FREE ONCE MORE!

I usually make a new 4TW file for each month to drop my dreamwidth entries or random screeching into, and I have literally only just made the file for June. It's the 27th. APPARENTLY I had nothing to say!

But it's okay, because:

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I HAVE BROKEN UP FROM WORK! I AM FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! For those who are new: I'm on a forty week contract, which means that I'm off work from basically now until September and I am SO HYPE! This week is for tidying the house, next week is for helping my Glasgow humans move house, and then I can just... Do whatever I want. Work gave me a £150 bonus (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) for all of the EDI shit I did this academic year, and my current plan is to put that towards a PS5 so that I can play FFXVI.

(I got the email about the bonus with a paragraph about WHY I got it while I was in the office with my managers and if I recall my response was "a;sfihyasugfa;lshfa;?!???!?!?!?!" and "YOU CAN'T BE NICE TO ME LIKE THIS, I CAN'T WORK UNDER THESE CONDITIONS!" ... Seriously, I was so confused because this? Is my job? That I'm already being paid for? Wtf my dudes.)

But yeah, I have only the vaguest of plans apart from that. Gonna sew some shit, knit some shit, clean my entire house, hopefully write all of the words in the world because I have SO MANY THINGS I want to yell about. That's the extent of my plans right now and it's GREAT. Hopefully see all of you while I'm doing that! ♥

Final Fantasy II explains NOTHING and that's okay!

HELLO INTERNET, I HAVE FINISHED FINAL FANTASY II.

I think my main issue with it is that it's in the awkward stage of game design where devs know that characters CAN have personality and traits and things, but not at the stage where that's actually... Doable? Except through the instruction book that the game comes with. ... Oh yeah, I remembered where I could find the explanation for who was related to who: it was in the instruction book! That games don't come with anymore! ANYWAY, yes, it's very much in the school of "Your characterisation is done in how people react to you," which is fine but something I struggle to get emotionally invested in.

(Q: Susan, didn't you make MULTIPLE POSTS sobbing about how much you loved your tiny meeple in Dragon Quest Builders 2?
A: Shut UP that was DIFFERENT --)

(... Okay but seriously, I get emotionally invested in silent protagonists when they have relationships that I can get invested in through them, like the Builder and Malroth in Dragon Quest Builders 2. Mostly silent characters who don't really interact with people are the emotional equivalent of sliding down a pane of glass.)

So yeah, everyone has just enough personality that I feel like I shouldn't just make their characters up wholesale like I did with FFI, but not enough for me to actually do anything with, if that makes sense.

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I think my summary is that I'm glad I played it to see more of the roots of where Final Fantasy as a series came from, but I don't know that I'd play it again. I like being able to look at the black mage village and go "Awww, I get to see you again in FFIX!" And it makes me happy to finally finish a game I started when I was a tiny baby Susan! I feel like I'm closing a loop, doing something that baby!Susan would have been excited about.