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It is horror season on our book club podcast, so it is horror manga time! Today's manga is about a pet shop in Chinatown, where the mysterious manager sells mythical creatures and cryptids for pets, but the people who get their pets here cannot help but see these creatures as more human than animal; a mistake that will lead them to their downfall! Skip plot summary @ 7:05   Email: WeAppreciateManga@Gmail.com   126: Petshop of Horrors By Akino Matsuri Translation by Tomoharu Iwo and James Lucas Jones Lettering by Nunu Ngien   Synopsis:   In the heart of L.A.'s chinatown rests a pet shop owned by the mysterious Count D. The grandson to Count D, (who we shall just call D for now) is a mysterious, somewhat effeminate, and eccentric person who acts as the store manager whilst the count is away on business. When the wealthier clientele ask for exotic and rare pets D takes them to the back and sells them cryptids and strange supernatural, sometimes mythological creatures that resemble humans. But before he sells them D has them sign a contract with specific clauses. Something more akin to rules that if broken have dire consequences that D himself refuses to be liable for, but D will on occasion offer advice to those who are troubled enough to have broken them.   Often the rules come in threes, with one mostly telling owners only to feed their pets with fresh water and vegetables, but a rule that almost always occurs tells them to never show their pets to anyone.   Each chapter tells a tale about the owners that sometimes revolves around a moral. Such as the husband and wife who buy what D claims to be a rabbit, which then replaces their dead daughter. Only for their parents to repeat the same behaviour that led to their daughter's demise.   After numerous episodes of owners losing control of their so-called pets; it sparks an investigation from the detective, Leon Orcolt, whom suspects D of using the petshop as a front for drug or human trafficking but Little does the detective know about the surreal nature of the monsters inside the shop.   ·       Petshop of Horror being a Josei manga, not shojo, implies it is a story for women and not young girls (perhaps young adult, teen audience) Tokyopop publishing gave it 13+ age rating.   ·       Originally published 1996 in Japan and 2003 in English by Tokyopop, although today Tokyopop is known for its Disney Licenses and manga aimed at young girls, the publishers have not been the same since losing the License to Kodansha manga in 2008, with Kodansha seizing control of their English publication instead of outsourcing it through Tokyopop.   ·       The spin offs/sequels to the manga include shin petshop (2005), Passage-Hen (2013) and Ark Adrift (2018) It had a short 4-episode anime adaptation in 1999 by the Production studio Madhouse. At the time of this podcast episode being uploaded, Petshop of Horrors: Ark Adrift is still being made, with Akino Matsuri having worked continuously on the franchise from its inception.   ·       Episodic stories only work when focused on character, but you can also have the recurring character fit into a basic monomyth like template and just have your recurring character take a base role. In this case D is almost always the supernatural aide or the sage role. As the pets he gives are guised in being remedial to the episodic character's problems but are in fact tests of character.   ·       Episodic plots tend to have a gimmick in this case, it is the pet which acts as a monster of the week plot.   ·       Female power fantasy aimed at a more adult audience tends to have men be servents to the female protagonist and the male figure is an extension of the woman's power and influence. The woman is defined by her cabality, or lack of cabality to romantically love such a character whilst maintaining power and influence. At the time of the manga's release the Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner movie, The Bodyguard (1992) was popular. That movie is also like the relationship dynamic seen in Chapter 4 with Dreizhein (a.k.a. Dora-Chan) and Karen. At first Karen feels disrespected and being overly protected by Dreizhen she feels her identity and independency as a mature woman is threatened, Dreizhein is a sexual threat since he is an overprotective man. In such stories the woman learns to accept the man, love him, and trust him, whilst at the same time another suitor betrays her trust. And as often the case, the mythical protector is unable to or at least struggles to love the woman back as it creates fear in the man that it will diminish his ability as a bodyguard.  Sometime, in love stories targeted to males, the male figure is only around long enough that so the woman can learn something about herself and the male then goes on to new adventures. Petshop of Horrors has a more fairy tale approach. By having the man become a literal doberman dog by the end of the story the male figure loses their sexuality, it is as if the woman has tamed the man, but only after eliminating all her threats. The bodyguard is no longer seen as a sexual threat and the woman remains virginal for the time being, or at the very least remains motherly to her new pet who has saved her life.       ·       The store manager has his own animal companion named Q-Chan. Q-Chan is a Wolperdinger (written as Valvertinger in the 2003 English Tokyopop translation). This animal is from German folklore and is a hybrid of a squirrel or rabbit combined with horns and wings. Interestingly Q-Chan looks more like Moogles (or Mogs) from the Final Fantasy videogames, due to having bat like wings. An American version of this creature is the jackelope, a jackrabbit with antelope horns, and unlike deer, antelope do not shed their horns. Hunters and Taxidermists have made ornamental Jackelopes and Wolperdinger. So just because you see one stuffed and on the shelf of a pub does not make them real.   ·       One of the pets is a reference to Medusa of Greek myth, Medusa was cursed for her vanity, when the jealous goddess Athena decided to make it so that Medusa's gaze could turn people into stone. One interpretation could say she was cursed with good looks prior to this, as to not blame Medusa since in myth she did not accept the advances of the god Poseidon. Now Medusa is seen as a feminist symbol of female rage. Her head is used as an apotropaic symbol (a magical charm to ward off threats) especially on the accessories by Versace.   ·       Alice is named after the protagonist of Lewis Carol's “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” Notable for entering a surreal world by chasing a white rabbit.   ·       Dreizhein (Dora-Chan) has his ears clipped and explains this is standard procedure for those who serve the military (he never explains more than that). There is a history with Doberman dogs being cosmetically altered, having their tails surgically shortened and their ears cut. It is thought that the ears would help them hear better but due the illegality of doing this there has not been a thorough study.       Facebook Instagram X Official Website   Email

A new entry in the Theatrhythm Final Fantasy series is just around the corner.  To celebrate, we explore the the 3DS roots of the series along with its ever expanding track list.

In the first episode of 2023, Klauss and Seyrr continue their discussion of the Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack with Disc 3. The pair also talk about the most recent news from Final Fantasy XVI, the new Final Fantasy XIV Patch, and the professional wrestler who channeled his inner Sephiroth at a live event in Japan. Enjoy! Show Notes Phoenix Down Radio supports Extra Life for the 7th year: https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=508760Tetsuya Nomura says sequel to Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is possible! By Orpheus Joshua from Noisy Pixel: https://noisypixel.net/tetsuya-nomura-stranger-of-paradise-final-fantasy-origin-sequel-possible/Final Fantasy XVI - First Look at Moogles: https://youtu.be/Ssu1hhJpUToFFXVI will showcase the power of the PS5 by Sammy Barker of Push Square: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/12/final-fantasy-16-will-showcase-the-power-of-ps5-says-developerFFXVI Retail marketing has begun in Japan. By Roberty Ramsey of Push Square: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2023/01/final-fantasy-16s-retail-marketing-has-begun-in-japanProfessional wrestler Kenny Omega invokes inner Sephiroth for entrance music: https://twitter.com/i/status/1610591471744487425

In the first episode of 2023, Klauss and Seyrr continue their discussion of the Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack with Disc 3. The pair also talk about the most recent news from Final Fantasy XVI, the new Final Fantasy XIV Patch, and the professional wrestler who channeled his inner Sephiroth at a live event in Japan. Enjoy! Show Notes Phoenix Down Radio supports Extra Life for the 7th year: https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=508760Tetsuya Nomura says sequel to Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is possible! By Orpheus Joshua from Noisy Pixel: https://noisypixel.net/tetsuya-nomura-stranger-of-paradise-final-fantasy-origin-sequel-possible/Final Fantasy XVI - First Look at Moogles: https://youtu.be/Ssu1hhJpUToFFXVI will showcase the power of the PS5 by Sammy Barker of Push Square: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/12/final-fantasy-16-will-showcase-the-power-of-ps5-says-developerFFXVI Retail marketing has begun in Japan. By Roberty Ramsey of Push Square: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2023/01/final-fantasy-16s-retail-marketing-has-begun-in-japanProfessional wrestler Kenny Omega invokes inner Sephiroth for entrance music: https://twitter.com/i/status/1610591471744487425

Adventure Entry :14 Date:10/2/2022 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna and you can find all the things about the show, where you can listen to it , leave a voicemail and find other Final Fantasy 14 content Creators at https://sproutlifepodcast.wordpress.com/  ! Sprout Life is also a member of the Cozy Podcast Network! Its the place where I host all 6 of my podcasts! You can find this one and the rest at www.CozyPodcastNetwork.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry :13 Date:9/7/2022 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna and you can find all the things about the show, where you can listen to it , leave a voicemail and find other Final Fantasy 14 content Creators at https://sproutlifepodcast.wordpress.com/ ! Sprout Life is also a member of the Cozy Podcast Network! Its the place where I host all 6 of my podcasts! You can find this one and the rest at www.CozyPodcastNetwork.com FULL SHOW NOTES FOUND HERE: https://sproutlifepodcast.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/sprout-life-a-final-fantasy-14-ffxiv-podcast-entry-13-news-tips-events-community-spotlights/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry :11 Date: 8 17 2022 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna and you can find all the things about the show, where you can listen to it , leave a voicemail and find other Final Fantasy 14 content Creators at https://sproutlifepodcast.wordpress.com/ ! FFXIV 6.2 release date and full details from Live Letter 72 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry : 12 Date:8 17 2022 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna and you can find all the things about the show, where you can listen to it , leave a voicemail and find other Final Fantasy 14 content Creators at https://sproutlifepodcast.wordpress.com/  ! Cheating in FFXIV (Ultimate) By ara, Tuesday at 12:12 https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/67409-cheating-in-ffxiv-ultimate/ https://twitter.com/icyveins/status/1557049069339643906?t=rz311fbsD8jxUAS2_6TWzg&s=19 The FFXIV Moonfire Faire for this year began on August 10, 2022, and ends on August 26 at 7:59 PDT (15:59 BST). The sole requirement to take part in this event is that your character must be at least level 30. You just need to travel to Limsa Lominsa - Upper Decks with your level 30+ character to obtain the quest "A Matter of Course" from Mayaru Moyaru (X: 11.5 Y: 13.8). You must speak with the Moonfire Faire Chairman, Haermaga (X: 36.2 Y: 26.7), at Costa Del Sol as part of this mission. From this point on, take in the dialogue and cutscenes until you're told to go. What I've learned: https://steamcommunity.com/app/39210/discussions/0/481115363863695932/ Super Cop has FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Oct 9, 2015 @ 9:42pm How do you resize the skill box pop ups? Luk Oct 3, 2021 @ 10:29am Just so you know, you need to go to Character Config > UI Settings > General tab. Go to Display Action Help and set Position to "Fixed." Now you will find Action Help and Item Help in the ATH. Make them bigger/smaller, then go back to UI Settings and set them back to "Next to Cursor." ROLE PLAY https://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/topic/24360-getting-started-with-ffxiv-rp-for-wow-rpers / MoodyMoomba@MoodyMoomba Two of the most helpful FFXIV settings imo: Set your Inventory to "Open All" to see all 4 tabs at once (only with directx11 version, set @ login screen) Uncheck "store all newly obtained..." to send new gear to your inv instead of your armoury chest. Way easier to manage! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry :10 Date:7 24 2022 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna and you can find all the things about the show, where you can listen to it , leave a voicemail and find other Final Fantasy 14 content Creators at https://sproutlifepodcast.wordpress.com/ ! r/FFXIVRECRUITMENT is a great place! https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIVRECRUITMENT/ https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/mogmog-collection/202207/ujz24q0uim This gives the full list of content. Lowest level duty is pvp (if not free trial) or Dzaemal/Aurum vale, which are lv44 and lv47 optional dungeons you can unlock. So you can farm them pretty early To hear the interview with Asmond Gold and the Rain Night Club, Start About 40 minutes into the show. https://youtu.be/d5O7bY6dqKM Mr Happy Does a great legal look at the FF14 Rain Night Club Billboard https://youtu.be/hwAso4rhI-Q FanByte Article https://www.fanbyte.com/news/ffxiv-rain-nightclub-billboards-houston-texas/ FF14 Billboard Twitter https://twitter.com/FFXIV_Billboard?t=0JuX5pgUUmWijQniJcgFgw&s=09 Twitter About Rain Night Club Billboard Posts https://twitter.com/FFXI_FFXIV/status/1545517535126233089?t=x1bAKU2H7W0It405EJcqUQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/Julia_CaSsian/status/1544391962610089988?t=-099aEfAUj6FWLNmr1PQzQ&s=09 Rain Night Club https://therainnightclub.com/index.html --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

We continue with part two of our 90s Video Game Mascot Tier List, and it is somehow dumber than the first one. Sure, there are popular mascots like Mario and Sonic on here, but they've been talked into the ground. At Queen Venerator, we discuss the mascots that actually matter, like Pipo from Overblood and Skunny Hardnut. Enjoy. Mascots Discussed: Kolibri, Kung-Fu Bunny from Brutal: Paws of Fury, Kyle “Blackthorne” Vlaros, Lara Croft, Laura Harris from D, Lemmings, Lester the Unlikely, Link, Mad Dog McCree, Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving from Metal Slug, Mario, Mavis Beacon, Mega Man, Mike Haggar, Milon from Milon's Secret Castle/DoReMi Fantasy, Mohawk and Headphone Jack, Monty Mole from Impossamole, Moogles from Final Fantasy, Morrigan Aensland, Mr. Bones, Mr. Nutz, Mutoid Man from Smash TV, Nasir from Lagoon, Ness, Nights, Oliems from Tobal No. 1, Oscar from Oscar, Packy and Marlon, Pac-Man (90's), PaRappa the Rapper, Peach the Lobster, Pepsiman, Pikachu, Pipo from Overblood, The Pipo Monkeys from Ape Escape, Plok, Pocky and Rocky, Puggsy, Pulseman, Punky Skunk, Putty from Super Putty, Quik the Thunder Rabbit, Radical Rex, Rayman, Reiko Nagase from Ridge Racer, Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon, Rick Taylor from Splatterhouse, Ristar, Robbit from Jumping Flash, Rocky Rodent, Ryu, Samus Aran, Santos from Trio the Punch, Scissorman, Scorpion, Segata Sanshiro, Sir Daniel Fortesque (Sir Dan) from Medievil, Sketch Turner, Skunny Hardnut, Slime from Dragon Quest, Socket, Sofia from Battle Arena Toshinden, Solid Snake, Sonic, Sparkster, Spyro, Strider Hiryu, Sweet Tooth, Tails, Tempo, Terry Bogard, The Beaver from Beavers, The Cook from PO'ed, The Master from Actraiser, The Nurses from Silent Hill, The Ooze, Titus the Fox, Toejam and Earl, Toki from Toki Going Ape Spit, Tomba, Tony Hawk, Twinbee, UmJammer Lammy, Vectorman, Voldo, Wario, Warren from Power Moves, Wex Major from Wild 9, Wild Woody, Wonder Boy, Wonder Dog, Worms, Xavier Pendragon from Eternal Champions, Yoshi, Yusaku Kudo from Last Bronx, Zebulon Pike Kingston from Cyberia, Zeke and Julie from Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel, Zool, Billy and Jimmy Lee, Carbuncle from Puyo Puyo

This week, we're joined by local Kingsglaive Soldier Kate and Science Turtle Jacob to discuss the history, extremely long development cycle, and legacy of Final Fantasy XV! Don't worry, we do eventually give time for a proper examination of Ardyn Izunia, gaming's most memorable villain, and we get into how cute Moogles are to distract you from possibly the most tumultuous dev cycle in AAA history. Enjoy this new recipeh! This week we're sponsored by Nord VPN! If you click the following link you'll be taken to a special deal for GAMERS ONLY that will get you 70% off a 2 year plan! https://go.nordvpn.net/aff_c?offer_id=15&aff_id=66865&url_id=2470 Every week, Nirav, Alyssa, and a panel of self-proclaimed experts deep dive into the development cycle and legacy of the games you love. Find us at https://twitter.com/GameBustersPod on Twitter! Find Nirav on Twitter @gandheezy and Alyssa @GoBalysstic ! Find us on your favorite podcatcher: https://anchor.fm/gamebusters

Adventure Entry : 8 Date: 3 4 2022 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna ! Live Letter #68 Final Fantasy XIV director/producer Naoki Yoshida and global community manager Toshio Murouchi (with translation by Aimi Tokutake) released details on the game's future as well as answered a number of fan questions in the 68th Letter from the Producer Live broadcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry :9 Date:3/4/2022 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna ! Live Letter 69 Final Fantasy XIV director/producer Naoki Yoshida and global community manager Toshio Murouchi revealed initial media and information on the game's upcoming Patch 6.1, titled "Newfound Adventure," and what fans can expect when it launches in mid-April during the 69th Letter from the Producer Live broadcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry : Date:2/15/2022 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna ! Full Shownotes : https://sproutlifepodcast.wordpress.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry : Date: 1/19/2022 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna ! Full Shownotes are here: Www.SproutLifePodcast.com https://sproutlifepodcast.wordpress.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry :5 Date: January 3 2021 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna ! News Links: NFTs New Years Message New Items in the store! https://store.finalfantasyxiv.com/ffxivstore/en-us/new Sale Items in the store! https://store.finalfantasyxiv.com/ffxivstore/en-us/sale New In Game Seasonal Event! https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/2022/Heavensturn/22lsrul3tu Community Spotlight: Doren Snackingway Delight@DorenDelight Hello friends, my name is Jacob, but you can call me Doren. I am a FFXIV streamer and parody artist. Formerly, I went by the name Kavo350 and now focus on playing my Hrothgar Doren Hallvard. Feel free to search through my collection of parodies and originals from FFXIV and World of Warcraft. Follow Doren on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kavo350 Follow Doren on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/dorendelight Follow Doren on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DorenDelight Glamour Me (FFXIV Parody) Ft. Silver Letomi  Follow Letomi! https://www.youtube.com/user/SilverLetomi Really enjoyed this interview with Jen Eric Live by xivlightparty! https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Er2UWzZu8dSUWAmptKP2g?si=eSL8TbCXSF2kvL2H9WvLdg&utm_source=copy-link Shout outs: Meech@TheStoneyOnihey, KaliPaige@Eskalia, The Barracks & DadTvGaming  https://www.twitch.tv/dadtvgaming What I've learned: Inn Rooms  Community Tips: Reddit Sketchy FC? Steam FF14 Solo-Able? Guest Spot Info here FF14 Directory --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry :4 Date:11 12 2021 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna ! Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com www.sproutlifepodcast.com Shownotes can be found here: https://wordpress.com/post/sproutlifepodcast.wordpress.com/456 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

We meet Desch, Doga, Unei, and face off against the almighty Xande. We come across Moogles for the first time and need more than a few airships to get to the end. Inside a bit of a jumbled experience thanks to differing versions, we find a heart-warming tale about the preciousness of mortality and an important balance between light and darkness.

Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna ! All of the links, show info, and places you can listen to the show can be found at www.sproutlifepodcast.com ! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna ! All of the links, show info, and places you can listen to the show can be found at www.sproutlifepodcast.com ! Adventure Entry : 2 Date: 8 28 2023 Full Show-notes found here! https://sproutlifepodcast.blogspot.com/b/layout-preview?token=APq4FmCJRrUbeaQ-rMnHY8RjORFqSOLJazunjQZRQC-d8ywDsPydkcBnz4qjAJrU4TRAuc3LGVLlkiv5iIFuNRayp0Hj4da7ay4h8B4CpDuX--mUYmsOfQY  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry :1 Date: 8/24/2021 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and I welcome you to the Sprout Life Podcast! The podcast about Final Fantasy 14 online through the eyes of a total sprout! I welcome you to join me in my adventures in Eorzea! You can contact the show on Twitter @SproutLifePod And you can email the show at Sproutlifepodcast@gmail.com and you follow me on twitter @Harainna ! Show notes can be found at https://sproutlifepodcast.blogspot.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Adventure Entry : Introduction Episode! Date: 8-23-2021 Greetings Sprouts, Vets, and Moogles! I am Harainna Swift and this is the first episode of Sprout Life! I wanted to record a brief Intro episode before I start my usual shows! This is A Final Fantasy 14 podcast from a sprouts point of view! I am completely new to Final Fantasy but not to podcasting. I've been podcasting about various things since 2012 I'm what many are calling a Wow Refugee! I'm a variety gamer that loves all kinds of games but I especially love MMOS! I love podcasting about things I enjoy, and for this show that is being a sprout in Final Fantasy! Ill be covering News as it comes, tips as they are shared with me or learned the hard way, and my adventures as they happen! You can contact the show at SproutLifePodcast @Gmail.com You can tweet or dm the show on twitter @SproutLifePod And you can follow me on twitter @ Harainna! You can also leave a voice message at https://anchor.fm/sprout-life I welcome all tips, tricks, help and info! Future episode will have News, Community Spotlights, my personal adventures and sharing about the world of Final Fantasy 14 through a sprouts eyes! Before I wrap up this Introductory episode I wanted to let you that there will be a [Maintenance]All Worlds Maintenance (Aug. 23) In order to implement Patch 5.58 Hotfixes and to conduct maintenance on the infrastructure, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds at the time below, during which FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we thank you for your understanding. [Date & Time] Aug. 23, 2021 6:00 p.m. to Aug. 24, 2021 3:00 a.m. (PDT) * Completion time is subject to change. [Affected Worlds] All Worlds --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sprout-life/message

Time to meet Moogles in FFV! Sorry about the lesser-quality audio. I'd like to blame Audacity but really, I gotta pay more attention to which mic it picks when it records. Twitter: htts://twitter.com/yaffpodcast

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(https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Tyriq * https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday * Chris * https://twitter.com/MrChrisLHall Topics: * Revisiting Game Maker after 10 years, and getting right back into it * What's your jrpg/anime vocal quirk? * Electric showers * Weval - Someday * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wEvzqdDZg * UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCOIntangibleCulturalHeritageLists Microtopics: * A game that has been in early access for 7,000 years. * Coming back to software you last used a decade ago and finding that it has a night theme now. * Old vs. new Game Maker. * Knowing the context a word is borrowed from and assuming more meaning carried over than actually did. * Terms that programming borrowed from philosophy, like "monad" and "blockchain." * Function-shaped functions. * Seeing people misuse a tool and trying to decide whether it'd be better to teach them how to use the tool, or make a new tool that works how they expect. * That time someone tried to port Catacomb Kids to C++ before realizing that someone had been adding features to this game for ten years. * The Dark Theme era. * Jim just happening to know how many lines of code the Frog Fractions remaster is. * How many lines of code is reasonable for an action roguelike that one person has worked on for ten years. * Measuring code complexity by zipping it and looking at the file size. * Designing the rules of a game to stop people from ruining it for themselves. * How your laugh maps to your blood type. * Deciding that when a character says "..." that means that they farted, and suddenly being able to enjoy Visual Novels. * Whether Jay Gatsby saying "old sport" all the time is the same phenomenon as Moogles always saying "kupo." * Typing in a swear word when an Animal Crossing character asks you for a new catchphrase and returning the cartridge to GameStop who will sell it to a small child and it'll end up on the local news. * Incorporating goat noises into your speech in a subtle enough way that people aren't sure if you just made a goat noise. * Everybody having their own weird noise that they made repeatedly instead of just having a face. * Deciding that your signature isn't cool enough and hiring a signature designer to help you out. * Whether "signature designer" is a real job you can make a living doing. * Designing a different unique fart for every character in your JRPG so they each have a fart that fits your personality. * Why making a fart noise with your tongue is called a "raspberry." * How nobody can tell you've got a duck call under your COVID mask until it's too late. * A showerhead plugged into a wall outlet. * Heating water as it passes through the showerhead. * Reassuring onlookers that you've been showering in an electric shower for decades and you've only been shocked a few times and you just have to not touch the metal plumbing. * Wearing rubber shoes in the shower so the electric showerhead doesn't electrocute you. * How nobody posting in the thread about electric showers has died. * Electric showers waking you up even more effectively than regular showers. * Not knowing what people want from things. * Nuclear pacemakers. * The number of nuclear pacemakers still in use today. * Your nuclear pacemaker keeping your heart beating long after the rest of you has died. * The Council of the Nuclear Hearts. * Plugging your electric shower right into your nuclear heart. * Electric flamethrowers. * Lighting your cigarette with a tiny taser. * 24 seconds of zooming in on the forest canopy. * A video which is very dense with frames. * A video which is exactly the kind of video that video codecs are be bad at encoding. * Star Turns. * A web site where people can repost your content uncredited and go viral. * A guest accidentally unplugging their headphones followed by thirty seconds of "can you hear me? I can hear you." * Standing on a floor that is painted to give you vertigo. * Buildings that are cool in this video. * Getting really excited every time you see aerial photography. * Freeways. * Starting with macro shots of urban environments and transitioning to wider shots of rural environments. * Canopy shyness. * Voronoi diagrams. * Preserving aspects of human culture that don't take the form of a physical object. * Intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding. * Intangible culture lost in the natural process of human becomingness. * Whether history is worth knowing. * A series of Duke Nukem strategy guides collected in the Library of Congress, rebound to look like a hardcover from the 1950s. * What it takes to preserve a skill that a community of people practices over the course of their lives. * Dance notation for very constrained types of dance. * Tugging rituals. * Avalanche risk management. * Notation for bee dances. * Dance notation which is just a list of where all the ping pong balls were. * How every culture agrees that Kiki is the spiky one and Bouba is the round one. * Wine horses. * A very Western centric view of how many instruments have ever existed. * How to make the number four out of only letters.

The fun never stops in Chapter 5 Support Got it Memorized on Patreon and receive early episodes, monthly bonus episodes, and more! Join our Discord server here! Twitter + E-mail: @memorizecast @SingularWheels @GhostofJo memorizecast@gmail.com Our theme music is Yuna by Will & Tim, courtesy of Game Chops!

This week it's all games of the video variety, as we talk about Zelda: Minish Cap, and Sean of the new podcast Boss Fight stops by to share his love for the Final Fantasy series! Boss Fight is still in pre-production, watch out for updates on when to tune in!Follow Nice Things on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicethingscastSubscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nicethingscast Intro/Outro music: Rainbows by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/nicethingscast)

Opening with the role call of Captain Brown Pants and his boisterous crew aboard their fictional ship, The Prairie Dog, the boys lead with their basest sense of humor as yet another poo bit spirals out of control. Season 2, Episode 2, begins with an exploration of guilty pleasures. Wes discusses meme culture— what is the social currency of the little photos that seem to saturate our feeds, and how have they evolved? That deep discussion is quickly stifled, however, by Rhys’s guilty pleasure of creating Facebook events to attract people to parties, and the alleged cyberbullying that he needs to keep it functioning. The LAST Random Fandom for the foreseeable future takes a look at the merging of two nerdy video game icons: World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy. A rousing AI Generated Fanfic creates a resulting world with interesting implications for Chocobos, Moogles, and Cactour. Rhys brings in an Avatar the Last Airbender story to kick things off, taking a look at post-war life as Aang and the gang prepare for a unity festival of the four nations. Full of culture, sentiment, and historical allegory, this story provides the boys with a wonderful discussion regarding the associations between art and war. Wes leads with a unique Seth Meyers x Stefan story that takes us all into a colorful, musical, and trippy reading as they explore New York’s Hottest Club with the Saturday Night Live duo. This is STFF 2, 2?

A group of Moogles and a Foreign exchange student are kept after store do to miss behaving. Only for things to take a horrible turn!Music"Teddy Bear Waltz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Unseen Horrors" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Level Up" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Join Bob, The God of Moogles, and Chrono Katie as they discuss 2020's video game future, Ninja's adventures in Hollywood, and... Porn Titles? Low on Life is back and it's "better" than ever!Pixelland by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4222-pixellandLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The podcast episode where your favorite main character dies from sacrifice.  Cait Sith, you will be missed, you crazy anthropomorphic Scottish cat thing! The Raw Dogs still have so much they need to say about FF7!  This episode covers the making of the PS1 classic and we push ahead out of Midgar, discussing the important questions about Moogles and why Barret is an excellent date!   Part 2 of 2! Available on all podcast apps!  Like and Subscribe for a chance to sleep in Vincent's Coffin!

Desafie o destino descobrindo o que diabos é Final Fantasy VII Remake neste episódio !! Participação da Yu da Moogles Cave (@yu_kisaragi) Outro : Vibe Valentino (Honeybee Inn Dance)- Final Fantasy 7 REMAKE OST - Apoie o Canal CAPSLOCK no Padrim em : https://www.padrim.com.br/CAPSLOCK . Mande suas perguntas para PODCAPS@EMAIL.COM

The Art of Reflection - Histories Forsaken art book pre-orders begin, EU Community Team stream, the Callback Campaign returns, Moogle Treasure Trove - The Hunt for Soldiery begins, Patch 5.2 Echoes of a Fallen Star Special Site. Yelta and Rubicon host.

Trekking through the new world can get tiresome. Especially when you don't have your party, and airship, or really any direction. The Chocobros try their hardest to navigate through this new world, where Moogles and Yetis are just there. Who is going to strive in this new world? The Chocobros are, that's who. Check out what they're up to in this week's episode.

Zack runs from everything, Jacob learns moogle, and Gavin is basically playing a different game at this point. Sandcrawlers plague us, we don't talk nearly enough about the Drink ability, and we get to meet the coolest werewolves around. Also, we don't talk about Game of Thrones in this one.

Hello, my Chocobos and Moogles! Welcome to a special episode: the Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy! Spoilercast. Oni recounts his experiences with the characters and story of Chocobo’s Dungeon, and he can’t handle the tonal dissonance between doom and adorable that this game has in spades. Oni and Galen discuss the game, the series as a whole, JRPGs in general, and other games that weave cute and gloom together. We hope you enjoy this special episode! As ever, we would appreciate your help in growing the show by sharing the podcast with a friend. Thanks for listening! Send us an email and we’ll discuss it! NintendoEverythingPod [at] gmail [dot] com #nintendopodcast #gamingpodcast #podcast Listener Bonus: Help the show grow and support us by giving us ☆5 STAR☆ iTunes review, likes and comments on YouTube, and share the Spotify playlist with your Nintendo-loving buddies! Thank you!

In what I think is one of our best episodes ever, we talk about that weird time that Square and Disney thought a crossover between Final Fantasy and…. all of Disney made sense. Cloud vs Hercules. Squal vs Peter Pan. Moogles vs. Pooh. None of these will be answered.

In what I think is one of our best episodes ever, we talk about that weird time that Square and Disney thought a crossover between Final Fantasy and…. all of Disney made sense. Cloud vs Hercules. Squal vs Peter Pan. Moogles vs. Pooh. None of these will be answered.

Get your tickets for Struggle Session live in at bit.ly/seshla Now with fixed audio! On our very special double-sized 100th episode we're joined by Nick Wiger (Doughboys) to discuss post-comedy, the anonymous White House columnist, and Nick's very weird ranking of the Star Wars films. After that take a deep dive into the Final Fantasy series. Moogles, summons, Kefka, we cover it all! Cop that Struggle Session T-Shirt at https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/strugglesession

This week MamishNY kicks it with Uptown native Ami Vega to discuss Fortnight + Creepy YouTube Eggs & Moogles

Now that they can return to their village, the Moogles are having a super fun dance party! Will Sprite be able to say the same by the end of the episode? Alex Jedraszczak guides James "Valor" Pelster, Anna "Harper" Bryniarski, and Joseph "Sprite" Martin through the second half of the Upper Lands saga. Enjoy such tabletop RPG shenanigans as: - Sprite distracts the others with a dancing baby Moogle to steal all the treasure - Why would you buy the Kung Fu dress when you could get the Spiky Suit for less? - Walk the seasons, spring to winter, spring again and we can enter - Our secret revealed: Jeddy's poor descriptions are largely because they play through a web-based system he built - Valor gets Silence Lv 4'd, and Harper carries him over her shoulder so he doesn't get lost - Sprite finally makes it home! - Valor learns that any weapon can be ranged if you try hard enough - Sprite has a very confusing half-canon conversation with Gramps

Hear the full episode at http://www.patreon.com/strugglesession On our very special double-sized 100th episode we're joined by Nick Wiger (Doughboys) to discuss post-comedy, the anonymous White House columnist, and Nick's very weird ranking of the Star Wars films. After that take a deep dive into the Final Fantasy series. Moogles, summons, Kefka, we cover it all!

We join our heroes deep in the forests of the Upper Lands, having just heard the plight of the Moogles. Will they help the Moogles return home, or will they get spend the entire episode being distracted by everything in the forest? Alex Jedraszczak leads James "Valor" Pelster, Anna "Harper" Bryniarski, and Joseph "Sprite" Martin through a D&D-ified version of Secret of Mana. On today's episode: - The hunt is on for the rocks the Moogles lost! - For the peddlers who bothered the Moogles? - Something like that... - Neko doesn't seem like much of a deals warlock, if you know what I mean - Spoiler alert: The team gets lost in a magical maze forest - Harper climbs a tree and sees a dragon - Everyone does their best Jaleel White impressions during their battle with Sonic--er, the Pebblers

Jeff and Ryan embark on their longest, most drawn out journey yet: playing Final Fantasy VI. The adventure begins, and we meet a magic girl named Terra, who is wearing the most horrifying and powerful item that could possibly exist in the world. We explore Narshe, fight some were-rats, discover an esper, meet “The Returners”, and sacrifice some Moogles. A lot happens in this episode, and yet, we have only BARELY started this game. Email: NOCKATpodcast@gmail.com @NOCKATpodcast patreon.com/nockat

Final Fantasy XII - Part 2 Have you seen Judge Reinhold? He was last seen in the company of a mysterious woman with hair described as "Lord Vayne-like". If not: take a listen as we push through dungeons and mines and fight goopy cloecas; we meet Final Fantasy XII's cast of Judges, including Gabranth, Ghis, Judy, and Joe Brown; Matthew insults the entire cast of Wet Hot American Summer; there's far too much Batman talk; we get confused between The Fog, The Mist and Myst; Jim gets a proper noun overload; and we fly to the Bespin-like city of Bhujerba. This week: We hit up the Lhusu Mines! Next week: We plunge the depths of the Raithwall Tomb! Twitter: @squarerootspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/486022898258197/ Email: squarerootspodcast (at) gmail (dort) com Our theme song is courtesy of Knight of the Round. Hit up their homepage at: http://knightoftheround.com/ Check them out on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/KOTRmetal/ Check them out on twitter at @KOTRMetal

This week, Kaleb and Joe, joined by Emilee Mentos, Krinital, and Zoey for a fun filled discussion of our experience with Heavensward. Enjoy! Development   Heavensward began development about a year before its release on June 23, 2015, just a few months before its October announcement at the 2014 fan festival (which we were totally there for).   Apparently they chose the theme of “sky” for the expansion, my assumption being y'know, dragons, wings, flying mounts… Anyway the developers strategically set up the expansion through ARR patches throughout the year, setting up Ishgard Lore.   Along with an expansion of story, the game utilized Directx 11 technologies to better process the game and to slightly enhance the story.   The Heavensward expansion would continue through the Dragonsong War campaign released through patches that now lead to stormblood, but this review will only be covering the game’s original release.                                               Story (took this from an awesome forum post on reddit)   Basically, you go into Ishgard wanting to help them against the Dragons, venturing through the Western Highlands dealing with the heretics and Iceheart/Shiva. Then there's this little segment of finding out where Rauhban is and you free him, fight Ilberd and that stupid Lalafell Yuyuhase, and you also find out, from Lolorito himself, that Nanamo is still alive.   Once all that's settled, you return to Ishgard, deal with a few things and, along with Estinien, eventually get to the Dravanian Forelands and get assistance through the Vath who need you to kill Ravana first, then dragonkin that Iceheart/Shiva knows to head up to the Churning Mists to get help from Hraesvelgr.   You go through Sohm Al, the peak of the mountain in the Forelands and enter the Churning Mists, you help the Moogles up there at Moghome a bit and get the trumpet they use to head to Zenith to call down Hraesvelgr and ask him for help/assistance.   Hrasevelgr basically tells you that in the past, Ishgard was a peaceful kingdom, dragons and humans lived in peace. Until King Thordan and the 12 Knights killed Ratatoskr, one of Midgardsormr's first brood, and ate her eyes. Nidhogg heard of this, and vowed to kill every last human, basically dragons rule.   You also learn that Nidhogg got one of his current eyes from Hraesvelgr. To end the war between man and dragonkin, you need to kill Nidhogg. So you go kill him, get his other eye and return it back to Hrasevelgr. Nidhogg is seemingly dead. At this point, you learn, through the Echo, that all of Ishgard is of the same blood, from when Haldrath had slayed Nidhogg the first time, and learn that everyone is not lowborn or highborn.   So you head back to Ishgard with this juicy gossip, talk to Aymeric and it turns out there's an Elezen/Hyuran woman called 'the Mongrel' who basically is born from a lowborn Hyuran servantwoman and a highborn Elezen. In Ishgard, that's taboo, you don't have mixed children between highborn and lowborn. So at this point, Ser Charibert, one of the 12 Knights, finds out you're plotting to tell, you fight him, and then Ser Aymeric decides to go confront King Thordan about it and from the new info, that we now learn that Thordan is Ser Aymeric's father, but born out of wedlock, makes Aymeric Thordan's bastard son.   Eventually, you make it to the Vault, where Thordan and Aymeric are, and battle against a few of the 12 Knights and save Aymeric. In the process, Haucherfant dies protecting you from the beam of light from Ser Zephirin. You learn of Azys Lla at this point, and eventually head to Ok' Zundu, to talk to the Vanu Vanu about Bismarck, as you learn of an Allagan key that tells you how to get ot Azys Lla.   Bismarck going crazy eating islands, you make a plan to kill him. But Thordan jumps in, takes the key from you and heads to Azys Lla. Cid having noticed the direction of where the key is headed, heads towards there.   We make it to Azys Lla but it is protected by massive aether walls, at this point, there's no advancement into Azys Lla. You learn that Tataru has possible good news about one of the Scions, with the help of Urianger, you find out Y'shtola used Flow, a forbidden spell that lets oneself enter and stay in the aether, when they were being chased by Brass Blades.   With the help of A-Ruhn-Senna, Kan-E-Senna and Raya-O-Senna, you manage to get Y'shtola out of the aether and ask her if she could possibly help. She says Matoya, her old mentor, can help, as she is in Sharlayan, you venture to Sharlayan. Arriving at the Dravanian Hinterlands, where Sharlayan is, you need to cross the river to get to Matoya's Cave, which is hidden.   Going to Idyllshire, within Sharlayan, you find out goblins have worked alongside treasure hunters to rebuild Sharlayan, or rather what's left of it, with the assistance of Goblins and the residents of Idyllshire, you make it to the other side of the river.   You go see Matoya and she asks you to go grab a tome on the subject of manifesting aether as a tangible form, from the Great Gubal Library. You come back with the tome and she deciphers it for you, you take the new information to Cid, Biggs and Wedge and eventually, with the new information, arrive at Azys Lla.   At Azys Lla, with the help of a Assistance Node, you make it to the Aetherochemical Research Facility where Thordan awaits, but not before the Garleans interrupt you with their massive ship. But Shiva and Hrasevelgr jump in and stall their plans.   You go into the facility and get interrupted by Lahabrea and Igeyorhm. You fight them, they merge, you fight 'it'. And then, with the Eye of Nidhogg and white magicite, you kill Igeyorhm. But Thordan shows up, with Haldrath's coffin and the SECOND Eye of Nidhogg and uses it and your other eye to basically summon King Thordan and the Knights twelve; Knights of the Round, more or less.   You slay King Thordan and the Knights twelve, Estinien succumbs to Nidhogg's eyes, and turns into Nidhogg. Now, brief peace is brought to Ishgard, and Ishgard joins the Eorzean Alliance. You now learn that Elidibus has 'summoned' a Warrior of Darkness on the moon.   Then a big primal is awoken at the end, teasing DragonSong.

​We're back! This week in the Newsy News: Moogles in FFXV, Amy Hennig's comments on AAA game development, Nomura's newest info on FF7 remake, the Power Rangers trailer, the new Spider-Man animated series, Iron Fist and Sigourney Weaver's inclusion in The Defenders. Then after the break ( 55:26 ) the boys go over Great Speculations for the biggest upcoming video games. How will The Last Guardian be received? Can Horizon Zero Dawn live up to mammoth expectations? And how can Prey stick the landing? Questions? Comments? Something you'd like us to touch on? Email us at meetpensandpixels@gmail.com Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it. Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

State of the Realm #64 - Evil Moogles, Fan Festival & Live Letter Predictions by DREAM Network

Part 4 of our playthrough of Final Fantasy IX opens with some questions: What would a date with Zidane be like? We explore this nightmare possibility, We do some Frog Hunting and pick up the terrifying, H.R. Pufnstuf-alike Quina, a blue mage comic relief character in a game with no real need for either. Fortunately grinding out her blue magic is pretty fun, if you have a FAQ. John gets confused by the blue X being no and red O being yes when meeting the quiz-master Ragtime Mouse, who is not a mouse but actually is a horrible pair of lips on a spindly body. Chocobo Hot & Cold makes John really, really angry, but he plays it for a couple of hours anyway because he makes terrible decisions with his life. We start finding a whole lot of dead Burmecians, rescue some moogles, and then destroy Gizamaluke using a tent as a weapon, which may be the strangest item animation and use ever. Also: don't climb up those vines in the Grotto. Just don't do it. Please. No. Meanwhile Garnet is a pickle suprise as she's stuffed in a sack like a whole lot of sorries. Burmecia has been slaughtered, which makes Freya kind of sad, especially since she's all missing her boyfriend. Matt calls her clingy. But! But! We finally meet Kuja! Is Kuja the most impractically dressed Final Fantasy character or the most impractically dressed male Final Fantasy character? Matthew is surprisingly unphased by this new villain, which disappoints Jim and John immensely. We wrap up with Squarely Against and questions from you, our listeners! If you'd like us to read your questions about this game, other JRPGs, or advice to help you and your family, especially in tax season. If you are playing along at home, in this episode we play from leaving Lindblum through Gizamaluke's Grotto until the end of Burmecia. Next time we'll play through until the dark, sketchy city of Treno! See you there.

This week, we interview Daniel Burke of the Beacause Project. The Beacause Project is a long running re translation effort of Final Fantasy VII. Daniel discusses the biggest motivators behind the translation effort. He talks about all the lost moments in Final Fantasy VII. Daniel did more than discuss the simple grammatical and spelling errors of Final Fantasy VII. Hi, guys!  Just had the interview and it was a lot of fun.  I'll respond to questions here that we didn't manage to talk about and I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did    What were your first thoughts when playing FF7 the first time?   I had just had a Playstation bought for Christmas 1997 and had come from playing the Sega Megadrive games.  I was not prepared for the cinematic FMV opening of FF7 in the slightest.  It was way ahead of anything else I had ever seen.  The music, the sound, the graphics, the direction - everything.  I was awestruck.  Then the game started and it just kept getting better.  I'm actually getting warm feelings right now thinking about it, and this despite the hours I've already ploughed into the game.  The thing that irritated me (the only thing) were the random battles.  I wasn't used to that and it bugged me at first - so much so that I couldn't beat Gi Nattak in Cosmo Canyon because I had already escaped around 300 times by that point. I learned to get over my irritation of the random battles from that point on, though.  Funnily enough, years later I learned I could have just used that Elixir you can pick up beforehand, rather than go outside and level up.  Shame.  Although I'd only have gotten stuck again at Materia Keeper. At some point, I realized that this was the greatest game I had ever played.  Imho, the game that has come closest in overall excellence since is Final Fantasy X (FF8-9 are great, as is Resident Evil II, MGS1, Sonic and Knuckles, Mario 3, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time...I better stop there, there are so many).       What did you think of the final dungeon and final boss(es) of FF7?   Too easy and rather bizarrely (pun) shoehorned into the game.  But FFs have a habit of doing that with final bosses... Necron, anyone?  The music for the three bosses is great, and Sepher Sephiroth is awesome.  Even his intro is brilliant.  As for the final dungeon, it was brilliantly made and executed.  All the way down that chasm I had hairs standing on end.   What did you think of One Winged Angel the first time you heard it?   I wasn't ready for the choir, that was a surprise.  It's one of the greatest in game music history.  I personally put it second only to FF7's main theme. It's the genius of Uematsu. In the early days, I was also rather fanboyish, so I tried to add my own voice to it with my cousins', lmao.  I opened the disc holder on intro because I realized that the voice files might be being loaded at a later time.  I was right. But it doesn't help because instead of the orchestra voices, you get a weird droning tone instead.   -Has he ever seen the Spanish translation of this game?   If you mean the original one, no... but I don't know Spanish, so it wouldn't help.  Someone is using our translation to create a new Spanish translation, too. So that's cool!  I do recall that the Spanish version, and numerous others, used the English localization instead of the Japanese.  So it was a double whammy.  The French version is also terrible.     - Phoenix Down vs Phoenix Tail, while i love most of the translations and while i am sure this one is based on sound reasoning, i can't help feel it is uneccesary. This is unlike Aerith to Aries which they later corrected in other games, Phoenix Down has always been translated as such even up to the newest releases. I would have just put this in the same group as the Moogles, something that while it may not be an exact translation but that has been more or less cemented as what that is.   It's a fair point, but there is a logical reason for the decision I made.  From the start, the plan was to localize it based entirely on the Japanese, using the original English localization, and other documentation, to do the best job we could.  I, and the translator, agreed that putting limits on what was  - and was not - acceptable would end up having a detrimental effect on the project.  At the end of the project, I added options to restore certain names because they had a rich history with the series.  These were a minority, but I think definitely a good idea.  You can change Last Elixir to Megalixir, Moguri to Moogle, and Phoenix Tail to Phoenix Down with the installer options. So no loss at all.  As for Aeris, even if someone didn't like Aerith, they could just rename her at the naming screen.   What was your most difficult text map to work on in ff7?   There are a few: For language: Pagoda.  You'll see why in the interview. For flow: The very first main scene with all the exposition ("No, Jessie he's not with Shin-Ra anymore", and so on).               The Aerith death scene was also very difficult to make flow right.  I'm still not 100% happy with it, but I think this is an original writing issue and not             my fault. Script error: If you lose at Fort Condor during Huge Materia mission, you see a cutscene where all the villagers have died, and it was not localized properly at all.  I assume that because dying there was almost impossible, no tester saw the scene.  It needed reprogramming. Ifalna scene at Icicle Lodge:  Flow here again, too, because the text was not in order in the map (this happened from time to time) and making all that exposition flow correctly and sound good was challenging.  It had probably 5-8 revisions.  It sounds great now, I'm happy to say!   Which character in ff7 was the easiest to work on?   Yuffie.  All the characters were originally localized quite well as far as 'feel' is concerned. Barrett was a bit over the top, though.  Yuffie was easiest because I have a friend who is just like her.  It was a breeze and really fun to localize that character.  One scene where the dialogue is completely nonsensical is the following: {YUFFIE} “Are you waiting for {CLOUD}?”{NEW} “He's flying right now, so you can't get him.”{NEW} “Were you going to force me into the submarine right now?”{NEW} “Quit it! If you want to go, then just leave me behind.”{NEW} “…ooooooh. What're you talking about? I…” New: {YUFFIE} “{CLOUD}… Have you decided where we're going yet?”{NEW} “Come on,I can't take much more of this.”{NEW} “Hey,you're not thinking of shovin' me in that crappy sub,are you!?”{NEW} “I won't go! Never! Leave me here, leave me here!”{NEW} “…Urrrk. What am I saying?” *note, I've made the game add spaces after commas.   Since you have accomplished your goal of ff7 was there a game in the past not including ff7 where the dialogue aggrivated you to almost the point of translating it?   No    Man I guess the remake of FF7 puts a bit of a downer on this guy work   Not at all. Although I'd be far happier if I was the director of the remake and could use our localization.  Or, at the least, use our localization.  But the remake is going to be very different and I think our work will still be relevant after it is released.  Once the hype dies down, I believe mass apathy will set in (you'll see why I think that from interview), and more people will want to play the original at that point - not less.  I've also learned how to program in assembly, localize, and lots of other skills from this project that made it worthwhile - even if everyone hated it or never played it. Thanks everyone.  Let me know how you find the interview. Edit: Oh, one other thing.  I didn't mention that other people contributed to the project.  Prince Lex helped with Scottish (being a Scot) and Covarr did a thorough grammar check.  He also helps me from time to time outside of the project   The pagoda scene absolutely needed Covarr's input to make sure we hadn't made mistakes with the older English.  So yeah, check the credits list too.    I also suggest waiting for R04, if you are planning on going through the game.  That will be the last main update to translation / menu.

Amanda had to leave mid-show since she did not get as far as us. This was recorded as one big show. It has been split into two parts. Expect part 2 later. intro How the fuck do i play the game? epic intro epic music MOOGLES! Motha' Fuckin' PIMP Kefka I hate you Barron. I […]

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