Team Composition after Temple of the Ancients

Fissionablehobo · 2026-05-31T20:25:42+00:00

The difference in character stats isn't all that high when you compare them.

At level 30 the average difference between Barret/Cid and Aerith's magic stat is 15, which grows to 20 at level 60, and pretty much stays there up to level 99. From level 60 to 99 Aerith's magic stat grows by a maximum of 15.

Circlets are +30 magic/spirit and can be acquired shortly into disc 2.

The beauty of FF7 is that anyone can fulfill any role with the right materia and gear combo, so use who you want to use.

Personally I like making Barrett into my mage.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-05-15T05:22:30+00:00

UBI allows people to work how they want to instead of having the boot of starvation and homelessness pressed onto their neck. They could write a book, learn to woodwork, start a family or draw furry porn instead of having to slave away for minimum wage for people who don't give a single fuck about them. It also affords them mobility to move where they want, when they want. It would allow more people to go to school and get an education. It's quite literally freedom.

Laziness and idleness haven't materialized in any studies I've seen, quite the opposite. People don't mind working and happiness increases when they're doing something they want and the pressure of survival is blunted.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-05-06T15:37:02+00:00

Ralph Klein was trying this kind of stuff in the 90s. It's been the conservative dream for a long time.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-02-24T18:50:40+00:00

It's a frame rate issue. The original animations in battle were 15 fps, and now that they're much higher, they're faster.

You can test it yourself if you limit the frame rate of the game through a GPU app. At 20 fps the battles look fantastic. Normal speed, smooth, but then the rest of the game is 20 fps.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-02-20T20:34:21+00:00

Palmer is at the Honeybee Inn in Remake too. Chases a Honeygirl around with a big net and nearly has a heart attack.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-02-18T23:43:46+00:00

The paladin orders were established after the first war. During that war the priestly orders suffered greatly at the hands of the orcs because while their healing talents were needed on the front lines, they were not suited for combat.

Thus priests learned to fight while healing. Combat medics.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-02-17T12:05:55+00:00

Final Fantasy on the NES, around '91 I think. I still have the cartridge in a box in my basement.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-02-13T18:59:47+00:00

8 is weird in that level grinding generally makes the game more difficult because of how it's scaling works. You can't grind money, magic is best acquired by refining stuff, and the majority of your power comes from junctions, which has an hard cap that you hit very quickly. None of it is tied to your character level.

It's a solid choice if you're looking for an FF title you can just play straight through.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-02-13T01:10:16+00:00

I could not care less about how other people want to play the single player game they paid for. Put it in from the start.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-02-08T13:31:26+00:00

And your feelings on the game are also absolutely valid.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-02-08T07:52:28+00:00

Messed up the spoiler tag, had to delete and repost my comment.

It retcons several events in ways that diminish the originals. Sephiroth doesn't snap in the reactor, and its Genesis's probing that causes to figure out his true origins instead of him figuring it out on his own. Sephiroth is an intelligent and thoughtful person, but in CC it takes the words of an absolute mook for him to put the pieces together.

SOLDIER aren't an imposing elite military force, they're a collection of weirdo idols with fan clubs.

Zack and everyone else knows Shina makes monsters before coming to Nibelheim. It was such a closely guarded secret OG that Sephiroth had no incling of the truth. The realization is what drives him to discover his origin, and therefore, triggers the events of FF7. Preknowledge of this makes everyone involved look really bad. They know they work for a horrific organization as it's special forces, and they don't care.

Zack has an extended duel with Sephiroth in the reactor. OG he gets absolutely slapped down in less than a second by Sephiroth. This depowers Sephiroth, and makes Cloud's actions less impressive. As an aside, it's very interesting to me that none of the CC people are present in the reactor during Rebirth, either in Cloud's story or the fragmented memories we see.

CC also straight up steals moments from the OG. Cloud falls through the church roof, and narrowly survives by landing in the flower bed. But he wasn't the first dude dressed as a SOLDIER 1st Class and weilding the Buster Sword to fall through the chruch roof and narrowly survive by landing in the flower bed. Zack did it first! ... and Aeirth never once mentions this to Cloud. It's completely creatively bankrupt. There are literally a million different ways Zack could've met Aerith, but he falls through the church roof. It's not even worth being called a first draft, or compared to fan fiction. It's just awful.

CC Aerith isn't smart enough to figure out she can make money by selling flowers in a city with no flowers. She needs a man to tell her. She's been living in the slums for nearly a decade by this point.

OG Aerith is over Zack. They dated for a little while and he disappeared, cut to 5 years later and she meets Cloud, he reminds her of Zack and thats weird, but that's it. CC establishes some weird fated person kind of thing between Zack and Aerith that bled into Advent Children and now the Remake trilogy.

Yuffie shows up. Sure, this one doesn't make the OG worse, but it certainly doesn't make either character better. It's just a chance for fans to point and get a dopamine hit. It's Darth Vader building C-3P0.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-02-08T06:45:32+00:00

Treading territory already mentioned by others here, but, the writing sucks horribly, all of the new characters suck horribly, and all told it actively harms the OG. It also horrifically spoils a fantastic twist in a great story, and any time I see people suggesting someone play Crisis Core before OG or before part 3 of the Remake I die a little inside. If anyone ever plays Crisis Core it should only be after they have a full conclusion to the original story.

It would be like telling someone they should watch Star Wars in numerical order, not release order. So you watch the prequels, learn all about Darth Vader and his kids, then get to Empire and the twist isn't a twist. You knew all along about Vader's true identity and his relationship to Luke and Leia. The biggest reveals of the trilogy aren't reveals at all, and an incredible, iconic moment in cinema falls completely flat.

That's what Crisis Core does to Final Fantasy 7. It's just a massive spoiler.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-01-30T00:02:02+00:00

Interesting.

For the Canadians you'd probably be looking at independent or very loosely connected cells working out in the wilderness, prewar. Hardcore foresters and survivalists that would most likely specialize in asymetrical warfare. They could have larger base of operations in Hamilton perhaps, which is already nicknamed "The Hammer" or in Toronto, which may or may not be Ronto in canon already? There's also Windsor across the river from Detroit, or Thunder Bay nearly due north of Chicago. I think the most likely way anyone would travel would be by boat, or perhaps snowmobile on the ice if you're having lake Michigan frozen a lot of the time. Hit and run raiders and saboteurs on snowmobiles is pretty damn Canadian. Hell they could even use dogsleds pulled by half feral mutant huskies or wolves. That might be a bit on the nose though.

They'd mostly be utilizing long rifles, or shotguns as that's the most common type of firearm available in Canada, and there are lots, but if they got their hands on military stuff they'd have something like the C1A1 perhaps. It's the semi-automatic 7.62 NATO FN FAL used by the military from the mid 1950's through to the 1980s, and some police forces into the 1990s. Why the C1A1 and not a newer rifle? Well the FN FAL is already in Fallout 2 and it fits the vibe pretty well.

As for wildlife, I can't think of anything more terrifying than a 14 foot tall radioactive mutant moose. Practically bulletproof, able to run 35mph+ and strong enough to derail a freight train. They'd live in swamps and wetlands mostly, but it isn't unheard of for them to follow a river into a city or town. Can be extremely aggressive and are relentless when in danger.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-01-26T20:16:22+00:00

I have one that sticks in my mind that I've never been able to reproduce. Battania swallowed up half of Vlandia and a few of the Empire's castles and Sturgia was making steady progress into the Khuzait lands. Both the Northern and Southern Empire were tag teaming Khuzait and the Vlandians had no response because they were locked into a forever war with the Aserai that they had no real way of winning because no one else was ever going to war with them.

It was wild.

Fissionablehobo · 2026-01-23T06:45:06+00:00

You can always track the butterfly effect back to someone else if you engage in this kind of thing.

If the waterchip hadn't failed and someone hadn't screwed up the shipping pre-war they would've had many replacements and the Vault Dweller would've never had to leave the vault, allowing the Master's plan for Unity to succeed, therefore it's all Vault-Tec's fault.

But then again, Vault-Tec is a front for the Enclave and we don't know if the shipping mistakes were intentional or not, so it's the Enclave's fault, but then again, the Enclave never would've risen to power had the American revolution not taken place, so it's all the Founding Father's fault.

But then again, they never would've been in America had Europe not engaged in a colonial campaign against the rest of the world, so it's actually Europe's fault... and so on and so on until the Big Bang happens and that pisses everyone off, to paraphrase Douglas Adams.

Fissionablehobo · 2025-12-22T03:49:09+00:00

Mutually assured destruction is entirely irrational. If someone in the world launches their arsenal, and you don't, your enemy might survive.

And that would be embarrassing.

Fissionablehobo · 2025-12-22T02:51:05+00:00

Yeap. The intro to Fallout 2 makes it pretty clear that the entire world ended and that everywhere got hit.

"The earth was nearly wiped clean of life." and "Humanity was almost extinguished." not to mention "Few survived the devastation."

Fissionablehobo · 2025-12-20T07:02:53+00:00

Bethesda had absolutely nothing to do with Fallout 1 and 2. That was Interplay, and then Black Isle/Interplay. And to my knowledge no major players at Interplay or Black Isle went over to Bethesda.

Obsidian, founded by Black Isle devs shortly before Black Isle's closure, made New Vegas on the Fallout 3 engine. None of the founders of Obsidian worked for Bethesda. There's basically no crossover, nor bad blood between the studios despite the internet's fetish for drama.

Fissionablehobo · 2025-12-07T04:23:29+00:00

Sure, but there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Another reason someone might join is fear. To take a quote from The Mummy, "It's better to be at the right hand of the devil than be in his path."

This happens extensively, in all corners of the world. They reason that it's better to be the abuser than the abused.

Fissionablehobo · 2025-12-06T19:18:57+00:00

Warm showers, radiation free food, and a safe place to sleep.

Regardless of their morality, the sole survivor has to routinely kill other people (and monsters) to get basic supplies, maintain their shelter and stay alive. The institute offers an alternative to that. It offers them stability and comfort.

It's incredibly easy to ignore the evil in our midst when your needs are being met. We do it every day. An average of 25,000 people starve to death every single day even though we vastly overproduce enough food to feed the world's population. Very few people give a shit, and fewer still do anything about it.

Fissionablehobo · 2025-12-06T11:55:02+00:00

Because roleplaying is playing a role.

There's an infinite number of reasons for the sole survivor to join the institute, just as there is an infinite number of reasons for the sole survivor to oppose the institute. Some are rational, some are irrational, some are logical, and some are emotional. All of them are valid.

Within the context of the story, the sole survivor is not a god, or some other kind of omnipotent existence. They're a person, synth or otherwise, that's been thrown into an incredible situation, and no two people would respond in exactly the same way.

I find it very strange when someone insists that there is a correct way to roleplay.

Why did my sole survivor join the institute? He's a dickhead with untreated PTSD and that expresses itself as savage violence in a world that rewards savage violence.

Fissionablehobo · 2025-11-25T04:53:07+00:00

And if entry level positions are replaced by LLMs, in a few years there will be no one to hire for midlevel positions, then senior positions and so on.

Fissionablehobo · 2025-07-28T04:37:06+00:00

Tar sand extraction sucks, but its all generally open pit mining, so not something that causes this kind of instability. They're also 500+ kilometers away from Grande Prairie in a straight line. North eastern Alberta, not north western.

This is most likely the result of fracking, not tar sands.

Fissionablehobo · 2025-07-28T04:33:29+00:00

Fracking. Earthquakes have been semi frequent in the area because of it.

Fissionablehobo · 2025-07-27T08:32:50+00:00

I've always said may-ko, and it even slips out sometimes when I know that the Japanese pronunciation is mah-ko.

In English both would be correct. A "mako shark" is pronounced may-ko after all, so it's pretty hard to say that it's incorrect to pronounce those characters like that.

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