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This game has dominated my life so much in the past few months that I feel that I need to write something, anything on it. There were a few days where I'd check the Bungie.net set religiously along with IGN and Gamespot. I was, and still am, on the tip of spear in terms of new images, video, leaks, and general information. Aside from campaign, I looked for anything and everything I could feast my greedly little eyes on. Why am I such a Halo fanboy? The big thing in Reach, for me, is definitely the customization. I mean, the amount of combinations is ridiculous. I just did the math and not including Elites, the alien badies you can play as, there are roughly sixteen trillion, that's right trillion, different combinations. So pumped!

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Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:51:00 -0700 Wildbow Poaching http://dumbluck.posterous.com/wildbow-poaching http://dumbluck.posterous.com/wildbow-poaching

In an older post I talked about how I managed to squeeze the awesomeness that is Final Fantasy Tactics onto my not-so-awesome netbook in all it's glory. I've been playing it on and off ever since - in the past two days I've been playing it pretty much non-stop. Once you get passed the first few battles you're imagination when it comes to team building makes the game highly addictive. I wouldn't be surprised if I was reaching double-digits on my game completion count in this little gem but I still run into hiccups here and there. Today, I ran into a rather big one. If you're not some kind of Final Fantasy Tactics idiot savant you can ignore the next few paragraphs. If you are, kudos and weep with me brother.

It's important to note that I'm kind of a purist when it comes to this game. I want all the special characters (including Rad, Alicia, and Lavian), all the special abilities, and all the unique equipment. This leads to a lot of second-guessing and hair-pullery.

Problem the First: For whatever reason, I thought that you had an extra character slot in your roster for another generic. I attribute this to the fact that I was ignorant on how to obtain special characters in my young, foolish days. So, I did what any self-respecting tactian would do - I went strait to the Soldier Office and picked up the first 80+ Brave, Scorpio, renamed him after myself, and molded him into an amazing soldier who stole the Genji gear from the Silver Ogre, one of many amazing feats of awesomeness. I started to notice things getting a little cramped when I picked up Meliadoul after absolutely handing it to Zalera and his posse of undead warriors. I counted two, not one, two, characters yet to be added to my roster. Stupid Byblos. So long super king Secret Hunt / Steal ninja thief. You will be missed. This also ties into my second problem.

Problem the Second: I want all the rare items. All of them. Even the shitty ones. Even the ones that you'll never touch because a superior version exists. Even the FS Bag. What's the FS Bag you say? Never heard of it you say? Well, it's pretty much the holy grail of uselessness in Final Fantasy Tactics. There is a beast in this game that is so rare that you never, ever see one in a random battle or a story battle. The only way to see the majesty that is the Wildbow is to breed one of it's lesser siblings, Uribo or Porky. Unfortunately for me, in all my infinite wisdom, I forgot to pick one up in the one story battle and the one hidden battle before Deep Dungeon: END which is where you pig up the afformentioned stupid Byblos. This means that my asexual little Uribos won't have any room to do the dirty. The only solution is a random battle somewhere that has the little piggies.

I scowered the internet for this shread of information that I thought would be quite easy to get. Eventually, I stumbled onto a forum post that made me laugh. A person with the user name fahrenheit had the exact same problem as me, to the tee. What made me laugh was that it was me. I am fahrenheit. Or I was Fahrneheit. Two years ago I posted a message asking for help out of the very situation I'm in today. Unluckily for me, everyone in the forum was utterly useless. Luckily for me, I had responded to my post in that forum with a solution. There was a random battle with an Uribo.I'm just going to throw this information out there on the nets - maybe it'll help some lost fahrenheit one day.

In the late stages of the game, you can still get an Uribos by entering Dolbodar Swamp from the Bethla Garrison pass. This is only helpful for poaching Ribbons and FS Bags before you've gotten the Byblos or Cloud if you want to keep all special characters.

Update: It took me about two hours to get my hands on my first FS Bag ever. It's just as lame as I expected. On the other hand, I now have more ribbons than I will ever need. Here are some pictures I snapped during the ordeal.

This is a tale as old as time, a group of soldiers trying to stop needless blood shed run into a pig who walks on two legs and save him from a group of young squires accompanied by a bull demon. Needlees to say, lighting and holy light was used. Afterwards, the same team that saved the pig allowed it to asexually reproduce and evolve into a new species. This new species was slaughtered to make pretty ribbons and bags for women. And they lived happily ever after.

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Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:40:00 -0700 Final Fantasy Tactics - Now for PC http://dumbluck.posterous.com/final-fantasy-tactics-now-for-pc http://dumbluck.posterous.com/final-fantasy-tactics-now-for-pc

So it took the better part of a day and a lot of patients, research, and messing around but I finally got the greatest game of all-time to work on my crappy little netbook. I'm especially proud because a lot of people seem to be having trouble running this game one even souped notebooks. I present to you: Final Fantasy Tactics.

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What is it that makes this game so insanely fun? I can brag about it's depth of gaming, strategy, and replayability. I could talk about the storyline that doesn't dumb itself down for the average gamer filled with twist, backstabs, and unsung heroes. I could even go on in great lengths of the customization in terms of job classes, abilities, and mix and matching. But when it comes down to it - you've got to experience this game for yourself.

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Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:40:00 -0700 Handles & Monikers http://dumbluck.posterous.com/handles-and-monikers http://dumbluck.posterous.com/handles-and-monikers

For whatever reason, I think names are pretty important and I think there should always be at least a little story behind them. So, over the years I've had a ton that I thought were good at one point or another. Here's the list in no particular order.

  • zugzwang is a chess term meaning "compulsion to move" which describes a situation in which any legal move would result in an unfavourable position
  • haribon is the common name for the Philippines Eagle which comes from haring ibon meaning "King of Birds"
  • eurekaMachine stems a little bit from the Eureka7 series, machine was just for uniqueness
  • Hokuro Doukan is an unintentional typo on the Japanese words Dokuro and Houkan which mean skull and jester, respectively
  • fushigidane is the Japanese name for the very first pokemon, and my personal favourite, Bulbasaur
  • jester is the call sign of Casey Nolan - your wingman in MechWarrior 4 and your enemy in MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
  • ikigai is a Japanese term roughly translating to "the reason you get up in the morning" - no jokes
  • dumbLuck is a twist on my friends XBox live name dumbCrack
  • Fahrenheit this is in reference to the Queen song "Don't Stop Me Now" in which Freddie calls himself "Mister Fahrenheit"

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