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whenever you ask your friend who’s really into JRPGs “hey which one do i start with is the newest one fine” they always go “no, what you gotta do is head on over to ebay and look up the entry that completely bombed commercially. You’ll see that it goes for $800. Close ebay. Download an emulator for a console no younger than 17 years old. Download the ROM, and also this laundry list of various tweaks, retextures, and QoL tweaks. Pull up this exact spoiler-free guide put up a decade ago from GameFAQs, and you’ll experience the best game this series has to offer.” Like???

starredforest

And they’re right

prokopetz

Don’t forget that you specifically want the unlocalised Japanese ROM so that you can apply a fan-made English translation patch published in 1998 by a guy with a dick joke for a screen handle because the official localisation was delayed for 20 years due to licensing issues and totally butchers the script by removing all the late 1990s pop culture references.

mclennonyaoi

i think it’s funny when someone acts really angry about something you say online. could be whatever. and you check their profile and go. oh wait. you’re literally 14. nevermind. talking about this with you is like 100% useless. and they go “my age has nothing to do with this” like actually your age has everything to do with this. when you are 14 literally everything is influenced by how fucking 14 years old you are.

da-riya

whatsapp-and-chill

She got talent

the-gayest-dovah

This didn’t go how I expected and I’m happy it did

wulfhalls

me contemplating the human condition

spnblog69

hawkatana

Can we just get this instead of Velma?

whynotfabulous

Being followed by a car for 2 turns in the city: “I’m about to be murdered. Let me call my mom and write my will because this is it”

Being followed by a car for 6 hours on country highways: “The relationship between Blue Subaru and I is beyond compare. We’re family. My road brother.”

You get it

Sticks and stalks pushed into muddy lake bottom, Andy Goldsworthy, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1987)

twistoftheknife

in the club freakin it in a sensitive style

weepingwidar

Oda Iselin Sønderland (Norwegian/Irish, 1996) - Krokus (2021)

geopsych

Riding around the roads right now it’s like this.

patroklos52-deactivated20250724

In 1909, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll noted that every animal exists in its own unique perceptual world — a smorgasbord of sights, smells, sounds and textures that it can sense but that other species might not. These stimuli defined what von Uexküll called the Umwelt — an animal’s bespoke sliver of reality. A tick’s Umwelt is limited to the touch of hair, the odor that emanates from skin and the heat of warm blood. A human’s Umwelt is far wider but doesn’t include the electric fields that sharks and platypuses are privy to, the infrared radiation that rattlesnakes and vampire bats track or the ultraviolet light that most sighted animals can see.

The Umwelt concept is one of the most profound and beautiful in biology. It tells us that the all-encompassing nature of our subjective experience is an illusion, and that we sense just a small fraction of what there is to sense. It hints at flickers of the magnificent in the mundane, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. And it is almost antidramatic: It reveals that frogs, snakes, ticks and other animals can be doing extraordinary things even when they seem to be doing nothing at all.

~ Ed Yong, NY Times Opinion, 6-21-22