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The Oracle, Brad Lohr - October '99- 00:30 PDT
Fun day. Fat head day! Big fat head day! .. well, no, actually.. fun day.
Got my big bad nasty CGI done today at work. My first -real- CGI/Perl stint, and it was just frickin' huge.
Then after work today, we all went to a Linux User's Group meeting at Cal Poly SLO, and heard the guest speaker... Rasterman.
He's the head guy for the Enlightenment, er, how did he put it.. er, I don't remember. It's a window manager, with some desktoppie things, too.
He had fire. The fire was cool. Anyways, just really neat to see the big neat geeks out there. I pay homage to his great geekness. And if any
of you think that's not one of the utmost in high compliments, well, go to your room!
In other news, well, we didn't have a lot of Xenogears questions, but the people who were into Xenogears are well pleased... sated.. and fed.
Well, I hope so, at least. Last time I looked in the cage, Thor was getting that nasty hungry goin' pretty good. He didn't think I'd really do it
when he saw that redhead and said, "Man.. I'd give up food for a month for a couple nights with her.." ...heh.. boys!
As for other news, well, I know how much you all love to know about my weekend plans. Work, probably. Doh. Oh well, maybe a little Suikoden 2 thrown
in for variety, and of course, the usual scrambling around trying to finish Physics, C++, Math, and Digital Logic homework. Erghghghghhgg...
Not only that, but a whole bevy of unusual things to do at work before Monday rolls around. OOoh, Gau's theme. Very groovy.. full orchestration.
Anyway, kiddo's... I've got a bit of column to slice off, you've got some readin'.. go bug Veronica for me this weekend. Give 'er hell. I was nice,
then she posted that whole sex partners thing. No bad feelings, but ..er, well, I know how ya'll can be, so give 'er hell. She earned it. ;)
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Palm IIIx with database support.. Mmmmm..
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Tiara Monkey, funky funky..!
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ZoOOoOmbay, ZomMMmbaay!
It's in your heeeAD, in your heEEAAaAAd!
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Pirates, ahoy!
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Hey Brad,
I have a two quick questions for you.
1) I was on gamecave's web site recently and was planning on purchasing the
FF4 soundtrack (a long time favorite). Only problem was that there were two
versions available: There was the FF4 original (about $33) and there was FF4
Original (SM) for about $18. What is this "SM" and why are soundtracks with
it so much cheaper? Is it simply a different format?
2) What do you think of the idea of square having a "ffonline" (hey, that
sounds familiar...) where players will get to compete against one another and
explore an online world (a la everquest). Though some would argue this would
degrade any story elements in such an FF release, I have always wanted to pit
my FF tactics characters against someone else's.
Crimson Wulf
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Brad:
Okay, this is actually a very good issue/question to bring up. The SM stands for Son-May, which is a company which basically
pirates the CDs and copies them. In other words, you get your music a little cheaper, but it's stolen. At least, this is what I've heard. Anyone
with more info on Son-May and how dumb it is to buy stolen music instead of downloading it.. (cough), er, buying it... er, in light of that,
I'd prefer if someone downloaded mp3's than buy Son-May. If you want to buy the soundtrack, buy the real version. And to clear things up, I
have purchased several CDs, including FF:Pray(very good!) FF:Love Will Grow(not as good as Pray, still pretty good), and FF7:OST, well, er,
I didn't buy that... it was my christmas present I got like in February from this girl who'd broken up with me just after christmas, and
had ordered it for me, or something. It was just really weird... but hey, I got the FF7 ST, and a t-shirt that says, "3 years of your crap, and
all I got was the FF7:OST and this lousy t-shirt", or.. something, (smirk). Oh yeah. FFVI - Grande Finale, very very good CD. Go buy it.
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Hey, my name isn't St-- er.. YES. MY. NAME. IS. STEVE.
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Hey Steve,
I've been looking to buy a pet monkey for a long time now. I'm just curious as to how much monkeys are going for these days.
The cheapest I can find them is for 300 bananagps and well as we all know the only way you can get bananagps is by killing the
Banana Behemoth which lives in the Banana Republic. Since Banana Behemoths only give you one bananagp, I'm gonna have
to kill 300 of those things and well they are hard to kill. I just can't seem to cut through the banana skin armor with my magical butter
knife. Oh steve, I got one more question for you. I never really got a chance to play any of the Lunar games. I'm wondering if its worth
going out and buying Lunar: SSSC before they stop selling it.
Lates,
steve
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Steve:
LUNAR. GOOD. HAD. MUCH. FUN. GO. BUY. GOOD. STEVE.
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Choco-MOOT
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Ok, could you explain to me how to catch a chocobo?
The game and numerous crappy online guides have said, "When you detect
one, blow the Ziner and catch the lone chocobo."
All right, so I use the ChocoSonar and then find the spot/spots. I use
the ChocoZiner and what happens? *Three* of those deformed cockatiels
drop down! All they do is peep/wark/kweh or whatever sound they make.
And if I blow that Ziner again, they just float up, leaving none of
those overgrown canaries behind.
So how the hell am I supposed to catch a chocobo? Online guides have
been no help, and that dumb Chocoboy is milking me of my gil.
-Cid Breakwind
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Brad:
I hate to be even less help, but honestly, 1200 isn't that much money. Just pay the kid. I tried several times to get the
damned chocobos.. and it was just like, "uh, why am I bothering with this?".. and so I never worked for one again. :) The benefits of a decent
SeeD ranking. ;)
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Like, As IF! .. TOTALLY!
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Okay, so we all know there's a cool new Chrono Trigger remake coming out and it's going to have nifty
anime, but one thing that still hasn't been mentioned- is it going to have voice actors?! I just have
to know! Because if it does I might just have to go and import it for fear of listening to one of my
favorite games being horribly dubbed. I even had a nightmare a few nights ago that I was playing it
and Magus started talking in this God-awful English voice. Then again, Enix didn't do a bad job at all
with dubbing all the voices in Star Ocean, but this is Square we're talking about here. They've got
enough problems changing *text* into English....
-Mijae
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Brad:
As if they could use a voice actor for CRONO. Heh. That is to say, that I haven't heard that they'll be using voice actors, and
honestly, I'd be suprised if they did. Not really the style of remake. I think Square's just trying to make new money on old hat. I'm not complaining,
due to the neat things like releasing FF5 in the states, and stuff. 'sides, if a company can make money, go for it. laissez-faire all the way,
bay-bee!
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You put your left foot in.. .. do the hokey pokey!
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hey brad,
got a small question for ya. In ff8, do you gain money on the world map
or just in "dungeons"? Personally I'm just too lazy to figure it out myself,
but I've never been awarded money on the world map.
thanks,
Morgan
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Brad:
You earn SeeD rank payments due to how many steps you take, regardless of where they are. AFAIK.
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