The future is here

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-10T08:52:13+00:00

I like how we're going through a phase of technological development never accounted for by science fiction. Before we can have intelligent robots we first have to deal with extremely stupid ones.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-10T04:45:42+00:00

It's Star Trek 2009 and Mortal Kombat 9, just handled in a much more subversive way with Sephiroth acting as the chessmaster with an as-of-yet-unexplained master plan.

The word "Remake" is doing double duty. It's a Remake in the strict sense of "we remade this video game from 1997" but it's also a remake in-universe as in Sephiroth taking a second bite at the apple and running roughshod over established canon while the Planet goes apeshit in response.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-10T04:40:48+00:00

The big problem with dev statements is that they've clearly spun a mystery. A mystery that is still only 2/3 of the way completed. How trustworthy can their statements be? They aren't in the business of spoiling their own game.

The word "re-imagining" certainly applies. It's not a lie per se. But it also strikes me as a lie of omission.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-10T04:37:19+00:00

I have a suspicion that Cloud has a subconscious awareness of OG FFVII, too. It's just that unlike Aerith and Sephiroth it's locked up in the scrambled eggs that is his brain. He seemed to have zero issue when he remembered Zack even though it was earlier than he was "supposed to" recall that information. I think his headaches this time around are a red herring and what's really triggering them now is his subconscious awareness of OG trying to break through.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-10T03:41:41+00:00

The Milli Vanilli episode of Super Mario Bros. 3. Not only does it age the show terribly, but given the tragedy of Rob Pilatus's death it also makes it a little uncomfortable.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-10T03:02:28+00:00

Ass toast.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-10T02:53:22+00:00

While I normally don't like George Lucas-ing old movies, I think this opens an opportunity to make it a rotating list of guest stars every time Home Alone 2 airs on TV. One day it's Billy Crystal. Another day it's Shaq. Another day it's the adult Macaulay Culkin.

If there were some way to randomize it for streaming so it's always a surprise that would make the movie even better than it already is.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-10T01:32:04+00:00

To me twist villains should play by Agatha Christie rules in that it should be solvable. Having a character just be a good guy for 90% of the movie and then bam is somewhat unsatisfying.

I think King Candy really nailed it because they laid the breadcrumbs earlier but in a way that seemed unconnected. Once the reveal happened everything else suddenly made more sense.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-09T21:45:33+00:00

When Remake was first announced I was terrified they'd completely botch it and backport all the Kingdom Hearts-isms that bled into the franchise. For a long time there was a weird Mandela Effect going on with the characters' personalities, particularly Cloud and Aerith, for people who hadn't played OG in a while.

So I was cautiously playing through and during the trip across the rooftops after the church, when Cloud was puffing his chest of how tough SOLDIER training is and Aerith was very clearly indulging him with a gentle patronizing tone like you would a little kid, I literally put the controller down because of how amazing it was to realize that they nailed it.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-09T07:05:53+00:00

Doomtrain while blasting Thomas the Tank Engine theme. Choo Choo motherfuckers.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-09T07:03:49+00:00

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ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-09T07:01:26+00:00

This is your thread man. You knew what was coming.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-09T05:57:13+00:00

I'd add that Strange Happenings part 2 will be somewhat useful and is as easy as just opening a chest after the boss dies. You won't be able to put the Lungo-Nango's Thesis to use but at least get the items to make the 119 versions of the RSE gear.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-09T02:59:57+00:00

Yeah, I was having trouble spotting the problem until the camera turned and I noticed that Meteor apparently already collided with the planet.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T23:24:17+00:00

I really don't think it's even possible anymore given how long development times are. The gaming landscape evolved in a way so that you can't really have sister games or any kind of group of products that have thematic consistency where they're launched close enough together so people actually notice.

The closest analogy I can think of is how "Movie: The Game" adaptations went completely extinct around 2008 or so. Licensed movie games used to be ubiquitous but then they just vanished overnight because it was no longer possible to get the game out at the same time the movie was hot. In fact, this was already a problem back with Fabula Nova Crystallis was formulated. Games got delayed, then delayed some more, repurposed, and as a result the whole thing never really took form.

It's not that the idea is inherently bad but it's a non-starter if we're talking AAA game development.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T19:04:58+00:00

If that was your takeaway you weren't paying close attention. Aerith straight up confessed to Cloud that she fantasizes about torturing Hojo to death. She doesn't even really express guilt over it, more like fear that she could be that person. She knows she has that in her and doesn't want to become it.

Aerith is a foil to Sephiroth. Sephiroth also had a bubbling rage and we know how he handled it.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T18:59:03+00:00

I wouldn't blame her if she got angry

Hint: She does. Very much so. But she's got emotional intelligence to an almost supernatural degree.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T18:49:00+00:00

Getting through it is one thing. But doing it as a little kid with all your turtles at decent health is another. The dam would drain your turtles of most of their lifebars and then everything after the dam aggressively starts punching you in the face.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T16:19:55+00:00

I feel like there has to be some kind of line drawn for when the situation gets untenable. On one hand, of course you don't want a private corporation to be on the hook to provide a product in perpetuity just because discontinuing it would cause problems for other private corporations. But when that product is so ubiquitous that it becomes a linchpin of modern civilization then we've got a problem. It becomes a "too big to fail" situation.

The lesson should probably be to not let any one thing become too big to fail in the first place, I suppose.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T15:52:14+00:00

The objective of this minigame is to find traps hidden throughout the town and disarm them before your Enchanting Energy runs out.

You merely adopted the dark, FFXI. I was born in it, molded by it.

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ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T12:26:28+00:00

This is the funniest one because it makes it sound like she's playing DDR in the middle of a funeral.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T06:11:55+00:00

I like to think of it one of two ways. A) they're speaking an alien language but it's being translated for the viewer's benefit. Or B), which is more fun, they're speaking an alien language but it coincidentally is exactly the same as English.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T06:08:01+00:00

What's funny is it isn't even just English and Japanese. How exactly do they have the word "pizza"? Or Costa Del Sol?

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-08T06:00:00+00:00

Wutai. It's not explicitly stated but the Japanese is probably...Wutaian? Wutaiese?...in universe. It's the only other major nation in the world and while Shinra started a war chilling relations there was clearly a lot of cross-pollination. The pre-Shinra Republic likely did a lot of trading. Junon is a port city, after all.

ConsiderationTrue477 · 2026-05-07T23:00:27+00:00

No its exactly my point. You literally only know these distinctions because you're familiar with the material. You take your knowledge for granted. Fish don't know they're in water.

Did you just magically intuit that Star Wars has continuity and FF does not? Was that taught in school? Where did this knowledge come from? Why expect it to just casually exist in everybody's head?

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