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I originally believed Sin was created as a weapon of vengeance by Yu Yevon, but I've come to question that based on small details in the game and Ultimania guides. In-game Bahamut's fayth implies that Yu Yevon has become fairly mindless, and is using Sin merely as a means of survival (by...

Lulu says at one point that even Chappu told her she "always looked grumpy." She was always a sober person, although I think she was more serious after the death of her first summoner and Chappu. She remembered losing her parents to Sin at age 5. She was obviously fairly intelligent and...

Jecht very much DOES become a fayth. In one of the flashbacks in the Zanarkand Dome, he turns to Braska and says, "Make me a fayth." Zaon even has a fayth statue. So, oddly, does Seymour's mother: she also became a fayth of the Final Summoning for Seymour, but he refused to use her to defeat...

I wouldn't call it the best, but I appreciated the baroque style of setting, politics, and plotting on this one. It felt like Squeenix was making a conscious effort to cater to our brains, not just our eyes and guts. Instead of dumbing things down (hello, X-2), it gave us some broad...

Genesis Awards for Final Fantasy Fanfiction Hey folks. I've been absent for a long time, so I hope this isn't spamming, but I'm trying to get the word out to Final Fantasy X fanfiction writers and readers. The Genesis Awards for Final Fantasy VII Fanfiction is holding its annual awards. This...

About an hour. It's not a very big pumpkin (note fake-o battery-powered tea light inside).

Hey, folks. Remember my Snowcobo, snow Auron and snow Yuna from last Christmas? Well, it is time for me to try a pumpkin. HAPPY HALLOWE'EN! I wonder if any of my trick-or-treaters will recognize it.

Shu. Pedophilia is not the same drive as homosexuality. It is NOT. It causes some sick individuals to prey on CHILDREN. Some of them gravitate towards children of the opposite gender, some to children of the same gender. A woman I adored, the daughter of two lesbians, was straight. She...

I'm a mix of these folks: • Maechen. Longwinded scholar who bores people to death. • Penelo. Ordinary lass, dependable and perceptive, but not exactly heroic. At times I verge on Shelinda weenie-hood. Rarely, I manage to be a mother bear, protective of those under my care, intelligent, and a...

FFX-2 is a very mixed bag. A lot of it is extremely silly, and there's a big chunk of the game where I tend to scream, "Auron sacrificed himself so Spirans could be IDIOTIC TWITS?!" The game designers seem to be convinced that the best way to make a game for female gamers is to have lots of...

Like Mandi says, this footage is from the early 2000 demo of FFX, when it was still under development. Here's some early screenshots from January 2000 (source: RPGamer Screenshot archive) Look awfully familiar, don't they? Again, this was from demos of the FFX game engine in Jan...

I just realized that urlesque, the website sponsoring "A Day Without Cats," is part of AOL. Do you know how many HUNDREDS of AOL "Free Trial CDs" I personally had to recycle as coasters or throw away? How many BILLIONS of those "free trial" CDs were mailed around the globe in the 90s? I wonder...

You know, AOL should've died about 10 years ago. Their latest stunt is to declare 9/9/09 "A Day Without Cats." About 40 websites and blogs have signed up. Their goal: to ban ALL cat photos, videos, and humor from being shared, uploaded and discussed on the web today. Normally, I would not be...

I'm not worried about swine flu. When the current strain of swine flu was first discovered, there were some troubling signs: it seemed to be unusually contagious, and it seemed to be attacking young people disproportionately. That's the same pattern as that awful 1918 flu that killed more...

I still haven't forgiven Square for forcing Lulu to go through 9 months of pregnancy in a corset. CURSE YOU, LAZY ANIMATORS. She'd have looked great in something loose and flowing. Poor woman.

The Espers in FFXII take a lot more effort to master. My parents -- both in their 60s -- have gotten very good at using Espers wisely. There are strategy guides out there which can help you learn to use them well. I think the problem with FFXII is that there are so many different ways to win...

Mandi Pandi: my use of the word "relationship" was vague: I meant familial, not romantic. To rephrase my question: GIVEN that cousin-cousin marriage is not considered incest in Japan, I am curious which of these three possibilities explains Rikku's "Sicko" line: 1. Rikku was calling Brother...

Poot, I just went and played to see what the prize was and logged in to report. I will say I had to go into overtime to win this time, which means more luck involved than usual. The key is that Abus (right forward) is a total lame-ass, so all you have to do is pull him out of position, opening...

Welcome to the world, people! Incest is defined differently in different cultures, and has been defined differently even in western cultures at different time periods. In some cultures, it's considered incest for a brother to marry his brother's widow. In others, it's considered obligatory! In...

I used to have trouble, but now I almost always win the first blitzball tournament. I've decided giving Tidus Sphere Shot rather than Jecht Shot is actually more effective, since you have so little time before Wakka comes in to use it. But it takes more knowledge of how to move him to avoid...