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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 26, 2023, 05:01:40 am »
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If you're ready to be done with LUNAR, please feel free to wrap it up.
I think I might just do this. TBH I kinda wanna play some PS4 Pro, and LUNAR 2's the only thing in the way from me doing that. Have you thought about the next game you wanna play, Boo? You had mentioned Final Fantasy XV and I just happen to have it for PS4, as well. :p TBH doe, I kinda love the idea of doing 90s/2000s JRPGs. I'm still up for Chrono Trigger / or even Chrono Cross since this's a Chrono website and it's On Topic. Any old-school, traditional, turn-based, linear JRPG is fine with me. Although it's totally fine with me too if you're too bogged down with work and personal stuff to post in a thread. Just holler at me whenever you have enough free-time again to post / and, chat! :D

I was trying to come up w/ a topic to think about going on my daily walk, but everyone working here at the farm thinks I'm crazy walking around in the ~90 degree heat, so, - I might skip out on it today and just stay indoors!

Hey, I actually was trying to gather some information since you had stated interest in life in the Philippines / and how I'm managing here. So I gathered together some of the monthly bills and:
- we use butane gas tanks to light our stoves here to cook. Each tank is about $16 and we switch it out ~around every month. / I googled and gas is about $56-100+/per month in the US.
- for a month, the phone bill here is about $7-8. / According to Google, the average phone bill in the US is $127/per month.

The lower standard cost of living here is much lower than compared to the US, so I pay a lot less for my monthly expenses here for sure. I just wanted to let my friends know how I'm managing living here and if it really is that inexpensive. I hope that information quenched your curiosity! C: I'll try to get the numbers for electricity, water & internet as well.

I'm at, doing the Dragon's Nest in LUNAR 2. I was playing around with the accessories and crests and Lemina is really interesting to play around with. Her 2 elemental types of magics don't really work against the Harpy enemies and the other elemental magic crests don't work either so I got annoyed, and I equipped her with the Ancient Dagger (her Thieves' Staff is actually useless and you never get anything good from enemies but the basics of items like Herbs and Nuts) to up her speed, and the Archer Crest so she can attack from long-range. I figure it's about time to just grind this game out and it's nothing like pressing X repeatedly and just hitting Fight, Fight, Fight over and over. I really don't want to think about strategy I just wanna get each random battle over with as easy as I can, lol,. :p

Don't you think the bosses in the Epilogue are total pushovers? With Jean's White Dragon Protect and Hiro spamming Triple Sword + Burning Rage, it's only about time until they just keel over. It's almost kinda boring to me, lol.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 25, 2023, 08:55:26 am »
Hey, Boo. I just beat the Water Ruins. I'm thinking about just blazing through the Epilogue as fast as I can because I have so much free-time right now and I just wanna get this game over with. lol

I think the "office-friendly" food thing is definitely true. I had an Asian girl friend once told me she brought pasta to work one time, and it had a very heavy herb-y garlicky rich sauce. And she heated it up in the microwave and she got railed by her co-workers about "stinking up the break room." Those are the kinda moments that make me think awkward things about the office, though.

So I was on my walk. And I was just thinking about some stuff I'll keep it brief. So kinda like I'm still not over how I was treated at my first job in the US. It was weird. Pretty much I'm just thinking about the people and the conversations that went on there. Like if it was a regular day it'd be fine it'd just be me working with all the other young people running the restaurant. But then on days when corporate would come in, people act differently. I just act normal and how I always act cause why treat these people any different? Anyway was just thinking about ranking, hierarchy .. seniority and stuff at the work place. So I kept an open mind and pretended to love the company as much as my heart could and I wouldn't mind moving up from entry-level server to just moving up. I didn't really care about all that. It was more of the slight nuances and stuff like these people seemed super stiffs. They think the only appropriate work conversation ever is family. They seemed obsessed about their own work. And I keep thinking about their weird eye contact like they stared at the whites of my eyes for whatever reason as they interrogated me about myself. Kinda like the types of people who eat saltine crackers with no salt. No spice. Not even black pepper. They were just very old, and dry. Anyway. They seemed to be very "business people" and had socializing w/ people down-to-a-science but I like to think of myself as an expert too cause I watch a lot of Survivor and I just think looking back I'm really glad to have gotten outta there as fast as possible. They had the whole zombied, soulless corporate thing going on. Kinda just like talking to a voice on the phone.

That's the only thing that bothered me about corporate stuff or Corporate America. Don't get me wrong, I actually *LOVE* those types of people on Survivor cause I just find working in an office interesting. But meeting them face-to-face was a whole 'nother thing. I dunno if they were intimidated by me because I was a young, minority male? Maybe they weren't too keen on their video game trivia-knowledge? Maybe they were intimidated by the age-difference? I emulate the show and think of myself as being able to get along with anybody, being a social butterfly, being engaging all the time. Being a go-to man for interesting lines and one-liners. Maybe they weren't used to dealing with minorities is the ONLY thing I could think of what was making them seem awkward to me or out-of-touch?

I was actually very interested in what they had to say though. I love deal-making, I love clutch moments, I love business people, I love giving public speaches, I love being outdoors away from the T.V./computer, I love athletics, I love academics. etc.

So yeah. I was just thinking about why I feel that way when I meet corporate people in America. Are all of you guys that way in person forrealz? It's one thing to be a Big Cat on the computer, but a smallfry in person? I just felt like I could eat that person up if we were on an island competing for $1 dollars.

Sorry for rushing ahead Boo, I just have so much downtime and free-time here that there's not much I can do BUT play LUNAR 2. I kinda just wanna beat the game and do some write-ups about it privately lol. I hope you're still doing well. Keep grinding. Sometimes I wanna talk about like how I'm living my retirement fantasy early. I just feel blessed to be in this situation rather than flippin' burgers back in the US of A. Have a good one, Boo-ster!!! Hope your family's doing alright and your son had a great birthday! Eat a burrito for MEEE!!!! :D

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 25, 2023, 04:35:50 am »
See, we do have maids at the house so when they cook it's usually very traditional Filipino food, and very simple: like a piece of fried fish with a side of rice, and cut up tomatoes. And that's it for a filling meal. I think it's nice for the most part but I've grown up w/ stuff like that so I tend to branch out. Now when I cook for myself I usually see it as single, young college guy's food lolol. Pretty much I just see what we have in the stockroom and I make a meal out of it. Like the other day I made tuna pasta salad. Pretty much just saute the can of tuna w/o the juice with onions, cook your pasta and just mix it all together with a little bit of chopped tomatoes on top. (cheese is optional) I just stick it in the fridge and it feeds me for like 2 days.

So as for the game I've been playing it whenever I have free-time which's a lot here lol. I'm about to face the boss in the Water Ruins. I'm kinda just taking my time lollygagging but it's fun for me cause my thoughts are refreshing, relaxed and I'm just having fun. lol I'm keeping in mind that you're on-a-schedule but I kinda wanna just beat the game and moo-ve it along.

Yeah my Mom would buy that stovetop rice stuff but we only would use it as a side dish whenever we had steak, asparagus and blue cheese for dinner. Either that or Uncle Ben's wild rice. My Mom never really uses the microwave either she just makes home-meals, but I use the microwave a lot as a latchkey kid growing up. After school when it's just me in the house and I get hungry either I boil water to make instant noodles or I microwave something from the freezer like a dinner, a pot pie, or finger foods like tostitos, fish sticks or what-have you. The microwave is my friend. I'm not so hoity-toity to think it's not a useful tool in the kitchen.

Now that I own and operate my own farm here, I'm sorta getting into the head of being your own employer. Like now I can kinda understand how my bosses were thinking about when I worked at Chipotle Mexican Grill / & WingStop. I'm sorta trying to wrap my mind around the year-long-employee, - basically now after the fact I know that they hired me just so they can fire me after a year passes. I just wonder why they spent all that time grooming me into possibly working for the company, and why they dolled-up so many conversations with me and promised me so much stuff, - Knowing I was just gonna be let-go / terminated / canned after one year. It just doesn't make sense to me unless company heads are really fake or don't really know how to make proper conversation with people without consulting the Company Handbook on how to Handle Every Situation. Looking back, my bosses, my boss's bosses and HR and all the higher-ups were really awkward conversationalists and really awkward to talk to about day-to-day lifes stuff. T.V., sports, what's going on online. They just have this go-to thing about talking about their family and I was just never really interested in their lifes. Private or what-have-you lol. They would constantly bring it up to I think get me to trust them and make me think they're a 'safe person' to confide in, but I wasn't really buying it. They were also really bad at eye contact like they don't know how to look at a person's face when talking to them. lol Some stuff about life no one can teach you in a handbook / manual, either you know it or you don't. Some people have it, and some people don't.

Anyway. One of the maids is inside cleaning the household so I'm just at my workstation doing a bit of busy work and then I'm gonna go on my daily walk. I'm gonna try to get a bit of yoga and stretching in today too just cause I've been neglecting it I want to work on my flexibility & mobility. I'm always pretty cognizant of my water-intake, luckily. I'm a fish. I keep an Exercise Journal on everything I do physically day-to-day just because I've been on this Weight Loss Journey for 4 years now and I'm just at the point where I really have to grit and bear it. I'm probably average in terms of American standards but I want to keep this up and do more and more and more. Sometimes I watch Survivor to pump me up cause everyone's on that show doing really athletic things. I also watch my diet cause I do a lot of minimalist eating. I love having a lot of items to play with in the house (Atelier) but when it comes to diet, it's definitely minimalist eating for me that suits me. lol

Anyway. Hope you're doing good, Boo!! I do have a lot more questions about Corporate America but I'm having a really good thought process going on this afternoon about just: "Being Your Own Employer" & really getting into the heads of corporate people, and how I feel about hiring and firing employees here at my private farm. Take care, Boos!! C:

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 24, 2023, 09:55:28 am »
Hey, Boo. I just felt like posting.

I'm having a few beers tonight, I'm taking a moment to do some online-work, I've been playing LUNAR 2 doe I'm in the middle of the Water Ruins. The dungeons in the Epilogue seemed daunting to me at first but each dungeon is like short and sweet to me at least. I just kinda don't really want to be playing anything else right now. 90/2000s JRPGs are so good for me. I also kinda like the thoughts I'm having as I'm playing them I'm just relaxed. Maybe it's because I grew up with them?

So it's nighttime here and it's really the only time where I feel at ease cause the heats zaps me of so much energy during the day. I pretty much wait for the heat to pass before I can do any fun stuff. *Like drinking*. lol

I was kinda thinking our lifes are totally different but we have something in common. lol It's really nice to meet other people who enjoy the same hobbies as you and get to know them online and such. *lol* I'm just sorta doing self-care stuff like playing with a comedone and such. lol Once you get used to the routine it's kinda repetitive and boring, even though it was fun at first. I'm noticing a difference though now that I'm taking much better care of myself. It's kinda hard work though I'm not used to this as a guy. Playing with soaps and lotions and stuff lol

Anyway, just seeing what you were doing and what you were up to? I hope everything's going well for you, of course. It's just me and the dogs here and we're staying up. Yeah, not too much to do here. Even with JRPGs I fear being sedentary so I kinda force myself to turn it off and move around after like 2 hours. lol

Man, I wanted this to be a big philosophical post and it's not turning out that way lmao
Messageboards are really cool though. I love what you guys have going on here. If/When I have time I kinda wanna peruse around and see what you guys talked about instead of just staying in this one thread. Anyway,--.

Hope you're doing ok, Boo I'll try out some of the tips and tricks about the recipes and stuff. I, myself, get really tired of Filipino food and eating rice all the time so it's time to start seeing what else is out there. I don't wanna be old and eating gruel. Take care! C:

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 24, 2023, 02:04:38 am »
Ooh, that looks good. Unfortunately I don't have a working oven. I mean, I do have one installed but it requires so many tanks of gas to use that's it's not even worth it. Maybe I can try something with the mini-oven? *Haha*.

Aiight, so-For the game I'll just wait for the bat signal from you as to where we're going next. I'm doing ok here, so don't worry about me! :)

Casseroles... Ok. I don't think I've ever had a casserole in my life. Sometimes I think we're a lot alike until we start talking about food. I've also only had stuffing once in my life. It tasted like wet bread that was stuffed in the oven with random stuff sprinkled on it. BUT I'll TRY IT!! I have my own sorta idea / or, perception of "white people" food. Basically any food that has no smell and is safe to bring to the office to microwave. Like salads, pasta salads, couscous etc. etc. I know heating up fish in the microwave is a no no, trust me my Mom has had an office job since ever since I was born so I know stories. Also, popcorn is a big-disaster at the office as well right?

Basically, I love stories about working in an office. Because it seems so fun! Like, I remember mentioning liking Dilbert and wanting to be like that when I grow up. Also, if I can pick another T.V. show besides Survivor as my favorite, The Office is definitely up there. I have this fantasy that working in an office is a lot like the lies, betrayals and backstabbings on Survivor, - Hahahahahaha.

Since I've never worked in an office I have a little "office" or work-station here at home for the Farm, where I do all of my busy work, and planning and strategizing lol. I just think it's apart of every civilized society like working and stuff. America, Japan, etc.

So I'm definitely gonna try some of the stuff you mentioned, Boo. I went to the small grocery here and they have tons of Campbell's stuff so I wanted to try like maybe Cream of Chicken with some sorta broccoli thing. And now I know what to use Cream of Mushroom for besides just eating it! Thanks! Since I did work at Chipotle Mexican Grill, I'm gonna try out some of the recipes we had at the restaurant like the Cilantro Lime-Rice, I still remember the recipes and everything. And making salsa is always fun for me. Even if it's just regular fresh salsa.

I'm doing ok here Boo, just take your time! Gimme the signal which dungeon next and I'll be good! :thumbsup:

Note: I'm taking a week off, usually I take a week off towards the end of the month, to just drink and be care-free and have fun. I had a couple beers last night! C: If you notice my replies are late it's probably because I'm knackered!!

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 22, 2023, 07:44:44 pm »
I went ahead and did the Dragon Ruins this morning, buddy.

Which dungeon do you want to tackle next?

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 22, 2023, 10:26:41 am »
Hallo, again, Boo. Good day!

With the go-to signal from you I went ahead and did the Brave Labyrinth this evening. Usually I follow the WD guidebook and do this last, and the Hero's Talisman winds up being useless so good call on doing this dungeon first! You really know your stuff! I want to play more but I'll just follow your lead.

Lol that you call each other Anglo. I never knew that. Usually I'm with my Asian or Latino friends, or it's just minorities with maybe like the token whiteboy friend lol. I haven't really intermingled with white people that much until I got a job and they were there. I was best friends with a white kid in HS though and we hung out everyday, I tried to friend request him on Facebook but I think he's moved on or got his own thing going on in his life now. So. It's fine! C: The white kids I worked with were cool, a bit lazy on the job (noticeable) but they were aiight to talk to. I never really had close-close white friends aside from jobs and college parties where if I were invited to one it's be a mystery bag? whether whites were invited. Usually we avoid them cause it's pretty risky as they might be undercover cops, and we smoked and drank a lot. I usually had my guard up when a white kid approaches me at school doing his drug dealing thing, again risky as they might be undercover.

I try not to consume much American media anymore. As I said before--I got really bored/tired of seeing just whites/no minority representation on T.V. and I really am infatuated and enraptured w/ just Survivor right now, so I do plenty of research and analysis on just my one fav T.V. show. I found what I like so I'm sticking to it. It's nice people are more woke now but it's a little too little too late, I'm way too jaded now to even care lol.

Sometimes I wonder, besides white, what America slightly leans towards and I just guessed Spanish because it's the second language, amirite? A lot of English incorporates a lot of Spanglish now. So.

I had to look up what offal means I thought it was a religious ceremony lol, I just call it innards. And yes, we don't waste in Filipino cooking they bbq things such-as chicken intestines and stuff and sell it on the side of the street here along with blood sausage, the heads and feet of the chickens and stuff. I don't really eat that stuff but some people like it. I don't want my dinner staring me back in the face.

Sometimes I'm curious to try more white people/American food if you can give me some ideas... I mentioned I've been regularly eating couscous lately, I dunno if that's popular to bring to the office. I'm very interested in stuff like pasta salads and such. I love the dressings. C:

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 21, 2023, 10:18:08 am »
Hallo, Boo. Sorry for the off-topic minutiae.

Anyways. I just bit the bullet and rounded up Ronfar, and then Leo. So the whole party's complete now. I was gonna take a sneak-peek in the Official Working Designs Strategy Guide about which of the epilogue dungeons to start off with first. I'll do that tomorr-y.

GOD. That took forever going to all the towns again. Anyway I'll always be here and ready whenever you are.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 20, 2023, 03:03:28 am »
OMG, hey Boo--!! I feel like I'm working at an office and I just got an e-mail from my boss whenever I'm talking to you, lol. Instead of taking an extended lunch to play golf we're talking about JRPGs!

OMG, dude. I've been popping LUNAR 2 in so much just to get through all the towns again in order and to re-recruit everyone and it's taking forever. I'm talking to all the townspeople again, so. I just have to re-get Ronfar and I'll be done. Ofc, he's in like the last town ever. Once I get all the characters I think it's just all the extra dungeons and no one really gets a line-change so I'll be good to go.

I was thinking last night, "What says I'm American?" when I was thinking about my U.S. Citizenship and my passport. Does this piece of paper say I'm a true, blue American now? I think it goes much deeper than that. I grew up in San Francisco and there's a rich Asian population there. It was actually funny because the kids- my friends would scold me if I ever did anything "whitewashed" like something white people do that I saw on T.V.. They were very about the traditional things we do back in our home country and acting like we're American now and just like the rest of the people there was strictly a no-no.

But then I moved to HS in 2001, and in Freshman year my whole, entire school was basically all-white kids and just me looking how I did was like a no-no for them. Like you had to be whitewashed and a little bit extra for them to even acknowledge your presence. This was before Tik Tok so there was a bit of racism in the air coming from both camps. The white kids thought they were superior and had the numbers / The minority kids would camp out together in empty classrooms and exclaim "Minority power!" So- It just seemed like a hostile environment. I didn't wanna to get stabbed or get in a fight so I left after that schoolyear.

So I think it really depends on where you live. San Francisco, New York, a lot of the major cities on the coast you're gonna find a lot of Asians and minorities in general so it's far more easier to "fit in" when there's more of you around. Nevada, where I went to school, or more of the states in the middle of the U.S. you're probably not gonna find a lot of minorities so you definitely stand out more and you're gonna be singled out by just the way you look. I mean, I saw that movie Deliverance. I wouldn't want to visit like Arkansas and run into a crazy hillbilly, redneck, or hick that's for sure.

So I've lived in America all my life. But I still don't know what it's all about really. I think there's way too much media pouring out of America that it's hard to know what's really true anymore. There's just so much about us that it's hard to pinpoint it down. I mean, I'm Asian and the staple foods in our household is definitely gonna be rice. I tend to think of America as more Spanish-leaning, like cause the language itself incorporates a lot of Spanglish. "That's kinda blunt and Spanglish." So I'm more burritos, taco night, refried bean dip w/ sour cream, Spanish dirty rice, rice and beans, taco salad. People say Texas is very Tex-Mex, but California is very much Spanish and Mexican-leaning too you know. I have a lot of Latino friends back home and I miss them dearly.

Um. I'm not really sure on the healthcare access as nothing's really happened to me/us here so far. When I got here I went to the ear/nose/throat doctor cause my ears kept popping out and I paid like maybe $2 for the appointment and the medicine she gave me lol. My Mom goes to her regular check-ups, she just got back from one actually, but that's their personal business and I don't really ask about it. There's actually a lot of doctors and clinics here - , it's very "Asian" how you have a dentist or an optometrist every few blocks. The clinics themselfs are not what we're used to in the U.S. usually it's a building but here sometimes they build the clinics in their home and there's a very homey feeling. It's definitely not as advanced as the U.S. or first world but it's not the dirty hovel most people think of when they think Third World I mean if you have money you'll be able to get whatever you need here so don't worry about it! You also have a lot of locals prescribing local herbs or ingredients as cures for certain ailments like "gout" or "appendicitis" and what-not. A lot of witch-doctor-y. I think for the most part Filipinos here are pretty thin and healthy so they avoid a lot of the symptoms we come down with in the United States.

Sometimes I wonder if I should feed the body that is America anymore? It seems like it doesn't need the food. And like I know when I say "America is a weird, weird place" like it's not gonna affect anything at all cause it's such an Entity anyway. I don't think one ex-Pat from a faraway land saying America sucks is really gonna do any damage to the Big It Machine anyway. The only thing I still really like is Survivor. But then when I turn the tube off and relive my life I remember how much I hated life in the U.S.

Uhhhhh... Usually people here think I'm "Canno" or American/White. Like when they first see me. They just look at my face a lot, and my body cause I'm so big and huge. When I tell them both my parents a full-blooded Filipino they have doubt/or they don't believe me. I tell them I'm 100% Filipino and they just don't believe me. lol They usually assume I can't speak the language but I can. I think they get delighted when they can converse with me. I have no idea when I turn around and walk away and what they say behind my back though?

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 16, 2023, 02:49:12 am »
Hey, Boo. I was refreshing for your reply I thought I had scared you off!! I just wanted to tell you I think you're really smart and you have a way of explaining things using smart-words but at the same time I understand it as well. I'm such a simpleton like I have my 2 favorite hobbies and that's all I really do w/ my life. I was like chomping at the bit waiting for your response the last few days I have EVEN MORE questions now. You seem like you paid attention in class during college, is-all.

So as for LUNAR 2 - I'm super trying to concentrate on it now during the day, I've like stopped binging Survivor cause I'm out of gas on it at the moment. So I've crawled back to video games. I just re-recruited Jean I thought I was gonna get Ronfar first but he's not in his house in Larpa. I'm skipping town to town in order the first time you did it and now I've stopped in Meribia cause it's such a huge town w/ so many NPCs to talk to. I'll prob hop on it throughout the day my goal is to re-recruit everyone by the time I go to bed.

UM. So as you know I like Survivor a lot. They make a big deal on the show about Corporate America vs. Traditional Midwestern values. Redneck vs. the City Slicker. I was thinking just now about giving the show/America another shot. You mentioned Asians don't really get represented at all on T.V. but I'm sure there's so many reasons why. I bet most Asians don't wanna even go on T.V. as most of them in the U.S. have that "stay in your own lane, keep your head down and work, not my chair not my problem" mentality. It's not that they want to be invisible but I think kinda deep down inside they do - I just think they don't want to be involved in social problems like things that can happen when you're on the street i.e. being robbed, some weirdo harassing you, your boss's sexual innuendos or something. I think we'd rather just watch white people on T.V.. Take me for example, whenever they go to an Asian locale on the show I kinda wanna be a judge on if America can get everything accurate about the culture. Most of the time they do - but there's always something a little "off" or foreign about it to me maybe it's just the editing?

Not everything's gonna be perfect. Or maybe I'm just a hard judge?

I was also thinking about how you mentioned your job was kinda "soulless." I kinda get that. I used to live in San Francisco and a lotta the people there complained that all the techies were moving into the city and erecting mostly empty office buildings and taking away the culture of San Francisco like unique small businesses/exotic restaurants. Kinda makes me wonder about what America's "culture" really is? Like cheeseburgers, sex drugs & rock n' roll, BIG MONEY, Spend Money, vacation vacation vacation? Anyway. lol I always felt like the show was challenging me to move back home to my country and to see if I can do it after growing up in all the rich excess of America? Well now that I'm here, I'm thinking about giving the country another shot to win me over? There was a point where America was pretty dead to me. And I can get over what happened in HS cause I think I really don't care anymore? I think there's so many other small little details like I'm still a U.S. Citizen, I have a Passport, etc.

I just have this fabricated fantasy that America is The Empire.
Solaris floating in the sky.
The Enlightened Ones who look down on Earthdwellers.
Zophar jumping from planet to planet reaching his tentacles all over.

I truly believe all those artifacts from JRPGs are just symbolism for America's huge influence on the rest of the world.

I think it's pretty fun being an American. Like people here definitely look at me differently because of it. And people always have their own perceptions on us around the world.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 14, 2023, 09:33:53 am »
Hey, Boo. Part 2.

So, I tried playing the Epilogue this morning while I was having my morning coffee and I just couldn't do it. So I waited til the afternoon-after dinner. You're getting through the Epilogue much faster than I am, that's for sure! I don't know how you do it you seem to get through dungeons and towns lickity-split! You run through your sessions. Anyway. I'm in East Nota right now (I'm just gonna run through the towns in order-and get the characters in the order you got them the first time) I'm trying to get through the bit where you get the Rememberizer cause I love that thing. Re-watching all the anime cutscenes is the best.

Anyway. So that's where I am.

I was on my daily walk though and I was rehashing through some of the recent posts we've been exchanging and I felt concerned. You mentioned living minimally and I have nothing against that but since we both come from the richest most blessed nation in the world, I was just concerned why you would do that in the first place? I live in the Philippines right now, and I don't know what you know about poverty or the Third-World but people here "live minimally" because they have to, not because they want to. They just don't have the money that we are used to! I imagine them going on YouTube (cellphones are pretty accessible here, though) and seeing people living minimally in the First World and they probably scoff and think why would they ever do that?

I kinda equate it to when I learn someone is a vegetarian I immediately ask them if they are Pescatarian (someone who can't eat meat at all or they get sick) because why would you do that if you don't have to or need to? Personally, I think it's just some frou-frou reason like they don't like cute animals getting killed, but if you think realistically or survival-wise... your body can take meat so why deny it of it if you want to be strong, smart, healthy? I'm not taking away that's it's noble but I just question it is all. Anyway.

Also,--I love that you brought up the bidet I have sooo many opinions on that. First of all, you made it clear that you're as generic of an American whiteboy as can be ... family living in the U.S. for generations. I just wanna get your opinion on certain . things. Americans always think their way is the best, the only way, and everyone else is weird for doing things how they do it. (Like how everybody made fun of the Japanese and Michael Jackson for wearing masks but look where everybody is now.) Like, for me, dry-wiping TP is not cool like if I'm at work and really need to go, it just doesn't seem clean during the day. There's never any access to water in a public restroom stall. I got used to it though, living in America all my life for 26 years so lol. But once I used a bidet here in the Philippines my life changed, I started to think about hygiene and everyday daily cleanliness more. And I notice Filipino people are very clean people All About Hygiene. I just wonder why Americans are so against it when obviously using hot water to wash yourself after you go to the bathroom is so obviously cleaner and better for you and other people around you. Some Americans tell me they take a shower after they go in the morning, but what if you're at work? Are you just gonna hold it in ... . Kinda reminds me of that "joke" that men don't eat quiche, or Real Men Don't Wear Pink. Like are you that stubborn and simple-minded? ???Lolll. . . . ..

It kinda makes me think Americans are scared of another country having it better than them, or doing something right-er lol. They always think they're the best and defend the American way to death, and beyond them. lol

Anyway those are just somethings I was thinking about on my walk. Sorry/My bad if I seem like I'm interrogating you but I'M JUST SO CURIOUS what you think. I've never really had a white friend before. I've made it clear that I didn't have the best experience in HS-- and decided right there not to stay in the US and I really had no future there, so why try? I kinda see you as a pen-pal rn cause you're in the US and I'm here in the Philippine Islands. You're Like My American Friend. :)

So yeah I got some LUNAR 2 time in before I go on my Survivor binge tonight and do all my self-care stuff. Hope everything's going well for you Boo and hope the family's doing ok!!! Take a bite out of a burrito for me I miss those things. Lol :D

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 14, 2023, 04:42:06 am »
Hey, Boo. My bad for the strange post last night. I was so spaced out yesterday I don't know why I think it had something to do with beating Zophar/beating LUNAR 2 and I sorta imploded inside of myself cause it's such a favorite game of mine. lol

Well I like to defy science somewhat. You know how they say the definition of crazy is "Doing something over and over and expecting different results?" I tend to do the same things over and over. I play LUNAR/or one of the Working Designs games every Christmas ea. year. I seemingly tend to watch Survivor seasons over-and-over. Ofc, I do it bec I have fun doing it. But I'm really into social experiments, and instead of using other people, I'd rather use myself as a test subject so I re-watch or re-play the same things just to play around w/ the thoughts in my head - Do I have the same thoughts when I re-watch again as I did last time? Why do I like to repeat things over and over, bec it's fun? Is that a good-enough reason? Or maybe I just have so much time on my hands and and playing around with boredom. Idle hands are the Devil's plaything.

I just find science, research articles on mental illness and doctors/social workers who think they're such experts on the matter so annoying why bec they studied it in class and have a piece of paper? Sometimes I think average people who deal with it everyday, say they have a child who has issues w/ it, are more-of experts on it than anyone else. That's just how I feel. You know sometimes I feel I don't give myself enough credit I pour my heart, soul, time + energy into JRPGs + Survivor research but just bec I'm not a professor on it at some Ivy-League doesn't mean I'm just a novice or still aspiring. I mean I think a lot of normal gamers are 'experts' just bec they've been gaming since they were like 5 ye. ol.

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Lol, What exactly is an expert at gaming?
Lol you're right that came out kinda funny. I just mean you have the whole 2 monitors set up, a PC meant for gaming, probably a Steam account. You seem to post here at the Compendium about gaming a lot. You have a very busy lifes but still get time in to game each day by way of scheduling/time management.
Compared to me-- I have a very small library of JRPGs. I don't PC game, I just use a laptop to post on messageboards about Survivor I actually shied away from public forums about JRPGs when I was younger because I was annoyed there were other people out there who were better at the games than me and that made me feel disappointment in myself as a gamer, I only went on GameFAQs but still I was disappointed in myself as a teenager cause I could never fit in time to create a FAQ and instead I focused on homework and school, I don't think I have the mind or body to sit down and game for 17 hour marathons anymore.
When I have a free schedule I tend to do other things because I think of my Mental Health now and I tend to just watch T.V. instead of opting to game, just bec I'm in it for the long haul and not short-term stimulations.

Lol, I guess my question came out kinda weird. I was just wondering if you believe, say Star Trek is on every Thursday night at 8:00 P.M. and all the fans sit down together at home to watch at that time. Group-Think. Do you think everyone that watches the show has the same thoughts or reactions to it?
Telepathy.--I never had any brothers or sisters, I don't have a twin. But they say twins can read each other's minds sometimes. I'm sure it's not exactly verbatim but say a certain facial reaction or nuance can give away what a person's thinking? I was also wondering if people who are deeply in love can read ea. other's minds, like do you and your wife send each other love messages through thought while you're both at work? LOL

Cause sometimes I feel my best friends can talk to me sometimes. Like when I'm just thinking to myself sometimes I re-play conversations I've had with my friends in the past (friends from America). Like they're like What's up? and I'm like Hey. lol

I'm not talking straight-up verbatim communication thru minds but just like do you think facial expressions or certain looks can give away what a person is thinking? Or sometimes things I've read in letters we've sent each other.

I'm waiting for a delivery right now from Shopee and I'm about to go on my daily walk so I have to go for a bit. I might come back and double-post. I also have to give one of my dogs a bath.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 13, 2023, 01:41:57 pm »
Hey, Boo. So update from me: I'm trying to really concentrate on LUNAR 2's Epilogue. I'm probably gonna go to all the towns tomorrow. I kinda realized I really do love 90s/2000s JRPGs. I am actually quite odd and I like to re-play my favorites and see if my thoughts change while playing. I have no idea why I get new games. I just got a PS4 Pro but I still keep my PS3 out so I can play the PS1's fantastic JRPG library. I guess I like to know that I'll be pouring a lot of time into something that I know I'll enjoy. I guess I like familiarity. So yeah, concentrating on the Epilogue. And I'll see how I feel afterward, where my mind goes through.

I feel sorta different than I did yesterday, maybe it was beating Zophar? But I got so into Survivor all of a sudden. I'm kinda thinking about my mental health more and T.V. seems more I dunno "safe" for me right now, I'm still into JRPGs but after playing one of my favorites ever I need some time to evaluate my life and where I'm going with it.

I'm not as expert at gaming as you -- you seem to have it down to a schedule and timestamp. I'm just a simple, novice JRPG fan. I don't consider myself hardcore or anything I just know what I love.

I just wanted to tell you that doing all this with you was really fun for me and it's helped me out tremendously in my life. I'll never forget it.

I'm quasi-busy trying to organize my life and everything I have to do ea. day. I'm not as busy or work as hard as you, I just like to take my time with things and incorporate new things in my life slowly. I'm not a machine like you guys. I wish I was more hardcore of a gamer but I just pick my favorites and I'm content with those few games in my life. I have a very small JRPG collection but I cherish each game and wish to know more about each one.

TBH all I did today was just write in my journal. It's therapeutic for me just talking to myself. I don't know if I'm overwhelmed right now I feel weirdly calm, but I just need time, space to re-evaluate everything. It's been so nice getting to know you. Loved your stories.

I have things to do like my daily walks and re-hydration. I'm still working bit by bit on my farm growing flowers and vegetable seeds and stuff. It's not super hard work but I think about it a lot. I'm alone and work independently so it's just an adjustment for me. I don't really have a routine these days.

I'd love to talk to you more even about non-gaming things cause we seem to be similiar in that we both love to think about what we're thinking of all the time and what it means? in greater life? I wanted to pick your brain about what you think about group-think and telepathy and if it exists? I'm so random.

LUNAR 2 was so much fun for me, dude. Likewise I felt like having a friend made me more focused on ea. sesh.

My bad I don't have much to say tonight in an extremely small post. I've been on this natural high recently and I feel so spaced out sometimes. lol I'll try to holler at you tomorrow with something more insightful? Take care, doods. :D

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 12, 2023, 08:02:42 am »
Whoops,--I kinda skimmed over the last part of your post when you were talking about what game to play next. So you've played FFXV already and are gonna do it again but with mods? I'm kinda a total newb to playing games on a computer so I have no idea, I don't really like to PC game cause I feel it's super hardcore and I've been warned about games on there like WoW. How it ruins people's lifes. lol But I mean I'm sure it's more mainstream now. I've been thinking about getting some sorta monitor set up in my office area/workspace. I'm stuck on a Dell laptop I brought over from America about 5 years ago so I think it's time for an upgrade of sorts. I'll have to do more research on it and ax more questions?

UM. I loved Dragon Warrior VII for PSX. I was thinking about it on my walk today; it's the first time I've ever put 200 hours into a JRPG before. It was definitely an epic adventure. I loved how it's such a classic, old-school throwback of a JRPG game on the PlayStation. Initially, I had looked over it since I didn't like how you can't see your party in battles a la Earthbound but I tried it again and it grew on me so much!! I loved it! It had a certain blandness about it reminiscent of SNES JRPGs lol--maybe not bland but just vanilla. lol

Dragon Quest VIII was good too on the PS2 I had recently just beat it for the first time last year. It was so epic and good, and it was so much fun. So Japanese RPG. I loved, every single minute of it.

Well. As I told you before I had just got a PS4 Pro and I only have like 4 games for it. I beat Yakuza 0. I have Final Fantasy 15, Yakuza Kiwami 1 and The Last Guardian. I could just play FFXV along with you ( ;) haha ) and it'd save me some money on buying a new game - probably gonna be Dragon Quest XI. I haven't played an FF game in a while so I'm due for another. I'm really more into Dragon Quest now though I think. Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake? Is it worth a shot playing?

Yeah I heard about the MMORPG games. I'm not really too into MMORPGs but I heard they're really good also. Wasn't the DQ MMORPG only released in Japan doe? I've heard some pretty good things about FF14 I might do some research on it. I've never even touched FF11 lol.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: March 12, 2023, 05:11:14 am »
Ok, the way I read your last post it seemed like you nonchalantly defeated Zophar, lol. He's one of/if not the hardest boss in the game; I'm not sure if any of the Epilogue bosses are comparable to him difficulty-wise. You can beat Zophar just by aiming for his head, but the hands are annoying cause there's so many of them so I use Lemina's Catastrophe to just hit all of him all at once. I think I only knocked out the really long hand in front of him which was the one that was giving me trouble anyway. Jean's White Dragon Protect trick really works with this boss so I always spam it everytime I face it. I ended up using so many Star Lights and Silver Lights though. lol But, oh well. I just wanted to get into the Epilogue.

On Zophar's backstory: That's just mainly how I interpreted him and where he came from after all the years of playing the game and reading up stuff on messageboards. So that's what I always tell people.

I actually wish I bought more strategy guides growing up. I need to fill up my shelf spaces. My friends say they don't go for much now these days though and people sometimes give them away just to get it off their hands. I like them cause they contain some nice artwork and stuff sometimes.

Oh, your son's sick? Chicken soup time!!! I'm such a weirdo and enjoy being sick cause it's just different from the same ole feeling all the time. Something different. Sometimes I don't wash my hands sometimes in hopes of catching a cold, but I'm not gonna like lick the toilet in order to get sick or anything. lol It's just that I feel a million times better after the cold wears off, even much better than before when I was trying to avoid catching a cold spell.

Uhhh, --to be honest bidets changed my life here in the Philippines. I used to be a clean-freak and I have to shower before going out with my friends. But it totally changed my bathroom ritual. I seriously back you up 100% in getting one. I dunno why Americans are so against it. I'm not afraid of using public toilets, but using dry-wiping TP, and going about your day with no care isn't for me. I think Americans know Filipinos use a "tabo" like a small bucket with a handle to like wash up after using the bathroom. I've never used one. But I like the bidet we have at home. I still use TP but you can essentially go without it if you want to. It's so fun to use. LOL. I can't think of not having one now and I'm not looking back.

I'm actually trying to get away from the American way of life -- so using a bucket to take a shower is like actually so much fun for me. I feel so savage, crude and primitive lol if I can say that. Na, it's actually super environmentally-conscious and I feel I'm cleaner when I shower that way? I think the people here get a kick out of me showering like they shower. Like, ooh. The rich, American guy uses a bucket. I don't know if there are benefits to taking cold showers but my barber-Dad says not to use hot water all the time when I shower. TBH, I do wonder if I'm getting all the germs off if I'm not using hot water so...

Mm, I thought I could do it here when I was thinking of moving and I'm not saying it's easy/hard but it was an adjustment for sure. Why don't you just bring your parents with you? Filipinos live with their parents their whole life and no one would bat an eye!! Maybe the heat would be good for them, in their old age.

The one thing I do miss the most is the food - but, I've been on a weight loss journey for 5 years and NOT being around all the American food I'm used to helped tremendously. Here, a typical meal is very "Japanese" (since we like Japan) and it's just a small serving of rice, "ulam" - the meat/or main dish to go with your rice, gulay - vegetables and we have lots of dipping sauces mostly soy sauce/fish sauce/vinegar mixed with garlic/onions/chili peppers etc. I'm quite satisfied with a piece of fried fish and a little veggies. It's a miracle if I ever drink soda now these days. No one really carries sugary fruit juices. But we recently got a blender so I was thinking of making smoothies cause we have SHITTONS of fresh fruit. I think not being able to go to my closest McDonald's whenever I get hungry is doing me a favor. TBH

I'm planning on playing through the Epilogue. Then I'll probably finish Yakuza Kiwami 1. Then I'll think about getting Dragon Quest XI cause I want just a epic adventure. lol See you, homie! :D

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