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[Aklyon]

We're doing VLSM and RIPv2.

[warhammer651]

according to This thing, I live in the 1%

[JoshuaFH]

Straight up YES! I dominated in tonight's games of League Texas Hold'em! This places me at 72 League Points, securing me an insurmountable position on the scoreboard! I'm going to win the big prize, the grand prize for my 8 weeks of playing, a 50 dollar poker set!

It's not the biggest prize in the world, but I won it fair and square! I got it by winning! It will be my prized trophy!

I'm so happy that in the three games I played tonight, I placed 2nd in the first, and then took 1st on the last two. I went heads up with the same person in the last two games, and he made the same mistakes that led to his downfall in both. Very good games, I'm so happy tonight.

[Itnetlolor]

Just watched the new episodes Person of Interest with my mom, and despite being a new show and everything, and my first time watching it, I solved the case in the first 5-10 minutes. Maybe I read too much TVTropes, or I would do well in mob games or something.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I knew exactly who Elias (SP?) was from the beginning, and even pinpointed all the signs pointing to them in my head (as to not ruin it).

As I explained to my mom: If I were somebody that important, that's pretty much what I would've done.

Also played a bit of Arma-II finally, and am getting the hang of the game. In one challenge, I had to steal a tank. not only did I do it, I also shot down a helicopter with my rifle on the way and shot the pilots like they were clay pigeons upon ejection, and used the tank to shoot down the other chopper. Damn, I'm a good shot sometimes.

I'm apparently in the 49% (according to link).

[Bauglir]

I never realized how dark FF6 was until now, somehow. Espers are basically Dwarf Fortress mermaids.

[JoshuaFH]

I never realized how dark FF6 was until now, somehow. Espers are basically Dwarf Fortress mermaids.

Except not chained up and forced to breed for massive profit.

[Scaraban]

We're doing VLSM and RIPv2.

But you need to know VLSM to even make it through Cisco 1...

[Aqizzar]

I never realized how dark FF6 was until now, somehow. Espers are basically Dwarf Fortress mermaids.

Except not chained up and forced to breed for massive profit.

Only because the Empire couldn't figure out how they reproduce.  The other difference being that mermaids can't cause nuclear explosions with their minds.

[SalmonGod]

I never realized how dark FF6 was until now, somehow. Espers are basically Dwarf Fortress mermaids.

Really?... I think it's the darkest of all the FF games. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Attempted suicide, mass murder of sentient creatures to steal their powers, mind control, racism, teaming up with a guy who was planning to kidnap himself a wife, human experimentation (inducing severe megalomania in at least one character), total warfare through mass poisoning of a population, multiple counts of tearjerker encounters with deceased loved ones, multiple counts of child abandonment (especially Gau), terrorism (The Returners), and half the game takes place in a bleak post-apocalypse where anyone who slightly annoys the main villain gets his entire community destroyed by a giant laser...

[Duke 2.0]

 That's sorta like FF7.

 Although more than one of those aspects were unintentional.

[SalmonGod]

It is, I admit.  The major differences in my opinion being that FF6 manages to do it with much less cliched and wangsty characters, a more cohesive setting, a more cohesive plot, and more flexible/open-ended gameplay.  Materia is even a direct copy of the magicite concept, but dumbed down.

[Duke 2.0]

 I wouldn't say dumbed down, just different in approach. Less personal, which sorta works out for the message. Even the player doesn't feel emotion towards these spirits enslaved in eternal servitude. It's more interesting of a moral message, even if it doesn't impact the player as much.

 I'll agree that it doesn't handle many aspects as well, but they hold together well enough on their own. If you get meta enough about it all the unintentional junk suddenly become brilliant.

[Itnetlolor]

Okay, I don't know how I did it, but with a regular rifle (non-sniper), I managed to take down a helicopter from 250m-500m away. Holy crap!

I wasn't certain at first until I saw a big explosion in the distance moments later. Of course, this was a random skirmish, but holy crap! Mind you, nobody else in my squad was firing or anything either, and they have sniper rifles and long range missile launchers. I took out a chopper with a standard rifle in Arma II: OA. Spent no more than 6 rounds/shots on it. Albeit crosshair-assisted, but still; I would imagine nobody saw that coming.

I was a bit frustrated with how to respond to HQ about accepting a mission (forgot the right command to use (bad intel occurs)), so I shot down a random NPC chopper flying by. Bagged me a big one.

Spoiler: Same gun, same distance. (click to show/hide)

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198027446195/screenshot/613841548841224090

[Bauglir]

It is, I admit.  The major differences in my opinion being that FF6 manages to do it with much less cliched and wangsty characters, a more cohesive setting, a more cohesive plot, and more flexible/open-ended gameplay.  Materia is even a direct copy of the magicite concept, but dumbed down.

I would actually say the major difference is that FF7 wraps up with a basically happy ending, while FF6 leaves the world broken and robbed of magic, the one thing that could potentially have reversed the damage Kefka caused within the lifespan of anyone present at the ending. The only reason there's even a chance for a happy ending is that humanity had gotten used to life without magic anyway, but that was in a pre-apocalyptic world. The only lasting damage in FF7 is the deaths caused by the antagonists (and even then it was mostly Midgar that got shafted every time). Disregarding the sequels for the sake of this argument, obviously.

I don't think Materia was a dumbed down version of Magicite - if anything, it was more complicated, what with all the different types, the equipment interactions, and so forth. The major simplification in gameplay, really, was the lack of special abilities for the characters.

Anyway, I do agree that FF6 is among the darker ones, for all the reasons you listed. It's just something I'd never realized before - I had gotten acclimatized to the game before I even knew what a dark story was. That's what I meant by the "somehow".

[ein]

Spoiler: New life for old jeans~ (click to show/hide)