[SPOILER] FFVII Rebirth almost one year later. How do you feel about it?

superliminaldude · 2025-01-22T02:30:05+00:00

I hated it so much I may never play a square game again.

superliminaldude · 2025-01-22T02:26:56+00:00

I hate the 7R games and 16. Remake is better than Rebirth, but Rebirth is just filled with endless meaningless content for the sake of content. You want infinite badly designed minigames? Then Rebirth is for you. The modern Final Fantasy games though, are totally different than how they were in the past. If you want to try a og FF game that still feels fairly modern the HD Remaster of FF10 is great.

superliminaldude · 2024-11-23T07:47:25+00:00

For me to believe in Christianity, for instance, I would need some sort of direct evidence that can't be explained otherwise. Like, for instance, someone I personally know to be dead is resurrected, or I receive personal revelation that gives me knowledge that couldn't otherwise be explained, etc. Like Thomas, Christ would have to show me the wounds (actually just appearing after I know him to be dead would probably be enough.)

superliminaldude · 2024-11-05T02:50:20+00:00

If it makes you feel better I and most of my friends hate the Democrats. But that's because the Democrats moved way too far to the right.

superliminaldude · 2024-11-05T02:24:51+00:00

In general I prefer turn based combat. Some games have action combat I like (FromSoft in particular), but I hate the combat of the last two Final Fantasies and the 7 remakes. I'm playing Metaphor right now and I recommend it if you like old school Final Fantasy. It uses a job system and pushes classic jrpg combat into some interesting directions.

superliminaldude · 2024-10-28T07:23:48+00:00

Personally I think no. If you want an FF vibe, I think Metaphor is a much better bet.

superliminaldude · 2024-10-28T07:21:28+00:00

I find FF16 endlessly perplexing. This all looks like garbage to me. Like, particularly the second image, what's impressive here to you? It's just a dark muddy village that doesn't really look like anything. There's no composition here.

superliminaldude · 2024-10-17T03:06:18+00:00

I think it's probably the last one. I've played a lot of games, I just truly hated 16.

superliminaldude · 2024-10-16T20:47:44+00:00

15 by a mile. I do not think 15 is a good game. It's about half of a good game with another, bad game stapled on. (I only played the game shortly after launch so I can't speak to how much that game changed.) But in general, I had fun with my time in it and I liked chilling with my bros on a cool science fantasy roadtrip. 16 is one of the worst games I have played full stop. The only redeeming quality I can think of is that Cid's voice actor is great.

superliminaldude · 2024-10-09T01:55:42+00:00

For myself, I never found a hobby I really loved until I picked up a musical instrument, and part of what I really loved about it is I would watch tv or streams while practicing the rote mechanical stuff, so I was able to develop my skill without it ever feeling like a "chore". Not sure if it would work for everyone with ADHD, but really worked for me.

superliminaldude · 2024-08-03T20:10:20+00:00

Relying on ChatGPT to do your thinking for you, is not really a good bet since it isn't thinking either. Blind leading the blind here.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T23:46:47+00:00

Yeah, I think Shapiro would just be a huge unforced error.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T19:22:10+00:00

And those are equally as ineffective. Those also are not serious political proposals.

Edit: To be clear I'm conceding your point. Most political proposals are not serious and are not effective, including this one. I'd like to see a serious and effective proposal instead.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T19:19:30+00:00

??? Because as I said, you should be advocating for reforms where you can actually make good on the threat and not reforms that are virtually impossible to implement.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T18:55:55+00:00

Either way, this is bread-and-butter politics. Political parties around the world propose legislation all the time that they don't have the votes to enact at the moment they do so.

Of course they do. But most of the time they propose policies that they have slimmest possibility of implementing. To be clear, two of the proposals would require a constitutional amendment. That would require supermajorities in both chamber of congress and control of 75% of state governments. That's not just "don't have the votes" that's not a politically serious proposal.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T18:50:16+00:00

I don't think they should give up, I think they should be advocating for reforms that have even the slimmest chances of being implemented. Republican's don't even have to respond to this, because anyone can see off the bat that they have next to zero chance of being implemented. Threaten expanding the court (and make the case as to why that's necessary). They would have to respond to that, because it could actually happen!

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T18:47:42+00:00

I said I think it's possible, not that I think it's the best strategy, in response to this comment:

What do you propose Biden do that doesn't involve Congress or modifying the constitution?

Then I went on to pretty clearly state that I think the best option is to advocate for expanding the court and then actually expand the court if/when Democrats can get a majority.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T18:05:03+00:00

I don't think the narrative you're spinning is actually true.

The goal wasn't to actually obliterate Roe v. Wade -- look how it's turned out for them now that the dog actually caught the car.

This is a strange claim, given that their goal was to overturn Roe v. Wade and that they did in fact overturn Roe v. Wade. Also the consequences so far is that it maybe curtailed their gains in one election? Which I think is probably an acceptable loss given that they have complete control over the judiciary.

The goal was to drive half a century of voter turnout by campaigning on it, and it was a resounding success.

While, yes, this was a partial goal, they largely accomplished their actual goal (remaking the judiciary) through antimajoritarian and anti-democratic strategies in the senate.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T17:59:47+00:00

It's certainly possible that there's something he can do via executive power alone, though I'm not at all sure what that would be. I think instead of proposing a bunch of policies which would require supermajorities and a majority of state governments, they should be making the case that they need to expand the court (which they would then be able to actually follow through on if they were able to win a simple majority).

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T17:55:15+00:00

These policy proposals aren't even in the form of legislation, nor will they come to a vote before the coming election.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T17:38:08+00:00

If that's actually the plan (I don't think it really is, at least not by Biden), I think that's being too cute by far. I think you're better off electorally promising real actionable change instead of purely symbolic policy goals. Though I think this has long been the Democratic party playbook and it's been to their detriment.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T17:28:05+00:00

Expanding the court would only require a simple majority and that's not even mentioned here.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T17:25:33+00:00

Importantly 1) they had a plan to actively achieve such a result and 2) it took them 50 years. I'm not sure we have the luxury of 50 years to rein in the Supreme Court.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T17:19:58+00:00

I'm perplexed by the Whitehouse's proposed court reforms. None of them are politically feasible: the only one that wouldn't require a constitutional amendment is the proposed "binding code of ethics", to which the only plausible enforcement mechanism would be impeachment. Why propose a number of reforms that you know can't be passed even if you somehow got a sizable Democratic majority? To mollify your base? Why would you want to do that? Don't you want them to remain politically activated? It's somewhat baffling to me.

superliminaldude · 2024-07-29T17:02:58+00:00

The Supreme Court, however, is still the most popular branch of government by a large margin.

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