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I spent about a month writing this. It's a 13k-word essay that uses a mix of humor and dramatic flair to tackle the subjects of escapism, gender, memes, philosophy, and the meaning of life or whatever, inspired by my time playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. It also attempts to answer questions like "Is Marche the bad guy?" once and for all.

(It uses some experimental grammar that I have been fooling around with, but overall I think it's very easy to follow, although a long long read.)

If you read it in full, and it made you feel something, let me know either here or PM or on Mastodon or via email.

Thanks.

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i wrote a thing about Ariel Pink. but it's more of a wrestling match with the cognitive dissonance that comes with enjoying music that's made by gross people. kinda a "separating the art from the artist" thing, kinda not. bound to inspire some negativity from some, but the goal is to explore this weird dynamic that happens between art and artist and fan in an open, cordial way.

created this video essay thing based on an essay i wrote for my website.

https://youtu.be/OBFZtIQYiiI?si=LDxjp-lfoh5cJ47s

if you happen to watch, let me know what you think

could post this in the SaGa forum as well but figured this would be a better spot.

covers some of the following:

0:00 (Introduction & Justification)

2:26 (CHAPTER I: History of Final Fantasy Legend II or: Richard Dean Anderson's Haircut in Season 6 of MacGyver)

5:11 (CHAPTER II: Presentation, Setting & Plot or: Smoke Dope, Go Bananas)

7:57 (CHAPTER III: Music or: Is this Emerson, Lake & Palmer?)

11:34 (INTERLUDE or: Artistic Gentrification)

13:15 (CHAPTER IV: Gameplay or: Nintendo Power Nominee for Hardest Game Boy Game of 1990)

20:58 (CONCLUSION or: SAVE THE WORLD or: If Richard Dean Anderson is the Peak 90s Action Celebrity ...)

"review" or something

what is the lore reasoning for NEW GAME + and NEW GAME ++? clearly, as new things happen each time, there is some continuity here; it's not simply "starting over" with no knowledge of what happened before, even Ayre says "let's see what you do this time" (or something along those lines). so, the question is: what's going on here? is it some form of time travel that only some people are aware of (Ayre, being one); is it Coral influence, meaning the Coral can alter time?