I comment on shit posts!

I consider Vivi to be their best written character.

Honestly I agree. Theres a whole history in the time that comes after 8 where SeeD is an active force for a very long time. At the same time if you consider this a time travel story, it takes place at the start of SeeD which makes sense if you consider the true sorceress from the future trying to thwart her enemy before they ever become a threat. I think one of the places where the story fall apart is that we get no explanation of who she is other than that she wants to do the big bad. I think it would be interesting to have a game that explores that end of things.

FF8 is a flawed game, no argument from me. But to me what makes the game great is that it’s the game where squaresoft was at its most experimental. Guardian forces was an attempt at making summons be genuine characters rather than a simple simulation of the idea of summoning. The leveling weirdness was an attempt at solving the problem of level grinding endemic to the genre. The story was an attempt to go beyond the usual heroes of light just saving the world. Did these attempts land perfectly? Not at all, but they had interesting permutations.

I think it’s amazing that squarsoft even in that time tried to do so much different in just that one game. They were challenging standard tropes of the genre.

I genuinely question this writer claiming they played the game many times when they pretty much ignore the existence of Laguna when trying to find character depth and background. Really you have to remember the game in its moment in 1998, and this reads like someone playing it well after the fact. And then wondering why the game doesnt do things as well as the games that came after.

These days I play my games wither on a switch or an emulator. I like physical games, and if i like a game I’m emulating I try to get a physical copy of it. One of the reasons I like having the physical copy is that it gives me a plausible reason to have the data. Even if I got it through alternative sources game publishers can’t complain, especially if the game is now defunct.

Which i think is part of the problem. Stop Killing Games is a thing for a good reason. If I bought a game, but the only way for me to access it is through dead corporate servers, and links that have been left to rot, why shouldn’t I pirate it? The company itself forced me to. Or worse they brought back their old catalog through a subscription service. Sorry Nintendo, im not paying five bucks a month to play the original Legend of Zelda.

I do miss the manuals. Warcraft had a beautifully illustrated booklet of all the units thst i read backward and forward as a kid. I think the modern digital only environment speaks to an ethos of exploitation endemic to capitalism. The corporate shills control production of the art of video games. And the artists and the people who consume that art are exploited for the sake of publisher profits.

Yes, im checking for cracks, but when i found a good carton? Yeah, that’s the good shit. It’s all there. We doin this deal.

In my head.

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From the article you posted:

"The talks were jolted by statements from Trump, who, from thousands of miles away, fired off comments that offended the Iranians.

Iranian state media said talks had paused after the “publication of an insulting message by the U.S. President.” The negotiations later continued."

So it did in fact happen, but despite the geriatric manchild torpedoing his own begged for peace negotiations the adults in the room recovered.

You know you start one or two (possibly more) apocalypses centered around your severely neglected son piloting a giant proto-being super robot that traumatizes him nearly every time he gets into it all in the hopes of turning your wife-clone daughter who you spend creepy amounts of alone time with into a conduit for contacting your dead wife who’s soul may or may not have been absorbed into said robot thereby recreating her into a death goddess who absorbs the souls of everyone on earth suddenly everybody thinks your a bad father.

Considering who’s lap that is, it’s pretty sinister already.

Yeah a racist/sexist sack of shit is right twice a day or something.

The only way to get isreal to agree is to tell them were not going to defend you if Iran launches missiles again. Which is years too late, but still.

What’s interesting to me is that you look at him these days he looks miserable. Like he genuinely hates what he’s doing. All the idealism he had before has been sucked right out along with his soul. But clearly he still thinks if he just gets through it will all have been worth it.

My good them, they’re trying to get us back to the 19th century.

There’s a whole lot of bands that should be above the sex pistols and the Ramons.

The arc of technology progress since the crash in the early 2000s has been pump and dump scams perpetrated on the entire market.

There is a demand for the data centers, but its not ai. That’s just the excuse. They’re building a surveillance state to track everyone. You thought the Chinese social credit system was bad just wait for the American freedom to lick billionaire boots surveillance system where anyone critical of the new nobility gets locked out of social mobility.

Also didnt they start planning this thing like three months ago. Most performers have their schedules set like a year in advance. My understanding is that a bunch if the acts didn’t even know they were in it.

I hate this meme. Every damn time it pops up.

Did you know that many of the companies that serve these cameras are data collection firms that sell the data they collect, often to governments for the purpose of tracking people wherever they go. But yeah I guess this the only way we can get people to slow down.