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that poor white billionaire who got voted into office by at least half the US. No one will know the suffering he has endured for us

At least Branco’s interpretation of history is apparently WAY more interesting in at least one regard

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Its probably closer to 40 but I have a really bad habit of leaving my games on while they’re paused when I go to bed. I just got the earth crystal too. Most of my time has been spent in the “chipmunk” cave where I mute the sound and watch netflix while grinding jobs. I have brand new ones to grind out now but someone left my party and I don’t want them to get too behind.  Honestly, once I got rapid fire and all the other stuff mastered I just switched to freelancer,did dual wield death sickles and haven’t run into much I can’t kill in one attack. I know I’m over leveled and OP but I want to try other cool combinations but I just feel like nothing stacks up to what I have going now. Dualcast was pretty amazing for awhile, I want to mess around more with sing too. I like FFV

#ffv ff5 #rpg grinding #game journal

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I just saw this on Reddit today and I wanted to share it here.

When you’re a parent, you have to realize that the child you brought into this world is going to be their own person and you’ll have to start getting into things you may not understand and have ZERO interest in.

However, you damn well better act like you are.

I can still remember the feeling as a kid getting Pokemon Red and it being something I loved so much, so I wanted to share that with my mom. I wanted to show her my team, tell her about the gym leaders I took down, and she just took a glance at the Game Boy color and went “mmhhhmm”.

She gave zero shits when I beat Banjo-Kazooie, a game which was INCREDIBLY hard for grade school me and you can make me have war flashbacks if you so much as say “Rusty Bucket Bay”.

My town in Animal Crossing? Catching rare fish? Who cares?

I liked a cartoon series so much that I wrote little stories about it? “No, I don’t want to read it.”

This type of stuff matters to kids so damn much and she’ll never realize how much it hurt our relationship. It might not seem like a big deal she never sat down and watched me play something like Luigi’s Mansion, but that’s how kids try and bond with their parents.

After constantly being shot down they’ll eventually stop talking to you entirely. 

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*likes*

I think one of the most under-appreciated and pervasive communication problems  is that some people express ideas, beliefs and opinions primarily through literal wording while other people do so through the general intent behind that wording.

Like when you see these arguments where one side is saying “politicians are racist” and the other side’s argument is “not all of them,” one problem there (besides the latter just not wanting to admit or confront an ugly reality) is that many will use a phrase like “politicians are racist” to mean “there is an unfortunate trend of racism higher than it ought to be among politicians.”

 I’m one of these. I default to loose, generalized statements and also by default I just expect everyone else to be communicating and interpreting communication that way. I assume almost all conversations have a degree of hyperbole and flexible reality behind them.

But no, what other people will hear in that statement is “100% of every politician in America consciously hates all other races, always with no exception."  And in a similarly black and white fashion, they think the absoluteness of the statement is the crux of the issue and that if they disprove it with even one example, it’s a valid counterargument, even though the first person’s complaint is with the trend they are inferring through those loose and general words.

This is something some people may have neurological, psychological or just cultural issue with. I notice the right wing (and the old "anti social justice” movement) were/are most often very literally minded and word-oriented while moderate to liberal people tend to lean more toward those generalizations as their go-to way of presenting an idea.

This really fucks with a L O T O F P E O P L E pretty much all day every day and barely gets addressed.

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omg

“I wanted to be by your side, Eiko… so I became Mog”

I’ve been playing Final Fantasy 9 recently. I adore it. My feels…there’s so much of it.

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ahhhh this is greaaat, going to my vivi folder

I kept forgetting to post this up. I love Final Fantasy 9 with all my heart and i finally got to play again recently on steam <3

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Claymation

I know Wallace and Gromit exist and I admit to not being absolutely up to date on all the new cartoons and tvshows. In truth I’m a brown recluse spider that lives in an abandoned dresser in someone’s garbage so I’m only recently getting caught up on stuff like Gravity Falls thanks to finally getting netflix but.. https://youtu.be/LKdADhk0HYo Is it just me or did claymation mostly just fall off the face of the earth? I know computers give artists a bigger toolkit of ways to express themselves, no, I’m not some babyboomer that equates technology to bad..I just really miss quirky, really weird stuff like claymation and stopmotion. I know its probably a cost+effort thing but if someone could point me to shows or youtube channels that make use of claymation or event stop motion I would be really happy. I love watching this stuff so much. Everyone remembers David Firth for Salad Fingers but my favorite thing I ever saw him do was his one college claymation/stopmotion project that was suppose to be about Hell. Yeah, its edgy and he’s probably ashamed he made it now but I thought it was wonderfully bizarre and fun to watch.

#claymation #stopmotion #personal rant #sorry for the rant

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I don’t know much about Owlturd or follow them but no, the internet loves to pile up on and harass random content creators that dare to write about their personal problems or show any form of “emotional weakness”, almost always in a cute, inoffensive way to begin with...while being unshaken by the fact we have a literal racist, terrible wannabe despot of a president. That’s totally fine.

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Link’s Awakening DX

Reblog this with your first Zelda game in the comments or tags!

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My first jrpg: Phantasy Star IV

This is the amazingly spectacular cover the amazing megadrive/genesis rpg, Phantasy Star IV. I believe it retailed new in the neighborhood of 100$, maybe a bit less. I think Chrono Trigger was 70$, maybe more.  I never got to buy Phantasy Star IV so it had to be rented from our old Blockbuster. Of course if I hadn’t seen the sprawing, multi-page long review/mini walkthrough of the first part of the game in an issue of Gamefan that I got for Christmas I never would have bothered with this game. I was young, obviously, and mostly played stuff like Sonic, Ristar, Mortal Kombat 2 and Street Fighter Super/Turbo..whatever. I really digged the genesis Aladdin game too and actually owned it. I was starting to get into anime because Sailormoon would air at 2:30 EST on Fox Kids so i would get to sneak a watch if I was sick from school, it was a holiday or we’d gotten out early. I LOVED the show even though I had no idea what was going on. I wanted more things that looked like that. So, I see PS4 in Gamefan along with all the screenshots and ingame cutscenes of characters like Zio, who reminded me of one of Queen Beryl’s lackies but also was super evil and scary looking to me. The monsters looked awesome and way more detailed than the typical badnik mooks I spent my weekends bopping to release cute little flickies. So, its friday during June, I think I’d just gotten out of school and mom took me to Blockbuster. I searched the shelves for Phantasy Star IV and couldn’t find it so I asked mom for help. When I was really little and wanted to find a game I would sometimes get her to help me search the massive shelves. Mom quickly found it and asked “Is this the game?

Yeah...I believe the Shining Force games got a similar treatment at least on the sega genesis. For the record I don’t hate western style fantasy art and love collecting musty old AD&D books for the art and like Warhammer but yea..as a kid that cover art made nauseous. Its not quite Megaman 2 nes bad but its just so....WRONG. At least they still kept Chaz’s original color scheme and design I guess..but what they did to Rune was unforgivable. I won’t comment on Rika. My biggest problem with this style of art is that it makes you think Phantasy Star IV is some kind of medieval D&D inspired game. The core Phantasy Star games are best described as fantasy sci-fi, sort of like Star Wars. You have interplanetary travel, cyborgs,ecosystems controlled by AI sometimes prone to turning evil but but people fight with swords,axes and use magic. It really is a lot like Star Wars setting wise since the first planet you start on, Motavia, looks and feels a whole like Tatooine.  It was a very fun but confusing game to me. I loved the music and anime stills used for cutscenes but I would explore certain locations and BOOM the music abruptly switches to fast paced battle music and I’m now on a different screen with more detailed versions of my party facing detailed sprites of bad guys. I eventually figured out what I was suppose to do by selecting attack with everybody, but I’d see certain people would do a lot more damage when I did this. After several more battles I discovered techs/magic but the only ones I understood were those that did direct damage and made cool explosions. If I selected a spell that did something besides direct damage I just assumed it was completely worthless. Its been so long but I think the farthest I got was to Zio’s castle but I never got past the first boss and had to return the game. I rented it again a few weeks to discover my file had been written over(I think) or there was someone else’s file. I clicked that one and was confused even more because I was on this snowy planet with melancholy music and my party had different members and some were missing. I left the town and saw I had a swanky spaceship so I went back to Motavia, the first planet. I wandered around and for the life of me I could not figure out where Alys was. What happened to Zio? I played a bit more and some snooping around one town made me realize what had happened to Alys and then I just got into more random battles for fun because I had Wren the cyborg now and I thought all his moves were badass. I played a bit more but then got tired of all the aimless wandering and went outside to play. Really dating myself there... So that’s the story of my first rpg. I never did buy the game but i later discovered the wonderful world of emulation in the 7th grade and was finally able to play stuff like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 4,5,6. Yes, I am one of those many Final Fantasy posers who’s first game was 7. I could exaggerate and say it was FF1 because my sister had an nes and played it but she rarely let me touch her console ever. I just knew her frustration about where to go after she got some flute. But back to the topic, I also downloaded Gens (obviously a genesis/megadrive emulator) and the first game I downloaded was....Sonic 3! THEN I downloaded Phantasy Star IV, got super far and was able to truly appreciate this wonderful and mostly forgotten jrpg. But..I didn't beat it. I got to sky castle, to the ::SPOILERS:: fight against a certain someone from PS1 and my game would always freeze when I was about to defeat him. I fruitlessly searched for a solution to my problem but alas I could never find a method to bypass the bug.  We have way better emulators now and PS4 has been ported to steam and other consoles, always bundled together with other classic genesis games such as Shining Force 1 and 2, Landstalker, Streets of Rage etc. I’m going to beat PS4 one day, probably very soon. I have played and beaten so many rpgs, both western and Japanese(mostly Japanese) and they are my favorite genre of video game by far.  So, thanks Phantasy Star IV, for introducing me to rpgs and making me into the lifelong weeb scum I am today.

#phantasy star #phantasy star 4 #retrogaming #gaming stories #sega genesis #jrpgs #rpgs #video games

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You kids who grew up with Adult Swim and shit already existing for most of your life have no idea how weird people thought the Simpsons were when they began. TV cartoons in prime time with “adult humor” were virtually unheard of at the time and people thought Simpsons was just bizarre as SHIT, like people thought it was “trippy” and “crazy” because they were like….yellow I guess, and that they were cartoons who said “damn” and “hell.”

And they were controversial, too. Teachers, parents, Christian groups and even president George Bush senior all bashed the Simpsons as a sign of decaying family values and accused it of teaching children delinquency.

To many of you this must sound like the cartoon equivalent of when your great great grandma got arrested for showing her ankle or something

Now of course the Simpsons is just this kind of saccharine, kind of dated background presence in everybody’s lives, recently surpassing 600 fucking episodes and most of them by now are the bad ones. The weirdest thing of all is honestly that this cartoon even had the monster impact that it did, that it was ever actually something edgy and fresh and daring to American culture. I was there and it still feels like a fever dream. If the show wasn’t still going on I’d chalk its ENTIRE existence up to a fever dream.

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im glad they felt the need to put in the effort to make their sign as obnoxious as possible

“hey boss i’m afraid our vape shop isn’t annoying enough”

“i’ve got just the thing”