Dat Oni

My apologies, Franz.

Okay, that makes sense. So, I went over my points, and yeah, there's errors here and there, but nothing clarification/minor edits cannot fix. However, after learning that the person calling me a fucking Strawman is a blatant Homophobe, I feel as though clarifying myself to him would just be a waste of time. His argument stems from a bias towards hate, and I don't think I'm going to convince him of anything, at this point.

Is it really a strawman if you, the original poster, just won't admit that it's what you implied? It may not have been your intention, but that's very much how it came off. Now if you must know why I tend to make my LGBT friendliness open (though I do not have it mentioned in my player search as there just isn't enough room), there are two reasons: 1. So people dealing with similar issues can feel safe knowing that I will neither judge them or their characters for sexual orientation or gender identity. 2. Because I get tired of having a number of male characters making not-so-vague attempts at straightening Vetiver or Foxglove's gay away when they will never, ever have a chance to begin with. It's a waste of my time and frankly demeaning, especially when I am actively seeking RP partners willing to provide companionship on a number of levels. So yes, just because it's useless to you doesn't mean it isn't to me or someone else. Speak for yourself and not others, yes? I'm sorry, but I want to make sure I'm reading this right... Did he just call me a strawman for not agreeing with him?

Implications of your statement: 1. LGBT characters are looking for sexual relationships only. 2. Demisexuality can never exist. 3. Avoiding the opposite sex because of lack of sexual interest is not valid. 4. No player would like to know a character's orientation ahead of time so they don't ICly hit on their character only to have it amount to nothing but embarrassment. And so on. I'm fairly sure that doesn't count as useless information.

I'm not pretending the fight just suddenly ended; it did't, but, one tremendous obstacle has been cleared. Let's treat it like the Moon landing: It can only get more awesome from here.

The creme pie heard 'round the world.

In 1977, Anita Bryant, former spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission began her "Save Our Children" campaign, a movement based on protecting children from the alleged pedophiliac tendencies of LGBTs by repealing local ordinance in Dade County that protected citizens from discrimination based on sexual orientation. Anita was just one of many people who believed Homosexuality to be a sin, a choice taken by human beings for the sole purpose of corrupting the sanctity of marriage and harming innocent children and animals under a facade of love. So, why do I focus on Anita when there are so many other examples of those opposed to Gay Marriage? Because she is the mold for those opposed. An old, bitter lady who grew up in Conservative right-wing America, holding onto values designed to protect us from the unknown in an era where anyone who wasn't White, male and God-Fearing effectively had no speaking power. This. This old, bitter lady and those like her, is what we, the LGBT community, have been fighting against for centuries. It looks silly, doesn't it? How unintimidating could someone possibly be? And yet, she, and others like her, have been keeping people like me under their thumb, scared stiff of communities of God-Fearing, no, difference-fearing humans. And then someone got up, said "No more", and pied her in the fucking face. On tv, no less. The ultimate "shut the fuck up" from a community that abhorred violence but felt the need to lash out in some way against these absurd campaigns. 38 years later, on June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court would rule bans on Gay Marriage unconstitutional. Gay Conversion Therapy, in the same stroke, was ruled consumer fraud, simply because it did not work. Yet, still, the prejudice remains. The old men and women hang on to their bibles and preach the end of days because a man loves a man and somehow this is wrong. The Transgender community faces cries of pedophilia for wanting to use the women's bathroom. Stupidity continues to pervade the country. But in spite of this cancer, I look back to that fateful day in 1977...And I know everything will be alright. Why? Because coconut creme pies exist. But enough of the history lessons. Let's celebrate another monumental decision in the US' history! Good on ya, Americans! Canada is proud.

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I've found this community can be particularly bloody cruel when it wants to be. Without saying any names, I can cite at least 3 examples where I either personally had to deal with someone turning others against me, or have had it happen to a friend and had to act as fucking mediator. Let me give you the harshest example, with some vagueness to preserve anonymity. About a year ago, I was removed from a LS by a "mod" if you will, not the LS founder, for being a bit too irritable at the time, which is understandable. However, I noted that I had not received a warning, and the mod in question had a habit of knee-jerk ban-hammers, so I contacted the higher-up to discuss the ban and whether it was appropriate, as well as talk things out regarding my behavior. Not halfway through the resulting conversation, I was informed by a friend that said higher-up had been feeding the LS my every fucking statement to them for purposes of mockery. I had been made a laughing stock. To quote the higher-up, "I'm sorry you were offended by something said on the internet." At that point, the entire thing changed. No longer was this about due process for breaking the rules. Instead of merely giving me the proper punishment, it was now suddenly appropriate to make of me a total laughing stock and ruin my reputation. Friends started receiving messages telling them I was a joke. My RP attempts got knee-jerk "Oh god it's you" responses from people. I was harassed by random individual after random individual. You get the gist of it. Again, this was over a year ago. I have yet to fully live it down. I'm still getting harassed, and as far as I know, I'm still the butt of the LS' jokes. I've openly apologized for my behavior, before, and yet the harassment continues. It all went from an aesop on not venting openly in a LS to a case study in how to ruin someone's life. When shit like this happens, I honestly feel like the RP community is a bunch of trolls. Which is really bloody sad, because I migrated here from a community that objectively was a bunch of fucking trolls.1 Our attitudes toward OOC drama and behavior needs to change, because people can and will be hurt by this. It's intolerable. 1Said community is about as populated as the Sahara, nowadays. They are effectively dead.

Devs do their best now and are preparing. Please look forward to it until it is ready.

I could've sworn we buried the naysayers. Did they come back as lore-zombies in the wake of Heavensward? I'll go get my shotgun.

"Meh, back in MY DAY, we didn' 'ave yer fancy-schmancy ATB bars. We'd perform all er actions in one dern turn, and no amount o' Hastes 'ould make it go any faster. An' if'n yer party members fell over, yer curaja 'ould still be used on ther god-derned corpse! It were dark times, fellar, and WE LOVED E'RRY SECOND, meh...!"

I officially need that for Kopo. I shall call it...Anklebiter.

Id actually prefer it tbh. Precisely. I have to agree with Nomura on this. We have the original. In fact, we have a more accessible version of the original. The man is anticipating gamers like myself who aren't going to shell out 60 fucking dollars for an HD version of the same goddamn game. My Remake Policy: Either shake it up a bit, or you're wasting my time.

Would a real-time battle system or something similar to what FFXV is doing that takes advantage of the enhanced graphics and full range of motion hurt the game in any way?

You know, I just realized something. I have been here before. So many goddamn times, even. More times than one can deem necessary to stay sane. If each exposure to this same argument or breed of argument, even, were equal to a slight dip of my toe in radioactive goop, I would either have immense toe-based superpowers or terminal cancer. I would be emitting so much radiation my house would have to have walls made of lead. I honestly thought I would escape it, I really did, but today, you proved I never will. How did you accomplish this task? By somehow derailing a discussion about FFVII into another copy/paste "Let's riff on FFXIII" waste of time! A game that came out six years ago and whose subsequent sequels became just as relevant two years ago! Not only is it old enough that veterans of the constant fanbase forum-centered warfare such as myself cannot resist a mighty eyeroll in the face of such absurdity, but the fact that you took a game that has nothing to do with FF7 and decided to deface it further after everyone else did a hundred times over is just awe-inspiring. I applaud you. Well done. All kneel before you, your awfulness, you are beating a dead horse-no, you dug it up, and now you're beating up its skeleton! And thus, I realize, there will be no civil discussion. I know exactly how this is going to play out. It'll all be more of the same: The noise. THE NOISE. "Final Hallway! I'm gonna go play FFX! I'm sure it's not nearly as linear!" "Tap A to win every single battle!" "The games I have been ignoring for decades are suddenly worth playing because I've been shown what REAL crap is like and I sure as hell won't repeat the process with this game years from now!" "Sephiroth is a cooler villain that Orphan or Caius or Barthandy...Bartadu...Bart!" " If there's one thing I hate...It's all the noise, noise, NOISE, NOISE! Blatant nostalgia-bias veiled under what sounds like legitimate complaints. Complaints that don't even try to hide the nostalgia bias! Comments from people who barely played the game before hopping on the bandwagon! People who refused to play anything past the SNES era long before FFXIII ever came out! And the ignorant comments about SE sticking to the Lightning Trilogy when they are clearly moving past it! Beatings of dead horses! Guttural wailing for the supposed "good ol' days" of FF that never existed! Damning a fucking franchise because of pettiness! [align=center]RVvQWZ7mg0U NOISE.[/align]

I did this with Edgar, and got zero shit for it. Go for it.

No, no, I'm pretty sure it's neither so good it's bad or so bad it's good. Not even so bad it's bad. Just... so mediocre it barely bares mentioning. I've spent quite a lot of effort ignoring FFXIII, even while it's installed on my hard drive. It's a really pretty series of corridors, but it wasn't anything to write home about. I will say this, though - I did like some of the cast. Like the little chocobo in Sazh's hair. Some of the best dialogue in the game came from that little guy. ...I'm fairly sure no FF game before has ever put the main cast in a catch-22.

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Welcome to the job!

So many cats. SO. MANY. CATS.

Urge to try it out... dwindling... Ah, don't worry. Cloud is hardly a killing blow to an otherwise good game, you know that.

*Points to Claire Lightning Fairron and Noctis Lucis Caelum* It won't.

"You will learn the Sacred Geometry, you will summon this Squirrel, and you will LOVE IT."