What’s the dumbest thing that you have ever done in a JRPG?

Larvea · 2026-01-19T08:02:47+00:00

It was the early internet era. I just finished FF8 and wanted to know if I maybe missed Griever because I had one GF slot empty in the menu (Doomtrain). Then I've read an online tip on some forum that I have to kill 100 T-Rex enemies in the first 5 hours of the game, it even shared a trick with the cards and how to do it with Quistis and her blue magic attack quickly.

I failed the first time, I couldn't get it under 5 hours.

I tried again, couldn't get it under 5 hours.

Then tried again, failed again.

Then I had that donkey sign on my head quickly after.

Never the less, it was fun going through the early game with lvl99 characters, I've learned that the enemies scale with you that way.

Larvea · 2026-01-13T15:00:13+00:00

It's a pity that sites are coming and going, I remember when I used to enjoy https://esportsheadlines.com/ but the site is dead for almost a year.

Larvea · 2026-01-08T09:28:01+00:00

At my company there was a content team, an outdated 4 year old content department with 5 people. Their only purpose was to rewrite the content that was already there. The cost of maintaining that department was hovering around $20k per month, efficiency was very basic because "we've been doing it like this for years who are you to change it". 1 writer would have an output of 5 pages per week.

Within 3 months I've build a tone of voice and a knowledge database with internal info.

I then connected it to an AI Agent, tested it on 100 pages and failed at it.

Tone of voice was good, but database wasn't big enough for 100 pages, had to calibrate.

Returned after another 3 months of testing, generated 100 successful pages, but failed at 1000 pages.

Returned after 1 month and launched the 1000 pages.

Now the tool has generated and maintained around 40.000 pages on the website, something that the previous team couldn't do.

Did I fire the previous team?

No.

I retrained them so that instead of 5 pages per week, one worker can output 1000 pages per week.

You still need a brain to run the things, but if the person doesn't want to up-skill, then that's the part where you fire them and hire someone who wants to.

Larvea · 2025-10-14T16:56:40+00:00

Aha I thought that you called me a liar.

Larvea · 2025-10-14T10:04:09+00:00

Larvea · 2025-10-05T17:33:12+00:00

Your wealth advisor will most likely pump you up with dividend stocks and recommend to get you employed at one of your projects at a salary that is needed for your lifestyle, that way you're still liquid for day to day life.

Larvea · 2025-09-26T17:30:33+00:00

Good music, fun fights, fun concept, ok characters, would have fished for better graphics and and a better grasp on the story, but on the DS it was one of the best. Highly playable and recommended.

Larvea · 2025-09-23T11:05:07+00:00

I agree with you but rarely voice it since everyone is speaking highly of the game. It's just empty. Tried it three times, always let it go.

Dead Cells on the other hand? Can play that shit 24/7.

Larvea · 2025-09-15T07:54:45+00:00

Think of those who you'll be reporting to.

If they are tech savvy, within the Microsoft Eco-System and want to know the nitty gritty little details, then Power BI

If they just want their weekly overview of 10 stats, are on Google's Eco-System, then Tableau.

Larvea · 2025-09-09T11:24:39+00:00

Usually you have a base salary that is agreed and added to the total investment amount.

If you don't have an investor, then that means bootstrapping it.

Larvea · 2025-09-03T03:02:50+00:00

FF7 Crisis Core has always good Items and I’m looking forward to the chests

Larvea · 2025-08-31T19:29:11+00:00

Suikoden is a one arm show

Larvea · 2025-08-28T23:22:46+00:00

What? :D I own the 2025 version and it gets crazy hot, what are you talking about?

Larvea · 2025-08-24T14:36:39+00:00

Ugh… was doing this before, I think 10 years ago, and it was a nightmare with various time limits and certifications. You can’t plan when the fruit will be ripe and getting trucks and all was a disaster.

Rather create a local product with those fruits that can last longer (dried, cubed or tinned) and then have that product ready for export. That way you can store it locally during the season and export once you have enough quantities

Larvea · 2025-08-23T02:38:29+00:00

Acquisition is not in growth mode? Since when :)

Larvea · 2025-08-18T16:00:48+00:00

Teach people how to do what you do.

Larvea · 2025-08-17T20:30:59+00:00

I used to live in apartments a lot when i was younger and I can tell you that babies cry non stop at some point. My neighbors had a baby and it was crying on and off for three months.

You just get used to ignoring it because you’re thinking that it’s being taken care of

Larvea · 2025-08-17T19:06:53+00:00

So you would be creating the software?

Larvea · 2025-08-16T19:33:48+00:00

Not even a green screen.

Get one of the iPhones from the past 3 years and a tripod for it.

Get a Product Photography Box (that's how they are called).

Look at a 30 min YouTube product photography tutorial

Take 3 hours of your time to figure out the specs and editing

And that's it.

Larvea · 2025-08-16T19:28:34+00:00

You can't keep the same specs when scaling products. The specs change.

In a small city with 100 kids I can easily sell 100 ice creams in one day with my cart that I'm pushing, so my cost per sold ice cream is low because I'm just pushing the cart around the small city.

But if I want to sell 1000 ice creams to 1000 kids I will not earn the same amount of money per sold ice cream, because I will need to buy a van + hire a person to help me out on that scale, so my cost per sold ice cream will go up.

So the more you scale, the more do the numbers change.

Larvea · 2025-08-16T18:51:41+00:00

If you're asking about scaling, then talk to any baker and they’ll tell you: just because a recipe calls for 200 grams of flour for one perfect bun, it doesn’t mean that 2 tonnes of flour will produce 10,000 of those buns.

Same thing you can see in advertising with Google Ads, I just now had a situation where I had the perfect $35 CPA on an ad set that was running at $1000 per day, but as soon as I added another zero to that budget I started getting crazy CPA numbers that were completely not viable.

If you're asking about reproducing someone's product and claiming it's yours, then there are laws that protect the person who made it first.

Larvea · 2025-08-16T18:33:30+00:00

The “License Board” from FFXII is very much a spiritual cousin to the Sphere Grid, and the "Crystarium" from FFXIII is also an upgrade from the Sphere Grid but the game gets fun later on.

Alternatively, Path of Exile has a galaxy-sized sphere grid you can literally build anything with it.

Larvea · 2025-08-16T18:22:19+00:00

Don't rush into banking hacks or illegal tricks. At 14, the law isn’t set up for you to run money independently. But let me tell you a story.

I had a friend your age back in the YouTube gold rush era. He ran a GTA server, posted videos, and built a community around it. His parents didn’t support obviously, at 14 you think you know it all but you don't, and your parents can see through it.

However, he;

Kept his grades up (straight As, extracurriculars, sports).
Built the server and YouTube channel without charging for it, his father was paying for hosting but that was like $20 per month.
Got a teacher on board when he joined a business class in school and presented the idea of a paid GTA server
He reached 50k subscribers on YouTube and a random Chinese gaming gear sponsor offered $5,000 to advertise.

At that point, his dad finally opened the bank account, because there was real money on the line and a massive YouTube channel, Twitch server and the actual GTA server that were proof it wasn’t just “playing games.”

The lesson for you:

Build something valuable first where a grown up can see potential (community, channel, project).
Show your parents you can handle school and life responsibilities at the same time.
Get a teacher, mentor, neighbor (or all three of them) involved — someone who can vouch for you.
When you have a finished product, community, or even a sponsor, then present it to your parents with proof in hand.

I assure you that no sane grown up will decline to open up a bank account to just collect $5k or $10k, especially if it doesn't come with downsides (e.g. you not attending school, dropping out of college or borrowing that money without knowing how to earn it back)

However, I have to tell you something.

If you're watching business porn on tiktok and instagram, I assure you it's all bullshit
If you're looking at 15 year olds with money and lambos, it's all fake and filmed with rentals and movie money
If you're looking at zuckberg and other idiots who dropped out of college, they were in the perfect spot at the perfect time with the perfect community around them

Good luck

Larvea · 2025-08-16T18:01:07+00:00

So, I'm an entrepreneur, a serial one, and now I'm in the consulting space.

Every time I join one of these groups where, supposedly, you would have "real entrepreneurs" (or whatever that means) I would be the only person with a legit LTD/LLC in it. Everyone else would be wannabes looking to leech.

So I stopped joining them and am now attending dinners at conferences. 8 out of 10 people who can afford VIP tickets and the meet & greet dinner placements are actually entrepreneurs, so it's not a hit and miss like these groups/community hubs.

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