I often talk far too loud, my voice just carries, don’t know why!
Did you have a loud house growing up? Using voice coms in games it always interests me how radically different some people's home environments are. I could never imagine living in a house that noisy, but I guess for some cultures it's perfectly ordinary.
And, yeah, what you're describing sucks a lot, but it's most certainly not unique to New Zealand. The whole world is struggling right now to understand how our newly invented technologies fit into the grand scheme, and what that means about our place in the universe. What makes this incredibly difficult is that the rapid pace of technological development has exposed many flaws in how we have been doing things for a long time. Some of these discoveries are highly embarrassing, ruining the lives of totally innocent people and stoking the fires of anger because there's no good explanation for why you've lost everything other than the carelessness of those who wield power. Then you've got actual bad actors who are being threatened with exposure for endeavours they aren't capable of getting out of, even if they've actually learned why it's wrong thanks to the new perspectives technology offers. At the ass end of our world you've also got actual malicious actors who, for their own reasons, really do want to hurt others for the pleasure of it.
So those of us who really do care are tasked with
Figuring out what our place in this world actually is, in light of new discoveries
Figuring out how to actually communicate that, considering the challenges inherent to communication, exacerbated by all of the difficult circumstances and bad actors I outlined above
Actually DOING it
Now, while many lament the sorry state of the world and bemoan their fates, some have actually been working very hard to address these issues for a very long time, because the world has been through similar trials before. Religious texts, occult writings, philosophy and the natural sciences all offer a wealth of knowledge on many subjects important to maintaining the function of the world. Thing is, when you do start taking learning these things seriously, something slowly dawns on you: Our civilization really is a social construct... but it could not possibly have been created by humans. It is because people have been kept in fear that they don't even attempt to learn these things for themselves, content with allowing themselves to be used as pawns in games they aren't even aware are being played because it's made comfortable for them. But the world has a way of healing itself, and so even if people are kept in bondage by ignorance the systems they are bound by will decay as they are a net drain on resources, producing nothing novel themselves, and as people suffer from the decay of the systems keeping them comfortable they will be pushed to seek real answers elsewhere, and they will find the truth:
Uh, no. You're making yourself look like an ass and turning reasonable people who actually want to seek common ground, away. I actually love engaging with people like you, because you're so wildly unreasonable that it really highlights the difference in our arguments to the outside observer.
Nice try, but I said that massive unchecked immigration is ruining the state of public places, which is entirely correct. Maybe if you actually engaged with people instead of demanding that everyone you talk to must contort themselves into whatever overly narrow mould your masters have provided you to avoid having to actually think, you'd actually understand that cramming 2313412413545245 of anyone into a place built to support 3000 isn't ever going to work, and you are literally a pawn for repeating that shit without actually understanding anything.
I also recognize that effectively nothing actually changed from roaming a world map
There isn't much, but there are actually a couple of hidden locations related to important sidequests, like the zodiac weapons. I think there might also be something there related to the post-game content in the International version, but I'm not certain.
I'll actually copy a comment I saw recently by someone else who knows more about Final Fantasy than I do. Apparently it's much older than that.
Though historically the ATB system was invented for FF4 and used by all games until FFX itself before being used again for X-2, though I think most of them had the option of "active or wait" like Chrono Trigger to pick from. I haven't played most of those FFs to say for certain. Not that it makes it better, but it technically was the return to form and earlier games just had less you cared to watch happen.
Did you have a loud house growing up? Using voice coms in games it always interests me how radically different some people's home environments are. I could never imagine living in a house that noisy, but I guess for some cultures it's perfectly ordinary.
And, yeah, what you're describing sucks a lot, but it's most certainly not unique to New Zealand. The whole world is struggling right now to understand how our newly invented technologies fit into the grand scheme, and what that means about our place in the universe. What makes this incredibly difficult is that the rapid pace of technological development has exposed many flaws in how we have been doing things for a long time. Some of these discoveries are highly embarrassing, ruining the lives of totally innocent people and stoking the fires of anger because there's no good explanation for why you've lost everything other than the carelessness of those who wield power. Then you've got actual bad actors who are being threatened with exposure for endeavours they aren't capable of getting out of, even if they've actually learned why it's wrong thanks to the new perspectives technology offers. At the ass end of our world you've also got actual malicious actors who, for their own reasons, really do want to hurt others for the pleasure of it.
So those of us who really do care are tasked with
Now, while many lament the sorry state of the world and bemoan their fates, some have actually been working very hard to address these issues for a very long time, because the world has been through similar trials before. Religious texts, occult writings, philosophy and the natural sciences all offer a wealth of knowledge on many subjects important to maintaining the function of the world. Thing is, when you do start taking learning these things seriously, something slowly dawns on you: Our civilization really is a social construct... but it could not possibly have been created by humans. It is because people have been kept in fear that they don't even attempt to learn these things for themselves, content with allowing themselves to be used as pawns in games they aren't even aware are being played because it's made comfortable for them. But the world has a way of healing itself, and so even if people are kept in bondage by ignorance the systems they are bound by will decay as they are a net drain on resources, producing nothing novel themselves, and as people suffer from the decay of the systems keeping them comfortable they will be pushed to seek real answers elsewhere, and they will find the truth:
You were never alone.