Mister Jack

I would like to see a Tokoyami episode myself. I love that little Stand using goth dork. Best chocobro. Oh yeah I just remembered. Several of the fights we see in the tournament arc happened off-panel in the manga, so that was also nice.

I really like how My Hero Academia is handling filler. The manga, supposedly because the author was worried about his time constraints, would often mention some minor side event happening in passing but not really go into more detail than that. It was never vital to the plot, but sometimes it just sounded like something that would be cool to see. The anime seems to be taking the approach of expanding on those side events, which is just fine with me. The most recent episode did it and the OVA also did it to some extent.

Geez, I live fairly close to Charlottesville so I'm sure it's all I'm going to hear about from anyone for a while. I can't wait.

Tapatalk.

Has anyone else found themselves unable to use the mobile app ever since the recent upgrade? It keeps giving me a network error no matter how many times I try to log in, even from different locations.

Believe it or not, this is a fanwork.

God damn it, Valve.

You make a good argument, but I hope you're wrong simply because I don't want them to hook up. I don't think their personalities complement each other. It could be a political marriage I suppose, but Dany seems too proud to do that again. Plus, she's pissing me off lately. I could understand her refusing to help before because she didn't believe Jon, but now she KNOWS the threat is real and she's still prioritizing her throne over the survival of the entire human race? Get the fuck out of here. "Jon is also being stubborn by not bending the knee." Jon has practical reasons not to do that. The North only follows him in the first place because they believe he'll liberate them. If he throws that away, there goes all his support, and he experienced firsthand where that leads. It might even start another war with Dany on top of the one with Cersei. Bending the knee would leave Jon and the north worse off than they are now. If he could guarantee that the north would accept it, I'm sure Jon would gladly pledge his loyalty. He doesn't give a fuck about anything but stopping the Night King, and for good reason. Dany, on the other hand, is just being foolish. I'm actually starting to wonder if she really deserves to rule at this point. She's better than Cersei, but that's not an accomplishment. The power is going to her head and I don't like it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

I don't see Jon and Dany hooking up. I see this standoff resolving itself in one of two ways. 1) Dany suffers enough setbacks in her campaign that she gets desperate and has no choice but to promise Jon that the North will be independent in order to get HIS help. She's stubborn, but she isn't suicidal. If things get bad enough, I could see her taking the pragmatic option even if she doesn't want to. 2) O shit the White Walkers are here! No time to argue about knees and the bending thereof! Just grab a sword and fight back before we're all dead! I will admit I could be wrong about them not hooking up, though. The book series is called "A Song of Ice and Fire" after all, so this whole fantasy epic might end up being the world's darkest version of How I Met Your Mother.

Well now it's waking up to a dark blue screen where I can move the mouse around but do nothing else...Guess I'll disable hibernate and see where that gets me. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Has anyone using Windows 10 had trouble waking their PC up before? Like where it technically turns on but it just stays on a black screen forever? I've been going through this. I can tell that something is happening in the background because I can hear notifications and if I scroll the mouse wheel it starts beeping, but the screen never actually shows the display and I have to restart the whole thing to get it to work again. I read some advice saying to turn off hybrid shutdown to fix it, so I did, but it will take a bit to know for sure if this actually fixes it. In the meantime, I'm just wondering if anyone here ever went through the same thing and how they handled it.

Is anyone surprised?

Got the platinum! The last fight in trial mode was ridiculous, but I did it.

They got rid of the chest opening shit. There's two ways to get a Zodiac Spear now. Zodiac Spear is no longer the strongest weapon in the game, although the new weapons are hidden so well that they're practically easter eggs.

I did the whole fight in one go. No multiple trips necessary. It's definitely more reasonable than it used to be. Thanks to his newly added debuffs vulnerability I didn't need to heal nearly as often. He still has a 5% instakill chance with his attacks, but that's not really that much. Having a shell gambit up also means his instant death spell only works 50% of the time instead of 100%. I also made sure to buy 99 Chronos Tears to mitigate his tendency to inflict stop and set those to a gambit. My white mage was also equipped with a ribbon. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

He has a little over 50,000,000 HP. The good news is that if you set up your gambits properly, you don't have to constantly babysit your party. He is vulnerable to debuffs in the zodiac versions, so if you debilitate his attack and magic attack you should have a much easier time. After the first thirty minutes, I only felt the need to check in on them every five minutes or so to make sure my party leader wasn't dead or that my heavy hitters weren't under status effects. I did go out of my way to get the best weapons, armor, and accessories I could beforehand, but I was prepared enough to make the actual fight pretty manageable. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Yiazmat, I have officially made you my bitch. Took me three hours to kill that fucker. Now all I have to do is finish trial mode and fill out the bestiary and the platinum will be mine.

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age I enjoyed this a hell of a lot more than I did the first time thanks to all the QoL changes, which completely address the majority of the game's problems. You're still a little too dependant on the RNG for some items, and I got annoyed by all the bosses who could put up barriers that completely negate all damage, forcing you to just wait until they go down, but aside from that I don't really have many bad things to say about this remaster. I might try to platinum it, but I dunno if I'll actually do it this time. Some of the trophies require some serious dedication and luck. I'm definitely going to beat Yiazmat, at least, and there's still plenty for me to do even after beating it. I'm realizing now that, aside from the MMOs, FFXII probably has the best postgame content in the series with all these extra hunts and bosses.

Also, we could use a new poll, methinks.

This show is really determined to ruin soup for me.

I have to say, while I approve of most of the changes for Zodiac Age, I'm less a fan of absolutely vital spells like Esuna being taken out of magic stores and instead put inside chests that you're never told about. I'm having to use a walkthrough to find out which chests I'm supposed to open to get the spells I need.

How do you have your party set up? I've gone with this one myself: Vaan - Bushido/Monk Balthier - Shikari/Archer Fran - Uhlan/Machinist Penelo - White mage/Time mage Ashe - Black mage/Red mage Basche - Forebreaker/Knight