Lurker > MajinZidane

I'm using Robinhood + E-Trade at the moment. I'm not sure if I'm a big fan of either of them, tbh.

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I don't understand why stock prices change all night and morning, but I'm not allowed to buy anything until 9:30am EST.

It doesn't make any sense to me, and doesn't seem particularly fair.

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As a new stock investor, starting in late March when the getting was good...

Now what? It was super easy to do everything at that time. Every stock was a dip, you could throw money at a target and hit stocks that would rise. But now a lot of things are recovering, many are all all time highs. Where do I go from here?

Try and get in on stuff that haven't fully recovered like financials or airlines? Keep on just putting more into blue chip stocks? Try to find the next GNUS or NKLA before it soars?

It's interesting. I've been following the stock market every morning (since I'm laid off lol) and have no clue where to go from here. Or when to start selling stuff.

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I really was napping, sorry greengravy

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My endgame level was 76-77. I was very over-leveled, lol.

Bring on the FFII. The first fight was pretty tough. ;)

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neon delete that

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Bro log off don't look at it again rn take a breather

edit: oops I was late

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thx brotha

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My entire portfolio is pretty risk averse, I'm looking for a little bit of both right about now.

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What are we going for this morning?

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Thanks, Bolo! I'm going to start FFII soon!

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Why would you even say "next" if you meant the upcoming Monday two days from now? You can just say Monday.

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Probably around 4

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https://www.staples.com/beautyrest-platinum-sofil-bonded-leather-executive-chair-black-49404b/product_24381184

Best chair I've ever owned. You can probably find it for cheaper than $300 if you do some searching. It's available at Costco and Staples that I've seen in stores.

But as for your back pain from working/gaming at a desk, there are certainly other things you can do. I'm an occupational therapist; I've done a lot of research and education in ergonomics if you'd like further help with your desk set-up, lmk.

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Let me show you what chair to get

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imagine we had a Dem running who any living, breathing, actual person wanted to vote for

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As a newish investor, yesterday and today have been wild with GNUS. I got in at $2.98 and have kept on re-upping as it soars.

How did you guys know about it?

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After starting up today, I was able to pretty easily clear the Mirage Tower. While I was in there, I found a key item, which I knew would let me get a legendary sword. Well, it was the EXCALIBUR!

Chaos Tower was pretty easy to find; I knew I was fighting Garland again, so I went back to the very beginning. After traveling 2000 years into the past to fight Garland, I mean Chaos, I ran into some trouble.

The fight took 45+ minutes. I used 30 phoenix downs, every x-potion, turbo ether, elixer in my inventory (let's say 10-15 total for all of 'em), 20-30 hi-potions and 10-20 ethers. And I lost. It was absurd! My warriors didn't deal any damage at all, one of which dealt 8 damage on some of his attacks. The warrior with Excalibur became my main attacker, and the one dealing 8 damage was on item-duty as the party's chemist. Wizard was rotating between Holy (the best damage output I had), Curaja, and Full-Life. I started using any item I could find to try and keep things going; strength drinks, items that cast spells like blaze and flare, hermes shoes, any stat boosters I could find. But it wasn't enough. Chaos would cast Curaja on himself and heal 9999 and he slowly whittled me away until I had no more phoenix downs and my White Wizard couldn't keep my party up.

That was grueling.

After a break, I tried again. This time, I used all 15 strength drinks on two of my warriors, with a constant stream of Healaga. After less than 8 minutes, and without Garland casting Curaja a single time (!!!), I won the fight and beat the game. What a difference in the way a battle played out. Why didn't he cast Curaja? I don't care, I beat him this time and finished the game.

Final Fantasy: beaten

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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Should have played the PS1 version tbqh

@WazzupGenius00 How come? I don't really know what the differences are. I do own the PS1 version somewhere.

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I managed to figure out what to do. I ended up having to talk to everyone in all of the cities for information. Some lady in Crescent Lake told me that the Sunken Shrine had gold, riches, and a tablet with ancient languages on it if I believe the legends. Well, lady, yes I do. Only problem is that I had already cleared that dungeon, I thought? I went back anyway, re-checked every room and found the Rosetta Stone. Felt pretty dumb after that, but was somewhat satisfying to track down the item even though I missed it on the first pass through. I also found some pretty powerful Diamond equipment while I was there.

I went to Unne, learned Luferian, talked to them and acquired the item I need to enter the Mirage Tower. Unless there is a lot of stuff I'm missing that I don't know about, I should be able to clear the tower then finish the game in my next playthrough.

While I don't know exactly what is coming, I did used to watch this A LOT about a decade ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc32Znoj8dk

I watched it last night, too, hoping for a clue about where to go in the game lol. It didn't help, but was still fun. Heavily recommend a listen, especially of the first five minutes. You can stop after that if you'd like, the beginning is awesome. But I know that I need to find Garland again somehow, or maybe it's Chaos?

Let's see how our favorite clan of three Warriors and a White Wizard do next time!

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Alright, so I found this Dr. Unne guy. I know he's the guy who is going to give me the Rosetta Stone to talk to people in that Southern Hawk village, but he didn't give me anything. Huh? I guess I need to have some item in my inventory to trigger a conversation with him. I'm not sure what I need, then. Don't really have many leads now on where to proceed.

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Is Shinryu possible to beat? I think I accidentally did a sidequest. This boss is incredibly tough. I also fought Gilgamesh, but didn't get the Excalibur afterward. Was I supposed to steal from him or something?

I don't think I'm going to want to put in the time to do any of the online games. I just don't think it'll be fun to grind through the story and I don't really want to do any endgame stuff.

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... I literally found it already. This took me SO LONG the other night. Wtf? lmao

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pjbasis posted...

tbh don't see how you can call yourself only beating three games in the series.

Imagine someone only playing super mario 64, galaxy, and odyssey and thinking they're some big mario fan

Nah, I still follow the series intently. I've still played most of the games. I also consider myself a baseball fan, but I sure as hell don't watch very many baseball games. Watch highlights, go to a few games, and play fantasy baseball though. I still know more about the series than the average non-b8er roaming around. :)

@Bartzyx : hahaha, it's one of the ones I'm looking forward to.

Let's see if I can finally find that spot on the map tonight.

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Love Friends, and still enjoy it now.

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neonreaper posted...

we used to draw our own maps for these games (but not FF1, Nintendo Power had a sweet guide that everyone used)

@neoneaper : no joke, I considered this. I split the map into 8x8 boxes in my head and was going to draw stuff, but decided against it.

How's it going nowadays, my man?

Xiahou Shake posted...

XIII-2 is excellent but XIII is both required reading and really bad

Actually just finished my first playthrough of XV over the weekend and I enjoyed it a lot... but objectively it's one of the most troubled games I've ever seen and is basically impossible to earnestly recommend. If the whole game was as good as its best parts it would potentially be my favorite Final Fantasy but holy cow so much went wrong with it.

If/when I approach later Final Fantasy games, I'll revisit this. It sounds like an alright game and I so own it; got it as a Christmas gift and it's still in the package. Actually, fun fact: I'm about 2-3 hours into the FF7 remake, lol. While I've never really played and beaten a bunch of FF games, I still consider myself a huge fan of the series.

Welcome aboard @trdl23 and @JeffreyRaze . Is that supposed to mean something to me? Maybe when I find the Rosetta Stone it'll make more sense.

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Lucavi000 posted...

let me know when you get to XIV. It might take a while.

lol, probably not gonna do the online games. Should I go past X tho?

Hi @Tom_Bombadil , welcome to a world of fun

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pjbasis posted...

There is a world map you can check.

It's just hidden. You have to press like select + b or something and only in the airship maybe. Also it's certainly not too big to memorize

WHAT?!

I'll look into that later when I get on.

I agree with you, but after getting lost so many times last night maybe it's just too big for me to memorize. :(

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Steiner posted...

my post was meant to inspire exactly the opposite! the problem was that 1-6 i've all only played between 0 and 1 time through before (except for 4 which i've done maybe three times), but once i get to 7 i've played them all a million times and wanted to do something to freshen it up. ended up too daunted though

Haha, okay good. I still have a Level One file on my PSX if the memory card is still alive that I got halfway through. That was not particularly fun, and I didn't even get to the really grindy parts (stealing X times, "killing" X dragons I think?).

Black_Hydras posted...

FFV is the best.

LordoftheMorons posted...

Yep

Well, hopefully I make it far enough to experience it! I think I played it shortly for the first time just before creating my namesake AIM account, and then didn't play very far into it after that.

I don't know/remember who Hippaul is.

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Well, I currently have 3/4 crystals after doing some kind of underwater thing. I think I spent 30-40 minutes trying to find a specific point on the world map to drive my boat to because I know I unlocked something and I need to find the mermaid, or something.

Not having an overworld map to look at has been, honestly, reeeeeeeeeeeally tough. The map is too big to easily memorize, and I'm trying to trial and error my way to where I need to go and it's not easy! Gonna go to bed and probably try again this weekend. Ugh

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greengravy294 posted...

FF1 literally is wander in circles for hours on end if you dont know where to go a classic experience

Dude I have NO IDEA where to go next. I just when down like 10 levels of some kind of Chasm and had to beat two really tough bosses. I thought I was super overleveled, but I actually wiped three or four times on the first one. Poison attack dealt a lot!

Those bosses would not be doable without my White Mage. White Wizard, actually.

Steiner posted...

i did this last year - stopped at IX because i talked myself into doing excalibur ii run but then never felt in the mood for that sort of challenge

Oh please don't give me ideas and convince me to do an Excalibur II run :(

Or a full Level One file. UGH. WHY.

MZero posted...

You'll have to move X to the end though to finish with the best FF though

My favorite FF is FFT! Although I haven't beaten most.

I'll tell you what my least favorite FF is. This one.

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This one, FFI.

I just found Bahamut! I am still so lost, have the air ship but no clue how to proceed.

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I've always wanted to play through all of the FF games. I think I'll take advantage of some of the free time I have during quarantine/furlough to knock some of it out now. Main series only. I think I'll play FFI through FFX in order, and finish with the best FF at the end. Any ideas on if I should play any other ones? I'm willing to consider, but 11 games is already fairly ambitious for me.

I've only actually beaten FFIX, X, and T before, so I don't really know exactly what to do in each game. I know a bit about most of them, though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasy/wiki/whichversion

I'm using this FAQ to help me determine which version of the game to play. Currently playing through FFI on the PSP, really enjoying it. If I didn't have a "speed up" feature, I honestly probably would have given up before making this post.

Below will contain spoilers as I go. Please refrain from spoiling me on plot/strategy unless I ask!

My party in FFI is:
White Mage
Warrior
Warrior
Warrior

lol. I really wanted to have 2x of a class, and I just decided to make this party. To be honest, 4x Warrior would have been fine, this game isn't particularly difficult in combat and I don't ever actually need to heal (well, the white mage has to heal himself in boss fights). I have the earth and fire crystal and have to find 2 more; but I have no idea where to go now, so I'm gonna have to talk to everyone again and try to figure it out! The canoe took me a while to find.

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Aecioo posted...

I, unfortunately, still play. Only like 4-5 games a week though.

man, still?

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Pocket Kingdom: 0wn the w0rld

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phone - reddit
pc - board 8, but also reddit

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in

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itt to be added to the list

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hmmm

I don't know if I can risk that. I've seen all of the anime, but I'm reading thru part 6 right now.

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anime only or manga included?

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but nobody knows what Burr stands for

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Oh what, no you aren't! I said sorry because it took me so long to get back to you guys!

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Looks like we couldn't get another guy. Sorry, MZero.

At this point, we can start planning when to draft and I'll RNG who gets which team. Unless people want to pick.

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The only division not represented among our favorites is the AFC South, so that's going to be our main division!

Texans
Jags
Colts
Titans

I'm either going to random.org who gets which team, or if people don't care then we'll just let everyone pick. However, let's wait and see if we pick up a 6th man; you may not end up in this division!

Otherwise, we'll just do 3+2 it'll be fine


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5 is an awkward number!

We're gonna have to do two divisions with 3 and 2, or try to get a sixth for 3 and 3. Let's see what happens.

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Oh don't worry my dude, you're not gonna play as your favorite team

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Thank you MZero!

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bump

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MegamanX posted...

id be interested but then again how many 4th down conversions do i want to see before the 50 with the game tied 0-0 (the answer is 0)

What do you mean by this, you want to see people punt for field position instead of just going for it every time? I really don't know how the online metagame for Madden shakes out and if people go for it every time, I've literally never played pick up games online before.

It seems like we have a decent number of people interested, so I'll make a list of interested parties so we can figure things out.

1. Boko
2. Chris
3. MZero
4. MMX
5. Aecioo

I'll wait a little bit longer and see if anybody else is interested. If we have 6 people, maybe we can do 3 teams in 2 divisions, one AFC/NFC so that we can meet up in the super bowl.

I want to have everyone list their favorite NFL team or division because I'm going to use that for us to select what teams we'll be. It's okay if two people have the same favorite team. Mine is the Detroit Lions.

@MZero11 - I think that will be just fine. Worst case scenario, if things are taking too long, we may just have to simulate some of your games but that may be the case for everyone. You'll still get to do the fun part, which is drafting and building your team! Assuming we can coordinate for you to be a part of the initial live draft lol.

One of my intentions is to have this league go at least a couple of seasons (or who knows how long!) so that people can select prospects/rookies and that we can draft a few rookie drafts. So maybe keep that in mind when selecting aging players during the initial draft!

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I'll keep you updated!

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