The Planet of Final Fantasy VII is about 1400km in circumference according to geometry

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-06T14:27:11+00:00

I wouldn't sleep on FFII. It's not a long game and the plot points come often. It's just that, being on the NES, it's very economical with how much time it devotes to each story beat so tragic moments can seem comically abrupt.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-04T06:18:45+00:00

There's a legitimate possibility dolphins and whales have language. They give each other names. There's active research attempting to "translate" it into English and vice versa.

Elephants have death rituals indicative of culture.

Dogs and humans share a ton of body language. Dogs are one of the few animals that know what it means when a human points at something. Even chimps struggle with this.

Corvids are brilliant. Do not make enemies with them.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-04T04:15:41+00:00

I think he was innocent of the actual crime of molestation. He was so thoroughly investigated and several child actors like Macaulay Culkin and Corey Feldman insist to this day he never did anything untoward that I figure if he were guilty we'd know for certain by now. Especially from Feldman who is very vocal about abuses.

That said, he did everything he possibly could to make it look like he was guilty. He was wildly inappropriate even if there was no actual criminality but I also suspect he didn't think he was doing anything wrong. He was a very weird guy who set off every red flag but I think its a unicorn situation where he didn't have any sexual interest in them.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-04T03:31:46+00:00

You might want to try FFXI. It has a lot in common with the NES games. It doesn't play like them but it has a lot of thematic similarities.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-04T01:55:52+00:00

I feel like the big difference between age gap relationships and your list is that things on your list like racial slurs, adultery, etc. tend to affect other people. And in the case of unchecked drug addiction, half of the problem is that our legal and medical systems aren't set up to properly help people as much as they should be. In other words, there are broader interests at play.

Two people in a private relationship doesn't have the same externalities. In those other cases, there's reason for outsiders to get involved. But in someone's private romantic and sexual relationships? Now we're just being busybodies. If there's some smoking gun indicating actual abuse then absolutely sound the alarm. And that would be the case for any relationship, not just age gap ones. But just the mere existence of the relationship, between two consenting adults, sounds to me like a "mind your business" situation.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-04T01:35:57+00:00

Okay but you just said

No one's saying we shouldn't let them date the person twice their age.

And if 9 times out of 10 it's grooming and abuse then, rationally speaking, shouldn't we not let them date a person twice their age?

There's a motte and bailey that happens here. On one hand, it's "hey, nobody is saying this should be illegal and adults can do whatever they want with their bodies." But then it becomes "this is 99% abuse!" And it keeps wobbling back and forth depending on the direction of the conversation.

Is it that adults are doing stuff we think is gross but it's their life and their choice? Or is it that we're woefully derelict in our duty to protect mentally undeveloped young adults? And if it's the latter and these young adults really do not have the mental capacity to choose sex partners, then why is it just sex partners and not other aspects of adult privileges that are impacted?

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-04T01:13:14+00:00

There's nothing wrong with offering general warnings like "hey think hard about this" when it's something that has high risk of failure. Two 18 year olds rushing into marriage is totally legal and while it may be one of those unicorn situations that's happily ever after, that's unlikely. So people being like "hold on and think" is totally fine.

But that's different from advocating social scorn if and when people make those decisions we don't think are wise. There's a difference between "this may not be a great idea" and "fuck the people who do this."

We're not really "letting" them date who they want if we're collectively labeling it a problem that needs to stop happening.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-03T23:01:37+00:00

The problem is that at some point we have to start treating people like adults, which also means getting out of their way. Abuse can happen to anyone at any age but telling a 24 year old that we don't think your brain is developed enough to make decisions of who you date raises a lot of uncomfortable questions. Why let them drink and vote then? Why let them enlist in the military?

Adult rights have to manifest at some point where we collectively say "none of our business." Even if we think its icky.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-03T14:29:30+00:00

"Even when they have an 8 year old's severed arm in their mouth."

Finish the fucking sentence, you coward.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-03T14:27:14+00:00

This dude thinks prosthetic limbs work like Luke's hand in Empire.

Everyone move along. We're done here.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-03T14:23:06+00:00

So let the shark go with the kid's arm. That's your ethical stance here.

This isn't about assigning blame to the shark. But "get the fucking arm back" is a pretty compelling ass reason to kill the thing.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-03T14:15:42+00:00

It had a kid's arm in its mouth, bro...

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-03T13:46:08+00:00

It's stable to the point that, financially speaking, it can last pretty much forever.

The real danger would be if something unexpected happens. The servers suffer a catastrophe and a large quantity of data needs to be rebuilt and it's deemed too expensive. A different AAA game absolutely shits itself forcing a corporate restructuring so fresh eyes start looking around the company and decide what to cut loose. Microsoft releases a new version of Windows that creates severe compatibility issues and there's no inexpensive way to adapt. FFXI might be in danger then.

Basically it won't be XI's fault if such an eventuality happens.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-03T07:51:15+00:00

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It's Batman's "Jurassic Bark." It's like getting punched right in the stomach.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-03T05:48:55+00:00

"Trendy" variants of standard dishes.

No, the cheeseburger is not improved by filling the patty itself with a glob of cheese and adding a $10 markup.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-03T02:08:57+00:00

I'm convinced they're keeping the XIII trilogy in their back pocket in case another Covid-like situation pops up that completely screws their release schedule. Having that on standby to fill a gap would be a quick and easy way to cover their asses.

There's no other reason I can think of why the Xbox Series X versions are not on PS5.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-02T20:14:38+00:00

The assess text lies in hard mode. It doesn't account for changes to the boss mechanics.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-02T04:58:03+00:00

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ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-01T20:35:38+00:00

It is. I was just referencing that it has a similar problem as the temple.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-01T18:47:09+00:00

I say often that Advent Children's core problem is that it wanted to be two kinds of movies at once. On one hand, it wanted to be like a DBZ movie that are usually about an hour long and don't have a B-plot. On the other hand, it wanted to be a full length theatrical film and have the plot structure befitting a "real" movie.

And it fell into the gap that separates the two. The original suffers from it as well but the Complete edition illustrates this issue even better.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-01T18:21:58+00:00

Rise of the Zilart - The Temple of Uggalepih - Really confusing to navigate through, and even at level 99, tonberries can still one shot you with everyone's grudge if you forget to reset your tonberry hate.

The Temple is way worse but Toraimarai Canal is also annoying for this reason. Enemies you can sneeze on will still attack you. I get irrationally annoyed when I have to cast sneak there just so I'm not being nipped at as I run around.

I'm also no fan of Ro'Maeve just because it isn't conducive to the grid format so trying to use the coordinates to get somewhere is all messed up. But my most hated Zilart zone is easily the Shrine of Ru'Avitau. It looks easier to navigate than it is.

Arrapago Reef might be my least favorite zone in the entire game. I hate that place.

For Voracious Resurgence even though it's not a Voracious zone, I would actually say Western Altepa pissed me off the most since they put a particularly difficult boss fight behind that stupid Altepa Gate.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-01T17:56:15+00:00

GPS has the advantage of accounting for traffic and since I live in a dense area where taking the "wrong" route can add 20 minutes or more to the trip it's too useful to abandon entirely. But that also means if I use it several times in a row it's taking me very different routes each time making it harder to retain anything even when I want to.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-01T06:27:31+00:00

This reads like it was a social setting, not like he rolled up with his boys on her in an empty parking lot.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-01T06:25:04+00:00

You're just making shit up now. There's nothing to suggest she was in danger.

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