The off topic thread #2

[Jatz]

About bloody time!

Newton is so overrated. They should have closed this off well before now.

 

[chef]

Glass Animals latest album is a cracker.

 

[Fryer Tuck]

Spirit of Justice finally came out at 11pm yesterday (I don't know what the delay was.)

Done the first case prior to work, and I hate to admit, but there's just something extremely satisfying about taking an extremely smug 14 year old girl (treated like royalty in the country) down many pegs and teaching her a lesson that she's not perfect and that you're not going to take any of her bull.

 

[Cruyff14]

Got invited to industry awards for work at Crown Palladium - pretty excited. Looks like we get free tickets to Oaks Day too through one of our clients. Only me and one other person from my team have been invited, feel pretty lucky.

 

[Jatz]

Spirit of Justice finally came out at 11pm yesterday (I don't know what the delay was.)

Done the first case prior to work, and I hate to admit, but there's just something extremely satisfying about taking an extremely smug 14 year old girl (treated like royalty in the country) down many pegs and teaching her a lesson that she's not perfect and that you're not going to take any of her bull.

Huh?

 

[Fryer Tuck]

Huh?

Ha ha, yeah, taken out of context, it sounds a bit suss.

From what I'm finding, Spirit of Justice seems to have a lot of characters that you really want to take down a peg or two, seems to be a common theme so far in the game. (It is a common theme in the Ace Attorney series, but gee whiz, they took it up a notch in Spirit of Justice.)

You ever had that in a game, you have that villain you want to be humbled for being an absolute campaigner? I just had that moment, and well, I'd say it makes for a very satisfying game when you can do that and with such style. They all come in different shapes and sizes, but they accomplish the same goal.

 

[jod23]

Wait what is Spirit of Justice? It sounds like a video game where you are a lawyer which would be terrible.

Press A to object or B to allow question to be asked.

Would you like to take the case. Press A for yes or B for no.

The excitement would never end.

 

[Cooldude]

Press F to pay respects

 

[jod23]

Hold down L1 to toggle through jurors. Press B to select jurors.

 

[Loonerty]

The Ace Attorney games are actually quite fun.

 

[glenferry23]

Hold down L1 to toggle through jurors. Press B to select jurors.

Press P to put pants on.

 

[bok_party]

the Telltale games are great aswell. I just played the first episode of the new Batman one and it's pretty awesome so far.

 

[Cruyff14]

Hold down L1 to toggle through jurors. Press B to select jurors.

You're mixing PS and Xbox here

 

[jod23]

Just saw Britney Spears on The Late Late Show with James Corden. She doesnt look like Britney Spears anymore. She is kinda like Renee Zellweger in that sense.

 

[Cooldude]

Still sings like she always has though, which is not very good

 

[Art Vandelay_]

15 years since 9/11. How time flies.
#RIP

 

[Zidane98]

Bloody hell I remember that day, was studying at the time.

 

[Cruyff14]

15 years since 9/11. How time flies.
#RIP

I was 13, remember mum woke up the following morning telling me what happened, and I was watching it before school.

She unfortunately lost a friend who was working in one of the Towers. Had only been there three weeks.

 

[jod23]

I was 20... started happening around 9 or 10pm Perth time. My Dad, my bro and I ended up staying up all night watching it unfold on TV. Was insane.

 

[Cruyff14]

Always good shows on Nat Geo or Discovery today about 9/11. Will definitely tune in and watch some today.

 

[Cooldude]

I was way too young to even know what was going on, remembered watching the planes crashed into the towers and thought it was a movie (the rest of my family were very stunned around the TV)

Now that you've grown up you realise how horrific it is

 

[Cruyff14]

Mum lost a friend who had just moved over three weeks earlier to work in one of the Towers. It was heartbreaking seeing her cry explaining to a friend that her friend was missing and nobody knew if she was dead or alive.

 

[SM]

Yeah I was 9, pretty intense morning. My Aunt worked nearby but luckily was safe.

 

[Fryer Tuck]

Wait what is Spirit of Justice? It sounds like a video game where you are a lawyer which would be terrible.

Press A to object or B to allow question to be asked.

Would you like to take the case. Press A for yes or B for no.

The excitement would never end.

You would think so, but there's a reason why there's 6 games in the series, 4 spinoffs, many cameos, and being an actual playable character in Marvel VS Capcom.

It's actually a very scarily accurate parody of the Japanese Legal System, which up until 2009, didn't have juries, and if you were convicted, you were basically declared guilty. There are even cases of prosecutors having undefeated records in the country. The themes also covered in the game are interesting and deeper then you think.

The biggest plus points of the series is the story and characters (some of the final cases of the game, oh dear god, fantastic!) As a visual novel, part of the fun is actually trying to get to the bottom of the cases logically, and in such a way that makes it feel very satisfying when you get over the line, and well, seeing the fruits of your labour come to reality (except that one case, which made zero sense from the start.)

I've just been marathoning the game (I hope to complete the final case tonight) and that girl I was talking, now I'm feeling really, really crappy with the events that have happened since. (And I have to admit, Spirit of Justice seems to have upped the game of some really sick buggers, definitely an step up from Dual Destinies.)

I will admit that nearly all of the cases you get are murder, but I think you can kinda see why nearly all of them are murders.

Alos, while I know you're making the X to pay respects joke, you can actually yell Objection at the 3DS if you really wanted to. (Also, there are some other gimmicks in the games as well.)

 

[Spanish Sahara]

Yeah i was in grade 5 at the time. Had no real concept of the enormity of what happend