The Grail Games OOC III

What, you've never played Final Fantasy X?

Yes, recently our dog has passed away, and I've been trying to cope with it.

Nope. The only one I ever played was XII.

Oh, that's too bad.

That's one way to put it I guess.

I mean, losing a pet is upsetting, but I don't see any point in getting depressed over it.

Well, he's been apart of my life since I can remember. That's a long time, he went slowly which was heartwrenching to watch.

I get that it's upsetting. I mean, I cried when my fish died, and I was like 22. I'd had her for like three years, and she'd been with me for most of my years of college and traveled with me to different states when I was on my co-ops. I mean she was like my only companion during those college years that were very tough on me. And it hurt to walk past the place where her bowl would sit for months after. But it never stopped me from keeping up with everything. If anything, maintaining my normal routine always seems helpful when I'm upset, since it helps keep a sense of consistency and order. Shutting everything down doesn't help anything.

It helps for me. Glad you're sympathetic at least.

No, it doesn't. It doesn't help anyone. Trust me, I have someone on the other side of the wall from me with that mentality, and all it accomplishes is to draw out the misery until you decide to move past it.

You know, normally I would argue how it does help me. I just don't feel like it. I'm gonna finish my post then go.

There's no argument you could give toward it. It's understandable not to feel up to certain things. If you can't get the creativity going, don't post. If you can't muster the energy to be social, then don't go out partying. But don't just shut down completely and mope. That accomplishes nothing. Exercise to get endorphins up or something.

Welp I didn't get my 500 battle BTs, but Fayt is 3x the level of my other party members...

There is, but we'll just argue about it, when really you just can't categorize how someone deals with tragedy, so I'm just going to skip it all by leaving since I posted. See you tomorrow or something.

I'm starting to feel like replaying SO3, actually... but I don't want to level-grinddddddd. DX

There isn't. You're just being emotional at the expense of being logical, but that seems to be the default mode for post people, unfortunately. Bye.

I swear Luther plays too much ****ing pokemon. If I find one more treasure chest with berries inside...

And you don't really have to grind that much, unless it's the bonus content. I really feel horrible every single time that shattering window sound goes and my bonus gauge is broken.

Ah yes, the berries. Darn them.

I feel like you do... Especially to beat Berial and Belzeber at Sphere. It took me forever to grind up enough to beat them. For the most part, up until that point, playing as normal keeps you at a fairly consistent level to difficulty ratio. I think Moon Base required quite a bit of grinding as well to deal with that Proclaimer boss.

You can delete the universe, just as long as you delete the berries too.

Just remove your other characters and level up the one guy you usually play as. That's where most of the damage comes from, lol.

Lol. XD Well, the Magical Berries are useful, at least. I'm apparently stingy as hell even in fictitious worlds, cause in nearly every video game I never use items in my stock.

That's... well, that's sort of valid. But I like to be able to switch party members as they die off in battle (boss battles anyway), so having a rounded party is beneficial to me.

Prisma*Illya wrote:

I'm starting to feel like replaying SO3, actually... but I don't want to level-grinddddddd. DX

There isn't. You're just being emotional at the expense of being logical, but that seems to be the default mode for post people, unfortunately. Bye.

I was just going to leave, but honestly I am sick of you trying to get the last word. You have no idea how I shut down to deal with it. You just want to be right in an argument that I didn't even want to have. I appreciate the sympathies, and everything, but when it comes to an area that deals with feelings, and experience there are too many variables for you to even assume you know what is best for that person. Seriously, assumption is the worst thing for anything having to do with psychology.

Ditto.

And you know, nothing else in the game says '**** you' quite like having your Bonus Gauge break from an attack that doesn't make you flinch... and does 0 damage.

It has nothing to do with getting the last word, and I'm not assuming. I'm based on having the frustrating task of dealing with people, particularly family, who think they're coping with situations by shutting down and moping. The thing is, it's obvious to everyone but the person currently blinded by emotion that it doesn't help anything. Even the people who are moping know it and inadvertently admit it sometimes, but they just can't be bothered to override their feelings.

Oh yeah, that used to piss me off when I was grinding and had the x10 experience gauge, and it would break senselessly. You can't even restart to get it back, since turning off the game gets rid of the gauge.

Breaks if the character you're controlling dies...

Or more commonly, whenever an enemy lands a critical on you.

Well, it was always the critical hit thing, not the dying for me (at least during grinding). But the damage (even if it was a critical), was never usually anything big. Sometimes, it wouldn't even deal damage, and I'd stilllose it. So frustrating.

Btw, which character usually saves you at the Airyglyph fort from the Vendeeni? I got Albel the first time, but Nel every time after that.

Prisma*Illya wrote:

It has nothing to do with getting the last word, and I'm not assuming. I'm based on having the frustrating task of dealing with people, particularly family, who think they're coping with situations by shutting down and moping. The thing is, it's obvious to everyone but the person currently blinded by emotion that it doesn't help anything. Even the people who are moping know it and inadvertently admit it sometimes, but they just can't be bothered to override their feelings.

Oh yeah, that used to piss me off when I was grinding and had the x10 experience gauge, and it would break senselessly. You can't even restart to get it back, since turning off the game gets rid of the gauge.

That is family, you know family. Tell me how well do you know me? Like a brother, sister, or a cousin? You've been there to experience what they went through or know enough to piece it together. What have I given you to piece it together? That I've known him for a long time, and that he went slowly. What it doesn't tell you is the amount of times we rode in the car together past the horse enclosure by our home, and how excited he would be. Or how I took that memory, "shut down" with it, laughed at it again, and moved on to another one.

I usally go for Albel, since he's the only one I really like using out of the optional characters.

What time do you want to watch IT tonight, if you do?