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Was Legend of Dragoon really as incredible as I remember it being?

My memory of LoD was that it was a mediocre sentai jrpg (which, fairness where it's due, is a neat concept that had gotten very little play in english before and barely any more since) with a frankly miserable combat system (back when I played it, I'm pretty sure I eventually hit it with some kind of cheating method to make that bloody qte horseshit sod off). Like, outside the frustrating combat mechanic it was alright, but it wasn't incredible, t'me. One of the better 3D jrpgs, just in an era where most 3d jrpgs were remarkably shit for one reason or another, rather than being particularly good.

Mostly an aside here- but I really miss, like, quality spritework. The shift to 3d models between, say, Pokemon and Disgaea has clearly stifled in the variety of characters or creatures either is able to proffer, and I think the loss of variety isn't worth the shift in rendering.

There is a ton of just wildly beautiful sprite work of a wide variety of styles coming out of smaller/indie studios in particular and has been for a while. Rather than miss it, you've just been missing it

Yeah, marche was... not sympathetic, on a lot of levels. Lot of folks that bother paying attention to the plot come off wondering if you're actually the bad guy in that one.

FFT and the FFTA line is a pretty different sort of thing thematically/plot wise. Deffo recommend if you liked the FFTA gameplay but wanted something with a different taste to it, though.

... and if you want the OG (heh), Tactics Ogre is on vita, too, I think. The rerelease thing was pretty ace. Same for FFT, really, the PSP releases for both were largely considered improvements over the originals, far as I noticed.

... so does anyone happen to know some acapella classical, except it's, like. Angry? Rather manic or something? Say someone's doing khachaturian's sabre dance, but instead of a bawoo for the bawoo parts it's more like death metal screaming and the leadup to it is like jojo atatatat. Basically they're doing classical music acapella but they're also kinda' beating the shit out of someone at the same time?

I was reminded sabre dance exists today and it really struck me something like that would be a pretty neat adaptation.

I honestly don't remember what it was called, just that it was dark purple and makes remarkably good tea that's entirely too caffeinated.

This time, Xiaoyu waited for the needle to cool down before she used it to suture the wound. But just as she was about to use it, she had a dilemma. “Xiaosu, should I administer the anesthetic inside or outside the wound?”

They had never used anesthetics before, so Xiaoyu was wondering whether the anesthetic would be more effective if it was administered into the wound.

Ren Xiaosu was taken aback. He had also not thought about it before. “I’m not sure.”

The man beside them listened to their conversation and nearly pissed his pants. “So you’ve never used anesthetics before? Do you even know how to treat wounds in the first place?”

The man had heard before that Ren Xiaosu could treat wounds. Coupled with Ren Xiaosu’s good reputation in town, he immediately thought of coming here to get himself looked at.

However, it didn’t seem like that was the case!

“So where should I administer it, Xiaosu?” Xiaoyu asked.

Ren Xiaosu saw the patient’s expression and gave it some thought. “Why don’t you administer it on his leg instead? Prevent him from running away afterwards.”

The patient was surprised.

I never realized it could be seen as delegitimizing someone's gender.

Yeah, can confirm it definitely can be seen that way. Sometimes someone or another will be really invested in one gender or another for whatever reason, and dislike to whatever extent being labeled somethin' else, even something intended to be a catch-all.

I've noticed I've been kinda' drifting away from using non-personal pronouns at all, probably because there's like... not a general use term that doesn't trip over someone, and a lot of the time I just don't have the goddamn energy to pay attention to and remember that kind of thing, especially not on a case by case basis. I try, because you try to do right by folks as a general thing, but gods alive is it something I'm just not built or raised or whatever to keep on top of and I'm always goddamn exhausted dealing with everything else these days.

Nevermind gender issues specifically, it's a pain in the ass to remember to pay attention to outward expression at all -- it's really hard for me to give a shit how I'm presenting to other people, and that translates to how I (don't) expect other folks to present... probably either some sort of non-conforming/non-binary/whatever or somewhat schzoid, from what I can tell.

Manage to an extent for survival reasons but, just... I wish to fuck we all didn't have to manage it all and could just chill with life without it running the risk of hurting or getting hurt by folks, y'know?

They actively made it less scary, for me. Too busy fighting the bloody controls to be jittery about whatever the hell was on the screen