Justin

Which movie? The Spirits Within or Advent Children? AC obviously comes directly after FF7, and Spirits Within fits in a little after 8, when technology was at it's peak. And yeah, Spirits Within was a pretty crappy movie.

So, I'm minding my own business at an internet cafe', surfing the net. The person next to me looks over and starts a conversation. Now, I don't know this guy, yet I've seen him here several times as I come. Him - "Hey. Hey! I'm talking to you." I glance out of the corner of my eye, letting him know I've acknowledged him calling me. "Do you even have a life?"Me - "What?"Him - "Do you have a life?"Me - "Of course I do. I'm sure if you check my pulse, you'll feel a heartbeat."Him - "That's not what I meant. Do you have a life outside of computers?"Me - "Of course I do."Him - "Oh really? Then tell me about it."Me - "I've got a question: Why would you even care about my life outside of what little you know?"Him - "I don't have an answer to that. Maybe I just care about my fellow airmen (co-workers)." I go back to minding my own business, hoping that he comes up with a better answer than that. He then speaks up after a moment of silence. "So, how about telling me about this life outside of computers?"Me - "I'm not going to answer the question."Him - "What was that? You don't have an answer?"Me - "No, I feel as if I don't have to answer your question."Him - "I think you don't have an answer to the question. You don't have a life outside of computers, do you? You really need to get a life."Me - "Assume what you will of me, despite how little you know." He turns over to another person and starts having a conversation with them and eventually gets on a computer himself. Now, the thing that ticks me off about this whole thing is how this complete and total stranger walks into my life and makes an unjustifiable claim that my life is pointless, based soley on everytime he's seen me is on a computer. Truly, the only time I've ever seen him is on a computer as well (namely one computer in the entire cafe. He just has to use this one particular computer), yet I didn't. It just irks me so that he made a judgement call on me through ignorance. Truly, I have my own part to blame (denying the key information to clearly show I do have the "life" he seems so interested in knowing about), but even so, I'm not exactly going to share my life story with any random person who walks up.

Alright, so I have to go to the bathroom. I have to take a Poop more specifically. Now then, here comes the rant. If there is anything more painful in the world than giving birth, it would probably be taking a Poop. Why must sitting my butt on a freezing cold toilet seat and then taking the most god awful Poop that burns my butt with the righteous fury of thirty hells rolled into one? Now, I'm not prejuidice against normal, lumpy Poop. I'm talking about the Poop that comes shooting out of my butt at 300 mph. Not only does it burn through my hole as it comes flying out, it burns my butt for the next few hours. Don't even get me started on the smell. Gosh darn, if anything smelt worse than this kind of defication, it would be the sweet, soury smell of ripe poop when I'm sick. And the mess. I really hate it the most when the Poop shoots into the bowl then pulls a 180 right back at my butt with the added pleasure of toilet water on my cheeks. Do I wipe? Darn straight, but since the Poop has a way of smelling so horrid and sticking to my hand to the point of which I have to bathe that hand for several hours, with the added pleasure of trying to cover the smell up with some form of stink remover drives me up the walls.

On http://www.nuklearpower.com/, the site of the famed 8-Bit Theatre, you may or may not have seen the Twinkin Out column, devoted to all think geeky, including Final Fantasy. Well, a while back there was a discussion about 1. the origin of Gogo from FF6 and 2. the timeline of Final Fantasy. Even though the Final Fantasies SEEM to be unrelated, I sent a letter which details how the FFs could be related to each other. Here it is: Now, Gogo is most definetely not Daryl. For reasons previously stated (Gogo's masculine. Daryl's not a mime. Daryl would have recognized Setzer or vice-versa) he couldn't be. However, what if he was Daryl's son? This would both explain not knowing Setzer and how Daryl's crash was involved. My theory is this: Daryl crashed on the island and survived, impregnated by Setzer from a week or so ago. She abandoned her ship and took refuge in a cave, which I'll explain later. When the wreck was found, everybody assumed her body was burned to ashes in the crash, so they just buried the ship and called it Daryl's tomb, called so because Setzer named it after her, but allowed other's to be buried there as well. There are other graves clearly seen in the tomb. Daryl managed to survive long enough to nurse her child until he was old enough to fend for himself. Then the apacolypse came and Daryl did not surive, but her son, Gogo, did. The cave, actually being the zone eater, awoke from hibernation, and started to move Then the 'whatevers' which try to knock you off the bridges in the video game, let's say they're goblins, also had a settlement within the cave prior to the apacolypse, thus explaining the switches, bridges, treasure, etc. inside the cave. Gogo had to learn to survive, the easiest way he found was mimicing the goblins and integrating with their society, and wearing the shawls to disguise his human form. Thus he mastered the art of mimicry and when the adventurers find him inside the deepest reaches of the cave, he withdraws his disguise, keeping his shawls since he's used to them and they're his only clothes. Gogo wouldn't know who Setzer really is, because he's never seen his father before. Now as for the other theories, his alternate self in our dimension could have been Adlai Stephenson. He couldn't be an esper because he was still standing at the end, although the espers didn't really die in my opinion. As for FF5, not all bosses are monsters. But at the same time, I don't think Gogo was the same one as the boss in FF5. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Gogo probably adopted the name from hearing about the boss in FF5, since the mimicry fit his fighting style. I don't think they could have been one in the same, because it contradicts my timeline. Ok, now for the tough part. When researching the Final Fantasy Timeline, you have to keep in mind all the all the constants: The level of technology (particularly the airships), the summons, moogles, chocobos, magic systems, and most importantly the second moon, which I believe is behind almost all the evil forces in Final Fantasy. Now I believe the order goes like this: 9, 2, 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, X, X-2. I left out 3 becuase honestly, I've never played it. Final Fantasy 9 started first, as the beginning state of the world. All the kingdoms are at peace (until Kuja shows up at least). The mist is what produced all the monsters, which came from the Iifa tree, which originated from Terra, which is the second moon we see later. The mist also produced the first chocobo, which explains why there's only one in the game, and the only other ones are in dreams. Kuja and the mist are designed to weaken the races on Gaia, so that Garland can proceed with his plan which is *CENSORED SPOILER*, making Garland the first Lunar. The one crystal you see created the world, and made four elemental shrines to govern it's laws. When the shrines were opened to corruption, the elemental fiends were born. They were previously guardians of the crystals, but Kuja corrupted them to become evil. Now airships are common because of the mist, although steam power is in development. Eidolons, the summons, are actually divine beings who can be called forth like angels. However, only summoners, a specific race, can summon them, and they use the jewels for focus to bring forth a specific eidolon. This is why Eiko can use common items like the ribbon, and a phoenix pinion to summon eidolons. Moogles were common, and wise. Their purpose in life was to create save points to make traveling easier and safer, so until one was developed, they did all the saving themselves. When Kuja released Pandemonium, the moogles managed to get inside and loot the save points so they could study the technology. Also the black magi origins are revealed, who probably intermarried until black magi and humans were basically one and the same. Now when FF2 comes around, which I'm only halfway through so bear with me here, a sorceress nearly levels the world with her power and armies, thus destroying the kingdoms and concealing most of the important places on Earth, the elemental shrines for example. There are still airships in use, but after the war, I'm guessing the rest were either destroyed or too damaged to use. There are no summoners in the course of events, although they might exist somewhere, so there are no summons. The moogles probably dug underground during this point to escape the war. After FF2 comes FF1. Tiamatt and Kraken as stated in the game have destroyed most of the world, leaving only a handful of kingdoms left. Now as these events go by, the major geological formations change due to the forces at work, which explains the different world maps in each game, and the kingdoms' complex politics gets their names changed repeatedly. Now the one airship left is buried in the desert, which possibly crashed, but didn't get damaged that much. Then the elemental shrines are rediscovered because of Zidane's quest to find the mirrors to reach Terra, and the four fiends from FF9 attack the crystals becuase Kuja corrupted them and now instead of protecting the elements of the earth, are trying to destroy them. Garland the knight is not the same as the Garland from FF9, but is probably the reincarnation of him, and just gets happened to be named after the shiny stuff on the Christmas tree. The dwarves start building their homes deeper into the earth, lunar sages have come down to see what's going on and to measure up the strengths of the world, and the one village of people who only speak music are probably namingways from FF4. When FF4, comes around, the kingdoms have situated themselves around the elemental shrines to protect the crystals. The underground dwarves probably found a lost moogle city. The moogles probably created the Bab-el Tower, Giant, 4 backup crystals in case the 4 from above were taken, and a way to their homeland of eidolons. Moogles are lesser eidolons, and they can sometimes be summoned in some FFs. The Summoners, now known as Callers, have been rediscovered, but are seen as a threat and are mostly wiped out. Golbez and Garland could be incarnations of each other, since they're both Lunars, as could KluYa and Kuja. Since the discovery of an airship in the last era, engineers have been competing to build the most and best airships. The Big Whale could be the remains of the Dreadnought from FF2. The Eidolons, through the gate which the moogles made, may now be made physically manifest on Earth, (the name changed from Gaia to Earth somewhere in there) as well as be summoned. Chocobos are now an entire species, which are easily domesticated. And the moogles have finished their savepoint prototypes. Although the second moon is supposedly expelled at the end, it will probably come back later. In FF5, the world has gone soft, so Death comes down from the second moon and paves the way for his invasion by shattering the crystals. These shards are able to be used to give job classes, but later are discovered as the first magicite. The eidolons are still manifest. Since airships are useless due to certain elements being destroyed with the crystals, they're dismantled for better use. FF6 has people exploiting magic for power, which revives the world, but also leads to the War of the Magi. The second moon falls to earth and becomes the eidolons, now called espers, home. The 3 gods which govern magic are Chaos (ff1) Ultimecia (ff8) and X-Death (ff5), Espers are hunted down and extracted of their power for the people, so all the other non-human races are hunted down. Elves and dwarves probably died out in some grudge war between the two. When Kefka tore apart the world, he released hordes of monsters which explains the stranger monsters in future FFs. The only two airships belong to Setzer and Daryl, whose ancestors, "took a chance" by keeping the airships. At the end, the magicite is destroyed, but not the espers. The espers are divine beings and can't be destroyed, but they can no longer manifest themselves physically or otherwise because there's no magic left. The first weapon is born by the apocalypse: Atma. The weapons are probably super-evolved espers who grew beyond human control. The save points by the moogles have reached a new perfection. In FF7, there's no more magic to keep the world going, so the world is slowly dying. Desperate for power, mako energy is discovered by harvesting it directly from the earth's life-force. The Lifestream as it is called is from the one crystal mentioned at the end of FF9, in order to keep the world going. However, humans selfishly harvest as much of the force as they want. The industrial revolution started in FF6 reached great heights in FF7, with whole cities machines and weapons. With Mako energy, materia is manufactured, and at first equipped in guns. Howver, the guns only act as souped up paintball guns, explaining the low damage of guns, but the magical properties can still be lethal. Guns being an ineffective force, Shinra, the monopolozing family of Mako energy and therefore rulers of the world, fuses materia with weapons and armor greatly enhancing the powers of their weilders, and later fuses it directly with humans, creating such beings as Sephiroth. The second moon is probably Meteor. Jenova is an evil Lunar. The Ancients were good Lunars who lived on earth, but then were wiped out. Through the magical materia, the summons were once again able to enter the world. Sephiroth also releases the Weapons, all of them. Chocobos become extremely popular to raise, train, race, ride, etc. FF8 reaches the pinnacle of technology, but at the same time begins an evironmental movement inspired by the Lifestream Crisis in FF7. Instead of manufacturing materia, magic is allowed to flow freely through the planet and one's body, getting rid of a lot of the harmful side-effects in FF7's materia. The lifestream flows are cultivated into draw points and Espers, now known as Guardian Forces, are able to manifest themselves anywhere. Airships aren't really used because of the environmental damage they cause. The one city able to make airships that are safe, Esthar, closes itself off from the rest of the world that takes place from another war earlier. Lunatic Pandora is a chunk of the moon, and the second moon produces the Lunar Cry as a means of invasion. Chocobos are nearly extinct and exist in only a few forests. Moogles have evolved to Shuumi, who evolve into Moombas. Everything would be hunky-dory if not for Ultimecia a sorceress from the future, who was driven insane by the loss of her love. She controls sorceresses in the present, has lots of GFs by her side, and wishes to destroy all of time. SeeD is created in order to battle her, and after it wins, SeeD disbands. Finally FFX. The story is pretty well-explained, and basically the technological worls was destroyed by Sin. Yu Yevon, tha last Lunar, managed to succeed in taking over the world and became the center of his own religion. Magic is still ingrained in some humans so Black Mages like Lulu exist, and other times it naturally solidifies to create spheres, which are similar to materia but not as deadly. The Moombas evolve into Ronsos. The second moon is the Farplane, and Yu Yevon creates a ritual that turns humans into the only possible channels for Espers, now called Aeons, to manifest, thus making the Aeons his slaves until Yuna comes along. I could stop there but why should I? FFTactics would fit in just between FF5 and FF6, right before the Industrial Revolution, and the shards of the crystals would be used in the artificial summoner horns so that they could be used. The Zodiac Demons are actually the Weapons, which explains why not all the demons are defeated. FFTacticsAdvance would be just before FFX, since the world is fairly technologically modern until the book changes it. And for the record, the reason Red Mages use the color red is not because it's a combination of Black and White magic. It's because the Red Mages are versatile in every magic and skill, so they express their individuality as being Red Mages. which really doesn't explain Blue Mages though....Anyone got an explanation for those? Discuss. Because I know someone is going to accuse me of ripping this from another site or something, I'd like to make it very clear that this is all written by me, word for word and the only place is should be posted is on http://www.nuklearpower.com/ in the original letter that I sent in under the username DiscipleofAuron and my own personal web-page. If there is still debate on if I did not write this, disable the credits I gain from it, since I never posted it for that reason, only the discussion.

You want a simple walkthrough on how to make a MMORPG? Erm...yeah. Good luck finding one of those. For starters, you'll need a ton of resources (remember, copyrighted material is strictly illegal, so no taking from WoW or whatever). Next, you'll need a serious team of advanced coders. No script kiddies here, if you want a real MMORPG. After a few years of insanely dedicated work, you'll have to pay for dedicated servers, web space, bandwidth, even more coding... So um yeah, good luck?

Goose bumps also form when a person experiences strong emotions like fear or joy.

I don't really see it, and even if it was there, what would a random formation of islands have to do with evolution? o_o

If she's the legal age to consent, it's entirely her own business if she wants to sleep around. She's more than likely aware of these people making fun of her, and apparently it must not bother her too much. If it's a sexual addiction that you think could get out of hand, sit her down and talk with her. There are many serious side-effects that could result from this particular life-style, including social, physical, and mental problems. I personally, do not approve of sleeping around, but it's her own life she's messing up. Just be sure she knows the results.

The "exclusive" beta Gmail seemed like it was trying to have didn't work out so well. I have hundreds of invites I can give out still, even after giving everyone I know 3 invites. Not to mention, there's sites nowadays where you can basically register for a gmail account. Eh, Google probably planned it that way anyway, they're tricky like that.

Doesn't matter where I'm typing, I always use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. I lose all respect for someone if they use noob languages. I'm lazy, but I can at least take the time to hit two more keys in order to make myself sound less stupid. As for 1337, it's dead. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. 1337 is now used by script-kiddies and "hardcore" gamers, the exact opposite of what it was originally intended for. It's a shame really...

Can't say I like this game. Graphics usually don't matter to me, so long as they're not ugly. Runescape is ugly and hurts my eyes to look at for extended periods of time. The gameplay is even worse. For those of you that know what "grinding" is, this game is full of it. It is free, so that's pretty neat. No need to download anything either, as it plays right off your web browser. This is a curse and a blessing though, as it's pretty unstable due to this. Go ahead and give it a try if you're new to the whole MMORPG scene or are looking for a quick way to cure boredom.

Heh. Youtube just got an update last night. Youtube really shouldn't be compared to Google Video. Youtube is more for amatuer videos, while Google Video usually has some mainstream stuff.

Haha, Sony. First they promise all these features with a lower price tag. Then they LOSE most of the features and UP the price tag. Nice logic Sony, I'm sure the consumers won't mind.

No, his roundhouse kicks are not stunts I'm afraid. They have stunt doubles to take the hits, but he really does do them himself.. Chuck Norris held the middle-weight kick-boxing champion title for many years. No offense, but I'm pretty sure he could take you. As with the Chuck Norris jokes, yeah, they're getting old. There's no denying Chuck Norris was badass, but the "Chuck Norris Facts" are no longer funny. Even the original creator of the facts has openly acknowledged his displeasement with the fad.

The largest prime number? Why, it's quite simple really...OPTIMUS PRIME. Seriously though, all that money just for some math? Couldn't that money be put to more useful things? AIDs cure? Cure for Cancer? I'm no mathamatician, but I just can't figure out the practical use for that long of a prime number. I started reading about this and I learned that before finding the prime, Cooper and Boone ran the GIMPS program on a peak of 700 CMSU computers for 9 years. I still think they that much power and time could be better spent on something else...