^ Pretty much this. I don' t mind seeing them make a quick buck with phone remakes, but seeing them use the Mana IP to make an anecdotal social game is a bit depressing. Granted, the Mana series has gone downhill for a while now. Still, Seiken Densetsu 1 to 4 remain among my favorite games ever. The original Mana concept isn' t wrinkled at all, it would be awesome to give it a spin on modern consoles. Here' s hoping they' ll figure that out eventually.
Probably yes. I almost picked Timeless River but I chose Port Royal instead. I just wish there was a "mostly new places please" box.
I saw it in highschool, I think it' s mandatory for every French student to watch it. I can still recall a few shots vividly. Words fail to describe it, no horror movie will ever begin to compare to that. My grandma has been invited to tell her stories in public schools a few times, her dad was a leader in the resistance and got decorated twice for it. No way in hell she' ll ever watch Schindler' s List. When the nazis invaded her town she was riding back from school on her bycicle. She stopped abruptly when she noticed there was a tank right in the middle of the bridge, its canon pointed at her. She saw two nazis ask a question in German to a pedestrian, he didn' t speak a word of German so they shot him on the spot. She rang her bycicle bell and crossed the bridge, looking straight ahead, praying she' d make it to the other end.
I didn' t mean to make it a pissing contest if that' s how you guys took my first post. I know Sara didn' t mean to, but her OP does make it sound like a one sided issue. At least that' s how it came off to me. Anyway, I just wanted to underline that the military career attracts power play freaks regardless of their gender, which I suspect is a biggest factor when it comes to rape in the army than any kind of gender role blanket statement I could make. I stumbled upon this vid, I' m not sure those testimonies are representative but I thought it was worth posting : Spoiler
Although I barely read any book anymore I' ve read thousands of them when I was young. Those that really stuck with me from when I was a kid are those written by Roald Dahl and Tolkien. And Lord of the Flies. One of my sisters never got big on reading (SHE LOST MY COPY OF THE HOBBIT GODDAM IT !!!) but she made an exception for Roald Dahl. As for my teenage years I mainly remember Stephen King, Isac Asimov and Agatha Christie. When I got bored of dear Agatha my dad suggested San-Antonio, I' ve read over a hundred of those (not exactly PG 13 nor translation-friendly, but outright hilarious).
Or maybe men are just raised to pretend they' d enjoy it. I' ve had to deal with very direct women and it wasn' t necessarilly a pleasant experience. But maybe that' s just me. Besides, rape isn' t necessarilly heterosexual. There might also be a bit of cultural difference, I' ve had lots of female friends who weren' t exactly prude. There' s also the fact that rape is a ***** to prosecute. Unless you undergo a medical exam right after the facts it' s a my word versus his/her word scenario. Problem is reasonable doubt is a big thing in court.
I' ve watched the first season. It' s much grittier than Smallvile but not as much as the Dark Knight, the cheese is still there. Well shot, good stories here and there, I' d keep watching it if I could. The only thing that ticked me off is the whole woosh thing. He does that all the time and somehow manages to pull it off in wide open areas, it' s ridiculous.
Gotta love the assumption that the victims are necessarilly women. Also gotta love the assumption that the abusers are necessarilly men. Look, that kind of career attracts a specific type of personality, and it' s definitely the kind that needs to be watched. It' s the whole who watches the watchmen issue. I don' t expect the military' s culture of secrecy to disappear anytime soon, letting the watchmen watch the watchmen would be a ****ing travesty.
Mandatory time travel fixes every plot hole post. Or does it ? XD
Probably something related to the timer. See, randomness is utterly impossible to program. Can' t do that. What we can do is write an algorithm whose entry variable changes very often (the timer is ideal for that since it changes a lot of times in a single second) and whose result will, in the case of hustle dance, always be somewhere between 0 and 30. In other words you can try to emulate randomness but you' ll never truly get it. Actually, some scientists wonder if there is even such a thing as randomness in nature, maybe there' s always a rule and we just fail to see it. To complicate things further, the timer might not be the only entry variable. As I said earlier luck is often included so that the higher your luck the higher the odds for you to get a high result.
What I was trying to explain to you is that guessing the general rule is trickier than you might think. Let' s say first aid did indeed restore 34% HP just this once, does it still restore 34% HP when you change the character stats or equipment ? Would it have restored 34% HP had you pressed the button a second later ? Here' s a short vid showing how trying to figure out a rule, even a simple one, can be trickier than you might think at first :
I was talking about the spells that don' t tell you how they work, like first aid. And I forgot to mention retro-engineering might be doomed to fail because some modifiers are invisible to the user. For instance the timer is often associated with the luck stat to randomize the end result. And even when they do tell you how they work, sometimes they lie (I' m looking at you, FF IV insane drop rates).
It' s the hardware that always rounds down. As for the exemple you mentionned, I could try and make and educated guess but I won' t bother. In the case of healing spells that don' t clearly state out loud a fixed percentage the algorithm used could be a lot of things. Could be a fixed number, could be a fixed percentage, could be either of those with modifiers applied (caster Lv, caster mag stat, target mag stat etc ...). The only way to know for sure would be to either make a lot of tests to retro-engineer the algorithm (count me out lol) or to look directly at the code. If you' re that curious about it check Gamefaqs, sometimes they do have files breaking down the algorithms used.
He meant they do round, but always down. A 6.9 will be rounded down to a 6. Which is just as arbitrary as rounding up above .5 and down below .5 Say Sora has 679 HP and equips a HP+10% accessory. The line of code will look something like : If accessory=HP+10 then : HPSora=HPSora+(HPSora/10) Sora' s HP would now be 679+67 If you wanted to round things so that Sora would gain 68 HP instead of 67 you' d have to add several lines of codes to deal with it. But since it works just as fine that way why bother ...
Wait ... It was your third hydroplaning that evening and all you cared about was driving as fast as legally allowed ? M' kay ... My first hydroplaning was enough to drive some sense into me. I was loosing track of the car I was following, I sped up, and spinned 180 into the side barrier. On the highway. With incoming cars. Never heard my sister scream so loudly in my whole life. My legs were shaking so much I couldn' t even stand anymore. BTW, in my country speed limits are decreased by 10 km/h when it' s rainy. Are they decreased in the US too ?
Too pink ?
It' d be a pain in the ass ? Not only would it be more time-consuming to write the code, it would also eat more storage space and add stuff for the CPU to compute. Not a big strain, but still, reducing the number of computations required to perform a task is a huge aspect of programing. It' s called code optimization. The simpler the better.
Latin. That' s it. I deciphered a little Nazcäan while playing Ni No Kuni but I wouldn' t count it. Oh and by the way ...
Oh what the hell, with a little luck that' ll fix my post here traumatic stress disorder.
