The Lifestream Final Fantasy Podcast - Episode 14 Discussion Thread

[vaderSW1]

Episode 14

Digging Into the Listener Feedback​

It’s the fourteenth episode of The Lifestream Final Fantasy Podcast! Join JasonTandro, Lex, Ryushikaze, and vaderSW1 as they go on a mythical journey into all things Final Fantasy!

In this episode we discuss some current Final Fantasy (and related) news:

• Final Fantasy IX coming to Steam and Smartphones
• Lightning endorses Louis Vuitton
• Square Enix closes Shinra Technologies
• Square Enix answers Final Fantasy XV questions on the official Final Fantasy XV forums
• Ultima Final Fantasy Podcast's nominations of TheLifestream.Net and The Lifestream Final Fantasy Podcast for their annual awards
• The Lifestream Podcast Final Fantasy Retrospective Series Update

Then we move into our main topic of discussion as we dig into our listener feedback!

This episode’s Question for the Listenership:

How do you feel about Lightning crossing over into the fashion realm?

Email us at [email protected] or reply to the episode post on TheLifeStream.Net forums and let us know!

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Total Run Time: 1:16:01

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Music appearing on this podcast is courtesy of the following:

“Take a Chance” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

“Discovery Hit” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

WARNING! Explicit content.

Special thanks to Flintlock for the episode artwork!

TheLifestream Podcast Extras:

Final Fantasy IX Steam and Smartphones Announcement Trailer:

Lightning Endorsing Louis Vuitton Article:

http://eu.louisvuitton.com/eng-e1/articles/series%C2%A04%C2%A0lightning-a%C2%A0virtual%C2%A0heroine

Lightning Interview with The Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/final-fantasy-character-lightning-on-starring-in-louis-vuitton-c/

Game Informer Article on the Closing of Shinra Technologies:

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/01/05/report-square-enix-closing-cloud-gaming-company-shinra-technologies.aspx

Square Enix Answers to the Top 3 Community Questions on the Official Final Fantasy XV Forums:

https://forum.finalfantasyxv.com/categories/news

Ultima Final Fantasy Podcast Awards Voting Page:

http://www.ultimafinalfantasy.com/the-2015-uff-podcast-award-nominations-vote-now/

You can listen to the podcast at the link below:

The Lifestream Final Fantasy Podcast - Episode 14

 

[Tetsujin]

On the subject of the Star Wars EU being canon according to Lucas: He pretty much said the opposite. Always said he sees it as a separate "parallel" universe.
There's a reason why they had tiers of canon instead of it being just *one* canon. Anything lower than the official George Lucas canon *could* be seen as one continuity if you so wished but technically none of that had any relevance to the core canon because outside of a few elements here and there, Lucas ignored the EU.

Copypasta'd from Wookieepedia:

"Anything not in the current version of the films is irrelevant to Film only continuity."

This statement confirms the priority of the "current version of the films" over the original versions, as well as the existence of two separate continuities, the "film only" continuity maintained and followed by George Lucas himself, and the "film + EU" continuity that is used for licensed products.

Subsequent questioning over which continuity was "more official" revealed that Mr. Chee favored film + EU continuity, but in the end it was up to the individual fan:

"You're asking the Keeper of the Holocron, so of course I'm gonna be a bit biased ... The reality is that a huge number of people who have seen all 6 Star Wars films have never played a Star Wars game, visited a Star Wars website, watched a Star Wars television program, read a Star Wars publication, or purchased a Star Wars action figure or collectible. It would be great disservice to discount these people as fans."

 

[Jason Tandro]

TheLifestream.net and The Lifestream Final Fantasy Podcast won the UFF Awards. We need to bring that up in the Retro Pod and the next proper Podcast.

 

[Starling]

I love how the one guy read the results for the Podcast vote and went WTF before announcing it. To be honest, I was surprised the podcast managed to catch up that fast too.

 

[vaderSW1]

I find myself extremely humbled by the win. That's fucking awesome. We will definitely shout out Joe, Caleb, UFF, and all that voted for us on the next podcast!

 

[Interslicery]

Honestly the thing that offends me about Lightning entering the fashion world is that people enjoy (or square enix thinks people enjoy) Lightning enough that she would be considered for advertising outside of FF.