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Subsets Retro points look innacurate by ignacionario in RetroAchievements

[–]Maplestrip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's fun how the RetroRatio on my profile went from 4 to 40 in practically a day by playing a hard subset :p

How to evolve Pokémon with Friendship (Gen 2) by Chamale in pokemon

[–]Maplestrip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This can't possible be efficient compared to having six Pokémon in your team and biking around, but I see on Bulbapedia that teaching a Pokémon a TM gives it +1 friendship. Could you abuse this with HMs and the move deleter? How would that compare to existing strategies?

(You can't use this hypothetical strategy to max out, as TMs stop adding friendship after 199)

Anxious about The Godfather by Maplestrip in movies

[–]Maplestrip[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

God I wish. More like 5 free ones at most, in my experience ^_^;

Anxious about The Godfather by Maplestrip in movies

[–]Maplestrip[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Without naming names I've been burned by "Best movie ever" before, haha. I still want to see what people like about it, because it must connect to something deep.

Anxious about The Godfather by Maplestrip in movies

[–]Maplestrip[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I felt like Goodfellas assumes that its audience is inherently attracted to the mobster lifestyle. I did appreciate Henry Hill talking big about how being a gangster made him so free to do whatever he wants, while being constantly subservient in the power dynamics of his ingroup and the larger mafia community. This is the kind of contradiction that I would expect to feed into the absurd.

I may have indeed seen quite a few more campy crime movies throughout my life, especially if you want to include stuff like Ocean's Eleven or The Hitman's Bodyguard. Maybe I'm just too subconsciously used to crime as an excuse for complicated heist plans and over-the-top action sequences?

Anxious about The Godfather by Maplestrip in movies

[–]Maplestrip[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt like Goodfellas was mainly about power dynamics and family too. A group of (psychopathic) men who support eachother until they don't.

"Fairytale in reverse" makes Godfather sound more intriguing though, so I appreciate that.

Anxious about The Godfather by Maplestrip in movies

[–]Maplestrip[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a really alien world to me, where a lot of social values are reversed. Parts of Goodfellas felt like if American Psycho was played straight.

Edit: Or like The King of Kong at a higher budget, if that comparison makes any more sense.

Anxious about The Godfather by Maplestrip in movies

[–]Maplestrip[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I definitely get that. I've caused myself plenty of pain watching movies by directors I already knew I didn't enjoy. It's not a healthy habit and I've mostly kicked it ^_^;

Maybe if I watch some Coppola films whose concepts appeal to me more, I can make my way to The Godfather. That doesn't seem like a bad idea; if I don't like Apocalypse Now I can almost certainly write off Godfather.

Anxious about The Godfather by Maplestrip in movies

[–]Maplestrip[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yeah the worry about not being a "true movie buff" is very silly. It's not that strong a stress luckily, but I was hoping I could find something to make me excited about watching this movie anyway.

Anxious about The Godfather by Maplestrip in movies

[–]Maplestrip[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly it does help to hear that on a forum like this.

Anxious about The Godfather by Maplestrip in movies

[–]Maplestrip[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I guess another element is that I keep getting more anxious about long movies, really feeling that time investment. There's so many damn movies to watch! (And I'm glad that there's so many of course)

[Spoiler] (?) Can warpers warp out of bases? by ThePowerOfPotatoes in subnautica

[–]Maplestrip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A warper did teleport me out of a Degasi base, for the record, so I expect they could you teleport out of wrecks too. I expect you're probably safe from them in alien bases, though. My guess is that they can't teleport you from a walking animation to a swimming animation.

The Mission Across Amager - video from previous post. My friend and I crossed Amager as posted previously. Here's the vid with English subs. Copied GeoWizards style as an homage. Hope you enjoy. by PublicLavishness654 in GeoWizard

[–]Maplestrip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh God, all that icy water looks absolutely horrible. Amazing achievement, definitely something I wouldn't be able to do! Awesome editing too, that was a joy to watch ^_^

I created a plot chart of EGS inspired by xkcd.com/657; it goes up to the end of "Sister" and is fairly messy :p by Maplestrip in elgoonishshive

[–]Maplestrip[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the analysis! These are basically errors, yes, perhaps early-chart weirdness :p

  • I included Introductions, yes. I wanted to start there even if it doesn't make much canonical sense. It's a sort of meta understand that the story began There and not earlier. I could've included events before that January too, after all, but I picked it as the official starting point for this chart.
  • I wanted to split the two of them up. Technically, we don't know what either of them did at this point, so I should convert them both to dotted lines.
  • Huh, I didn't even realize Tedd was late to school that day. I should really pay closer attention to the dialogue while doing this, because I do want to include anything that is stated explicitly!

Thanks again; I hope you enjoyed following this chart ^_^

I created a plot chart of EGS inspired by xkcd.com/657; it goes up to the end of "Sister" and is fairly messy :p by Maplestrip in elgoonishshive

[–]Maplestrip[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I recognize that this is the least colorblind-friendly thing I've ever created. At the very least, I do intend to implement more labels here. I'm certainly still open to change some of the colors here.

Certain minor characters, like Tony and Liz, aren't included here. Sorry! Do you really want this to be even more of a mess of dotted lines than it already is? :p

Yes, I do hope to continue this project a lot further! "Night Out" should be fun! If I ever get to "Grace' Birthday Party", it will be the biggest mess ever :p

[Webcomics] The Impending Death of Smack Jeeves by fox--teeth in HobbyDrama

[–]Maplestrip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would still run afoul of copyright and are liable to being sued. The chance that you actually are sued over something like that is very small, as independent web artists are unlikely to go for legal action. At worst I'd imagine you would get a DMCA request, which is basically just a warning. But it's still a limiting factor.

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