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FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
2m ago
4 - The best gameplay in the series. Characters were uniquely distinct from each other, with a mix of magic types and unique abilities that gave them deep flavor without being gimmicky, much in the way 1's class system and upgrades had worked. This worked with the linear story to regularly remix your party and keep things fresh from a gameplay perspective; a character dying or leaving the party meant the flavor of the fights changed significantly, and these mechanical changes underlined the story beats. Exploration was significant, because you could find hidden fights and treasures that noticeably spiked the power of your party, especially in the endgame. The characters were awesome, and the story hit hard. Coming from FF1 and from the Dragon Warrior games, it was a complete revelation.
6 - The best story in the series. Kefka had far more depth and menace as a villain, and many of the character set-pieces and story beats were delightful. Amazing mood, amazing music. In terms of gameplay, though, I felt like it was a step down. You had much more control over which characters you used through the game, and every character could learn every spell through the esper system; this was a huge upgrade in terms of player freedom, but a huge downgrade in terms of focused gameplay, because it made the characters feel much more generic and made the gameplay much more open-ended and flabby. They tried to compensate by giving every character a unique skill, but there were so many of them and they all competed with universal magic/Espers, and the end result often just felt gimmicky and pointless; combined with the much longer intended playtime, the gameplay felt much more monotonous by the end.
...The other games I played were downhill from those two. 7, 8, and 9 felt like elaborations on the theme of 6, but each felt flabbier than the last. 10 felt like they were trying to pull things back in the direction of 4, but by that point the bloat seemed terminal. I gave up somewhere in the second disc, and haven't played an FF since.
The series as a whole seems like a monument to the truth of "less is more". FF was the series where I realized "100 hours of gameplay" wasn't necessarily a good thing, like a bit of butter spread over too much toast.
...I've often wondered how much of the above might just be the "nothing will ever be as good as that thing you liked when you were 14" effect, though.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
2m ago
24 is pretty low. Does it ever get warm there?
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
3m ago
TBH for whatever reason evangelicals tend to have nearly blind support for Israel, and that’s long been the GOP base of support. I believe this is why Israel is seen as the one country to support here. It’s more pander than anything, and not too bad so long as it doesn’t have to many negative effects on security.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
3m ago
How can one like sunny weather. It cross 50 degree centigrade, the warm winds kill you and you are unable to do anything in the open at any point during the day until the seasons change.
I think your perspective is warped here because India is hot as fuck. If you live in a more temperate region of the world sunny weather is pleasant because that's generally somewhere in the region of 60-80F (about 15-27C). I don't know of anyone who would be happy with sunny weather if that meant it was 50C/122F outside.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
3m ago
15 is jacket weather. I like 30-35 degrees as it's not too hot. 45 and up is unbearable.
yunyun333
4m ago
"What's so bad about murder? Everything happens according to God's plan, therefore if someone commits murder that must be God's plan."
Don't Christians say this all the time? When good or bad things happen, it's "all part of God's plan". Either God exerts agency in this world or he does not.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
4m ago
Culture war - bro podcast edition.
Sam Hyde was recently on Bradley Marty's podcast where he brought former mma fighter Jason Mayhem Muller. Two whacko wierdos I love who fell off came together after a new resurgence, Mayhem has a history of drugs and likely has severe adhd like me because he wouldn't stop interrupting.
Sam Hyde accepted the anti semite, admitted he was a Christian for the first time and started the podcast with jokes like "Bradley was telling us about 14 this, 88 that". Miller acted like a total dunce, a ie collar democrat stuck in the early 2000s. I was surprised that the podcaster got a quarter million views. Recently Joe Rogan acknowledged his existence after having denied it for close to a decade.
It's nice seeing Sam be famous. He seems a little bitter, yet he was one of the only ones who didn't cuck out back when his show got canceled. Just surprised to find him on a popular podcast. This was unthinkable 4 years ago.
hydroacetylene
11m ago
My keyboard is set for English/spanish/french.
I keep it to make it harder for artificial stupidity to imitate me- probably a paranoid worry, but c’est la vie.
gattsuru
26m ago
I'm pretty explicitly spelling out why the alternative wouldn't be judged much better, given the background and details available.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
30m ago
What is ideal weather like where you are from?
New York–Philadelphia corridor: 70–75 °F (21–24 °C) and sunny
What times of the year do you like the most weather-wise?
The aforementioned temperatures prevail around May and September.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
37m ago
Kinda wish he put up his notes and sources in the video.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
39m ago
Which university professors and medical doctors willingly participated in...
No_one
40m ago
What is ideal weather like where you are from?
Scattered clouds, 15°C and intermittent light breeze is the perfect weather. Not hot enough to sweat when walking, not cold enough to need a jacket, just perfect.
veqq
40m ago
So you don't mean that Dewey talked to a small, wealthy, and unrepresentative set and made some mistake? Do you mean that the reporter, Arthur Sears Henning or the newspaper made this error? Or sample bias in early-available data?
Thoroughlygruntled
41m ago
I actually think Vanderstok is an example of the same phenomenon. From Gorsuch's perspective, the GCA's definition of "firearm" may be absurdly broad, but that's not his fault. Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard, and all that. Just as in Bostock, the context the words of the statute were written are irrelevant to his analysis.
Maybe I'm insufficiently cynical, but I just don't get the same sense of insincerity from Gorsuch as I get from someone like Roberts. Then again, I don't think Gorsuch is much of a gun guy, so I can't completely rule out that he's just conforming to his peers' opinion that "ghost guns" are scary tools of insurrection undeserving of constitutional protection. He could just be an old school "I don't know why my old hunting rifle isn't good enough for the kids these days" NRA types.
No_one
47m ago
There was a treatise and also some horribly smug memoir.
The clown part is that it took years for people to surface that crap even though half a day of effort would have found it back then. But that'd mean someone out there would have to be proactive.
TitaniumButterfly
48m ago
My other thought was some kind of foreign language keyboard that makes such slipups easy but IIRC this guy is in Texas.
TitaniumButterfly
50m ago
I mean I'm pretty transphobic but the whole reason this place exists is to be an open forum where people of widely-divergent viewpoints can have conversations and consider each other's perspectives. I upvote effort and sincerity. Downvotes are reserved for bad form, not for disagreement. This is basic stuff and it bugs me that even among our much-smarter-than-average userbase people can't seem to figure it out. Downvoting you for your perspective is the equivalent of rating an item on amazon one star because USPS delivered the package late. Real trog hours.
Also @TheDemonRazgriz since I'm coming back late.
No_one
55m ago
Dunno, maybe autocorrect /word prediction simultaneously enabled for several languages at once?
TitaniumButterfly
57m ago
Why is that e accented? I mean I'm a fan of fancy vowels and am constantly fighting the urge to use them, so believe me when I say I'm not bothered so much as titillated.
The maximum summer temperature only sometimes exceeds 100 °F (38 °C).
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