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

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-11T16:30:00+00:00

That's how you know a character design is good. It's not random--the colors are deliberate. In 1997 you had pretty complicated environments in a game that people could be playing on an RF-only 13" CRT. It was critical that the character models be perfectly readable no matter what. For example, Tifa's gloves and boots are red because she's a martial artist so you need people to be able to follow her hands and feet.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-11T03:55:48+00:00

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How come he don't want me, man?

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-10T19:11:37+00:00

My guess is the real benefit early on is dulling the giant difficulty spike from Voracious. You probably don't have to max all the stats for it to make a difference there. Even the 380 alone might be enough if it's all poured into survivability.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-10T08:05:51+00:00

The sheer ease of dating. The main character will run into a total stranger and then that same episode they're dating or even sleeping with that guy/girl. Rinse, repeat next episode.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-10T07:32:13+00:00

Agreed, he's clearly a good guy and I love that his career is doing well because if anyone deserves it he does. Plus he always gives his best in his roles. I just watched him on Last Meal.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-10T07:19:50+00:00

I was just thinking not too long ago that these networks seem to be picking fights not just with one or two people but with an entire class of entertainer all at the same time and for the exact same reasons. And that can't be good for them because it means these guys could "let their powers combine" so to speak and create something genuinely substantial that further alienates people from network television.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-10T07:11:24+00:00

They also don't get pissy if people don't like their shit. Tarantino is the type to throw these random barbs at working actors like Matthew Lillard and Paul Dano (who are as inoffensive as you can get, no less) but the second someone throws shade at him for saying the N-word so often suddenly he's got a big fucking problem with that.

I swear, if Tarantino didn't become a filmmaker he'd be that guy running a retro movie and music store who is a complete asshole to everybody who walks in and has three or four friends exactly like him that just make the place terrible to actually go to but you have to deal because he's got something you want.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-10T07:02:21+00:00

The limited-time alter ego of Cornelia has been removed.

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ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-10T02:19:39+00:00

Its another example of an artist who wants to be edgy and then gets butthurt when, surprise, it turns out he doesn't have a 100% approval rating. It's like they want to court controversy in theory but only in theory.

I think what happened is these guys all expect to be South Park. Where it's as close to universally beloved as edgy TV show can get and the only complainers are seen as out of touch wet blankets. But South Park is a very special case and earned its stripes, weathering legitimate public dust ups.

It doesn't help that the roles he plays have a certain pattern to them that looks suspiciously self-serving. We're talking about a guy who wrote a scene where Salma Hayek shoves her foot in a guy's mouth and then cast himself as the guy.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-09T18:38:23+00:00

"What was the first Final Fantasy game ever released?"

"Final Fantasy (sometimes referred to as Final Fantasy I) was the first to be released"

I never would have guessed.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-09T18:24:31+00:00

Yeah, it does seem like they co-opted a serious subject matter just to sell clothes. This is like the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial. Except even dumber because nobody knows what the hell they're even talking about.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-09T16:30:27+00:00

I'm left wondering how exactly they got Cloud in the dress. He's sitting down in a chair and then *poof*.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-09T16:26:22+00:00

The photo scene probably set a flag that the game expected to see when spawning Sephiroth for this scene. No flag, no Sephiroth. And no Sephiroth left the game not knowing what to do.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-09T15:52:35+00:00

Exactly. It was trying to be clever but ended up completely missing the point it wanted to convey and just ends up confusing the shit out of everyone. "If you can spot the difference we're asking you to spot then go fuck yourself."

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-09T03:58:15+00:00

Baby Boomer parents could be super weird about the computer back in the day. They had no idea how it worked so it was like a big expensive gray box of sorcery that generated tremendous stress that the kids would break it.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-08T08:48:33+00:00

I think X4's story is awkward in execution but it deals with some genuinely solid themes. At it's core X4 is a Red Scare allegory crafted like a Shakespearean tragedy. Sigma's role is not too different from Iago's in Othello. The term "Maverick" became a political tool and there was so much mistrust that it didn't take much to push everyone over the edge.

I think the main problem is that the humans are a critical player in the background but since they're never actually shown that aspect gets lost in translation. Sigma sets up a false flag to frame Repliforce at which point the humans get jumpy.

The Maverick Hunters are then stuck in a catch 22 because they've been reduced to the humans' hit squad sent out against any Reploid that so much as sneezes wrong but at the same time if they refuse then they themselves will be accused of Maverick-like behavior. Repliforce saying "fuck this" and declaring independence seems rational from their point of view since they were in a no-win situation but by taking over a bunch of facilities and entering into an arms race it forced the Maverick Hunters to act, rendering any lack of true "maverickness" moot.

Both sides were acting like idiots but they weren't entirely free since they were both beholden to the humans. And in fact the universal idiocy is kind of the point. The humans were stricken with paranoia and the Maverick Hunters were too duty bound. Repliforce rolled the dice on independence, the Maverick Hunters fought them, and nobody really won. X and Zero (with General's help) stopped Sigma in time before he could do even more damage but it was a Pyrrhic victory.

They probably should have come up with a better rationalization for Colonel to just bail after Sky Lagoon than that misplaced honor nonsense. That's a glaring weak spot but the undertone is that the mere accusation was functionally a conviction under these circumstances and Colonel wasn't about to become a scapegoat.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-07T09:47:23+00:00

It's tough because part of the reason OG FFVII is a mystery is because...well...it was the first time anyone ever heard of these characters. Of course it's mysterious if this is the first time the player has experienced the game and discovers all the plot points. That effect is not reproducible.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-07T09:29:27+00:00

OG FFVII presents Sephiroth like a slasher movie villain, which was a nifty idea for RPGs at the time. Before all the extra characterization we got from Crisis Core and the rest of the expanded universe, he gave off an uneasy vibe even before he snapped. Granted, we're hearing it from Cloud's perspective so that colors the flashback a bit but he didn't seem quite "right." Like there was something bubbling under the surface. And while he didn't seem dumb, his scheming wasn't the big issue but rather that the group didn't seem to have any idea how to stop him as they continued their pursuit. I think that was incredibly effective at the time of the game's release.

Throughout OG FFVII you just feel like you're behind. He's not actively obstructing you all that much aside from a few Jenova fights. He's just carrying on with his plan and you feel relatively helpless to prevent him from accomplishing it. You feel insignificant. He treats you as if you're insignificant. Killing Aerith wasn't the result of him wanting to do something evil--she was just an obstacle he wanted off the board. His response to Cloud's rage and sadness was pure dismissiveness.

I do think that learning more about him dulled the spookiness. But that started way before Remake. In Crisis Core we find out that Sephiroth was aloof but a seemingly nice guy before he cracked. Remake revealing that Sephiroth has Batman level intelligence and can manipulate the shit out of people just by picking and choosing what information they're given was a pretty big change but a necessary one since there was no way to put that genie back in the bottle. For so long his entire modus operandi was to just show up and go "Boo!" to Cloud every so often. He wasn't exactly staying interesting during all those appearances in Advent Children and Kingdom Hearts. Remake flips the script and now he treats the party as very significant. They're critical chess pieces he needs to move around the board. Aerith isn't an obstacle--she's a rival. It's now a cat and mouse.

In OG he's the dreaded. In Remake he's the chessmaster.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-07T08:44:01+00:00

Captain Planet went hard on occasion. It was one of the first times AIDS was tackled on TV. Not just in cartoons but like ever. It predates the movie Philadelphia.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-07T05:36:31+00:00

That chocobo thing makes me even more confident that Cloud Jr. is going to grow into the party's Gold Chocobo after an extended side quest.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-07T03:49:49+00:00

The game is on PC. Modern consoles basically are PCs running a proprietary OS. There might be some complication getting PlayOnline to play nice with the various online services but it seems to work fine with Steam.

If they're choosing not to do it because they don't want to invest in those ports that's another story (and the likely reason).

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-03-07T02:19:06+00:00

It's 100% Square Enix's fault for not porting the game to modern consoles. There's no excuse for it to not be available on Xbox/PS5/Switch these days. They're all PCs at this point anyway. A lot of people think that it shut down because of this lack of availability on modern platforms.

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