the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@avie well, you are pretty
-F

@avie what on earth is "zhat zhing" and why are like a quarter of the people we know mentioning it lately
-F

Zone refining is pretty neat
-F

@BatElite *sleepy cuddles*
-F

@BatElite 💚 batfriends
-F

hi you're all friends and i appreciate you
-F

why can't reality be more like pokemon, where rummaging around in your backpack changes the laws of physics
-F

@fluxom_alt I love how you draw faces
-F

@socks muper setroid
-F

@kat there's some real dissonance here between the level of detail on the armor and on the face
-F

dretroid mead
-F

@kat what happened to wow?
-F

@kat does it? honestly that's the one game in the series we've yet to complete, tried several times and always just petered out
-F

@kat yeah, but my point is that this was ancient technology, the world and civilizations weren't really... I dunno how to express it? It just feels like stuff like the warmech in I and the tower of babil in IV were the exception, whereas in VI you get things like magitek armor and figaro castle and stuff, and then VII has the entirety of midgar being basically a modern urban city but powered by magitech
-F

@kat To an extent, but it was VI that really went hard on the magitech

IV had a bit of it too but I feel like VI was where the series really got into it to the point that they ended up saying "we've strayed pretty far from our roots, let's do a pure fantasy entry" with IX (that was actually the thought process there, they specifically said that they wanted to make IX more pure fantasy after how sci-fantasy VII and VIII were)
-F

@kat actually jrpgs in general have kinda used the whole magitech thing a lot ever since around that time, final fantasy VI and Xenogears and stuff
-F

@kat has this person played a final fantasy game before actually probably not i guess but really come on, the series has been like that since VI
-F

@kat "oh look at these people *enjoying* their game because their game is *good*, unlike us who *hate* the game we play constantly"
-F