Final Fantasy IX Part #15

Part 15: OGLOP!!!

Schwartzcough posted:

Well this doesn't sound promising. I don't suppose you can turn enough tricks on the corner to afford to buy a new computer on Cyber Monday or something...?

this is a very white, somewhat-insular well-to-do college town, they don't want exotic only-sort-of-in-shape nerdy hawaiians

--I mean, uh, no, I would never even deign to stoop that low

Calaveron posted:

Or just buy an electric fan and point it at your case? Couldn't hurt.

I actually have a cooling pad under it and an fan turned on it. And it's under 50 degrees in here anyway. Thanks, university housing, for not fixing our central heating when I told you it was broken a month ago!

But hopefully we will persevere. I'll sacrifice world map framerate for turning down how large ePSXe thinks my video card is, and I'm looking into one of those manual fan control plugins and I'll just constantly run it around 4500-maximum rpms. Apparently the root of the problem is a hardware incompatibility with Windows that you just have to go out of your way to fix. Yes, a lot of it is my computer's age, and my average temperature is about 10° higher than newer computers, but the main problem lies in the OS and how it just doesn't play well with any Mac hardware.

Lindblum Castle is basically a gigantic steampunk wet dream.

"Oh just wait till you see the bong room"
"I will not abide by such immorality!"
"No I mean like
the entire room is a bong, it's that huge"

"Yes, I came here a few times when I was little... I haven't been here much since my father passed away."

"[...] Show me some kind of proof of your royal heritage."

"Call Minister Artania!"

Then, this fella walks in:

If you are calling him "uncle" but are not actually related to him, then he had better be as fucking badass as Uncle Kazuma

Speaking of which, the Yakuza 2 LP is now underway and Jamesman is a superchill and fun LP'er, like pre-Internet celebrityhood Studbagel was. Not to say the Freelance Astronauts aren't still really entertaining, just kinda... I dunno, once the self-depreciatingly ironic guest commentators came in, the charm just evaporated.

Yeah we'll follow you when we're good and ready.

"Come on, you'll love it.
This is your only chance to hear it.
Okay, here it goes. When I was 27...
......
zzzZZ... zzzZZ..."

Yes, FF9 has electronically-sculpted art pieces. And people wonder why I miss pre-rendered backgrounds.

something about a resident evil reference that i never got on account of not playing shitty games (or, at least, non-multiplayer shitty games that don't let you drink a case of heineken with your friends and make offensive jokes at each other about women fending off angry black guys with stun rods (in case you didn't know, this actually happens in resident evil 5))

oh so your girlfriend drives stick-shift huh? well my girlfriend drives an antique airship

"*whisper-whisper*The huge bong room?*whisper-whisper*"

Back home, there's this old guy who does some astrology program on the public access channel. He once had a special episode about his homemade marijuana vaporizer machine. He does look very much like this Engineer Zebolt here.

"Ahh, so that's the official name, huh? Sorry, Huihui, I meant, 'the Airship Research Center,' we gotta go there like right away"

Well, after we save. I've noticed something very strange about how perspective is handled in FF9. In horizontally-scrolling rooms, objects are stretched lengthwise the closer they get to the edge of the screen. In vertically-scrolling rooms like this one, objects are stretched height-wise the closer you are to the top or the bottom of the screen. Both this Moogle and Kilika are much taller and thinner than they should be, and this room always makes me do a double-take.

We have a letter to this guy from the Moogle in the factory beneath Dali.

Do all Moogles have like ADD or something

Anyway, I saved and I noticed something

what is that fucking midget doing at the front of this party

this shit is arranged by height (actually not really i'm just oppressing him but you know)

Kilika never misses an opportunity to mack on a chick

"I was really looking forward to flying No. 1, but it's gone now..."
"Don't worry. You'll get your chance someday, and you'll be the first pilot ever to fly the new model.
By the way, what's your name?"
"My name is Erin."

Well I suppose you can't blame a man for tryin', Holly is probably through adventuring with us so we gotta expand our options, I guess.

Okay, so what did that minister want again?

you have a fucking pink ribbon tying back your rat tail

you are not uncle kazuma

He basically gives us an uncharacteristically-pointless rundown of where the lift can take you.

what the fuck is that

Huihui just punches the fuck out of it.

Though "OGLOP!!!" might not be such a terrible battlecry.

Everyone's a critic

"About six months ago, someone snuck into the castle and attacked the regent in his sleep.
Unfortunately, we were too late...
The regent had been transformed into an oglop, and his wife, Lady Hilda, was abducted."

shut up kilika

just because i told kilika to shut up doesn't mean that it's okay for you to be loud and annoying

Yes this is definitely the country we needed to come to for help

"The cheap food here is a lot better."

This is the DOOM PUB. No, I'm not shitting you about the name, but with a name like that, it does seem to be lacking a certain... flavor of clientele.

Okay, I mean, an airship pilot is classy, maybe she's cute and she has a professional future, but this one clearly moonlights.

"yes well you know what they say about certain immigrants, that being that they have tails because a couple generations before their families came to hawaii there was a very dark secret between a man and a monkey"

(this is actual stereotype lore from hawaii btw, i couldn't make this up)