I’m quite fond of communism, personally.

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  • Did you play in Spanish Spanish or in Latino Spanish? Because I’ve been messing around with languages and found some interesting differences between the two. And do you know how to make tables in Lemmy?, because I might post about it…

    And I agree, this game really grew on me too! I thought the main characters were tropey at first but they’ve endeared themselves to me since. I can overlook all the game’s jank because the boys are just that precious. I spent two hours running around in circles with them with illegible text and I’d do it again.



  • I’ve been playing FF15 and decided to switch the language to English out of curiosity. Gotta say, this might be a rare Spanish translation W. Some things that stand out:

    • every quest rhymes in Spanish while most don’t have any wordplay in English
    • Noct’s magic abilities are in Latin in Spanish, but have generic names in English
    • Many abilities have different descriptions so one or both of these languages must be wrong

    Also the summons are called the Sidereals instead of the Hexatheon, the royal weapons have unique names and are called the Spectral Chorus instead of the Armiger, and the Chocobo post is called la Chocoberiza (a play on caballeriza).


  • I recently finished the map-collecting sidequest in FF15 without a guide out of gamer pride hubris and it was not worth it. The final reward is just 50K Gil and a mythril ingot - basically nothing. And a thank you note too I guess.

    Judging by the extreme difficulty of finding everything, I thought the reward would be notable. I could feel the devs laughing at me though the screen for some of them. Man, if I had known ahead of time then I wouldn’t’ve tried so hard.

    Anyway if search engines somehow catch this comment, here’s a spoiler-freeish guide if you want to put in a more appropriate amount of effort into the search:

    • There are 14 map pieces total: 5 in Leide, 5 in Duscae, 4 in Cleigne
    • The scraps and maps are spread more-or-less evenly across the continent
    • With one exception-ish, no location hosts both a scrap of mystery AND a Sylvester map piece
    • You will find scraps exclusively near civilization. So check towns, scattered buildings, and ruins. Don’t check bushes and rocks and nature. Don’t go inside dungeons looking for scraps either
    • There is nothing in the Vesperpool swamp and Ravatough mountains
    • There is nothing within imperial bases or the army junk outside them
    • The Sylvester pieces will be pretty close to the exclamation point. Idk why the game highlights such a big search area; nothing was ever by the perimeter



  • Have you played any of the DLCs? The Prompto one gives you lore that really should’ve been in the main game and the Ignis one gives you an alternate ending that’s really touching. And the Gladi one gives you a topless outfit (very important).

    Also the final dungeon is the most absurd thing I’ve ever played, I can’t believe I’ve never heard anyone mention it! If you don’t know what Pitioss is, you gotta discover it for yourself. It’s absolutely ridiculous, an utterly deranged choice in a game already full of them. 15/10, wouldn’t change a thing


  • Yeah this game is full of strange choices - I played it blind so I didn’t know the point of no return was halfway through. I have gamer brain so I completed every available sidequest ASAP and by the time I was done, I was 50 levels above what’s recommended for the last few chapters. But apparently that’s how the game is meant to be played??? I literally forgot what the main plot was because of how much time I spent away from it. Vyv, Dave, and Sania each have more presence than the villains. And you have more chemistry with the beach resort chef than your wife hahaha

    I still adore the game though! As far as I’m concerned, the political stuff is just pretense for the road trip and the devs should’ve spent even less time on it.


  • Intel is building a $20 billion facility in Arizona with financial support from the US government. NBC News reported workers are on the construction site for “two 60-hour weeks followed by a 50-hour week for months at a time in the hot Arizona weather with no paid vacation time.”

    Many of these workers are coming from out of state and leaving their friends and families behind to live in temporary housing or hotels for months or years at a time. Josh Vitale, a superintendent for Hoffman Construction, the general contractor overseeing the construction of the Intel computer chip factory, told NBC News, “There’s a lot that goes into how stressful it is, not just physically, but mentally and psychologically … we have to realize that we are legitimately wringing the life out of people.”

    They’re making workers leave their lives behind for months at a time to toil in the desert and live in sardine cans. With no vacation. Yeah it’s real surprising that suicide is on the rise and no young people are joining the industry.


  • Recently finished Final Fantasy 15 and I have to hold back tears whenever I think about the ending. It’s been a while since a game impacted me emotionally and I’m devastated. The last chapter was like a knife in my heart followed by another followed by another.

    There’s still a ton of quests and postgame stuff left but to do them, you need to time travel back in the story and adventuring with your group just isn’t the same anymore after you know what’s waiting for them )':


  • The conception of a ‘universal right’ which assures to the peasant, to the Eskimo, and presumably to the Abominable Snowman, ‘periodic holidays with pay’ shows the absurdity of the whole thing. (…) What are the consequences of the requirement that every one should have the right ‘freely to participate in the cultural life of the community and to share in the scientific advances and its benefits’. (…) It is evident that all these ‘rights’ are based on the interpretation of society as a deliberately made organization by which everybody is employed. They could not be made universal within a system of rules of just conduct based on the conception of individual responsibility, and so require that the whole of society be converted into a single organization, that is, made totalitarian in the fullest sense of the word.

    Totalitarianism is when everyone gets paid holidays and benefits from scientific advances. thanks Hayek very cool i love economics