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#52001: Oct 30th 2017 at 5:18:46 PM

Funnily enough, Google Translate says that Gunga means "dumb" in Hindi.

It also means "swing" in Swedish.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#52002: Oct 30th 2017 at 5:19:33 PM

I'd believe neither are her actual name.

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#52003: Oct 30th 2017 at 5:59:09 PM

I think her name is Nanafua and Gunga just means grandma.

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#52004: Oct 30th 2017 at 6:00:03 PM

[up] That's the assumption I was going with.

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#52005: Oct 31st 2017 at 10:50:03 AM

Got me a copy of Save The Light

Oh really when?
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#52006: Nov 1st 2017 at 9:48:05 AM

@51978 I know this might not count for most people, given that most English-speakers didn't get a chance to play it until after Steven Universe aired, but Ninten of EarthBound Beginnings fits the mold even better than his successors - Ninten has no offensive powers, period, while Ness has PK Rockin' and Lucas has PK Love. Ninten is great at shielding/healing, though.

@51981 Wait, are we talking about an action pool shared by the whole team, or just action point pools? I can name several of the latter, including a couple by a well-known publisher. I do understand why the former are less common - you run into Gameplay and Story Segregation issues, which can be immersion-breaking for some people.

For Nanefua... given stuff in previous episodes, plus the clips from the trailer, if it does go to election, I think she'll win roughshod over Dewey. That said, I won't discount the possibility of the electoral version of a Non-Gameplay Elimination - I wouldn't find it totally out of left field if she dropped her candidacy for whatever reason (then, hilariously, she was still on the ballot and won anyway).

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#52007: Nov 1st 2017 at 11:02:21 AM

Wait, are we talking about an action pool shared by the whole team, or just action point pools?
Whole team. I don't see why you'd call it a "pool" otherwise.

I do understand why the former are less common - you run into Gameplay and Story Segregation issues, which can be immersion-breaking for some people.
There's plenty of ways to justify it with a more abstract battle system—the one using AP need not be the one literally doing everything, especially if there are passive abilities (counterattacks, covering someone else, etc.). AP can instead represent the party's collective focus. Games often use the same idea to justify an "aid another" ability that lets you transfer turns/AP from one character to another.

Granted, it makes less sense when you lose team members and keep the same AP, but people widely accept Critical Existence Failure, which is the same absurdity as applied to one individual. It even serves the same purpose, letting players retain the potential to win even as they've gotten closer to defeat, thus maintaining dramatic tension.

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#52008: Nov 1st 2017 at 11:17:31 AM

@52003 Re: use of "pool" - fair enough. I was thinking an action point system does get trotted out in Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy XIII, and those both have their merits and drawbacks (though I think Chrono Cross did the action point economy pretty well... then proceeded to muck up everything else about its battle system).

As for justifying an action pool... I'm not saying you can't (in fact, you can use a similar logic to how to justify any game that assigns "points" to what units you can bring into an engagement), I'm just saying that you're more likely to hit Fridge Logic issues. You honestly hit the same ones as the ones where, as you point out, characters can give each other extra turns (particularly given that action economy is probably one of the biggest throttles on Game-Breaker activities one can put into a game system - and that several breaking strategies are built around ruining it).

I imagine that the Hand Wave used will be "almost all of the player characters have magical powers," but I can predict that someone will probably complain (because it's the Internet; someone always complains). That said, I do see one way of managing it - while the team as a whole can only spend so many action points from the pool in a round, each character can only do an action once per round, with the in-game explanation being that certain actions prevent characters from acting in some way (like, other characters are said to be busy mitigating possible collateral damage or running interference such that the big attack hits).

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#52009: Nov 1st 2017 at 3:36:17 PM

Is anyone else enjoying the game so far?

It's a bit buggy but I'm having a lot of fun.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#52010: Nov 1st 2017 at 8:03:46 PM

I'll tell you when there's a PC port.


It feels weird that we know we're this close to new episodes (unlike Out of This World, which was just a bolt from the blue), but still don't know their names (except for one) or how many there will be.

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#52011: Nov 2nd 2017 at 7:14:31 AM

New podcast,storm in the room

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#52012: Nov 2nd 2017 at 9:43:04 AM

I loved the way they (either Burnett or Levin; I can't recognize which voice is which) described the end of the first act of "Storm in the Room".

It's about Steven just being like "Ah, Connie, don't-don't leave, ah—let's hang out some more." Then she's like "I gotta go." and "I've got a mom." and he's like "Oh."

edited 2nd Nov '17 9:44:36 AM by thatother1dude

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#52013: Nov 2nd 2017 at 10:08:01 AM

Yeah, that's pretty great.

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#52014: Nov 2nd 2017 at 5:00:43 PM

By the way,the Anti-Gravity graphic novel is out,Link

edited 2nd Nov '17 5:01:12 PM by Ultimatum

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#52015: Nov 2nd 2017 at 5:27:41 PM

That says it's going to be out by the 7th.

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#52016: Nov 2nd 2017 at 5:30:39 PM

let me amend my post,

through Amazon it's out next week but I've read it's already in shops

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#52017: Nov 2nd 2017 at 5:44:51 PM

Oh, okay. Thank you for clarifying!

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#52018: Nov 3rd 2017 at 8:12:57 AM

I don't ever remember hearing about that book before now.

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#52019: Nov 3rd 2017 at 12:55:11 PM

Spoilery image from Save the Light

People are saying it's a fusion of the Diamonds since it's similar to the mural on the Moonbase

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Strontiumsun A Gamma Moth from Chicago Since: May, 2015
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#52020: Nov 3rd 2017 at 2:01:01 PM

Isn't that the same design from Attack the Light, the shopkeeper statue? It looks super familiar to me

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#52021: Nov 3rd 2017 at 2:27:41 PM

Yeah,the appearance is similar minus the four arms

image

Another interesting observation someone else made,the positions of the hands are similar to those of the diamonds on the mural

edited 3rd Nov '17 3:35:08 PM by Ultimatum

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#52022: Nov 4th 2017 at 12:45:20 AM

Uh hey, does anyone know if the episodes are gonna be on demand once they hit the app?

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#52023: Nov 4th 2017 at 4:06:39 AM

Yes, that’s how it usually works.

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#52024: Nov 8th 2017 at 9:09:22 AM

So with the way episodes are uploaded to the app I'm hoping for at least a preview leak,so I'm keeping my eye on leaks subreddit,you never know,they could leak tonight or tomorrow

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#52025: Nov 8th 2017 at 9:46:19 AM

I've been checking it as well, but more for curiosity. The first episode's preview is already out officially, and any others could give away stuff in earlier episodes (as the previews for "Crack the Whip" and "Steven vs. Amethyst" did), so I'm content to wait.


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