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a few months ago my friend called me and told me she was moving back up near me from 7 hours south in the middle of nowhere and asked if i would help her because she couldn’t move the furniture by herself and the town was so small there was no moving company (there were actually only 5 or six businesses in the whole town including both restaurants) and she had no one else down there to ask.
And even though money is pretty tight for her, she told me I could name my price if I would help her, because it was so far away.
I told her she was a dummy for thinking i would take her money but that i would accept the traditional helping-a-friend-move price: a meal (i know she would feel wrong about herself if she didn’t do something for me in return, that’s just how she is) Tradition suggests pizza and beer, we opted for enchiladas and a margarita.
we crashed on the floor of the empty place and left back north in the morning - when we got back to the city three more friends met us at her storage place (the place she was moving into wouldn’t be vacant for a couple months) and we started to move all her stuff up to a storage room on the THIRD FLOOR (because large city storage places be like that)
we had just taken the first box out of the truck when the (only) lady working there walked by and told us they closed in an hour and twenty minutes, and she couldn’t stay even a little late because she had to get to her other job.
One hour twenty minutes. To completely un-jenga a large uhaul and re-tetris it back into a similar sized room on the third floor.
We all just, shared a look, took off hoodies, and got the fuck down to business.
It was actually.. I still cherish look we passed around. The tiny eyebrow quirks and chin nods. The eye glints. The bigger breath we each took as we prepared to kick it up several gears. That moment of wordless connection, when we all just silently agreed that we were damn well going to do the impossible and didn’t even waste the time it would take to say anything, just got to it.
And we did it too. Finished with exactly two full minutes to spare. And then we all went for dinner and drinks to celebrate. And my friend’s friends that came to help? Two of them were acquaintances/friends of mine already. Like I lived with one for a year a decade ago sort of thing. But this experience? Brought us all closer. Made myself a new friend too.
And the friend i helped move? She and I are closer than ever because of it.
When i left our storage success diner to go home, she asked me again if I was sure i wouldn’t take any money.
I said “I ever tell you when I was 22 I went down to Hollywood to try that scene out? Anyway ten months later, when I just couldn’t do it anymore, and needed to come back, I called one of my best friends and said i can’t do this anymore i need to come back.
You know what he said? He said: I’ll be there tomorrow. Not how much will you pay me, not what do i get out of it, not will you be able to cover my gas, just: I’ll be there tomorrow. Okay? You’re my friend. If you need help, I’m going to be there”
If helping someone move ruins your friendship, you’re doing at least one of those two things very wrong.
The idea that non-police lynchings ever stopped in the US instead of whites just becoming craftier (evil) about it is so weird to me like
Sure they ain’t picnicking at a public hanging anymore but you seen how many more missing posters there’s been the past few years in particular right? How so many Black and Brown children are just fuckin disappearing too and never making anything more than a Facebook missing post?
We just only hear about them when someone cares about them enough to set fire to everything until it gets noticed.
Yes. Mainly by law enforcement or people working with them. We watch us disappear into human trafficking and mass graves and we can do literally nothing about it besides hope one of our loved ones wasnt one of them when we get news they’ve disappeared.
The law doesn’t exist to protect Black people, it exists to kill us.
The issue became national news when families said they waited months for word about missing loved ones — only to learn their relative had be
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Persona 1 Resources and quasi-beginners guide (psp focused)
I plan on making my own maps of the dungeons in this game, as well as possibly my own comprehensive walk-through but for now, this is my post listing some resources/information that might help new players find Persona 1 more approachable.
I think this game is really incredible and I hope to ease some of the apprehensions people might have towards this game, and generally just provide some useful information.
I am by no means an expert so if anyone else familiar with the game notices I got something wrong on this post, let me know and i'll correct it!
Walkthroughs and similar
Persona 1 wikidot
Very old and not entirely finished but a very useful resource and one that I find indispensable myself. Contains a walkthrough alongside other very valuable information.
Notable Pages:
Recruiting Reiji - If you want to use Reiji as your 5th Sebec party member make sure to follow this. He's essentially a secret party member and has a somewhat esoteric unlock method.
Intro to demon contact - Worth reading in full but the 3rd chart underneath the "Matching the characters' conversation techniques and the demons' personality" header is worth having on hand while playing for the sake of easy spell card negotiation.
All the equipment pages but especially the Weapons one - The equipment pages list where you get equipment and who uses it. Shops don't update with new equipment, so you're stuck with whatever new shops carry. You can make do with just what you can purchase in terms of armor but in terms of weapons, especially the melee ones after a certain point you need to either use the casino or itemize max rank personas in the velvet room to get new weapons.
Skill tablets - List of purchasable single use items that can be used in battle to use a spell, or added as an item in fusion if a totem is not being used to add an extra spell of the player choosing that a given persona can get upon ranking up.
Gamefaqs Guide
I have not used this myself but a more in depth alternative to the wikidot walkthroughs and guides, make sure you are looking at the posts under the "Shin Megami Tensei: Persona" heading and not the "Revelations Persona" heading
Kouryakutsushin Maps
Japanese site so i'd highly recommend viewing it on either a browser that can translate full pages or with an extension that can do so. Maps for the full game. I consider this absolutely indispensable resource for some of the larger dungeons- particularly the one in the black market and after.
FAQS
Q: What do I play first, Sebec route or Snow Queen Quest?
A: Sebec is the main story and core game experience, where as SQQ is intended as a more condensed, more difficult side story for those who really want to challenge themselves. I HIGHLY recommenced playing Sebec first, and would recommend considering swapping to emulator for SQQ if playing on actual hardware because of the difficulty present in SQQ.
Q: Does this game have multiple endings (outside of the distinction between Sebec/SQQ)?
A: Both Sebec and SQQ have a bad ending
Sebec's ending depends on the players answers to Mai's questions when encountering her in the Lost Forest. Not answering correctly results in the bad end and loses the player access to multiple of the late game dungeons. I'd highly recommend pulling up a guide at that point even if not otherwise using one to ensure you answer correctly. If you fight a boss after talking to Mai, that means you've locked yourself into the bad ending, and need to restart from your last save if you want to avoid that.
SQQ's ending depends on if the player has 10 or more mirror shards before fighting the boss in the courtyard. If the player has less then ten they get the bad ending and lose access to the final dungeon of the route. I'd recommend having a guide pulled up to ensure you grab all the mirrorshards you can.
Both of the bad endings are generally just rather abrupt premature stopping points so i'd recommend aiming for the good endings on your files and watching the bad endings on youtube later if you're curious.
Q: Can I speed up the battle animations at all? Or battles in general?
A: Hitting start will swap the animations to quick mode until either you swap it back manually with start, or an in battle cutscene plays. You can swap back to quick animations anytime outside of cutscenes.
Auto mode can help speed up battles and i'd recommend starting to utilize it once you feel like you've gotten your bearings with the system.
On emulator I also personally like having a speed up button bound to somewhere on my controller or keyboard to help further speed things up sometimes.
Q: When should I start swapping out Persona's.
A: I think you can get pretty far through the game with just the base personas, I tend to start swapping out my party personas around the sewers/black market area of the game. Nanjo is a good candidate for an early persona swap though because Aizen Myouou is mediocre until you hit max rank. You do definitely need to swap out your personas as you progress and but it's not necessarily super frequently. Generally if a party member feels like they're under-preforming and they're the same level as anyone else and have a max rank persona then I'd start looking into fusing a new one for them.
Q: One or more of my party members are way over/under leveled compared to the rest of the party. Why is this?
A: Experience points in Persona 1 are distributed based on how much a given party member contributes to a battle, both in terms of damage but also stuff like support moves such as healing or buffs/debuff spells. Generally this tends to lead to situations where Maki as the main cleric gets all the exp, or Mark having the most limited reach with his weapons gets shafted in terms of exp division. If a party member is falling behind in terms of level an easy way to catch them up is to fight some of the easier encounters relative to your level and have the party member needing to level up do all the damage and guard/heal them with your other party members until theyre caught up. If they're only a few levels under the rest of the party this doesn't take a ton of encounters to get them caught up.
Q: What causes personas to rank up?
A: Persona's rise in rank depending on the amount of times they are invoked in battle. Persona's rank rises according to the amount of total invocations used on a persona without getting into some of the minutia of mechanics you need rough around 100-200 invocations to reach the max rank of 8, with you needing less invocations if a characters level is significantly higher then a given personas.
A persona invocation counts as a given persona using any spell, regardless of if it's necessarily "successful" or not. For example hitting an enemy with a spell it's immune to still counts as an invocation because the persona was invoked to use the skill, even if the spell didn't do anything.
Q: During SQQ, what order should I challenge the towers
A: On your first playthrough i'd highly recommend doing them in ascending difficulty, so Hypnos, then Nemesis, then Thanatos. This means you lose out on the majority of the ultimate personas, but I think it's the best order in terms of narrative and game play pacing for a first experience, and there's still other good high level personas you can use in substitution for the other party members ultimate personas.
Tips and Tricks
Encounter rate: this is something that drives alot of people away from the game but you can lower it using either the "clean salt" item or the "estoma" skill.
The level 17 persona Shouki is the first demon the player can fuse that learns estoma naturally, but if you use the clean salt item in fusion you can add estoma to that persona's set of skills it gains upon ranking up.
Using Moon Phase inheritance to gain powerful skills: Twitter graphic about a savescum method to get a powerful skill onto a persona my utilizing the way moon phases effect fusion. Of note to this is that it only takes 1 invocation of a persona for it to rank up.
Gem/Totem fusion: When you try and fuse a persona of any given arcana, you can use a gem as your fusion item to move up and down the list of personas when using the gems you can receive from demon negotiation.
If using a totem in fusion, one also only needs the spell cards to fuse something in the same arcana as the resulting totem persona. ie: if someone wanted to use Genbu, they would need the black tablet artifact to use in the fusion of two spell cards that would result in a temperance persona.
Using Mediarama: Mediarama does a significant amount more healing then one would expect from a mid-tier spell in this, enough that you can just use Mediarama the rest of the game once you get access to it.
Buff/Debuff stacking: Unlike more modern mainline smt games, moves that raise and lower stats can be stacked up to 3 times.
Access to Tarunda and Mediarama relatively early on has made the level 18 persona Phaleg a fan favourite to take through the game into the end. I'd highly recommend grabbing Phaleg if you can he's been indispensable in my playthroughs.
Spell cards as enemy avoidance: When you have a spell card in your inventory talking to the enemy that gave it to you in an encounter will get the enemy to leave the encounter without ending it, occasionally giving you an item as well. I'll often purposely acquire and keep on hand the spell card of an enemy I find difficult to deal with for the sole purpose of being able to avoid fighting it
Emulator visual: Idk where else to put this but if you want to get rid of the white lines around the character portraits that show up in the default ppsspp settings go to game settings> texture filtering> and change that from auto to nearest
Oh boy, a complex character who's a woman! I love messy characters who hurt everyone around them and continue the cycles that hurt them!! Can't wait to share this joy with fellow fans– why's everyone calling her a bitch
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