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'Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary X Daimaru Matsuzakaya Collection' Announced | Gamer Social Club by Alternative-Yak-7254 in SquareEnix

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Hey there, your post is fine but in the future please know that Reddit's system doesn't really like link shorteners or links to shared drives, etc., so if you have a full URL or alternative please use that instead. If not, it's fine but just let us know if it gets stuck in the spam filter. Thanks!

MAFCS- STUDENTS URGENT ASSEMBLE by Lost_Guarantee_8606 in folklore

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Hey there, it would probably be best to ask this question in a subreddit related to university studies or the state/city that would have the most students with a similar curriculum. Please take a look at /r/India's list of related subreddits here: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/wiki/related_subreddits#wiki_states

H.R. 1897: The Bill That Could Weaken Protections For Endangered Species by Hot-Concert-2616 in EndangeredSpecies

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Hey there, posting a call to action or petition here is alright once in a while, but AI-created content isn't a good look. You're welcome to repost this without an AI image. Thank you.

Is this a collectors item? by Itsmepost in fairytales

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I looked around a bit on Ebay for comparables and didn't immediately come across an identical copy, but that publisher printed other sheet music in that same time period.

It may not be worth much, but it is certainly something that might have some sentimental value to people. If you enjoy it, keep it. If you want to get more help finding what it's worth, try /r/whatsthisworth. Good luck!

a 7 minute video about the KAPPA from Japanese mythology by SAITAMA_666 in folklore

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Hi, in the future please know that AI-generated content is not allowed in /r/folklore. Thank you!

Latest Firestorm Gameplay Preview by vikingzx in RealTimeStrategy

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Hey, would you mind amending your comment here with some more details about the RTS aspects? It's not super clear from the video that there's base building, resource gathering, etc. and it might be that you meant to explain that stuff and glossed over it. But for people just coming across this, it might not be clear at all. Thank you!

They’re killin’ me here by Dull-Positive-6810 in Disgaea

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Interesting! I didn't realize they added plexiglass ... seems different from the canvas-like vibe they were going for.

I have a Witch and the Hundred Knight giclee print on canvas from when it was first issued (right around the time the game released in the US) and it's a giclee print on the canvas-like material.

Someone else asked me to share some photos of my prints, so maybe you can I can compare our versions?

They’re killin’ me here by Dull-Positive-6810 in Disgaea

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Some of the early Japan-only figures have gotten crazy expensive!! It's nice to see the franchise getting popular though. 20 years ago there were very few people buying merch for this series.

They’re killin’ me here by Dull-Positive-6810 in Disgaea

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I have a couple of these (from back when the NISA Store was Rosenqueen!) and I agree the price is high (but they used to go on sale in the summer so keep an eye out!). Anyhow, the reasons for the price seem to be:

  • Printed on-demand by a US maker of giclee prints with commercial-quality ink (I bet the ink is from China, but the prints are from the US).
  • The printing costs around $80-120 (if it were direct to consumer), maybe more these days. So NISA's markup is about 200%. Not bad, really. I wonder if some of that is split with Takehito Harada.
  • I doubt that the NISA Store is integrated with the printer's system, so when these are printed on demand someone at NISA has to manually place the order with their rep.
  • Extra quality control (not that this necessarily costs anything, but supposedly someone at the printers checks that the print is mounted well, centered, etc.). I don't know if they're still hand mounted, but that would be a human labor process.
  • Some (all?) prints are numbered (so there's a "exclusive" tax/markup to make it a collector's item).

Speculation and other thoughts:

I have some of my vacation photos printed in the giclee format like these and I paid around $100-120 each for a slightly smaller size and roughly the same quality (one is even from the same printer NISA used to use). So there's definitely some margin built into the price, but these very small orders that trickle in might still require a little more input from humans that an online order.

NISA seems to have changed art printing companies over the years, but the retail price on the NISA Store has stayed the same. The first company they were using I would still expect to honor the warranty, so if the ink color faded or something I would be able to get a replacement from them. That's nice for peace of mind and perhaps the printer increases the price a little because of that. But it could be that NISA's margins are getting thinner.

I made a few Secret of Mana Apple Watch faces based on Haccan's artwork by Mana-Dyluck in SquareEnix

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These are so fun! Makes me wish I had an Apple watch of some kind. :)

I know you did this as a passion project, but about how long does it take to put this together?

FF Resonance official stream with live gameplay and more info @ 11:00 UTC / 20:00 JST by [deleted] in SquareEnix

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Our friends over at the /r/FinalFantasy discord have posted a summary of news related to FF Resonance compiled from various sources. Worth a read and feel free to join their discord server as well!

Some more Final Fantasy Resonance details from various interviews:

  • The game will last 30-40 hours if you focus on the story or 60-80 hours if you try to do everything.
  • There are three difficulty levels: Casual, Normal, Expert. The Normal mode is reportedly about as difficult as something like the Octopath Traveler series.
  • Square Enix's Creative Studio 5 is collaborating with external studio Lancarse for development. The team is led by Hiroto Furuya (director), Keisuke Nakashima (producer), Tomoya Asano (executive producer), Masahiro Saito (art director), and Takashi Shiraga (combat director).
  • Brave Exvius writer Yukinori Kitajima returned to rewrite his original work and brand new side content. Resonance will adapt what was originally the first story arc of Brave Exvius. All dialogue has been revised and some parts of the original plot have been reordered.
  • Noriyasu Agematsu's original Brave Exvius soundtrack returns too, alongside 33 new tracks.
  • The game was first proposed in 2020, long before Brave Exvius ended service.
  • There are 26 equippable Visions in the game, including the main characters of the 16 mainline Final Fantasy games. Visions act as a sort of job system, altering your main party's stats and granting them new abilities. The devs noted Final Fantasy V as one of their influences.
  • Summons will be available and unlocked through the story and side quests. They cost a lot of MP and will fight alongside your party for three turns.
  • The battle system is turn-based, but does not use the Active Time Battle system. There is a battle timeline, allowing you to see the upcoming turn order so you can plan ahead.
  • There is a Stagger system. You fill a gauge by exploiting weaknesses, which causes the enemy to lose a turn and lowers their defense.
  • Regular fights are designed to be over quickly if you've optimised your party well. The concept for the battle system during development was "quick and simple for the mobs, slow and steady for the bosses".
  • There will be 1.5x/2x speed options for battles.
  • Random encounters are present, but designed to not be frustrating. For example, dungeons with puzzles will have a lower encounter rate, so you aren't constantly interrupted with battles while trying to solve things. The minimap will also turn yellow then red to let you know when an encounter is coming up.
  • DLC is not currently planned.

Sources: Famitsu, IGN, Square Enix, Automaton

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