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welcome to the twenties

Jessie

yarrr

Cecil

trading Layle auto again

Vivi

trading Layle auto

[post-game] Drifting Soul battle remix fuck yes someone tell Sakurai it's ready

biffteen lmao

nowit'sreyntime.mp3

okay i agree with the 3rd

but Luna Platz all day

also just finished the quest that unlocks Segiri's Ascension Quest

[MAINSTORY FINALE SPOILERS] I can't help but headcanon that as soon as this painting was named Siblings this must be 7 more children Rex must be pumping out from 7 more Blades (speaking of, there god damn better be a green-haired baby)

realizing I don't understand LtM's ranking having Zeke bottom with Addam up high

Zeke is like Addam's real son

LiquidOshawott posted...

Wow even includes a post from user SaveEstelle

what a throwback

Welcome dorks and damsels

(also bumping up nostalgic laylevid for new page)

GuessMyUserName posted...

remembering I made a Squall + Layle ballroom dancing animation out of their dffoo models

https://imgur.com/1pEoInd

so celebrate top 30 revisiting it (yes there's music if you unmute)

remembering I made a Squall + Layle ballroom dancing animation out of their dffoo models

https://imgur.com/1pEoInd

so celebrate top 30 revisiting it (yes there's music if you unmute)

HanOfTheNekos posted...

If they nail The Sound of Her Wings, then this will be the best show of the year for me.

not knowing the source material I checked the episode list

easily my fav ep I loved it

GTM posted...

With girltm for the first time in like 10 days!

GTM posted...

Is your mom afraid and just hoping everyone gets along?

Or is it the first born male favoritism my mom has as well?

my sister would and absolutely has pointed to that for a long while but there's also at least 2 other big factors

One being she's just an absolutely pure-blooded denialist who does not want to hear the bad will actively choose to ignore it to continue her fantasy. So many times with gbro when we try to talk about what he's doing she'll go "that's enough now i don't wanna hear it it's upsetting" and if you press her on it she'll get angry. She just wants it all entirely out of mind.

But the other thing is her high status fantasy. Image is everything to my mom, absolutely needs all her relatives and friends to think a perfect and well-off family and that goes hand-in-hand with hiding our problems under the rug and putting on a show. Then regarding gbro specifically he's an absolute star-child just for the simple fact that he's a PhD student she can brag about, ignoring the fact he's only just stuck in school because he doesn't know how to do anything else and he's never had any goals for what he actually wants to do (and through COVID era he's been absolutely fucking around and endangering his degree to the point that the family isn't actually sure if he's ever completing it). But that doesn't matter so long as she can just describe him as a PhD student that's all the cred she needs.

She also uses that to take his word over ours even knowing how completely out of his field he goes and his hatred of feminism or whatever the else. She once came up to me asking who Jordan Peterson is (because he conservative ass partner was recommending him and got his book but mom was getting creepy vibes from the videos). I explained to him how much he rails against women's rights and how he literally gained notoriety for fighting against the protection of trans rights and so my mom goes yeah that's the kind of vibe I was getting from him. But then gbro's there and asks for him to read the stupid book and give her his "academic" opinion "as a PhD student", not giving the slightest of shits that gbro is literally the target demographic for his shit. Me and gsis were both calling it out but nah mom needs to hear the academic's take! She does that shit all the bloody time because she's always just been a class elitist obsessed with status.

There's also one other bit about him being diagnosed with Aspergers so he just gets endless amounts of leeway and sympathy. Doing anything "weird" that's all just a fault of his disorder and he can't help it nor can she punish him for it or hold him accountable for anything. Which then breeds her lifelong cycle of enabling all the heinous shit he's been doing from high school to now that's what actually led him into this entitled asshole who thinks he's entitled anything and everything he wants with less than zero regard for anybody else but rather fuck anyone who gets in my way or doesn't like me doing what I want.

when the delivery guy goes, "here's your pizza ma'am"

top 10 for newstats will do

John Wesley Shipp Barry Allen vs John Wesley Shipp Jay Gerrick

extra achievement will be to nudge him specifically into the 20s with one more round, but hard to imagine any further milestones

oh wow it was already over

well thankfully my dad's b-day didn't cost layle, thanks for the back-ups!

Layle

with gbro... last time it was gently requested that's when he immediately went on that unhinged rant about how he's entitled to it capped off with graphic bloody images

Using leverage is the only way so this was a perfect opportunity but our parents just don't care enough about it. I immediately text gsis when I heard and she had a talk with gdad where he says he didn't know our mom failed to get it that time at the top of the month, so he didn't think about it. Our mom though... she just doesn't really care, she's been helping gbro out no leverage bothered and she just downplays it telling gsis it'll be fine it'll be fine

our mom's the only one that has any hold over him... but that's really because he's always known to go to her for anything

he's never had any respect at all for our dad, he'd only really visit for free food and play video games and other than that he's easily annoyed at gdad's presence in his own place. been a while now that he quietly comes home visiting our mom without even mentioning he's in the area to us (thank god imo)

my prexisting Marvel knowledge mainly comes from like, X-Men 90s stuff (arcade & cartoon), old Spider-Man cartoon, X-Men Legends games, Ultimate Alliance, and MvC

although now that i'm a MCU junkie I'm all into youtube explain videos

as someone who doesn't read i had as much knowledge of Ant Man as I did for Shang-Chi which is none

I do always enjoy looking up about them before & after the movies tho

Locke

Vivi

trading Layle auto

dammit dad needed help getting plane ticket

yeah there was certainly that grind but I was more referring to a grind where your level mattered, like CP or SP that scales with XP

core grinding is the worst grinding lmao, oh the farming of the Gormotti Armu for Legendary Cores... that you might accidentally fuck up if you kill the Armu before it matures

yeah that sounds about right, XB1 on Wii it was pretty much well known if you're doing all the quests you're just gonna be way overleveled so it was just advised that if you care about that, then try to just think of quests as an alternative to grinding - do them if you feel a bit weak

although CP gains feel like a much bigger deal than I guess XB1's... skill trees... not sure what other stat to grind 2 might've had

XB1 Expert Mode was perfect. 3 is making me forget if 2 had de-leveling as well but yeah just give me that and I'm good and can turn it down to fit the story.

3 even has it... just locked behind game completion... bahhh

UshiromiyaEva posted...

The real secret is that the high level areas in the lower forest and planes caves and some of the areas on the sea....if the enemy isn't a UM or blue you can beat an enemy over 20 levels higher than you REAL easily if you get them one on one and still getting disgusting EXP.

Yeah I did notice this and I was a bit confused accidentally fighting some really high levels and it didn't seem to be a danger... but I didn't make a habit of it.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

or actually attempted to put someone in a D Rank leveling speed class

this must be the real significant clincher to it because I've indeed been switching as soon as a job's capped *shrug*

Maybe also if you're doing more stuff, because "going into a cave with enemies a couple level highers wasn't really a thing in the last few chapters. I used to think things were fine early into the game but it's really by the end with the last jobs the levelling ran out of steam

*edit* also I guess a fault of leveling D classes is the mismatch between CP vs EXP, I'm leveling up thus gaining less CP as my classes lag behind

X does open-world so much better than 3... I really don't consider 3 much of an open world, it's just taking the XB1/2 titans and making them larger but fewer. Which yeah keeps it guided for the story but XBX is a free world to experience, and with the Skells it's really not daunting at all to explore.

TheRock1525 posted...

X gives you Skells which fucking rule.

I also feel like an absolute boss when I'm chaining a long-ass Overdrive

UshiromiyaEva posted...

And the XB2 was like fighting in mollases.

I seriously can't imagine this

Like I know people complain about 2's gameplay but it's absolutely the most active thing there is. There is so much to do in battle with XB2 and it actually gives you cause to switch up between your blades, plan out the use of specific combos, and use your arts strategically that really has just gone completely out the window for 3 I'm largely just cycling through cooldowns. I think it really hurts having so many characters involved in battle because your contributions then don't feel like a big deal unless you're in a Chain Attack (really dragged out slog) or Interlinking.

Removing auto-attack cancels and topple-locks also just killing a lot of fun. Yeah you can say topple lock was OP but it wasn't always viable with enemies having Topple Spikes 'n shit. Encounters in 3 are just so straightforward compared to the other games.

Like maybe it's dragged down on cycling through all these classes to learn but if that's the case for the love of god don't make these classes such a grind to learn & master so I can then have fun with tweaking things around. 160 hours, beaten the game now and there's still a few classes people don't even know only 1 or 2 mastered.

yeayy gtummies you did it

hope it was all fine with you and girltm

*fakeedit* Gonna spoiler tag to avoid influencing people still playing but...

Had to pause but alright it's done and I can officially say [series ranking] 1 > X > 2 > 3 is an easy choice.

[full game commentary]
3's an easy bottom for music, story, & combat and I really can't imagine saying that and not putting it in last place. Game peaked with the ch5/6 transition which absolutely nailed the emotion with the music, but it's not even a particularly high peak and it's really not followed-up well at all. What even is the story after that? Chapters 6 & 7 are so barren, the Moebius suck, X & Y aren't even worth post-death cutscenes, the best we got for an antagonist is N just off his rocker with no real reason to continue, and then Z is just some dumb manifestation of Moebius tied into all the nonsense Origin shit (the part of the story connecting 1&2 is just a big messy ball drop). I know XB1 was criticized for not having particularly strong villains but they're absolutely iconic next to Moebius, don't even dare try to sit Moebius next to the Torna gang. The meat of the game is absolutely the side-content but frankly even that I'm kinda wading through a lot of whatever. There's so many colonies spread about and it feels more like a hassle than a a community I actually care about.

I initially had high hopes for Heroes to be well-developed in opposition to like X & 2 Blades but nah other than Ghondor they're really not all that special... which is really sad after some cool introductions but ultimately they're the same treatment as X & 2 blades, just got some sidequests you either care about or not. I'll give Valdi/Zeon/Juniper/Alexa props for involving each other but hell I enjoyed many X & 2 blade quests all the same, X are even all in a much better community together with New LA.

alright starting the final boss point of no return

oh it's The Matrix Architect scene huh

*edit, fight itself*

did anyone actually think this would be fun

X's Blades are pretttty much treated like 3's Heroes, except you can put multiple in your party.

X though doesn't really have a cast of actual party members that contribute to the story beyond Elma & Lin (and of course, Cross, the customizable player) -- for the most part at least, there's a couple more I'd say have some manner of a role but they're not treated as a consistent gang together.

Murderess top tier XB character

X1 nostalgiawhore here

I'll take Ragnarok over it I think but I do very much agree with everything you're saying yeah. The problems of the first half are very clear but I really did enjoy the second, and as you said and I have used the same words before, I thought it had great emotional weight to it, in that regard absolutely better than Ragnarok.

nobody should save until pj completes a trade

to be fair Boz is a DLC unlock character (although I think the DLC characters were free for NA?), but woof imagine paying money for that bag of dicks

XBX actually tackles racism a lot really well (New LA best XB city), Boz just sucks

the true worst playable xb character is Boze

his character arc is just that he's a racist prick

or wait actually verrrrry technically I have met Emet-Selch in the 30-50 Dragoon quests but I highly doubt that's what I'm really supposed to know him for

oh we're officially now at more XIVs I don't know than do now

serious busimfffcs

I'm the girl with the gall

Celes

Maniac64 posted...

It seemed very clear that other than that throw Hulk was holding back while She Hulk was going all out.

Yeah like even that rock throw itself, Bruce did the first throw instructing her to follow suit. She-Hulk tries to show off by proudly surpassing that by actually trying, so then Bruce reveals what he can actually do is so very far beyond.

Bruce got no reason to be going all out here, he's just trying to teach Jen.

Maniac64 posted...

I really want to see a behind the scenes of how they shot the she Hulk scenes given the massive height difference. Is she on stilts? Just camera angles? Body double in a full green suit?

She-Hulk got a 6'7" stand-in woman, Malia Arrayah

hell yeah

Cyan