buru5

6784-word essay inspired by Morrowind. First chapter reviews the game; the rest uses the Tribunal, Dagoth Ur, and Soul Sickness to analyze social media's impact on society by using personal stories and some fiction to drive the points.

created this video essay thing based on an essay i wrote for my website.

https://youtu.be/OBFZtIQYiiI?si=LDxjp-lfoh5cJ47s

if you happen to watch, let me know what you think

could post this in the SaGa forum as well but figured this would be a better spot.

covers some of the following:

0:00 (Introduction & Justification)

2:26 (CHAPTER I: History of Final Fantasy Legend II or: Richard Dean Anderson's Haircut in Season 6 of MacGyver)

5:11 (CHAPTER II: Presentation, Setting & Plot or: Smoke Dope, Go Bananas)

7:57 (CHAPTER III: Music or: Is this Emerson, Lake & Palmer?)

11:34 (INTERLUDE or: Artistic Gentrification)

13:15 (CHAPTER IV: Gameplay or: Nintendo Power Nominee for Hardest Game Boy Game of 1990)

20:58 (CONCLUSION or: SAVE THE WORLD or: If Richard Dean Anderson is the Peak 90s Action Celebrity ...)

"review" or something

ignore the "how" and focus on the immediate situation; what do you do?

what is the lore reasoning for NEW GAME + and NEW GAME ++? clearly, as new things happen each time, there is some continuity here; it's not simply "starting over" with no knowledge of what happened before, even Ayre says "let's see what you do this time" (or something along those lines). so, the question is: what's going on here? is it some form of time travel that only some people are aware of (Ayre, being one); is it Coral influence, meaning the Coral can alter time?

that's it

used brown panel lining, turned out alright. this kit's wrists are a bit "loose" and prone to falling out at the slightest knock, which is slightly irksome but overall: PLEASED

so, long story short: i bought a Pixel 6a to replace my broken 5a. i bought said phone from Amazon, "refurbished and UNLOCKED," needless to say: it was not unlocked; in fact, it was locked by VERIZON.

i call Verizon, hoping for a miracle, wondering if they'll unlock it: they won't.

i start #googling and find a few "unlock" sites; all of which seem very shady, so i look at reviews, forum posts, etc. and finally come acorss one that, according to #SOME people "had good luck with"; the site is "The Unlocking Company."

i give this "company" my imei number, make/model/carrier, and $27: they say they'll have an "unlock code" and "instructions" to me within the next 72 hours.

so the burning question for this community is:

WILL THEY UNLOCK THE PHONE?

i am strongly inclined to think they will either 1) never get back to me or 2) say they can't unlock the phone and give me a partial refund

bets? and has anyone ever tried this before, any luck?

video covering history of The Final Fantasy Legend, gameplay, concepts, etc.

hope it's ok to post this here, Haru!

anyone have distinct memories of their first Final Fantasy or how they got into the series? share them!

as a kid, my parents sent me to live with grandma in Charleston SC every summer. there was an older boy that lived next door, met him while he was fishing in the lake behind my grandma's house. i don't know how it happened but i asked him "do you like games" and he, of course, said "yes" and we went to his house, up to his room, and he showed me his collection of PS1 games. i must have been 10 or 11 at the time.

anyways, he had FF8, which didn't look super interesting to me, but he came over to my grandma's house one day, brought ff8, and he played it on my grandma's huge old-fashioned projector TV (pictured); i remember being immediately entranced with the music; specifically Balamb Garden theme, and my interest in the series immediately increased.

that was my first "experience" with Final Fantasy, later during one of those summers my friend’s friend lent me their Game Boy Camera to “play with for the week,” and I subsequently traded it at the local Babbages for in-store credit (i was a psychopathic kid); these events were significant because thanks to that in-store credit, I was able to purchase a used copy of Final Fantasy 7; and at the time, my brain was immediately drawn to the spiky-haired guy holding a big sword on the cover. i spent the rest of that formative summer playing Final Fantasy 7.

oncomputer.games

hope this is not breaking any rules; my friend and i run a website in which we write "creative writing" essays on video games we play. we make no money on this and never plan to, it's purely passion projects, but we do put a lot of work into them. the most recent essay is comparing Metal Gear for MSX to the OJ Simpson Trial, but we also have a number of essays on:

• Dragon Quest Monsters I (explores vegan concepts)
• Final Fantasy Legend (origin of the SaGa series)
• Final Fantasy Legend II (traditional analysis)
• Final Fantasy Legend III (explores time travel)
• Final Fantasy XII (traditional analysis)
• Final Fantasy XVI (analysis + comparison to movie The Seventh Seal)
• Infinite Space ("being in love with an idea)
• Landstalker ("mood time and place" + analysis)
• Metal Gear (comparision to OJ Simpson Trial)
• Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside (biographical essay)
• Popful Mail (traditional analysis)
• Romancing SaGa (critique on the "games collector" and "retro gaming" communities, + analysis of the game)
• Shiren the Wanderer 5 (History of the Japanese Tanuki + comparison to the game)
• Tactics Ogre (essay on the themes of the game)
• Xenosaga (philosophical essay with a lot of footnotes, Infinite Jest?)
• Xenosaga II (philosophy + analysis of the game)
• Xenosaga III (personal stories, philosophy, analysis of the game)

we also aim to create "podcast" type videos on each essay, we have done seven so far: https://youtube.com/@oncomputergames?si=5c__UWP-vCU_Bqwd

seems popular.

i've been obsessed with The Cribs and Kaki King for the past month, as you can tell.

add me: https://www.last.fm/user/buru5