Bubba Jones

Wow, I see it was worth checking this thread today.

Yaaas....you can kill Tatsu, quit, restart, kill Tatsu, and repeat so I can finally live my dream as a daelek-esque mim that wants to redeem itself for saving Tatsu from the prone and committing the highest crime upon the noponic race. Otherwise the mode is meaty as are the missions, I can’t just sleepwalk through them. You also need to kill some super bosses to unlock a few others. If you want to hurry along getting Shulk and Fiora, you need to do the Dino Drama mission - it’s lvl 99 even on easy. I’m still trying to figure the two out, Shulk is an odd dps with the foresight cancel ability and Fiora is a healer with a lot of dps buffs. They remind me of the Torna blades.

Yellow dust storms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Dust The closest I’ve seen were sandstorms in the Mideast but dust bowls are probably a closer approximation. A lot of fine dust and sand get’s picked up over Mongolia and the prevailing winds bring it over China’s most industrialized regions where it collects all the pollutants and other particulate garbage it can and dumps it all over China’s east coast, Korea, and sometimes Japan. If you go outside while this is going on without a dust mask, you’ll probably end up in a hospital. They even cancel school so children don’t get exposed to it.

I hate sliding slightly off topic, but I liked watching that video - it surmises a lot of the problems with bodybuilding, the supplement industry and how hard it’s so hard to find factual information about anything that you have to pop open EBSCO, JSTOR, or PUBMED and do the research yourself and any information you do find ends up buried in a sea of anecdotes with no FDA regulation.

For my short list... Mario+Rabbids - I wasn’t expecting something to be this faithful to snapshot with an emphasis on fun and simplicity. Undertale - I never thought a rpgmaker game would turn out to be what it became. Nier (the first one) - the game randomly appeared on store shelves with no marketing. It got weird and messed up through playthrough 2 and I enjoyed it. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 - I played it 7 years after it came out and the CoD is bad and for casuals memes were everywhere, I was surprised when it turned out to be a good game. Gravity Rush - never thought this Japanese take on Belgian superhero comics would turn out to be my most favorite superhero sandbox game ip. Suikoden - I was just waiting on FF VII, I never expected to find a memorable franchise. Beyond Good and Evil - a 20 USD bargain buy during the holiday season nobody knew anything about when it was released. I probably don’t have to say any more. Legend of Gaia - One of my most beloved games is about a kid who hits things with a flute and can alter reality.

Trump came out and said they may stilll hold a meeting, Un came out and said the same thing, USFK thinks it can still happen, and Moon has no idea what’s going on. It’s like they both discovered how much international attention and publicity they can milk from this and they’ll both drag it out for as long as possible. It’s like turning international diplomacy into a k-drama/reality show (if I dug around I could probably even find Trump/Un ships with a jealous Putin and Xaoping) with more explosive risks.

Your mileage may vary

I can also add that the expansion pass doesn’t add that much right now, there are a lot of early to late game benefits it gives you but they aren’t really necessary to finishing the game. There are some more side quests but they lack story substance but they do give you a substantial reward. The only thing nice about it right now is the extra blade and quest with it. Don’t feel you have to have it to fully enjoy the game. When you start a new game the blade gacha system will put you on one of four rng tables to make each playthrough unique as far as what blades you get. Explore - a lot. Take your time while playing. The game puts a lot of emphasis on exploration and discovery so wandering around finding chests and new locations is something you will be spending a lot of time doing. You should also expect to find overleveled adversaries best avoided, there’s a over 80 optional boss in a early game area. You can also find areas you shouldn’t be capable of exploring when you first find them because the enemies are levels tougher than you. This is something of a tradition in Xenoblade games. The pacing is also very slow, it will be several chapters before everything unlocks. The story is also slow moving until around mid game. This is very much a ymmv game you may not like it, you may enjoy it a lot, you may just like it enough for a playthrough and shelf it.

Here you go, the BBC and the Royal Army actually built da vinci’s tank and explained it’s wartime applications in the era it was created. You might find it useful for your idea.

China is the largest partner the DPRK has and one of the few places where they can do business and one of their few sources of international support. They are capable of exerting a substantial amount of influence on the DPRK. Before the Soviet bloc collapsed, while the DPRK developed with a mind for self-sufficiency, they have a lot of mineral resources (coal, iron, steel, uranium) and a lot of industrial infrastructure Japan left behind. They played back and forth with the Soviet Union and China and were able to have their industry modernized, import heavy machinery and the technology for fertilizer factories for agriculture, and the oil to run most of it. While the Soviet Union was around, they were more or less able to keep pace with the RoK economically. After the collapse, infrastructure development halted and regressed, there was no oil to run their agricultural machinery and heavy use of fertilizers left most of their agricultural land fallow or under productive. Buyers for the DPRK’s mineral wealth also dried up. China was left as the only reliable partner they have. Furthermore it is noctoriously easy to skirt China’s regulations along the China-Korea border even during sanctions. China generally need’s Korean coal and will look the other way when it is smuggled. China is also most powerful country willing to consistently defend them in the international community for historical reasons dating back to the Second World War, being very comfortable with the DPRK’s position between China and the RoK, the existing trading relationships which are valuable to China’s development, the perception of suzerainty they gain from the relationship, and on and on. By withdrawing, limiting, or expanding their support of the DPRK they can attempt to influence their actions. However, the DPRK has a history of going their own way and just dealing with hardship while ignoring the consequences. While it has not done well for the DPRK’s economy or perception worldwide, it has kept them independent from most forms of foreign influence and kept the Kim dynasty in power.

You can just go to the front page, it’s all over KBS, SBS, and the local papers if your hunting for specifics and what the Ministry of Reunification is up to. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/sublist_103.html

I find Korean sources give better information on Korean events since 1993 than sources outside the pen. http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=249079

Start in publications. Get familiar with your market and start submitting if you’re doing short stories. Things like https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/ should help you find it. Make sure to start reading what you plan to write for to get a better feel for the market. If you want to try to get a short story collection published, it’s a pipe dream unless you are editing and funding it yourself. Finally, don’t expect to make money, 40USD for a short story is considered an obscenely high payday.

I got my ng+ save data finished, found the last nopon coin and see only one legendary crystal in my inventory...and ended up getting Zenobia and now I have to gear her up and maybe unlock her next trust level before ng+...sooo close.

The goal is to sell yourself as a qualified candidate. You’re problem isn’t so much with work experience quality but mostly with your ability to write the resume and sell yourself to some faceless HR rep. The resume is designed to hold interest and build enough confidence in someone who will look at it for no more than 10 seconds and decide if you should be interviewed. You need to tailor your resume to the specific job you are looking for and make sure the skills you list are word for word part of the entry. The entry should briefly describe the past job, years or months it was worked, a brief description of it and your duties emphasizing keywords and specific skills from the job posting you’re applying to. That’s just for the work entries, you need a top block with contact info and a brief record of educational background. All this should fit on one page in a pleasant to read and look at format. That’s the rub, I can say this is what you need and I know I’m missing some other very necessary things. A lot of the experts on job searching and hiring in your community have a lot of experience with this and their fingers on the pulse of the job search environment and can more readily dispense advise, why things are done the way they are, and you can bounce ideas off of them and they can help.

Oh boy, if that’s the quality you have, you need to find help, like real help to succeed. Internet help will either not be good enough, not be clear enough, or be misleading. If you still go to university or are within the graduation window, find the career services office and get to work on resume writing and applications. Failing that, see what’s available at the library or the unemployment office (don’t knock it, or feel discouraged if that’s where you have to go. They have a LOT of help available for resume writing, criticizing resumes, what to put in applications and the like). You also need to make contact with people in your industry or field to know what the resume should be written or tailored to - but the career office will tell you that, with more detail, and possibly phone numbers.

To be honest this happened before already. Gen. Park had a similar summit and declaration alongside Kim Il Sung back in the 70’s as the US pulled out of Vietnam and opened relations with the PRC. This repeated itself a few times over the years with some things happening or not happening, like the Kaesong Industrial Zone and the sunshine policy. Why is this happening? I think it’s because Un feels comfortably in control of the DPRK and can afford to reciprocate with Pres. Moon with no loss or threat to his power. I doubt an actual peace treaty will come out of it as there is a lot to argue over, the two disputed islands, nuclear weapons, normalized trade, economic development, reciprocal visitation and migration, over 50 years of distinct political and social development, etc, etc. Even if it does Korea remains the most militarized place on Earth and the state of war will probably transition into a Cold War between two distinct states with their neighbors still rubbing their foreheads while drinking heavily as they consider the possibilities. As for total denuclearization, I don’t think that will happen. It is the least rational option for the DPRK to pick since it provides the most security for the KWP and Un to remain in power in the DPRK without the risk of overt action from foreigners changing that. A test ban and restriction on creating more nuclear weapons may be on the table. Again it may be because Un is comfortable with his current nuclear arsenal and can focus on other areas of his state’s economy. As far as sanctions having an effect or continuing to have an effect on this outcome - I don’t think that’s the case, the DPRK’s economy and society were engineered around self-containment only becoming really vulnerable with the death of Il and the collapse of the soviet bloc. It still soldiered on over the years to become as impenetrable today as it ever was. Either way, Pres. Moon is sincere in his policy for engagement and I do look forward to see what happens and to see how much of my expectations were right and wrong.

It’s your decision, your parents should respect it, but looking at your post I can point out a few things. Professional art at any level, even teaching can be ruthless in its demands. At the collegiate level, you are being forced and demanded to produce with deadlines and at a quantity with a standard of quality which will force you to either develop and adapt to the pace or burn out and drop back down to a hobbyist. That said dropping the AP class won’t particularly hurt your chances for admission, but your attitude of “work at my own pace” is going to be completely crushed at any school and will hold you back at an art college.

As much as you go over the xeno series, you really should. Used wii-u’s are probably dirt cheap and there is still a surprising amount of people online. It is also has that hardish sci fi feel that xenogears and xenosaga had. It’s still my favorite from the xeno series even though it retains and adds to the bullshit 1 had that 2 scrapped and streamlined. That said, I’m dusting off my old clear game data and looking to start ng+. I haven’t seen a good to-do list of what to do prior to making that jump. Right now I’m: Spending all my money on items to max out as much blade affinity as possible. Junk my junk - common cores any aux cores of less than legendary rarity. Grab as many good chips to upgrade blades as I can. Finishing all or as many quests as possible from blades and dlc. The only “normal” quest I have left is the doubloons one. I’m not interested in grinding up more cores, and since ng+ is a thing, I’m not as interested in tyrant hunting since they’ll all pop up as I go through ng+ anyway.

Allow me to quote myself: A lot was edited down to get it to fit on the psp. I think the best way to describe the narrative and story differences would be like asking if you should watch Star Wars as a movie or the audio play that was released alongside it. Most people will say movie because it was written and directed as a movie and things were lost and some of it didn’t translate well into the audio play. Bits of exposition, context, timing, narrative beats, positioning, setting information, all get lost in the transition. That’s really what this is - FES is the movie, P3P is the audio play. (It’s also why the FeMC story was praised - because it was written as an audio play.)

As someone already mentioned there are a lot of quality of life improvements in the Tartarus - like full party control so you don’t have to deal with “Mitsuru I’m dying...Marin-fuckin-Karin” moments. Combat is overall easier and you don’t have to deal with as much bullshit. As for what was cut along with the animated cutscenes...all of the town exploration outside of the Tartarus. You cannot walk around in Gekkokan like you can in Inaba in P4G. All of the cutscenes where the character’s 3D models and their animations which would be used in the explorable areas was also cut and replaced with narration in a visual novel which IMO does not have the same impact. Some ambient NPCs also no longer exist. Gekkokan and the surrounding area is now navigatable in a Visual Novel style interface, the entire story is now presented mostly as a visual novel. No, filling in with the movies is not a reasonable alternative, you would have to rewatch every story scene in someone else’s LP to get the same effect. This is why I recommend playing the female storyline in P3P which is because it was written for this type of game instead of re-written and edited for it.

The US does use d/m/y in the form of DDMMMYY in government, science, weather, transportation, military, and communications...and has been since the invention of the telegraph and radiogram. The general public does something entirely different, however.

Honestly, a lot was cut from p3p. I’d recommend playing the ps2classic version downloadable on the ps3 before that. The only thing p3p really has over FES is the female storyline which was a thorough and well-done effort with alternate s-links and alternate cutscenes that make it work.

Are you serious about the Sanzang thing? (*10 Googles Later*) This is what I get for learning about culture and history from books.

I read them in publishing order and it wasn’t a problem. Chronological is probably fine too. Whatever you decide, you should probably start with the lion the witch and the wardrobe. It is fine as a stand-alone book and a good introduction and description of the world.