Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

i had FFXI on PC first than PS2
Always forget about the consoles
Fun times

#Make FFXI console friendly again#

I was exaggerating, Afania.

While nothing would describe China's closed off net as 'good', there are a lot of parallels with the Uk.

The end goal for the Uk wrt net policy looks a lot like China, imo.

Freedom of speech is already heavily diluted and people get sanctioned for saying mean things on social media. And no, not racism or actually illegal things, just being trolls and general 'net a-holes.

And this is in a country that refuses to have any form of national ID card because that is seen as too authoritarian.

The Just Stop Oil protests decided to hang it up and stop doing their stupid protests!! I wonder what recently changed that would trigger this??

Maybe the elite behind it just cut the funds

It's entirely possible this is actually funded by the oil industry (or people linked to it), if you protest something and are incredibly obnoxious and annoy people you have the exact opposite effect, and not only turn public support against the movement but fill the vacuum to stop actual real protest groups forming.

You just useful idiots to do the "work" of sitting on the road etc, plenty of those around.

Alternatively they may have been funded by USAID in some fraudulent way.

Can't egg a painting if you can't afford to egg your own plate. Yes I know it was tomato soup or them gluing themselves to ***or doing the most random obscure ***that solves *checks notes* nothing.

I'm more surprised you even saw it Draylo, to have an actual opinion on it.
I thought most of ffxiah was avoiding it.

PS > SOTN

PS2 > THPS 3

my cat is a big fan of thpsthps as well

My brother and I duo'd E boss in Sortie :D

It went pretty well!

We did ground floor minis with all 4 associated red chests, picked up all 7 A 100 chests, 3 blues in B, some of the browns, and A boss.

Then we went on down to E. Had to pull Botulus outta slimes into the west end so we didn't get trapped with Naaks. Weren't sure how long our E boss kill would take.

Botulus took a few. Seraph Blade and Leg Sweep ftw!

Then we got lucky Chaos and VII Fighter's out of Qultada on a slug, buffed at the same time, ported up to E.

Swapped Qultada out for Valaineral for some extra heals at start. Surprisingly with Embrava and Musa Regen, the trusts lived long enough that I got to go full gangbusters Mighty Strikes with Sylvie still alive, so by the time it started putting out puddles it was nearly half way dead.

I got hate locked on me, and Valaineral spat out one last Majesty cure before he bought the farm cause he won't move out of puddles. I salute you, third best healing trust lmao. Majesty is one helluva drug!

So I sat in my full 4k HP DT set and let the snot colored axolotl spit on me a ton while my brother proceeded to Immanence MB nuke then move his RDM in for some thicc Seraph Blade action. I'm pretty used to being the kiter, at least as far as puddle placement and range goes, so I was able to slide it around and occasionally get back in for some more weapon skilling action.

We actually managed to kill it before it ran out of puddles. Though it still did line the room with about 11~12 puddles.

Brother's thoughts instantly turned towards, "How much more galli can we squeeze out with time remaining after?" All in all, we made about 18k. :)

Sigh… so annoying…

When I was heading to my course assignment, then it almost yelled at me: this is locked because your schedule has expired.

I started to search for somewhere to renew it, but nothing.

Headed to help section, and it said “some” courses could have stricter deadline.

And that is it.

No information what I need to do if that was the case.

Now i will need to find answers online because the shitty help center didnt answer something so basic as: ok, i understand my problem, but how to solve it?”

I just hope it isnt anything so trash like: “you are locked forever”.

Btw, chatbots generally are super trash.

I dont remember a single one who actually solved any issues i could potentially have.

At best, chatbots are just a more convoluted and inefficient search bar.

I can see the business point on investing in chatbots to replace staff team, but what bothers me is how lenient people are toward that.

If i was someone influential, i would write a text telling how chatbots are just a way to fire support team members as well as forcing the users to look on their own for answer under the mask of “help”, when it just a search.

Best result I get from AI: I was harsh with it, then it said: "ok, gonna tell everything to my human"

OK, thanks for being useful for once.

30 minutes later, a REAL person came in, and the thing was quickly solved.

Dogs >>>>> Human >> IA

What are the full names?

PS > SOTN
PS2 > THPS 3

Managed to get the original playstation and PS2 emulator working
Not a big tech person

Working on building game libraries
Stepping away from FFXI for awhile

Imagine not knowing symphony of the night or tony hawk pro skater

Like not knowing bof or cod or mgs. Impossible.

I only ever had a handful of games growing up
An my parents where the ones that got them for me
Half of them I didn't even like playing lol

The worst part of the emulator is having access to literally every game ever. And trying to pick one.

There's just so many. Analysis Paralysis.

Highly recommend Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, man I envy you. Too many game recommendations. Enjoy your time off and have fun

So I was thinking all day after this topic about what ps1 rpgs I never got around to beating.

I remembered I played the ***out of saga frontier and hated saga frontier 2, so I was gonna watch a playthrough of it.

So I youtubez saga frontier 2 and the first result is remaster. It got a brand new remaster yesterday lul.

Just thought that's definitely random.

Saga Frontier 1 got remastered in 2021, had no idea either.

I like the RPG games the most are whatever there called
A few i can remember off the top of my head

PS > The Legend of Dragoon, Suikoden
PS2 > Valkyrie Profile 2, Marvel - Ultimate Alliance

My picks, excluding FF11 of course:

PS1: FF8
PS2: FF10, FF12, Xenosaga, Valkyrie profile 2.

I was mostly a PC gamer back in 2000 so PS1 had less impact to me than PS2 overall. But FF8 was far above everything else at that time for me due to the graphics and presentation.

During the course, it was asked to take a bias test from Harvard. It was some survey they are conducting to collect data about implicit bias.

And then I complied. i went there.

Then it was asked me to choose what topic I would like to have my bias evaluated. Race, gender, etc. I decided “President”. I thought, ok, lemme see if i have political bias (the president option was the closest to politic).

Then it instruct me to start comparing Donald Trump to… Thomas Jefferson.

Dang, I barely had american history during school, let alone remembering something from almost 30 years ago.

Plus the only thing I remembered about Thomas Jefferson, and remembered WRONGLY was: ah, Thomas Jefferson, the one who invented the lamp. Only after the test that I remembered it was Thomas Edison, and not Jefferson…

Anyway, I had no clue what even was the political alignment of Jefferson so figures this test was a bust from start.

Anyway, tbf idk wtf this test could measure my bias. Seemed like a test of reflex than anything else.

First part: click right if its a Trump image, or left to Jefferson image. Quickly.
Part two: click right for a positive word, and left for a negative.
Part three: now click right for a positive word OR Trump image, left for Jefferson OR negative word,
Part four: now we switched the sides to click.
The subsequent parts were they just switching for image, word or both.

Then the test ended and I got not feedback. They just thanked me for participating in the survey and that is it.

Whats the point, really?…

But the funniest part came in the end: the site asked me about my ethnicity. Ok.

Options: asian, european, north america, latin/hispanic, african, if I was white or black, etc.

I hit latin/hispanic. Then it opened another set of options: mexican, central america and some random countries. No Brazil.

There was a “no-option” option, where it asked me to manually type rhe country.

And I was like, wtf? Those harvard idiots want to survey about implicit bias, and simply ignore a country like Brazil? Isnt that being biased about who they expect to participate?

If they cant be inclusive in their survey, they should refrain in asking a question that clearly is MORE work if you arent their “target” public..,

Data is always useful. If they're lucky, it'll show that people have a pro-trump bias or correlate pro-trump to pro-sexism bias. If not so lucky, maybe they stratify it by a subgroup to get that outcome. Then they take it to media to claim their study proves Trump is only liked because of bias.

Or, if they can't find any subframe of the data to use, they just don't publish.

Anyway, finished the first course of the program.

More 6 to go...

I probably started this program back in octomber, but I ended favoring the Angular course and Palworld.

One of my favorite bits about Harvard ever was in Starship Troopers. In the co-ed shower scene (wooo Dizzy, wooo!) the latino guy claims he had to go mobile infantry to afford getting into Harvard.

It was the subtlest of digs at Harvard, because it implied he was smart enough to get in, but not smart enough to make a better position in the military than mobile infantry. Thus implying that Harvard is for dummies.

There are just so many good ps1 games, a lot of some of my most fondest memories. RE series, FF... The one I've probably played the most is Digimon world. They have an updated mod now that adds in digimon and diff story stuff, I feel like its way better than most of the ones done for resident evil which is also one of my favorites. They are doing a lot of cool figures for PS1 era stuff, most are custom/3rd party but even SE had been doing the bring arts line for FF7 and 9. Still collecting for some of my favorites.

Interesting angle, I saw that scene as a dig at how insanely expensive and vastly overpriced ivory league educations are.

I recently went to an army ceremony on base to support a friend who was a Sergeant and being promoted, and I've always wondered if there was this idea that the military encourages people looking down on alternative paths of career like universities, to make their own path look better and make their recruits feel more positive about joining, like a superiority complex. It's an effective way to increase the view of the military and the number of recruits so it does make sense if so.

It's absolutely a thing in academia, where there is a bias towards closed minded thinking and potentially looking down on military as mindless drones and too stupid to do anything with their minds so they just follow orders from others instead of think for themselves etc

And meanwhile both sides are just consuming the propaganda they are given against each other and risking echo-chambering their beliefs as each industry culture perpetuates it.


Data is also potentially useful to the individual as well, finding out if you have any subconscious biases you hadn't realized for example, against any sort of group of people one can imagine. (that same bias test exists for every sort of ethnic group, racial group, sexual group, political group etc) TO be actively aware of such a bias and prevent it from directing your decision making in the future to a degree one might not realize they perpetuate initially.

Since I am largely traditionally progressive and my wife is largely traditionally conservative, we end up constantly checking each other's biases and help make sure we don't miss other angles of issues that we become blind to.

The idea that military members are dumb comes from the fact that the military accepts pretty much anyone willing to join that doesn't score below a certain percentile on the ASVAB(varies by branch) and can pass physical readiness tests.

This means that a lot of physically robust but not necessarily smart people join the military. (though sometimes it's also just a lack of good schoolin' + circumstances where education isn't good in their region etc)

But a lot of military members actually take college courses while serving and finish up degrees with the numerous programs that are available to service members. This serves them whichever path they take, as Enlisted personnel wanting to make the leap to officer still need to get a degree.

Others still join to get a reliable bundle of money, often times to pay off student debt from college.

I actually encountered quite a number of literature or art majors who'd gotten a 4 year degree before joining. They needed to join to pay off debt, but also just to get stable work, as degrees do not necessarily materialize employment opportunities.

Only ever met a handful of guys that really looked down on academia in general, and they were dudes who'd joined right out of high school and it wasn't looking down so much as it was criticizing/making fun of/pumping themselves up. Saying things like, "If those idiots had just joined, they could be like me and have their degree and a fat bank account at the same time."

All in all, outside of the guys who make careers out of the military though, most dudes who join kind of envy those who never feel the need too. Especially on the high stress days.

From what Panta said, they didn't even give him feedback. So, it seems more likely they are fishing for a study result that they can use for some cause.

I don't disagree with the value of being aware of your own biases, though. Of course, there's a pretty big gap between knowing the bias is there and being able to effectively counter it in a way that doesn't result in a different bias.

Happy Trans day of Visibility, my friends