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Especially codblops 4.

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Calling it “4” only legitimizes their use of IIII

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The 11th thread in which folks discuss video game news and trailers

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The use of IIII for 4 is historical though seemed to develop in medieval Europe long after the numerals’ establishment by the ancient Romans

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I choose to believe it’s pronounced cod blops eeeeeee

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by this metric it should be acceptable for you to render it as “IIII” and not “4” as it’s already a bowdlerized use

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Nope. I refuse to play any corporate marketing department’s game. It’s also Twitter, Neufenstein, and Noom

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August 8th.

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on a different note, absolutely love From for doing wordplays with the Armored Core titles, AC 4 => AC Fo(u)r Answer
AC 5 => AC Verdict Day
… so, AC6 => … :tarothink:

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I regret to inform you that the primary cultural touchstone for roman numerals in the XXI century is the super bowl

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Actually, this is not correct. The Gigo with the retro floor is GiGO Akihabara Building 3, which is still safe.

EDIT: This one

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armadillo racing?

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Oh on this, check out Kanagawa Leisure Land Atsugi.

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That’s fine I won’t use them for that either

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the rule is that JRPGs are always in roman numerals, you’re trying to steal Gravitas Valour otherwise

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SNK broke this rule with king of fighters and well, you saw how that went

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Rock Paper Shotgun’s editor-in-chief, Graham Smith, annouced last week that he is leaving the site.



Here’s a short interview with him from 2018 where he discusses the big redesign RPS did at the time:

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I don’t think it’s a stretch to link Graham’s allusion to a “tough 12-18 months” with the layoffs that happened when IGN bought the site.

The layoffs included Alice Bell, who was their deputy editor at a time, and someone Graham was good friends with. They already didn’t have an editor-in-chief at the time so it was a surprise, and Graham was “angry and sad” about it. (That’s when Graham stepped back in as editor-in-chief). She was interviewed by Aftermath when it happened:

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Thanks I was trying to figure out on google maps because I go to the wrong one every single time.

Still a good excuse to go play Police 911-2 and HotD2.

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Speaking of Akihabara changing for the worse, everything in the block on the other side of the tracks (Edion, Onoden, Love Merci) is scheduled to be demolished and replaced with a boring glass-windowed multi-use skyscraper.

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