Hot take: SM64 is the worst 3D Mario game and sunshine is significantly better than it and a really good game that people hate too much. Galaxy and Odyssey are still better tho
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agree w this. it's not a very well-designed game
that said imo its main value lies in the fact that it's more exciting than anything else you can do in a classroom (and back in my day you COULD put in funny names. i think i called myself bin laden once)
The English Digimon opening is... bearable. Way more than the first English DP opening, I would say.
I wish I can have the 100+ audience necessary for a fun live quiz.A bunch of other people said:
Kahoot is basic, but Quizizz is an RNG nightmare. You could get useless power-ups, or you could beat 2nd place by 9,000 points even though they only missed one question
I feel like complaining that it’s difficult to recover from behind in Kahoot is like complaining that your life bar can drop to zero in Street Fighter. If you’re behind, it’s because your opponents are playing better than you are lol. Just revise more and work on your fact recall techniques.
If u get an answer wrong and then your classmates don’t give you an opportunity to even the score, that’s the game working as intended.
If u get an answer wrong and then your classmates don’t give you an opportunity to even the score, that’s the game working as intended.
i like kahoot a bunch but a lot of the fun of street fighter is, if you get hit once, you can pressure or trick or force your opponent into making a mistake to come back. in kahoot, if you miss question 1, you could play immaculately and still have no control of your fate if someone else gets them all right. even if you get 2-10 faster than the other person! relying on mistakes out of your control is kinda tragic. maybe they could weight question speed more to counteract that some? idk, tough problem
Ok but you don't DIE if you get hit once in street fighter you can still theoretically come back from any amount of health without relying on tons of human error
Is there any point in playing a game that you can't win anymore? And if you just quit, the whole point of Kahoot (being a study tool) is completely eliminated
After a lot of thought I have decided to reveal this hot take
"Monster" features an incredible verse by Nicki Minaj. I think to this day it's the best verse of her career. But Kanye's verse in that song is just as good, and I probably even prefer it tbh
I am now ready to get called a misogynist by the Barbz
"Monster" features an incredible verse by Nicki Minaj. I think to this day it's the best verse of her career. But Kanye's verse in that song is just as good, and I probably even prefer it tbh
I am now ready to get called a misogynist by the Barbz
i'd forgotten abt quizzizzizzizzizz! i don't remember any rng factors tho - is that a new thing? (in fact the only thing i vaguely remember was that you could change(?) the theme to e.g. christmas/hallowe'en and maybe that instead of nicknames you just got given a number?)
this is less a hot take and more a story but once at rowing i was given the aux (a terrible idea, really) and the combination of the scream at the start & the lyric "fat motherfucker" made everyone laugh and i took it personally. so now i can't listen to this excellent song without thinking about that.
(both verses are v good. i agree)
Basically, there are several power-ups you can get, which range from removing one incorrect answer choice(not that good)to doubling your points from that question(obviously great). This has gotten even worse recently with the introduction of a power-up which gives you 1.5* points for 30 seconds, which can stack with double points to give triple points for a question
An actually-flawed quiz would be something like Mastermind, where you are on a timer to answer all of your questions, can't guarantee that your set of questions are going to let you get through the same number of questions in the same amount of time, and you aren't allowed to interrupt the host (meaning you can't claw back time lost due to variance in question length by figuring it out before the question is over). This is actually unfair design, as players aren't guaranteed to be on an even playing field.
Quizzes aren't exactly the only games like this either. For example, it is very, very common in high level snooker for you to lose an entire frame off of one (often very small—far smaller than getting a question wrong in Kahoot, and much more like guessing a second or two slower than whoever you're tied for first with) mistake. You can't go up and influence your opponent's cuing or change the positions of the balls when you aren't at the table, so you are forced to sit there and watch as Ronnie O'Sullivan cleans up. Similarly, if two strong chess players play against each other, it is common for one positional mistake or incorrect move order to be the difference between a draw and a loss, and one blunder is all it takes to turn a commanding winning position into an entirely lost one.
In both of these cases, if your mistake leaves your opponent with a good enough position, your ability to come back will depend entirely on your opponent cocking up somewhere. Does this make snooker and chess bad games? No, of course not. It's just a different room-for-error threshold than a game with more variance. And for a quiz, you ideally want as little variance as possible, because you know what feels worse than getting one question wrong and losing because of it? Getting every question correct and then losing to someone who didn't because of something completely out of your control.
Don’t forget Taunt boosted Akuma KKZ against Twelve recovering from XCOPY!
While it's undoubtedly a classic and one of the best games of its time, FF6 is incredibly mediocre by today's standards. Kefka is an amazing villain and Dancing Mad is the best final boss theme ever, tough.
Also since it gets brought up a lot Chrono Trigger > FF6 by a landslide.
Also since it gets brought up a lot Chrono Trigger > FF6 by a landslide.
Two related to the original Donkey Kong Country:
- I like Boss Dumb Drum. An enemy rush / multi-mook melee is pretty rare for the SNES trilogy, the area it is a part of (Kremkroc Industries Inc.) makes thematic sense, and I'll take it any day over lazy palette swaps of Very Gnawty / Really Gnawty and Necky / Master Necky Jr. and Snr.
-I really don’t think Tanked Up Trouble is a bad or even hard stage. If there’s anything that’s BS about it, it’s the sole bonus room which asks you to let the starting platform run out of fuel. I think I have a harder time with Trick Track Trek honestly, as every time you fail the jump to the first bonus room have fun doing half the level again.
- I like Boss Dumb Drum. An enemy rush / multi-mook melee is pretty rare for the SNES trilogy, the area it is a part of (Kremkroc Industries Inc.) makes thematic sense, and I'll take it any day over lazy palette swaps of Very Gnawty / Really Gnawty and Necky / Master Necky Jr. and Snr.
-I really don’t think Tanked Up Trouble is a bad or even hard stage. If there’s anything that’s BS about it, it’s the sole bonus room which asks you to let the starting platform run out of fuel. I think I have a harder time with Trick Track Trek honestly, as every time you fail the jump to the first bonus room have fun doing half the level again.
This is a real disrespectful take, how dare you...it's universal knowledge that Nicki's best verse ever is on Monster. To say Kanye 2024 is better is blasphemous.
“Have you ever had sex with a Pharaoh?
I put the pussy in a sarcophagus”
REALLY?
I won't call you a misogynist but GAHDAMN
Hot take: Kanye hasn't put out a good song since he dropped Jesus is King
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not diving into the wider argument here but this line is fucking awesome actually
In essence, putting parental controls on someone’s device when they’re older is technologically having your way with them
u wot?
Yung Dramps
awesome gaming
Somehow my half-tired deranged nonsense post I typed up last night in the throw shit at the wall thread is less inscrutable than this
I am not a practising Christian but I prefer the Christmas that has something to do with the story of Jesus compared to the over-commercialiced celebration of consumption and capitalism that modern day Christmas is
I mean its so stupid. Its really just a feast for companies to make more money, it has no real meaning behind it. What should be a calm and peaceful celebration with the family ends up being a stressful and squeaky clean, fake event. The fact that Christmas is still equated with Wintertime and snow when the extreme consumerism and capitalism that happens during it basically ended these two things
The fact that people are bombarbed with Christmas for months on end at every step they walk isn't much better
I mean its so stupid. Its really just a feast for companies to make more money, it has no real meaning behind it. What should be a calm and peaceful celebration with the family ends up being a stressful and squeaky clean, fake event. The fact that Christmas is still equated with Wintertime and snow when the extreme consumerism and capitalism that happens during it basically ended these two things
The fact that people are bombarbed with Christmas for months on end at every step they walk isn't much better
religion isnt all that bad when the alternative is postmodernism
how is postmodernism (artistic movement, catch-all film student term for vaguely self-referential media) a substitute for religion. you mfs just come on here and say anything
yea guys capitalism isn't that bad when the alternative is medieval lyric poetry