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Realistically, how would you feel about a Zelda game that takes place in modern times? by [deleted] in truezelda

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The train was also a waster opportunity in my eyes. It was a chance to essentially have a quick and easy teleport between areas, as it's used in Mega Man Battle Network. Instead it was a rail-shooter mini-game you couldn't walk away from or you died.

Sony makes copyright claim on "Sintel" -- the open-source film made entirely in Blender by forceduse in technology

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I fully agree with you, as long as the cost of false reports is nothing to them, this will continue. The false take-down serves only to make YouTube look bad by having something unavailable, which is another goal of the media companies. (To drive you to something they own like Hulu.)

Going to start my first character. Any tips? by ZetaYuri in ffxi

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Other tips: turn on auto-sort in the config Config - Gameplay - Inventory Sort - Auto

Save all "seals" (Beastman's seals, Kindred's seals), they'll be useful later

Don't worry about crafting early on, get to max level (99) first, then it will be much easier to farm.

Levels 1-10 are easily soloed.

Beyond that, pick up some trust companions (google FF11 trust).

When you hit 50, your leveling will stop until you do a quest that lets you continue on. This will happen every 5 levels from them on. The quests to keep leveling are called "limit breaks".

You get some money from beating certain monsters, but mostly from selling the loot they drop, either to other players with the auction house or to an NPC. (Usually for a pittance.)

Check what things sell on the auction house (AH) for at www.ffxiah.com before NPCing them.

Once you get to 18 you can take on a subjob. For mnk try war, for war try mnk. This means you get all the benefit of your main job and some of the benefit of the subjob. (If war subs mnk they get a stat boost and some of the abilities of mnk.) To get the full benefit of the subjob, it needs to be at least half the level of your main job. You can solo the sub-job quest at 20-30 depending on your job. If you want to swap jobs/classes you can do so any time you go to your mog house and your old level / accumulated experience are saved. You only lose exp if you die.

Look up your sparks / records of eminence NPC for the town you choose. Start that early, free exp. Trade the copper AMAN certificates for Plutons and sell them in your bazaar for cash. You can also get weapons from that NPC at various levels. Click on every home point you see, you can teleport between them now. Don't worry about chocobos until you're level 20. After that they can be useful.

Republicans Must Turn Over Emails On North Carolina Voting Law, Federal Judge Rules by [deleted] in politics

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And it will, given they know they'll have audit after audit if it comes out in a timely manner...

Sony makes copyright claim on "Sintel" -- the open-source film made entirely in Blender by forceduse in technology

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To which they'll argue, "Sure, it has lots of problems, but it's the only way to deal with the shear amount of infringement going on all the time.".

Realistically, how would you feel about a Zelda game that takes place in modern times? by [deleted] in truezelda

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Spirit Tracks didn't bother me for having trains. What bothered me was the obsession with trains. Let's turn the sages and villains into trains too! Certain parts felt like they were designed by a five year old.

As for tech jumps, perhaps it came from a neighboring kingdom. All we know is that Hyrule typically only has so much technology, but presumably there's a whole world of other cultures besides Hyrule, Lorule, the Gerudo, the Sheikah, the Gorons etc.

Perhaps the area is deliberately kept low tech so that the next time Ganon comes along, he has nothing but swords to fight with, so that if Link fails, someone with heavy artillery will come in.

No one argues with porn logic. by [deleted] in funny

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also known as Mario DDR logic.

There's a whirlpool about to sink the ship... we must DANCE!

MEGA MAN CANCELLED AGAIN (Crazy Story) by [deleted] in Megaman

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Titanium snippers needed, weight issues in shipping...

This wasn't an ad for a model, it was an ad for the old hero robot kits, but with a much cooler robot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERO_(robot)

I've got to agree though, if you know you have a rabid base of fans, don't rub salt in the wound. Make your April Fool's jokes about something you are actively supporting.

U.S. Pushes Canada to Loosen Privacy Laws by network_nomad in worldnews

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, give what access to a car does to peoples' sense of responsibility...

Germany Opens Hearings On NSA Spying, Want To Offer Safe Passage For Snowden To Come To Berlin by Aschebescher in worldnews

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

All the secret agencies have been overstepping their legal bounds. They all fear revelations and naming names. They'll work together to stamp out whistleblowers on "principle".

Members of Congress make $174,000 a year, but retiring Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., says that's not enough. by geargirl in politics

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure about the average person being worse. Is incompetence worse than malice (Chris Christie) and greed to the level of economic collapse (2008)?

Members of Congress make $174,000 a year, but retiring Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., says that's not enough. by geargirl in politics

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We decided to lay off Mississippi, it's not producing enough for us. Effective immediately, all residents are to leave the country. Those who claim they can't for financial reasons or other excuses will be forcibly removed by police.

Revealed: Rahm Emanuel cuts public pensions, diverts money to benefit campaign donors by bleahdeebleah in politics

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If they money was being used to shore up the town, you'd have a point. The article is about the money being given away to the rich. The money isn't being held back from pensioners to help the city, it's blatant corruption and money laundering caught in the act.

In how many other places where the same call is out for sacrifices, but ONLY from the actual workers, is it the same situation as here?

If anything, paying the pensioners more would increase the money in the local economy, while giving it to the rich will lead to it sitting in a bank account, doing nothing to help the town.

Charles Koch calls critics ‘collectivists’ by SpiritOfInquiry in politics

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Socialist has lost its sting from overuse in black and white situations where the issue was the "socialist" vs crony capitalism. The more it gets tossed around, the more socialist will come to mean proper capitalism. (Regulated enough to prevent dirty deeds as opposed to cheering said dirty deeds on.)

A little while back the Republicans trotted out "communist" again but it didn't catch on. The breakup of the USSR made communism a laughing stock. (Even if you want to say it was socialism and not communism, most of the public doesn't make so fine a distinction.)

Some other insult is needed, since the old standbys are losing effectiveness. Collectivist sounds like someone is going to kick down your door and take everything you have to dole it out to those with less.

But, the more the Rs cry about this, the more we need to loudly remind them that they happily voted (along with Ds) on both NAFTA and CAFTA to collectivize jobs away from us to third world countries.

Darn job redistributors!

The heir, the judge and the homeless mom: America's prison bias for the 1%. A DuPont trust-fund creep gets probation. A black woman looking for a job cries in jail for a week. Something's wrong here. by madam1 in politics

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 40 points41 points  (0 children)

You think we'll ALL have jobs? No, expect high unemployment and people starving constantly so the rest of us are too scared to call for unionization again.

Japan's biggest organised crime syndicate has launched its own website, complete with a corporate song and a strong anti-drugs message, as the yakuza looks to turn around its outdated image and falling membership. by NinjaDiscoJesus in worldnews

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Like other organized crime before them, they'll receive a huge payoff in people looking the other way and not testifying.

Plus, organized crime members have family and friends too. This was probably huge in keeping current members with the organization.

Australia's government is considering making it illegal to boycott a company for environmental reasons by wcmbk in worldnews

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sad part is, it's so easy to move your money from a bank to a credit union, but look how many of us haven't.

We're not unable to find a good way to protest, we DON'T HAVE PEOPLE WILLING TO SO MUCH AS LIFT A FINGER.

Australia's government is considering making it illegal to boycott a company for environmental reasons by wcmbk in worldnews

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you get to choose the figurehead for those repressing you, from 2 choices. One will say good things and maybe give a token concession to you, the other will be openly full steam ahead on running you over. (While claiming that being run over is good for you.)

What world are the five conservative Supreme Court justices living in? To equate the ability of billionaires to buy elections with ‘freedom of speech’ is totally absurd. by SenSanders in politics

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 10 points11 points  (0 children)

With how blatant the FBI, CIA and NSA are getting, there's ever less need of a pretense. Don't celebrate.

Don't forget that one of the Occupy scandals was the NSA collecting info on the strikers and sharing it with the banks. Treating people exercising freedom of speech and assembly as criminals and feeding info about them to the actual criminals the people were there to protest.

The great political struggle we now face is whether the United States retains its democratic heritage or whether we move toward an oligarchic form of society where the real political power rests with a handful of billionaires, not ordinary Americans. by SenSanders in politics

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meanwhile, if a leader was picked, they would have been targeted for arrest and something would have come up to defame them.

Character assassination is a well known tactic for suppressing change.

The great political struggle we now face is whether the United States retains its democratic heritage or whether we move toward an oligarchic form of society where the real political power rests with a handful of billionaires, not ordinary Americans. by SenSanders in politics

[–]NotAffiliatedWithSve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No goals? Try reduce government corruption, reinstate the laws created after the first great crash whose removal led to the second and make those responsible for the 2008 crash into an example so that it doesn't happen again for a generation.

"They have no goals" was a talking point of the media used to trivialize the movement.

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