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This post might be coming out of the blue, and it's quite a bit personal. If you don't want to read it, just move on--it's in a spoiler because it's rather long. There's a few people who know details about this, but as a whole I want to keep this from my main group of friends (who are basically my labmates and students I took classes with). That group of friend is close knit, and generally if one of them knows, eventually all of them will know and I'm not sure how comfortable I am talking to them about it. So, not knowing where else to go, here I am. And, understand, there's a lot going on right now--so I'd appreciate it if you do respond you try to be respectful. Oh, and Tyranogre, since you'll probably read this, don't tell your parents or anything. Last thing I need right now is my parents finding out this is how I feel because that's just a complicated situation I'm not ready to deal with yet. edit: darn formatting errrors. gah. edit 2: cleaning up grammar errors.

You have been visited by the Tiki of Double Legendaries. Good luck and Astra fodder will come to you, but only if you like this post and say "Breath of the Divine Dragon!"

Kagero's artist has a good sense of humor.

Things are going well over here. Work has been keeping me busy for the past 8 months. I still really like my job, but phones are the worst thing next to printers. Girlfriend and I are still happily together (now we have weekends together.) I got her into playing Path of Radiance, and it's now her favorite FE game. I've been replaying the Kingdom Hearts series. Finished 1, Re:CoM, Birth by Sleep, and I started II this past weekend. My cat is still very handsome. Probably handsome enough to be in a Final Fantasy game.

Let me offer up a REAL response to your post. I honestly feel like it's a cool thing that he's going this far to try and save the company. Make no mistake, TRU's management the past couple of years has been slowly unraveling and showing itself to have been a pitfall for more than just its own employees. Plenty of people with community efforts, vendors, general merchandise and toy companies and plenty more have been or will be adversely affected by what has happened. However, MGA Entertainment is one of those companies whose CEO owes a lot to stores like Toys R Us helping to propel his business to where it's at so I don't doubt that there is something genuine behind this effort he's putting forth. But make no mistake that he definitely gets something out of it though I wouldn't count it being nearly as cynical as a laughing Nichijou gif would imply. Let's say he manages to save and thus have control over what remains of TRU he manages to secure, you can bet that he would leverage that to his advantage. Is there something wrong with that? Not really, though depending on how that's managed things could certainly go very wrong. But like you, I also think it's a long shot but I do hope there is a chance he can pull it off. Talking with coworkers and other customers about the situation even back when he put up $200m of his own money there were plenty hoping that something could come of it. There's still a lot that would be lost in the end when you figure the company will be downsizing from nearly 1000 stores to 200+ in addition to the canadian arm (though that's total RUS stores which includes Babies R Us, not sure what the individual breakdown is for just TRU) but something of it would remain. Whether or not it's saved I'm already using all that has happened as an opportunity to move on but I'd love to still be able to walk into a TRU to buy toys for family/friends if I could.

in celebration of me getting the apartment i applied for, i bought myself a cute ass electric kettle and a boring ass power strip

the great tower of cat-jenga

it rained today and made everything cozy af nice nice nice nice

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Ty did a Let's Play of FE3 once. There was one map where he wanted to do some arena grinding. He put Marth on the castle ready to seize when he was done with his arena grinding and did a save state thing. He didn't realize that one of the buttons to trigger the save state was the same as the button to trigger the seize command, so the cutscene started right at the save state point and he couldn't go back to do arena grinding without losing a ton of progress. That cutscene happened to feature Catria.

reminder that kitties are still cute. look at it attack its foot it think it's a toy and wants to hunt it.

ooh, that's a hot take innit The time structure in MM is one of the most brilliant gameplay decisions I've ever seen because without it the rest of the game becomes impossible to exist. The sidequests wouldn't be as interesting or enriching as they are if they didn't have a schedule to adhere to and play out through, where you watch how these people's lives unfold; everything the characters do in the game is nuanced around its structure and changes depending on what you do. The game for being two decades old gave the player some sense of agency that they were affecting things, even if the world hit a big reset button every 72 minutes. While the overarching story is standard "end of the world" Zelda fare, it's brought to life through watching how the characters in the game deal with it, either being oblivious, fearful, superstitious or hopeless. It was able to create a handful of isolated stories and tragedies in the game that actually instilled a sense of dread or darkness into the world, and giving the world that much character was only made possible by going "how are these three days going to play out for all of these people"? Most of the dungeons save maybe the last two are designed to be well-completed in a full time cycle, and if you can't the game gives you tools to slow down for twice as much time. If you don't want to wait around for an event, you can jump forward 12 hours. Most of the game is streamlined in a way where upon going through cycles again you learn how to circumvent, skip, and avoid a lot of things and since the game is generally designed to be played in hour-increments, I feel it's very respectful of what it expects the player to accomplish whenever you go through a cycle; I never felt like I didn't accomplish SOMETHING by the end of one. Zelda is frequently overrated for it's "challenge" (psst the games are generally linear and piss easy in almost all circumstances) and Majora's Mask just manages to go from "wow this is braindead easy" to "oh okay i have to think, shit", in really only the last two dungeons tbh. I don't know, it honestly just sounds like you suck if you're not completing dungeons or fighting the boss on time enough that it becomes a problem because that's the hypothetical problem I heard people put forth but almost nobody ever actually complained about in practice. Some of the reactions I see to the game both here and elsewhere makes me glad that despite the OP, we're in general over shitting on the game though. It was controversial when it came out just because it was nothing like anybody ever played, especially not a sequel to OCARINA OF TIME, BEST GAME EVEEEEEEEEEER, the only people I see who don't like it nowadays don't like it because it doesn't have any of the traditional boring-ass nuance normal, safe Zelda games have. The fact that it's deeply loved and often in the conversation for being the best game in the series despite being so drastically different than most of them warms my heart.

Oh hey, levels are still a thing!

It's a shame what happened to the place over time and how everything went down. Following the closure of Nsider I was sort of floating around to different fansites that were either created or grew in popularity within its wake. One of those was Nintendopipeline and it was there that I was contacted and told about NS2 and upon joining I realized that like 90% of those I chatted and had fun with on Nsider had migrated there so that eventually became my permanent home as I started culling some of the other sites I visited. At least for the good times, I'll always have a soft spot for it.

That awkward moment when you ask your parents a question about taxes and the answer they give you is so off the mark that you wonder how the hell they aren't in jail for accidental tax fraud.

Soooo this happened last night:

I'm done. My capstone is done and submitted.

I'm enjoying Fire Emblem Warriors. I think I might actually beat FE12. Not sure if I want to start over since it's been a year or two since I booted it up but like it's honestly really good. I got about halfway through.

i just made some chicken and spinach and this shit is fucking delicious GOD this is true character development for me, cooking doesnt suck entirely anymore AND its healthy

WE DID IT! TAKE THAT, BITCH!

Why you want me to choose between Kagero and Camilla?!...I guess Camilla, but will join Kagero if she fails. If it makes you happy, it doesn't look like Catria enjoys this, period. :3

My cat is hugging my arm whenever I type and it's kinda adorable. Minus the whole he has his claws sticking out part. Edit: Regarding odyssey, I'm not ever sure if I'll go for 100% completion. I've been jumping into the game for a few hours maybe once to thrice a weekend--I have so few switch games I have very little reason to rush through any of them.

The FE wiki replaced every character's portrait with Loki.

Aye, I remember when going to Toys R Us was the best thing to do as a kid. Like, if I behaved really well that week my mom would take me to buy that Ben Ten action figure I always wanted or one of the new Toa Mahri sets from Bionicle. One of my local stores actually used to have a small card shop next to it, and whichever parent had custody of me that weekend would let me stop by to check out all the rare Yugioh cards on display before taking me to the main attraction. That card shop was replaced by a laundromat sans 2012 or 2013, though the sun-bleached, partially torn logo, "Kittyworld", can still be seen above one of the entrances to this day. I thought that was the only painful reminder I had to pass by when I traveled down that street. Now I'll have to deal with another once the accompanying Toys R Us eventually crumbles, if it hasn't already.

I like Fire Emblem Warriors

Destiny Hero, I don't think I've ever seen you have a positive post about this game.

I heard 'fuckbuckets' played to the same speed and jingle as 'hot pockets.' good luck with the essay though.

Youngster Joey wants to battle!

That would be me. Hellooooo. I'll be streaming it too. Getting in to streaming again (I used to a few years ago). Trying to figure out how to use discord currently. lol

simple thread. What's your favorite Fire Emblem game(s)? For me, it's a tossup between Radiant Dawn, Sacred Stones, and Awakening. Radiant Dawn had for and away the most varied map design (with objectives to complement it) that every other game's maps/objectives have, unfortunately, felt vanilla by comparison--although it did veer into fake difficultly on some Dawn Brigade chapters. As for Sacred Stones and Awakening, it's hard to place what exactly I like about them--although, the fact grinding is an option means I don't feel locked to certain characters and I like experimenting and finding a niche for every character. SS feels more polished but Awakening feels more expansive.

Ditto where are you

Got my gold 200 fight type badge today! Just six more great throws.... game is being picky IMO on those. Get more nice and excellents than actual greats. Good thing excellents count but dang need more middle ground.

You can argue the quality of the dlc or go "b-b-but _____ made theirs free" but that doesn't change the fact that it's entitled as fuck to expect any new content in a game for free in the first place. A developer isn't obligated to continue supporting a game at launch, singleplayer at that, regardless of whether or not you paid for it. I think it's stupid af to expect new content just for free, especially in this day and age where developers just arbitrarily hold back content already in the game and unlock it as time goes on masking it as "free" updates (hey splatoon). I can get saying it wasn't worth your 20 bucks because of what you value and as a consumer you're allowed to critique something that you feel didn't justify what you paid for, but you aren't entitled to free shit either.

As always, Video Games Live was amazing! Got my tshirt and ticket stub signed by Video Games Live creator Tommy Tallarico, conductor Bryan Deans, and singer Jason Page.

The internet is a small place sometimes. I watch this dude on youtube sometimes, and today I see him tweet this today with my damn username from god knows how long ago lmao. https://twitter.com/EvanEdinger/status/982640413382201345

During the release of Kirby: Star Allies I had debated whether I should've posted here since it's related to Kirby or General Gaming because it's a board game or even posted it at all. I've now decided I'm doing a risk and posting it anyways on here. There is more information of what I've discovered over time in the comment section of the video. Like I have said so many times I am not a master of Japanese. Most of this guess work after months of reading the instruction booklet over and over again. With that in mind I hope you guys enjoy the video during the wait of the upcoming videos I have planned for next week. Love board games? Love Street Fighter? Well here's a kickstarter for Street Fighter Miniatures Game Worked by Angry Joe with the help of Capcom! Fully funded but now on Stretch Goals

Oh I wanted to say this in the last chat to @KefkaFFVI but want to know a secret? And this is serious despite it being April Fools to some.

going to apply for the apartment i want today!! never had an apartment alone before and im kinda nervous!!!

Damn that was fast.

Today's the daaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy http://burgerweek.co/halifax-burger-week-list/ Every March our city has "Burger Week" where restaurants all over serve up their best, weirdest, or fanciest of burgers. All "burger week" burgers participating must have a minimum donation to the local food bank for every burger sold. Take a look at the list to see the sheer variety of participating places and burgers. It's always a fun week. This year will have 125 participating locations! Tonight we're meeting up with some fellow Pokemon Go players, and then doing a "Burger Crawl" - similar to a Pub Crawl, where we'll visit about 6 places and split burgers with each other so we can experience a larger variety without bursting at the seams. We plan to repeat this on Sunday during/after Pokemon Community day.

FUCK YOU CATRIA! YOU DON’T DESERVE A SEASONAL! IF YOU SO MUCH AS THINK ABOUT SHOWING YOUR UGLY, ARENA-STEALING FACE IN A NO-COLORLESS ROLL, YOUR ASS IS GOING STRAIGHT DOWN THE THROAT OF WHATEVER BLUE MAGE WOULD MOST BENEFIT FROM HUGINN’S EGG!

MKRA Kongo Jungle Grand Prix Qualifying results: Row 1 - Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Sonic, Luigi Row 2 - Daisy, Peach, Sonic, Fox Row 3 - Yoshi, Rosalina, Krystal, Amy Rose Row 4 - Captain Falcon, Jody Summer, Miles Edgeworth, Mario Row 5 - Phoenix Wright, Edmond Honda, Bowser, Conker Row 6 - Banjo, Fuzzer, Triforcemaster, Zelda Row 7 - Birdo, Kirby, Metaknight, Koopa Troopa Row 8-9 - the rest 10 pm- The formation lap is underway and the karts will go slowly around the circuit to ensure their karts won’t have any problems when the lights go out in a few minutes. 10:05 pm- Lights are now green and we are underway with everyone getting a clean start into turn 1 with DK, Diddy and Daisy in the top three at the start. 2- And already Fuzzer is making huge strides now into the Top 15 so far after another forgetful qualifying run. Meanwhile, Diddy Kong is battling his uncle for the lead and gets by him and brought Daisy along with him to drop the big ape to third position. Sonic and Luigi round out the top 5 so far. 6- Big wreck already collects Amy Rose, Fox, Krystal, Peach and last week’s winner Yoshi with all five sustaining enough damage to be forced out of the race... all because a fan threw an illegal banana peel onto the track in front of Amy’s path causing her to spin into the other four racers, thereby displaying the yellow for the first time. Needless to say that fan won’t be coming back anytime soon... 9- On the ensuing restart, Sonic gets by DK to slot himself into third place only to face an enemy worse than Eggman in the form of water as the big ape slammed into the side of Sonic’s kart with enough force to send him into the river and results in the blue hedgehog’s kart too soaked to continue. As such both CVS Fox and Petco Hedgehog are out of the race. 15- Fuzzer sure is making this look easy as he passes Rosalina to put himself within striking distance of the podium in 4th place with pit stops set to commence for the first time in the next 5 laps. Meanwhile Zelda and TM3 both find themselves in the top 10 with the aforementioned pit stops yet to come. 20- Pit stops begin and it’s looking likely we may have Dole Banana vs Delta Sarasland for the win as both teams are flawless with both drivers for each of their teams. This allows the four drivers to be extremely close in the battle for positions and should make these next 40 laps fun. 23- The BMW Bighsot drivers are slowly climbing into a decent finish when Gary Oak thinks he can easily send Bowser into the river and send him out of commission. Big mistake sadly as the turtle, clearly unhappy with Gary, retaliates on the bridge heading into the cave with a wreck that causes them to get into the mud that makes them unable to continue. While waiting though, both drivers get into another altercation this time with punches flying. Ash Ketchum sees this and smartly drives away from the mayhem. 26- Heartbreak for Banjo as his engine has gone south. He’s out. 33- Diddy Kong and Fuzzer have both passed Daisy and are now 1-2 with the two racers set to swap positions numerous times heading into the critical second pit stop that could determine the winner. 37- It should be noted that Ash Ketchum is in 5th. Rounding out the top 10 are TM3, Zelda, Jody Summer, Captain Falcon and Peach with 3 laps until pit stops. 40- Once again, the Top 4 drivers are able to exit pit road with no issues. Disaster strikes Kroger Popstatr though as Kirby’s pit crew has unexpected problems with one tire and loses precious time dealing with a stubborn lug nut not cooperating for some reason. 45- Phoenix Wright has gotten past Peach for 10th place with 15 laps left. TM3 also has gone by Ash for 5th with Fuzzer leading Diddy, DK and Daisy several seconds ahead of TM3. 50- Daisy has gone by her boyfriend for the lead but with the 4 so close together, it’s hard to ensure some distance between the drivers. It should be noted that all 4 drivers run Chevy engines making the GM brand the first to have a sweep of the podium in terms of engine manufacturers if things stay the same for the final 10 laps which promise to be an epic dogfight. 55- Heartbreak for Donkey Kong with 5 laps left as he blows a tire causing him to wreck spectacularly in the process much to the dismay of the home fans. TM3 and Zelda have now put themselves in the final two positions in the top 5. 60- What a finish as Fuzzer wins his first race of the 2018 MKRA season holding off Daisy and Diddy Kong in the process in a crazy shootout. TM3 and Zelda rounded out the top 5. This is the first time both Delta Sarasaland drivers have finished 1-2 in team history dating back to 2017 and all three finishers have Chevy powered engines meaning the “bowtie brigade” has swept the podium. Also in a close finish were Phoenix Wright and Peach for 10th with the princess barley edging out the lawyervfor that position at the line. Results and points: 1. Fuzzer- 25 pts 2. Daisy- 20 pts 3. Diddy Kong- 18 pts 4. TM3- 15 pts 5. Zelda- 12 pts 6. Ash Ketchum- 10 pts 7. Metaknight- 9 pts 8. Jody Summer- 8 pts 9. Captain Falcon- 7 pts 10. Peach- 6 pts 11. Phoenix Wright- 5 pts 12. Mario- 4 pts 13. Luigi- 3 pts 14. Conker- 2 pts 15. Rosalina- 1 pt DNF: Amy Rose Fox Krystal Peach Yoshi Sonic Bowser Gary Oak Banjo Donkey Kong

I've had a lot of memories of getting various video game stuff from TRU once they opened here in my town. I think my first game from their store was F Zero on the SNES. Can't say 100% for sure if we ever got an NES games from them because I think they came to town as the NES was in its later years. Kind of sad to see them go but my own company I have been with 20 years this month is kind of in the same boat financially speaking even if a lot of the work they are doing to "fix" the issues are slowly working to right the ship if you will. Trust me, I have done some company trips to closing stores to either pick up not needed fixtures for my own store or taking slow moving freight to them for them to sell out via their own liquidation. Its a somber experience if you ever have to do it. My take on the online commerce killing brick and mortar is somewhat neutral. I mean, Amazon pockets all those prime memberships up front, to cover costs in some cases for ... shipping.... prime video ... ect... maybe even profit margins. I personally never got why I would want to pay you up front for free shipping when I could do a $35 order and get free shipping but I digress. Also, on a lot of things, Amazon used to be cheaper but now, they are almost always in-line or +/- $2 on things like games, movies, cds, ect.... In terms of my own company and in dealing mostly with the likes of Best Buy as far as buy online and in-store pick up.... a lot of times online us undercutting your instore pricing because they can cut out the middlemen, that being the employees running the store versus some guy in a warehouse pulling a box. Then people see the online price and come in to buy it only to find out its online only for the price. Customers come to your store expecting items to be in stock. Some people ought to look up business practices of loss leaders and what not... You can also get into profit margins and markups but then think about the chain that gets a product from the company offering it all the way to the retailer that sells it.... there's a lot of costs you don't see. How about all those merchant fees for your credit cards? Interest on carrying inventory? Cash isn't always cheaper as you have to pay people to count and deposit it.... ANYWAY, onto a brighter note..... TRU..... and memories.... I do remember the aisles of cards that you took up front for them to pull your game out from behind the warehouse/cage. I remember getting F Zero there. I remember blazing out of the house to get A Link to the Past. I remember they got MK64 in a day earlier than Electronics Boutique and my brother and I decided we'd pay the premium to get there... I think they were $10 more. Camped out and got my Wii there. Missed lots of PO opportunities with GS and so the night before release I had stopped by to see if they were having extras and the guy said they did get some stock over their PO allotment but if I wanted one I needed to get there early. Got in the parking lot at 5am that morning.... and yeah, my brother and I got one each and were two if the first 3 in line. Got somewhat hosed on their screw up wit the POs for TPCE with that Gold Zelda controller. They did make it right in terms of getting whatever controller I wanted along with the game but the point was I did the PO for the whole package and luckily I found one ditched at the farthest back possible corner of a cabinet at my local Target at around 7pm that day and then got my copy from TRU with free random controller to give my brother as a Christmas present. Got my WiiU there. Got MK8 there with the B1G1 sale they had as I was getting a copy for myself and the other was going to be my brother's birthday present. Many a Amiibogeddon was done there in terms of camping out early to score the figures I wanted. Ohh the tales.... Got my NES Classic there on that fateful 2nd restock morning. Ohh the tales of that one.... Got Mario Maker there along with Amiibos that released that day. Got Yoshi's Woolly World and associated Amiibos there. Did a lot of double dips on Amiibos there with some of their good buy multiple at discount sales. Scored a sweet Mario themed 3DS case for $2 that held more games than the original case I had bought. Scored Mario Kart 7 early Sunday morning on release day.