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History, Locations, and Artifacts / Guardia's Odd Inheritance
« on: January 06, 2004, 02:42:42 pm »
Ah, thanks for catching that. I'm a bit sleep deprived at the moment, I'll try to check up on whether it was Aliza or Leene.

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History, Locations, and Artifacts / Guardia's Odd Inheritance
« on: January 06, 2004, 01:59:25 pm »
Regarding the Guardia Royal family, I think it's stated that Nadia married in to the royal family 10 years ago. So Queens can marry in.

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General Discussion / What Kind Of Computer Do You Have?
« on: January 03, 2004, 01:31:40 am »
Sounds cool. And if it was a XX00+ chip, it's an Athlon. Editing machines can be pretty hardcore. I don't know if any of you have seen the Avid Editing computers, but they are crazy powerful, and you can't argue with dual 21" monitors.  :shock:

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Other Topics and the Prerelease / Chrono Trigger Inquiries/Review
« on: December 27, 2003, 11:53:21 pm »
I did some Googling, turns out the Kajar spelling works fine, as does Qajar, not surprissingly. With these spellings, it refers to a Persian Dynasty that made Tehran the capital.

This is their flag:



The Kajal spelling refers to a traditional Indian substance (creme, perhaps) that is used for eye care.

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The thing that bother's me about Mother Brain's plans to keep the Lavos Spawn on the planet is this:

Lavos and it's spawn feed off the energy of the planet, the living planet. In 2300AD, where life is dwindling and the planet is dying, the Lavos Spawn prepare to take flight. The Mother Brain decides that if the last remaining humans, who don't even have a full grown plant to bring them food, are using up too much of the planet's energy, and if they were extinct, there would be enough energy to feed the Lavos Spawn.

This brings up some questions, do the humans use the planets energy? To all life forms? Just all animals? I'd think that the planet would be strong with MORE life forms, but it seems that those last, dying remnants of humanity consume enough energy to sustain the Lavos Spawn, a pack of planet devouring parasites.

I think the Mother Brain was just looking for an excuse to destroy humanity. That, or she just wants the planet for herself and the robots she controls.

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General Discussion / Saddam Hussein captured in Iraq
« on: December 26, 2003, 04:29:19 pm »
Personally, I just think it's foolish to spend such enormous amounts of resources to tear down and rebuild another country when the U.S. itself still has so many problems of it's own to deal with.

Sure there are bigger fish to fry, but before you go fishing, you've got to make sure your boat doesn't have any leaks.

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It's also possible that she's just being thourough...Trying to see the results of her actions, what that state of the merged time line is...

She also probably has a great amount of faith in Janus, he is the most powerful magic user there is...She has to know he'd be looking for her.

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History, Locations, and Artifacts / True nature of Dreamstone
« on: December 20, 2003, 08:43:25 pm »
The Reptites didn't summon Lavos. It's an easy mistake to make, given the following quote from Azala:

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Red Star! Fall! Stain the Earth... Red!


Easy to mistake that for a summoning, but the Red Star shone in the sky before that quote is spoken. After all, Lavos has a will of it's own, it was coming anyway, Azala just saw it coming.

And humans weren't a back up plan. It would seem Dinopolis was, a back up plan to try to reinstate the Reptite rule in the post-Lavos Timelines.

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General Discussion / Saddam Hussein captured in Iraq
« on: December 16, 2003, 02:43:21 am »
Terrorism is a symptom, not a disease. Fighting it will improve things superficially, but if we don't take care of the causes, it will only be a temporary benefit at best.

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Magic, Elements, and Technology / Evolution of Mystics
« on: December 15, 2003, 03:57:04 pm »
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Granted it says so on the walls of Fort Dragonia...but that's a lie anyway.


So because the dragons hate the humans anything they say can be disregared as a lie? What do the dragons have to gain by making humans think that the process of evolution occured on their world, if in fact, it didn't? Seems inconsequential.

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...according to the library in Zeal in CT, was born of the Dreamstone found by man's ancestors.


Man's ancestors. Not men. Pre-men. I don't think it's too much of a leap to say that this implies evolution taking place.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'll assume that 20,000 strong Mystic army refers to the Medinan army. When they came from "The East" was it a mass migration, or a colonization? I think it is important to understanding why the Mystics went to war under the leadership of a human in a war against humans.

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he WAS taking all of the DNA of the world, but I never remember it being said that he was guiding the development of the planet.


In the final confrontation with Lavos, Frog has this to say:

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Reared like farm animals, our lives have been for naught.


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We haveth our own wills!

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General Discussion / Saddam Hussein captured in Iraq
« on: December 14, 2003, 06:49:06 pm »
Osama turned his back on the luxuries of life a long time ago. He's been living the cave hopping lifestyle for decades. Assuming he hasn't died, he could evade capture for some time. Saddam, on the other hand, had grown spoiled with luxury...he was doomed, he wouldn't know how to survive without all of his totalitarian resources.

My question is who's next? Iran? Libya? North Korea? That could get risky...

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Gray, here is the reason I think that it is more beneficial for the Lavoids to hit a planet and stick with it:

Say Lavos infects a planet, gaining X set of genetic improvements. All his spawn have that X set. They go out, and acquire other improvements. XA, XB, XC. They now have more improvements.

Say the original Lavos goes to another planet and gains the Y set of genetic improvements. Now it is XY, all it's spawn on this world are XY. None of it's old spawn can gain the Y improvements, the Y planet is now dead.

If the original Lavos stays put, then one of it's original spawn, XA, gets Y, so now it gets XAY, and so do all its spawn.

I guess my point is that if Lavoids stay on one planet, there is that much less competition with its children, and that means more room for each generation to improve. That's the problem with a being like Lavos, one shot at each planet and then its over. Ideally, only one spawn of each Lavoid would find a planet, then you would end up with a Lavoid with as many genetic improvements as possible, it would help achive the most "perfect" Lavoid possible.

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For now, when I say "evil", i'm talking that something or someone is doing something that isn't "right" or shouldn't be happening.


So are you saying what Lavos is doing is wrong? Is it wrong to eat a cow? In India, the answer is yes, to a cow, the answer is clearly yes, but in the western world eating a cow is perfectly acceptable. The tricky part with Lavos is that now WE are the cows. I don't think that makes the games any more meaningless. Lavos makes a conscious decision, a decision to eat. It's one you make. It's one I make, it's one everyone makes. Lavos decided to preserve it's own existence, just as Crono and Co decided to preserve man kind. It's a battle of survival between to groups with mutually exclusive goals...how is that anticlimactic?

As for Lavos' location in 2300A.D., I assume he is still on/in the earth, or at least his corpse is. I doubt the fully mature Lavoids are capable of transplanetery travel. It's mass has increased significantly, and there is no benefit to Lavos kind if fully developed Lavoids can take off and find new worlds to devour.

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General Discussion / The F Word(s) - I'm Sayin' It!!!
« on: December 09, 2003, 05:26:46 pm »
Wow...I almost hate to be the one to break the chain of huge posts in this thread.

So far, my favorite FF has been FFVI, and it doesn't look like that's going to change any time soon. Not really much I can say that hasn't been said yet in this thread, this game is incredible.

I'm just about finished with FFX, and it's a struggle between FFX and FFIX for the number two slot. They are both excellent games, and I don't think it would really be fair to pick one until I've played both.

As for every new schooler's favorite, FFVII, it's been my least favorite FF yet (I've played VI, VII, IX, almost done with X, IV is next). I generally go for dark themes, but, I don't know...it's not a bad game, but it's just not as good as the others I've played. This opinion may have been affected by the scratch on the disc during the ending...

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Is Lavos really evil though? I've always viewed him as simply hungry. Are ticks evil? Lavos is merely a parasite with the power of a god. I think the Time Devorer didn't want to destroy reality, but he wanted to feed on it...Destruction just being a side effect.

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