I am so fucking sick of remakes, and the Yakuza 3 remake and the mindless consoomers slobbering its knob because it's not old while gutting the visual personality it had is really saddening.

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I am so fucking sick of remakes, and the Yakuza 3 remake and the mindless consoomers slobbering its knob because it's not old while gutting the visual personality it had is really saddening.
i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.
so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.
hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.
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Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:
"Smooth edges of screen fonts"
My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.
Y'all.
I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.
Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:
Then you'll see this:
TURN IT ALL OFF.
I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.
My computer is so quiet and reasonably-temperatured now and I barely notice a difference in utility, why is windows like this
maybe I can even play computer games again
The second best thing you can do for a Win10 computer is turn off whatever unnecessary services it's decided it needs to run in the background always. Some services it does need, but others are useless. Here's an article that goes into step by steps.
10AppsManager lets you uninstall bloatware. Winaero Tweaker lets you disable crap like Cortana/Copilot, ads, telemetry, internet search results when you search from the taskbar, and all kinds of other stuff, plus it gives you lots of other little options that are just nice to have (like, it can restore the old MS Paint program in place of Paint 3D). Both are totally free.
Oh, and check your startup programs in the Task Manager tab to make sure your computer isn't automatically starting eight million programs every time it boots. But I think people mostly know about that. (Unless this is me going "they only know one or two feldspars... and quartz of course.")
The first best thing you can do for a Windows computer is install Linux Mint. But some of us do need a few pesky Windows-specific programs. Bleh. Still, if you're up for a project, you can have both (and it's awesome). Here's an article about setting up a dual boot Windows/Mint system.
with laptops, a lot of these graphics issues causing so much heat are because windows 10/11 will run many applications through the CPU (or sometimes a feeble onboard GPU) rather than through the more powerful dedicated GPU
basically, windows 10/11 is *terrible* at estimating what applications should use the dedicated GPU and it will default way too often to the CPU for everything (or the weaker onboard GPU, as many laptops have two GPUs, one that's meant for only for basic video output and the other meant for games and higher graphics rendering)
so, if your laptop gets hot when running a program, try going to graphics settings, turn on hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling, then browse for the application in question and set its executable to High Performance
i play some browser based games in firefox, and my MSI gaming laptop used to get crazy hot when doing so, until i designated the firefox exe for High Performance (trying to do even minor graphics processing in your CPU will overheat it super fast)
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There's no particular ordering within the tiers. Interesting highlights:
Except for Monica and Shez, I'm only taking 3 houses into account
I might be the only person who puts Cyril in the top ranks
I'm also probably the only person who doesn't rank any of the lords above a B. If this were Hopes, none of them would make it past a D
Shez is inoffensive if bland, but their fans' insistence of best MC/Avatar ever every chance they get ruins them for me.
Retainers >> Lords
Church has the most number of favorites, BL have nobody in D or below but most are in B, and I don't like the AW much.
If there is one net positive to 3Hopes' existence, it's that it confrims that not only is KT responsible for most of the writing issues of 3Houses, but that KT is fundamentally incompatible with the themes and messages of FE in general.
While Houses did have a lot of KT devs on staff for Houses, it was IS staff that served as director and producer. Hopes was almost entirely a KT production, with Kusakihara only being credited as an illustrator and "consultant/supervisor" this time, KT staff in the director and the producer roles, and two of the writers being replaced. IS basically had almost nothing to do with Hopes; this is very apparent when you compare how the characters, themes and story are handled compared to other entries in the series (the Elibe and Tellius games in particular) and even Houses. I've written about issues I've had with how Houses handled its anti-war and anti-prejudice messages, but there was an actual attempt at communicating said messages. Compare how the relics and the Nabateans are framed in Houses vs Hopes. In Houses, the relics and crests are ultimately the product of human sin and folly, with scenes like Hilda noticing and being repulsed by how her relic seems almost alive existing to draw your attention to it. The big secret Claude learns at the end of his route is not that Rhea was responsible for crests or relics, but that they are the remnants of her family, and she lied about them not to control humanity but because she wanted to protect what was left of her race and couldn't bring herself to kill people for simply being related to her victims. It was not an accident that Rhea turns out to be the one person in Fodlan who understands more Claude's desire for people to live without hiding who they are more than anyone. In Hopes, not only is the nature of the relics and crests completely ignored, the game seems to go out of its way to imply that the Nabateans deserved what happened to them or are equivalent to the people who genocided them for power, which is extremely fucked up.
In fact, the morals of 3Hopes in general are very fucked up, because the messages it communicates basically seem to be the following:
War is a Good Thing to help the common man, and should be the first option. As long as you have a Good Reason, the devastation and death caused by it can be handwaved.
Power and authority should be completely centralized on one "enlightened" autocrat. They shouldn't have to listen to their people because they know best and therefore should be free to do what they want.
It is fine for the enlightened ruler to use religious organizations as puppets to indoctrinate people and lie to them to support your warmongering. It is not ok to lie to people to prevent bloodshed and protect the last members of a genocided race.
The ends ALWAYS justify the means. As long as a ruler SAYS they feel bad, it's completely ok for them to treat civilians as expendable.
Because invading countries is good, defending one's country is bad, and if someone dies trying to stop you, then it is their fault or the fault of their inferior culture. They should always roll over and let you do what you want. Offering surrender is optional.
It is perfectly fine to destroy another country's culture or system of government to impose your own culture's, because yours is obviously better and you're doing them a favor anyway.
If a continent has had a history of other countries trying to conquer them, then they're racist for keeping you out when you attack them for sport. Why should you have to put any effort to understand them?
A true friend will do whatever you say and want and will ignore their own morals and interests. Feel free to lie to them or abuse their trust.
All the social, international, and political issues in the world can be laid squarely at the feet of one person or religion. It doesn't matter what they actually say or do, the fact they exist at all is tyranny and lynching them will fix everything.
Ethnic cleansing is perfectly fine as long as you want their land or personally don't like them.
Humans are great and perfect and should be free from the divine, except when they face the consequences for their actions. In that case, humans are helpless and the divine should always bail them out.
All foreigners want to subjugate you. Their attempts at peace actually mean they want to infiltrate your culture and destroy your traditions so they can rule, so don't trust them. It is much more acceptable as long as they suck up to the culture of a native though.
Always except everything you're told at face value if it's something that confirms your bias. It doesn't matter who it comes from or their ulterior motives, and you don't need to do research or try to understand the full picture because you are Right.
It is perfectly acceptable to inflame centuries old grudges so you can make war, especially if it allows you to help the people who wronged you less than a year ago.
It is also fine to sabotage another nation's diplomatic relations and use a neutral country's soldiers as bait, especially if your goal is to improve international relations. It's all the church's fault anyway.
It is NOT ok to leave an ally of convenience who clearly wants to either control you or conquer you later to die to end a war quicker.
It's a pro-war, pro-imperialist game, and reads more like the manifesto of a Japanese nationalist, right down to the victim complex and refusal to accept responsibility. Edelgard and Claude in that game are not so much characters as they are mouthpieces, and Rhea and the church are standins for everyone the devs don't like. It's not the plot holes introduced or the continuity errors and retcons that should disown 3Hopes, but the thematic and tonal dissonance to both the series as a whole and the entry that it's supposed to serve in the first place.
I love how this image is both an accurate summation of the "good guys" of 3Hopes, and a completely new line in Reborn, whose release date perfectly coincides with 3h discourse.
It's ironic that both Fates and 3Houses/Hopes seem to take a fair amount of inspiration from Matsuno's games, even though those games do not view people like the protagonists of Fates/3H(s) highly at all. There's actually quite a bit of lines in Tactics Ogre that just completely rip apart KT, which is really cathartic.
Controversial opinion but I saw you already posted about it: I think Byleth fits far better into the story of 3h than Claude ever did and I find even the existence of Leicester very redundant when it’s one of the least developed parts of the game. I admit to being biased as a Blue Lions fan (and as a multishipper who also throws in a lot of Flayn and Byleth ships into the Lions) but at least they get their culture and conflicts and issues shown. The church isn’t as developed but it still is clearly very important. Byleth is also excellent in Azure Moon, Flayn gets some of her best supports with the Lions (and Azure Gleam is right there), the church and Faerghus have a close relationship and history, and they tell the story of the continent extremely well. But what does Claude, and by extension, Leicester, bring to the table, when even in the mess that is Hopes the Lions stay morally and thematically consistent but Claude is apparently able to become an incoherent indescribable quagmire after part 1? We don’t know any specifics about his governance and even his “dream” is very much based on his wants even when he supposedly develops more compassion for the peasants Dimitri has always been concerned about from the start, and his fans are so closely related to Edelstans that I can’t see why people like him yet throw mud at my fave lizards.
Well, setting aside Byleth here (who should make sense in the story since the story was basically created for them), I wouldn't necessarily call this a case of bias with your complaints.
Besides wanting to end racism, what does Claude and, by extension, the Alliance really bring to the table that is different from the other two. Sneaky plans? Because I can't think of much.
I've seen the Alliance described as "recruits for BL or BE" and that's honestly pretty accurate. They have almost no allegiance to their nation (Hopes has an entire scene in SB where the few students Claude could gather up all had a "we will stand with you Claude! ... Unless something happens, then we will join the other side" spiel). Not even Claude really does. He is more loyal in Hopes, wishing to give his nation that big edge and screw the other nations over, but in Houses he's quick to dip or to hand over the entire Alliance. Claude's loyalties really are with Almyra... which is almost no development or screen time at all. Heck, Hilda is not even Claude's retainer, NADER is.
What about their culture? Well, officially, it's described has being both the Kingdom and the Empire's cultures sort of mixed into one. The Alliance inherited a lot of leftovers from the Kingdom from the days when they were under their rule, but adapted Empire fashion. Which makes sense, but then they have such little unique identity that it makes it hard to distinguish them from the other nations. What seems to be uniquely their own culture is to not care about their own culture.
And in terms of themes.... well, I can't think of anything they bring to the table that the Empire of Kingdom doesn't already. Change the world? Edelgard already has that covered. Racism? Dimitri actually has the better story about that and talks about it way more, surprisingly. Being an outsider? That's probably the "thing", but like... no one treats him as an outsider, and neither GW or VW are ever about feeling like you don't belong. Heck, people don't even know he's half Alymran. Come on!
Claude is honestly the most privileged of the three lords. Edelgard's family was killed, her father made inept, and her mother is a murderer who happily planned to have her own step-son killed. And she was put through some serious experimentation. Finally, she had to fight her way to the throne, else she would have been a puppet ruler like her father. Dimitri... Well, Dimitri is just a tragedy epic. But Claude? Two parents, two hereditary "thrones" and one he got with little resistance. I know his life was still hard but man, you wouldn't know it with how little he talks about his troubles and woes.
And you know, I like Claude. I do. Except his GW self, that one can fuck off. But Claude as a concept is great. It's just that... they didn't know what to do with him.
Claude's entire plot feels like an FE5/post FE Kaga plot that the writers didn't know what to do with tbqh. The war between Veria and the Raze Empire in Berwick Saga in particular is basically Almyra vs Leicester, with the Raze Empire even sharing a lot of the Turkish/Mediterranean vibes, and there's a character from there hiding out on Veria investigating the history of the war to understand it and bring people together.
I guess they were attempting something like Leif where his struggle is not directly tied to the main conflict, but does intersect. But it worked better there because the writers were actually interested in it and spent time establishing things and trying to tie them together. Maybe they just don't like republics? Given how the devs depict the Alliance, it wouldn't shock me if that was a reason.
I wanted playable Judith when playing VW years ago. After playing GW, I don't want her playable anymore. She ended up being no better than a yes man in the end. Very little about her in Hopes was likable.
Who doesn't end up as a yes-man in GW?
Hilda probably comes the closest, I guess? She's actually pretty critical of him in their support and genuinely gives good advice, but it has the same issue as the Cyril/Claude support in 3Houses, where the writers make it an optional conversation, so it never gets reflected in the story. Which sucks because if it wasn't, we could have been spared that stupid Randolph subplot.
I guess we know why they put Holst in and gave her less lines after he joins now.
I remember a fan theory early on when the Hopes box art was released. Some said that because the 3 Lords were close by each other, and that Edelgard and Dimitri were back to back, it meant that the 3 Lords would work together in a Golden route. LMAO how wrong we all were back then ...
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There is no reason for vw to make a big deal about not being caught fighting against the empire if it wasn’t actually neutral. But VW also still has them get caught my Cornelias spies and nothing comes of it. So I could see why people think it wasn’t the alliance neutrality doesn’t work for the time skips plot.
Claude and Dimitri in every route should be aware of Edelgards methods as she was the flame emperor. Who helped kidnap Flayn and destroyed Remire. They are also at the monastery still when she destroys it not even in there route. So Claude should be very aware of Edelgards methods.
The oddest thing about Cyril support with Hilda. They immediately went her dad mistreated him. In stead of asking what does a person do to abandoned ten year olds on a battlefield. Also are we sure Hoist didn’t just take over by the time the war started? I don’t recall Hildas dad being mentioned in the time skip.
I agree with the gist of what you're saying, but just as a disclaimer I don't think it excuses Edelgard's action because she is starting an unprovoked attack on a nation that, at least during the timeskip, isn't attacking hers.
But otherwise yeah, the whole "neutrality" is weirdly written. For starters, what's even the point? Why would you write a war story that includes a timeskip and then undermine both by saying "we stayed neutral thanks to our genius leader man! Nothing bad happened during 5 years of war!" (which isn't even true as seen in Alois's pre-timeskip death ending card). Furthermore the Alliance is only "neutral" because one faction has to fight for the Empire out of fear. It's not like the Alliance is fractured because the lords pursuit their own self-interest anymore like in part 1, it's a conflict where one side has to fight against the other against their own will. Claude, the leader of the Alliance, wants to fight back and he's only held back for reasons out of his control. I don't know why the game pretends that he's such a genius for maintaining "neutrality".
As for Hilda, her support with Cyril is terrible altogether. By completely sidestepping Cyril's situation in House Goneril, Hilda is never forced to take responsibility for her and her family's action. No one can tell me that Cyril, as House Goneril's "servant", didn't suffer from Hilda's "I'm so lazy and pass my work on to people who can't say no" and it's inexcusable how Hilda is never forced to reconsider her own lifestyle and actions. Even when Cyril tells her straight to the face that he suffered during his time with the Gonerils in the paralogue, her reaction is this:
"I'm sorry, but I don't personally catch children like you. I just profited from the work of our "servants" for all my life and my lifestyle is only sustainable if there are people like you to exploit."
Holst is no better and it's funny how the game tries to build him up as this great, tolerant guy even though he did nothing to help Cyril. Without Rhea's help Cyril would still be a "servant".
The game is way too soft on Hilda and her family.
I'm pretty sure you're misreading that line from her paralogue tbh, because all her previous lines are her concerned about how he would feel fighting his fellow countrymen. It's meant to reassure him so he doesn't feel forced to do something emotionally difficult for him, not an attempt to deflect blame or justify what happened, because she's not offended at all when he insists he wants to make sure, but instead agrees to let him come along. The writing regarding Cyril and the Gonerils has problems, but one good aspect is that Hilda consistently listens to him and takes him seriously.
I wish the game did more with that element other than just use it to explain how Cyril got to Fodlan, but I think the interpretation of Hilda being uncaring about what happened really doesn't really hold up.
i never played fire emblem path of radiance you once talked about how comparing hilda and ingrids racism is like comparing shinon and jil's could you explain what you meant I never played the games they were in
I'm not sure I remember the exact post you're talking about, but I get the feeling it was in response to one of those posts that complained about people giving Ingrid shit for her prejudices but not Hilda. I think what I was alluding to was that for the most part, nobody makes similar posts regarding Jill and Shinon because the two are very different characters; if someone does, it's pretty much always done to make Shinon look worse. Jill is also frequently brought up when talking about Ingrid.
Pretty much every time Hilda gets brought up in these discussions, it's always done as a way to make Ingrid look better, and it's always done by painting her as uncharitably as possible. There's also the complaint that Hilda's prejudices aren't fixed in a similar manner as Ingrid's, which is like complaining that Shinon's aren't handled like Jill's. It's a stupid complaint because it would be OOC for everyone involved and it would be boring.
I also get annoyed by the comparisons because it's another case of Cyril's character being misinterpreted so he can be used as a tool to bash someone else, which happens way too often.
Basically how I'd rank all the lords in both FE and Kaga Saga games. No particular ordering within the tiers.
S tier: Hoelun, Cyltan, Leif
A tier: Elincia, Reese, Ephraim, Eirika
B tier: Athol, Celica, Zade, Holmes, Micaiah
C tier: Dimitri, Runan, Sigurd, Eliwood, Hector, Marth. FE9 Ike would be on here, but only FE10 Ike was available fsr
D tier: Alm, Lucina, Roy, Lyn, FE10 Ike, Chrom, Claude
F tier: Seliph, Robin, Kris, Edelgard, Byleth, Corrin
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Venusaur: That hasn’t changed now that they’ve grown, but they’re very gentle.
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Charizard: That plushie seems to be his favorite even now.
Squirtle: Squirtle’s a bit timid and hides behind me at the smallest things.
Blastoise: Looks like they’re scared of the first Pichu they’ve seen. You’re not really hiding!
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