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Thanks! I'm really particular about spoilers, and with this game I really wouldn't want to give anything away. That's what spoilercasts are for. :)

Here's hoping, Travis!

Yeah, it's a labor of love, but I've gotten the opportunity to play a lot of games that I never would have on my own. It also allows you to put something new on the resume. Believe it or not, PixlBit may just end up being responsible for getting me a new day job, which is pretty fantastic.

FF V is the only game in the main series I haven't finished. I've started it at least 6 times, but it can never hold me. My best time is about 20 hours on the GBA version.

I don't know if it's the characters, the emphasis on the Job system over the story, or the fact that I don't care for the soundtrack, but something keeps me from finishing this one.

After playing a couple of battles, it explains things slightly better than the demo did, but things are still pretty chaotic. But the second battle has Jin and Xiaoyu teaming up with Akira and Pai with Ken and Ryu to fight off Dural and Juri along with a pack of Red Arremers.

That is the best sentence I have ever written. :3

This looks cool, but I'll wait for Huxley.

What, you don't remember Huxley?

...oh, yeah.

I knew that Australia was finally getting an actual mature rating, but I didn't know it had happened yet. The only thing I can think of is the Powers That Be are still stuck in that pre-18+ rating mentality that "if it's violent or sexual it's autobanned."

Sorry, whatsacow. I can only imagine how rough it is being a hardcore gamer Down Under.

Yeah, to be honest when you wrote about your dad I was shocked. Pokemon is so family friendly. I can get the Harry Potter stuff, what with the black magic. Some parents I know were way overboard on that stuff. I had a friend who wasn't allowed to play Super Mario Bros. because the manual says that Bowser is a sorcerer.

But at least on the media side, my mom trusted me to seperate fantasy from reality. I was buying M rated games from 16 on, and I was going to see rated R movies from 18 on. I'm happy that she lets me be, although there are times when there's friction. I went to Vegas with a platonic lady friend last summer, and my mom got on my case for sharing a room with a woman, even though we were in seperate beds.

But that may be a product of her being 70, also. :P

Hey, high five! I was raised Jehovah's Witness since I was born. My mother is still devout, and actually turned her back on her Catholic faith at the age of 9 to study on her own. She's 70 now, and I see the glow it gives her, and how active it keeps her mind. She looks and talks like a woman 20 years younger.

For myself, I'm torn. The way I was raised definitely helped me to be a good person. I'm honest, I follow the law and rules in general (my ex girlfriend laughs at me when I yell at her for running red lights), and I try to live my life the way my parents taught me.

But I don't study anymore, and I don't attend meetings. Why? I'm lazy. We also stopped attending for a good 5 years when I was a kid, and as such the message never took hold in me like it did for others. But my parents were strict on the whole "don't associate with worldly people" thing, so even though I had lots of friends at school, they weren't allowed to come over, and I wasn't allowed to go to their homes. Problem was, I didn't have any friends that were Witnesses, so I kept to myself.

In the long run, I think that's stunted my social growth. I have very few friends, because even as I got older and had people at work that wanted me to hang out with them, I would decline because I was under my mother's roof and abided by her rules. Now I'm 33, and I can count my close friends on one hand, and the closest of them just moved away, so I feel very lonely.

I can understand your frustration. For my part, I believe that the way Jehovah's Witnesses do things is great, and much more inviting than other Christian religions I've encountered. But you have to be committed to it, and if you're not, it can make things difficult on a kid.

I could hug you right now. In a totally manly and not weird way.

I wonder how long XIV can stay pay to play. FF XI has maintained a steady (and very profitable) number of subscribers, but I feel like the audience for XIV is all people that still play XI, and you can't expect all of them to play both at the same time. I'd see XIV go free to play at some point, but XI will probably stay subscription based until it finally shuts down.