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I was paraphrasing Servo himself, though the wife does find my voice sexy, so...
Exactly. LA UTH may be less risque, but the results are the same. We've been stuck on loop saying LA/HA doesn't matter for this very reason for more than a decade.
A little over 14 years, in fact.
Time Warp was in fact the right choice and shut like this is why.
Sometimes it's 2024, sometimes it's 1997, sometimes it's all the time in between. All it takes is a jump to the left.
I like it. It's not a perfect fusion of names but it gets the idea across without the confusion if sounding like a real name. Besides... well Vegito and Gotenks both exist so clearly perfection is not required.
We needed more stupid cursed fusions. Luke Yamcha and Krillin. become Krimcha or Yallin. Or Krillin and Trunks could form Krunks, the most stoned earth defender, finally unseating Chiaotzu.
Thanks for standin' still!
Changing subjects only slightly, all the characters in TF and TF2 are paid mercs. You know who else is a badass Mercenary? Cloud. Imagine him (and the rest of the crew) meeting the TF2 gang.
Ah yes, I forget how bad some humans are at being honest with themselves.
It's a defense mechanism gone awry, basically.
Their lying ways will always be back then.
Until they accept the facts of the matter, yes. So possibly always.
Can't hear you, W+M1 style checking the entire base.
Spray the "bubbles" everywhere!
He may quiver with frustration until he explodes like a blue sea mine.
Sonic's greatest enemy. Waiting.
That is why you succeed as often as you do, yes. The moral is, Yoda was wrong.
Yoda was, I think, mostly irritated at Luke's defeatism and being a sassy bastard about it rather than trying to dispense glorious sage wisdom.
I trust you got there in the end. And the mental speed bump you hit on the way there is also hilarious, so bonus.
I can but hope it amused.
No, not an echo. I can't really describe it, especially since the first time wasn't even deliberate. I asked my people to describe it, and roomie says it literally sounds as if two people with the same voice and inflection are speaking in perfect unison. It's tricky and sometimes I can't make it happen on command, understanding wtf I'm doing just might make it easier.
Oh as a side note, the only voice this works with is the previously described Vegeta inspired low rasp. Not my normal speaking voice or any other I regularly do.
That sounds similar to the way I produce the stereo effect. It's much easier to do when pitching low and raspy.
She was young enough to have a bald belly for her first walkies in snow. With shirt little dachshund legs. She decided she preferred the life of a scarf pretty quickly.
Yeah that would do it.
I mean she'll be like, Auron's age. That's knocking on death's door by JRPG standards, even without Auron's little... incident.
If we skip the full 15 from Dirge, she'll be 34, making her one year younger than Barret at the start of 7 and remake. Fun fact, he celebrates a birthday during the bouncing around the planet. Actually probably around when they're in Costa del Sol or Corel.
You know, I've said some dumb shit in defense if a position I wanted to be true. We were all young once, I have no shame admitting it. But I eventually learned to listen to what I was saying and realize that if my arguments were dumb, made up garbage it meant I didn't have an actual point.
Do people actively fight self-awareness to prevent same happening to them?
Some do, yeah. I've said before, there are two types of people who hate being wrong. There's the type who strive to be correct and the type who just refuse to admit they were ever wrong.
The ends justify the means to some... except here the end is immutable and already determined so they have to lie about that too.
Aerith being dead is I think part of why the LTD is so long lasting, but also why it gets to insane, since it means things "ending up" C/A are always just a bit off kilter.
Ah, if course. Only the bits that don't support them are heresy. Again it's sad how easily this could be mistaken for political commentary.
It does serve as a neat microcosm of things that happen in the wider world, yes.
I bloody hope so. Like, I need this to be "you said what to Granny Weather wax?!" levels of harsh. That is... just... fuck whoever did that.
The usual suspects, basically. Anastar, Cali, etc.
I think I may remember that comic, or another that made broadly the same joke. But yeah, like we mentioned it's all just a spiral of death pink. Some new flotsam and detritus may was in now and then, buts the same old tide pushing and pulling it around and around.
It was a pretty common joke. And yeah, I have found the one constant with culty cleriths is that everything is permitted so long as it furthers the goal of convincing people C/A is endgame. Even if it contradicts the story, even if it contradicts what you said five minutes ago.
To borrow your recent reassurances, no pressure. You'll have it when you have it
I did find a good chunk of them posted recently, so that'll help.
Aerith may be a special fish in a small pond, but said pond was full of bull sharks and crocodiles. Imagine Aerith saying the Scout's classic line from the old Meet the Blank vids...
Aerith: If you were from, where I was from? You'd be fuckin' dead.
And marvel that it works quite well for her
Now I'm imagining Aerith but Bostonian. Maybe in the nonsense TF2.FF7 crossover Scout is from Midgar.
I still contend that those vague ass statements were at least sometimes carefully chosen to appear meaningful while not meaning much of anything. Which is not prophecy, any more than cold reading.
Oh yeah, they were calculated, but not prophetic. Reeve has access to information but he's not a prognosticator, he just play acts like one.
What's the record for number of pages without needing to remind someone of what exactly is being debated in these threads? I imagine it's higher than I think, lower than it should be.
10 pages maybe?
These are things to hate regardless of who does them or why.
You have to have standards.
I love you man, here I actively chose not to say exactly this and you did it for all of us.
To say what needs to be said, how it needs to be said and when is an art and I try and practice it regularly.
I'll go one further for CulTists and say fuck them in particular for debating in bad faith when they have no need to do so. At least CAlt members downing gallons of pink kool-aide don't have true things to prove their case. Unless they concede the truth, lies and distractions are all they have. People who claim Cloti could just be honest and lose nothing.
It does not excuse it, but I wonder how much of it is predicated on spite for things CALtists say and wanting to get back at them? I remember on a few occasions I spun a wild yarn about Aerith- noting that it was bullshit, mind you- engaging in some heinous activity, prostitution sometimes, selling hard drugs mostly- as an example of how shitty it was to hear that about Tifa and how bad it made people look to make those sort of theories legitimately.
This being the internet, I did have a few people not realize I was trying to use an object lesson and that I did not actually believe or advocate these things.
Aerith the weed dealer is just a delightfully silly image, though.
JFC those are just extra bad takes.
"Say whatever it takes" and all that.
Seriously, if you could look inside Cloud's mind in that moment you probably wouldn't even have to Where's Waldo through all the Tifa to find that regret. It'd be writ large.
Tifa would still be there because she's on a constant GOTO loop, but yes. I mean look at how he acted the second he remembered Zack. It was massive guilt at simple the thought of forgetting Zack existed. Imagine how bad it gets when he remembers Zack died so he could live.
It should be pointed out that no one is claiming this to be the right course of action. But it is the one everyone sticks with until Cloud breaks, and it's out of genuine concern. We'll never know if it would have been better or worse to just rip the band-aide off
It's the best course of action available to them at this moment. The right course of action would involve stopping everything and working through his problems but both Shinra and Sephiroth kibosh that plan by virtue of being on their tail and fucking with Cloud respectively.
I don't think it would be a controversial position among you lot that being close friends with Zack makes you more special rather than less. To paraphrase Wreck-it Ralph: "If that awesome bro likes me, how lame could I be?"
Now I'm curious what the WIR versions of the characters who know they're in a video game are like. Gilgamesh is exactly the same. He sort of already knows.
Every time someone tried to say Zack in Remake and Cloud's hearing went out, I winced in sympathy. Because as much as he's going to beat on himself for forgetting Zack later, remembering him right now would shatter Cloud.
I'd have to double check but I think those were gray static moments, too. Meaning his subconscious was doing it.
My jaw dropped when he pulled that off. I still wonder what the in-universe reason for this earlier development is. Cloud doesn't seem appreciably healthier mentally than in the OG, aside from not violently assaulting Aerith. But then, he and Tifa are developing faster this go around. Related?
Could be. It's definitely a him thing. The brain flashes are color coded and gray static is used in OG, Remake and Every Crisis to represent real Cloud.
Edit: I somehow italicized my whole post and cba to fix it, sorry. Ryu, may I blame your cat plzkthx
Feel free. She knocked down the center channel on my home theater the other day so a tiny bit of extra blame will do her no harm.
Jenova cells and mako infusions help by making him consistently badass. He had none of that when he grabbed a sword and went full blender on a unit of evil super soldiers, nor when he overpowered and killed Sephiroth.
You have to wonder how much of Cloud being casually superhuman without Jenova is genetic and how much is due to constant mako exposure from playing around on mt nibel as a child.
Exactly, that mountain dwelling kid from the sticks is enough, he was always enough. Clouds struggle to me isn't about accepting that he isn't Captain America, it's about his sense of self-worth being so low he can't see that he already is.
He's like if Thor thought he was just Donald Blake and desperately wanted to become Captain America even as he is just sort of absent mindedly lifting cars to look for lost pets.
The sad thing is, him going after Tifa is where the problem starts, as far as I can tell. Because he didn't save her then, he convinced himself he was too weak, too worthless. He overlooked the fact that he not only survived that fall, he was barely injured.
This is also a fun connection for future events btw, with how he failed to rescue the girl but he tried and that's enough for said girl. History repeats on that one.
It's also a nice bookend for when he absolutely does rescue the girl when she's in a pinch in the final moments of the game.
But we got that ending in AC. The only reason why Sephiroth could stick around was because of Cloud's hatred. After Cloud defeated him in the end, and the Lifestream was healed, it was heavily implied Cloud let go of that hatred. It's definitely a possibility that Sephiroth could return post AC, but it's just as possible he won't
IIRC it was Sephiroth's hatred of Cloud that let him stick around, not the other way around. Feel free to fact check me on that one.