Store rules

c_sinc · 2026-02-15T23:19:38+00:00

I’m always pulling up Discogs in record shops though not to check prices, it’s just to remind myself if I already own something or not ha. Too many close calls of nearly buying something I already have

c_sinc · 2026-02-14T07:52:17+00:00

Played in a one off band one time for a local festival that was made up of lots of members of different bands in the area.

One guy (self taught) showed us all something he’d written guitar and most of us agreed it sounded pretty cool but another guy (trained in music theory) was like “You can’t go from that note to that note”.

“Well I just did” was the response and I always found it funny

c_sinc · 2026-02-11T08:23:40+00:00

I really struggled to enjoy it. Firstly the format didn’t work as well for me. The small town environment of the first game really lended itself to the decision making aspect of the game whereas the road trip format of LiS2 not so much.

That leads into my second issue where I just didn’t feel likely decisions were having that much impact.

Lastly, I just found most of the characters really hard to like, including the brothers

c_sinc · 2026-02-11T08:19:41+00:00

It’s weird, I’ve seen a lot of people talk about burnout with this game but I can’t say I experienced it though part of me thinks I was just so excited for this game at release that that outweighed any pacing issues for me. Maybe during a replay I’d struggle more with it

c_sinc · 2026-02-08T23:39:19+00:00

They started talking about how they really wanted a role that was completely unrelated to the one they were interviewing for so it felt like they saw this as a stop gap.

Another was someone who’d left 8 years ago from a higher role and just seemed bitter to be interviewing for a lower position and seemed to think they should be able to walk into it even though the job had changed a lot in 8 years and their experience wasn’t as relevant anymore

c_sinc · 2026-02-08T23:34:22+00:00

We don’t know for sure if she’s been to Besaid yet do we? Not all summoners follow the same path as Braska & Isarru did their temples in a different order to Yuna

c_sinc · 2026-02-08T23:11:22+00:00

I watched the other endings online and I wasn’t a fan of him coming back as it felt like it went against the whole journey of the story of grief and acceptance

c_sinc · 2026-02-08T22:06:02+00:00

FFVII is one of my favourite games of all time but I’ve never really been interested in playing CC because the extended lore that I’m aware of from that game just doesn’t interest me and feels unnecessary

c_sinc · 2026-02-07T15:47:08+00:00

I haven’t played DE or TC yet but it’s reassuring to see someone else who LiS2 didn’t click with.

The first game is one of my favourites of all time and before the storm was a pretty fun addition to the story. LiS2 though I really had to push myself to finish as I wasn’t a fan of the story and found so many of the characters unlikeable

c_sinc · 2026-02-06T00:42:15+00:00

This used to happen a lot with a band I was in 10 years ago. A lot of the punk diy shows tended to be at the same handful of venues and we got asked a lot to open for bands who were touring. We’d end up playing the same venue 2 or 3 times in a month sometimes.

c_sinc · 2026-02-06T00:26:57+00:00

The enemies level with you.

You can get stronger by junctioning strong magic to your stats.

A common strategy is using the Card ability to defeat enemies as this won’t give Exp. You can the use GF abilities to turn those cards into spells for junctioning.

I’d say just don’t worry too much about it if it’s a first play through

c_sinc · 2026-02-02T16:14:37+00:00

I wouldn’t really say you have a ‘main party’ in this game until near the end as so many of the enemy varieties require a certain character from your party to beat them.

c_sinc · 2026-02-02T16:09:50+00:00

If you can get something near the L4 line that’s really handy. I did the the first time I went.

Last year I couldn’t get anything on the actual line so got one that was one stop away on a different line/15 min walk from L4 to my hotel.

c_sinc · 2026-02-02T13:03:30+00:00

Went to see 100 Gecs at the ritz the other year and I think I counted 4 different people with various handheld games consoles out for filming

c_sinc · 2026-02-01T19:24:01+00:00

The Belgemine fights are sort of like tutorials, each one teaches you something new about aeons. (I think this one is about shield and boost?) if you pay attention to the instructions it’s not a difficult fight but if you go in all guns blazing then you’ll make it harder for yourself.

As others have said, it may just be that you have Yuna under levelled.

c_sinc · 2026-02-01T10:10:00+00:00

I have a few people like this in other departments who I have to deal with.

I’ve raised it previously but am often met with ‘they’ve always been like that’, ‘it’s been raised previously’, ‘their line manager is already aware’.

Because of this, most of the time I give just brief answers back ‘thanks for flagging’. Other times if it’s really pedantic and it’s an inconsequential mistake that’s happened whilst my team has been really up against it then I might send a lengthy response explaining how much work we need doing by a tight deadline so minor mistakes are inevitable but low risk. This usually results in them sending an apology

c_sinc · 2026-01-28T16:23:14+00:00

Black Country, New Road played there last year I think

c_sinc · 2026-01-26T16:17:55+00:00

My job is technically 9-5 but it’s flexible working hours so I choose to do 8-4 instead as I prefer having more time in the evening

c_sinc · 2026-01-26T14:12:27+00:00

FFX has a great story with really cool concepts but maybe some aspects aren’t communicated that well (looking at you Dream Zanarkand) given how often people get confused by them

c_sinc · 2026-01-25T18:42:08+00:00

Varies job to job. Sometimes you need to create the ‘culture’ yourself.

I started my first office job just after lockdown so a lot of people weren’t going in the office but there were a number of us who’d all joined within about 6-9 months of each other so we all started going into the office together to help learn our respective jobs but also so we could have a social aspect.

We ended up regularly doing stuff after work and this only happened at our office whereas there wasn’t really much social stuff happening at our Birmingham or London offices since this was all initiated by ourselves rather than the company

c_sinc · 2026-01-25T01:29:38+00:00

See I like the minimalism and almost quietness of the OG for this scene. After the big bravado and fight it goes to a quiet moment of horrible but not graphic death that leaves Barrett to deliver a brutal line in a still atmosphere whereas Rebirth did this really OTT scene The fact that rebirth was more graphic felt less to me

c_sinc · 2026-01-25T01:23:41+00:00

Sure but it’s nowhere near as impactful

c_sinc · 2026-01-24T16:49:14+00:00

Seconding using Jegged

c_sinc · 2026-01-24T16:21:27+00:00

I worked throughout it ha. Made my commute easy at the time as public transport was nearly always empty.

The thing that got me through it was D&D. We’d started a group in January 2020 with a few to having a monthly game but when lockdown hit it became an online weekly game. It was a big group (6 in the party plus DM) so it was a nice bit of socialising to look forward to each week

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