megane_kun
@megane_kun@lemm.ee
Just an ordinary myopic internet enjoyer.
Can also be found at Lemmy.world and Kbin.social.
- Comment on You can buy now, pay later for weight-loss drugs: Here's what you need to know 1 week ago:
I remember coming across a study that has a fairly different conclusion. Of course, not having any caloric intake is a sure-fire way to lose weight, poverty limits people to cheap and calorie-rich (but not nutritionally rich) foods.
Not the article I remember reading, but here’s a writeup by the WHO about poverty and obesity: who.int/…/23-05-2024-the-inequality-epidemic--low…
Dr Martin Weber, Team Lead for Quality of Care and Programme Manager of Child and Adolescent Health at WHO/Europe, said, “The affordability and accessibility of healthy food options are often limited for families with lower incomes, leading to a higher reliance on processed and sugary foods, which can have detrimental effects on adolescent health.”
In my part of the world, poverty food has for the past few decades been instant noodles, on rice. Carbs on carbs. In my worst days, I managed to get by with just crushed junk food (think, the cheapest doritos-like chips I can afford) on rice (one serving for 0.10 USD).
- Comment on If you are ever feeling like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there are American lawyers and judges who have spent many years studying US constitutional law. 2 weeks ago:
Those among them lacking in morals would make bank (or influence, whatever is afforded to them) justifying that government’s actions according to US constitutional law.
- Comment on I post comments like AAA studios release games, I decide they are done when they are full of errors and missing key aspects that make the whole thing make sense 5 weeks ago:
- Publish prematurely in an attempt to take advantage of the momentum.
- Notice that there are grammatical, spelling, and typographical mistakes.
- Edit, attempt to explain the edits, while also introducing more mistakes.
Rinse and repeat.
It’s okay if there are patch notes, right? Right??
- Comment on Worry stones were a proto fidget toy 2 months ago:
For those people like me thinking “WTF is a worry stone?”:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worry_stone
Worry stones are smooth, polished gemstones, usually in the shape of an oval with a thumb-sized indentation, used for relaxation or anxiety relief.
Something one would fidget with when worried, I suppose.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 3 months ago:
Oh! Forgot which event happened after which other event in that long cutscene after the final boss battle.
::: spoiler
I thought Squall met the younger Edea after receiving Ultimecia’s powers. I only remembered the fact that Squall implanted the idea of SeeD into Edea, but I couldn’t remember how exactly it happened.
As for Rinoa, back when I first played the game, I was a bit younger than Squall is, and Rinoa annoyed the hell out of me—far more than I got annoyed with Selphie, supposedly the annoying one. Younger me would have preferred if Squall fell in love with someone else, heck, even Seifer would have been a better love interest for Squall as far as younger me was concerned. I guess then, their love story worked nicely, and younger me was just too stubbornly edgy to appreciate that.
I think Laguna and Raine’s love story resonated with me far better because it’s far less “abrasive” and in-your-face. It might be a more bland and ordinary love story, but it’s a nice foil to the main love story between Squall and Rinoa.
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- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 3 months ago:
That last sentence in the first spoiler is more or less my take on her situation.
FF8 spoiler
I saw Ultimecia as more of a tragic character than someone who really wanted power for its own sake, which is why I don’t really see her as wanting to be a god. She just wanted a way out of the time loop. As you’ve said: she went mad from repeated (?) failure. Coincidentally, I thought Squall, at the very end, could have had ended the time loop. In that cutscene after Ultimecia’s defeat, as he was wandering back to his own time, he met a much younger Edea, who has then just inherited Ultimecia’s power. He could have chosen not to tell Edea about SeeD at this point, but I don’t think he’s aware he was talking to that Edea he knew (even though I think the surroundings should have sufficiently clued him in).
FF8 B-plot spoilers
I found Squall falling in love with the daughter of Laguna’s first crush to be a nice little thing. I also liked Laguna far better as a character, and his love story with Raine a far superior love story than the main one. I think he really fell in love with Raine, but his fatherly love for Ellone far outweighed it.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 3 months ago:
FF8 spoiler
Was Ultimecia characterized as (a) god, or wanting to be one? I think Ultimecia wanted a world that consists of only her, hence she could be considered a god in her own world. She succeeded until the power of friendship and love defeated her but …
I don’t think it counts under what I understood the prompt in the OP is all about. But then again, it’s been a while since I last played that game, and I hardly paid much attention to the story (got too icked out by the love story). Cool game mechanics tho.
