Look What You've Done

We all saw the hype and me being me didn't think it was gonna amount to much. You see, I have this thing where I don't exactly "like" Pokémon games because they're repetitive, samey and suck. Also they exist just to rehash the same goddarn story in every single game and let sperglords get their dicks hard over obscure, irrelevant, pointless numbers no one ever needs to worry about. Also they're a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad rip off of Digital Devil Monogatori: Megami Tensei but that's neither here nor there.

So why, oh why, oh why do I like Conquest so much?

Because, well, it's not a Pokémon game! Oh, sure, it's in the title of the game and the critters are forced in for combat but you could remove them and aside from a few minor script changes nothing would be different. Combat itself has a fixed turn limit that prevents it becoming a tedious slog that other SRPGs become, it sti
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Ohey, Neo's been improved (...mostly) in the past month, right? Maybe now something obvious will be fi-

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The heck is this thing, why does it exist, what purpose does it serve that merely hitting the Home/Page Up key doesn't and why does it only bug me in certain threads? If you're gonna do something at least be consistent with it! This is completely superfluous, adds literally nothing but a distraction when there's posts I actually want to read and does nothing I can't get JUST AS EASILY by going to the top of the page... in fact it appears to remove usability!

On second thoughts, that does seem to be a lot more consistent with the other new additions than I gave it credit for.





(PS Kimbra owns.)
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So, hmm, it's 2012. I'm sure the staff are well aware of this, and yet some really weird design decisions that stopped making sense in 2001 are still floating around it seems. I complained once before at the lack of actual decent linking tags that went unnoticed by anyone, though I'm not all that surprised. I mean, who even looks at this section (without prompting) anymore?

Anyway, getting off-topic a little. My issue this time is fairly different, as the title might imply. I just recently tried to change my signature to include an image that I didn't steal off someone else's (heh) for the first time in, umm... 3 years or so and ran into an interesting error message:

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System returned the following error(s):

Your signature is linking to a graphics file that fails to meet the image dimensions requirements. Images in signatures may only be 125 x 575 (height x width).

This is such an incr
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Odd references aside, let's ramble on about pointless things no one cares about. Except me obviously. You know that thing you get where someone annoys you so much you just want to hit them but due to self-control (or someone physically dragging you away if applicable) you don't and you leave them and ignore it for later? Well, congratulations to bronze0800 for being a big enough ponce yesterday to incite that reaction from me! That, er, that's the first one, not the being physically assaulted to stop a battery one.

You'd think the stuff he was saying would be ignorable, and they would normally be... if he could spell three letter words correctly (he can't, trust me). The sheer audacity of telling me how I absolutely, definitely, no questions asked, will look because of my sexuality was complete bullshit. And his quote-unquote "evidence" of this was something we refer to as the Westermarc
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I've editted a thing into the first update about why I bought the staves, despite their 0 Accuracy stat. I'm sure no one was actually wondering about that but the reason doesn't just boil down to "they hit a little harder."

Update 02: Knocked Down In The Temple of Fiends




After training for a little while, the boys felt stronger, certainly, but the effect was ultimately negligable. It was decided that since Lenge and Chal could handle the enemies attacks more, they would take the lead for a short while.



If I may interlude for a short moment to explain this. AI targetting runs on a very simple formula that hardly deserves the word. On the menu and in battle, characters are arranged in four slots from top-to-bottom going in slot 1, slot 2, slot 3, and slot 4. Whoever's in slot 1 will get targetted 50% of the time, whoever's in slot 2 will get targetted 25% of the time, whoever's in slot 3 wil
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Final Fantasy is a very old RPG. It's so old, in fact, it's probably older than you. Yes you, reading this right now. It's also a very good game but the original version hasn't aged very well. It has mechanical issues that make it annoying to play and many, many unfun glitches. You can patch these out thanks to romhackers, sure, but that's not something I'd want to faff around with. We'll be going through the version released for the GBA as part of Dawn of Souls, the first entry in the bizarrely named "Finest Fantasy for Advance" project. The aforementioned issues are part of why but the largest crux of the matter is that I don't want to spend a year grinding. Why would that be needed? Well...



Why this is a hard as hell thing (the short version; the entire blog of the ordeal is the long version): Y'see, Black Mages have the worst set of weapons they can use in the game, out of all 6 base
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So, I was playing through Tales of Symphonia earlier when I accidentally hit F9 (and by "accidentally" I mean "intentionally") to test a thing. Being an awkward machine, it spit out a 400kb PNG (ewwww) that I had to resave manually as a JPG to cut it down to 77kb (managable!). Said image looks like this:



Looks pretty don't it? (and I dont just mean Genis <.<")

Now if only I could save screenshots as JPGs without resaving afterwards. Still, nice to know that even with a bust Gamecube and no Wii, I can run one of the best RPGs ever made (relatively speaking) on my laptop if need be.

...Wait, it has a recorder? Built in? Excuse me, I think I need to go see the local priest. Turns out there is a god!
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The year is 2011. Why, oh why, oh why, do you not use easy to understand BB tags despite being one of the many, many BB fora out there? Seriously having,

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[link name=WORDS]URL[/link]

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[img link=URL]IMG[/img]

is both redundant AND very confusing when they contradict each other! Besides, there are perfectly good [URL] tags sitting over there crying "please include us in your forum, we're a tried and tested method to help people link things easier." Not only are they easier to use, they're also far less confusing and don't conflict with themselves! Want to link within an image?

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[url=URL][img]IMAGE[/img][/url]

Want to link not in an image but in standard words?

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[url=URL]WORDS[/url]

Want to post a URL and guarantee it links even without "http(s)://"?

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[url]THE URL[/url]

So, why do we not use these far better tags?

Also the strike and spoiler tags suck too, but baby steps. De
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