the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@avie @kat (or the occasional word with no known origin, such as "squid")
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@avie @kat (those that aren't are either loanwords from non-indo-european languages, or coinages)
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@avie @kat Almost all english words are a big game of telephone with PIE words!
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I think we'd have to go with Silver for our choice, but it's kinda close. Hugh was a really nice change of pace, where you get a rival who's both a friend, *and* a jerk, as opposed to blue and silver who are just jerks (though silver gets some really good character development and becomes less of a jerk, though he's loathe to admit it) and the rivals in all the other games who are friends
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Random curiosity: Who was the better rival character?
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@avie *applies pets to sheep*
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@artemis@vulpine.club *applies pets to dogs*
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you are friends! and fluffy!
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good morning fluffy friends
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@owashii@plush.city and then there's the utterly baffling decision made with pokemon white, where if you beat the game on normal difficulty you unlock easy mode
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@kat don't remember how many we had at that moment, I think it was about that
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@kat Hmm, maybe we had an easier time because we've gone out of our way to find every e-tank possible? Or maybe we got lucky and it didn't use that one very much on us, not sure
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@heatherhorns google? went from useful thing to spying-on-people
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@kat ah damn

we didn't find that one too difficult though, have you figured out the gimmick to it?

as a hint--hitting that tentacle at the top isn't damaging the boss, it's just one step towards opening up its weak point
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@kat If you've gotten the ability that lets you do a quick midair dash, it's really useful during boss fights--we overlooked it for the longest time and it probably would have made a lot of boss fights easier
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@heatherhorns What's the AV club and why did it get so destroyed?
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@kat What's wol?
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what does a caesar salad have to do with the caesars of rome anyway
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Apparently it just took Falcom a long time to figure out how to do level systems

Faxanadu's levels did *nothing* to the player's benefit other than making you start with more gold after you game over, and makes enemies harder

on the other hand, Ys's levels did way too much to the player's benefit--one level too low for an enemy and you do zero damage, one level too high and you one-shot them
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