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General Discussion / Re: Gamefaqs + eternal stupidity

« on: January 15, 2010, 11:59:14 PM »

Can you tell I stopped caring about ebmid? :P

  Hold on, isn't Magic Power capped like Vigor, where anything > 128 = wasted effort?

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General Discussion / Re: NFL season (2009-2010), week 19 - playoffs?!

« on: January 15, 2010, 08:34:04 PM »

Chargers over Jets -  The only concern I have is that the Jets can run on this defense, reducing the possibility to force the issue on the "Sanchise".
Colts over Ravens - The Colts barely won against the Ravens, but this game is at home.
Cards over Saints - There's something about Kurt Warner... maybe he'll win it all and retire. I do fear for that swiss cheese d that was on display last week.
Cowboys over Vikings - I have Favre, and frankly I think he'll revert to being INT-prone... like we all have come to know and love. Jared Allen is a beast, but DeMarcus Ware has a beast to go with him on the other side... once you force Favre to be the man... he'll fail more often than not, especially at his age.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: The Mechanics of Runiced/Runicked Spells

« on: January 15, 2010, 11:22:30 AM »

Oh, yeah. That...
Is that really runic though? I've never had Ultima here to test it.

That's a more perma-ish Runic than anything in this game!

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Gaming Discussion / Re: The Mechanics of Runiced/Runicked Spells

« on: January 15, 2010, 12:33:48 AM »

Runic or Ultima? Kefka and Magi Master both use Ultima. I don't know of anything that uses Runic.

Runic. Remember the "Spek"? The monster "absorbs" spells. Air Force was still a lame battle though.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: The Mechanics of Runiced/Runicked Spells

« on: January 14, 2010, 05:50:33 PM »

I hate how weak Quasar is. It's like the last spell in the game you acquire (I can't think of a sooner time than Kefka's final tower).

Someone screwed that up IMO... although GrandTrain is really the product of a Strago specific quest...

Monsters don't use runic so it's not like it'll work against you. I don't specifically enjoy the animation of ultima plus it's prone to have it's damage reset more than any other spell. That's it's true weakness.

Well, only one boss uses it, and nevermore.   

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Gaming Discussion / Re: The Mechanics of Runiced/Runicked Spells

« on: January 14, 2010, 02:23:45 PM »

One would argue Meteor or GrandTrain would be a better ultimate given being able to be absorbed by Runic.

Those spells would still be better than the overrated Wind Slash.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: The Mechanics of Runiced/Runicked Spells

« on: January 13, 2010, 04:26:41 PM »

It's actually fairly easy. Any spell that is single target (ie Hyperdrive, Fire3, etc) can be Runic'ed. Any spell that is party-wide (ie Ultima, Meteor) cannot be Runic'ed. I don't remember if there are exceptions to this or not, been too long.

You can Runic Ultima you goof.

There is no hard and fast rule of thumb. You know Runic fails when there isn't a reaction to the spell attack.

My answer for question D: There isn't any other reason, but consider that Vanish itself removes its own status or the possibility that a Vanished Celes/Gogo under Runic has this status removed is the logical reasoning for this behavior. It's very much like how Imp temporarily makes Celes/Gogo an Imp when Runic is being active... these are cosmetic effects that would probably need some recoding to handle certain cases.. it's probably easier to fix them after the spell effects.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: The Mechanics of Runiced/Runicked Spells

« on: January 13, 2010, 09:52:35 AM »

I would suggest that you read the FF3 Algo FAQ since that covers most of what you need to know. You could also use some of the FF3 Editors to determine which spells are affected under Runic.

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General Discussion / Re: Gamefaqs + eternal stupidity

« on: January 12, 2010, 10:11:55 PM »

<sarcasm>
I wonder, under these more realistic assumptions, who would do the most damage?
</sarcasm>

I like my assumptions better... where Cyan almost always get assraped by the Retainer.

Solo Cyan still loses the battle despite overkill.

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General Discussion / Re: Gamefaqs + eternal stupidity

« on: January 10, 2010, 09:07:46 PM »

Wind Slash is overrated.

Here's a better question that you could relay to him: What is the chance that Cyan will survive the Retainer's final attack while equipped with the Genji Glove-Offering-Dual Tempest combo, and Cyan has his best armor equipped (Genji Helmet+Armor).

That's how much I care about his silly Tempest fetish.

 
We can make up retarded scenarios like he can and prove equally useless points.

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General Discussion / Re: NFL season (2009-2010), week 18 - playoffs?!

« on: January 10, 2010, 07:05:02 PM »

Amazing game in the second half... although I thought I saw a facemask pull on Rodgers, but wow. No defense, all offense... and epic.

In Minnesota, a former Packer is 

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General Discussion / Re: NFL season (2009-2010), week 18 - playoffs?!

« on: January 10, 2010, 05:31:26 PM »

I'm having a craptacular day. At least I was right about at least a team beating the team they lost to last week... but I only managed to get the Jets win.

There's something to that Cards offense that seems like a version of the current Steelers offense... and it has everything to do with the head coach of the Cards who was a former Steelers offensive coach...

Go figure. This game seems to be done at the half, plus it's the reverse of the Pats-Ravens game (scorewise).

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General Discussion / Re: Can somebody explain the Stats page on this software?

« on: January 10, 2010, 03:33:21 PM »

OVER NINE THOUSAND!!! 

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General Discussion / Re: NFL season (2009-2010), week 18 - playoffs?!

« on: January 10, 2010, 02:59:04 PM »

There's time left, but congrats to the Ravens. The inability to stop the run, more specifically Ray Rice is the problem. That compounded with a good Ravens pass rush pretty much set the offense up for easy scores.

Flacco was a non-factor for the most part (although he was responsible for one key play), but they needed to expose what they needed to. I don't think they can do that forever... since a pass happy team has migrated more towards the run.

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General Discussion / Re: NFL season (2009-2010), week 18 - playoffs?!

« on: January 10, 2010, 11:09:26 AM »

Stats do not always tell you how a team is playing...