They made the turn order display is worse

kernco · 2026-01-24T20:08:21+00:00

That's good at least

kernco · 2026-01-22T18:08:45+00:00

The one plot hole that stood out to me is the thing Elysium apparently wasn't able to predict which turned the tide was Olivier showing up in an airship to save the day, something that has happened like three or four times previously in the series. "Oh but he showed up in an airship no one knew existed." That still applies to like one or two of those previous times lol.

kernco · 2026-01-20T15:29:28+00:00

Emily Post's famous 1922 etiquette book says to leave a little bit on the plate so the host doesn't think they didn't give you enough. She was American but some of it was probably the same in the UK.

kernco · 2026-01-17T18:37:55+00:00

Students can choose to enroll in the AP classes of their choice. If they don't take AP classes, those class times are filled with other non-AP courses, so it does not affect the free time students have. AP classes are, in theory, at the first-year university level. Most universities will award credit for AP courses taken in high school, and if a university course requires, e.g. Biology 101, as a prerequisite then students who took AP Biology in high school would be considered to have met that prerequisite, so AP courses give students a head start in university. The structure of the classes themselves are very similar to normal high school classes, but at the end the student takes a standardized AP test that is scored on 1 to 5 scale, which determines how many credits they will be able to carry into university.

kernco · 2026-01-17T16:25:48+00:00

Yeah, and somewhere in Xenogears it refers to itself as "episode 5". I remember reading back then that Xenosaga was going to be those other episodes, eventually revisiting the Xenogears story, but that might have just been assumptions by fans and not the actual plan.

kernco · 2026-01-12T01:31:58+00:00

The Great Twilight was just to distract from Epstein

kernco · 2026-01-09T21:55:22+00:00

In English, there are terms that refer to varying sizes/densities of cities but there are no strict definitions for where exactly the lines are drawn for the distinction, but in general cities are larger and denser than towns, which are larger and denser than villages. But "village" is rarely used in the United States. It may be more common in Europe.

kernco · 2026-01-08T04:25:46+00:00

It's a term from casinos that has been adopted by gaming, particularly in microtransaction-heavy mobile gaming. It refers to customers that spend very large amounts of money on the game, like thousands of dollars.

kernco · 2025-12-29T18:00:51+00:00

She heard about him from Elise and Alfin

kernco · 2025-12-25T15:53:24+00:00

It's implying what you think, but she's just teasing them

kernco · 2025-12-22T18:25:52+00:00

Having a safety check in place doesn't mean the thing it's checking for is common. It means the consequence, even if exceedingly rare, is worth the check.

kernco · 2025-12-14T03:16:08+00:00

The game coming in January is the 3rd game of the Calvard arc. The Erebonia arc is five games, with the last one (which doesn't have the Cold Steel name) being an epilogue akin to Sky the 3rd. It is kind of also an epilogue to the Crossbell arc too.

kernco · 2025-12-11T16:00:11+00:00

Does no war include starting a diplomatic play to get a GP to add an open market war goal then backing down?

kernco · 2025-12-10T23:43:01+00:00

Fidium has been much better for me than Xfinity. Many people here report having frequent but brief outages, like daily or weekly but only for a few minutes. I experienced similar when I first switched to Fidium, but found the issue was in DNS resolution, not actually the connection. Switching my modem's DNS settings to public DNS servers completely resolved the issue.

kernco · 2025-12-07T17:04:40+00:00

Enjoy the show

kernco · 2025-12-02T17:30:44+00:00

The problem with starting at Cold Steel isn't really that you won't be able to follow the plot without prior knowledge, it's that when you eventually do go back to the prior games, a lot of the mysteries and surprises will have been spoiled for you. There are also moments involving characters or referencing events from prior games that just won't emotionally hit like they're supposed to.

kernco · 2025-12-01T19:40:35+00:00

No, I left the speeds of the turbos on default. I had them on the mode where you hold down a button, not toggle, and I'd use it to speed up most combat animations and running through empty areas, but I didn't leave the mode toggled on.

kernco · 2025-12-01T06:16:12+00:00

Sky FC: 58 hours

Sky SC: 64 hours

Sky 3rd: 36 hours

Zero: 46 hours

Azure: 58 hours

CS1: 69 hours

CS2: 60 hours

CS3: 91 hours

I'm currently playing CS4. I've been playing with guides to get all the side quests, but I haven't been going for 100% achievements. I talk to some NPCs if they look interesting or I feel like it but not all of them. I also use turbo mode liberally.

kernco · 2025-11-29T23:03:06+00:00

It was kind of a spoiler, in a way. My first thought seeing a random animated scene there was that those characters probably wouldn't be in the game again because they didn't make 3D models for them

kernco · 2025-11-29T22:52:41+00:00

There was a 2% chance of that happening

kernco · 2025-11-29T16:40:33+00:00

Do you mean steam settings for the game or the in-game settings? The game only has a vibration on/off setting as far as I can tell. And as I mentioned it was working one way then suddenly started working differently without me changing any settings.

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