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Did anyone else laugh a lot at this? Since HJO has the biggest role in the games (arguably) he must have some idea of the storyline (maybe not lol) but just think how confusing it would be to go into like... Birth by Sleep and be all

"yo i am here to voice sora"
"actually you're not exactly sora this time, you just look like him and kinda have his voice"
"so i'm sora"
"no"

I'm not sure how much Ross put into the actual episode but we got into a pretty lengthy argument about this, heh. Glad to have more support.

That's true, I hadn't thought of that. Timeless River was sort of... self-contained time travel, though. The Cornerstone was a plot point for Disney Castle but in terms of the overarching plot, it didn't mean much. Dream Drop Distance made time travel key in the Xehanort Saga, so the gravity of the situation is a bit more extreme heh.

Oh yeah, I don't think I have to justify my infatuation with the KH series, even now that it's kind of gone a bit crazy in terms of plot. I think KH3 can definitely tie things together and ground the plot a little bit more. I would like to see some more prior planning in future games, just because you can only pull things out of your ass for so long, but KH doesn't quite yet boast the craziest sequels of Square.

It depends. I would like to see characters explored a little bit more (namely Sora and Kairi). Having Sora struggle with the darkness is some long overdue development that I really hope makes it into KH3, and in the recent GameInformer interview Nomura did say there'd be some intrigue about who exactly are the 7 lights and 13 darknesses (and that we'd be guessing about it through the game). I really hope they'll play with characters' allegiances like they did with Axel in CoM. That said, I think we can all kind of predict the ending: light triumphs over darkness. It is Kingdom Hearts, after all, and that level of predictability doesn't really concern me, as long as the journey to get there is exciting.

I've actually never finished one either, unless you count Tactics Advanced (which I don't but it is a magical game). I've tried and failed with FFX many times, getting stuck near the end, but that hasn't stopped me from loving the game. I never finished XII (though I'd like to, but imo the game requires a lot of grinding and that makes it a bit of a chore. Also I want an HD remaster). I got pretty far in XIII, and played a little bit of III. I'm also not a fan of the gameplay, though XII did change it up quite a lot--so if you have trouble with the style in FFVII and FFX, I'd recommend giving XII another try, or even going for XIII. The gameplay isn't perfect in either but they're a little bit more fast-paced.

As a disclaimer I haven't played XIII-2 or LR, nor did I finish XIII. I've gathered a lot of the plot details and followed the games with passing interest.

I'm not too offended or bothered by FFXIII. I'm glad that Square finally made a game with a female lead, and the female supporting characters (Fang and Vanille, though Vanille is definitely sexualized) are far more interesting than some of the males. Snow is pretty awful in XIII, Hope is kinda whiny but I like him, and while I didn't dig Sazh he's not bad. FFXIII is a decent if uninspired Final Fantasy. It's beautiful to be sure, but the storytelling has some serious flaws (all the interesting stuff is shoved in datalogs, you never connect with the setting or the characters), and the linearity is a problem (I think we discussed all of this lol). In the scope of just the first FFXIII, I don't find Lightning to be sexualized all that much--her skirt is definitely short, but beyond that, I don't have any problems. She's kinda bland in terms of personality and the voice acting doesn't help*, but I don't think the first game is really problematic. The second game barely features Lightning so I won't include it in here.

Lightning Returns, however, things went completely overboard. They decided to sex Lightning up to help sell the game. A major component of the gameplay is switching Lightning's costume to let her assume a different job. This is nothing new with the Final Fantasy series--it's quite similar to the system in FFX-2, actually (FFX-2 is a different animal in terms of sexualization and my problems with this system tho). LR just really took it to a new level, essentially making Lightning the player's doll.



Even her base costume is pretty revealing.



Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not calling for my females to be covered in layers and layers of clothing (though leaving your back exposed in battle seems to be a pretty stupid decision). In fact, I think portraying and empowering female sexuality is needed--but you have to look at the intent; it's not empowering if the portrayal is there to satisfy the male gaze. Female sexuality is not empowered if it is based on the approval and the notice of an onlooker, which LR has turned into. This is pretty easy to blame on Toriyama, who has made no secret of his raging boner for Lightning. Some choice quotes:

It's just really sad to see that a female character that wasn't really sexualized at all--maybe wasn't strong, but wasn't sexualized--has now been run into the dust. This doesn't even mention how aggressively they've pushed Lightning, either.

Also, this scene is a real thing that happens. It's so over the top and hilarious that I cannot actually believe it exists. It's produced some good gifs, though.


* = just to note, this isn't a shot at Ali Hillis at all! She voiced Liara in the Mass Effect trilogy, who I am deeply in lesbians with, and I thought she was great. I think either the script or the directing (or both) for FFXIII was just so, so uninspired. Lightning isn't exactly an emotive character but in the few scenes where she had to be it still fell flat.

Creating a private network within a network is called subnetting and it's actually quite common in businesses and schools. It is, however, kind of a pain in the butt to set up. A preferable option would be to set up a shared folder with password protection, if that meets your requirements (and your bluray player supports it).

Subnetting will require router configuration and it is possible yours won't support it. Some home routers don't, or you need two routers for it.

Hi guys, tbh I don't know what it was but it had me bed ridden for something like 70 hours. I'm doing better now, still not great but the worst has passed

It's probably a similar issue. Tables suck.

Tables are inefficient code, not on this site but in terms of HTML in general. From a web design perspective they're really being phased out. The bbcodes are here because of user demand, but I can't do much with them because the code itself is faulty. Therefore, other bbcodes typically will not work within them. Tables shouldn't really contain paragraphs upon paragraphs, either--if there's a certain formatting you're trying to accomplish, if you want to PM me with an idea I'm happy to suggest a better way to code it (and add bbcodes to allow it). To me simple bbcode is enough, but I'm happy to add more complicated ones on a request basis (as long as it's valid & modern code, which tables are not).

I typically charge every day and a half, more often if I have work that day. Twenty minutes in the tumblr app drains my battery 10% easy.

I never had problems with my iPhone battery... until I updated to iOS7. Which has its own share of issues on top of that.

The problem here is that you're expecting Apple to make decisions to benefit the consumer, lol. Apple had the smartphone market pretty much cornered for a while because they were the first ones to really hit it properly. Because of that popularity, they could make any decision they wanted, even if it wasn't good for the consumer. Therefore, they'll do whatever makes them more money.

Android phones are now rising in popularity because they are more consumer friendly in many respects (SD card usage being one of them). Apple should be afraid and should be making changes to their products to better compete with Android... but they won't. They'll continue cruising on their status symbol and style benefits (though those are quickly fading).

The primary reason they wouldn't is because, this way, they can charge extra for a simple storage upgrade. If there was an SD card slot, they'd only be able to sell a base model and then people could add as much memory as they need to the phone. Not only that, but I think one of the major reasons (besides just wanting the newest thing) people upgrade to the newer iPhones is because they need/want more storage.

Further, Apple doesn't play nice with others. If they allowed storage cards they'd probably go the Sony route and make their own.

I think part of his argument is fueled by KH3 being on the Xbox One. Nintendo fans have at least gotten a few KH games, whereas those who have stuck exclusively to Microsoft are, potentially, entering into the series on the final part of the Xehanort Saga.

tbh my dislike of iTunes is part of (not all) the reason I'll probably give Android a try for my next phone, but that won't be for another couple years heh. My iPhone works fine, no reason to replace it. I would like to use SD cards tho.

I dislike iTunes a lot sometimes but not only have I been unable to find another music player with a decent UI, I have an iphone. :v if I really liked a player I wouldn't mind using iTunes just to sync but none of the players I've tried have tempted me.

Oh I get what you mean--we used to have some buttons available for the raw text editor. That was an add-on that isn't compatible with 1.2. The reason we implemented it was to help with mobile browsers, which didn't support the old rich editor, but now we have a new editor it's no longer necessary.

tl;dr: use the rich text editor.

I'll test this on Safari but this is a weird problem. Are you using the rich text editor?

It is possible but we won't be doing it right now.

That is true, but I like using sleights as well. P:

That is true, but it takes a lot of CP to have a deck like that. Not only do you need a lot of zero cards (which are hard to find and have a high CP cost), but you also need standard attack cards to actually do damage.

b-b-b-but Téa as Magician of Faith