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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Paper Mario and the Origami King
« on: August 22, 2020, 12:10:03 PM »
I like the story and puzzles. I agree on battles, though I like it for the boss fights where they change it up a lot. For the paper soldier fights I wish it was a little more straight forward as the ring battles just take a bit too long to do for the low stakes of a goomba battle.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
« on: January 10, 2018, 08:01:04 PM »
I think I enjoyed TLJ, but everytime I think about it I have different feelings on it.  Overall there were some things explained in way too much detail (to the point of bordom) and then others that they completely skip (leading to why are they doing that?) which forces the audience to fill in the gaps and then comes the arguing for die hard fans.  If you can just set everything aside I think it works as a film in the SW universe and does wipe the slate clean to hopefully craft some compelling original stories within the SW sandbox. 


It feels like they are trying to go in a more nuanced direction where its not all good or all bad.  I just hope they can drop the whole there always is a bigger weapon theme and the FATE OF THE GALAXY riding on some rag tag bunch which is already well traveled territory. 


Maybe smaller scaled stories that are more fleshed out giving both sides reasons for doing what they are doing.  Maybe that's the plan with the side story movies coming out or being planned (R1, Han Solo, ObiWan, etc...).  Maybe we can get some side story where the main character is the darkside jedi/sith/whatever and filling in some of there perspective on this dark-v-light struggle.

EDIT: And it just dawned on me. At the end they  used their last ship to lightspeed into the First Order armada. Why didnt they do that with all of the previous ships that they evacuated? The first order would have either stayed on to take the risk of having their own ships destroyed or let them escape. Some actual odds and genuine tension right there.

I liked the film but can understand why some might hate it. 


It's not his fault the new commander didn't bother to tell him what the real plan was.  I mean, what was the point of not bothering to telling your most important fighter that they had a good plan to escape the First Order.?  Instead they made him think they were just going to wander around aimlessly until they ran out of fuel, and when they finally reveal that they'll put everyone on the escape shuttles, never bother to tell him the First Order can't track them so everyone will be safe.  Instead they just let him think they'll be easy pickings, which is the final straw to cause him to mutiny, which ends up causing the shuttles to actually be easy pickings and the First Order to know the survivors are on the planet. 

Yeah Poe's planned backfired but the leaders of the Resistance were at fault for not even letting him no what the real plan was, especially when Leia finally reveals it too him he's actually impressed and OK with it.  Meaning if they told him it in the first place he wouldn't have done the stupid things he ended up doing.


Poe already proved he was a hot headed flyby unwilling to listen to authority - something that decimated the rebel army in both manpower and firepower - and he wasn't even remorseful about it.  Dude should have been thrown in the brig.  No one owes him an explanation for anything.


He was influential enough to lead a mutiny.  I think someone owed him an explanation.  It's bad leadership when everyone under you can be easily turned against you.



 Well they were trying to play up the fact that the tracking could have been from a spy so no one could trust anyone else.  Imagine Holdo told everyone the plan then the spy could report it to the First order could just jump right there and wipe them out.   


Granted this was not stated explicitly that they were keeping it confidential for this reason but it could be inferred.  This goes back to my point about things being either over explained or not explained enough which was my main grip with this movie.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: endgame thread
« on: October 20, 2016, 02:53:32 PM »
Just got back so here is my thoughts on the game.  Yes I was going to be absent so I asked to be townie because of this but we didn't get that so I tried to mix it up a bit.  Knowing that the rest of the mafia should vote me out day 3 or so.  I guess I should not have changed my vote day 3 so that was my bad.  Some of our hits were just ignored but voting out the killers early on was pretty crazy, with this many roles figured it would have been a blood bath but somehow it didn't.  Enjoyed the posts, and congrats to stratos for using the avatar I made... Waaa!  All in all pretty fun but hope to actually be townie next game as I'm mafia about 70% of the time on here for some reason.  Guess the randomizer likes me!

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Dead Thread
« on: October 06, 2016, 11:34:22 PM »
Being arab I should be offended by the story, but waaatever...  I swear I'm mafia more often than probability dictates even when explicetly requesting being plain townie.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 09:59:27 PM »
Care to share this evedence so i can decide to move my vote or not.

It's pretty clear that it's Kushrenada.

Well hes been the only one helping me out so lacking any hard evedence im with him for now

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 09:54:32 PM »
So it seems voting insanolord is not getting traction so i'll throw my self at the mercy of the vote changer and vote mop it up.  Tit-for-tat i suppose. Mafia has been inactive whole game and ive been here every day while also voting out the killer day 1.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 09:35:47 PM »
Care to share this evedence so i can decide to move my vote or not.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 07:26:57 PM »
Current vote tally:

apdude - 2
Insanolord - 2
Mop it up - 2
Khushrenada - 1

A 3 way tie. Very interesting.....



Guess the vote changer will be busy today?


Vote apdude

Mwaaah!


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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 06:54:59 PM »
It's a Canadian contest. They spell center as centre just like theater is theatre there.

Waaaaahhhhh! Apdude doesn't understand languages! In your face!

"You want the ball? Here! Ha ha ha!"


Next you'll be spelling color with a "u"....  AAAA-WWWAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 06:35:08 PM »
They mis-spelled center...  WAaaaaa!

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 02:11:04 PM »
I won't make the mistake of voting Mop it up again without credible evidence.


Vote apdude because my gut tells me to.


You just said you didn't want to vote for someone without evidence.


Then you voted for someone without evidence.

Probably because I PM'ed him which is what I did last game where I was mafia but this time I really have no clue other than getting lucky day 1. 

Stratos will come around.  Or else....  Waaaa...  I'm still sticking with Insano

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 01:57:21 PM »
Your guts are WAAAA-ong....

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 01:42:20 PM »



Mixing Memes... Waaaaa

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 06, 2016, 01:04:02 AM »

Since it has devolved into this... your sexy Wa of the day!


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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 05, 2016, 11:43:35 PM »
Try this

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 05, 2016, 11:24:27 PM »

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? I'm still not winning. Everyone's cheating!



Cheat harder!

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 3 wawhaaaaaaaaaaaat!
« on: October 05, 2016, 11:18:41 PM »
So the mafia didn't place Wa again?  Lucky us!

Must be Insano!

Vote Insanolord!

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 2
« on: October 05, 2016, 07:08:18 PM »
Has anyone in NA figured out the time for day end?  Based on yesterday 4:15pm pacific!?  If so that is soon and the vote is still up in the air especially with vote changing possible... 


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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 2
« on: October 05, 2016, 02:04:15 PM »
I thought I posted this in the other thread, but could someone do me a solid and photoshop a virtualboy on Waluigi?  It's been kinda my thing lately, but I don't have time with my current work schedule. :(


Here you go!

Vote Nickmitch

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 2
« on: October 04, 2016, 08:01:25 PM »
sweet I have a shotgun! Waa!!

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: The Wafather: Day 1
« on: October 04, 2016, 11:42:21 AM »
By the way, question for the host, looking at the sign-up thread, you had 11 roles but only 13 really great and best of the best NWR forumers plus pokepal148 and Insanolord signed up to play. Did you remove some roles or go with them all?
All of them are here baby!


WAAA!!!!  So complete chaos especially since there is vote changing..  Guess I'll kick a random koopa shell and see where it ends up..

Vote Tophat-Waant!

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Future Mafia Games
« on: September 02, 2016, 10:48:24 AM »
Hey all,

Based of the Hall of Fame threads and the info Khushrenada sent me I put together a little app make a searchable database to get some info on the game, such a roles then the list of players in that game.  I'm still kinda new at this so, I know it looks like ass right now but want to get it up to see if there is any feedback or anyone that wants to help out on the project. 

Some of the additional features would be to highlight the players differently if they were the host, or mafia, etc...  and maybe say who won, but that takes a lot of scrubbing through this chat room, also missing a lot of avatars and such. Eventually I'd like to add forms to add new games to the database instead of having to manually do it myself. Anyhow  you can find it here. 

https://nwr-mafia.herokuapp.com/

*I think they will shut it down if it gets too many hits (being a free service) but anyway if your interested in contributing PM me and I'll send you the repo and add you as a contributor.


Does it work with a PC or is it a mobile app? When I enter stuff into the text box, nothing happens and when I select browse all, the page flashes but then it just stays on the main title page. I do like the look of the entry page. Makes me think I should do a Dick Tracy themed Mafia of tommy guns and hard times.


Yeah not quite mobile responsive.  Need to work on that.  Apply the Twitter bootstrap grid to it or something.  The search on the opening page requires pressing return to submit the form.  Browse all should open the search page with all the options and as you type in the search field it should filter them down.  Did not try it on mobile but probably should.  Thanks for the feedback

Edit: So since I'm not paying for the server, after a half hour of inactivity it goes to sleep and so does the database that's feeding it, so that may be why there was a long delay in getting the search results.  Once it is called it has to wake up then the database server has to wake up to send the data then it needs to render it so yeah not production ready...  but it seemed to open ok eventually on my phone but could be better.  I may work on improving it this weekend (or at least the awful color scheme.. what was I thinking) . 

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Future Mafia Games
« on: September 01, 2016, 08:42:16 PM »
Hey all,

Based of the Hall of Fame threads and the info Khushrenada sent me I put together a little app make a searchable database to get some info on the game, such a roles then the list of players in that game.  I'm still kinda new at this so, I know it looks like ass right now but want to get it up to see if there is any feedback or anyone that wants to help out on the project. 

Some of the additional features would be to highlight the players differently if they were the host, or mafia, etc...  and maybe say who won, but that takes a lot of scrubbing through this chat room, also missing a lot of avatars and such. Eventually I'd like to add forms to add new games to the database instead of having to manually do it myself. Anyhow  you can find it here. 

https://nwr-mafia.herokuapp.com/

*I think they will shut it down if it gets too many hits (being a free service) but anyway if your interested in contributing PM me and I'll send you the repo and add you as a contributor.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 70: The Wafather Sign-Up Thread
« on: August 30, 2016, 12:05:06 PM »
In since someone needs to kill khush

8 people did that last game. We need players that will help Khushrenada live instead.  :'(

Like I've said before if you ain't dying you ain't trying.  Especially as a townie.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 70: The Wafather Sign-Up Thread
« on: August 30, 2016, 01:46:32 AM »
Sure Im in.  4 deaths a night.  Wow.

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