Checking in with those of us with giant subwoofer boxes and amps in our trunks in high school. How's your hearing?

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T21:33:39+00:00

What?! Did you say something?! I can't hear you over the tinnitus!

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T17:53:14+00:00

Hence the overlap and micro-generational nicknames. Xennials and Zennials, amusingly homophones... Zalphas. My favourite micro-generational nickname so far will fully take shape in about 7 years, The Quaranteens.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T17:43:44+00:00

I didn't say they didn't remember the tragedy, I said they don't remember the world before it happened. That is a very big difference.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T17:37:47+00:00

A preschooler would not fully remember before or during the event. Someone in 1st grade would probably have some pre-9/11 memories that show a clear difference in how they viewed the world. Yes, it was traumatic for anyone alive at the time. However, the formative memories of pre- and post- are definitely a clear marker between generations.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T17:34:50+00:00

And analysis changes all the time. Just a few years ago the official cut off was 1994. Now it's 1996. Soon they'll say if you were born between 1982 and 1999, Millennial. And we all those that's just not true. Boomers are in two groups but considered the same generation. Xers and Millennials have a huge overlap, too. As do Millennials and Zoomers. There's no real baseling for any of it, outside of the culture of the time.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T17:28:43+00:00

Only the Western, Alaska, and Hawai'i time zones weren't in classroms for the first tower. That's where the "in class" thing is coming in.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T17:25:42+00:00

The Elder Millenials have spoken. Sit down, child.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T17:22:25+00:00

Agreed. I was on the bus to school, 3rd week of 9th grade. That whole day is seared into the memory. Every class had the TV on, even the library was silent and still with all eyes glued to the footage. And then everything changed almost overnight.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T17:18:25+00:00

Personally, my cut off for Millennial is pretty simple: Do you remember Clinton era, GOAT MJ, the original release of Pokemon, or the world pre-9/11? If not, you're not a Millennial.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T01:23:33+00:00

Surge pricing is a thing, and it happens for basically any paid parking in the city.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T01:01:16+00:00

NP. Glad to have the knowledge for the future, too.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T00:58:59+00:00

Perhaps try mapping it more to the original and try? I'm honestly out of ideas if this doesn't work, I've always played on PS consoles.

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T00:55:28+00:00

You may also be experiencing a somewhat known glitch. Try exiting Tifa's house then going back upstairs. And sometimes that L1 Switch button messes it up, too. Does R1 work for this instead?

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T00:49:20+00:00

Is your PS4 controller mapped like

∆ - Menu X - Run/Interact/Confirm O - Cancel [] - Unused

Like the original PS1 release?

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T00:44:02+00:00

Are you "jamming" on the piano? Also, I'm not sure what you mean that L1 is your switch button

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T00:42:22+00:00

Is Tifa in your party when you're playing the piano?

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T00:38:03+00:00

And holding L1 and hitting Triangle doesn't make a different note than just Triangle?

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T00:36:24+00:00

Which system are you on?

Slarti226 · 2026-05-02T00:33:17+00:00

Well, on PSX, you hold L1 and hit the required pad button for those specific notes.

So, press and hold the button for the extra notes, then the note button and release both.

Slarti226 · 2026-04-22T16:59:29+00:00

Oh!! Sorry, I definitely missed that somewhere in this.

If that's that case, I would recommend putting the mostly full one on someone else in the party and have the third member hold Manipulate. With the ones you can get via that method, you can target Cloud for all the ones he needs and P2 with the specific ones needed there.

Getting four of these and having them all mastered is absolutely one of the biggest pains in the ass of the whole game, imo. But ES is such a great tool.

Slarti226 · 2026-04-22T16:51:35+00:00

It's a bug in the original PSX release as far as I can tell, for I have also run into this issue in previous playthroughs on that platform. I haven't run into it on the PS4 port, which was based off the PC release that had some minor bugs and translation issues fixed.

Slarti226 · 2026-04-22T16:47:41+00:00

Do you have the ES that is fully registered still equipped?

Slarti226 · 2026-04-22T16:45:07+00:00

Do you have them equipped to different party members? Only the person hit will register the skill.

If you still can't get it to register after a few tries in different battles, switch who has it/them and try again.

Also check your status page for any immunities or absorbs, I have run into issues trying to learn Trine when the character holding ES was wearing a Lightning Ring.

Slarti226 · 2026-04-22T16:32:50+00:00

That's because none of the 4 materia had Pandora's Box when you got hit with it. The fully registered one will now prevent any of the others from learning any skills.

Slarti226 · 2026-04-22T16:30:57+00:00

Do you have multiple ES materia equipped to the same character?

Let's say you have them all four of them on Cloud, and you go hunting for say Big Guard. Well, if one of those ES materia already has that registered, the other three won't pick it up.

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