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[Shadowlord]

It's the shitty wave of the future, man.

[flabort]

Suddenly advertisements. Unskippable advertisements.

Ugh. Please, no, not the advertisement! I actually went and paid $2 for the add free version of an app, they were so bad. Mind you, the app is amazing, so I guess it was worth it, because the advertisements were making it unplayable, but still. I hate that payment plan/scheme.

[Tawa]

Reading a Let's Play of Fire Emblem 1. The later games in the series progressively got better about reusing sprites--they stopped reusing sprites for unimportant bosses after the SNES games, and your whole team got individualized map representations in 9, 10, and 13 (and maybe 11/12).

But in the first game half the people in your army and seemingly every boss has an identical twin. There's a few people who have identical portraits, multiple lazy recolors, and a couple guys who are very minor edits, like Cain and Abel. Heck, three consecutive bosses have the same portrait with different palettes.

Spoiler: Oh, and they had some really trippy spritework a lot of the time too (click to show/hide)

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[Neonivek]

Those sprites make me need an adult.

[Yoink]

For some reason I always thought risotto was some sort of rice-shaped pasta, but it turns out it's actually rice.
Interesting.

[Egan_BW]

For some reason I always thought risotto was some sort of rice-shaped pasta, but it turns out it's actually rice.
Interesting.

There's honestly not that much difference.

[Shadowlord]

Apparently this is a thing. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locksmiths-may-be-out-to-pick-your-pocket-too.html?partner=msft_msn

[Flying Dice]

Apparently this is a thing. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locksmiths-may-be-out-to-pick-your-pocket-too.html?partner=msft_msn

Many of the locksmith lead gens are run by Israelis...

Today, a well-oiled system keeps young Israelis flowing to the United States for locksmith jobs. Companies beckon on Israeli employment websites such as Maka (Hebrew for “score”). Among those currently hiring are Green Locksmith, Locksmith Garage, CT Locksmith and Mr. Locks. The latter, which claims its main office is in TriBeCa, promises that employees will earn as much as $4,000 a month and says it is looking for people “who are not afraid of new things.” Like many of these companies, Mr. Locks covers itself by stating — in Hebrew and on a site that caters to Israelis — that it is looking for United States citizens.

*insert shekels joke here?* 

[Orange Wizard]

$4k a month? Is that supposed to be really good?

[O.Wilde]

$48,000 a year for what I'm assuming is work that requires almost no training is pretty nice money.

[Orange Wizard]

Uh, yeah, I keep forgetting to do my mental currency conversions.

[scriver]

Apparently this is a thing. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locksmiths-may-be-out-to-pick-your-pocket-too.html?partner=msft_msn

Huh, that article turned out to be a whole lot more interesting than I at first glance thought it could.

[Yoink]

I swear, my life is like a goddamn sitcom sometimes.

[Xantalos]

I swear, my life is like a goddamn sitcom sometimes.

Lighthearted or serious in tone? I know the feeling of both.

[hops]

Reading a Let's Play of Fire Emblem 1. The later games in the series progressively got better about reusing sprites--they stopped reusing sprites for unimportant bosses after the SNES games, and your whole team got individualized map representations in 9, 10, and 13 (and maybe 11/12).

But in the first game half the people in your army and seemingly every boss has an identical twin. There's a few people who have identical portraits, multiple lazy recolors, and a couple guys who are very minor edits, like Cain and Abel. Heck, three consecutive bosses have the same portrait with different palettes.

Spoiler: Oh, and they had some really trippy spritework a lot of the time too (click to show/hide)

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The first sprite looks like what you would get if Shook made a JRPG.