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I guess you need to have this volleyball sequence to show the futility of "playing by the rules" but man this section of the game really drags on.
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In the hands of a capable writer, any and all of these objections can be surmounted. What people are questioning is whether such a writer exists with Atlus.
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In P3 it is implied that you date all the female confidants (as the male protagonist) pretty much in sequence, which is...uh....
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Feb 13, 2021 14:49
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Gort posted:What's the story here? I've not played that game. Is it just, "Reach certain rank of confidant -> You are now dating them"?
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Feb 13, 2021 23:02
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"Palaces are only for the most corrupt and distorted persons!" "Hmm, we need to investigate more, what if this is an innocent palace???"
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Feb 17, 2021 22:43
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Arist posted:To be completely fair, we do see that both Futaba's and Sae's Palaces were meant to represent how they feel about the world in general and not the crimes they were actively committing... but even still, those Palaces weren't "good" and probably needed to go anyway, so it's a wash. It's somewhat plausible that Madarame viewing his students like this doesn't actually mean he was stealing from them yet, but it does seem like a leap to assume that.
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Feb 18, 2021 01:34
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I really like these additions to the game, it makes the characters feel like actual teenage friends who like each other and do teenage things together.
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Jul 6, 2021 19:56
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Remember that Sae doesn't actually have her heart stolen, her turn around was entirely her own volition.
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Jul 22, 2021 13:54
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A running theme is that the law protects those in power, and binds only those out of power. Takemi has no power, and thus is hosed.
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Aug 7, 2021 01:31
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Take the pace needed to avoid burnout and fits your workflow. If you have a bunch of updates that don't fit and want to post it, then post it. If you think it's better to hold it because it makes a better narrative, then do that. You're the one doing the work.
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Sep 15, 2021 14:07
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Arist posted:…You kids are really talking about public transit? Is that what you’re into?
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Oct 31, 2021 02:14
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Honestly if you told me that this picture was inspired by a metaphysical space of human emotion, I'd be like "and that's it?"
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Feb 16, 2022 14:42
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Well, I wanted to look for a place in Kichijoji, so I called a realtor… but there ain’t a single apartment with a bathroom bigger than a closet for under 40k a month! 
You know that’s not just Kichijoji, right? You won’t find an apartment for under 40k anywhere in Tokyo. If you want to live your ideal life, you need a way to pay for it.
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Even leaving aside the Japanese legal system's love of confessions (voluntary or otherwise), in the cases the Phantom Thieves have been involved in so far it would be easy to corroborate it with other testimony and hard evidence. It'd be a bit like the narrator in the Tell-Tale Heart, driven mad by guilt, directs the cops who didn't even suspect them to tear up the floorboards and reveal the crime. I do think this does cause issues for the prosecution of Shido, where he can't bring a lot of hard evidence to his confession and his collaborators are powerful people who can make inconvenient facts/evidence disappear.
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May 21, 2022 01:10
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It feels like Okumura is sort of played up as a quasi Elon Musk figure, a guy who's lauded as both a business genius and panned as a gigantic rear end in a top hat who naturally paints a target on his back. It is a bit of a running theme that society at large is chasing a bunch of distractions to avoid asking (and answering) hard questions about where it's going. It is easier to ignore the bruises on the students, volleyball is a tough sport and besides look at the trophies he's won! Madarame is an artistic genius, mastering a billion genres effortlessly! Big Bang Burgers is obviously the cause of all of Japan's problems with workforce boundaries, if you take out that smug rear end in a top hat Okumura clearly everything will be fine! It's not an endemic issue at large, which is why I'm voting for that bald guy who made a bunch of vague promises.
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May 21, 2022 14:24
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Mental health issues can be fixed by calling them out in the cruelest way possible and then literally entering the patient's psyche and tearing out the bad bits.
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Oct 23, 2022 01:08
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Akechi is a great villain because he's simultaneously very needy and sociopathic. He could be genuinely looking for validation from the only person who might actually understand him; he could be trying to get under the protagonist's skin. It might be a little of both and it's plausible he's not sure either.
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Prowler posted:I think it's important to note that he's being manipulated by someone who is very much is a sociopath with narcissistic tendencies, so it might be difficult to determine where Akechi ends and Shido begins. It's a very "he would be my friend were he not my enemy" situation for Akechi, I think, though he's very much decided on the latter categorization for obvious reasons.
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I don't recall if Yusuke really says he's sorry for blackmailing Ann or if we delve right into the whole thing with Madarame's palace and it's kind of forgotten? If the game really wanted to make a point about unequal power in relationships you'd think there'd be more fallout from Yusuke's attempt at making a sexual harassment victim strip instead of the way it's played mostly for laughs. I think the focus immediately shifts to Yusuke trying to come to terms with his own relationship with Madarame and trying to solidify his position on the team so any awkwardness gets swept aside in the haste to punch Madarame('s cognitive self) in the face.
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Arist posted:
I don't know if that's the preferred jargon or if it's the translation being a little funky, though.
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Thank you. By strategically positioning your pieces in the enemy zone, you can increase your chances of getting gold.
I have no idea what that means in this context.
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And that's with a very strong dollar/yen exchange rate today, the historical rates of ~100-115 yen per dollar means it would have been between 1050-1200 dollars for the meal in 2016. That's some expensive sushi!
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No matter what, he's the convicted felon whose presence tends to taint anyone by association. So he's gonna be an outcast until the school deems him rehabilitated or whatever and he fucks on out of there. Even as late as Novemberish he's still "wow that felon who would shank you in a back alley knew that answer" in class.
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Lord_Magmar posted:Also he makes lockpicks and bombs in class and reads books and slacks off.
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Isn't one of the gimmicks that the party gets hit with Hunger and the Big Bang Challenge attack feeds them? Did that get changed or am I misremembering?
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No point in getting into the weeds in between US and Japanese law (where in the US, truth is an absolute defense against defamation) but you can have separate torts for invasion of privacy and of course in the case of Maaku as a minor he'd get special protection. In the EU there's the right to be forgotten as well, but those run up to issues where the conviction was for like fraud which has, uh, certain trust issues you should be able to get info on. There's a lot of intersections between freedom of speech, the right to be left alone, and the right to also inform where it would be relevant and if I still had an Elsevier sub I'd probably be able to pull up reams of articles in various law journals.okliiiiiiiiiu
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When does Joker tell the gang about his suspicions about Akechi? Should be around this time to start setting up the trap in Sae's palace, no?
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No one can possibly recognize her once she's in a maid outfit despite not disguising her face or anything, because clearly people only see clothing and not any other aspects of their body.
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Nov 8, 2023 01:45
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P5 absolutely is a game that needed a few edit passes through its script once its plot was fully nailed down. Or possibly it had a few too many editors who weren't on the same page.
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Arist posted:I know absolutely nothing about music production but my immediate assumption about that version of Rivers in the Desert is that the additional layer of synth garbage is there just to give guidance on the notes they wanted the singer to hit, because not only do the tones seem to match up but they only correspond to the missing vocal track, not any other part of the song.
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I mean it is interesting that you're running around causing all sorts of various chaos with you as the obvious nexus and in the final game this is just never picked up until the end when it requires a Judas Iscariot moment of betrayal. It feels like the ending cinematic alludes to this when Morgana steals the spark plugs from the car trailing them, you'd think after the very first palace someone would have twigged to the protagonist in particular and put you under greater scrutiny.
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