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Altered Nova

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OMG Yamcha just Yamcha'd Nappa. I suck at fighting games and I desperately want to play this game just for the top-tier fanservice.
 
Altered Nova said:
OMG Yamcha just Yamcha'd Nappa. I suck at fighting games and I desperately want to play this game just for the top-tier fanservice.
Apparently this one is a really good fighting game for beginners. It has a 1-100 difficulty setting as opposed to the usual 1-10, and apparently it increments really well.

You should be able to get through story mode by button mashing alone just by setting the difficulty low enough as I understand it. It was designed to be a great gateway game, with enough complexity to still cater to hardcore gamers on the higher difficulty settings and online modes.

Arcade mode is supposedly also set up in such a way as to make it pretty accessible for fighting game noobs.

If it interests you, do some poking around and actually consider this one. From what I've seen of reviews it's great and was specifically designed with players like you in mind.

I probably won't play it for a while as I have a rule against buying fighting games at launch. I'll just wait for a "complete" edition down the line with all the DLC and fluff included.
 

chronodekar

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In the official manga - are they a confirmed couple in that kind of relationship? (and this IS that story with a retired Hero as a role model, right?)

-chronodekar
 

LORD_ARM

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chronodekar said:
In the official manga - are they a confirmed couple in that kind of relationship? (and this IS that story with a retired Hero as a role model, right?)

-chronodekar
I was would say no thought it has been shown that Uraraka has feelings for him, but she doesn't know if it's an admiration or love. Deku is very oblivious to this. He does sometimes act very nervous around her, but he's actually just very nervous around girls. He has acted the same way around other girls too, so I don't really see them as a couple.
 

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Of COURSE Deku is oblivious to love...because, for whatever reason, God/evolution (Take your pick) decided that the Japanese male protagonist should be so dense about romance that the Japanese female has to take a hammer to their thick head to make them understand how said female feels. This way we weed out the passing crushes from the real loves.
 
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Of COURSE Deku is oblivious to love...because, for whatever reason, God/evolution (Take your pick) decided that the Japanese male protagonist should be so dense about romance that the Japanese female has to take a hammer to their thick head to make them understand how said female feels. This way we weed out the passing crushes from the real loves.
It's the medium and the target audience.

Plus the culture has a bit to do with it.

If the protagonist ever gets wise and notices his crush likes him or actually makes a decision, the rom-com element of the series ends.

Plus, you've got to remember that the target audience for this stuff is roughly 12-16. They can't show graphic sex and even kissing is kind of borderline. Even implying sex is a bit far to be honest.

Then there's the culture. Japan is weird when it comes to stuff like that. Remember that the idea of "purity" is still a pretty big cultural factor. Much more so than it is in the west, especially regarding media like manga and anime, even more so with the age group they are going for.

Honestly, it's not really that different than the kind of romance we see in western media targeting that age group.

Nothing ever happens, one or the other probably doesn't notice the other likes them, and maybe a kiss on the cheek or holding hands is about as far as it goes, if it goes anywhere at all.
 

Ordo

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I get that, but it's still infuriating when you've seen it for the 999th time. I could live with two people being in a relationship with limited kissing and hugging...heck I could even work that into the plot....like one of them has issues with being touched due to an incident when a child...but this 'oblivious to love' trope is just so common that it's gotten frankly tiring to me...and the lengths they have to go to sometimes to justify it make the male protagonist seem like they are incapable of picking up basic social signs.
 
In fairness, Izuku was bullied pretty badly growing up, and as a result has self esteem issues stemming from it. He sub consciously still thinks like "I'm Quirkless, why would anybody care?".
 

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So....Frieza saved Goku from a Ring out in the latest Episode of DBS...and Android 17 is back in the fight....and the two are going to work together to hold off Jiren.

1. I did not call this.
2. Android 17 is MVP of this arc
3. Goku's Ultra Instinct may have just burned out his body.


AU where the Cold family are galactic peackeepers?


Suicide by Punch?
 

Ordo

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[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-DTXGVTfkc[/video]

Did they get it right?
 

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MastaofBitches said:
For the uncultured swine on the forums, this sequence is from a Bugs Bunny cartoon featuring Elmer Fudd titled "The Rabbit of Seville". They end up in an opera featuring the Barber of Seville, and the music in the cartoon is from the opera.

Fitting as Bugs ends up "marrying" Fudd in the finale.
 

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