Xiahou Ba

Xiahou Ba

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If I know my father....he'd be smiling! 30 From Formerly Wei, defected to Shu
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  • Xiahou Ba
    I'm not sure if this is a me thing but I can't keep my attention reading lengthy writings these days.
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    Attention spans are certainly dwindling these days, it's not just you. Blame the advent of short-form clips on social media and how fast the world moves these days.
    Xiahou Ba
    I've driven 350 miles or roughly 5 hours from LA to Santa Clara, was an easy drive lol.
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    Xiahou Ba
    Xiahou Ba
    I thought it would be more tiring than that but an average day at work is much much much more tiring.
    Classic Sonic
    Classic Sonic
    @Xiahou Ba Personally I always hated long drives as a kid, even going on vacation, if they took four to six hours or more; they were pretty boring and I got pretty tired; I imagine that as an adult having to actually do the driving for that long would be even more exhausting. God, now thinking about that I feel bad for my Dad because he usually did the driving.
    Blitzo
    Blitzo
    I saw Santa and fixated on that for a moment
    Xiahou Ba
    The release and success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 should be a sign for Nintendo to get back and revitalize the traditional turn-based style of the first two Paper Mario games.
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    Xiahou Dun
    They should just make a Mario RPG in the style of Clair Obscur
    Classic Sonic
    Hey Xiahou Ba, are the shootings finally dying down? I really hope so, that's why I made my comment earlier about waiting til Minecraft Movie comes out on digital to watch it. I mean last year things were crazy out of control with SO many shootings going on literally everywhere it seemed like almost all the time (even some at freaking grocery stores; how scary is that?) and I'm not sure yet if it's begun to settle down and the violence is stopping yet.
    Classic Sonic
    Hey Ray Trace, I have some news for you. Might be good news if you want this, or bad news if you don't. If you don't want this said poster has agreed to willingly remove this reuploaded mod from the Steam Workshop, but anyway, a user named Jedi Of 1985 has reuploaded your Baby Mario characters to the Steam Workshop so that people can enjoy them again. If you don't want this he promises to take them down. Hopefully you're happy about this and not upset.
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    Classic Sonic
    Classic Sonic
    That's great. Also things are turning around on the workshop as the reuploader says this:

    However, if this gets removed through another false flagging, I'll just reupload it again. The 2024 DMCA purge may have affected me and lots of other GMod creators, but we are not alone, and we are not giving up. I refuse to be silenced like the others who have been as they try to express their feelings and concerns about it. And I will not let this community down. I stand with other creators who want to do something about this, and I want to contribute to the revival efforts. Alright, enough of my rambling.
    Xiahou Ba
    Xiahou Ba
    someone ported the gameplay system of metroid prime to the workshop and nintendo literally did not touch that. the whole dmca shit is very spotty and targeted.
    Classic Sonic
    Classic Sonic
    @Xiahou Ba Yeah I know it's kind of why I think Nintendo didn't really do it. I think Aaron Peters is an imposter, but of course there are people who disagree with me. I'm fine with that though. I guess either theory is equally likely.
    Classic Sonic
    Your new profile picture and border look awesome.
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    Classic Sonic
    Classic Sonic
    Well maybe, maybe not. I didn't have any other graphics glitches like that for the entire rest of the game, so....I really don't know. I do remember however I watched a YouTube gamer play a rip-off of the Nintendo Wii called the "Vii" and during the baseball game there was a part where the catcher's sprite jittered LOL. That's how bad of a ripoff it was. It also was made in 2006 when the Wii came out, but had SNES-like graphics. It was a piece of crap. Nowhere as good as an actual Wii. Thankfully when the Nintendo Wii came out in 2006 my parents bought me the real thing and not one of those terrible knockoffs.
    Xiahou Dun
    Xiahou Dun
    Fyi the glitchy Boo defensive shot in Mario Power Tennis isn't our copy malfunctioning. It's caused by the Boo being set to be left handed.
    Xiahou Ba
    Xiahou Ba
    Xiahou Ba
    Happy Super Bowl Sunday, even if you don't watch it, treat yourself to a bag of Doritos or a bottle of soda.
    Classic Sonic
    Hey which character is that that's your new profile picture? They look really cool.
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    Xiahou Ba from Dynasty Warriors 8 (he's a historical figure too in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms period but obviously didn't look like a boy irl), my second favorite character in the game! He wields a rocket spear (game calls it a siege spear but you know), which is my favorite weapon in the game.
    Shockwave
    Hope you and your sister are staying safe from the wildfires.
    Xiahou Ba
    My New Year's Resolution is to not click onto X/Twitter links again.
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    Wonder Woman
    That's a wise resolution
    Xiahou Dun
    Xiahou Dun
    I also minimize responding to them.
    Classic Sonic
    Classic Sonic
    Screw X/Twitter. It's got this boring black and white color scheme now that Elon Musk has control of it and on top of that people hate him in general. He's a bad person in general too. I mean for one thing he's really racist; he blamed the California wildfires on black firefighters. That really makes me angry. His (very obvious) racism is so disgusting to me. 😠

    He's also just a bad person in general as well though.
    Xiahou Ba
    Astro Bot won GOTY and I'm very happy it did. As much as I love Baldur's Gate 3 and how good Elden Ring is, it's a bit nice to see a different genre with colorful, cute, playful aesthetics win it once in a while, as they did with It Takes Two in 2021. Honestly I would have played it if it weren't stuck to the PlayStation.
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    I'm not certain that Astro Bot is worth buying an entire PlayStation 5 for, but it's such good fun every step of the way. I genuinely have nearly no problems with it so far, it's the closest thing to a perfect game I've seen in recent years and just oozes with Mario DNA - especially Galaxy, which is my favorite game of all time.
    Classic Sonic
    Classic Sonic
    Sounds like a fun game; I might play it sometime. I might buy a new Playstation console someday but this upcoming year I'm going to get a Switch 2 for Christmas. Is it a good platformer? If it is, I might like it a lot just like how I love Mario and Spyro so much.
    OmegaRuby
    OmegaRuby
    An incredible platformer that just exudes so much charm and creativity on top of interactivity and showing off the DualSense's capabilities without seeming insignificant or pointless.
    Xiahou Ba
    Dynasty Warriors is my hyperfixation right now.

    I really wish there was a Mario Warriors game, man why won't Nintendo just man up and give us one.
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    Classic Sonic
    Classic Sonic
    LOL I'm a Kingdom Hearts fan as well as a Mario fan. Would a "Mario+Kingdom Hearts" game series be cool, or would it just be weird? I mean the whole "Mario + Rabbids" thing is kind of weird but it worked really well.
    Mermaid Man
    Mermaid Man
    @Roy "Bully" Koopa Well, given the whole Final Fantasy + Disney crossover concept of Kingdom Hearts being so weird but still working, a Mario + Kingdom Hearts crossover wouldn't be too farfetched in my opinion, though I'm not sure if it would ever come to fruition given that I don't really see Nintendo being willing to work in conjunction with Disney.
    Classic Sonic
    Classic Sonic
    @Koopa Klaus Maybe they would be, maybe not. I'm not really sure, to be honest.
    Xiahou Ba
    Our healthcare industry is a massive scam and it shouldn't even exist.
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    Blitzo
    Blitzo
    I did not say anything about sympathy. I said that you should never say someone deserved to die. That statement leaves an incredibly bad taste in my mouth.
    Xiahou Ba
    Xiahou Ba
    I'll still back up that the general public doesn't care about his death because the CEO is a massive piece of shit and he's very evil. In fact, this is one of the few times recently that there is no political division behind his death: both liberal and conservative voters share their united hatred of this industry and what this CEO stands for to the point where online sleuths don't help the local police. People are sick and tired of having their essential healthcare coverage denied for a service they pay upward of 200 dollars or more a month for while medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcies in families. Hell, my own mother had United Healthcare as coverage at one point and had to pay an arm and leg for essential medicine.

    It's commonly joked that this guy's funeral is paid by funerals of other people but it is also very much true. Hence why people say stuff like this. Basically what this CEO and his shareholders did also was "yeah terminally ill patients deserved to die" or families deserve to be bankrupt, that's exactly what they prey on.
    Classic Sonic
    Classic Sonic
    @Ray Trace He was a terrible person I agree, and because of everything you just revealed about him I really don't like him (had no opinion on him before because I didn't know the bad things he had did or who he was). He shouldn't have been killed (only saying that because murder is always wrong no matter what), but he also never should have been allowed to be CEO, which is the greater insult here frankly-that's the bigger issue here-much bigger. Just the fact that happened is completely not right at all because he was clearly a really terrible person. Also really sorry about what happened with your mother with United Healthcare, Ray Trace. That was totally not fair. Our healthcare system is a bunch of bullshit and it needs to be fixed. Terrible people like him shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of it. People are being put in charge of healthcare that care nothing about helping people out which is the whole point of healthcare (helping people), so what are they even doing there? It's so stupid and ridiculous. This guy should have NEVER been put in charge. And did he even do it legitimately, or did he bribe people along the way? I'm thinking probably the latter. But yeah. Self-centered jerks like him should not be in charge of our healthcare system. And I feel great sympathy for the people he mistreated including the terminally ill patients. And I hate the fact that there are terrible people out there in our world like him that mistreat others. It's really really a terrible thing. Completely the opposite of how I am; I want to help people every way I can. At least there's more (or at least just as many) people in the world like me as there are terrible people. Given the fact that I'm a person who wants to help people it's hard for me to understand the mindset of self-centered terrible people like him frankly who care about noone but themselves-and money. Sorry if this post is long but I wanted to get all my thoughts and personal feelings about this situation out. Also in my opinion, this CEO guy sounds like he was absolutely evil and heartless and he should have (when he was alive) been absolutely ashamed of himself. I very much dislike people (including him) who are like that.
    Xiahou Ba
    I played Paper Mario: Sticker Star for the first time.
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    I actually like the game's battle system quite a bunch, surprisingly. Let's just say, I like the improvisational battles, strategizing based on what I have and how I'm given a wide variety of attacks from the getgo. The game encourages you to play well when you perform action commands correctly, since it awards you coins, a hugely vital resource in the game. Coins actually feel valuable in this game since they do so much things, not only do they buy you more attacks but they let you spin the Battle Spinner, the tool that's practically essential to winning hard fights, and it's just fun to move multiple times in a row and also strategize based on which enemies you're going to attack next. I love how the hammer is buffed to do AOE damage (extremely important in this game, it very emphasizes on denying enemy turns, especially if you can beat them in one turn since you're also awarded coins if you do so). Lack of EXP doesn't bother me because I've played other games that used power of equipment that determines your level instead so I'm already familiar with that type of RPG gameplay. I'm also quasi-familiar with consumable attacking moves (Pokemon's PP and Baten Kaitos's cards) so yeah, they shower you in stickers anyway where that's not a big deal.

    Boss fights are a big miss though, just because of the nature of practically requiring you to bring the right Thing sticker and use them at the right point. People are justified to be angry at that and I agree with that. They're too polarized to be good, either they're way too easy or way too challenging. Requiring a guide to get through parts of the game is very bad game design something I'll agree with the haters by a lot, but I'll use a guide anyway just because I want to like video games, not dislike them, so if that's the reccommended play to avoid headaches then by golly I'll use a guide.

    Getting Thing stickers IS annoying though. I hate this gameplay of "get item where you have to backtrack to town to get upgrade", hated that mechanic in TTYD, so of course I'll hate it here.

    The Toad NPC spam is very bad though. Major complaint I have with the friendly NPCs, had this complaint from before I played it and it still stands. I'm not asking for made-up species, I just want a little bit more variety. Pretty much the Mario variant of "where are the black people, where are the women". Hell the Toads should at least wear different outfits, like distinguish the shady guy and the musuem guy and the shop guy just from outfits, you don't need to do anything drastic. I'd prefer more friendly species but that's more than bare minimum.

    The soundtrack is so good too. Very much helps with my enjoyment of Sticker Star.

    "what's the reason you're playing SS just now when it's been out for 12 years, and another (much better) Mario RPG just came out?"

    Mostly because it's a hated and controversial game (thanks to Sparks for validating that!) so I want to jump in and see all the fuss surrounding it, if it really deserves like, 2's or 1's out of tens. My other rationale is, gee I have a penchant of liking games people didn't like while disliking games that are beloved (Yoshi's New Island vs SNES Yoshi's Island is the biggest example) so I figured, hell I'm probably gonna end up liking Sticker Star. And so far, the answer seems to be yeah.

    By the way I don't have much interest in Brothership anyway.
    Stanley
    Stanley
    Personally, I couldn't play Sticker Star for very long, as it triggered my anxiety (it's complicated) but I think it's overhated.
    yoshibro75
    yoshibro75
    Same, I love Sticker Star. (but if you know me at all you know I like color splash better)
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