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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: February 04, 2023, 01:53:13 am »
Yay!!!!
I'm glad you're up for it, Boo, and down to read all the text the game has to offer and soak in all of the lore of LUNAR 2!
I would feel awful if I missed a line in the game and I try to do this (backtrack and talk to everyone) after every major event that takes place that'll have the townspeople talking and change their lines. lol
I try to do this everytime I play the game. I dunno if I'm just OCD, anal-retentive or a completionist or whatever-you-would call it? But I just think it's fun to.
So this afternoon I'm planning on starting from the beginning at Gwyn's House, then the Salyan Desert towns like Larpa and then Dalton, and I'll just work my way down the list.
Thanks for enjoying the game with me, Boo!!! Hehe
I'm glad you're up for it, Boo, and down to read all the text the game has to offer and soak in all of the lore of LUNAR 2!
I would feel awful if I missed a line in the game and I try to do this (backtrack and talk to everyone) after every major event that takes place that'll have the townspeople talking and change their lines. lolI try to do this everytime I play the game. I dunno if I'm just OCD, anal-retentive or a completionist or whatever-you-would call it? But I just think it's fun to.
So this afternoon I'm planning on starting from the beginning at Gwyn's House, then the Salyan Desert towns like Larpa and then Dalton, and I'll just work my way down the list.
Thanks for enjoying the game with me, Boo!!! Hehe
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: February 03, 2023, 06:59:25 am »
Oh, Boo!!! A wonderful thought just overtook me...
So I just beat Leo, he gave me the White Dragon's Aura and the Destiny... I was gonna bring this up back when you receive the White Dragon Wings (but unfortunately they lost all their power) but now would be an most excellent time to actually backtrack and go back to all the previous towns and talk to the townspeople again. (Hopefully they changed their lines) Usually once I get the ability to go back to previous places I just talk to everyone again.
I might set aside a day to do all this, BEFORE I go tackle the White Dragon Cave. Just so you know. I get so excited just thinking about it.
So I just beat Leo, he gave me the White Dragon's Aura and the Destiny... I was gonna bring this up back when you receive the White Dragon Wings (but unfortunately they lost all their power) but now would be an most excellent time to actually backtrack and go back to all the previous towns and talk to the townspeople again. (Hopefully they changed their lines) Usually once I get the ability to go back to previous places I just talk to everyone again.
I might set aside a day to do all this, BEFORE I go tackle the White Dragon Cave. Just so you know.
I get so excited just thinking about it.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: February 02, 2023, 10:51:48 am »
Regarding the game..........
I did everything you get to do in Pentagulia and made/warped myself back to Taben's Peak. Saved.
I have some thoughts: So Zophar speaks again. Excellent. I thought getting to see the Goddess Tower again was amazing I thought that was such a climax last dungeon for SSSC. The music was great, I am in agreeance.
So this's the part where you have to go to each one of the Four Dragons, just like when Alex had to undergo his Dragon Trials to become Dragonmaster. I think it's pretty funny you get to repeat all that in this game. lol
I did everything you get to do in Pentagulia and made/warped myself back to Taben's Peak. Saved.
I have some thoughts: So Zophar speaks again. Excellent. I thought getting to see the Goddess Tower again was amazing I thought that was such a climax last dungeon for SSSC. The music was great, I am in agreeance.
So this's the part where you have to go to each one of the Four Dragons, just like when Alex had to undergo his Dragon Trials to become Dragonmaster. I think it's pretty funny you get to repeat all that in this game. lol
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: February 02, 2023, 03:06:34 am »
You are one bad dude, Boo. Bad as in good, lol. You remind me of a lot of the liberal activists I see in San Francisco, dudes that do protests and marches for all kinds of causes and stuff. Pro-weed, etc.... I grew up with a lot of that stuff like the "people fighting the system" type of stuff. I don't usually partake though but I watch from afar, I'm one of those "keep your head down and work" type people, "stay in your own lane" and "Follow the Herd." I just like to play safe, and not get too involved. I really don't want to stick out. Just faceless in the crowd.
I support the gays I think they're so funny, I'm pretty religious but I do find a lot of the stuff in the Bible to be archaic and traditional/too old-fashioned. I'm pretty with the times. They have me cracking up when there's a gay guy on T.V. and he's acting very dramatic!! I laugh my head off.
On the anti-depressants. I don't think about it too much but for me they worked. Literally I took the first pill I was prescribed, I took a nap and I woke up feeling like everything was normal again. This was about 4 years ago. It gave me the motivation to diet, exercise and to ultimately lose weight which was one of the reasons why I was depressed in the first place (my weight gain) so I still take them. After maybe a year and a half of doing this my psych gave me the good news that I don't have depression anymore and I was elated. I asked her why I have to keep taking the meds if I'm not depressed anymore, and she said it was for "maintenance" and to "help with sleep." I was a little skeptical, but was like ok. Tbh, I really don't care about the medication I just take it like it's nothing but it does knock me out at night. I never really think about it. If I'm having trouble sleeping I just take it as a "sleep aid."
I know what you mean about feeling sorta numb and zombied-out. What I did was just exercise (which you can get a natural high from) and just eat healthier, and drink a lot of water and that sorta balances out that 'medicated' feeling. I don't have problems w/ it anymore though. I say it's up to you, if you know it helps than def take it, but if you're uneasy maybe don't take it for a while esp if you have to do things involving talking to people like at work or something. I agree with the doc in just taking it all the time though, and figuring out how to deal with the side-effects/numbness/zombie feeling.
I'm actually looking to expand my social media, haha! But I do prefer, just posting on an old-fashioned Message Board though! I think the anonymity is really special. I also have this Survivor fantasy of being a super charismatic, engaging, personality online that posts big, cryptic, mysterious things haha!!! Na, I really do like just talking to people and getting to know them. I grew up chatting w/ people online ever since I was a teenager so I think it's the normal way to go about things these days. My doctor says to talk to more IRL ppl though (Which's why I said that thing about talking to people that's not your spouse, kids, pets, family. Actual friends and friendships outside your comfort zone).
Yeah... I try not to think about how funny it is paying my bills here, compared to how it was like in the US. I rem living by myself in an apartment on main street San Francisco and the monthly rent was about $1,000. Which was pretty much my paycheck for two weeks, and I couldn't buy that many groceries or anything and it was a Godsend my Mom would send me some stuff to eat some days. I was very uncomfortable living by myself having no one to talk to and not having my dogs there.
Here it's quite the opposite. Just a cute farm, I have so many ppl here everyday to talk to if I want, I have two wonderful dogs. I play around w/ the lot here so I try to grow a little herb garden and then I'll move onto the hard stuff like vegetables and tomatoes, eggplant, okra, etc.... Not to mention the chickens, goats, cows.
Well I get along w/ my parents pretty well. This farm is actually theirs, I have my own house elsewhere but I told them I like this house better so we should switch. XD lol They come to visit a lot though. If they ever annoy me I just let it roll off my back I'm that easy-going plus I'm not gonna raise my voice to 60-year-olds about (petty) arguing. It's just not worth it to me.
Lol, I wish I had stories about fun neighbors I had growing up but they were all of the nasty variety. Like. Seriously. I never get a long w/ neighbors of ours. I just don't like being looked at. By people. Ever. Anywhere. And most people in the US I've encountered are not very friendly. When it comes to my friends we got along great though. I dunno why it's always older people that creep me out in the neighborhood.
Ok. I promise I'll play a little bit of the game more now. I'm about to. The two maids are just in the house cleaning the place up so I'll be nice and settled to game in a few minutes. I'll check you out later Boo!!! ....................
I support the gays I think they're so funny, I'm pretty religious but I do find a lot of the stuff in the Bible to be archaic and traditional/too old-fashioned. I'm pretty with the times. They have me cracking up when there's a gay guy on T.V. and he's acting very dramatic!! I laugh my head off.
On the anti-depressants. I don't think about it too much but for me they worked. Literally I took the first pill I was prescribed, I took a nap and I woke up feeling like everything was normal again. This was about 4 years ago. It gave me the motivation to diet, exercise and to ultimately lose weight which was one of the reasons why I was depressed in the first place (my weight gain) so I still take them. After maybe a year and a half of doing this my psych gave me the good news that I don't have depression anymore and I was elated. I asked her why I have to keep taking the meds if I'm not depressed anymore, and she said it was for "maintenance" and to "help with sleep." I was a little skeptical, but was like ok. Tbh, I really don't care about the medication I just take it like it's nothing but it does knock me out at night. I never really think about it. If I'm having trouble sleeping I just take it as a "sleep aid."
I know what you mean about feeling sorta numb and zombied-out. What I did was just exercise (which you can get a natural high from) and just eat healthier, and drink a lot of water and that sorta balances out that 'medicated' feeling. I don't have problems w/ it anymore though. I say it's up to you, if you know it helps than def take it, but if you're uneasy maybe don't take it for a while esp if you have to do things involving talking to people like at work or something. I agree with the doc in just taking it all the time though, and figuring out how to deal with the side-effects/numbness/zombie feeling.
I'm actually looking to expand my social media, haha! But I do prefer, just posting on an old-fashioned Message Board though! I think the anonymity is really special. I also have this Survivor fantasy of being a super charismatic, engaging, personality online that posts big, cryptic, mysterious things haha!!! Na, I really do like just talking to people and getting to know them. I grew up chatting w/ people online ever since I was a teenager so I think it's the normal way to go about things these days. My doctor says to talk to more IRL ppl though (Which's why I said that thing about talking to people that's not your spouse, kids, pets, family. Actual friends and friendships outside your comfort zone).
Yeah... I try not to think about how funny it is paying my bills here, compared to how it was like in the US. I rem living by myself in an apartment on main street San Francisco and the monthly rent was about $1,000. Which was pretty much my paycheck for two weeks, and I couldn't buy that many groceries or anything and it was a Godsend my Mom would send me some stuff to eat some days. I was very uncomfortable living by myself having no one to talk to and not having my dogs there.
Here it's quite the opposite. Just a cute farm, I have so many ppl here everyday to talk to if I want, I have two wonderful dogs. I play around w/ the lot here so I try to grow a little herb garden and then I'll move onto the hard stuff like vegetables and tomatoes, eggplant, okra, etc.... Not to mention the chickens, goats, cows.
Well I get along w/ my parents pretty well. This farm is actually theirs, I have my own house elsewhere but I told them I like this house better so we should switch. XD lol They come to visit a lot though. If they ever annoy me I just let it roll off my back I'm that easy-going plus I'm not gonna raise my voice to 60-year-olds about (petty) arguing. It's just not worth it to me.
Lol, I wish I had stories about fun neighbors I had growing up but they were all of the nasty variety. Like. Seriously. I never get a long w/ neighbors of ours. I just don't like being looked at. By people. Ever. Anywhere. And most people in the US I've encountered are not very friendly. When it comes to my friends we got along great though. I dunno why it's always older people that creep me out in the neighborhood.
Ok. I promise I'll play a little bit of the game more now. I'm about to. The two maids are just in the house cleaning the place up so I'll be nice and settled to game in a few minutes. I'll check you out later Boo!!! ....................
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: February 02, 2023, 12:19:11 am »
Don't worry, Boo--I'm in the Pentagulia Underground about to go through the secret entrance / Althena's Statue. I'll prob play a little bit later cause I can't NOT play LUNAR, haha--.
Boo, I totally see you as some sort of social justice warrior like if we were in the 60s or 70s you'd be one of the white "brothers" throwing molotov cocktails at the police or something. haha
I'm learning so much from you in our conversations you're obviously very smart, much more than I am and I'm just trying to keep up w/ the conversation and have something substantial to reply with.
Oh I struggled a little bit with Depression about 5-10 years ago. It was due to me getting Food Poisoning at work and they had to take me to a hospital in L.A. bec it was that bad, and there they said I was too underweight (I was like 150 lbs.) and so they fed me pills to fatten me up. I ended up gaining over 100 lbs. and left the hospital overweight and depressed. I didn't trust any doctors in the U.S. just cause I didn't trust them. But when I came home to the Philippines I saw a psychologist right away and she helped me out. I started exercising / and dieting and now I'm the happiest I've ever been in my life. Another reason why I don't like the US is I think they're all about drugs... like whether it's pills or whatever? A week ago I was at a pizza parlor here and met an American the first thing he asks me is if I do any drugs and I was like no bec I didn't want to indulge his conversation and bec he might be undercover. I was just like whoa that that's the only thing Americans think about?
Lol. You're telling me. Sometimes I think these "problems" I have are just really petty. Bec my parents worked and lived in the US for 30+ years and they don't give a fuck about any of this stuff. They just care about work and money. They're like robots. Running on coffee/caffeine. They barely have enough time to watch T.V. and think about the stuff I do. I think they're more definition of the American Dream than anything cause they came there with nothing, worked, and saved up enough money to buy themselfs (and me) a home in the Philippines and have more than enough saved for retirement. Sometimes when a lot of this superficial stuff is getting to me I just think about them and then I want to just leave the internet and just live my happy life. They don't use the internet or anything. They're just happy people.
I grew up in San Francisco which has a big Asian population so I saw a lot of Asian people everyday. And I grew up in a pretty Asian environment with most of my friends growing up being Asian-American, etc. It's just a drastic change when I get home and turn on the T.V. and see nothing but white people and the occasional Black. It's just, a, little weird. Tbh, when I think about it the T.V. is pretty harmful and just sucks me in so in a way I'm kinda of glad that I realized I'm never gonna be represented on television and I stopped consuming American media that way. One show I dearly love is Survivor though, and I have all (most) of the DVDs and everything so I took that with me back home here... I mean I gotta like something right? I think watching less T.V. is a good thing at the end of the day.
One of the main things I noticed between the Philippines-US is: One the Philippines is a pretty small, homogeneous country with mainly one religion. I see only Filipinos everyday here. I don't have to worry about offending a Black, Latino or white person at work or something or offending somebody in regards to religion. I kinda like that it's just Filipinos here because I feel way more comfortable knowing that my neighbor is prob a Filipino guy just like me? In the US, I feel religion is mostly stunted esp at work like you're not supposed to talk about it? Here they show prayers on T.V. commercials and everything. I've never felt this much comfort in my growing up 26 years in America, there I just felt like people were watching me, nosy neighbors, and the police presence kinda made me feel like they were trying to keep minorities "down." I think the US is just complicated. Here it's a much more simple life.
Tbh, I have my whole life set here now. I don't have to worry about bills or anything. I was laughing one time bec I was thinking about how I pay $4 for water & electricity, and my highest bill was prob the internet at $20. I think about my retirement often, bec I know I'm gonna make it there. Sure it's simpler but I mean I'm not dumb? Follow the money. I pay more for video games here than my monthly bills.
Tbh we don't have "things" like that here. Racism, colorism whatever. PEOPLE JUST DON'T CARE. We have this thing in the US where you turn 18 and you move out and live on your own. Here that's not even thought of bec people live with their parents in the same house until they grow older. It's almost disrespectful to leave your parents alone and people will def look at you funny for it. I think a lot of things like that in America have no idea where it stemmed from. Asians def care for their parents and their family a lot. I know for sure people wouldn't understand that cause we come from two different worlds. I've talked to a lot of ex-pats here who've said they don't like how people abandon their parents in nursing homes so they moved to the Philippines to get away from the "stigma" of wanting to take care of their parents in their own home. WEIRD!!! Only in America would something weird like that even be thought of.
I know some people might call our country uneducated, or undeveloped. But if you think racism and looking down on ppl for random reasons is being "educated" or "cultured" well color me stupid. That's actually one of the reasons why I wanted to get away from America is the looks that people would give me. Like when I was working people would just have strange interactions with me, or I walk into a GameStop and get the weirdest looks cause I'm 20 and waltzing into a kids toy store w/o a family. Shameful! I can see why the Japanese look to automated, robotic transactions now bec a human being is capable of having personal thoughts on someone buying a pack of bubble gum. I mean sometimes you don't need that personal interaction w/ someone else. It's almost kinda of voyeur or perverted.
Anyway Boo, I tried to reply to you as best I can without coffee or an energy drink just drinking hot chocolate lol. I feel so unfocused today haha. I'll prob play more LUNAR later!
Boo, I totally see you as some sort of social justice warrior like if we were in the 60s or 70s you'd be one of the white "brothers" throwing molotov cocktails at the police or something. haha
I'm learning so much from you in our conversations you're obviously very smart, much more than I am and I'm just trying to keep up w/ the conversation and have something substantial to reply with.
Oh I struggled a little bit with Depression about 5-10 years ago. It was due to me getting Food Poisoning at work and they had to take me to a hospital in L.A. bec it was that bad, and there they said I was too underweight (I was like 150 lbs.) and so they fed me pills to fatten me up. I ended up gaining over 100 lbs. and left the hospital overweight and depressed. I didn't trust any doctors in the U.S. just cause I didn't trust them. But when I came home to the Philippines I saw a psychologist right away and she helped me out. I started exercising / and dieting and now I'm the happiest I've ever been in my life. Another reason why I don't like the US is I think they're all about drugs... like whether it's pills or whatever? A week ago I was at a pizza parlor here and met an American the first thing he asks me is if I do any drugs and I was like no bec I didn't want to indulge his conversation and bec he might be undercover. I was just like whoa that that's the only thing Americans think about?
Lol. You're telling me. Sometimes I think these "problems" I have are just really petty. Bec my parents worked and lived in the US for 30+ years and they don't give a fuck about any of this stuff. They just care about work and money. They're like robots. Running on coffee/caffeine. They barely have enough time to watch T.V. and think about the stuff I do. I think they're more definition of the American Dream than anything cause they came there with nothing, worked, and saved up enough money to buy themselfs (and me
) a home in the Philippines and have more than enough saved for retirement. Sometimes when a lot of this superficial stuff is getting to me I just think about them and then I want to just leave the internet and just live my happy life. They don't use the internet or anything. They're just happy people.I grew up in San Francisco which has a big Asian population so I saw a lot of Asian people everyday. And I grew up in a pretty Asian environment with most of my friends growing up being Asian-American, etc. It's just a drastic change when I get home and turn on the T.V. and see nothing but white people and the occasional Black. It's just, a, little weird. Tbh, when I think about it the T.V. is pretty harmful and just sucks me in so in a way I'm kinda of glad that I realized I'm never gonna be represented on television and I stopped consuming American media that way. One show I dearly love is Survivor though, and I have all (most) of the DVDs and everything so I took that with me back home here... I mean I gotta like something right? I think watching less T.V. is a good thing at the end of the day.
One of the main things I noticed between the Philippines-US is: One the Philippines is a pretty small, homogeneous country with mainly one religion. I see only Filipinos everyday here. I don't have to worry about offending a Black, Latino or white person at work or something or offending somebody in regards to religion. I kinda like that it's just Filipinos here because I feel way more comfortable knowing that my neighbor is prob a Filipino guy just like me? In the US, I feel religion is mostly stunted esp at work like you're not supposed to talk about it? Here they show prayers on T.V. commercials and everything. I've never felt this much comfort in my growing up 26 years in America, there I just felt like people were watching me, nosy neighbors, and the police presence kinda made me feel like they were trying to keep minorities "down." I think the US is just complicated. Here it's a much more simple life.
Tbh, I have my whole life set here now. I don't have to worry about bills or anything. I was laughing one time bec I was thinking about how I pay $4 for water & electricity, and my highest bill was prob the internet at $20. I think about my retirement often, bec I know I'm gonna make it there. Sure it's simpler but I mean I'm not dumb? Follow the money. I pay more for video games here than my monthly bills.
Tbh we don't have "things" like that here. Racism, colorism whatever. PEOPLE JUST DON'T CARE. We have this thing in the US where you turn 18 and you move out and live on your own. Here that's not even thought of bec people live with their parents in the same house until they grow older. It's almost disrespectful to leave your parents alone and people will def look at you funny for it. I think a lot of things like that in America have no idea where it stemmed from. Asians def care for their parents and their family a lot. I know for sure people wouldn't understand that cause we come from two different worlds. I've talked to a lot of ex-pats here who've said they don't like how people abandon their parents in nursing homes so they moved to the Philippines to get away from the "stigma" of wanting to take care of their parents in their own home. WEIRD!!! Only in America would something weird like that even be thought of.
I know some people might call our country uneducated, or undeveloped. But if you think racism and looking down on ppl for random reasons is being "educated" or "cultured" well color me stupid. That's actually one of the reasons why I wanted to get away from America is the looks that people would give me. Like when I was working people would just have strange interactions with me, or I walk into a GameStop and get the weirdest looks cause I'm 20 and waltzing into a kids toy store w/o a family. Shameful! I can see why the Japanese look to automated, robotic transactions now bec a human being is capable of having personal thoughts on someone buying a pack of bubble gum. I mean sometimes you don't need that personal interaction w/ someone else. It's almost kinda of voyeur or perverted.
Anyway Boo, I tried to reply to you as best I can without coffee or an energy drink just drinking hot chocolate lol. I feel so unfocused today haha. I'll prob play more LUNAR later!
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 31, 2023, 11:07:43 am »
As for the game... hehe. I went and talked to Althena... woo woo woo all that drama happens. Another jail scene that's two for EBC. Hurrah! And Mystere pops up. I actually like Mystere I think it's Leo's way of helping Hiro and the group out of the predicament without feeling like he's going against his duty and Althena. :shrug: I've seen weirder things in JRPGs especially now. I tried to use all his spells/skills cause he has new voiceovers for them. "You need a spanking!" was definitely one of my favorites. I'm trying to categorize Leo's character-personality into a box, now that Mystere has arrived on scene... I guess he's one of those soldier/guard-types that's conflicted over following (fake) orders and wants to do the (obvious) right thing, ...without breaking his oath. Works for me!! This's the part in the game where you see Leo make a turnaround so I like that a lot. His overly fanatical, pompous first act act was really um bad for me. I just didn't like it. But now the whole Ronfar/Mauri/Leo relationship has come to the surface and if I remember correctly they make a cute threesome.
I always save Ronfar first I just make a b-line down the red hallway. I dunno how you managed to save Lemina first without having a lot of healing items. I always forget about this part in Pentagulia so for the next time I play I'm gonna definitely buy Healing Herbs and Nuts when it's just Hiro and Mystere on their own. The enemies hit hard and neither has a healing spell so. It's good to have just in case.
I stopped here for now I want to go on but I like when we're somewhat at the same part. Good day to you, Boo! Cheers!
Edit: I have more to say lol.
So I went ahead and rescued all three of Hiro's friends and I stopped right in front of the Althena's Statue in the center hallway.
I think it's interesting the juxtaposition of the Four Heroes in this game compared to the last game. In this game, when I was thinking about everything when we first started playing, they're just evil. In SSSC they were kinda exalted as REAL heroes who saved the world and Mel, Lemia, Ghaleon and Dyne all had interpersonal relationships with each other and backstory that involved all four members.
In EBC, they don't really show the Four Heroes: Borgan, Mauri, Lunn and Leo interacting all that much and they don't really seem that close to me as the Four Heroes in the first game. They're just bad people being controlled by Fake Althena and want to revive Zophar. I guess they're searching for ultimate power... or whatever?
Anyway, it seems out of the bunch Leo is the only one that 'sees' what's really going on. Go fig.? He of all, people. It's a little weird Fake Althena doesn't really have a grasp on Leo as much as the other three. He seems free of her binding power. .......... So yeah that's all I came up with? Have fun Boo!
I always save Ronfar first I just make a b-line down the red hallway. I dunno how you managed to save Lemina first without having a lot of healing items. I always forget about this part in Pentagulia so for the next time I play I'm gonna definitely buy Healing Herbs and Nuts when it's just Hiro and Mystere on their own. The enemies hit hard and neither has a healing spell so. It's good to have just in case.
I stopped here for now I want to go on but I like when we're somewhat at the same part. Good day to you, Boo!
Cheers!Edit: I have more to say lol.
So I went ahead and rescued all three of Hiro's friends and I stopped right in front of the Althena's Statue in the center hallway.
I think it's interesting the juxtaposition of the Four Heroes in this game compared to the last game. In this game, when I was thinking about everything when we first started playing, they're just evil. In SSSC they were kinda exalted as REAL heroes who saved the world and Mel, Lemia, Ghaleon and Dyne all had interpersonal relationships with each other and backstory that involved all four members.
In EBC, they don't really show the Four Heroes: Borgan, Mauri, Lunn and Leo interacting all that much and they don't really seem that close to me as the Four Heroes in the first game. They're just bad people being controlled by Fake Althena and want to revive Zophar. I guess they're searching for ultimate power... or whatever?
Anyway, it seems out of the bunch Leo is the only one that 'sees' what's really going on. Go fig.? He of all, people. It's a little weird Fake Althena doesn't really have a grasp on Leo as much as the other three. He seems free of her binding power. .......... So yeah that's all I came up with? Have fun Boo!
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 31, 2023, 02:58:49 am »
Boo, I'm really glad when I meet ppl like you either offline or on. It makes me re-think that hey maybe everything's alright in this world and there are still good ppl left. You're a really grounded, down-to-earth dude it's no surprise you've got your life together already and you're just a family man now. Like I wouldn't expect anything else.
I'm actually super skittish to tell ppl my true opinions on video games / RPGs and such bec I see it thru such "Asian eyes" that maybe it kind of puts ppl off at first when I start listing out the things that I relate to it so much. I don't really buy the "We're all the same." and "We all have the same experiences." thing. Like what you said different people, are different people. To me it just seems like they're just disregarding my own personal experience w/ the game being that I am Asian playing a Japanese RPG. It's kinda almost like they don't want to accept that hey they are playing a Japanese game (even though it's trans. into English) and that they enjoy that. A lot- Some of the gamers I've encountered who say they like to play JRPGs seem to like just the superficial on-the-surface stuff: the video games, the anime, some of the food. But when I interact w/ them more and more and see what they have to say it seems to me that they don't even like the people that much. (Asians)
I don't have much to do these days so I spend most of my time analyzing text/lines in RPGs, and sorta thinking about my own life a little bit more and why I like to do this. (play RPGs) Some ppl might think I'm digging for something that's not there, or trying to find more meaning to a [cough] video game but I just like words, and esp. the English translation. I just find it fascinating that that's a job. lol Translating RPG's from Japanese-to-English. Sometimes I wanna translate an English game into Tagalog, and then translate it back--and sometimes I get a different line. :shrug:
Oh, I get you about the food thing. I'm kind of the opposite. I just like home food. Either my Mom's cooking / or stuff I can easily make by myself using the microwave or what-not. My friends when I was 19 asked me "Have you ever tried pho?" and I was like no, I just like home food. And they were shocked and took my out to a Vietnamese restaurant immediately. They think I'm very un-Asian for someone who was born in Asia. I actually don't really like the cilantro used in that kinda way like a soup. I kinda prefer it in the Mexican-style where it's in salsa it seems more fitting like that. They started taking me out to more cultural or ethnic places like Indian / Pakistani / Etrinean type places too. I'm actually not a very big foodie though I did keep the Food Network on in the background on the T.V. in my room growing up. I actually find eating kinda annoying. The dishes. The flossing. Having rancid breath while going out-and-about. So, yeah. I mean, I'm glad they wanted me to be more Asian but that was that.
I'm perfectly happy having a saltine cracker with no salt. And calling it my lunch.
I've never really been that interested in American culture: politics, sports, news. That tri-fecta / or, trinity I have absolutely NO, ZERO interest in,-at. all. I never see anyone like me on T.V. ever anyways growing up so it was hard to relate to the country and its people. I never had any real heroes or ppl to look up to growing up cause I never saw my own face anywhere. Sports is probably the easiest thing to fall into and it was all the same you just never see too many Asians playing sports or a Filipino. I just feel like everyone else has something to relate to when they turn on the boob tube and I never see representation of my own people. So I try not to consume too much American media anymore. Now they're starting to get more minority representation but I figure it's a little too little, to late for me. lol Where was all that when I was growing up and really needed it the most? 36-year-old me just doesnae care anymore.
So yeah all the promises America had for the immigrant "The American Dream," "land of milk and honey," "if you can make it in Detroit you can make it anywhere." It's not really all it's cracked up to be. Sometimes I feel people just don't have connections anywhere else outside of the country and they're pretty much stuck there grown adults with no passport. It's just out of the question moving or traveling to other parts of the world. I just found a lot of people I've interacted w/ very sheltered and they just kinda see what's around the corner at the house, and that's it for their daily adventure? Just staying at the house. Not really looking at applications for new friendships.
At least you were approached in High School. I was never, lol. Was the emo girl your future wife? You mentioned you were High School Sweethearts? I went to a private Catholic school Freshman year of HS and it was like 97.8% Caucasian kids. Soph-Sen year I moved back to San Francisco and went to a HS with a majority of minority kids and it was just normal. :shrug: I dunno why Freshman year w/ all the Caucasians was such a bad experience. Fwiw, for a private Catholic school we never went to church, and no one (even the adults) even ever asked me about my religion. I figured that's why we were there. Such a terrible school. I want my tuition money back. I did get straight-A's that schoolyear though, but the social experience was an F-. Or Incomplete.
I feel blessed everyday that I'm not in America anymore and I can not think about that stuff if I wanted to.
BUT ANYWAYS BOO- So I talked to everyone in Pentagulia and I'm about to go meet with Althena. I was gonna say I LOVE EBC because all of Althena's priests are so hilarious to me. They're like old, brown-haired bearded, and frothing at the mouth for Althena the Goddess that grants them their every wish and desire. They long to be gods themselfs and for to be granted immortality. I think Working Designs was really driving the nail home with how annoying, stupid and crazy the religion had turned into in EBC that I just adore what they did with these characters and it makes me laugh so much. I dunno if they're trying to make social commentary about religious ppl in general in America? Being so one-dimensionally about God IS kinda of hilarious. Having no other part to you as a person.
So yeah- I kinda of wanted to wait for you to update on where you were and I'll just try to catch up I prefer it that way. I kinda wanted to take a break today but I can't NOT play LUNAR so I might just see what happens next after you meet w/ Althena and to see what's up? I think it's just the Mystere thing anyways. And how fruity Leo really is and all that stuff.
Thanks for just listening and not immediately judging.
I'm actually super skittish to tell ppl my true opinions on video games / RPGs and such bec I see it thru such "Asian eyes" that maybe it kind of puts ppl off at first when I start listing out the things that I relate to it so much. I don't really buy the "We're all the same." and "We all have the same experiences." thing. Like what you said different people, are different people. To me it just seems like they're just disregarding my own personal experience w/ the game being that I am Asian playing a Japanese RPG. It's kinda almost like they don't want to accept that hey they are playing a Japanese game (even though it's trans. into English) and that they enjoy that. A lot- Some of the gamers I've encountered who say they like to play JRPGs seem to like just the superficial on-the-surface stuff: the video games, the anime, some of the food. But when I interact w/ them more and more and see what they have to say it seems to me that they don't even like the people that much. (Asians)
I don't have much to do these days so I spend most of my time analyzing text/lines in RPGs, and sorta thinking about my own life a little bit more and why I like to do this. (play RPGs) Some ppl might think I'm digging for something that's not there, or trying to find more meaning to a [cough] video game but I just like words, and esp. the English translation. I just find it fascinating that that's a job. lol Translating RPG's from Japanese-to-English. Sometimes I wanna translate an English game into Tagalog, and then translate it back--and sometimes I get a different line. :shrug:
Oh, I get you about the food thing. I'm kind of the opposite. I just like home food. Either my Mom's cooking / or stuff I can easily make by myself using the microwave or what-not. My friends when I was 19 asked me "Have you ever tried pho?" and I was like no, I just like home food. And they were shocked and took my out to a Vietnamese restaurant immediately. They think I'm very un-Asian for someone who was born in Asia. I actually don't really like the cilantro used in that kinda way like a soup. I kinda prefer it in the Mexican-style where it's in salsa it seems more fitting like that. They started taking me out to more cultural or ethnic places like Indian / Pakistani / Etrinean type places too. I'm actually not a very big foodie though I did keep the Food Network on in the background on the T.V. in my room growing up. I actually find eating kinda annoying. The dishes. The flossing. Having rancid breath while going out-and-about. So, yeah. I mean, I'm glad they wanted me to be more Asian but that was that.
I'm perfectly happy having a saltine cracker with no salt. And calling it my lunch.
I've never really been that interested in American culture: politics, sports, news. That tri-fecta / or, trinity I have absolutely NO, ZERO interest in,-at. all. I never see anyone like me on T.V. ever anyways growing up so it was hard to relate to the country and its people. I never had any real heroes or ppl to look up to growing up cause I never saw my own face anywhere. Sports is probably the easiest thing to fall into and it was all the same you just never see too many Asians playing sports or a Filipino. I just feel like everyone else has something to relate to when they turn on the boob tube and I never see representation of my own people. So I try not to consume too much American media anymore. Now they're starting to get more minority representation but I figure it's a little too little, to late for me. lol Where was all that when I was growing up and really needed it the most? 36-year-old me just doesnae care anymore.
So yeah all the promises America had for the immigrant "The American Dream," "land of milk and honey," "if you can make it in Detroit you can make it anywhere." It's not really all it's cracked up to be. Sometimes I feel people just don't have connections anywhere else outside of the country and they're pretty much stuck there grown adults with no passport. It's just out of the question moving or traveling to other parts of the world. I just found a lot of people I've interacted w/ very sheltered and they just kinda see what's around the corner at the house, and that's it for their daily adventure? Just staying at the house. Not really looking at applications for new friendships.
At least you were approached in High School. I was never, lol. Was the emo girl your future wife? You mentioned you were High School Sweethearts? I went to a private Catholic school Freshman year of HS and it was like 97.8% Caucasian kids. Soph-Sen year I moved back to San Francisco and went to a HS with a majority of minority kids and it was just normal. :shrug: I dunno why Freshman year w/ all the Caucasians was such a bad experience. Fwiw, for a private Catholic school we never went to church, and no one (even the adults) even ever asked me about my religion. I figured that's why we were there. Such a terrible school. I want my tuition money back. I did get straight-A's that schoolyear though, but the social experience was an F-. Or Incomplete.
I feel blessed everyday that I'm not in America anymore and I can not think about that stuff if I wanted to.
BUT ANYWAYS BOO- So I talked to everyone in Pentagulia and I'm about to go meet with Althena. I was gonna say I LOVE EBC because all of Althena's priests are so hilarious to me. They're like old, brown-haired bearded, and frothing at the mouth for Althena the Goddess that grants them their every wish and desire. They long to be gods themselfs and for to be granted immortality. I think Working Designs was really driving the nail home with how annoying, stupid and crazy the religion had turned into in EBC that I just adore what they did with these characters and it makes me laugh so much. I dunno if they're trying to make social commentary about religious ppl in general in America? Being so one-dimensionally about God IS kinda of hilarious. Having no other part to you as a person.
So yeah- I kinda of wanted to wait for you to update on where you were and I'll just try to catch up I prefer it that way. I kinda wanted to take a break today but I can't NOT play LUNAR so I might just see what happens next after you meet w/ Althena and to see what's up? I think it's just the Mystere thing anyways. And how fruity Leo really is and all that stuff.
Thanks for just listening and not immediately judging.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 30, 2023, 07:13:25 am »
Thank God, Boo--I was worried how you would react when I posted my thoughts last night. Sometimes I go on philosophical rambles and I was hoping you'd 'get it' or 'get me.' I think there's more to RPGs/and JRPGs sometimes, and I try to hunt down or find that meaning. Sometimes when I talk to my "friends" about being Asian and playing RPGs and thus having a somewhat little bit different experience than the rest of the gamer population it's usually almost always met with a bit of gaslighting and disregarding my experience through Asian eyes. They usually say something to the effect of, "We're all the same." or, "We all have the same experience no matter what." I- It's really weird.
I love how you're just like I'm whitebread and I love it. lol I always got a good vibe from you, Boo, and to me you just seem like a good guy. You seem really, totally pretty smart too (I've seen your posts/thoughts on Philosophical Ramblings in another thread) I just don't have as good of a vocabulary or maybe writing comprehension as you do. I'm a pretty simple solid writer. Kinda akin to like the Bible or something.
I would love to know more of your thoughts on politics and thoughts on America as a whole if you don't mind sharing them, Boo, I don't mind at all!!! I think it's very normal to have thoughts that're leaps away from the actual storyline + gameplay we're experiencing. Lol I mean only if you're willing to divulge. :p Sometimes I think we're just at a bar and just shooting the shit like guys do. ("I always love pubs in RPGS.")
I love all that stuff you said about Japan/America and how we're a young country. Sometimes I feel a lot of people I've met try to downplay my experience living there,--where they come from generations of "true Americans" / and I'm just a first-generation immigrant who wasn't even born there and only went with my parents when they came looking for work and I can go to school. I felt that way a lot when I went to HS in Nevada a lot of the Caucasian kids never even really pretended to know I existed to them.
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So I turned to RPGs as a sort of escape from my horrible HS experience going on (I actually played LUNAR 2 when this was all happening). I figured I don't watch much sports, news or any football or other "American"-thing people usually do and Japanese RPGs was more for me. Kinda of like FUBU ("For Us, By Us."). I turned to something I related to more than others my age and something that I felt was one of the few things,- hobbies,- an Asian kid can have in America at the time that he can relate to in some way shape or form.
RPGs mean a lot to me as it was one of the very few things where American writers/translators um gave to me... obviously it was a Japanese game in its heart and core. I found more in the 90s that they were more obviously "hiding" that it was a Japanese game like say the Breath of Fire series they took the time to change items especially food to fit a more American palate, rather than say a Japanese one. I kinda of preferred that way. Compared to now where everyone's jumping down Persona's hole and they want an authentic Japanese game. Japanese names give me a headache. Either that or they make me laugh insanely.
A lot of people say the cultural things in America aren't authentic but I like our translations. I kinda do wanna teach myself Japanese one day too. Just to play Japanese RPGs in Japanese. And to see if I can.
Anyway, Boo--I'll probably talk to everyone in Pentagulia tonight but I won't continue the story. Yeah that's the plan.
Anyway thanks for having an open mind and being understanding, man. Sometimes it's hard for me to find other people, other gamers that get me. Laters!
I love how you're just like I'm whitebread and I love it. lol I always got a good vibe from you, Boo, and to me you just seem like a good guy. You seem really, totally pretty smart too (I've seen your posts/thoughts on Philosophical Ramblings in another thread) I just don't have as good of a vocabulary or maybe writing comprehension as you do. I'm a pretty simple solid writer. Kinda akin to like the Bible or something.
I would love to know more of your thoughts on politics and thoughts on America as a whole if you don't mind sharing them, Boo, I don't mind at all!!! I think it's very normal to have thoughts that're leaps away from the actual storyline + gameplay we're experiencing. Lol I mean only if you're willing to divulge. :p Sometimes I think we're just at a bar and just shooting the shit like guys do. ("I always love pubs in RPGS.")
I love all that stuff you said about Japan/America and how we're a young country. Sometimes I feel a lot of people I've met try to downplay my experience living there,--where they come from generations of "true Americans" / and I'm just a first-generation immigrant who wasn't even born there and only went with my parents when they came looking for work and I can go to school. I felt that way a lot when I went to HS in Nevada a lot of the Caucasian kids never even really pretended to know I existed to them.
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So I turned to RPGs as a sort of escape from my horrible HS experience going on (I actually played LUNAR 2 when this was all happening). I figured I don't watch much sports, news or any football or other "American"-thing people usually do and Japanese RPGs was more for me. Kinda of like FUBU ("For Us, By Us."). I turned to something I related to more than others my age and something that I felt was one of the few things,- hobbies,- an Asian kid can have in America at the time that he can relate to in some way shape or form.
RPGs mean a lot to me as it was one of the very few things where American writers/translators um gave to me... obviously it was a Japanese game in its heart and core. I found more in the 90s that they were more obviously "hiding" that it was a Japanese game like say the Breath of Fire series they took the time to change items especially food to fit a more American palate, rather than say a Japanese one. I kinda of preferred that way. Compared to now where everyone's jumping down Persona's hole and they want an authentic Japanese game. Japanese names give me a headache. Either that or they make me laugh insanely.
A lot of people say the cultural things in America aren't authentic but I like our translations. I kinda do wanna teach myself Japanese one day too. Just to play Japanese RPGs in Japanese. And to see if I can.
Anyway, Boo--I'll probably talk to everyone in Pentagulia tonight but I won't continue the story. Yeah that's the plan.
Anyway thanks for having an open mind and being understanding, man. Sometimes it's hard for me to find other people, other gamers that get me. Laters!
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 29, 2023, 10:10:51 am »
Whoo!! We made it to the end of disc 1. Tbh, disc 2 is where the real fun begins!!
So I don't have much commentary tonight. It's pretty cold here weirdly. Either that, or the house is just really really clean. I dunno I'm just happy to get out of the US. lol To put it bluntly. :p To be honest, every day I think about how blessed I am to be here. (Philippines) I went through some personal stuff right-before I left the US, and I'm just happy a) that I left, and b) that I'm here in my home-country. Tbh Boo, I have this quasi-fantasy of seeing life as an RPG. hahaha Like for example, growing up as a commoner-or middle income, I think that's so RPG and default, in-general, standard, the norm etc. what have you. You have access to all you need and no complaints. Plus growing up in an Asian household, I think that's pretty JRPG not-to-burst-anyone's-bubble. A lot of gamers might wonder why I re-play so many of my favorite RPGs and I just think I get so much more out of it, as an Asian kid, that no one else can even relate to. I relate to a lot of the things I see like chopsticks or tea cups & kettles in the various houses, furniture being very low to the floor like we talked about earlier like these little nuances you wouldn't understand if you weren't Japanese/or some other Asian growing up in the US.
Flags, meeting important people in your life, and making big decisions sometimes that'll impact the rest of your life (or game) forever. I think I'm a pretty strategic guy (I love Survivor, the T.V. show) and I just feel good about the decision I made to leave America and come back home.
Sometimes I have this fantasy-feeling that the big "Empire" the games we play always have is none-other-than America. The Solaris city floating in the heavens in the sky that everyone in the world wants to go to one day is none other than America. The soldiers, guards, grunt work horses scattered all around the world in every town who do they work for? America. Anyway just some late-night musings from a tired John.
I think the freedom America always talks about is overrated. Having lived there my whole life. It's not all it's cracked up to be. The food's nasty. I mean, come on McDonald's? I'm sure it was cultural in its heydey but it's a joke now.
Anyway. Yeah I love the chickens on the farm and the animals. I'm in love with my two dogs right now, Karla and Jepp, and I just "take care" of them everyday. Not a HUGE responsibility but I like it. I live by myself and it's fun getting to know the people / "housestaff" that work for me. I'm just glad to be around IRL people (not 'SO,' or family) everyday as a sense of normalcy in our now tech-savvy world. I love that we're posting on a messageboard right now, doing it oldschool style, I've always loved MBs.
The game is pretty fun. I think you're enjoying it more than I am, Boo!! :p I have fun taking it reeeally slow and reading each line carefully, and just analyzing. I like to take everything I learn from RPGs and apply it to my life in someway.
In case anyone was interested most of the stuff I think about when playing are like a higher philosophy type stuff. If anything, the one thing I think most people will have a problem about EBC is the religiousness of it. I thought Americans were kinda cultish about religion but Filipinos definitely has America beat in terms of spiritual strength, even above the numbers. I've never known this about my own country but your average Filipino probably has 10x more spiritual power than any active Christian from the US. There's spirit in the land here and I never felt that presence in the US amidst the barren buildings and cement streets. America felt very empty to me in terms of spirituality. I never felt anything there. Just emptiness. Nowhere.
These're most of my musings when I'm playing the game. I think Working Designs tries to "Americanize" the game as much as they can which I like a LOT. I LIKE, LOVE America. Maybe I'm a bit cynical? I think WD put a lot of effort into this game so it's only fair I come up with a lot of thoughts to post about it. Sometimes when people beat one RPG, and move onto the next without coming up with any content of their own to share it's like do you have a brain of your own in there?
Sorry this's one of my lazy posts as I'm feeling super cold tonight. I'm looking forward to playing more tomorrow. Sometimes I think each RPG game is just commentary of society in that year in the US. :shrug: Like how you mentioned we would all say retarded in High School. When I found out we can't say it anymore I was like, "That's so retarded." I have so many thoughts about how we used to play this game in HS... woo woo woo. America's very into "High School culture" I've come to find out from movies in the 90s, to T.V. shows, to pop love songs. I think that's something ALL of us can relate to since we all went there... hopefully graduated? I love social-ness and reading a bunch of lines from games taught me like well how to speak English. It really helped me a lot socially just READING A WHOLE BUNCH CRAP CRAMMING. I love to do reading. RPGs also gave me a love for writing. I. just. like. text. Then computers... then Internet.
I think there's so much you can take from RPGs with a looot of text. A lot of stuff to think about. I hope you're enjoying the game Boo! We're 1/3 in. I can't wait to do the same thing with Chrono Trigger (or whatever game) with you next! Hope you're having a BALL!
(One of my 'Lazy Posts.')
Summary: "After leaving the US and now being on the outside looking in, I've come to find out America has a huge impact on the world with its media: shows, music, video games."
So I don't have much commentary tonight. It's pretty cold here weirdly. Either that, or the house is just really really clean. I dunno I'm just happy to get out of the US. lol To put it bluntly. :p To be honest, every day I think about how blessed I am to be here. (Philippines) I went through some personal stuff right-before I left the US, and I'm just happy a) that I left, and b) that I'm here in my home-country. Tbh Boo, I have this quasi-fantasy of seeing life as an RPG. hahaha Like for example, growing up as a commoner-or middle income, I think that's so RPG and default, in-general, standard, the norm etc. what have you. You have access to all you need and no complaints. Plus growing up in an Asian household, I think that's pretty JRPG not-to-burst-anyone's-bubble. A lot of gamers might wonder why I re-play so many of my favorite RPGs and I just think I get so much more out of it, as an Asian kid, that no one else can even relate to. I relate to a lot of the things I see like chopsticks or tea cups & kettles in the various houses, furniture being very low to the floor like we talked about earlier like these little nuances you wouldn't understand if you weren't Japanese/or some other Asian growing up in the US.
Flags, meeting important people in your life, and making big decisions sometimes that'll impact the rest of your life (or game) forever. I think I'm a pretty strategic guy (I love Survivor, the T.V. show) and I just feel good about the decision I made to leave America and come back home.
Sometimes I have this fantasy-feeling that the big "Empire" the games we play always have is none-other-than America. The Solaris city floating in the heavens in the sky that everyone in the world wants to go to one day is none other than America. The soldiers, guards, grunt work horses scattered all around the world in every town who do they work for? America. Anyway just some late-night musings from a tired John.
I think the freedom America always talks about is overrated. Having lived there my whole life. It's not all it's cracked up to be. The food's nasty. I mean, come on McDonald's? I'm sure it was cultural in its heydey but it's a joke now.
Anyway. Yeah I love the chickens on the farm and the animals. I'm in love with my two dogs right now, Karla and Jepp, and I just "take care" of them everyday. Not a HUGE responsibility but I like it. I live by myself and it's fun getting to know the people / "housestaff" that work for me. I'm just glad to be around IRL people (not 'SO,' or family) everyday as a sense of normalcy in our now tech-savvy world. I love that we're posting on a messageboard right now, doing it oldschool style, I've always loved MBs.
The game is pretty fun. I think you're enjoying it more than I am, Boo!! :p I have fun taking it reeeally slow and reading each line carefully, and just analyzing. I like to take everything I learn from RPGs and apply it to my life in someway.
In case anyone was interested most of the stuff I think about when playing are like a higher philosophy type stuff. If anything, the one thing I think most people will have a problem about EBC is the religiousness of it. I thought Americans were kinda cultish about religion but Filipinos definitely has America beat in terms of spiritual strength, even above the numbers. I've never known this about my own country but your average Filipino probably has 10x more spiritual power than any active Christian from the US. There's spirit in the land here and I never felt that presence in the US amidst the barren buildings and cement streets. America felt very empty to me in terms of spirituality. I never felt anything there. Just emptiness. Nowhere.
These're most of my musings when I'm playing the game. I think Working Designs tries to "Americanize" the game as much as they can which I like a LOT. I LIKE, LOVE America. Maybe I'm a bit cynical? I think WD put a lot of effort into this game so it's only fair I come up with a lot of thoughts to post about it. Sometimes when people beat one RPG, and move onto the next without coming up with any content of their own to share it's like do you have a brain of your own in there?
Sorry this's one of my lazy posts as I'm feeling super cold tonight. I'm looking forward to playing more tomorrow. Sometimes I think each RPG game is just commentary of society in that year in the US. :shrug: Like how you mentioned we would all say retarded in High School. When I found out we can't say it anymore I was like, "That's so retarded." I have so many thoughts about how we used to play this game in HS... woo woo woo. America's very into "High School culture" I've come to find out from movies in the 90s, to T.V. shows, to pop love songs. I think that's something ALL of us can relate to since we all went there... hopefully graduated? I love social-ness and reading a bunch of lines from games taught me like well how to speak English. It really helped me a lot socially just READING A WHOLE BUNCH CRAP CRAMMING. I love to do reading. RPGs also gave me a love for writing. I. just. like. text. Then computers... then Internet.
I think there's so much you can take from RPGs with a looot of text. A lot of stuff to think about. I hope you're enjoying the game Boo! We're 1/3 in.
I can't wait to do the same thing with Chrono Trigger (or whatever game) with you next! Hope you're having a BALL!(One of my 'Lazy Posts.')
Summary: "After leaving the US and now being on the outside looking in, I've come to find out America has a huge impact on the world with its media: shows, music, video games."
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 28, 2023, 10:21:06 am »
Hey, Boo!!
Quick update: So I just beat the boss at Azado and I stopped for right now. I think it's pretty cool that Leo joins you for this portion of the game like I don't hate him as much anymore lol. Like there IS logic and reason in him, and he's not just blind to the truth all the time. So I like that- that he's willing to change. I think it's pretty badass he fights with you and he hits even harder than Hiro. I'm at lv 32 right now btw. I was gonna say maybe take a few Star Lights with you cause you might need them I hate that they're 2,000 Silver a pop though. :p The boss was more of a pushover than I remembered all the random encounters to get to him were more annoying.
I think it's an inside-joke that whenever the girls aren't in the party you have to fight Nipple Yankers. It happened in SSSC too when it was just the guys in the Black Dragon Fortress.
Ok,-so I'm stopping for right now but for sure I'm gonna talk to all the townspeople again tomorrow morning. Ciao!
Quick update: So I just beat the boss at Azado and I stopped for right now. I think it's pretty cool that Leo joins you for this portion of the game like I don't hate him as much anymore lol. Like there IS logic and reason in him, and he's not just blind to the truth all the time. So I like that- that he's willing to change. I think it's pretty badass he fights with you and he hits even harder than Hiro. I'm at lv 32 right now btw. I was gonna say maybe take a few Star Lights with you cause you might need them I hate that they're 2,000 Silver a pop though. :p The boss was more of a pushover than I remembered all the random encounters to get to him were more annoying.
I think it's an inside-joke that whenever the girls aren't in the party you have to fight Nipple Yankers. It happened in SSSC too when it was just the guys in the Black Dragon Fortress.
Ok,-so I'm stopping for right now but for sure I'm gonna talk to all the townspeople again tomorrow morning. Ciao!
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 28, 2023, 06:39:19 am »
Hey, Boo. I really like it when we take it slow. lol I didn't realize doing all the chores in the household takes me so much time and effort. I like it when we spend a few days grinding in one spot. lol So anyways, I was thinking about moving the story along for myself tonight though since I just have time tonight. I won't trudge too far ahead I'll probably just finish the event in Azado and stop.
Yeah as for me it's just your typical day just sweeping up the farmhouse and I bought these little baskets to put all of my nick-knacks in and just junk and stuff that's scattered everywhere so I'm definitely doing a little organizing too on-the-side. I bought Ziplock freezer / storage baggies to put my chargers in and video game wires and such that I've just accumulated over time so I'm definitely going-overboard when it comes to the organization hehe. (Maybe not?) I'm just in this super cleanly mode, as-of-late.
Shoot. I forgot to take pictures of the chickens on the chicken farm while there was light out today. I'll definitely do it tomorrow so you can see. Yeah I don't spend too much time with the chickens on my own we hire people to do all that stuff for us, - the family, so but I go down there and check them out sometimes. At first, I couldn't really sleep since the roosters crow in the morning so they'd wake me up at around 5 o'clock in the wee morning but it's so LOUD here all the time w/ the chickens and I don't even notice them anymore lol. I only notice when I'm taking videos and all I hear are the chickens in the background clucking and stuff! :haha:
No I definitely think they're resourceful animals. One of my dreams is to turn this farmland into a self-sufficicent resource and beginning with starting chickens was definitely the way to go. You can start off small and they reproduce so fast and lay so many eggs. We actually have incubators so we incubate our own eggs, and after awhile (a couple of weeks?) they hatch and turn into baby chicks. We separate the hens (so they can lay) from the males, and the guys on the farm use the male ones for cockfighting so they gamble sometimes (mostly for fun/nothing too serious) and can make some money for themselfs. Obviously we eat the chickens too sometimes if we're feeling like it. The wild chickens do have a different taste from the store-bought, and I've noticed the fresh eggs do have a slightly rich or like gamier taste to them for-sure.
A lot of old American guys (mostly Southerners?) come here just cause they like cockfighting so much. They're pretty good at it too.
Ok, anyways,--so the plan is for me to just finish the events in Azado tonight cause I'm free and I'll just stop right there so as not to go too far ahead of ya. I'll see you around, Holmes.
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Oh, also I noticed something.
Notes: I really like the storyline events in Azado a lot. Like the general creep factor they have going on in the 'hood. I kinda relate to this in a way. Like a lot of the townsfolk say they feel like they're being watched, and it's hard to do anything anymore. I so, so, so felt that way back in America before I left. I lived in Daly City a little sub-urb just outside of San Francisco and I noticed after I turned 18 and became an adult, started going to college and getting a job I started to feel creeped out more often than not and that I was being watched more close by the neighbors and stuff!!? Probably because they knew I wasn't a child anymore and they could get me. I just felt like there were narcs and snitches in the neighborhood always spying on me, I couldn't take it anymore. I wonder if the writers of LUNAR kinda took real life American culture into account when creating scenarios for each town and such to differentiate them from one another? (Plus they're from California.) I mean I think we all know about nasty neighbors, snitches-in the neighborhood and nosey behavior... Anyway. I love Azado cause it makes me feel like I'm not crazy for feeling that way once upon a time.
Have a good one Boo!!!
Yeah as for me it's just your typical day just sweeping up the farmhouse and I bought these little baskets to put all of my nick-knacks in and just junk and stuff that's scattered everywhere so I'm definitely doing a little organizing too on-the-side. I bought Ziplock freezer / storage baggies to put my chargers in and video game wires and such that I've just accumulated over time so I'm definitely going-overboard when it comes to the organization hehe. (Maybe not?) I'm just in this super cleanly mode, as-of-late.
Shoot. I forgot to take pictures of the chickens on the chicken farm while there was light out today. I'll definitely do it tomorrow so you can see. Yeah I don't spend too much time with the chickens on my own we hire people to do all that stuff for us, - the family, so but I go down there and check them out sometimes. At first, I couldn't really sleep since the roosters crow in the morning so they'd wake me up at around 5 o'clock in the wee morning but it's so LOUD here all the time w/ the chickens and I don't even notice them anymore lol. I only notice when I'm taking videos and all I hear are the chickens in the background clucking and stuff! :haha:
No I definitely think they're resourceful animals. One of my dreams is to turn this farmland into a self-sufficicent resource and beginning with starting chickens was definitely the way to go. You can start off small and they reproduce so fast and lay so many eggs. We actually have incubators so we incubate our own eggs, and after awhile (a couple of weeks?) they hatch and turn into baby chicks. We separate the hens (so they can lay) from the males, and the guys on the farm use the male ones for cockfighting so they gamble sometimes (mostly for fun/nothing too serious) and can make some money for themselfs. Obviously we eat the chickens too sometimes if we're feeling like it. The wild chickens do have a different taste from the store-bought, and I've noticed the fresh eggs do have a slightly rich or like gamier taste to them for-sure.
A lot of old American guys (mostly Southerners?) come here just cause they like cockfighting so much. They're pretty good at it too.
Ok, anyways,--so the plan is for me to just finish the events in Azado tonight cause I'm free and I'll just stop right there so as not to go too far ahead of ya. I'll see you around, Holmes.
--
Oh, also I noticed something.
Notes: I really like the storyline events in Azado a lot. Like the general creep factor they have going on in the 'hood. I kinda relate to this in a way. Like a lot of the townsfolk say they feel like they're being watched, and it's hard to do anything anymore. I so, so, so felt that way back in America before I left. I lived in Daly City a little sub-urb just outside of San Francisco and I noticed after I turned 18 and became an adult, started going to college and getting a job I started to feel creeped out more often than not and that I was being watched more close by the neighbors and stuff!!? Probably because they knew I wasn't a child anymore and they could get me. I just felt like there were narcs and snitches in the neighborhood always spying on me, I couldn't take it anymore. I wonder if the writers of LUNAR kinda took real life American culture into account when creating scenarios for each town and such to differentiate them from one another? (Plus they're from California.) I mean I think we all know about nasty neighbors, snitches-in the neighborhood and nosey behavior... Anyway. I love Azado cause it makes me feel like I'm not crazy for feeling that way once upon a time.
Have a good one Boo!!!
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 27, 2023, 07:41:25 am »
Hello Boo, I was hoping we'd be able to take it slow lol. I'm right where you are I've talked to everyone in Azado and I just haven't moved the story along. I think we should both each just finished this small little part in Azado as I'm pretty sure it's the last town you visit before Disc 1 ends. We should just both move forward... I still have to do a little grinding in the Sluice Forest for equips but I should just be able to get it done tonight and tomorrow I'll hurry the story along. C:
-Yep, I just got two brand new maids to help do housework / housestaff so they're helping me a bunch with taking the load off my shoulders when it comes to cleaning the house. They cleaned the kitchen area really well today and I asked if they could do my bedroom tmmr. lol. I'm very meticulously clean they pretty much do the brunt of the cleaning and I come in after with a toothbrush and clean the corners and stuff. I was woken up early by my dog this morning so I've been up for hours and but I'm kinda tired right now. As we speak I still have to do a bit of organizing and such. I might even clean my bathroom at around midnight tonight. LOL
- Yeah. Exercise. I try to just do something everyday but everyday I have to go for an hour walk to clear my head of garbage and nonsense thoughts, I also do a bit of stretching (for flexibility and mobility) and yoga because long, sedentary hours in front of the console / T.V. / computer really makes me feel stiff to the bone. I don't kill myself w/ exercise but if I'm sitting for like 1-2hrs. I try to get up and out of the house and do something... lol. The word sedentary kills me these days.
Oh, I just love my dogs regardless. I try to spoil them cause they're the king and queen of the house...
Well, my farm is actually more of a chicken farm than anything we raise a lot of chickens from egg to adult / and we make use of both the females and the males. In the Philippines, cockfighting is a national sport much like boxing so the males don't get wasted (some ppl think they're useless?) a lot of dudes go to arenas and watch them fight. I think it's illegal in the U.S. though? I was gon take pictures today but forgot. I'll post it tmmr.
I'm used to seeing the chickens get slaughtered so no worries man. I get a little choked up too when it comes to any animal.
Ok, so I'm gonna grind in the forest to get Azado equips tonight. Tomorrow, I'll just cont. the story. Nice meeting up with you again brother! C:
-Yep, I just got two brand new maids to help do housework / housestaff so they're helping me a bunch with taking the load off my shoulders when it comes to cleaning the house. They cleaned the kitchen area really well today and I asked if they could do my bedroom tmmr. lol. I'm very meticulously clean they pretty much do the brunt of the cleaning and I come in after with a toothbrush and clean the corners and stuff. I was woken up early by my dog this morning so I've been up for hours and but I'm kinda tired right now. As we speak I still have to do a bit of organizing and such. I might even clean my bathroom at around midnight tonight. LOL
- Yeah. Exercise. I try to just do something everyday but everyday I have to go for an hour walk to clear my head of garbage and nonsense thoughts, I also do a bit of stretching (for flexibility and mobility) and yoga because long, sedentary hours in front of the console / T.V. / computer really makes me feel stiff to the bone. I don't kill myself w/ exercise but if I'm sitting for like 1-2hrs. I try to get up and out of the house and do something... lol. The word sedentary kills me these days.
Oh, I just love my dogs regardless. I try to spoil them cause they're the king and queen of the house...
Well, my farm is actually more of a chicken farm than anything we raise a lot of chickens from egg to adult / and we make use of both the females and the males. In the Philippines, cockfighting is a national sport much like boxing so the males don't get wasted (some ppl think they're useless?) a lot of dudes go to arenas and watch them fight. I think it's illegal in the U.S. though? I was gon take pictures today but forgot. I'll post it tmmr.
I'm used to seeing the chickens get slaughtered so no worries man. I get a little choked up too when it comes to any animal.
Ok, so I'm gonna grind in the forest to get Azado equips tonight. Tomorrow, I'll just cont. the story. Nice meeting up with you again brother! C:
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 26, 2023, 06:49:13 am »
Hey, Boo!! I've been busy running around these past few days, so I'm happy we're actually taking it super slow. I'm still in the Sluice Forest I'm gonna see the scene with Lucia and perverted Hiro then I'm gonna make my way to Azado. by what you said I'm probably gonna have to go back to the Sluice Forest to grind for Silver to get all the equipment upgrades but I'll probably talk to the townspeople in between battle.
Oh, I usually watch the Making of disc as a bonus / treat whenever I finish a playthrough anyway. O-M-G that you haven't watched the EBC Making of disc you're in for a treat!!!
I actually dunno why I like Lemina, it's been so long ago that I first played and had my favorite characters that I dunno where the love stemmed from. I think it's just because I liked Mia so much in the first game SSSC that it trickled down to her ancestor fellow Ausa gal Lemina. :shrug: I've always liked all the Ausa women cause they always have a variation of the name -ia. lol Lemia, Mia, Miria, Lemina. :p
I've just been running around buying things for the farmhouse that I need like: kitchen spray to get all the grease/oil splatter near the stoves, random cleaning supplies like just dustrags and things to wipe things off with, I also bought some groceries because I'm trying to be a chef in the kitchen / make "healthy" foods since I'm in the middle of a weightloss journey. I've also been doing a lot of e-shopping so I have to wait around for deliveries all day and such. Just in general trying to keep myself busy with a lot of sweeping and cleaning the bathroom everyday, we have a lot of dust here on the farm cause Zambales is like really dry and hot (not like desert though). Dust gets in the house everyday and if I don't clean it off the floors I cough a lot when I'm trying to go to sleep in bed at night. I'm also taking care of my dogs (not that that's really all that important) just buying them stuff they need and such. I try not to get too emotionally attached to my animals after the trauma of losing my first dog but I can't help it and I'm always looking for new treats, doggy toys, blankets & beds that'll make them feel more comfortable in the place. I bought some mouthwash too.
Lol I could go on and on but don't worry about me and our playthrough I'm having a great time and a blast just getting to really analyze the game that much more deeply. Being stuck in a town for days really helps me if I want to go back and re-read everyone's lines again that I might've not understood the first time though? Anyway, yeah, lol...
Oh, I usually watch the Making of disc as a bonus / treat whenever I finish a playthrough anyway. O-M-G that you haven't watched the EBC Making of disc you're in for a treat!!!
I actually dunno why I like Lemina, it's been so long ago that I first played and had my favorite characters that I dunno where the love stemmed from. I think it's just because I liked Mia so much in the first game SSSC that it trickled down to her ancestor fellow Ausa gal Lemina. :shrug: I've always liked all the Ausa women cause they always have a variation of the name -ia. lol Lemia, Mia, Miria, Lemina. :p
I've just been running around buying things for the farmhouse that I need like: kitchen spray to get all the grease/oil splatter near the stoves, random cleaning supplies like just dustrags and things to wipe things off with, I also bought some groceries because I'm trying to be a chef in the kitchen / make "healthy" foods since I'm in the middle of a weightloss journey. I've also been doing a lot of e-shopping so I have to wait around for deliveries all day and such. Just in general trying to keep myself busy with a lot of sweeping and cleaning the bathroom everyday, we have a lot of dust here on the farm cause Zambales is like really dry and hot (not like desert though). Dust gets in the house everyday and if I don't clean it off the floors I cough a lot when I'm trying to go to sleep in bed at night. I'm also taking care of my dogs (not that that's really all that important) just buying them stuff they need and such. I try not to get too emotionally attached to my animals after the trauma of losing my first dog but I can't help it and I'm always looking for new treats, doggy toys, blankets & beds that'll make them feel more comfortable in the place. I bought some mouthwash too.
Lol I could go on and on but don't worry about me and our playthrough I'm having a great time and a blast just getting to really analyze the game that much more deeply. Being stuck in a town for days really helps me if I want to go back and re-read everyone's lines again that I might've not understood the first time though? Anyway, yeah, lol...
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 25, 2023, 07:50:45 am »
Hey, Boo!!
So, I’m in the Sluice Forest right now grinding because I don’t have enough Silver to buy all of the weapons in Vane. Thank goodness the monsters in the forest shell out a lot of Silver.
*Yes, singing and song have magical attributes tied to it in the world of LUNAR, as the Goddess herself loves to sing and hear her children’s songs. Remember how all of Luna’s magic were songs or song-related? And in SSSC it took singing to make the entrance to the Blue Dragon Shrine appear. They flat-out stated in the Making of disc that song has magic attached to it.
*The red book is the Japanese artbook for Silver Star Story I bought it way back in 1999 on AOL. It’s really nice to have. There’s an Eternal Blue artbook out there too that I wanna get still that’s supposed to be even better.
*Don’t worry about me I’m having tons of fun. I think it’s kind of fun how each of us has busy days / days where we can really get a good session in. haha
So I’m really happy Lemina’s reason(s) for tagging-along have been fleshed out a little bit. I was gonna say she’s my favorite character cause a) she’s a blonde, and b) her one-liners about making fun of Borgan make me laugh my sides hurt. I think her greed is explained in that her sole mission is to revive the Magic Guild and she’s the only one that cares about Vane and its legacy anymore. Plus I think she’s such a great ally in battle cause her magic can easily help clear out enemy hordes.
So, I’m in the Sluice Forest right now grinding because I don’t have enough Silver to buy all of the weapons in Vane. Thank goodness the monsters in the forest shell out a lot of Silver.
*Yes, singing and song have magical attributes tied to it in the world of LUNAR, as the Goddess herself loves to sing and hear her children’s songs. Remember how all of Luna’s magic were songs or song-related? And in SSSC it took singing to make the entrance to the Blue Dragon Shrine appear. They flat-out stated in the Making of disc that song has magic attached to it.
*The red book is the Japanese artbook for Silver Star Story I bought it way back in 1999 on AOL. It’s really nice to have. There’s an Eternal Blue artbook out there too that I wanna get still that’s supposed to be even better.
*Don’t worry about me I’m having tons of fun. I think it’s kind of fun how each of us has busy days / days where we can really get a good session in. haha
So I’m really happy Lemina’s reason(s) for tagging-along have been fleshed out a little bit. I was gonna say she’s my favorite character cause a) she’s a blonde, and b) her one-liners about making fun of Borgan make me laugh my sides hurt. I think her greed is explained in that her sole mission is to revive the Magic Guild and she’s the only one that cares about Vane and its legacy anymore. Plus I think she’s such a great ally in battle cause her magic can easily help clear out enemy hordes.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« on: January 24, 2023, 07:03:22 am »
Hey, Boo! I had some notes I was ruminating about as I was exercising this afternoon:
-This's kinda going back to Taben's Peak but it wouldn't be a JRPG if the main character wasn't thrown in jail lol (I'm sure you can relate as that was my favorite moment in Chrono Trigger). I think it's so funny whenever you somehow wind up behind closed bars. It just always happens in JRPGs. lol :p
-I was thinking about Lucia's A.I. and how being around the children in Taben's Peak really brought back her almost-full powers, as afterwards she starts casting Plasma Rain like she did in the Blue Spire. She learned about singing, and as we all know the Goddess Althena loves to sing. So I think Taben's Peak/the children was a really significant moment for Lucia's growth, and learning about human nature and how humans behave. She definitely becomes a beneficial ally now in battle as she constantly attacks now or casts stat-ups. She's no longer just running away or running around the map aimlessly.
Also: This's kinda of a bonus but as you know I always pick Christmas/Dec 25th as my start-date whenever I re-play LUNAR/any WD game. I was reminded of it but I usually game until around this time and Chinese/Lunar New Year is around this time of the year so I thought I'd gather all my Lunar collectibles in celebration for the Year of the Rabbit!
Gong Hay Fat Choy!
-This's kinda going back to Taben's Peak but it wouldn't be a JRPG if the main character wasn't thrown in jail lol (I'm sure you can relate as that was my favorite moment in Chrono Trigger). I think it's so funny whenever you somehow wind up behind closed bars. It just always happens in JRPGs. lol :p
-I was thinking about Lucia's A.I. and how being around the children in Taben's Peak really brought back her almost-full powers, as afterwards she starts casting Plasma Rain like she did in the Blue Spire. She learned about singing, and as we all know the Goddess Althena loves to sing. So I think Taben's Peak/the children was a really significant moment for Lucia's growth, and learning about human nature and how humans behave. She definitely becomes a beneficial ally now in battle as she constantly attacks now or casts stat-ups. She's no longer just running away or running around the map aimlessly.
Also: This's kinda of a bonus but as you know I always pick Christmas/Dec 25th as my start-date whenever I re-play LUNAR/any WD game. I was reminded of it but I usually game until around this time and Chinese/Lunar New Year is around this time of the year so I thought I'd gather all my Lunar collectibles in celebration for the Year of the Rabbit!
Gong Hay Fat Choy!