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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · 12h

On the other hand, the second half of @kefkaesquexiii.bsky.social's reply (to paraphrase, as a school for mercenaries, Balamb is more likely to get attacked by a mililary) definitely applies Garreg Mach.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · 12h

I want to call Garreg Mach Monastery from Fire Emblem: Three Houses an example of this phenomenon, but it's more of a military academy that happens to teach some combat magic than a magic school.

AjamNova @ajamnova.bsky.social · 14h

You ever notice that whenever there’s a magic school in a work of fiction it inevitably gets invaded? RWBY. Harry Potter. This game. I thought that was interesting

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, if I pick Narukami he can hide me the in the TV Wor- why is he glaring at me?

Emmy @emmyisonbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

Literally what can ryu even do into liu kang here

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The Commonest Man in Festo @sheriffofgay.bsky.social · Sep 17

Every time I watch HxH I think of this tweet

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · Oct 26

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Sep 5

Luke explaining why he gave R2 his lightsaber:

The third panel of Order of the Stick #931. Speech bubbles read as follows: "The explosion? Elan, there was only going to be an explosion if we totally screwed up protecting the Gate!!" "Well, yeah." "...Okay, I see your point."

turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 28

While Earthbound wasn't exactly what I expected coming from the works it inspired (surprisingly few things can be "check"ed), it's a classic for a reason, it inspired people for a reason.

If you're reading this and you haven't played it yet, you should, because it's an excellent game.

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K'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · Aug 25

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 28

Me when I cause a Zeknova.

A screenshot of Earthbound taken mid-battle. A text box reads "Ness tried PSI Gundam Ω" as a shockwave made of horizontal yellow, blue, and red lines leave a Ghost of Starman only visible in silhouette.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 24

The Franklin Badge did so much work in Magicant.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm more worried about his Z'gok.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 23

No tetraja?

A screenshot of Earthbound showing its battle screen without any enemies. A text box reads "...PSI Flash β! Thunder and Storm became tame!"

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 22

Before posting the above, I looked up some info about 1/128 drops to check whether my assumption that the Casey bat was a 1/128 drop was true... which let me know just how fortunate I was to get a Star Pendant from a Major Psychic Psycho. It made 8th Sanctuary Guardian much easier to defeat.

A screenshot of Earthbound which shows Ness's inventory. The player's cursor highlights a currently-equipped Star Pendant.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 22

The obvious synergy would be to use an accuracy-increasing skill or piece of equipment alongside the bat, but I haven't found any. I can't even try to make slightly better use of it with stat boosters because I don't know what stat governs accuracy.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 22

I got the Casey Bat when Spying on Mr. Belch during the refight, but I can't find a use for it. It misses way too often to be useful in ordinary fights, and I can't tell whether it doles out enough raw damage-per-hit to make up for its miss rate in boss fights.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 22

Visiting the Sanctuaries in order feels a lot less necessary now that I know where the 5th and 6th ones are (albeit only in terms of where to look).

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 7th "Your Sanctuary"? I thought this would be the 5th one.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 17

In the Deep Darkness, you can find regular enemies that look like recolors of Mr. Belch. This made Mr. Belch returning for a rematch into a surprise.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 16

Real, I do feel serious as fuck right now.

A screenshot of Earthbound. Ness talks to a vacationer in Summers, whose text box reads "I wonder why such serious looking kids as you would come to this resort town...".

Another screenshot of Earthbound, depicting the same scene as the previous. The vacationing kid's text box continues "You guys are spoiling the atmosphere...".

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 16

On a related note, PSI Shield β and feeling strange interact in a pretty nasty way. If you hit yourself while you have a PSI Shield β up, you'll take both the damage from your own attack and the damage reflected by the shield.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 16

I definitely made reaching the Your Sanctuary in Winters more complicated than it needed to be.

"I'll just pop over to that phone before fighting the boss" became "oh crap that's a lot of damage" and "I need to teleport to a hospital" pretty quickly, but I beat the guardian on my first try.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 15

THIS GAME HAS CHUCKSTERS‽

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 13

Good news: Dropping or selling key items appears to be impossible.

Bad news: That means Paula is the only party member whose inventory isn't cluttered as hell.

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turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 7

Making a video essay about Persona 5 Royal whose soundtrack consists exclusively of songs from Persona 5 Tactica.

turboghast.bsky.social @turboghast.bsky.social · Aug 7

I think I know why Ness had a psychic vision while drinking that cup of coffee: It tasted really bad.

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