You have to be very precise when commanding and sinking ships, after all.
The difference between A2 and B3 is the difference between victory and defeat after all.
Moreso now than ever, what with the people apparently wanting the Highwind sequence but with Aerith while also denying anything romantic about the version that already exists.
Contradiction baked into an argument does not make a good argument. It's bad and they should feel bad.
Unfathomable is her power.
It is I deed without fathom.
Especially not when the monkeys in question are named "Summer and Winter."
Yep.
That and our love for small animals.
Indeed, my cats know I'm not 100% a dick. Sometimes that's enough.
Wish we weren't in this case, but c'est la vie.
Life is cruel, treats us unfairly.
Better give it a hat just to make sure.
Hats make everything better.
Capsule Corp. They're into everything and everywhere.
I guess the Battle Simulator was a success. Gotta get that interuniversal revenue stream up.
Hell of their own making etc. etc.
That's how I embody Sloth, letting people make their own Hell while I nap.
Also remember consideration is required for a contact to be enforceable, but you still have to fight it in court.
You might be at the rap but you won't be at the ride.
Ad Hominems, that's another. Can't tell you how many times I've had my personage insulted as if it had any bearing on the quality of the argument I presented. Plenty of them were absolute shit at that.
Oh yes, good old Ad Hominem. Honestly that was my favorite back in the day, it said "let's give up the pretence of an actual debate and just insult each other." For a dishonest debate tactics, it could almost be refreshingly honest in its own way.
Technically, this is not necessarily true. A sufficiently stupid person will throw the average off of a 50/50 split ever so slightly. But broadly speaking, yep.
The most Carlin move of all, you just anti-ed a Carlin bit with logic
It's just what George woulda done.
Pre-empting Barret, don't forget.
The best.
This is a problem I have with a lot of the CA arguments as well as a lot of the characterization of Cloud post FFVII. I think it lacks thematic congruency. The best Cloud, imo, is the one who isn't captain america as you put it. In my opinion Cloud should never be Zack, I think the idea of Cloud not being special was core to the impact of his story in the original, and the more the games portray him as "actually, he was always amazing" the less special that story is. I want Cloud to win because he has friends and because of his bonds with them, not because he's simply "him".
Cap is honestly the wrong brush to paint Cloud with. Cap was a sickly small man with the heart of a hero. The Super Soldier program just made the body capable of matching the heart. And he was chosen for the project for that very reason.
By contrast, Cloud had the physical potential for great things from the start, but not the heart. He chose to pursue becoming SOLDIER for selfish reasons, to be good enough for the gurl he loves. And he was rejected for lacking the force of will to stay himself.
Cloud is "just a guy" in the sense that he's very much the Unchosen. He stumbled, failed, and derped his way to being the hero. It was never a role that was chosen for him.
As for being Zack? No, he should not be Zack. There can be only one Chad Puppy. But ... well Cloud killed Sephiroth after Sephiroth ruined Zack's shit so
One of my favorite things about the OG was that Sephiroth essentially just went "who tf are you when you first meet him again (jenova) onboard the boat.
I enjoyed that too the first time. The narrative expanded, and now we just have to accept that Sephy is fucking with our boy there.
Yeah, I absolutely DESPISE the LTD by now. IMO, saying "the story is whatever you want it to be" is the same as saying "there is no story". All the LTD is doing is lessening the developers ability to tell the story as clear, impactful, and focused as possible.
The LTD is indeed silly and pointless. It's a war fought long after it was won. The final shot of the real battle was fired in 97, everything since us some silly shadow war fought with bad faith. The devs may have felt locked in by the nature of remakes, but they really should grab it's potential absence from Part 3 by the horns and ride.
If sitting in a distance is a romantic trope, then everything is. And indeed, everything can be, you have to look at it in the context of the characters and situations. For Cloud, and the context of him being in love with Tifa, him being continuously adverse to closeness with Aerith is NOT a good sign. Maybe in a different story where the new girl slowly steals the heart of the guy away from the girl he's always loved, but there are a bunch of reasons why this story is NOT that. Which is obvious in about every scene.
This.
Yes, it is simply annoying to me that I can't talk about Cloud and Tifa without adding in caveats for what I essentially see as some conspiracy theory that everything we know about FFVII is wrong and Cloud actually ends up with Aerith.
Have you hit up the Cloti Club here on TLS? Be nice to encourage posting outside the LTD around here.
Yeah, it was really a nothing burger, Cloud assaults Tifa in her sleep, as happens in about a billion doujinshi that no one complains about. But because this comic set a more serious tone it's apparently unacceptable, because we can't have serious discussions or stories about dark subject matter apparently. This is a classic "if you don't like it, don't read it" situation, but Cleriths tried using it to prove Clotis are evil because they defended this persons freedom of speech or something.
Again, that's bad and they should feel bad. Shame these people for their weird second hand Ad Hominem bullshit.
Riley is the great unifier in the Buffy ship wars because no one gives a fuck about him
I cared enough to pity him. Poor bastard, not mysterious and dark enough to hang with Angel, not cool and funny enough to hang with Spike. Whole deal was just sad. I salute you getting the fuck out of Sunnydale, Captain Cardboard.
