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pikespendragon67 · 5 months

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And Now, The Long Awaited "Pikes Check-up" Fall 2023 Edition!!

Decided to make it a habit to type out my current interests/progress in life in case I find it difficult to jump into conversations with friends

Let's begin, shall we?

Current Life Events

It's been over a month and I still haven't had my annual review at work so if I don't get it by the end of December I may go nuts. Need to either get a better position in this firm, get better payment, or probably find a job somewhere else because wow working 8 hours (which is essentially 10 due to traveling & 1 hour lunch break) is not worth $20 an hour [i'm in CA so that's like barely above minimum wage & i gotta keep other expenses in mind].

On that note, I do have an interview for a state job next Friday (though I hope my coworkers/supervisor don't find it odd that I dress as usual on casual Fridays) and I keep getting calls from legal recruiters, so that's a good sign. Might try a probate firm since I enjoyed being a loan signing agent.

Brother and sister-in-law are hosting Thanksgiving this year! This will be the first time in decades where my parents don't host (and even then, it's mainly just a few family friends instead of actual blood relatives when they host. Think the last time I've been to a family Thanksgiving was when I was 7?) I get to properly meet my niece-in-law instead of just seeing her at the wedding. Sadly no nephews-in-law, so I might need to cut back on the gaming talk

Next party event for me is White Elephant with IRL friends, then for Chrimbus my parents & I are gonna go see my godparents for a week. Finally a week vacation (I need better hours too OTL)

With every passing day I think of gender being wonky so hopefully one day (when I'm financially stable to be on my own comfortably and without the fear of losing things) I can figure it out. Right now I'm thinking of using Bishop as a secondary online name but we'll see if that sticks.

Possibly maybe could go to Japan in April? Mom said she's organizing an event with my brother's old high school and she might be able to get my dad & me to join. Though I'd be a complete weeb, so I feel like I'd be rude to folks in Japan, I'd still love to go.

What I'm Playing

As much as I love Sea of Stars, I was getting antsy to play something else. (Especially when I heard the requirements for the true ending). SO, I decided to swap over to Digimon Survive since my brother got it for me for Chrimbus last year. I would've played it at launch but of course Xenoblade 3 came out at the same time and then I got lost playing Pokemon Scarlet then Hi-Fi Rush then Octopath 2 then replaying 999 then Ghost Trick then Sea of Stars-

But yeah I'm loving the character writing so far in Survive (I'm on part 3 most likely going to end with the moral ending) and the Digivolutions keep me on my toes. I don't think there's a branching system like in the Zero Escape franchise/AI The Somnium Files, so I'm not sure if I'll do a repeat playthrough. Gameplay itself has an isometric camera like FF Tactics so it can be a bit wonky placing your units to attack enemies. Plus I like how this game actually tells me what path I'm taking (hint hint Triangle Strategy before New Game+)

I also just got Super Mario RPG but the timing for action commands feels off? I press when the exclamation point appears but apparently I have to wait for the attack to actually connect. Weird

Then for games I'm watching through LPs because of time/funds/my wrists being god awful so it's hard to play games, I just finished watching Judgment and I think Yakuza Like a Dragon still holds the award for the game that made me cry the most but damn this also had good moments.

I'm also now watching P5 Tacticia (might get it if I can get used to Xcom gameplay) and man I can really make a babygirl meter based on the older dudes in P5 (going from Kasukabe to Sojiro probably)

New PFP that I've named Hattagan c:

Finally, man I might want to sell my PS5 despite it being my graduation gift from 2021. It's uncomfortable to play it with my current chair (as I like to usually play games lying down to help my back), and with me working full-time now, it's difficult to find motivation to play when I get back home. I'd need to connect to my work's Wi-Fi to take advantage of remote play, unfortunately. And while I could get a longer USB cord to keep the controller charged or get a bean bag or something, my room's way too small for that configuring & I'd have to keep unplugging the console when we clean every other week. Most of the games I want to play are already on Steam and are playable on the Deck, so I might use that instead. (Though I pray Ghost of Tsushima and Gravity Rush 2 get ported, then Yakuzas 4-6 are made playable for Deck).

Current Collection Wants So Far

Ever since I've garnered my own funds, I've made a habit of collecting fan things. It usually boils down to plushies (mostly Pokemon, but now favorite characters as well), games to collect (currently Switch, GBA, DS, 3DS, and Vita since I'm not really playing my PS5 for PS4 games anymore), Fire Emblem Cipher cards, and now DVDs for series/movies I like because I can't trust streaming services these days. Don't know if I'll be able to do Pokemon cards because I just collect for art & characters I like. Plus with how the Paul brothers ruined that market, I'd prefer to not dip my toes in that. When I get my own place, hopefully I can get other consoles to collect for. (Also I'm not planning on getting everything; mainly just games that pique my interest).

What I'm Watching

Last week, I saw the new Digimon 02 movie dubbed. Glad that Davis, Veemon/Ken, and Hawkmon reprised their roles. The only real issue I had was Armadillomon having the Stitch voice instead of the usual Texan accent. Other than that, Digimon's movies has this weird air of trying to market to nostalgic fans by telling them to move on from Digimon. I get folks didn't like the ending of the original 02 for shipping reasons, but the DigiDestined still had their Digimon as adults so I think it's a bit mean to say adults can't have Digimon or that they should stop having them. On that note, I felt like the "villain" could've been more terrifying if they actually showed how messed it up it was. (Like you're expecting me to believe it created Diaboromon just by it saying it watched the events on TV?)

So along with me nearly finishing Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (just have 2 episodes left since I decided to binge last night), here's what I'm watching in the fall 2023 anime season

needless to say i am going insane so i'll at least give some highlights

Paradox Live: I got into the series for Saimon back before the anime came out (I think it was a few months before Buraikan were officially revealed?) and wow the songs are great. You might've noticed me posting some of the groups like TCW, AKYR, etc. So far the animation for the series is self is pretty good, though they're changing a few story beats from the audio dramas. Like man we're getting starved on AKYR content. In terms of my favs, they're Saimon, Haruomi, Hokusai, and Shiki with Anne getting an honorable mention as well

Undead Unluck: I love the fast-paced humor and animation. I think the director for the Monogatari series is working on this and it's paying off in spades.

I'm dreading next week's episode of Jujutsu Kaisen and I'm praying that when Hiromi's in the anime that he'll get a good casting for both sub and dub (my hopes are Akio Otsuka and Joe J. Thomas, but that's personal bias talking). If he ends up dying I might drop the series.

Black Jack appeared in episode 1 of Pluto and that got me so stoked. Like I know Black Jack and Astro Boy are both Tezuka, but still.

Everything else is great, mind you, but my mind can only process so much. I'm also hoping to see Boy & The Heron when it comes out because Robert Pattinson actually voice acts in it, so here's hoping he gets other opportunities like that.

I'll most likely edit this post to add some other things, but yeah, that's my current status atm!

#long post #pikes rambles

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yourdeepestfathoms · 4 years

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Weep For Yourself, My Man (you’ll never be what is in your heart)

Day 1- Maria

Definitely not my best work—I did poor Maria dirty, but it’s something!

Title is from Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons because I apparently always associate with Maria when I hear it or need a title

Word Count: 1724

TW: Blood

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The “break room” was the entire cast’s safe zone and to be invited into such a haven alongside one of the queens was like an honor. But Maria always felt more giddy when it was Bessie who wanted her to tag along. Bessie was much more aggressive and prickly than all the queens combined, so to be trusted by her was like being given a chest full of jewels.

Upon stepping inside, the two Ladies were instantly bombarded by the smell of coffee. Anne and Kitty were already in the room, playing on their Switches at the round bar table against the wall. They paused whatever game they were playing together to greet Maria and Bessie with matching beaming grins.

Cathy and Aragon soon joined the group in the break room. For most of that period of time, the six of them just messed around inside, talking about what their plans were for the upcoming fall holidays and catching up on any good rumors.

Kitty soon jumped up, eyes glowing. “I want to go ice skating!” She exclaimed.

“Ooh, that sounds fun,” Cathy agreed with a nod.

“Doesn’t it?” Kitty was absolutely glowing with excitement at the idea. “We can go on a lake! A frozen lake!”

“I thought we were going to skate on one that wasn’t frozen,” Bessie mused sarcastically, earning a giggle from Maria and a playfully stern gaze from Aragon.

“Okay, smart alec!” Kitty said. “Let’s see your skating skills! Since you think you’re so good that you can skate on water!”

Bessie furrowed her eyebrows and tilted her head. “I never said that.”

“Ooooh, Bessie is scared!” Anne teased, causing a raging red blush to flare across Bessie’s face!”

“I am not!” Bessie barked. She yanked off her boots and actually began to slide around on the tile. Maria gave her an impressed look, while Aragon made a small, disgruntled noise.

“The floor is a little dirty...” Aragon muttered, but shook her head and dismissed it.

“Imagine Christmas, but instead of drinking out of cups, everyone drinks out of drench guns.” Anne then said with complete seriousness.

The others laughed loudly at that statement.

“That would look so weird. You would have to stick the probe down your throat and basically inject the drink into your mouth to swallow.” Bessie said.

“It would be funny!”

“What’s a drench gun?” Kitty blinked.

“It’s what people use to get medicine or fluids into an animal’s mouth.” Cathy explained.

“I used one before.” Maria said. “In our past life. For a baby horse. You have to stick your fingers in their mouth to open their jaw.”

While saying this, out of the corner of her eye, Maria noticed Bessie trying to find the drawer for a pair of large, sharp scissors that had been left out. A pang of fear jolted in her chest when she saw the gleaming silver blades.

“Elizabeth!!”

The bassist jumped and Maria suddenly regretted yelling because time seemed to slow down just long enough for her to watch as the scissors slipped from the hands they’re held in and plunged directly into Bessie’s foot.

An awful, piercing scream that Maria hasn’t heard in years ripped through the air.

The break room erupted into complete pandemonium.

Everyone is screaming. Bessie has collapsed into a shrieking ball of pain, her eyes bulging so wide they look like they might pop out of her sockets. Hot fountains of blood are gushing from the wound in her foot with the scissors sticking out like some kind of horrible monument to this moment.

“What’s up Jake Paulers,” Cleves said while walking inside. She froze when she saw what was going on. “Oh. OH!”

Aragon was the first to snap out of the panic. She dove to Bessie’s side, cradling her head in her lap to keep it off of the hard ground. She was crying, Maria realized; Aragon gently thumbed away her tears.

“It’s okay, darling, it’s okay,” She murmured gently. “You’re going to be okay.” She turned her head away from her. “Someone call 999!”

“M-maybe we should take the scissors out?” Kitty suggested in a shaking voice. She looked around for help, only to find that her cousin has backed away from the growing pool of blood dizzily.

“We can’t.” Cathy said. “We have to keep them in so the blood will clot. And we don’t know if they punctured any major arteries or vessels.”

“Then-then what do we do to help?!”

Bessie wailed, a high pitched sound of agony.

“SOMEONE CALL 999!!” Aragon yelled again. This time, the others stop floundering around like panicked wildebeests that were just shot at and did something. Kitty pulled out her phone to call an ambulance.

Aragon took off her jacket and haphazardly wrapped it around Bessie’s foot to try and stop the flow of blood, earning a sharp cry of pain from her daughter figure. It visibly broke her heart from the way her mouth twisted into a guilty, pitiful frown. She gently stroked some hair out of her face.

“I know, I know,” She said softly, “I know it hurts, but it’s going to be okay.”

She slid her arms under Bessie and hoisted her up bridal style. Bessie immediately curled up with her head resting on her chest, shuddering and shaking with pain.

During all of this, Maria is frozen. The sight of her dear friend getting stabbed and then her dropping to the floor kept replaying in her head. The only thing she’s thinking is: “What the fuck have I done?”

Aragon hurried out of the break room and to the lobby with the others on her heels. Workers in the hallway jump out of the way and stare in disbelief when they come by. Kitty is still blubbering on the phone. Blood drops are left in their wake.

Jane was one of those people in the hallway, as she was going to the break room to meet up with everyone. She gasped in shock and ran up to their side, asking about what happened.

“Bessie dropped scissors on her foot apparently,” Cleves said, equally as confused, but just as concerned as everyone else.

And it’s all Maria fault that it happened. That part is left out, even though it’s true. If she hadn’t yelled this wouldn’t have happened. Bessie had known what she was doing. Maria just wanted to protect her, but she ended up hurting her in the end.

This is her fault. They need to say it. The blame should be on her, not Bessie and her clumsiness.

“Someone should be on the way,” Kitty said, putting her phone away. She’s as white as a ghost. Adrenaline must have made her sound like she knew what she was talking about on that phone call.

“Good.” Aragon said, holding Bessie closer. She’s sobbing into her chest. The yellow jacket awkwardly tied around her foot is now dark red. “Jane! Drive everyone over to the hospital!”

No other instructions were needed—nobody dared to go against Catherine of Aragon when she was in such a state.

Aragon was the only one who was allowed to ride in the ambulance with Bessie, as she had refused to let go of her. Maria could have gone, too, but she couldn’t. It didn’t feel right, so she rode with Jane and the others.

Aragon had been glued to Bessie’s side the whole time, stroking her hair and soothing her through the pain. She was overwhelmed with worry, too scared to leave her side for a second. Her bond with Bessie really showed in those moments and Maria realized how close they actually were.

Closer than she and Bessie ever were.

Because Aragon would never make her drop scissors on her foot.

When asked about what happened, Maria spoke up to tell the doctors and the others who hadn’t been in the room about how she had startled Bessie, which caused her to drop the scissors. Nobody blamed her, so she had to do it herself.

That’s why she was pacing in the waiting room of the hospital, twirling a lock of hair like she did when she was nervous, muttering to herself. The others watched her with a pitiful expression. Jane was the one who eventually stood up to calm her.

“Maria?”

“What?! What?” Maria yelped.

“Breathe.” Jane set her hands on Maria’s shoulders. “Breathe, honey. You’re freaking out.”

“B-but,” Maria stammered. “Sh-she— Bessie—”

“—is going to be okay.” Jane lifted her hands to cup Maria’s face and smooth back her unruly hair. “Bessie is going to be fine, love. It wasn’t anything major.”

“B-but—” Maria doesn’t seem convinced. She’s trembling with worry. “Wh-what if a nerve was punctured? What if she can never stand again? What if her foot gets amputated?!”

“Oh, honey...” Jane murmured. “You have a lot of pent up anxiety over her, don’t you?”

Maria whimpered pathetically and lowered her head. “I-I can’t lose her again...”

She soon dissolved into tears and found herself clinging tightly to Jane. Instantly, warm arms are wrapped around her, holding her together as best as they could. They weren’t Bessie’s arms, but, for now, they would have to do for now.

Half an hour passed. Maria nearly toppled over when she leapt up when Bessie’s name was called. She followed the nurse into the back rooms, eyes widening when she saw the bassist lying in a hospital bed with her foot sewn and wrapped up.

“Hey, Mars,” Bessie greeted with a tired smile. “Good to see— oof!”

Maria practically catapulted herself onto the bed, wrapping her arms around Bessie and immediately bursting into tears all over again. Aragon, who had been sitting at the bedside, smiled softly.

“Bessie,” Maria wept. “Oh, Bessie— I’m sorry! I’m so sorry!”

“Shh, shh,” Bessie stroked the crying girl’s hair comfortingly. “It’s okay, my love. It’s okay. I’m not mad.”

“B-but wh-what if you—”

Maria shut up when a kiss is pressed to her forehead.

“I’m okay, Maria. I promise. All I needed were a few stitches.”

“But you were screaming!”

“I had scissors in my foot!” Bessie laughed. “It hurt!”

Maria blushed. Bessie kissed her head again.

“You sweet girl,” Bessie murmured. “Thank you, my love. For being so worried about me. But never call me ‘Elizabeth’ again. It’s weird when you say it.”

#ladies in waiting week #six the musical #six the musical fanfic #six the musical fanfiction #six fanfic #six fanfiction #maria on the drums #bessie on the bass #catherine of aragon #katherine howard #anne boleyn #jane seymour #catherine parr #tw: blood

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fallintosanity · 4 years

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What are your thoughts on 7 Remake’s ~controversial~ ending? It’s been a few weeks now since I finished and I legit feel like I’ve journeyed through all 5 stages of grief and finally landed on Acceptance 😅

haha that’s fair! I have a lot of thoughts about the remake, but they’re coming from three different angles.

(Spoilers under the cut obvs; also this got fucklong even after I cut a bunch of non-ending-related thoughts, and I apologize to those of you on mobile)

From the POV of someone who played and loved the original

Overall, I really enjoyed the remake, ending and all. I replayed the OG prior to the remake’s release, finishing literally four hours before the remake became available in North America, but it had still been months since I did the Midgar parts so it wasn’t too immediately fresh in my mind. Still, I was impressed by how faithful the remake is to the OG for the vast majority of the game. They noticeably cleaned up a few things, like Tseng slapping Aerith, which didn’t age well or stopped making sense with regards to the greater Compilation, which was nice to see. But they also doubled down on some of the ridiculousness of the original. I can’t tell you how much I cackled when the Hell House showed up, or how many times I said to my fiance in joy/disbelief, “They really managed to fit that in!”

I also love all the little nods to the greater Compilation. I saw one interview excerpt from like... 2015 or 2014 or something that said the Remake is considered canon to the Compilation, and the content of the Remake itself suggests this. While some of the cameos could be considered nothing more than cameos (as much as I love Kunsel, I don’t think his name being dropped means anything other than that they needed a name and wanted to give a nod to him), there are other clear hints that Crisis Core and The Kids Are Alright, at minimum, are canon to the Remake. Hojo mentions “S and G type” SOLDIERs, i.e., Sephiroth-type and Genesis/Gillian-type. (Roche is a G type I am not taking arguments on this point) The description of the Buster Sword says it carries the hopes and dreams of those who came before, implying more than just Zack (i.e., Angeal). Zack’s scene right before he charges the ShinRa army is shot-for-shot the one from Crisis Core, which could have just been a nod, but the fact that he also says the same lines as the original is telling. There’s a lot of lore loaded into those lines. Leslie and Kyrie are both from The Kids Are Alright (which makes me wonder if the third ShinRa half-brother is floating around somewhere). You could make an argument for Before Crisis being partially or completely canon to the remake as well, since someone mentions a previous assassination attempt on the President, which happened in BC.

But now we get into the issue of whether Advent Children is canon to the remake, i.e., the ending and the thing you actually asked about. ^^; This is where I’m more torn. My initial reaction to the ending was “Oh crap, we went from FFVII-Remake to Kingdom Hearts - oh shit now we’re in Advent Children - oh fuck now we’re in fanfiction-land.” Which... is definitely not what I was expecting from the ending of Part 1.

On first playthrough it feels a bit like they overplayed their hand with Sephiroth in the ending: “everyone wants a Sephiroth fight in a FFVII game, so we’ll give them a Sephiroth fight”. I’ve seen a lot of complaints about the fact that Sephiroth appears in person in the Midgar sequence, when in the OG all we see of him before Kalm is the aftermath of President Shinra’s murder. I do think Sephiroth’s appearances prior to the ending were done well - the writers clearly intended to emphasize Cloud’s mental issues, and Sephiroth is too big a part of them to ignore. His appearances prior to the top of Shinra Tower both serve as a bone tossed to those who wanted to see him in the remake, and set up the Cloud-Sephiroth relationship a lot earlier and in more depth. You can see how utterly terrified Cloud is every time Sephiroth is around - even sometimes frozen into immobility. Depending on how things go with the Kalm flashback, this may also help cue new players in to just how wrong things are with Cloud. (After all, a SOLDIER First shouldn’t be afraid of another SOLDIER First, should he?) But the final fight against Sephiroth, or at least, a clone wearing Sephiroth’s face, felt premature, out of place, something that’s only there to appease people who wanted to fight Sephiroth now.

Aside from the Sephiroth thing, I’m reserving judgment a bit on the ending as a whole. On the one hand, I’m deeply curious to see where the story goes from here, and how the writers use their newfound freedom (more on that in a minute). On the other hand, I don’t want this to turn into Kingdom Hearts 4, and I don’t trust Nomura in that regard, especially after all the bullshit that went on with KH3, Verum Rex, and FFXV/versus 13. I love Nomura, but like George Lucas, he desperately needs someone to rein in, edit, and shape his ideas.

I’m also not sure how I feel about all the theories being thrown out there - such as that at least one of the Sephiroths we see is the one from after AC, somehow flung back in time to fuck things up; or that the OG was, 999-style, Aerith seeing into the future and now in the remake she’s taking control to put everything on the path she wants. They’re interesting, for sure, and I think that with careful handling, it’s possible Squenix might be able to pull one of them off - but given what I know of Squenix (again, more on that later), I don’t trust them to do it well. I am, to be blunt, very concerned that later installments of the remake are going to turn into an incoherent tug-of-war between those who want to be faithful to the original, and Nomura’s desire to inject weird Kingdom Hearts nonsense everywhere.

I say this with all the love to Kingdom Hearts, but it’s a very specific kind of story and it’s not what I want to see in my FFVII.

On a writing meta level

On the meta level, I’m fascinated by the choice to go with the whole Whispers/Arbiters of Fate thing. I don’t know how much of that is pure Nomura-injected BS vs how much was a deliberate choice by the writing team, but for right now I’m going to assume it was mostly a deliberate and unanimous choice.

I’ve seen a lot of other Remake opinions along the lines of a reluctant, “I guess they had to put the Whispers in there because a perfect remake wouldn’t have been satisfying to everyone. There’s always someone who would have complained.” I... don’t think that’s entirely true. Like, yeah, sure, someone’s always going to complain if it’s not a pixel-perfect remake, but based on the overall satisfaction I’ve seen from OG fans (including myself) regarding the parts that are true to the original, I think Squenix would have done just fine if that was the path they chose. And given how much attention they paid to making most of the game into a nearly-perfect recreation, I think the writers knew it.

So why’d they go the whole Whispers route?

My guess would be that the writers were giving themselves freedom, on a meta level, with the Whispers. It’s a way of both poking fun at, and solving, their own dilemma: do we make a perfect, hi-res copy of the original? Or do we change things to make it our own?

The “change something to make it your own” is a longstanding trope when someone new is put in charge of something old. You see it in everything from Disney live-action remakes to new managers who change their employees’ routines just to “make an impact”. Most of the time, these changes are neutral / un-impactful at best, or outright frustrating / terrible at worst. I wonder if the Remake writing team wasn’t fully aware of this, and possibly tangled up in knots internally about how to handle it. Would it be seen as a bad, “make it their own” change to have Tseng not slap Aerith? What about adding Chocobo Sam, Madam M, and Andrea Rhodea to the Wall Market sequence? What about the changes to how the Avalanche gang reacts to Cloud, now that we have full animation and voice acting and it’s clear Avalanche has no reason to want to keep him around except for Jessie being horny on main? Where’s the line?

I could see the Whispers being the writing team’s way of making sure they stay in line where it’s important, while also giving themselves the freedom to make the updates needed to allow the remake to work. They’re kind of a meta nod to the audience, a “don’t worry! If we get too far out of line, the Whispers will bring us back.” In that sense, the entire ending where you (the player) kill the Whispers and free yourself (the player) from destiny is you giving the writers permission to continue making those small changes.

In FFXV, almost the entire ending sequence is a cutscene: Noctis on the throne, being murdered by his ancestors and descending into the spirit realm. But there’s one single quick-time event in there, one point where the player has to take action and push a button. It’s not even difficult, and on the surface it seems pointless. Except, if you don’t, Noctis lives. (Trapped in purgatory maybe, but he’s still there.) If you never push that button, Noctis doesn’t sacrifice his spirit and those of the Lucii to destroy Ardyn and wipe the Scourge from Eos. By asking - requiring - the player to push that button to commit that final act, the game makes the player complicit in Noct’s sacrifice. It’s a powerful moment, and similar to what (I suspect) the Remake writers intended with the Whispers.

Because they could have left the Whispers in forever. They could have had them be a continuous presence throughout all episodes of the Remake, a little reminder that no matter what tweaks the writers might make to update the story, to “make it their own”, the Arbiters of Fate will ensure things are on track. That things will play out exactly as in the original. But by asking the player to destroy the Arbiters, the writers are asking for the player’s permission to make changes. And by killing the Arbiters, you’re granting it. Because, just like you can keep Noctis alive by not pushing the button when prompted, you can keep the original game more-or-less on track by never stepping through that portal, never killing the Arbiters. But if you do step through that portal and go through with it, you’re agreeing to accept that things might change, thus freeing the writers from the constant double jeopardy of changing things vs keeping them exactly the same.

On a business meta level

As cool as (I think) that all sounds, the bigger question is, can Square Enix actually pull it off? And here’s where I start to have my most significant doubts. After the FFvs13/FFXV debacle and the hopeless mess that was KH3, I do not trust Nomura to tell a coherent story, even if it’s supposedly a retelling of an existing, well-known story. I don’t know anything about the inner workings or politics at Square Enix, other than that there are politics at play, so in fairness to him I can’t really say it’s because he himself is bad at telling a story, or just doesn’t have the support he needs to convey his vision well. But that gets into other issues with Squenix. We know their last several major games have had long and troubled developments. Someone way more attuned than me to the Japanese video games industry can talk in depth about why; all I know is that it happened (is happening?) and that it’s something of a miracle the remake came out as well as it did.

On top of that, I’m a bit concerned that even if Squenix can get (and keep) its shit together, it might be up against external forces that constrain how it can tell the story of FFVII in the present. For example, from what I’ve heard, the reason Crisis Core never got ported the way so many other games did, and the reason Genesis Rhapsodos has never been seen outside it and a Dirge of Cerberus cameo, is due to image licensing fights with Gackt, Genesis’s face model. CC established Genesis as a key player in the events leading up to the original game’s story, and enough hints have been dropped about CC in the remake that, like I said earlier, it appears to be canon. But if Squenix can’t reach an agreement to use the character again, they might be trapped in a corner where they either have to completely rewrite the parts of the story involving Genesis, or dance around his existence.

And on top of all that, it’s just expensive and time-consuming as hell to make games on the remake’s scale. Everyone expects the PS4 to be retired by the time Remake Part 2 comes out, which is going to pose huge logistical issues for releasing it. Squenix has been having a rough time of it lately, from what I’ve heard - are they, as a company, capable of handling all those logistical issues? I don’t know, and that makes me nervous.

Still, they did do a remarkable job with the remake overall, even grappling with the pandemic around the launch date. So maybe they’re getting their shit together again, and things will be smooth sailing from here. We’ll have to wait and see.

#anonymous #final fantasy vii #ffvii #ffvii remake #spoilers #meta #sanity replies #sanity talks a lot #tumblr massively fucked up the formatting somehow sorry

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zeldamasterpieceedition · 7 years

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What is The Legend of Zelda: Masterpiece Edition?

About this Project

The Legend of Zelda: Masterpiece Edition is a modification (Mod) of the original “The Legend of Zelda” NES game with the goal of making the ultimate version of the game by enhancing the graphics and gameplay to the highest quality standards we can, while staying true to the look and feel of the original game. Also known as a “romhack”, it is a modification of the original game file, meaning all changes are made within the limitations of the original NES hardware, and thus will be playable on most NES emulators as well as make it possible to play it on original NES consoles.

Major Features

99% Graphics Overhaul - Graphics have been remastered and enhanced in the style of the later 2D Zelda games, with special care taken to preserve the look and feel of the original game.

**Automap **- The map automatically draws as you explore the overworld, making the game much more accessible to new players.

999 Rupees - The 255 rupees limit has been removed.

**Snappier **- Text draws twice as fast, and health refills twice as fast as well.

More Accurate Heart Meter - ¼ and 1/8 heart damage is now displayed in your heart meter when you acquire the blue and red rings.

Updated Translation - I’ve cleaned up, improved and clarified the in-game text.

Special Thanks to Snarfblam who coded the gameplay enhancements and generously helped out in the early days of the project.

Work In Progress

I’m currently looking for a programmer to assist in finishing the mod by adding these features:

Re-balanced Difficulty - I would like to re-balance the game’s difficulty with an easy mode, as even today new players are turned off by the game’s punishing difficulty (”Nintendo Hard”). Darknuts and Wizrobes will be “nerfed”.

Magic Rod + Book - Despite being deep into the game, the Magic Rod and Book don’t do much. I’d like to make them more powerful and thus actually rewarding and worth getting.

Cracked Walls - Small cracks to indicate which walls are bomb-able, a staple of later Zelda games.

Big Shield blocks all magic projectiles, instead of only working some of the time.

Auto-Health - If you have medicine, it will auto-refill upon your death.

Classic Mode - A classic difficulty mode that excludes these changes.

Hard Mode - I’d also like to include an extra hard mode for players who love games that are overly difficult

Ambitions

3rd Quest - An all-new quest. There are a lot of romhacks out there with new quests, but I have yet to see one with a professional level of quality that focuses on fun, exploration and puzzles and less on difficulty.

Play as Zelda - With a new, remixed soundtrack.

Replay Value - I’d like very much to add achievements for thoroughly completing the game 100%, which unlocks cheats, which will hopefully add a lot of replay value.

No Sword Runs Possible - Ganon is vulnerable to another weapon, making the game beatable without the sword.

30th Anniversary - I’m aiming to try and release everything in time for the 30th anniversary of the original release of The Legend of Zelda.

Suggestions and feedback welcome.

Contribute

I’m looking for NES programmers/romhackers willing to contribute their time to help complete the project. There is very little left to do, but the project is stalled until I get some help on the programming side. If you know anyone who might be interested, please share the project with them.

Donations very much welcome. Contact: sigmaecho (at) 🔥📬⚫️com

I’m also looking for a chiptune artist to help compose the end credits song for the Play-As-Zelda version, all the other tracks are finished, however I may need help importing them into the game if anyone out there has any experience with editing NES music.

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Could You Handle Being Alone For All Eternity

We understand that the ones positioned into solitary confinement in jail frequently lose their minds over time having no person to socialize with. This is unlucky indeed, and it clearly has something to do with the human psyche and our socialization with our fellow man. Not lengthy in the past, I had a communication with an intellectual about the concept of an afterlife and how that might be viable in which the recognition continues. He pondered that if there was No longer a heaven wherein human beings go to be collectively, and there was only a continuation of the mind in the ether then might one be all on my own for eternity, and if so, how may want to the thoughts deal with that? Correct question.

Well, sure, he did convey up a few thrilling inquiries right here did not he? Now then there’s a Science Fiction movie where an astronaut goes into space and finally receives out of doors the sun system on his way to Alpha Centauri sun system. By the time he gets up to now on his journey he’s ninety years antique. Meanwhile, on the planet, NASA had evolved spacecraft that would make the journey in a fraction of the time. All by myself all the one’s years from his past due 20s until now he is gone psychologically mad. A more recent spacecraft unearths him in a path, picks him up and tells him he changed into as soon as a hero, and that everybody had forgotten approximately that vintage technology, did not even recognize if he becomes nonetheless alive. The radio returned NASA and all people is astonished and Not surprised he went crazy. I suppose his remark about being on my own for eternity is spoken back there in that story.

There has been every other greater current Technology Fiction movie in which a scientist saves

His mind right into a laptop before he dies and receives bored so he performs realistic jokes on laptop structures global. sooner or later, they unhook him from the Internet and his attention is tormented in a closed-loop jail of the mind. His thoughts have nobody to speak to, nowhere to explicit itself and no one who cares.

What about an everlasting dream like the kingdom of focus for the reason that in the afterlife you wouldn’t have the identical organic sensors? What about the movie Inception – wow, yes, one in all my favored films, like the Matrix.

Okay so, there had been dead-white-guys philosophers speaking about “is life a dream, or are our goals the actual life” and based totally on our sensors – ears, nostril, eyes, taste, touch, and our mental spatial recognition of self, what if you take those sensors away, then what does the aware do? It may simplest rewind from memory – replay mixture – the dream. Perhaps you have contemplated a special Turing Check – “while computer systems dream” then they had been aware? Perhaps a study of Maxwell Maltz book on Psychocybernetics might deliver a few perception here, as his paintings discuss visualizing the future.

The concept of being all on my own for eternity is likewise depicted in Superman in which Lex Luther is despatched out to internal area trapped in a 2-dimensional field as if that had been his hell. suppose on this.

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How Much Time Does It Take to Settle an Estate

Settling an property after a person dies can take a good sized length of time to complete, commonly longer than you assume. Can it be settled in 6 months? Maybe, however it is not going. three hundred and sixty five days? Sometimes, however in my experience it takes 12 – 18 months to settle maximum middle-magnificence estates. “however I just ought to cancel a few pensions and close the financial institution account”, you are saying. There’s normally extra to it than that, so with out boring you with all the finer details, let’s communicate about some of the time-ingesting duties.

The funeral is over now, family contributors have long past back home, and everyone is beginning to settle returned in to their daily ordinary. however not the executor… That person’s function has simply started. For the reason that will probably needs to be probated allow’s start with generating a listing of belongings and liabilities, such as the values as of the date of death. This is an iterative system, requiring you to communicate with numerous organizations and, considering the fact that most of those companies require a duplicate of the dying certificates, one will should be mailed to them, or you will ought to attend in individual. Right here are a few questions to get you questioning:

Wherein are the financial institution bills, and what are the balances?

What’s the exquisite balance of the mortgage of the residence? Are the month-to-month condo strata prices updated? Have assets taxes been deferred? What is the fee of the Canada Savings Bonds and/or GIC’s? Trace: want to determine collected interest. If the individual was self-employed, What is the price of the corporate stocks? Are there any assets and/or money owed outdoor of Canada, such as a home in Arizona or Florida? Remember about timeshares. You could have to document for probate again in these other jurisdictions. What’s the coin series well worth? Artwork? Hockey cards? Earrings? Adequate, the list of belongings & liabilities is finished and you (or your attorney) have prepared the probate files. In my enjoy the probate registry typically takes 2 – 3 months to a method the files. On occasion faster, but do not bank on it.

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Genre: Fighting, 3D Fighting Developer: Aksys Games Publisher: ArcSystemWorks ESRB Rating: Teen Release Date: February 14, 2012

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*Wheeze*.Just Getting Started – Increased all character stats to 50 in [Abyss] mode.

A Spectacle – Landed Carl’s Vivace, Cantabile, and Allegreto during a combo.

Aaaaaand I’m Spent – Used up the Ignis gauge while fighting as Relius.

About Half Way – Defeated the boss at level 500 of the [Abyss].

Abyssmal Shopaholic – Acquired all the items from the shop in [Abyss] mode.

Artwork?! Gimmie! – Unlocked 50% of the items in the [Gallery].

Better Safe Than Sorry – Dished out significantly more damage than the opponent’s remaining HP.

Breaking in the New Guys – Finished Makoto’s, Valkenhayn’s, Platinum and Relius’s scenarios in [Story] mode.

Domestic Battery – Using Relius, fight a battle without depleting the Ignus gauge.

Don’t Give A Kaka – Successfully executed jumping D, jumping ?+D and jumping ?+D in the middle of a combo.

Eye of the Tiger – Trained for more than 30 minutes, non-stop.

Fangs for the Memories! – Used Hazama’s Rising, Falling and Devouring Fangs during a battle.

Feels Like the First Time – Won your first team [Player Match].

Fight for Survival – Using Tsubaki, executed all of the “D” versions of her special attacks in a single combo.

Finger on the Button – Aaaaaand I’m Spent

Finished the [Tutorial] mode. – Finished the [Tutorial] mode.

Gallery Guru – Unlocked everything there is to see in the [Gallery].

Get Off My Lawn! – Performed a 30+ hit combo using Valkenhayn.

Getting Down to Abyss-ness – Defeated the boss at level 999 of the [Abyss].

I can’t Stop Winning – Won three [Ranked Matches].

I See What You Did There – Played back replay data over 10 times in [Replay Theater].

Ice Ice Ice Baby – Used all three of Jin’s special attacks that freeze opponents in a single combo.

Insecticide – Summoned and used all of Arakune’s bugs during a single combo.

Just Getting Used to it – Raised any character’s PSR to over 200 in a [Ranked Match]

Just How I.*wheeze*.Planned – Using Bang, had Fu-Rin-Ka-Zan activated for more than 30 seconds of the battle.

Just the Beginning – Defeated the boss at level 100 of the [Abyss].

Kaka-kaze – Have been blown up by the chibi-kakas in [Unlimited Mars] mode.

Level 20 – Reached level 20.

Like a Boss – Fought 100 matches in [Ranked Match].

Lunatic – Equipped all of Luna’s weapons during one round.

Mars Needs Winnin’ – Attempted [Unlimited Mars] mode over 10 times.

Mastered the Basics – Cleared over 50 missions in [Challenge] mode.

Mastered the.Master? – Cleared over 100 missions in [Challenge] mode.

Mind on my Money – Accumulated over 100,000P$.

Murakumo.AWAKEN! – Defeated the secret boss in [Arcade] mode.

Noooooo.el! – Finished off an opponent with Noel’s Nemesis Stabilizer.

Oh…NOW I Get It.! – Finished the Calamity Trigger scenario in [Story] mode.

Over 9000?! – Dealt over 10,000 damage to an opponent in a single combo.

Plays Well With Others – Fought ten team [Player Matches].

Power of the Azure – Performed a 90+ hit combo using Ragna.

Sharp Shooter – Hit the opponent with all of Litchi’s Great Wheel attacks.

Shocking. Positively Shocking – Using Rachel, shocked your opponent more than 15 times during a single combo.

Squirrel Power! – Executed Makoto’s super, Particle Flare, with only Level 3 punches.

Tager? Don’t Even Know Her! – Turned the tide and won a battle using Genesic Emerald Tager Buster.

The Beginning of the End – Finished [Score Attack] mode.

There’s No – Won a team elimination match without even fighting.

Threat Level.Escalated – During the course of one combo, placed all four of Mu’s Stein’s Gunners.

Time to Hit the Arcades – Finished [Arcade] mode.

To Be Continued…! – Witnessed the true ending in [Story] mode.

You’ve Been.Terminated – With Lambda, summoned every type of sword during a single round.

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