Immeasurable foolishness from I

Up until the Cave to the Sealed Gate I did two wonderfully foolish things:

  1. I didn't equip any espers. I didn't even know that was possible.

  2. I thought the Rage menu had the entire catalog of rages and only used the one rage I knew I'd acquired: Bomb.

This led to some horrid consequences. The fight with the boss in the train sequence was horrendous and used up a lot of my items and my sanity. I ran out of Hi-Potions in the Magitek Factory and during the crane fight put Gau on the Bomb rage. Without Cure all of my party died after defeating the ice crane, while Gau used Blaze continuously on the crane (healing it) and the crane did its thermal reaction thing and used a Fire attack (healing Gu) causing an endless battle loop softlock. I defeated the Cranes barely with Sabin alive by 4 HP.

Now I learnt... I could've breezed through. No wonder

Now I learnt my suffering was useless.

Now I learnt Gau wasn't a holy savior to all, but only to esperless me, even with most of his catalog inaccessible.

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u/The_RetroGameDude — 10 hours ago

Gau is good

He's not as bad as people make him out to be. He can be a Jack of All Trades when you need him to be. He can use Blaze or he can use Blizzara (I used Bomb and Veil Dancer for this) and he can become the most OP thing you've ever seen. A lot of people seem to ignore him but use him right and he's an absolute menace. He can mow through most enemies if you use the right rage. A bit of strategy is all you need to use him right.

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u/The_RetroGameDude — 15 hours ago

My D:/ and Downloads folder have fused. How to separate them?

I noticed my D:/ drive was empty so I decided to move my Downloads folder to it. Like an idiot I moved it straight to D:/ using the location tab in Properties rather than making a folder first. Now the two folders have fused, and I can't move anything else to the folder. Please help.

Info:

Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver N6000 @ 1.10GHz (1.11 GHz). 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor, 12.0 GB of RAM (11.8 GB usable), 113 GB of 593 GB used SSD, OS build 26200.8655

u/The_RetroGameDude — 7 days ago

Indonesia selling space interceptors

Interceptors that send missiles back to home country to go boom-boom. 0.1 econ for one missile deflection's worth. 'Why pay that much for one missile?' Your enemy's capital will go boom with even 1. They won't even wanna try. Cubesat-esque

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u/The_RetroGameDude — 8 days ago

What should we name the Indonesian-Australian war specifically?

Options:

War of the Oriental

Arbor War

Thalassic War

Papuan War

War of the East Indies

Southeast Asian War

War of the Two Alliances

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u/The_RetroGameDude — 8 days ago

New Indonesian National Symbols

Anthem : Hari Merdeka

Motto: Kebenaran, Kebebasan, Harapan

New flag name: 'Merah dua, putih dua'; inspired by the Majapahit flaag

New Pancasila:

>1. Keyakinan akan persatuan bangsa.
2. Keyakinan akan kemerdekaan Indonesia.
3. Keyakinan untuk menghormati setiap orang dan memperlakukan semua orang secara setara.
4. Keyakinan akan toleransi.
5. Keyakinan akan kebenaran, kebebasan, dan keadilan.

New Official Name: Democratic Indonesian Hamarchy

u/The_RetroGameDude — 10 days ago
▲ 2 r/PaxNRP

Day 1 of the Return of the King

Glory, glory, hallelujah, the King hath Returned.

  1. Do your actions.
u/The_RetroGameDude — 15 days ago
▲ 2 r/PaxNRP

"Fall silent, Mother of God, and don't weep so much; once more with years and times, once more it shall be yours" --- and so be it, the City has returned to Her.

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u/The_RetroGameDude — 15 days ago
▲ 2 r/StellarNRP+1 crossposts

Returns the King, with a newfound glory, yet still sheathed in those rags that took it through hard times, now turned gold.

So was thought PaxNRP, our glorious king, had fell.

He had, but not to his death. He travelled to the mountains west, the shores east, the caverns south, and the deserts north. The swamps northwest, the tundra southeast, the hill country southwest, the hot fields of grass northeast. And through it he learnt the ways of new lands.

Now returns him, shouting the battle of cry of freedom; now it's time to drink stone blind, PaxNRP fill up the bowl. Ho-all to the borders, PaxNRPers com down. With a tow-row-row-row-row-row, to the Return of the King.

Same stats, same rules, same time --- yet new. Returned ever more glorious.

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u/The_RetroGameDude — 16 days ago

Lari Aussie, Lari Aussie, lari, lari, lari!

Di Pasifik, setiap hari Jumat
Di Pasifik, berburu ular dengan giat
Maka di pagi Jumat aku bangkit berdiri
Dan mulai bekerja sambil bernyanyi:

Lari Aussie, lari Aussie, lari, lari, lari
Jangan beri Garuda kesenangan tinggi
Tanpa pie ularmu ia tetap berdiri
Maka lari Aussie, lari Aussie, lari, lari, lari

Lari, Aussie, lari Aussie, lari, lari, lari
Lari, Aussie, lari Aussie, lari, lari, lari
Bum, bum, bum, kapal perangmu telah mati
Maka lari Aussie, lari Aussie, lari, lari, lari

Lari Aussie, lari Aussie, lari, lari, lari
Sebelum meriam merah putih berbunyi
Perjuangan kami kekalmu abadi (untukmu)
Maka lari Aussie, lari Aussie, lari, lari, lari

O lari kelinci, lari kelinci, lari, lari, lari
Kau kanguru, berlari memang jadi keahlianmu sendiri
Lari kelinci, lari kelinci, lari, lari, lari
Pulanglah ke padang pasir tempat asalmu pergi

u/The_RetroGameDude — 17 days ago

What if Zheng He had established a small outpost on the Strait of Malacca to prevent the rise of Chen Zuyi again, and said outpost soon developed into a Chinese customs point for collecting fees on goods passing through?

This would, in my opinion, do the following:

It would legitimize Zheng He's fleet; with large sums of money coming in from Arab and Indian ships passing through to trade with China and most of Indochina, it would no longer be a drain on China's fiscal reserves and thus it wouldn't delegitimatize the fleet, preventing Hongxi's ending of Zheng He's voyages and Xuande's destruction of the Chinese navy and the isolation that would follow.

The Malacca Sultanate wouldn't rise as Chinese interests were at Malacca; without the rise of said sultanate, the East Indies would remain majority Hindu-Buddhist without the wave of Islamization following the collapse of the Majapahit. It would also mean there was no weaker power for the Portuguese to conquer in 1511, meaning that they wouldn't secure Malacca and thus wouldn't have a monopoly on the spice trade.

The Chinese would now have guns and cannons from trade with Europe, unlike what happened with their isolation, making them less self-centered and more on equal grounds. East Africa, home to states friendly with China, would still get Chinese resources and aid and would resist colonization more.

India would also be affected heavily. Without Portuguese control over Chinese trade, India wouldn't have the problem that allowed the Portuguese to blockade the strait to force coastal states into surrendering as they now had blocked their main source of income. With Chinese trade intact Portugal's advantage is much smaller and Indian resistance to them would be higher, preventing the colonization wave that would follow. Without the Portuguese precedent the British and Dutch would look towards the Americas and West Africa much more instead.

u/The_RetroGameDude — 20 days ago
▲ 12 r/aiwars

Changing my views following an incident

Following an incident which sorta shocked me, I'm officially changing my stance.

I'm now a...

Neutral...

Leaning pro.

Now what was this incident? The realization that my views were actually pro-AI with about 30% anti views. AKA I was considering myself anti for the sake of internet points. And I realized... I was radicalizing. I was starting to hate. My pro-AI views were being sidelined and I started to want to scream slurs at pros. I know it isn't inherently bad to be anti at all, at all, but I spend too much time in this sub and that radicalizes you. I'm glad I caught myself before going down the slippery slope and I'm doing this for the sake of the sanity of both me and strangers on the internet.

But now you can welcome me to the team. (Albeit I still hate the sheer generalization the anti community gets and DAIA)

u/The_RetroGameDude — 20 days ago