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FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.
Fair warning, the thing is supposed to be redesigned from the ground up, so it’s unlikely to be a representative experience.
FF7 is, from what I can tell, as popular as it is because it was many’s first exposure to the series; also it had full FMV when that wasn’t that much of a thing. Those two elements, when combined with a decent gameplay system and story, turned it into an icon.
My point isn’t to say “don’t play it” but rather to just manage expectations. It’s easy to get overhyped by a game that receives constant praise and fond memories.
*puts on clothes - I’m getting my car’s oil changed, after all, and that could be awkward*
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So, um.
I have discovered the world of Stardew Valley mods. I am trying to avoid turning the horse into a Ponyta and stick to little quality of life things, but...I might be getting myself addicted again.
having pokemon IS a quality of life issue. Would we not all be happier if we had a pokemon partner?
I know I would be happier with a litten.
What pokemon would you be happier with?
Right now...um...dragging a dead pokemon behind me on a leash as I trudge down the sidewalk in the rain.
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I'd just like to point out how small and unassuming my tower is.
Unlike Khelben's.
Mystra told me aaaaaall about it.
You had some sort of trouble getting it up without spellfire, too, didn't you?
Huh. Just became aware that a few of Vany's posts didn't appear on my phone, but do on my Desktop. Weird.
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So, um.
I have discovered the world of Stardew Valley mods. I am trying to avoid turning the horse into a Ponyta and stick to little quality of life things, but...I might be getting myself addicted again.
having pokemon IS a quality of life issue. Would we not all be happier if we had a pokemon partner?
I know I would be happier with a litten.
What pokemon would you be happier with?
Misdreavus. Or Umbreon.
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Here's the kind of behavior that I fundamentally cannot comprehend: It's just plain beyond me.
Impus Minor had a bunch of friends over yesterday. They gathered in the living room to play video games. They looted our fridge and our leftover Halloween candy. All perfectly normal.
This morning I found a pile of around 30 candy wrappers in a pile on the living room floor.
Who the **** goes to someone else's house and just dumps a pile of garbage in the middle of the floor? I mean, WTF?
Yes, Impus Minor gets to clean it up. Yes, a second occurrence will result in a monthlong ban of all his friends.
But FFS. I cannot imagine dropping ONE wrapper on someone else's floor, much less a whole pile!
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I'd just like to point out how small and unassuming my tower is.
Unlike Khelben's.
Go, Litten! Use Ember!
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I'd just like to point out how small and unassuming my tower is.
Unlike Khelben's.
F*#+ you, a@&$+$+.
Now use..uh...Ember again!
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FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.
And I'm more than ok with boobs topping out in the "improbable porn star" range, which is what I assume of Tifa's remade boobs, rather than the "outright impossible" range. Especially since I now have two boys at home.
But of course boobs are a huge controversy.
I think it went in the opposite direction.
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Right now...um...dragging a dead pokemon behind me on a leash as I trudge down the sidewalk in the rain.So, um.
I have discovered the world of Stardew Valley mods. I am trying to avoid turning the horse into a Ponyta and stick to little quality of life things, but...I might be getting myself addicted again.
having pokemon IS a quality of life issue. Would we not all be happier if we had a pokemon partner?
I know I would be happier with a litten.
What pokemon would you be happier with?
May I suggest Gothitelle?
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Here's the kind of behavior that I fundamentally cannot comprehend: It's just plain beyond me.
Impus Minor had a bunch of friends over yesterday. They gathered in the living room to play video games. They looted our fridge and our leftover Halloween candy. All perfectly normal.
This morning I found a pile of around 30 candy wrappers in a pile on the living room floor.
Who the **** goes to someone else's house and just dumps a pile of garbage in the middle of the floor? I mean, WTF?
Yes, Impus Minor gets to clean it up. Yes, a second occurrence will result in a monthlong ban of all his friends.
But FFS. I cannot imagine dropping ONE wrapper on someone else's floor, much less a whole pile!
I fully admit that would likely have been me, at that age.
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I fully admit that would likely have been me, at that age.Here's the kind of behavior that I fundamentally cannot comprehend: It's just plain beyond me.
Impus Minor had a bunch of friends over yesterday. They gathered in the living room to play video games. They looted our fridge and our leftover Halloween candy. All perfectly normal.
This morning I found a pile of around 30 candy wrappers in a pile on the living room floor.
Who the **** goes to someone else's house and just dumps a pile of garbage in the middle of the floor? I mean, WTF?
Yes, Impus Minor gets to clean it up. Yes, a second occurrence will result in a monthlong ban of all his friends.
But FFS. I cannot imagine dropping ONE wrapper on someone else's floor, much less a whole pile!
When and where I grew up? The host parents would have the full backing of the child's parents to impose punishment. You just didn't do that at your own house, let alone someone else's.
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When and where I grew up? The host parents would have the full backing of the child's parents to impose punishment. You just didn't do that at your own house, let alone someone else's.I fully admit that would likely have been me, at that age.Here's the kind of behavior that I fundamentally cannot comprehend: It's just plain beyond me.
Impus Minor had a bunch of friends over yesterday. They gathered in the living room to play video games. They looted our fridge and our leftover Halloween candy. All perfectly normal.
This morning I found a pile of around 30 candy wrappers in a pile on the living room floor.
Who the **** goes to someone else's house and just dumps a pile of garbage in the middle of the floor? I mean, WTF?
Yes, Impus Minor gets to clean it up. Yes, a second occurrence will result in a monthlong ban of all his friends.
But FFS. I cannot imagine dropping ONE wrapper on someone else's floor, much less a whole pile!
we were teenage slobs. Fortunately I learned to clean up after myself relatively quickly.
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I only stayed over at my grandparents or aunt and uncle's house, my aunt and grandma were both scarier than my mom, who was already pretty scary.
So yeah, wasn't an issue for me.
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Fifteen years ago it was me that had to hammer and chisel the frozen dirt from Pop's skid loader treads.
This morning, it was the new guys doing it.
Moving up!
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But FFS. I cannot imagine dropping ONE wrapper on someone else's floor, much less a whole pile!
I can imagine one scenario that excuses it—when the acting host himself (i.e. Impus Minor) explicitly permitted it noting that he will clean it later oneself. In fact I was in similar situations (maybe not exactly candy wrappers but some kind of dry non-messy trash that I was told to leave where I sit, and even then it was usually on the table/chair, instead of dropping to the floor). I presume it was not the case here.
She is a thing of beauty...
You mean the X-Wing at the front, or A-Wing's torpedo-pylons? :P
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She is a thing of beauty...You mean the X-Wing at the front, or A-Wing's torpedo-pylons? :P
those are mere appetizers for the maYn course.
Hello, everyone.
'sup? How's your back?
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those are mere appetizers for the maYn course.She is a thing of beauty...You mean the X-Wing at the front, or A-Wing's torpedo-pylons? :P
Now I am sad that our Star Wars campaign died before we got to flying an Y-Wing or two... My soldier-turned-gunner would love to spam some torpedoes from the two-seat version. Or maybe even fly one-seater on his own. I ain't got to 4 Agility for nothing, y'know!
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My point isn’t to say “don’t play it” but rather to just manage expectations. It’s easy to get overhyped by a game that receives constant praise and fond memories.
FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.
Fair enough. My RL bestie is one of those who fell in love with FF7, and mostly I just want to share some of that experience.
I think it went in the opposite direction.And I'm more than ok with boobs topping out in the "improbable porn star" range, which is what I assume of Tifa's remade boobs, rather than the "outright impossible" range. Especially since I now have two boys at home.
But of course boobs are a huge controversy.
You were on the ethics committee weren't you
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Minas Morgul expansion release happened today...
Of course the servers are down because the game broke moments after the expansion went live.
The expansion won't be purchasable for store points (instead of actual cash) until March, so no hurry from me anyway...
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Of course I could use the time I am not playing LOTRO to finish one of the tons of games I have that I started and haven't finished...
My mother got back from her doctor's appointment. She has the beginnings of Kidney trouble. :(
I’m so sorry to hear, my friend. Praying for her. And for your back!
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Fair enough. My RL bestie is one of those who fell in love with FF7, and mostly I just want to share some of that experience.My point isn’t to say “don’t play it” but rather to just manage expectations. It’s easy to get overhyped by a game that receives constant praise and fond memories.
FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.
And this is very fair.
By contrast, I came to FF7 after: FF6 (called FF3 at the time; an amazing game), FF4 (called FF2 at the time; pretty good), and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (HAHAHAHAH, wait, oh, ouch, that hurts, Japan), not to mention other Square titles like Secret of Mana and others. As a result, I actually had a pretty strong image of what FF was actually like. And FF7 intentionally rejected that. Now, that’s not too unusual for the FF series, changing its own dynamic, but I liked exactly zero of the characters at first, the setting (at first) was ugly, the polygons looked so incredibly much worse than the spritework of the older games, and the dissonance between FMV and game imagery was not something I was fond of. Basically nothing appealed to me at first AND it felt like a betrayal of the things I’d come to love about the series. I mean, FFMQ was a crappy game (I mean, it really is not worthwhile unless you reeeaaaally want to), but it felt like it fit into the over-all FF ouvre. FF7 was like expecting to sit down to read a sequel to the Hobbit and LotR, and instead getting Neuromancer. SURPRISE!!
Now, there’s nothing BT wrong with Neuromancer (okay, there are a lot of things wrong with it, but it’s still a great novel), but there’s a bit of tonal whiplash and unpleasant dissonance that comes when you’ve signed up for experience A and receive experience Yigifitch.
In retrospect, of course, it wasn’t as different or as bad as it at first seemed. I can see how it incorporated several aspects from FF6 into its mechanics, and even story telling, too. But it intentionally tried to be different in presentation, and I didn’t like that at first.
Now that I am older (and acknowledging the power of nostalgia), I can recognize problems even in favored classics of mine, and I recognize value in games I once didn’t care for, but the rough parts of FF7 were starkly on display back in the day, and they haven’t really changed. The remake hopes to shed some of these problems, but in doing so they are going to have to reject some parts of what made the original game as great as it was in the kinda of many who enjoyed it. It’s a tricky rope to walk, for sure.
Point is, I’m certain it will be a good game. But I’m also certain that it will take lessons from FF15 to inform its new story beats and progression and gameplay as much as the original FF7 and the games that came out around it.
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I really don't understand Hollywood and the general public's obsession with sequels.
For every Aliens, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of The Matrix Reloadeds. For every Terminator 2, there are scores of Speed 2: Cruise Controls.
So I avoid sequels with some passion. Especially when it comes to animated films.
So everyone knows I'm an unabashed Frozen fan ("Let it Go" literally had me tearing up the first time I saw it), so everyone's asking me when I'll be seeing Frozen 2.
And the answer of, "Preferably never" baffles them.
And their inability to understand just how bad sequels typically are baffles me.
Ah, well, live and misunderstand.
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Now I am sad that our Star Wars campaign died before we got to flying an Y-Wing or two... My soldier-turned-gunner would love to spam some torpedoes from the two-seat version. Or maybe even fly one-seater on his own. I ain't got to 4 Agility for nothing, y'know!those are mere appetizers for the maYn course.She is a thing of beauty...You mean the X-Wing at the front, or A-Wing's torpedo-pylons? :P
I'm not sure how I feel about the canonity of 2 seater vs 1 seater. Then again it's star wars, I can make my own anything.
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My point isn’t to say “don’t play it” but rather to just manage expectations. It’s easy to get overhyped by a game that receives constant praise and fond memories.
FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.Fair enough. My RL bestie is one of those who fell in love with FF7, and mostly I just want to share some of that experience.
You were on the ethics committee weren't youI think it went in the opposite direction.And I'm more than ok with boobs topping out in the "improbable porn star" range, which is what I assume of Tifa's remade boobs, rather than the "outright impossible" range. Especially since I now have two boys at home.
But of course boobs are a huge controversy.
if I was on the ethics committee, I would have voted to dissolve the committee. I hate FFVII, but I will not deny fans their original game. Including Tifa's assets.
If anything, I would have demanded a re release of FF 1-6. Which we already have, I think.
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I really don't understand Hollywood and the general public's obsession with sequels.
For every Aliens, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of The Matrix Reloadeds. For every Terminator 2, there are scores of Speed 2: Cruise Controls.
So I avoid sequels with some passion. Especially when it comes to animated films.
So everyone knows I'm an unabashed Frozen fan ("Let it Go" literally had me tearing up the first time I saw it), so everyone's asking me when I'll be seeing Frozen 2.
And the answer of, "Preferably never" baffles them.
And their inability to understand just how bad sequels typically are baffles me.
Ah, well, live and misunderstand.
I will never EVER forget the confused applause at the end of Matrix Reloaded.
Or the *painfully* forced applause/cheers at the end of Star Wars Episode 1.
That was a great insight to what Hell is like in What Dreams May Come. Something/place that is supposed to be happy, has all the trappings of happiness, and yet is completely and totally miserable.
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I really don't understand Hollywood and the general public's obsession with sequels.
For every Aliens, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of The Matrix Reloadeds. For every Terminator 2, there are scores of Speed 2: Cruise Controls.
So I avoid sequels with some passion. Especially when it comes to animated films.
So everyone knows I'm an unabashed Frozen fan ("Let it Go" literally had me tearing up the first time I saw it), so everyone's asking me when I'll be seeing Frozen 2.
And the answer of, "Preferably never" baffles them.
And their inability to understand just how bad sequels typically are baffles me.
Ah, well, live and misunderstand.
I also think we live in a time where not just profit but IP issues rule, so companies, especially Disney, are going to keep putting things out to ensure nothing ever, ever expires.
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FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.
And I'm more than ok with boobs topping out in the "improbable porn star" range, which is what I assume of Tifa's remade boobs, rather than the "outright impossible" range. Especially since I now have two boys at home.
But of course boobs are a huge controversy.
Well, it's good to keep abreast of this sort of thing. And it is important that Tifa's design has enough support.
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Well, it's good to keep abreast of this sort of thing. And it is important that Tifa's design has enough support.FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.
And I'm more than ok with boobs topping out in the "improbable porn star" range, which is what I assume of Tifa's remade boobs, rather than the "outright impossible" range. Especially since I now have two boys at home.
But of course boobs are a huge controversy.
Join me, and we can rule the universe as father and son.
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I've been approved!
CONGRATULATIONS
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Well, it's good to keep abreast of this sort of thing. And it is important that Tifa's design has enough support.FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.
And I'm more than ok with boobs topping out in the "improbable porn star" range, which is what I assume of Tifa's remade boobs, rather than the "outright impossible" range. Especially since I now have two boys at home.
But of course boobs are a huge controversy.
REMASTER OR BUST!
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REMASTER THAT BUST!Well, it's good to keep abreast of this sort of thing. And it is important that Tifa's design has enough support.FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.
And I'm more than ok with boobs topping out in the "improbable porn star" range, which is what I assume of Tifa's remade boobs, rather than the "outright impossible" range. Especially since I now have two boys at home.
But of course boobs are a huge controversy.
FIFY
I've been approved!
HUZZAH~!
Went to Ikea today. Totally mentally tired now.
But we have an appointment. For a kitchen. Because we really cant put it off much longer, as the kitchen we have now is breaking down slowly piece by piece.
This is pages late, but shopping makes me so daggum mentally tired, too.
So. Daggum. Mentally. Tired.
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For platinum status!?! So have I!!
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Tiny T-Rex: What's for dinner?
The General: Tacos
Tiny T-Rex: Why?
Me: Because the food faerie crapped out a meal and that's what we're having
Tiny T-Rex: Okay, that makes sense!
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I served on the Ethics Committee of the nursing home I worked for. For seven years.
The only course I ever failed at university?
Ethics.
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I've been approved!
VICTORY!