Hey. I'm back. What's up, hoopy froods 'o mine. I hope ya'll had fun with Paws last week, because well, you know, as I get lazier and lazier, she'll have to do more and more Q&A.. er.. just kiddin'. But you never know. I might DIE. That'd suck. I'd get all pissed off about that, if it happened. Oddly enough, I'm not being very morbid with a topic quite suited to it. Maybe I'm weird.

Heh. 'Maybe'.

:)

.. ooh, brief glancing blow that was headed towards a Nutcase-esque column.. but I'm way too tired (here at 2:30am) to even consider doing that to my head. Maybe if I downed a bit of whiskey first...

... hrm. Whiskey isn't open, but there was only one shot's worth of vodka remaining. Pulled out the 'Core Dump' shot glass.. poured the bottle out...

And realized just how nasty that stuff smells. Poured vodka down sink, proceed to use elite mental powers to attempt to calm stomach down.

Vodka is nasty stuff, kids.. it honestly smells like fingernail polish remover. It doesn't really taste much better. 'course, I have cheap vodka. But who buys expensive vodka? I sure the heck don't. I don't drink nearly enough to justify a portion of my monthly budget devoted to it.. and before someone gets proud that they do, that's just dumb, man. If you let something like that control your life to the degree where you spend a significantly measurable amount of your income on it..

So like, I'm not at church.. so why'm I preaching? I don't know.. maybe I'm weird. ... 'Maybe'. ;)

I recently recieved Final Fantasy Tactics (yes, I know, isn't it amazing what ya' can find at a secluded Kay B Toys) and I am having some trouble, and figuring you're the Oracle, I thought you might help. I am in Chap 3 where you have to fight Weigraf in Roiwhatever Castle. HE just Lightning Stabs me twice and I'm dead. Do ya' think you have any advice. Thanks.

Blameyourself

Brad:
This is a mean one. This battle has been one of the toughest points in any game for so many people that it's just insane. The worst part is, it's not over nearly as soon as you'd hope. But enough of that, you'll figure it out soon enough. :) The age-old method for whipping a new hole in Weigraf's 'platemail' is to slap the Squire abilities back on Ramza, and use 'Yell' (at least, I think it's Yell) and keep running away from him, upping your speed until you can get about 8 attacks to his single. I've done this before. It's cheating. Like being an archer in Asheron's Call. They're all cheaters. :)

So the next question is, "How do I do this without cheating?" .. auto-potion. Of course, if you don't have any cool potions, or Ramza hasn't learned Auto-Potion, you're screwed. But that's where you are anyway.. so it's not like it's much of a change. I also had Ramza as a Geomancer for a (too-long) portion of the game, and remember picking at Weigraf like that for a bit. I may have gotten my ass kicked while I did this, but I still think I remember doing it. I think. Maybe. Okay, use Yell.

Peace

John Lopilato

Brad:
Not to harsh this guy's gig.. but I went to the Funcoland in Santa Maria, and it was quite a bit less than impressive. Not only do they not know who I am, but the store just lacks. Sorry, dude. Your store is probably cool, but Funcoland here just.. well, sucks. I dig swappin' EQ / AC stories with Greg (two g's?) over at the Software Etc, he knows who I am. He doesn't care, either.. that's the cool part. :)

- Hall of Fame Announcer, Harry Carey.

Brad:
Well, much to YOUR dismay, you can't unequip basic clothing, (tunics, trousers, etc) from the players, so once they're stripped down as much as you can get them, they've still got a fairly complete set of clothes on.

First off, I've been reading the site since the days of Thor, and I gotta say that no one has demonstrated the committment and enjoyment of having this job as much as you have. You rule! That said, I'm an aspiring webmaster, and I was wondering if you could give me any pointers? My site is based a lot on reader participation, (art, opinions, etc.) and I need some suggestions on getting a reader base started; you know, getting people's attention. =]

Anyway, thanks a LOT for what ever advice you can give me, and if you don't get around to me, it's cool, just keep up the great work!

Brad:
Well, it all depends on if you want to be a 'webmaster' or an "HTML Designer" or whatnot. There are people who design and code webpages, but in my mind, the 'webmaster' is someone who takes someone else's (but not always) design and implements it. This is assuming, of course, that more than one person works on said page. If not, well, you're everything. Assuming someone else is handling all the nasty system administration stuff, the best idea is to learn HTML. Well. I mean, REALLY well. Get to know it, and what you can do with it. Learn enough Javascript so you can edit other people's Javascript and tweak it around to do what you want it to do, given a basic skeleton. Learn some cgi stuff. To get people to come to your site, you'll need naked women. .. well, either that, or just good, cool, and REGULARLY UPDATED content. There were a million and one sites out on the 'net that had RPG material on them, but Andrew Vestal's UOSSHP was a success because he updated the damned thing like every day. New content on a daily basis brings people back, well.. daily. Once you're a daily stop for people, you'll see real things happening with your readership.

Brad and stuff: Somebody asked if there were any RPG's where you changed color or shape when you equip stuff. You did this in Legend of Legaia and also in Diablo. In the latest Final Fantasies you weapons do change shape and stuff too. Those are about all the ones I can remember.... there are more I'm guessing. In any case have you noticed how square seems to like to have a main character injured and someone else in the party feels bad about it and you get to control them. Like in FF7 Cloud gets Mako poisoning, in FF8 Rinoa gets messed up, in FF6 Terra flies off and you find her in bed... uh that came out wrong, but you know what I mean, in Xenogears Fei gets messed up, and also, even thought its not square, in Wild ARMs Rudy cuts off his arm and you gotta patch that up, and I had thought of another one earlier but I forget now. But I'm not dissing it at all, actually I like the whole idea, it gives oppurtunity to elaborate more on some of the other characters feelings, what do you think? Well I stop at that. Later. Hayabusa

Brad:
Yes, Legend of Legaia had some cool looking stuff based on what armor you'd bought for whom, and weapons, and even the Seru changed as you powered them up. Legaia wasn't bad. I loved the camo suit for the chick. That ruled. Too bad it didn't last long. Oh well.