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Messages - luksy

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It isn't Japan, it's a made-up town on a made-up planet that's a mish mash of East Asian stereotypes. Even if it were literally Japan I wouldn't want to see chans and samas at all unless there were no other way to convey their context (assuming they even appear in the original text at all).

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You're right. The original name in Japanese is nonsensical, which means choosing climb vs. crime, or vice versa, is completely arbitrary.

That being said, another reason one might consider climb over crime is the nomenclature of Cloud's Limit Breaks in general - each one is more or less a literal description of the physical action/motion:

Braver/Brave Slash (FFT): Self-explanatory. It takes a lot of balls to run up to an enemy and raise your sword overhead, leaving your torso completely open to attack, while you prepare to deliver a crushing blow.  ::)
Curse Slash: A rune/kanji that cuts into the enemy, causing Paralysis.
Rending Light: A light/beam projectile that splinters into smaller, secondary projectiles.
Meteorain: Raining meteors. 'Nuff said.
Finishing Touch: A vortex that causes insta-Death to most enemies, literally finishing them.
Omnislash: Omni = all or every, which is appropriate as this move hits the enemy with every type of slash conceivable. (Interestingly, the Japanese name for this Limit Break literally translates to "Super Ultimate Martial God Supreme Slash", which is just as appropriate.)

Bottom line, in the context of all the other Limit Breaks, Climb Hazard (or some derivative of that) is the only name that fits.

IMO going directly from the Japanese, "Braver" on its own isn't descriptive, and 凶斬り could be interpreted as "slashing/killing the wicked" rather than a literal "cursed slash" (in fact I may have changed my mind on this). I'm the first person to say that Crime Hazard sounds dumb in English, but I think it fits with these other "heroic" moves.

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"Climb" for me is slightly weaker because if the name were meant to be descriptive then "Rise/Rising Hazard" or especially "Jump Hazard" might have been more likely, although the only basis I have for this is a gut feeling.

One of the comments on the Japanese FF wiki makes a circular reference to the English to make the claim that neither crime nor climb is the origin, so it's safe to say that at least some Japanese gamers out there are just as confused by the name as we are, which isn't a good sign.

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FF7 Tools / Re: [FF7] Text editor - touphScript (v1.3.0)
« on: 2015-12-16 12:16:56 »
Post your ini file just in case.

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FF7 Tools / Re: [FF7] Text editor - touphScript (v1.3.0)
« on: 2015-12-16 02:59:20 »
Yeah I really need to update this, bit busy right now but I'm on vacation starting Saturday so hopefully I can work on it a little then.

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"ふん" is a fecal swear, but this case could also just be a sound. Although he doesn't curse elsewhere, his dialect is rough and I'm tempted to belive it's some thing like "Well sh*t..." or "Sh*t son," like an old miner might say.
I should probably update, if you've made changes since what I downloaded before. Sounds like you have.

You're probably thinking of 糞 which literally means "dung/feces" and isn't a swear word (unless it's read くそ, and even then "swear" is pushing it, it's closer to crap than sh*t). ふん just means "hmpf" or "hmm" depending on the context.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Random Links
« on: 2015-09-09 13:33:05 »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-34191638

If that's the kid, just think how dumb the parents are.

She should have said the school's dress code infringes on her religious beliefs as a leopardarian.

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"Crap did we kill/hit/get her?" would also work.

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He tells them to shoot in the heat of the moment but immediately regrets it, it needs a change to something like

"The Ancient's getting away! Shoot, shoot! ... Er wait, don't shoot!"

"Crap we got her. Well that's what you get for resisting".

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General Discussion / Re: Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged
« on: 2015-09-03 21:52:19 »
Ehhhh, watched the first few mins, not my cup of tea. It had a few good gags but I'm not prepared to sit through the rest of the "wacky cartoon network" humour.

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There really is a paucity of info on Holy, grepping the main text all we can say is:

white1:
  • Holy is a last resort for defending the Planet.
  • Holy must be activated using the White Materia and by praying to the Planet.
  • Holy destroys all that the Planet considers evil.
  • Holy glows when activated.
(The Ancients, via Bugenhagen)

fship_25:
  • Sephiroth must be defeated in order to release Holy (Cloud)

lastmap:
  • One way or another, Holy has been activated, perhaps by Aerith (Cloud), perhaps by collective prayer (Barret).

las4_0
  • It's up to the Planet to decide what to do with Holy (Cloud)

Ending:
  • The Planet unleashes Holy
  • If they don't get out of the Crater they're toast (Red)
  • The Highwind is damaged by Holy as it tries to escape
  • Midgar is heavily damaged if not destroyed by Meteor
  • Holy arrives too late, Meteor is too close (Red)
  • Holy is backfiring, putting the entire planet at risk (Red)
  • Lifestream comes to save the day and defeats Meteor *with* Holy
  • Fade to white
  • Fast forward and we can see Midgar was never rebuilt

Conclusions:

It's hard to tell from the ending, but I get the impression that the Highwind "surfs" on top of Holy and avoids taking the full brunt. Red at least seems to think that being in the crater when Holy goes off means death.

Holy should have been enough, but it came too late. The video doesn't explain why Holy being too late matters, or why it would backfire and threaten the Planet, but I suppose we have to trust what Red says. The implication from Red is that Meteor was only a threat to Midgar until Holy showed up.

I can't wrap my head around this last part to be honest, how exactly is Holy backfiring? Why's the timing so important? So many questions...

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Sorry I was being sarcastic, I'd rather poke my eardrums out with a hot poker than have another franchise jump on the dub-bandwagon.

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For that reason they're probably going to have to create a lot of rearrangements of the original themes to fit with the new cinematography

So what you're saying is...dubstep.

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Doom on ps1, this version had a completely different ambient soundtrack, i was never very fond of the faux-metal original.

Final Fantasy Tactics

Vagrant Story

Xenogears

As for crap osts no list is complete without Resident Evil Director's Cut Dual Shock

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Random Links
« on: 2015-07-28 05:39:25 »
I would call thee foolish,

although I'm guessing that's the original quote from the game.

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I should have googled more before opening my fat mouth, it turns out that flower seller might be a euphemism but it seems to have mostly fallen out of use.

There's a similar discussion about this over on the Japanese wiki, the most important thing I took home from that is that Nojima said he deliberately inserted a couple of scenes in CC to kill this rumour.

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"Flower Girl" is a nickname for a prostitute in Japanese.

Err, no it isn't.

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Now you're probably thinking "Oh this guy forgot about the Gold Saucer, they just hand them out willy nilly there."

I'm not, does anyone believe the GS Masamune Blades were meant to be anything other than toys?

I think you're putting too much thought into this, Chekhov's Gun the Masamune is used in all of those scenes simply because it's part of Sep's character design, much like Cloud's impossibly spiky hair. If you overanalyze every single detail you're bound to find plot holes at some point, you can try to plug them if you want to ("clearly Cloud is a master hairdresser") but I'm not convinced the writers were overly concerned about the implications of when and where the Masamune was shown.

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Both can be used, take the NIV bible for instance

Psalm 46:6
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Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

Acts 19:29
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Soon the whole city was in an uproar.

The reason to prefer one over the other might be related to scale.

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Not to mention "Seaweed...seaweed" makes zero sense in English anyway. I suppose if you wanted to localize it it'd be "Peanuts" or something.

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http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space/apollo-rocketed-through-van-allen-belts

There are also about 500 operational satellites in low earth orbit, presumably a number of them (if not most of them) pass through the belts every day. This guy is just hamming it up for the show, it's not that the belts don't pose a threat, but we seem to be able to handle the complications.

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I'm pessimistic about the remake because the Nomura - Kitase - Nojima triumvirate has been pushing out what for me is edgy teen pop trash for the last 10 - 15 years. I'd be more than happy to play a complete re-imagining of FF7, but from what I've seen from these people over the last decade I doubt I'll be able to overcome my visceral hatred for the airbrushed Maybelline bullet time brigade.

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That should have been localized to an X as it's a common trope in the west, it's probably a check because the X might be misinterpreted as "don't go here" in Japanese.

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Here's my nightmare scenario -
Cloud won't just do a one-handed flip off the train this time around, he'll probably do a tripple spinning back-flip up into the air, then use
his Buster Sword as a skate-board, and slide across the electrical train-cables, then he'll do another super-acrobatic jump and cut down five or so solider whilst still in mid-air before landing on the platform to do his famous victory pose, and looking all cool into the camera.

You mean like this? :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apaYkPgaVIQ

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Nomura though? Present day Nomura?
No thank you, SE. That was a bad move if I ever saw one.

Totally agree with this, I have zero faith in Nomura making something that will appeal to me at this point, I just hope I'm wrong. Square is at the forefront of the pretty boy edge-fest style, and Nomura's the bannerman.

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