Ha, I was planning on answering all the 4’s – especially because this one is pretty boring.
4. Have you ever had an STD?
No. However, I know several HIV+ guys, one with penile scarring from syphilis (it’s kind of a faint spot pattern, not actually that gross), and one who had gonorrhea at least ten times. That last one I know for a fact because I had to go to the clinic with him for time #10. I attribute my own lack of problems of that sort to good luck and how infrequent it actually is for anyone to cum in me.
honestly the fact that ike fire emblem has been a character many nerd boys have projected on since even before he appeared in ssb because he’s big and muscular is such a shame because he’s become synonymous with ‘strong nintendo male power fantasy character’ even though he’s so compassionate and kind and despises meaningless violence to the point where he deeply respects people innately capable of diplomacy like elincia who he helped not to be famous or anything but because he cares so much and believes he genuinely owes everyone his time.
like this is a character who embodies everything good and while the chicken nugget memes can be funny we’ve reached a point where people genuinely think he’s a meathead devoid of empathy who likes to kill shit for no reason and this mischaracterization has even reached the official writers of the later games like in fates who made him ‘challenge’ people to test his skills when he said in rd he doesn’t enjoy war at all and it’s implied he kind of resents that fighting is the only thing he’s good at, and also the whole priam thing in awakening where they gave him a great- great-granchild for no reason who almost seems like a parody of how ssb fans think the real ike would act
this isn’t even mentioning the whole debacle about his sexuality, because radiant dawn implied and left up to interpretation whether or not his endings with ranulf and soren were romantic, having those ideals of masculinity projected on him has made people become hostile to the idea of him being gay even though the narrative sets it up nicely and basically his whole treatment is a huge example of how toxic masculinity affects everything up to our dumb ass video games and our perception of t
A dry bourgogne, not the best but just about the only appealing French red I could find at the nearby grocery the day I got it. They really need a better selection, but I’ll take what I can get.
Also, two more oddities related to the translation patch:
The title of Chapter 11x, “Murder Hollace.” Google tells me nothing about what a “hollace” is other than an obscure name and an equally obscure bit of slang, so what were they trying to say here? Should it have been “Murder Hallway”? That’s what the first section of the map is.
Eda’s death quote which I saw at the first opportunity since I forgot to check ballista ranges references someone named Kate. Is this supposed to be Altena, or maybe Linoan? Does Eda have a girlfriend she never talks about anywhere else and this is why I’ve seen her offered up for a sapphic makeover in the remake?
Not that I have much right to complain when I know nothing of either Japanese or programming, but between stuff like this, the glitching, and the stupid memetic jokes the patch for this game is pretty embarrassing especially when compared with the latest ones for Genealogy, Binding Blade, and New Mystery. I’m aware that there’s a patch that came out last year that leaves the Japanese script for story and dialogue but makes all the menus and interfaces clean and readable, but it doesn’t seem like that project is moving toward a full translation. I wonder if something about FE5 makes it unusually hard to program?
I finally finished FE5, and even though I suppose I technically would have to do a second playthrough to experience route B at the split I’m pretty sure I’m done with this game and its many frustrations. Gameplay commentary below since I’ve not much new to remark on in terms of plot or characters.
I now fully understand why this game’s infamous difficulty is dubbed frustrating and unfair. Half the challenge in some of the endgame maps comes from the simple inability to choose where your units are deployed, and most of the rest is infinite range and highly accurate status staves everywhere. I brought some of it on myself by wanting to do a complete run (recruiting everyone including Xavier and going to all the gaiden chapters), but definitely not a kind of difficulty I enjoy.
I had to restart or prolong more than one chapter because I either forgot something crucial (ex. that Lara has to recruit Perne to become a dancer; she can’t talk to him afterward) or didn’t realize something that seems so simple in hindsight (ex. having a unit wait in front of the gate in 17A to open it). And even with Tina and the thieves doing their things I never felt like I brought enough keys. These are things you don’t really pick up too well from LPs.
On a more positive note I enjoyed the concept of dismounting and only really took issue with how strangely it deals with weapons for most units. I think it’s also true in FE3 that only generals can use lances indoors, but stuff like that is still unnecessarily restricting. I’m also newly appreciative of FE10 waiving its mounted movement penalty for endgame, because setting the last three maps indoors in this game makes around a dozen units almost useless.
The worst part about fatigue is that it hits the most valuable utility the hardest as they tend to have the lowest max HP.
Even with all the weird one-off mechanics in many respects this game plays like a rougher GBA game. This doesn’t endear me to it any more as the GBA game never were my favorite to play, and it’s a sharp contrast with Genealogy which has a bunch of gameplay quirks I quite enjoy.
The patch translates Marty’s epithet as “the beloved ‘son’ of Dagda.” There are two separate gay innuendos in there, but nevertheless I’m annoyed that I didn’t get it as it’s always rendered by the fandom.
This game really does need a remake, preferably on the level of FE15. I don’t even think a better translation patch could salvage the experience for me. At least now I can say I’ve played every canon FE either in original or remake form.
demoiselledefortune said
i actually for a bit was leery of following you because of that!! I didn’t know that was common among francophones in america.
(for a long while i mean)
That’s interesting to hear.
I assumed it was at least a little known back in France, since this is the official flag of Québec
and I got the impression that France and Québec were in regular communication if only because of the shared language that also locks Louisiana out of the loop, damn Anglos. The fleur-de-lis also appears on the Franco-Ontarien flag so I’m guessing the symbol works as a shorthand for French people in Canada, just as it does here, because it’s everywhere in Louisiana and New Orleans especially from the state welcome signs on highways
to the ironwork
to gimmicky tourist memorabilia
to the logo of New Orleans’s American football team, the Saints (which I especially hate for being both culturally appropriative and irreverent as almost everyone involved is neither French nor Catholic)
to of course the flags flown in New Orleans, a city somewhat well-known for flying more non-US flags than possibly anywhere else in the country – how no one’s ever complained about it I’m not really sure, given self-identified Americans’ obsessive fetishism for their own iconography.
It’s a quirk of history: France’s North American colonies predate the Revolution, and with the way Anglos in the US (and I assume Canada) tend to reduce non-Anglo ethnicities down to simple and easily recognized iconography I suppose we all grasped onto the one symbol that expresses without question “ici, c’est les Français.” There are actually designs for the French Louisiana flag that incorporate both the fleur-de-lis and the colors of the Tricolore, which would probably be sacrilege in France
and also this more inclusive flag, which incorporates the Castilian castle on red for Spanish Creoles and the star on white for Cajuns (whose patron is the associated Notre Dame de l’Assomption).
I personally don’t care much for either version since red, white, and blue is an incredibly overdone color combination for flags and, you know, the colors used by the very Anglos who’ve forced us to reduce our identities down to one symbol and have weird conversations like these with people in France on why we’re still using the fleur-de-lis so many years after it ceased to be relevant or fashionable back home. I believe it’s fitting though that one of the most flexible symbols in European heraldry has changed meaning yet again and that even with the monarchy dead some people (very few of whom are descended from the Second Estate – certainly not me) are still getting a use out of it. I just wish the circumstances were better….
The thread’s about four years old, but today I got a kick out of reading someone on Dreamwidth complaining about me because my icon is a “monarchist symbol.” Clearly this person isn’t familiar with popular iconography among Francophones in the Americas.
If I’ve been quiet for the last two days it’s because I’ve been playing FE5 for the first time. I stand by my previous assessment that this game really needs a remake, because even in Easy mode and with the perks of an emulator it throws some absolutely ridiculous stuff at you – and I’m only about 1/3rd of the way through.
Gascon-en-exil: Gallophilic Cultural Posturing 