Camus The Dark Knight

I had read the guy accused them of stealing his IP a year or so ago and went postal over it. I am not sure how much truth there is to it, though things like that have happened in the past so it's not an impossibility. Even if true, setting the place ablaze is a pretty crazy response though. I would not be surprised if he had a bunch of other issues and that (Assuming it were true) was the trigger.

Much like the response Shoblongoo made as I was typing this post up, you probably should of said who it was directed it. If it was me, what can I say? I came back to the site for other reasons (FE4 related), noticed the topic title, read some of it, and decided it would be interesting to throw something in to break the monotony of it. I hate the right/left paradigm since it boils down all debate and argument in to a black and white issue, which is unproductive as the past dozen or so posts have proven. Though for the sake of argument I will use it in this post. I'm not even defending fascism. I am against authoritarianism which, by necessity, it must be. I just noticed a lot of people are ignorant of it's aspects and was attempting to educate, but seems nobody will hear of it. Oh well, such a shame. Because I have studied it I can however explain it's appeal to the right. Fascism appeals to the right because of it's emphasis on traditional values, nationalism, and it's anti-communist stance (and as should be obvious, communism is abhorred by the right) the mindset behind the ideology is a "strength through unity" sort of idea (to boil it down to the most simplistic of it's explanations), whatever that may be, in the case of Nazi Germany is was racial, while a place like Italy had a more civic take on it, just to name the big two. Without some homogeneous trait among the entire population (whatever that might be), it wouldn't work, which is why it must purge those who do not conform. However there are other traits that the right would not find appealing, such as it's collectivist nature, but that was qualm people in the 20s and 30s deemed tolerable because the destruction of communism was their main priority. As for the alt-right, perhaps during the election when they were hoping he was the second coming of Adolf Hitler, but the majority of them despise Trump and the republicans now because he pledged support for Israel and has *not* done the horrific things some claim (they would *like* to see non-whites rounded up and shipped out, or worse), they see him as a traitor because of that. The non-extremist ones seem to be the only group who still like him. If the US was truly fascist (in the traditional sense), Antifa protests (or similar) would be gunned down by the state. How on Earth did you derive that? I don't watch Youtube very often and when I do it's usually for humorous/gameplay videos. My point was that perhaps said people you speak of reached the conclusions they did because they actually read the literature. Are you projecting or something? Or are you afraid reading literature by it's founders/followers will challenge your held beliefs? Have you never once asked yourself why these ideologies became popular in the early 20th century? Alright you meant modern Russia, yeah I have heard of it before. You hadn't stated the time period, so I wasn't 100% sure. I am in agreement with the majority, I think the 3rd Reich's economy wouldn't of lasted, I just find it an interesting topic to think about. I looked it up and it seems there is an older one (the one you speak of, I assume) from ~1960, certainly a better choice as the stigma was nowhere near as strong at that point, I will be sure to look in to it. Also I never once claimed I read nor watched a video of cliffnotes about it. I outright said I have not read a book of his. Since there was another reply I was typing (Shoblongoo) this that I don't want to restart the post I'll just past reply to it here... As I said earlier in the post, I don't really watch Youtube stuff, so I have not seen the people he speaks of, I was just presenting a potential explanation. Also good to hear it, I wasn't asking for specifics, more just experience, I was curious because (for one example) I have quite frequently encountered people who have lived in a rural/urban area who have the mindset the entire world is like their respective region. I grew up in a moderate sized town in Mass, lived in city later (Boston) and now the middle of nowhere (population ~550) so it's been fascinating to witnesses ideological differences. I'm also a subscriber to "actions speak louder than words" but talking about the actions of the leaders of the early 20th century is... difficult, for lack of a better term, on a site like this due to certain rules, it's impossible to talk of them objectively without some rule being broken (For example, if I gave a reason for an event happening, some might read it as an excuse and report. Despite the fact reasons and excuses are two very different things), so it's limited to ideological talk, otherwise you will be branded a troll, racist, etc. by someone offended, which people *will* attempt to use against you, I have been using forums and message boards long enough to know that. Also I would love to hear said choice words within what rules allow (well I would like to hear them all, but I know things have to be kept tame on this site), because it sounds like I am giving off the wrong impressions. I am not easily offended so let loose with whatever you feel you can within the rules.

The majority of said Youtube essays come *because* people read the literature. If curious, in regards to this subject, The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels), The Doctrine of Fascism (Benito Mussolini), Das Kapital (Karl Marx), ~65% of Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler), Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R (Joseph Stalin), to name a few. I have a fascination with political and military history and the ideologies that fuel them, so it should be no surprise that the first half of the 20th century is a massive point of interest. If it's something that interests you as well I recommend starting with "100 Questions About Fascism" by Oswald Mosley because it's a manifesto, thus it's short (only ~40 pages) and a good introduction for an English speaker (Mosley was British, so no potential translation shenanigans), or if you want to hear the communist PoV first you should start the Communist Manifesto, which is also short (~45 pages) though this one is obvious. Just wow... have you actually read the works of fascists? Or are you parroting common accusations? Because it sounds like the latter. Would be like I said making people starve was part of communist policy (which if you have ever read communist literature, you will know it isn't) Also let me make it clear I was not saying it was a leftist ideology either (because your response sounds like you thought I did). You, well people in general, must stop thinking in this left right paradigm and learn to look up. It's a method of control, and has been for centuries at this point. As for your brilliant fascism analysis... You are conflating fascism with Nazism, admittedly a form of fascism that Hitler put a racial spin on. It's something damn near everyone seems to do, however that was not an aspect of the base ideology, for example fascist Italy and Spain didn't give a damn about ethnicity so long as you swore absolute loyalty to the state, if you read any fascist literature you would of known this. You are right however, about the method Nazi Germany used to fuel the flames of the antisemitic fire that began *during* World War One. However this leaves the question, if these fascist traits are as pervasive in US culture as you claim, why is it still socially unacceptable to support them? Why does the mainstream media not propagate them? If it were as bad as you said, the news would be doing nothing bad trash talking "traitors" who speak in favor of migrants, and constantly saying what an amazing leader Trump is for wanting to build a wall and deport the lot of them, and it would be socially acceptable to say whatever the negative sentiment you wanted. If you think that is the case, then take a look at an *actual* alt-right group (voat, stormfront, etc.) and tell me if Western society on a large scale supports the sentiment you find there. You also still haven't answered my questions. You are under no obligation to, but I figured it would of been insightful. I'll take it from the sources over someone analyzing it five decades later when it already has an established stigma, perhaps I will get to these sorts of writings at some point. I'll agree to disagree here, the wehrmacht had a huge emphasis due to the upcoming clash between the communists and fascists (people were aware it was going to happen since the 20s), but there were a lot of other programs that were focused on. National socialism didn't live out it's natural life due to being defeated and dismantled, so we can only speculate about it's fate had it, or at least it's financial system, ran it's full course. Nazi Germany used a labor back currency to both avoid loans from central banks, and avoid attracting the attention of it's neighbors, this has not been tried again, so it remains speculation at best. Also what Russian fascists? The communists had taken the nation over by the mid-20s and it was single-party. The side that opposed the communists during the Revolution remained loyal to the tsar, so if anything were monarchists (though I would say the majority of them were just anti-communist, rather then tsarist), or do you mean fascist groups in modern Russia?

Judging by the name and signature, I am assuming you mean the monarchists? Monarchy has a decent track record (insane monarchs were an exception to the rule, which is why they are the few remembered, instead of the other hundreds who weren't crazy), but I am not sure if I would want to live in one. Realistically speaking I don't think the current system will last much longer, so I suppose time will tell in the end. Perhaps my opinion will change over time, it certainly has this past decade.

You don't seem to understand what right wing is if you think the US is right wing (I'm certainly not arguing it's a leftist utopia either, just that it sure as hell isn't a right wing one). Tell me, before I continue, how much political and religious literature have you read? This needs to be clarified so I can understand if it's only based on what you see on mainstream TV/websites, or if you understand the concepts and history the original authors intended, and how said ideologies have changed over time, for a variety of reasons. I also stated religious literature because not even that long ago, only a few hundred years, religion and politics were one and the same, and modern political ideologies still have traits from the religion of their founders. I am also curious where you have lived, obviously not addresses, but I mean environments. Have you lived exclusively in cities? Rural areas? etc. before continuing I will give a couple corrections that should probably be made. 1: Fascism isn't "right-wing" inherently. This thought process is caused by the political spectrum, which I hate, because it boils everything down to a black and white issue, which politics aren't. What if someone is a big supporter or welfare for the people, however they also believe said people should be homogeneous? What are they? Their beliefs contradict each other on a political spectrum stand point, yet in reality can coexist. Centrist? I'm not so sure because those are pretty big issues to be "middle of the road" on. This is further warped because when someone says fascist, people immediately think of the NSDAP due to, well obvious reasons. People fail to pull back and look at the entire ideology because of this. The traits of fascism, according to the fascists themselves, is nationalism (usually associated with the right), collectivism (usually associated with the left), authoritarianism (can be either), a regulated economy (usually associated with the left), and the view that the strong should rise to the top (usually associated with the right). 2: Corporatism is essentially fascism, but the role of the one "on top" is reversed. Under fascism corporations answer to the state and are forced to work whatever the state wishes. This is why Germany was able to create and repair as quickly as they did between the fall of the Wiemar Republic and the start of WW2. The Nazis diverted all corporate activity towards state projects. Corporatism is the same, only the state answers to corporations, which I have gone over in my last post. Compare that to a capitalist or communist society, where as in a capitalist one the state has minimal to no involvement (certainly not the US even though we like to parade around we are capitalist), and a communist one where the state owns everything. This is why people will refer to it as "corporate fascism" sometimes. I feel I must point this out because the US functions similar to a fascist society because it is corporatist, but it's certainly not some right-wing utopia. I eagerly await your response so I can better understand why you have the conclusions you do. My point is the debate should not be which is better, but rather that should a $100M loan should be taken out at all, regardless of what it's going to. Politicians love to present options A and B, ones they have created, but they will never present alternatives because it's not in their interest. Even if it's their "enemy" or "rival" getting the money, it is still beneficial to them. Think of it as heads I win tails you lose. Education vs. military is another debate, I only used them because it's a stereotypical issue, not to get involved in that, but I'll leave one comment for the sake of fairness. US education needs to be evaluated and overhauled, throwing more money at it and hoping for the best is not going to fix a fundamentally broken system. That's all I will say for that, it's another debate for another time.

Such a lack of knowledge of how things work in US politics around here... To understand US politics there are three things you need to understand. 1: The US is a corporate oligarchy. It might of begun as a constitutional republic, but it began morphing is to a corporate oligarchy after the American Civil War. The people who hold the power in the US are heads of corporations and banks. Politicians are allowed to remain in power so long as they support the banks and corporations that put them in power. You can thank lobbying for allowing this to happen. Always keep this in mind and the way politicians act will make perfect sense, rather than idiotic or contradictory as they appear. 2: There is no "right" nor "left" among politicians. Politicians will argue over trivial things to garner certain voting blocs, but they will unanimously agree on things that expand the power and influence of themselves and their masters. Tell me, what is the difference in a $100M loan for education, or a $100M loan for the military? Politically speaking none. $100M is being added to the debt either way, and the bank is making money off interest. The politicians are satisfied they get some money for their pet project to cater to a voting bloc, the corporate oligarchs are satisfied they just made more money off of either loan interest, or via selling the resources for said projects. The loser is whoever is left with the tab which is, because income tax is used as collateral for national bonds, the tax payer. Money is power, the transfer of capital is a transfer of power, always remember that. 3: The US is structured as a republican form of government. I use the term republican in it's intended use, not in reference to the political party. This is in stark contrast to forms of government such as monarchy or autocracy (which frequently overlap). So what is it about this that makes it crucial to understanding US politics? It's crucial because it effects the behavior of politicians. Unlike a monarch who is not elected, in for life, quite literally owns the nation, and usually has supreme authority, elected representatives must get themselves elected, have limited time in power, have no real stake in the nation, and do not hold supreme authority. Because of this they will cater to lobbyists to get elected, not dedicate themselves to their cause because there is not enough time to accomplish anything due to bureaucracy, and not care about the repercussions of their actions because they can always blame another party, or move out. I am not advocating for monarchy (there is plenty to say *against* it), I only used it as an example to point out the flaws in the republican/democratic system, and why politicians will always ignore who they claim to represent and will always sell their people and nation out. Just look at the amount of duel-citizens within congress. With this in mind what does it say about the state of the US? I hope I have at least made it clear enough that the things being bickered about is nothing but show, and no matter who gets elected, you shouldn't expect anything to change. In the US change only happens when people's behavior force the corporate oligarchs to change their actions (this is also the reason they attempt to manipulate public behavior). The most successful one party system is disguised as a two party system, giving the people an illusion that they decide. That one party is corporations and banks. EDIT: Grammar

Am I the only one that finds it amusing this particular topic got this big, this fast?

I legit want to see Chagall. But since that is more or less impossible I can settle for Medeus or Ashnard.

Interesting, so the second one was how it was (though looking at what I said, I didn't word it the best). Good to know the 4A 70 is the trigger for it.

I don't think the received talk bonuses would be that difficult to find unless they are structured very differently from every other stat in the game. I imagine they would be after the event and look something like 00 03 00 00 00 00 03 00 (+3 STR, +3 DEF), or XX 03 XX 03 (With "XX" being a byte indicating which stat). However as I said, I have never looked in to it so I could be completely wrong. EDIT: Now I am irked I can't find where the byte for the 10+ range lock is. I got rid of it in my own patch. https://imgur.com/lQPE3LS EDIT Again: Found it, to unlock the movement lock on 10+ weapons change the 04 at offset 7B763 to 90.

What kind of mod are you making? If it's mostly focused on game play stuff you can just leave the game in Japanese since most who are looking for a "remix" (for lack of a better term) are just interested in game play changes since they already know the plot. The menus are easily remembered, or if you want you can translate only the menus and leave the rest the same (I am sure someone around here has a table containing which byte correspond to which Kana, and the few Latin characters, in the base game). Find out if a patch you want uses blank ROM space, and compare it to the translation patch, if occupy the same space, you can relocate it (if it's all one string it will only require changing a few bytes in the ips file) and change pointers to the new location.

There is, though their value won't be displayed in the shop (not sure why, I am sure there is a way to fix it, but it's beyond me). Here is a list of offsets, including a few others I didn't see around (headered ROM). 04B4E7 - Change 00 to 16 and it should let you buy/sell holy items (again it doesn't display values, but it should work fine) 04857F - Seliph's leadership (for getting around the 2 star bug) 04B6FA - Arena gold values from victories if you want to change them. 04D4FF - EXP you get from rescuing civilians/kids. 04FBC4 - Staff gold to EXP ratio (Staff EXP is based on staff gold value, but this modifies the ratio of it I wish I remembered where the long range lock is located, though there is a patch on the first page of Lamia's FE4 Stuff thread that has a patch for it, but the patch changes a lot more than 1 byte, so I think it might do more than unlock it, idk.

Obligatory yearly post.

You can change the range of a weapon in the weapon data, but once it reaches 10 or higher the character will be unable to move. In some post here quite some time ago someone told what you can edit to remove the movement restrictions (I will assume in Lamia's FE4 thread), though as far as I am aware the weapon range is still not displayed.

As implied by lightcosmo, patches can interfere with certain things, especially translation and/or event-heavy patches. I made a remix/hard mode mode several years ago and the spare ROM space I used for custom enemies didn't interfere with the translation patch from the time, so it could just be applied over mine and vice versa. However the new and improved translation patch breaks it, I know because even though I only log on here every few months, by inbox usually has people asking me why the game keeps crashing with my patch and it's because they are using the newer translation patch. I am going to assume that spare ROM space I used is also used in the new translation patch causing them to conflict (which usually results in glitches and crashes). You should answer the following before continuing. EDIT: Derp, I replied to page 3 and missed the couple posts on page 4. You said what patches you were using (translation and sword skills). From what I have found the sword skill doesn't seem to interfere with much, while the translation is considerably larger and (I assume) has a fair amount of rearranged data. Try it on a clean ROM, if it works fine, try it on a ROM patched with *only* the sword skills. If that works fine, then you will know it's incompatible with the translation patch and will require some extra changes.

Been messing around with the game (FE3) again and found something mildly interesting when I was looking for the stat cap (which I have yet to find). At offset D004 (1.0 no header) effects the max stat *display*. When a stat is capped, it will show that, regardless of if the actual value is that or not. (So say I change it to 30, Marth gets a level up and his stat goes from 19>20, it will be displayed as 30, though all formulas and such take it as 20.) This doesn't effect enemies leading me to believe it has to do with mounting/dismounting so that the game doesn't display a number higher than 20 if a knight with 20 speed gets on a mount that increases speed or something like that. Figured I might as well post it while I was here. Also since I didn't see it in any notes nor modules, unit type/weaknesses seems to be located at 0426AB, though before each list there is one byte, not sure what it's used for. 426AB - Weak to Rapier (Cavalier, Paladin, Armor Knight, General) 426B0 - Weak to Lady Sword (Thief, Brigand, Pirate, Barbarian) 426B6 - Weak to Armor Slayer (Armor Knight, General) 426BA - Weak to Dragon Slayer (Ice, Fire, Sea, Flying, and Mage Dragons + Dragon Knight) 426C3 - Weak to Sword Slayer (Mercenary, Hero, Berserker) 426C8 - Weak to Knight Killer (Cavalier, Paladin) 426CC - Weak to Bows/Wind (Pegasus + Dragon Knights, Flying Dragon) 426D1 - Weak to Fire (Ice Dragon) 426D4 - Weak to Ice (Fire Dragon) 426D7 - Weak to something (Flying Dragon + Dragon Knight, both of these are covered under bows and dragon slayers, so idk what the point of this one is.) 426DB - Weak to Falchion/Mist Breath (Fire, Ice, Sea, Flying, Earth, Dark, Divine, and Mage Dragons + Dragon Knight) I couple interesting things to note. 1: The berserker is weak to the sword slayer even though you don't get the only one in the game until *after* the chapter with him. This also holds true with brigands and the lady sword as I am ~80% sure by the time you get a lady sword you no longer encounter them (only pirates on chapter 4, and barbarians later on, and thieves of course). 2: Tiki doesn't follow the rules as she is weak to dragon slayers in book 1 (and they don't appear in enemy hands in book 2). Considering she doesn't use mist breath (what is tied to divine dragons) in book one either, I am inclined to think there is some special coding that makes her a fire dragon with ice breath, and a divine dragon map sprite, when she transforms. By the time you get her there are no enemies with the freeze spell so you can't see if she is weak to it (short of modding obviously). 3: This is not related to FE3, instead FE4, but where the hell else am I going to put something this minor? The dragon classification exists in FE4 even though there are no weapons that are effective against it. I remember editing the hand axe and javelin to be less shitty and it working fine, or did you (if you even see this since it's a 3-4 year old post) try making something from 1 range to 1-2?

My obligatory once a year post, topic seems quite large now.

Much thanks for this, will help out a lot.

Alright, figured here was the best place to post. I dusted off my remix/hard mode patch from like 5+ years ago and decided to pull a George Lucas and go back and update it with the new stuff found. I cheated my way played through the game to inspect everything and it all seems fine now except a single issue. Sword skills don't get passed down other then the usual suspects (Larcei, Ulster, Patty, Lene). Holyn (Or w/e his new localized name it) and Dew won't be able to pass their Sol/Luna skills down to anyone besides Bridget, Ayra, and Sylvia. EDIT: I saw a patch someone here made with it, so I know it's been discovered here.

There is a way to progress characters post-game. I liked the creature campaign even if it was a bit repetitive.

I honestly prefer the "you can only have 24, but you can use them all at once" FE4 system, I just meant it doesn't fit in with newer games is all. I have also been thinking about how they could split up the larger maps and it got me thinking back to FE10 where you had to split up your teams for the later chapters. I think something like that might work when splitting up FE4 maps, so you could have modern-sized chapters using units that you split up for each path/castle. For example I'll take FE4 chapter 2... Part 1: Take a portion of your characters, save Lachesis, and conquer Heirhein. Part 2: Take the same force and conquer Anphony. Part 3: Shift back to your other characters and fend off Fury's (or w/e she is called these days) attack. Obviously to make a chapter of it her force would need to be larger, and plot-wise you could just capture her and Levin could meet her in a cut-scene after the chapter. Part 4: Both forces meet up and you can make a new one to continue on to Mackily. Part 5: Conquer Agusty and take out Shagarl. Just a thought.

I loved PoRs fixed growths mode, yeah I am strange, I was disappointed they never did it again, though I can see how.

FE4 would need either a massive overhaul for a number of reasons to play like a modern FE game... or they they just go all in and embrace it's differences and build upon it making something more unique. A few glaring issues... Only 24 characters max at any given time. Yes there are more in the game, but you can't have both kids *and* subs. They would need a bigger cast of playable characters to make the game more modernized. While they could just let you have both the kids and subs in gen 2 (assuming it keeps the 2 generations thing), then gen 1 would need more original ones, but would those have kids? Would it be all guys? etc. Completely different weapon system. I don't think this one would be as big of a deal as some of the other hurdles though. But it is something that would need to be taken in to consideration. In-door chapters. Will they make new indoor chapters for some battles? With doors and chests and such? Or will the entire game remain outside? This also ties to how the big maps would be handled. Speaking of which... The huge maps which is always mentioned in these topics. Modernizing FE4's maps would require a lot of rework. While a few maps wouldn't be too hard since you could have each castle seize be a chapter, some maps have reinforcements show up at previously "beat" areas, or backtracking. I could go on, but it's late. I personally still think they should just take the oddities and expand upon them making something new as reworking FE4 to play like newer ones would likely butcher the game. Also hi Superbus, have not seen you in forever.

Sophia because everyone hates her. Objectively as a unit probably Canas however.

Are you talking on a save? Nightmare edits the ROM, it wouldn't have any effect. You would have to use cheats if you mean on a save.