Parrhesia

It's been a little over three lol

Fuccboi's submission stars a guy who looks like if I was hot, and also Bryan Cranston.

for real though has anyone, like, solved this

Yeah, I've already played ahead - but it's fine. I'm giving these missions one honest attempt and then looking up a guide for the second, since nothing's missable in this game. Occasional failure makes things more interesting! (My educated guess for the Sidekick was a Defender, which I didn't have access to at the time, and it's only when the monk starts talking about entertainment that it's obvious you need a juggler.)

LEAKED Suicide Squad Script Hi my name is Lime Green Jared Leto Joker Banksy and I have short green hair (that’s how I got my name) and icy blue eyes that are like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like marilyn manson (AN: if you don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I have pale white skin. I’m also a criminal and go to an asylum called Arkum in GOTHam. I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I love hot topic and buy all my clothes from there. Today I was wearing a purple leather jacket and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, and black eyeliner. I even hav black teeth. I have lots of goffick tattoos with skullz and other goffick symbols.I was walking outside arkum. It was snowing and raining, so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. Batman stared at me. I put up my middle finger at him.

[spoiler=Update 12] I have some unfinished business to deal with before picking up my moogle, and then the sidequesting will begin in earnest. The auction for Camoa is sponsored by Escher. Get the fuck in. Okay, so when you're area champions? The auctions still go on. Only now, instead of auctioning control of regions, it's prizes... usually endgame gear. We sleep for a shitton of days to wrap it back around to the moogle months so, um, the auctions are almost on again. But this should be the last timeskips I'll need all game. We pick up some quests en route, trying to take all the seasonal ones I can find. And one that involves... combat, possibly?? I don't know if this quest has any requirements, so I don't even try and send my best performer. Only one class would qualify and we don't have them yet, anyway. I forgot this was a mechanic! They give us a pretty flower for being champions of the region. Playing along at all moments gets you an animist, hating moogles gets you a thief. Hating but understanding moogles... Yeah, figured. You'll do. Okay, fourth time's the charm. Yeah, he's just looking for 'any woman', which means generic viera or gria since you can't dispatch special characters. If you've lost track, this is Ursla. This quest I'm picking up because when it's off, it stays off for-fucking-ever. I can send, say, Rodanu to go get the other stamps, but he'll probably fucking fail. I won't normally use this mechanic because it misses dialogue but there's like, nothing to miss with this quest. Anyway... you know how earlier, journalism was dead? Every single fucking month... M. Seeq Templeton here outsources his editorial material to us. He's a ranger, which uses items, a versatile exploration skillset and, perhaps the least natural weapon for a seeq, shortbows. 1. Walk all around; 2. You'll eventually get a reaction from the detector; 3. Dig! Dig like your life depended on it! Dig for all you're worth! 4. Treasure shall be yours! Bwah hah hah! So we start wandering around the place. He harangues us from his pitcher's mound. We find a basic rapier, then echo herbs. And a potion. i hate you templeton The Templeton missions are hugely variable in quality. This is at the garbage end of that variance. Anyway, I make a discovery not long after. You know how white magi used to know protect? So I was going to learn it through green mage for the second- right. That's still fine... ish. I hand her the healing staff, for Cura. Turns out Protect is still red magic, so the time wasn't wasted, but still. Collecting the fucking stamps is on a really tight time limit and then Kyrie fails to help out with the festival. We enable Cilawa. The Culinary Crusade are not just a punchline - they will appear. Guinness then namedrops that he, like, totally knows Lezaford. Again, I have an educated guess of what I might need and a grim certainty that I don't have it. So I dump Lawrn on him. Lawrn, the Sancho of this noble quest. We pass the spruce from Targ to another monk in Graszton, this time without turning it into a spear. It's quite nice how androgynous some of the humans in this game are, even if they are all (bar Adele) treated as male. She turns her back and I throw in a hundred. IIRC this quest is repeatable, so maybe I'll cheat her later on. Templeton wants our help again smh We are gradually going to build up this guy's career through trades. I check my other quests... and I've missed Veis by a day. Fuck! Ah, well. Time to go check this little storm in a teacup over; Next up on FFTA2: TRUE HORROR.

You might be thinking of Gria, you need to unlock the eastern continent for them which I think is two story missions away. Seeqs are immediate, though. Sadly not. It's okay, though - I have Plans for her. This still isn't a patch on Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre. The male name pool which lasted until the remake of the first TO included 'Badguy' and 'Dude'.

Ambling Falchion with Tsarface, a 'fun group', which I'm inclined to agree with.

the ending to Men in Black

[spoiler=Update 11] So along with the shipping quest of yesterday, there's these. I'm doing all of these now because the viera we get isn't going to have a whole lot of use for AP for a bit. For now, though, our main focus is this. Reminder that we literally own this town. Without any new dialogue, Nofilia returns successful. I give her a hammer - one that'll teach her protect as a green mage, which is also a white magic skill, and combining that and cure will give her the two white magic skills she needs for her other classes. As for Rodanu... ... Look, I've got a plan, alright? Trust me. You'll just have to trust me. First bit of this mission is identical. Along the way; floating eyes have a kamikaze dive attack, our first archery of the campaign (it's Wolfe, not Rodanu), and it turned out that Atmos Blades are lightning-elemental. Lowkey the viera lines and hair and beret and pose really remind me of my friend Ruby. Highkey I forgot to give Nofilia red magic secondary and also bludgeoning weapons are forbidden so she's pretty much reduced to protection and item-healing. Alternatively, because I also brought two punchmen, I can ignore the goddamn law. Since the enemies here are no pushovers, I'm going to have to. Look, I like the law system of this game, but I like it because you can work around it with your squad selection. This? This is just kind of bullshit. Guess what ability this werewolf used after I Protected five of my units? why did i do that This fight is going places fast. Specifically; south. Funnily enough, we're now in a position to stay within the law - our monk wants to use Air Render instead of punching, and Nofilia's busy patching everything up. This is not a clean fight. This is not a fair fight. This is certainly not a fun fight. But though they rage against the dying of the light, their inability to let sleeping dogs lie costs them. (Like, literally - the brown medusa has an ability that tries to set the entire battle to sleep, but they kept waking my guys up.) 'Ave that. And this is where recruitable viera show up - though ours won't. The Nu Mou Nobles of Baptiste Hill a JESUS CHRIST. I think this is what Integrity would look like were he a shrimpdog. Anyway, he teaches us how to be an arcanist, which I will probably throw a nu mou into I guess. oh. i. right. the guy gave us a spruce to send to graszton. spruce is a resource. i guess i made it into a weapon. The other two quests are just 'talk to Lezaford and let him exposit at you', and then you get a handy expository note and complete the quest. RIGHT. HERE. WE. GO. This guy is basically an employment office for adventurers, he asks four two-choice questions to try and match you to the right adventurer. In practice - the race depends on month, and it's early autumn so that's viera, and the questions lead to different classes. Liking swords, stealth, dieting and friendship gives... RIGHT, OKAY THEN. Apparently our little clan isn't ~good~ enough for snipers to deign to associate with us. Which... is fair, I guess, but annoying, because I mean... look at all those AP I passed up on because I didn't think I'd need them! He does offer another candidate, but Pastelle isn't the consolation prize I'm looking for. I take the quiz again - fashion glutton swordsman friend means... Eh. Not sold on the name. The guy starts falling apart. Sorry, Clan Mates Guy. This one's called Kikka. I, um, I think I'll take Ursla. Thanks, savestates! Interestingly, going back to the Ursla savestate, rejecting her and going through the quiz again still gives me a Kikka with the same stats. And, yes, going for a different class still gives someone with the same name. The best nu mou. An- a hah ahahah AHAHAHAH OKAY SO YOU KNOW HOW I'VE BEEN GETTING THESE SHITTY LITTLE GRAPHICAL GLITCHES, RIGHT RIGHT I NOW PRESENT TO YOU; YVET, THE CREEPYPASTA I DON'T EVEN GIVE A SHIT, SHE'S IN. WELCOME TO THE FUCKING CLAN, YVET. GOODNIGHT, PEOPLE. GOOD FUCKING NIGHT

My offering this time is the revelation that what will inevitably go down in history as the Sopranos theme is in fact an actual good song with a totally fucking incomprehensible video. Please post your favourite artistic interpretations here ty

i'd pick a different freezeframe tbh

[spoiler=Update 10] So recruitment in FFTA2 is based on month. This house is how to sleep and skip 30, 90 or 'like, a million' days. Furthermore, beating the Zedlei fire mission gives me a mission that like... gives me the class I want if I answer a quiz. I'm not going to get all the possible recruits in this session. I can't get Gria yet, I might not be able to get Seeq, either. And I plan to recruit three humans/viera/bangaa and two moogles/nu mou outside of the special characters. I'll leave off one each of the three big races and also the second nu mou because they're really boring until they unlock enough stuff from white/black mage. Thus, the shopping list is a physically-inclined human, bangaa, moogle and seeq - and then I'll unlock viera, which takes another quest that is within our reach now (I'm pretty sure?), then get a physical viera as well. Of course, recruitment isn't just from That Quest - you can also get them ambiently. Seeq (and gria) are kind of a weird half-race, with just four classes each and sharing months. Berserkers, as you can see, are literally just HP, Speed and Attack, and are terrible at every other stat. One down, four to go. Two houses, both alike in dignity except one's made up of bangaa and is thus better... so really the Sharks to the nu mou Jets, really. Anyway, don't worry, we'll double-cross both sides once or twice over the course of the story. There's also a K-pop group. You can find basic humans in Targ Wood. The Clan Mates quest has stubbornly not yet shown up. Well, in the bangaa months, this at least happens. oh, right. fuck. "Fuck you, Parrhesia" - SquareEnix, 2011ish. We're doing General Training to buff all our clan abilities. The middle one is just 'kill everything', but tougher ones have time limits. It's a weird slugfest - they open by slowing your whole team, are then helpless for a couple turns where you brutalise them with physical attacks and then start lashing down meteors which deal ~70 damage to single targets. Now we save Kyrra. Sometimes I remember that bangaa don't do the lizard esssssssssses anymore and are instead sometimes Scottish. Targeting an Area is forbidden here, so I'm leaving the magi at home and bringing Elm, Wolfe and even Rodanu. It's a simple fight. A bunch of basic lizard fightdaves against Kyrra... and all the enemies (and Kyrra) are level 2-4. Like in every single Final Fantasy, dragoons are resilient lancers who can jump and breathe elemental dragon... breath. And do some other nice things. Ours is going to be resolutely fucking invincible. Questionable decision-making skills. Men against boys. Kyrra tilts a bit... But he's a good sort. wow mysterious coincidences (I forget to screencap the 'wants to be recruited' line, but it's just; "Hey, let me into yer clan! You know you want to!" Which... I do!) I've realised something by this stage. This is the quest we need for Clan Mates - and the successor, in turn, to recruit viera. (Why? Because these quests all reveal a new space in a given area, and it's those places where the quests/random viera are found.) ... However we've cycled out every single quest. So it's time to sleep again. Every nu mou class is gated by like, 3 white mage and 5 black mage skills. We have access to 2 and 3. Recruiting more nu mou is pointless. If you aren't convinced yet; his name was Uthma. We'll get these done on the way. This guy, near Graszton, realises as we give him the fruit that the fruit is completely useless for his purposes. Chita wants literally anyone who has seen a mace before for ten days - the class you're most likely to have that can use maces is green magi (the others are all advanced nu mou), so Nofilia gets the short straw. MARNOT DID NOT PUT THIS PART IN THE CONTRACT. The first two options both succeed the quest, surprisingly, but the first is, um... Jesus Christ, Guinness. Nu mou have really boring lines before fights and I'm going to need to reshuffle the party so that all the other races are first on the list so get to speak instead. Unsurprisingly, the mission is not just six people killing one shitty goblin. Despite getting the completion messages and experience boosts to the contrary. The law gets redrawn (lightning before, now ice) and we get to pick a new privilege (I got regeneration from the clan trial), but we're stuck with the same units as before. I'll be honest, I irrationally dislike these missions. There's three of them, we need to do two back-to-back. Baknamy have an attack that targets MP. Spoiler alert; Caul has no use for mana. That said, if he hits Rodanu, that's blue magic. Rodanu's got other things on his mind, though, like being pummelled into a crater by a werewolf. Bye, Rodanu! Still, the wolves are glass cannon, the fairies are... just plain old glass, and when the line starts to bend, it breaks. Who gives a shit? We have a new area. Next up on FFTA2: A very spooky update.

China's quest for relevance is going great! Meanwhile, are Chile... are they literally going to fail to qualify? Can someone tell me what's going on there ??

roymbrog without comment - a lovely song tbh

Ideally, overhead, but only at home. Earbuds are the only way to go in public.

[spoiler=Update 9]First, a little foreshadowing - the fungus man isn't quite done with us. ... the scene ends a little before I'm ready for it, but either way Guinness calls her and she leaves. Straight back to Graszton. This is the next step - the far superior area control mechanic of A2. And... doing some research, we'll need to do the quest for this before recruiting begins in earnest. So we'll just race through this and then the frankly really boring process of Getting Our Lads begins in earnest. Ah, well. We'll live. And then Guinness drops the bomb... "Why are you helping me?" Cid fudges at first, but... ... okay, that was not expected. Three cheers for our spiky dad. Despite his best efforts to be a curmudgeon. Filler! Annoying fucking filler! That... bodes well. Good thing that legitimate trade organisations are keeping the peace out there, at least. There's only two lines before the fight starts here, and one of them is "Wow, there's a lot of them!" There's three bombs, two of these adorable tiny eyes (the bigger ones from FFTA1 appear like, twice, ever) and a fireflan. I intend to bring Caul until I realise I forgot to buy him a blade (as distinct from any variety of sword), since he class-changed. He's now a Mog Knight, a tough tank that hits hard and uses a good skillset that borrows a lot from fighter. So I substitute in Rodanu. He's still level 3. It Shows. Hey, why's that oil-glob getting close- blaaargh. This contracts Guinness with the Oil status, which makes the US Senate vote to invade him. ... And also makes fire deal more damage. This bomb has Critical: Quicken. So he automatically moves next when reduced to critical health. Guess what bombs are liable to do at critical health? That. It's blue magic, but I'm, um, not going out of my way to learn it. Critical: Berserk, on the other hand... on a mage... well, they're basically down to one guy, now. Aaaand it's over. FUCK. YES. Kaiser Knuckles are maybe the strongest earlygame weapon, not only statistically but in terms of teaching Air Render, aka 'do really good damage with no mana cost from 1-3 range acknowledging facing'. There's only like two lines of dialogue after that. You can go into town and do a non-Auction thing, but... well, we're here, we may as well. Ah, this is one of those graphical glitch dudes. As a final fuck-you that I forgot to even capture... it's our first auction, so the CP are waived. The filler wasn't even necessary. Looks complicated, right? Well, no. Thing is, they telegraph their moves. So it's pretty easy to just keep ahead of the curve. This did, however, take almost half of my good pieces. With four areas to be auctioned... I don't actually remember how to get all the areas, but it's Very possible. Represented by the soldier... Ah. Yeah. The bonuses, that's the thing. I want to be in second place at those points, and then I'll get a token worth five. If I play my cards right... I don't play my cards right. In fact, I completely fuck it up. We still win, but I then also fumble the fight for Aldanna and also lose, barely. Still, Zedlei is ours - I throw my two fives and earn a third in the process. Thing with the auctions is, even if they telegraph their moves perfectly (sad: pass, standing ground: 1, walking: 2, pushing: 3, screaming: 5) you really don't have a lot of time in between rounds. I apparently don't screencap proof of my partial victory - instead, have Adele's plans on medicine. Adele has a point. There's just one problem - this is, from memory, the wakeup call boss of the game. It's not these guys. It's really not these guys. There's just one little problem. HOW?! So, yeah, we run. We come up just short - winning two regions by one, losing Baptiste by one - but this is what really makes progress possible. We're awarded more tokens. Still... from here? The game begins in earnest. Next up on FFTA2: I t b e g i n s .

Strange and annoying. There's one potential fix I can think of on my end - making them cache.gyazo instead of just, well, gyazo - so I'll try it next update.

That's... bizarre, especially since you're the second person to have that issue. They're working fine for me, though, and it's the same client I've used in every LP I've ever done.

Dijon Mustard just wants everyone to cut a rug.

yeah it's not that ced is bad, since hawk is good and ced is better than hawk, but bigger numbers =/= usefulness, and the question is about usefulness

*wearily dons glasses, lights a cigar with a burning copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra* Well, clearly that means you do care, because, Anyway, Das Boot, English translation. Consolation prize to the Bible.

luminothe?

this guy PMed me like four months ago to bitch about something i said in 2011