NIGHTBLADE'S PROFILE

author=Holbert link=topic=3297.msg65681#msg65681 date=1236572590

author=harmonic link=topic=3297.msg65671#msg65671 date=1236571652
You know, a massive entitlement system isn't going to help the country dig its way out. That money has to come from somewhere. Wanna talk about benefits? One of the best benefits someone can have is a job.

I am not talking about an entitlement system. I am actually talking about wages. The American middle class that actually does the work continues to get shafted in favor of the Ivy League CEOs and other forms of "American" nobility.

author=harmonic link=topic=3297.msg65671#msg65671 date=1236571652
You don't understand the Federal Reserve. A dollar is not wealth. It represents wealth. It's a piece of paper. The Fed prints money, or leverages spending with T-bills. By printing money, we are not increasing real wealth. In fact, we are weakening the purchasing power of each dollar. It's wealth redistribution, and those on the government dole benefit the most. The Fed can try all the manipulation of currency and interest rates as it wants, but in the end, you can't fight real market forces, they will always "win out," or have their intended effect, whether we feel the pain or not.

You don't understand the Federal Reserve, the dollar or anything else either. Gold isn't really worth anything. "Market forces" are an imaginary human construct used to describe actions that people and/or businesses take. Economics is all arbitrary, it's why it is a social science and not mathematics.

Edit: OK, I have begun to slightly derail this topic. I will refrain from being condescending to those who I disagree with, and we will also stick to discussing specifically the current global economic crisis and not abstract ideas about economics.

Also, Holbonomics sounds awesome and I will keep that term for future use.

Noooooooo.

Keep going. This is actually pretty interesting.

author=Darken link=topic=3222.msg65559#msg65559 date=1236495890

author=Nightblade link=topic=3222.msg65549#msg65549 date=1236488808
Also I remembered most of his moves.

TIMES A MILLION

The AI is so retarded in this game, a lot of them would respond the exact same way to many of the moves I made. For example, when I was fighting Rufus he would always try to attack me from the air the second the round started, and so on.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5634/2vabe39ph6.jpg

I thought this was pretty amusing, but yeah; I had the chance to try this game out today and was pleasantly surprised. It's pretty fun, but with being unable to find an arcade stick that doesnt cost a small fortune; It's still difficult for me to justify a purchase just yet.

Played mostly with Sagat, since he seemed to shut down the crappy AI pretty easily.

author=Fallen-Griever link=topic=3021.msg64438#msg64438 date=1236025668

I love Nintendo, but somtimes I really wish they would step things up.

Because an innovative new way to control videogames < ZOMG HD GRAPHICS! Seriously...

An innovative new way that gets annoying after about 5 minutes and has degenerated into a senseless gimmick in most games... That decide to use it, at least.

Not to say the other consoles are outstanding: The PS3 is an overpriced piece of shit and the 360 is host to one of the worst online communities since World of Warcraft... Also you can get a lot of 360 games on the PC: which makes me wonder why the hell I bought one to begin with...

...but you asked to be rebuked. You can't get rebuked and then, like, not like it.

Yes I asked to be rebuked, and so I replied to it appropriately. Isn't this how debates work? I'm pretty sure that's how debates work.

That's my point. There is nothing out of the ordinary with the RTP, as its something people should be familiar with.

...And what I have said is that RMVX's RTP is hardly appropriate for any type of serious storyline. This has nothing to do with familiarity. The RTP's high resolution and super deformed features makes it hard for me to say, take a post apocalyptic world very seriously. Even though two of the screens you showed me were from old school games, not even those games had characters with giant heads, tiny bodies and a fairly high resolution... Not to mention the bright colors (I'm sorry, Max; but a 70x4 tint isn't really doing it for me.)


As of late, I've tried to keep my nose out of these affairs, but I feel the need to say something at this juncture. I'm sorry of this is "Derailing".

I have a very big problem with how some people have begun to act in the RM community.
People should be able to express their opinions, unpopular or not without fearing being told to "keep your fucking mouth shut" or told to "shut up, you haven't submitted anything so you don't have the right to talk".

I've, as well as others have missed out on valuable feedback purely because of the nonsense that goes on. I've had one individual PM me harsh feedback because... Well, just read on; I hope he forgives me for quoting him.

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"I'm posting this here simply because, let's face it; If I posted this in the main forum I'd be eaten alive for appearing to hate something which everyone else loves. In which case, under normal circumstances you'd probably dismiss my “opinion”. But in reality, I'm not asking you to adhere to my personal tastes, I'm actually just trying to help you, while saying it in the nicest way possible."

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Which is just stupid, why couldn't he post this in one of my threads? Later on he would offer an explanation and actually say

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But perhaps I was a bit too quick to judge. Upon further playing the dialogue seems to come together rather nicely, though it could still use a bit of polish in some areas but overall you seem to have rectified everything that had plagued the first game: You give clear indications as to where the player should go next as well as provide brief tutorials for the abilities the player acquires and make them instantly known. Plus the battles are rather demanding/engaging and animations themselves are rather nice to look at."
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These are only snippets, but the rest of his messages had valuable feedback that helped me fix some things that were wrong; but I'm sure you understand by now. Seriously; enough is enough. If you people cant disagree with someone without getting indignant, I should probably just follow SCF's example and just not bother with this community at all.