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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Apr 30

It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping a quarter. I catch her eye. I fumble the quarter and it rolls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 8h

oh good I was wondering if they did that but I haven't played the remake. no, he didn't talk at all. I don't recall him talking outside the recruitment battle, but I also stopped using him after Limberry

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 8h

he does. they gave him an American accent vs everyone else being British. that's how you know he's from a different universe

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 9h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 9h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 8h

forgot that I somehow managed to do this with Cloud in the party. I don't even remember why I did that

My trusty ninja lady stealing Elmdore's Genji shield

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 8h

It's been top 5 all time for me since it came out, but the current version and WotL give more depth and much better translations

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

Someone should probably grab that thing

Dycedarg about to go lucavi as his auracite hovers over his body while my entire team stands around him watching

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

Points deduction for passing up this opportunity to do something very funny

Objective
Defeat Dycedarg!

They should have kept the original wonky "Defeat Dycedarg's Elder Brother!" line from the original translation.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

Have to imagine Reis here just slowly turning her head toward him.

Ramza: Who are you?"

Beowulf: No enemy of yours. This I swear on Reis's life. (Reis is standing right next to him)

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

Gaffgarion to Agrias: "Oh, and while you're at it, give up your sword and armor too. You'd be happier settling down, as a woman should."

Gaffgarion to Ramza: "I'll tell you again: in battle, I am your better. Your birth will not avail you against my experience!"

Ramza standing beside the crystal Gaffgarion leaves behind when you kill him.

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

i managed it with some seriously good luck, plus japa malas or barrettes on everyone so none of that vampire bullshit. I got his sword and armor on the first attempts

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

I stole that mfs entire genji set while he was yapping

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

yeah! it was like oh right these guys have known each other for years and were just on the same side in the war. Also Zalbaag asking Orlandeau to kill him so Ramza doesn't have to do it was a nice touch

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

Other combat dialogue I should say. The stuff between Gaffgarion and Agrias is good. Really plays up the animosity between them, and made ol Gaff a raging misogynist, which fits. Meliadoul no longer watches silently while you fight and kill her dad.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

Mustadio in general loves to interrupt combat for a chat. All the other combats are between Ramza and antagonists or supporting characters and antagonists, but Mustadio is just like "hey Ramza you know that guy we're fighting? what's his deal"

"Ramza, what do you make of these two? Marach, in particular..."

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

One of my favorite additions is Ramza and Mustadio pausing to psychoanalyze Wiegraf right in front of Wiegraf while killing him

Ramza: "He deceives himself, I believe. Finds ways to justify that vengeance comes before principle. It saddens me to see it."

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 9h

Argath, being his normal charming self: "You've been less than we from the moment your baseborn father fell upon your mother in whatever gutter saw you sired!"

Tweet from @leyawn:

if you reply to something i retweeted and insist on including me in the reply please do not fucking embarass me

Guest Departure

Argath is no longer a guest member of your party.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 10h

Love most of what they added for Ivalice Chronicles. I just wish they had included the WotL additions, minus Luso and Balthier. But the translation is great, the voice acting is very good if a bit too similar between characters, and the added in-combat dialog makes the world feel more alive. A+

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 14h

It has to be so perplexing to these guys when one of them follows the blueprint but some vestigial organ of a functioning society notices they're constantly doing crimes and tries to hold them accountable. They reasonably believed that wasn't a thing anymore!

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 14h

More and more people are saying that twitter users don't understand sarcasm

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 14h

But anyway congrats on threatening people back into the closet. Enjoy your stagflation and never having a job again.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 14h

Whenever I check in at the other place I see something people are talking about that is just completely insane and exists only in their manufactured anti-reality bubble. This guy posted a graph that clearly says nonbinary and they're celebrating it as a "trans is over" survey.

A moron on twitter lying about data, with a graph that says "share of students not identifying as male or female 2016-2025," which shows the line going up and then down, but not back to previous lows, and says nothing at all about students identifying as trans.

He opens the thread in this post saying "1/ NEW: trans identification is in free fall among the young"

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 15h

Israel has murdered 9 Palestinians today. Violating the ceasefire 9. separate. times.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Hamas gathering forces and working to reassert control sure doesn’t look like Hamas disarming and accepting an international security force in charge of Gaza.

Weren’t we told to gush with praise for the brilliant diplomacy that solved the big problems? Could’ve sworn that, it was just this week.