the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

like what are you *thinking*? The person prophesied to kill you arrives, injured and weak, and you just say "let's see how far he can go" instead of like, sending your strongest warriors to kill him while he's vulnerable? You're supposed to be an evil mastermind!
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The villains in Ys II are monumentally foolish

the game starts off, before you even get the intro with cool music, showing the big bad guy's second-in-command saying "We've lost all communication with Darm Tower (their main base on the mainland). What should we do about this Adol character?", to which the big bad replies "His bravery presents an interesting challenge. Let's see how far this hero can go."

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you ever find yourself mixing up Riesen (the candy) and Riedon (the resistor manufacturer)? No? Just us? Huh.
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Marjoram's Mask
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i'm sleepy okay

and yes i'm going to bed now
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putting this here so that hopefully someone will say something about it and we'll be reminded to look into it later
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apparently darksiders is a game we should try sometime, we hear it's a zelda-like with pretty good dungeon design
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doesn't look like they made an official one but i at least found one on someone's deviantart https://www.deviantart.com/k3ri1/art/CO-Baul-Plush-539191192
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i wonder if they ever made a Ba'ul plushie and if so where i could get one
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the filler text on this board in tales of graces appears to actually be at least sort of english and not just complete nonsense

I can make out "please pick up some chicken" on the one in the bottom center, and the one obscured by the character's head seems to say "able reclamation plan", then the one to the right says "a life's work should be easier to work et ell till get a look anyway" (no i don't know wha that means), and there's something across the bottom right two that i can't make out
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it's a good thing that pocatello changed their city flag, but it does mean we can't point to them as an example of everything you shouldn't do in vexillography anymore, at least not without specifying their old flag
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it occurs to me that when we first got into the Tales series, playing Tales of Symphonia as a kid, it was right after we'd been playing Ocarina of Time, and since that was the only other game in which context we'd heard the term "dungeon", we were expecting something way more interesting when we got to that game's first dungeon

it was a pretty big disappointment, both how short it was and how uncomplex it was, and it's a good thing we didn't just put the game down there
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...is squealing the restoration of lost squealth?
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turns out, "cheap as dirt" isn't actually all that cheap
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