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Apparently the Bravely Second has a 250 page Art book, still not worth it but hey it's out on April, I can cancel anytime LOL.



Random really, sometimes the regular ed comes first and other times both are up for preorder at the same time.

You know what they should do is make the Art Books and Soundtracks digital... Be even a lot cheaper for them to make.
 
friends, the prominent positioning of Bell in the Let's Talk initiative going on today is utterly gross

The whole thing is a marketing exercise for Bell and a mental health initiative second
 
friends, the prominent positioning of Bell in the Let's Talk initiative going on today is utterly gross

The whole thing is a marketing exercise for Bell and a mental health initiative second

Heh. I won't switch to Bell, but if I can get them to give money to the cause without having to do much, I'll do it. They could make a stupid contest about winning a phone instead.
 
You know what they should do is make the Art Books and Soundtracks digital... Be even a lot cheaper for them to make.

There is no fun in a digital artbook. I never end up looking at those.

For music they really should be putting them on USB sticks at this point.
 
friends, the prominent positioning of Bell in the Let's Talk initiative going on today is utterly gross

The whole thing is a marketing exercise for Bell and a mental health initiative second

That's every corporate charity thing ever.

5 cents from this $10 bag of M&M's will go towards breast cancer research.

Whooo pink ribbon on the bag means I love my mom!
 
friends, the prominent positioning of Bell in the Let's Talk initiative going on today is utterly gross

The whole thing is a marketing exercise for Bell and a mental health initiative second

Most charity events are just marketing exercises. It's ok, they're actually doing something good with it
 
Got the Bravely Second LE. Hope it's good. EvilMario told me you can really tune the battles so you don't have to spend a tonne of time grinding (turned me off from the first game, in the demo) so I'm excited to give it another shot, now knowing that info.

The first game is extremely easy to grind out to maximum. Once you get to the difficulty spike you can easily make an auto battle setup that just requires you to hold down the 3DS stick while you watch a movie or something. Anything before that doesn't really require any grind at all.


Just want to say thanks for this, got my preorder in earlier.
 
I ordered and don't really know why. Got bored with Bravely Default and never wound up beating it. I think I just want to have something after having missed out on the FE special edition.

Speaking of BD, wasn't that a $60 SE?
 
I ordered and don't really know why. Got bored with Bravely Default and never wound up beating it. I think I just want to have something after having missed out on the FE special edition.

Speaking of BD, wasn't that a $60 SE?


It was $49.99

Shipping Method: FREE Super Saver Shipping
Items: CDN$ 49.99
Shipping & Handling: CDN$ 0.00
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Total before tax: CDN$ 49.99
Estimated GST/HST: CDN$ 6.50
Estimated PST/RST/QST: CDN$ 0.00
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Order Total: CDN$ 56.49


Delivery estimate: Feb. 14 2014 - Feb. 20 2014
1 "Bravely Default Collector's Edition"
Video Game; CDN$ 49.99
Available for Pre-order
Sold by: Amazon.com.ca, Inc.
 
That was a core mechanic of the first game too. There are sliders available to you all the time that let you choose battle frequency and difficulty.

Yeah, I totally missed it when playing the demo. If I knew that while playing the demo, I probably would've purchased the full game!

It's not really that I thought the game would be difficult, it's that I felt battles took too long.
 
What I'll do is get the library to buy it to at least try the online around EVO time. There is like a 100% chance they will get it because it's T rated and it's Pokemon.

You can ask them to buy a game? I had no idea.

I've been waiting for the library to pick up The Witcher 3 for a while now...
 
Is it wrong that I want to rebuy some PS4 games that I've already played on my beefy PC because of trophies and surround sound?

Due to the location of my PC I always use headphones and can't experience my 5.1 setup but the PS4 is in my room and I can play games loud there.

I dunno. Maybe I just want to find stupid reasons to spend money lol.

Pokken is on Amazon for $75.

Please tell me somewhere will have it for cheaper than that ; _ ;
Lol. It's a Nintendo first party game. It's $74.99 for life.
 
friends, the prominent positioning of Bell in the Let's Talk initiative going on today is utterly gross

The whole thing is a marketing exercise for Bell and a mental health initiative second

This is absolutely true but at the end of the day it's still millions of dollars raised for mental health initiatives (approx $6 million last year I think) in addition to increased awareness and conversation about an issue that often gets forgotten.

Of course they're using it for advertising because they are a giant corporation and that's what giant corporations do but I feel like the amount of good that comes from it can't be denied.
 
You know what they should do is make the Art Books and Soundtracks digital... Be even a lot cheaper for them to make.

I won't even consider buying it for 60 if the art books and OST are digital. Collector Edition are really meant for collectors honestly.
 
You can ask them to buy a game? I had no idea.

I've been waiting for the library to pick up The Witcher 3 for a while now...
You can ask them to buy any game as long as it is not M rated. Dumb, I know.
 
Yay, had to order through my phone but I finally got that pre-order for the BD CE.

Thanks for the link. Thought I would miss it completely.
 
contract employees typically don't have access to health care benefits almost everywhere.

as much as I hate Bell, just because it's their publicity campaign for "Let's Talk" they aren't the only ones who are targeted by the root of the issue presented in the article.
Honestly that also infuriates me in that what he was doing seemed to be a case of being a contract employee when he should have been full-time because it allows them to not pay out those benefits.
 
Honestly that also infuriates me in that what he was doing seemed to be a case of being a contract employee when he should have been full-time because it allows them to not pay out those benefits.

What do you mean should have been?
 
Yes, Bell and other companies treat their low-level employees pretty badly. Low wages, little to no benefits, long hours, high turnover, etc. Some companies have even gotten flack for hiring unpaid interns.

However, the unfortunate reality is that you need connections and experience to get ahead, and you don't get those by being unemployed. And if you quit, there are other people willing to take your position, so the employer never needs to change.

So really it's a lose-lose situation.

It's possible to kick up a big enough fuss so that the employer takes action. But what if that action involves cutting those entry-level positions entirely?
 
Full time entry positions that aren't actually contracted out to employees of other companies or freelancers but are just full time company positions where the employee has fewer rights than if they were hired as full time.

I don't follow. They are contract positions. What are you saying?
 
CDkeys.com legit? I don't need a vpn or some bs to redeem do I? Not gonna get some russian language version of the game?

They just seem so much cheaper than anywhere else...

Someone was selling Nvidia codes for 20$ US in the BST like 1 hour ago. They might have some left. Cdkeys is legit but you get a cd key from some boxed release from a cheaper location.
 
Full time entry positions that aren't actually contracted out to employees of other companies or freelancers but are just full time company positions where the employee has fewer rights than if they were hired as full time.

I worked in a job like that for 6 years, and then another for 2. It's a joke, there should be laws against keeping "temporary" contractors in full time positions for that long.
 
CDkeys.com legit? I don't need a vpn or some bs to redeem do I? Not gonna get some russian language version of the game?

They just seem so much cheaper than anywhere else...

Try BST topic, just bought from a Gaffer for 20 USD, much cheaper. Honestly and now I can trade in my xbone version tmr. cdkeys is kind of a grey market, I bought arkhem knight + season pass from them for 30 ish and it did work but I have also heard story of ppl keys getting banned though.
 
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