory, but it’s a physical space in the multiverse which one can escape from. And in fact, we do - after the whole of Mira is destroyed.

    I know all the new things fit right into the other Xeno games and their overarching themes, but it just doesn’t sit right with me. Something I’ve never felt after a Xeno game. Although X3 came close, for similar reasons.

    Many of the original mysteries didn’t even get an answer in the new chapter.

    Lastly, I don’t like Al. At all. And he’s even implied to be part of L - note the similar names -, which was seemingly created by Al merging with Void. Which I found to be a bad conclusion for the character.

    TL;DR: Xenoblade X was better without the added content. Sometimes open mysteries are more satisfying than bad answers.


  • There is a big difference between Ryza and the other two. Up until Ryza came out, the games used a traditional turn based battle system. With Ryza, they introduced action elements into the gameplay.

    Personally, I’d recommend the later. Atelier, to me, is mostly about the crafting. I want to abuse the crafting system, which is somewhat different in each sub-series, to create gear so strong I basically don’t have to think about combat. With the new system, once you achieve that, battles are a lot faster. But it’s fun too, not just faster.

    Other than that, you can take whichever you feel like. I haven’t played an Atelier I didn’t enjoy. They all have enjoyable characters. Keep in mind, the early games have time limits. I don’t quite remember if Sophie or Ayesha have them, but Ryza doesn’t.

    Oh and I’ve heard the newest one is quite weak. But you didn’t mention it anyway. Apparently they gutted the crafting…