Nerd Power!

[RavenousRae]

Seems kinda silly to respect them at all, but then again I'm not a fan.

I don't know if you're speaking of Aerosmith or American Idol but either way I agree with your sentiment, I'm not a fan

 

[Green_Machine]

So yesterday while I'm on my way home from work, I spots me a vanity plate on the car ahead of me. I can't make it out, but I edge closer to get a good looksee.

The car attached to said plate is an early nineties Ford Tempo or something similar. I think it was originally beige, but the dirt coating it made it medium brown. And finally, by the colours on the license plate, the car was from Saskatchewan. (Go ahead look up the province. Thats the correct spelling)

I mention this all because it adds up to a very un1337 car. Yet lo and behold, the plate was simply 1337.

I laughed my ass off for a good ten minutes at that. It completely made my otherwise fairly shitty day.

 

[VandalHeart]

is actualy set in the world of FF12

NEGATIVE. FFTA is set in a dream world that never truly existed, but was created in the mind of a boy who liked the Final Fantasy series and lived in the small industrial town of Ivalice. FFTA starts off in a world where Final Fantasy actually exists as a video game and eventually goes back to it once the spells and artifacts that held the dream world in place were destroyed (at least I think that's what happens...I still haven't taken the time to actually finish the game off, because I"m a completist asshole and haven't finished ALL of the missions yet).

 

[VandalHeart]

So yesterday while I'm on my way home from work, I spots me a vanity plate on the car ahead of me. I can't make it out, but I edge closer to get a good looksee.

The car attached to said plate is an early nineties Ford Tempo or something similar. I think it was originally beige, but the dirt coating it made it medium brown. And finally, by the colours on the license plate, the car was from Saskatchewan. (Go ahead look up the province. Thats the correct spelling)

I mention this all because it adds up to a very un1337 car. Yet lo and behold, the plate was simply 1337.

I laughed my ass off for a good ten minutes at that. It completely made my otherwise fairly shitty day.

I am embarassed for that person.

 

[SexyCleric]

Settlers of Catan has eaten my life.
We, of my room mates and I, spent fifty dollars on the board.
And it was good.

Then, because others wanted to play, we bought the expansion.
It was better.
Another twenty dollars.

We learned to play Cities and Knights.
Yet better.

But the expansion cost us another twenty dollars.

Since we were infected by the game, we've spent nearly one hundred dollars on a board game, lost more than 24 hours worth of sleep, and reverted often to a highschool humor level.

And the game still holds us in its sway.
Germans make good board games.

 

[CuVallen]

Have you played FF 12.. those judges are in the game as well as bangas and bunny girls.. everything.

 

[VandalHeart]

Have you played FF 12.. those judges are in the game as well as bangas and bunny girls.. everything.

I own both games. Something about the Final Fantasy series: once there is something in a previous game that they like, the designers of the next game will put it in the one they are working on. Some things have become full on FF staples as a result.

Chocobos.
Moogles.
Airships.
Certain weapons like the Masamune, Murasame, Excalibur, etc.
Names like Cid, and others based on the names of weather patterns.
Countries like Ivalice, Baron, and others.
Appearances of the Western Zodiac as a significant and powerful entity or object.
Summons, some of which reoccur, like Shiva, Ifrit, Ramuh, Bahamut.
Bahamut in general. He was in the very first game.
Bosses with multiple stages of mobilization during the fight with them.

Judges, Bangaa and Viera have managed to appear in two different stories so far, yes, and they may become staples of the future stories, but there are some notable differences between each of these in both games.

In FFTA, the Judges were puppets of the state until the Grand Judge, Cid, realized that the world was a dream and that the judges were causing more harm than they were preventing. At that time, Cid disjointed the Judges from the crown, devoting them to the concept of law alone, and not the royal line in any way. Also, there were enough Judges in FFTA to preside over every single fight that didn't occur in a Jagd, plus the bastards could teleport. There are only five Judges in FF12, not counting those that used to hold the title.

The Judges in FF12 weren't keepers of the peace at all. In fact, to become a judge, all one basically had to do was prove to the throne of Archadia (which didn't even exist in FFTA) that one can kick unjustifiable ammounts of ass for the effort expended, or be a military genius. Cid in FF12 was a crazed scientific visionary...Frankenstein without anything that resembled a conscious. This version of Cid closely resembles Kefka from FF6 and had next to nothing to do with the judges.

Bangaa didn't see much of a change from FFTA to FF12, except a broadening of their background and depth of explanation. That one, I can't really argue with.

Viera, on the other hand, are the one big glaring piece of evidence that just SCREAMS that the worlds of FFTA and FF12 are not the same place. In FFTA, throw a freakin' rock and you'll hit at least five Viera. Happy-go-lucky pookas. There is not tragic background for a one of them, and the only time you hear them be negative is if you're kicking them out of the clan or about to go up against one of them In FF12, however, Viera are whiney bitches, for the most part. "Oh, what have I done, I'm out of place here, I can never go home, I'll never see my family again, I miss the woods, I lost my vibrator, you're wierd, I'm hungry, this Bangaa smells funny, I'm tired, can I have some money?" Fran is one of the three or four out of JESUS CHRIST HOW MANY OF THESE BITCHES DID WHAT WAS SUPPOSEDLY "UNTHINKABLE" AND LEAVE THE FUCKING WOOD?!? in the whole game who isn't constantly whining about something. In FFTA, there was never any mention of the wood, and the general disposition of the race as a whole as gone straight in the shitter, and for the most part, that is with good reason...although I still object with so many of them being depicted as being in Dalmasca if leaving the Wood is so taboo. Anyhow, FFTA Viera and FF12 Viera are not the same animals...pardon the pun.

Also, some things you missed.

Jagds are in both games, but they serve very different purposes. In FFTA, Jagds are places where the Judges cannot go. It never says why, but they just shit themselves when they think of going there. This means that there are no laws in effect there, but if a character dies there and isn't ressurected before the fight ends, they're dead for good, period, end of story. In FF12, Jagds are places where the energies of the Magicite have become so strong that they interfere with skystones, causing any Airship without a special skystone to crash upon entering said airspace. Has nothing to do with the Judges. Hell, there weren't even Airships in FFTA.

Most of the summons from FFTA made their way into FF12. However, their stories went all kinds of different directions. In FFTA, Each of the "big" summons were protectors and ethereal representations of each of the playable races, Bangaa, Viera, Nu Mou, Mog, and Human (which brings up another thing...in FF12, the designers went with the FF11-Online designation for our species: Hume). In FF12, they were minor gods and goddesses in a very colorful pantheon that fell when they turned against the bigger dieties and failed. They're basically fallen angels.

Throw all of this into the fact that FF12's map is nothing like FFTA's map...which you build as you go, by the way, making it impossible to be canon with anything at all...and you've got two distinct and different worlds, despite the similarities.

Now, I'm sorry for being an asshole, and I know I'm being one as I look back over this post, but that's my nerdiness coming out over what is quite possibly my favorite nerd thingie of all time.

 

[CuVallen]

Heh, no problem at all, I enjoyed reading the differences.. I never did finish either game... I didn't take any of it as being an 'asshole'. I'm actualy flattered you took the time to write all of that

 

[VandalHeart]

Heh, no problem at all, I enjoyed reading the differences.. I never did finish either game... I didn't take any of it as being an 'asshole'. I'm actualy flattered you took the time to write all of that

Thank you for being that cool.

Yeah, I'm the kind of guy that puts the fan back in fanatic when it comes to Final Fantasy. I looked at the list a while back, and of the games actually released by Square, I've only managed to not play three of them, and those were for the Gameboy. I still try to track down one or two every once in a while to play on an emulator, but the going is slow on that. It's been so long, I don't even remember which ones they were anymore. Probably from the FF Legend series. Now, I've only beaten a couple of them, but I've played them all. I have completion issues...i.e., if I haven't collected EVERYTHING, I won't beat the game. I refuse. I want total ownage over the FF games I play, first time through, no exceptions.

(Of course, like a dumbass, I forgot to Lancet the Ultima monster in FFX so I didn't get Khimari's ultimate Limit Break, but you know what, fuck it. The sequal had been announced, so I needed to finish it to continue the story. I'm not sayin' I'm proud of it. But there it is.)

 

[Green_Machine]

Settlers of Catan has eaten my life.
We, of my room mates and I, spent fifty dollars on the board.
And it was good.

Then, because others wanted to play, we bought the expansion.
It was better.
Another twenty dollars.

We learned to play Cities and Knights.
Yet better.

But the expansion cost us another twenty dollars.

Since we were infected by the game, we've spent nearly one hundred dollars on a board game, lost more than 24 hours worth of sleep, and reverted often to a highschool humor level.

And the game still holds us in its sway.
Germans make good board games.

In one day, just because I had the jonesing for it, I bought Settlers, the expansion and Seafarers. somewhere around $100 at once.

Though I wish I had bought this when it was available: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/17419

 

[chronicle_tenko]

(Of course, like a dumbass, I forgot to Lancet the Ultima monster in FFX so I didn't get Khimari's ultimate Limit Break, but you know what, fuck it. The sequal had been announced, so I needed to finish it to continue the story. I'm not sayin' I'm proud of it. But there it is.)

You weren't missing much. To tell the truth outside of Wakka's and Tidus' And the possible thought of Auron's. Everyone's limit was pretty crappy when compared to earlier limits.

Though they were staggeringly useful early game.

 

[Lady Reiha]

You weren't missing much. To tell the truth outside of Wakka's and Tidus' And the possible thought of Auron's. Everyone's limit was pretty crappy when compared to earlier limits.

Though they were staggeringly useful early game.

*ears perk up* Discussion of FFX? O_O!

 

[Lady Reiha]

NEGATIVE. FFTA is set in a dream world that never truly existed, but was created in the mind of a boy who liked the Final Fantasy series and lived in the small industrial town of Ivalice. FFTA starts off in a world where Final Fantasy actually exists as a video game and eventually goes back to it once the spells and artifacts that held the dream world in place were destroyed (at least I think that's what happens...I still haven't taken the time to actually finish the game off, because I"m a completist asshole and haven't finished ALL of the missions yet).

NOT TRUE
however...


you are correct that FFTA is set in a dream world that never truly existed. HOWEVER....
The boy eventually grew up, and created what would be equivelent to FF12, by building and creating the town(s) in which you see in the recent game




It's not 100% true facts, It's really something I came across one day, before 11 even came out <3
but apprently that was supose to be the original plan.
Now, considering I only played 5 minutes of the game and got dizzy ( I sometimes get motion sickness, especially when playing both Kingdom Hearts games), I'm not sure if this is revealed at all in this game. But like I said, this is based about early buzz before Twelve was even out, muchless 11.

 

[Lady Reiha]

Have you played FF 12.. those judges are in the game as well as bangas and bunny girls.. everything.

Since when were the Viera race just simply "Bunny Girls?"

and Bangaa's are "Lizard Beings"?


Next thing you know Al Behd are just "People with Swirly eyes" and Moogles are "Cute Plushie-looking things".


sorry

 

[Lady Reiha]

Thank you for being that cool.

Yeah, I'm the kind of guy that puts the fan back in fanatic when it comes to Final Fantasy. I looked at the list a while back, and of the games actually released by Square, I've only managed to not play three of them, and those were for the Gameboy. I still try to track down one or two every once in a while to play on an emulator, but the going is slow on that. It's been so long, I don't even remember which ones they were anymore. Probably from the FF Legend series. Now, I've only beaten a couple of them, but I've played them all. I have completion issues...i.e., if I haven't collected EVERYTHING, I won't beat the game. I refuse. I want total ownage over the FF games I play, first time through, no exceptions.

(Of course, like a dumbass, I forgot to Lancet the Ultima monster in FFX so I didn't get Khimari's ultimate Limit Break, but you know what, fuck it. The sequal had been announced, so I needed to finish it to continue the story. I'm not sayin' I'm proud of it. But there it is.)

To be honest, I never did get into playing much of any of the FF releases for the gameboy, nor Crystal Chronicles. Maybe it's just knowing that for another short period of time, Square might of left us to Nintendo once again. Now don't get me wrong, I like Nintendo and all, but just something to do with newer FF releases on a Wii....just has me shaking a little in my boots. Unless they figure out "Hey! Why don't we make another cutsey FF game specifically for the Wii and call it FF9-2 1/2. Okay...maybe it's just the booze talking. I'm going to bed. G'night nerds.

 

[microbiology311]

went and saw pirates 3 last night.. it was good but WAY TOOOOOOO LONG!!!!!!!!!! Make sure you dont see it when you have been up since 4:15am and you are going to the 10:30pm show...(wow.. I had to edit after realizing I didn't get all of the words in there that should have been there)

 

[SexyCleric]

Since when were the Viera race just simply "Bunny Girls?"

and Bangaa's are "Lizard Beings"?


Next thing you know Al Behd are just "People with Swirly eyes" and Moogles are "Cute Plushie-looking things".


sorry

Moogles are the enemies of my clan and shall be dealt with.
Demons. All of them.
They try to hide it, but we know the truth.

And that truth can only be expressed with a 60+ ton metal foot.

Also, where were the Al Bhed during the Beville/Zanarkand wars?
Ever think of that? Huh?

And also, why doesn't Sin ever target the Al Bhed?

 

[JagFarlane]

went and saw pirates 3 last night.. it was good but WAY TOOOOOOO LONG!!!!!!!!!! Make you see it when you have been up since 4:15am and you are going to the 10:30pm show...

Eh yea it was a bit on the longish side but I enjoyed all of it [didn't hurt I downed some beer too during it LOL]

 

[RavenousRae]

Has everyone seen the new "bendable tv": http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=250507BENDABLE_TV

 

[SpeX125]

Has everyone seen the new "bendable tv": http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=250507BENDABLE_TV

Amazing! What will they think of next?
I liked that Yahoo commercial,too...

 

[VandalHeart]

Alright, everyone, set down with a nice drink, smoke 'em if ya' got 'em, and get ready to laugh, because this is a good one. You might want to open your Geek Wallets, too, because you're probably going to be handing over some nerd cred after this one.

SO.

I was walking through Wally World today with Micro, shopping for dinner stuffs, because her roommate offered to cook and we were all a flutter at the prospect of eating her food. She probably could have demanded sexual favors. Yeah. It's that good.

But I decided I wanted to purchase some cinematic bliss and made a detour towards the electronics department, which, as you all know, is a BAD IDEA if you're on a budget, and even if your not...DON'T DO IT. I found the special widescreen edition of The Punisher, all hail Frank Castle, and the Special Edition (With Flair!) of Office Space, all hail Mike Judge. Into the shopping cart they went. I was trying, vaguely to ignore the loud music coming from behind me. Moving on. Then Micro and I began to move on, and we found the a copy of Shaun of the Dead, all hail George Romero and everything he inspired. Office Space, allhailMikeJudge went back on the shelf, because I've seen it thousands of times, and in a fight between carreer comedy, comic book movie and zombie apocolypse, career comedy loses. Plus, I'd be able to catch it on TV at some point, because they play the shit out of that movie. Anyhow, I was still trying to ignore the loud music, but now I was failing. Miserably.

Why they fuck do they keep playing the same songs over and over again, why are there mistakes, and why is there a large crowd gathering aroung the music's source? I must investigate, because I am a slave to popular opinion. Except Paris Hilton is still an ugly whore with no redeeming qualities. So I still have SOME mind of my own left.

What should I find, but a small child playing Guitar Hero II on the 360. Now, I've passively avoided this game in the past, not because I thought it would suck, but because the only chance I've ever had to play it, I was more interested in the pair of tits that made sounds that may have been words sitting across from me offering me weed (no thank you) and looking mildly interested in the contents of my jeans (yes, please). Other than that, I've had next to no exposure to this game. I think now that the universe was trying to protect me from my own stupidity by keeping me away from it. Well, yesterday, the universe failed.

Of course, I had to give it a shot.

Half an hour later, I had Guitar Hero II for the PS2, the copy that comes with a guitar controller, and an extra controller, this one wireless. Hells. Yeah. Mother. Fucker. It was time for a Guitar Hero party after dinner. Oh, and time to ask my boss about my paycheck, since I am now as broke as a Turkish hooker who got robbed, hitch-hiked with a bunch of hippies and their lack of money and belief in "free love," started walking when they ran out of gas and somehow found herself at a KKK convention. Yeah. That broke. Completely and utterly financially embarassed.

So, fast forwarding, much fun is had by all. Dinner was great, the Guitar Hero party was great, and everyone else went to bed, except for loser moi. I had to unlock new songs, because I swear to the gods if I have to hear "Strutter" by KISS one more fucking time I'm going to scream. Must have new songs. Fast foreward again. I beat every song on Easy Mode, getting a five star rating on all of them. Go me. Only now, I have a problem.

For the non-gamers, I need to pause and explain something about video games in general before I proceed. Most video game controllers have the directional pad on the left and the buttons on the right. This is important. You'll see why in a moment.

There are a few genres of video games that need to be addressed. The first is platform games. Where you run around in a usually multi-tiered environment, usually killing things. Whether you're beating the shit out of things or shooting at them, your usually mashing buttons like crazy. With your right thumb. Noted? Good. Continuing.

Then we have shooter games. Not necessarily Doom or the like, but also games like Raiden or even classics like Galaga. In these, you shoot stuff, and usually, you don't have automatic fire. Which means you rapidly push buttons. With your right thumb. Seeing a pattern?

Then there are fighting games. There are lots of wonderful examples, such as "Wasn't Middle School great?" a.k.a., Street Fighter. Or there was, "RIP THAT FUCKERS SPINE OUT!!!" a.k.a. Mortal Combat. Then my personal favorite, "Don't fuck with me, asshole, I have a big fucking sword," a.k.a. Soul Calibur. And ther are even less mentionable titles, such as "Aren't the gazungas pretty when they bounce?" a.k.a. Dead or Alive. No matter the game, before long, if you play them, you will get frustrated getting pimp slapped on a regular basis by one character or another, and you eventually resort to crazed, desperate button mashing. With your right thumb. Which by this point, hurts like hell. Got it? Good.

Now, I have longs since become accustomed to Gamer's Thumb and have learned to accept it as a fact of life. But now, I'm playing Guitar Hero, which requires some different uses of the hands than a regular video game. Now, I have to keep a tyrant's grip on the neck of the guitar controller with my LEFT hand. After playing until fuck in the morning (look at your clock...if it doesn't have a position marked FUCK, A.M., it's flawed), my right thumb is now laughing hysterically at my left hand.

"NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS, DONCHA, FUCKER?!? HA!!!"

"Yeah, whatever, shut up...and fuck you."

"NO, BITCH!!! I'M THE ONE DOING THE FUCKING, BECAUSE WHEN HE GETS LONELY--"

Actually, you don't need to hear the rest of that conversation. Moving on.

So, by now, I need a fucking cigarette. I find my smokes and go outside. I have lost my lighter, but I'm not about to go looking for the damn thing, because it was hard enough trying to find my godsdamned cigarettes. Fuck it. I KNOW there's a lighter on the back porch, and I have to go out there to smoke anyways.

Problem.

It rained last night.

And some jackass *points at self* left the spare lighter on the hand railing.

The lighter is now wet.

Wet lighters don't function very well.

So, now I have to repeatedly flick on this lighter to dry out the flint and get it sparking. I do this once or twice with my right hand, and now guess what? My fucking thumb starts to hurt.

"Oh, oh, oh, what the fuck is this, what in the blue fuck is this shit? Sweet, evil, zombie, hippy, Jesus on a pink, polka-dotted pogo stick, what in the holy fuck is this noise? Weren't you just making fun on me for being in pain, Mr. Now You Know How It Feels, Fucker?"

"But that strike wheel hurts...."

"FUCK YOU. AND DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT BRINGING UP THE JACKING OFF, BECAUSE--"

Again, I've said too much.

So, I try to switch hands to give my right thumb a break. I strike the lighter once using my left hand, and then think better of it as I recite the mantra:

"Owowowowowowowowowowowowowooooooooooowwwwww!!!"

My left hand chooses this moment to chime in once again.

"Oh, no, fuckwad, I've done my job for the night. This is in the fucking union rules, cocksucker, I'm done. Don't even TRY that shit again."

So, now I've got my Gamer's Thumb and Mister Useless Lefty in extreme agony, they're fighting in the back of my head and trying to blame me for shit now, and all I want is a fucking smoke, not the anthropomorphic personifications of my mistreated body parts bickering in my imagination. But finally, the lighter works. Now, as my left hand and my right thumb are still acting like two year olds, I take my first drage off of my smoke, and up pops the voice of my lungs.

"Hey, both of you, shut it...I don't want to hear ANY bitching from either one of you."

 

[lil_squirter]

Alright, everyone, set down with a nice drink, smoke 'em if ya' got 'em, and get ready to laugh, because this is a good one. .....

I feel the need to tell you that I must now quote this and send it to friends. You will be credited if you desire so or kept anonymous if that is your wish.

That made me laugh so hard I woke up my dog. My dog and I reside in Florida...my dog and I sleep through huricanes. Yes, I laughed that loud.

Thank you.

 

[Trombonus]

The skin has almost fully grown back from my own thumb injury two weeks. Was playing Guilty Gear Isuka as Jam and wore out my left thumb with all the moving. Of course, it had to be when my dad and I were working in the back yard lifting a bunch of 50-100 pound stones. It also kinda sucked that I had a great big hole in my thumb when I was trying to get my fingerprints done.

 

[Doctor Who]

Has everyone seen the new "bendable tv": http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=250507BENDABLE_TV

That is fantastic. Hopefully it will be used in portal video technology. Everything feels so delicate these days.

 

[VandalHeart]

I feel the need to tell you that I must now quote this and send it to friends. You will be credited if you desire so or kept anonymous if that is your wish.

That made me laugh so hard I woke up my dog. My dog and I reside in Florida...my dog and I sleep through huricanes. Yes, I laughed that loud.

Thank you.

Go ahead and credit me, please. I want this jackassery to be targeted. When people start saying, "check out what this dumbass did," I want them to know that I am the dumbass in question.

BTW, I forgot a part when I first wrote that, so you might want to check the last 1/3 portion of it for the part I added.