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GrizzlyCow posted:I liked FFX-2's story. Because ShinRa are trying to save the world and we have to stop them!! Wait I think they should elect a new group leader.
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Chuu posted:NASA is studying using nukes to change the orbit of an object on a collision course with earth. There's a good paper on it here (pdf warning). To quote: Don't think that would work in this case considering the meteors being attracted to the planet like a piece of metal to a magnet.
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What, you mean like the moon is to earth right now in real life?
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Chuu posted:NASA is studying using nukes to change the orbit of an object on a collision course with earth. There's a good paper on it I do love the idea of Rufus being handed a big report on this idea, him nodding his head knowingly, then just tying the huge materia to a rocket with some tape and string. "Sir...sir, are you 100% sure you understand the plan?"
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Rude Semprini posted:I do love the idea of Rufus being handed a big report on this idea, him nodding his head knowingly, then just tying the huge materia to a rocket with some tape and string. Rufus hasn't been president of Shinra for longer than a few months and already his approach to dealing with any of his cartoon-villain subordinates is to throw paperwork at them until they go away.
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NASA posted:A nuclear standoff mission could be designed knowing only the orbit and approximate mass of the threat, and missions could be carried out incrementally to reach the required amount of deflection. Translation: Keep firing until we get it right. I love you, NASA.
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D1Sergo posted:Translation: Keep firing until we get it right. Translation: Scientific Method. Form a hypothesis. No hypothesis is necessarily incorrect, unless it doesn't include nukes, then you're wrong. Test the hypothesis. Analyze the data. If the hypothesis isn't validated, increase the warhead. Repeat until true.
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Serifina posted:Mako, yeah, but processed in different ways, I think. And there doesn't seem to be any thought in the plan beyond '1)Load rocket with materia! 2) fire rocket at Meteor! 3) ??? 4) Prof... Uh Victory! To be fair, while their plan might be totally questionable, at least they're trying something. Cloud and company have no plan of their own for dealing with Meteor and are, in fact, actively screwing the only plan in the entire world for dealing with Meteor. And to top it off, they aren't even really using the Huge Materia - it's nothing but pure vindictiveness - "We're stealing this from you...because we can. Suck it."
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quote:Cloud and company have no plan of their own for dealing with Meteor and are, in fact, actively screwing the only plan in the entire world for dealing with Meteor. And to top it off, they aren't even really using the Huge Materia - it's nothing but pure vindictiveness - "We're stealing this from you...because we can. Suck it." It makes more sense if Cloud and co genuinely think that Shinra's plan won't work and wasting the huge materia would be sealing the planets doom. To them, having no plan and having a chance to think of one is better than having a plan that won't work. Dunno how much indication we have of that being their way of thinking though. Cloud's going through a rough patch, maybe he's just being petty? He'll get the materia from them and play keep-away with Barret, Rufus trying to jump up and catch it.
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It's been far too long since I've played this far, but may I remind you that Shinra's plan is to fire weaponized life juju at the comet? Even assuming there are no immediate repercussions, that can't be good for the planet's health. It's entirely possible they see one outcome as bad as the other (and entirely possible that one outcome is as bad as the other), but Shinra's plan is more immediate and local, allowing them to do something about it.
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Cid is probably thinking some woman will screw the space plan anyways.
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waah posted:Cid is probably thinking some woman will screw the space plan anyways. 
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Maybe they just figure jettisoning a lot of mako energy now will mean that much less for Sephiroth when he crushes the earth like a Capri Sun. Also, I heard NASA has another plan that involves launching a satellite to nudge super close to an incoming meteor and gradually alter its trajectory over time, possibly even catching it as a second moon.
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Has anyone pointed out that Shinra's plan is basically the plot to Armageddon, minus Bruce Willis's team of oil riggers?
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Has anyone pointed out that Shinra's plan is basically the plot to Armageddon, minus Bruce Willis's team of oil riggers? Which is why it failed, plus no kickin' rad guitar riffs.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Has anyone pointed out that Shinra's plan is basically the plot to Armageddon, minus Bruce Willis's team of oil riggers? Actually, Armageddon came out AFTER FF7. Bruce Willis and co. must've learned from Shinra's mistakes, clearly.
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Gus Hobbleton posted:What, you mean like the moon is to earth right now in real life? The Moon is actually very slowly moving away from Earth. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/ApolloLaser.html
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Dec 14, 2013 21:24
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Thaddius the Large posted:Which is why it failed, plus no kickin' rad guitar riffs. Imagine how mindblown we will all be in 20 years when it turns out Uematsu was a ghost writer for Aerosmith
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FillInTheBlank posted:The Moon is actually very slowly moving away from Earth. But there is still a force, akin to magnetism, acting on the moon, which is the point I was trying to make.
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Wow I never knew about chaining more than 2 materia. The only bosses that gave me trouble back in the day were Materia Keeper and Demon Wall. This boss wasn't too tough because at this point you know lightning wrecks machines. Like someone else I only remembered it because of the arm animations.
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Gus Hobbleton posted:But there is still a force, akin to magnetism, acting on the moon, which is the point I was trying to make. Well, I wouldn't say gravity is akin to magnetism, what with the standard model not yet unifying gravity, the strong nuclear and electroweak forces.
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Meteor is literally being attracted to the planet by magic. There's not much sense in talking about real world analogies.
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Heran Bago posted:Wow I never knew about chaining more than 2 materia. The only bosses that gave me trouble back in the day were Materia Keeper and Demon Wall. This boss wasn't too tough because at this point you know lightning wrecks machines. Like someone else I only remembered it because of the arm animations. You can't chain more than two materia in FFVII, that was about Path of Exile.
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Ablative posted:You can't chain more than two materia in FFVII, that was about Path of Exile. No, he means when you link to several versions of the same materia.
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Ablative posted:You can't chain more than two materia in FFVII, that was about Path of Exile. Materia chains aren't materia links.
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Is the Steam version worth purchasing if you don't have a psx?
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Orange_Lazarus posted:Is the Steam version worth purchasing if you don't have a psx? Do you have a PS2, PS3, PSP, or Vita?
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I play the LLG on my PC with my PSX discs. Thanks ePSXe!
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I sold my PS games a long time ago back when I was poor and the newest console I have at home atm is my 64 which is buried in my closet. edit: "Character Booster – Find yourself stuck on a difficult section or lacking the funds to buy that vital Phoenix Down? With the Character Booster you can increase your HP, MP and Gil levels to their maximum, all with the simple click of a button, leaving you to enjoy your adventure." Wow that sounds useless. I wish they had just added some way to increase the difficulty or something. At least there are mods for the PC/Steam version apparently. Sephiroth_IRA fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Dec 20, 2013 |
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The PC version on Steam is great to play but I do feel really guilty for supporting a release with such awful, shamefully lovely low-effort additions. The Character Booster is pointless, cloud saves are meaningless and badly executed and the achievements are among the most uninspired I've ever seen shoehorned into a game.
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Yeah, it really is too bad they couldn't have done something special but I'll be happy if this just leads to the later FF games getting on Steam, especially the ones I haven't played after X but I'm sure that's a long way off.
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I think the most important thing we should take away from the Shinra plan to shoot the Big Materia into space is that PALMER IS STILL ALIVE! Aerith gets a pointy sword in a gut and goes down, yet Palmer gets knocked offscreen by a truck and still lives. This elevates him to the level of Jesus.
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Enallyniv posted:The PC version on Steam is great to play but I do feel really guilty for supporting a release with such awful, shamefully lovely low-effort additions. The Character Booster is pointless, cloud saves are meaningless and badly executed and the achievements are among the most uninspired I've ever seen shoehorned into a game. Speaking of the Steam Version, it's on sale for $4 dollars right now...though Cloud saving is down. Again.
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Silegna posted:Speaking of the Steam Version, it's on sale for $4 dollars right now...though Cloud saving is down. Again. I guess cloud saving is awful since they originally released the new PC version by itself, and the Steam version a year later. Having their own cloud saving system might allow you to use the same save file across both versions, but it's just an unnecessary pain for anyone used to Steam doing it automatically, or doesn't want to sign up for some Square Enix account.
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That loving Sned posted:Having their own cloud saving system might allow you to use the same save file across both versions [...] And even doing that was a nightmare.
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Orange_Lazarus posted:Yeah, it really is too bad they couldn't have done something special but I'll be happy if this just leads to the later FF games getting on Steam, especially the ones I haven't played after X
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That loving Sned posted:I guess cloud saving is awful since they originally released the new PC version by itself, and the Steam version a year later. Having their own cloud saving system might allow you to use the same save file across both versions, but it's just an unnecessary pain for anyone used to Steam doing it automatically, or doesn't want to sign up for some Square Enix account. Also, they apparently use the SAME SERVER for both FF7's Cloud Saving, and FF8's. So, when one goes, down? Both are inaccessible.
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Oh wow, that sure makes me feel safer about the Cloud Saves~ 21th century technology! 
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Silegna posted:Speaking of the Steam Version, it's on sale for $4 dollars right now...though Cloud saving is down. Again. No cloud saving allowed should not be confused with no Cloud saving allowed. In the former case, you just have to keep all your save files locally; in the latter case, Cid would have to be the party leader for the rest of the game while the erstwhile protagonist lies forgotten at the bottom of the Lifestream with Tifa, forever and ever. Just wanted to clear up any potential confusion.
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This is awhile back:quote:Beta is a Fire Elemental Spell, so we do Fire-Elemental on the armor to halve the damage, plus Sadness to reduce it by 30% again. Then we use it back against her, and voilà, gently caress YOU MIDGAR ZOLOM. OK it's been a long time since I've played but how exactly did you get your fire resistance to 50%? For some reason I think you put a fire materia in an armor slot but that doesn't seem to be working for me. edit: Oh gently caress me I missed the elemental materia 
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