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Let's Play Every Final Fantasy Game In Order Of Release [Now Playing: Final Fantasy IX]

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Omicron said:
There is a memory, seared into my mind's eye, of me, at ten, standing in that arena at night, with a dozen taller, stronger boys making way as in front of me, a confused young cow looks left and right for an escape that has a minimum of teenage boys to go through, or failing that, the smallest possible one.

I thought I was going to die.

Needless to say I did not win the cocarde.

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SO ANYWAY ZIDANE WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE YOU GETTING THIS POOR CHILD INVOLVED IN A MURDEROUS BEAST RAMPAGE!?

Jesus Christ.
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What I'm getting from this is that Zidane is actually behaving Very Normally, as he is a dumb teenager for whom this sort of suggestion is like, sure, whatever.

Your parents and those of the other kids that were with you, though, they have zero excuse.
 
…On the topic of kid-Omni getting trampled- a part of me has to ask- how much Tender Loving Care did he get in the aftermath of that?
Because a thing about traditions like that-they go hand in hand with having a strong community/support network in place to handle things going wrong, because the modern world does not really truck with self endangerment for funsies as I understand it? At least not in the 'throw your young child into arena combat' sense.

I say that thinking of how in modern times you have lots of censorship happening under 'but think of the children!' and there's a part of me that thinks that probably goes along with a distinct Lack of support that means if you break your leg you just have to eat the financial costs of that.
 
Omi, now that you have Synthesis available, best keep a little bit of EVERYTHING in your inventory because some items will not be obtainable in Disc 4, when the final Synthesis recipes become available, and you don't want to miss out on some of the weapons that can be synthed then.
 
The Zaghnol is notable for being, thus far, the one of the only major bossses to be ported nearly 1:1 into FFXIV: Dawntrail (albeit as a dungeon sub-bosses); the rest of the bosses adapted directly from IX in Dawntrail are random encounters, IIRC.

They justified its power over lightning despite being a random animal by having it repeatedly jab its face-horns into the local lightning-aspected magic rocks that the expansion's magibabble centers around, visibly charging up from them.
 
Funny things Omi missed/didn't bother mentioning:

At the inn Zidane stayed at, the founder of the inn apparently had a thing for some dumb looking birds and kept a statue of them because culturally they're a symbol of good luck.

There is also Comments/Suggestions book for inn patrons. Apparently the moogle comes with that particular room and won't shut up at night. 0/10, will not return unless the inn gets rid of them.
 
FunkyEntropy said:
There is also Comments/Suggestions book for inn patrons. Apparently the moogle comes with that particular room and won't shut up at night. 0/10, will not return unless the inn gets rid of them.
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The fact you can see Zidane wake up, talk to the moogle, save the game, then walk downstairs and read a complaint about the kupo-kupo noises is genuinely funny. Also funny is that the lady who left the complaint, Lani, is one of the extra characters who can show up on the hunt leaderboards. Perhaps the moogle should feel lucky she decided to write a complaint instead of taking care of things personally.
 
Kuja said:
The fact you can see Zidane wake up, talk to the moogle, save the game, then walk downstairs and read a complaint about the kupo-kupo noises is genuinely funny. Also funny is that the lady who left the complaint, Lani, is one of the extra characters who can show up on the hunt leaderboards. Perhaps the moogle should feel lucky she decided to write a complaint instead of taking care of things personally.
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I mean, if someone who can't even get on the top three wants to piss off the people handling her save file she's welcome to. Would be a shame if the rest of the Moogles happened to misplace it in the aftermath, though.
 
Omicron said:
Zidane: "Hey, Dagger."
[She turns to him.]
Zidane: "So when do you wanna go on that airship cruise?"

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HE USED.

THE WRONG PICK-UP LINE.

HE GOT THE GIRLS HE WAS HITTING ON MIXED UP.



BROOOOOOOOOOO.​

I am dying. Zidane you legend. This is the worst fumble in all of history, I love him. He really managed to get all the way to the finish line and then face-planted a few inches short. This man got control of the ball and turned around to kick it into his own goal.

Legendary.
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This feels like watching my wingman get executed by a pair of Sidewinder missiles to the dome in a planegame. Nothing to do but scream in horror at the massacre unfolding before me.

Omicron said:
Steiner: "YOU CAN'T WIN JUST BY RUNNING! A GOOD OFFENSE IS THE BEST DEFENSE! ATTACK!" [Lower] "You can't lose to that monkey Zidane!" [Pumping his fist] "YES! THAT'S IT! NOW'S YOUR CHANCE! ONE MORE TIME! VIVI, BEHIND YOU! YES! GO!"
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Damn Steiner really dropped into the Frieza tone for a minute there, boutta start citing some figures about Saiyan Crime Statistics

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feed him feed the child he must grow up big and strong

Omicron said:
Steiner: "How could I be so careless !!!? Ugh… I'm starting to feel sick… F-Forgive me, Princess… I should have tasted it for poison…"
[Dagger turns to him.]
Dagger: "That's impossible. There shouldn't be any in your dish."
[Steiner starts up.]
Steiner: "What…? Now that you mention it, I feel just fine." [He turns to Dagger, shocked.] "!!! How did you know!?"
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I admit given what a stone wall Steiner's been in previous altercations with Dagger I'm just as surprised as he is that his food wasn't dosed. She really shot a three-pointer when she decided to gamble everything on making Steiner acquiesce to her wishes, were it not for Zidane fucking up as hard as it is physically possible to fuck up you know she would've given him a second try instead.
 
wetodet said:
Lemme guess, some sort of 'one of the items you can make sells for more than the total purchase prices of the items used to make it plus its crafting cost' thing?
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Bingo! Of all the items that can be synthesized just one is viable for money making. Infinite gil is limited only by your own patience and sanity.

*Edit*
Boo.!
I wanted to keep that part of it quite until somebody asked for details.
 
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Zap Rowsdower said:
...if the favorite food of chocobos is basically durian greens that would go a great deal to explaining why chocobos are occasionally referenced as having a very distinctive and not too pleasant odor
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I just want to tell you that your statement just gave me a visceral reaction, as someone who doesn't like durian and is participating in a Final Fantasy quest where the party ended up eating some gyshal greens once. That's horrifying.

... Though, wasn't it said somewhere that feeding chocobos gyshal greens dampens or gets rid of the musk?
 
Omicron said:
He then approaches a "Grandma Pickle" who sells gysahl pickles, a local delicacy. They smell absolutely terrible, and attempting to eat one nearly kills Steiner from coughing and hacking, but somehow he still declares them to be really good? I must be eating the wrong kind of pickles, man.
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My guess is that Steiner thought he was just getting vinegar-y pickles but it turns out they were spicy pickles.
 
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