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Thanks for the suggestion. I have been trying goldendict (ng and other variants) these past few days, and I found it quite a nice fit for what I wanted, though a bit frustrating. Most likely a skill issue on my part tho. I haven’t tried getting sample dictionaries, for one. I’ll give it yet another try.
That last sentence in the first spoiler is more or less my take on her situation.
I saw Ultimecia as more of a tragic character than someone who really wanted power for its own sake, which is why I don’t really see her as wanting to be a god. She just wanted a way out of the time loop. As you’ve said: she went mad from repeated (?) failure.
Coincidentally, I thought Squall, at the very end, could have had ended the time loop. In that cutscene after Ultimecia’s defeat, as he was wandering back to his own time, he met a much younger Edea, who has then just inherited Ultimecia’s power. He could have chosen not to tell Edea about SeeD at this point, but I don’t think he’s aware he was talking to that Edea he knew (even though I think the surroundings should have sufficiently clued him in).
I found Squall falling in love with the daughter of Laguna’s first crush to be a nice little thing. I also liked Laguna far better as a character, and his love story with Raine a far superior love story than the main one. I think he really fell in love with Raine, but his fatherly love for Ellone far outweighed it.
My results.
When I am unsure, I answered “blue”, which I guess swayed my score further into green than it should be.
EDIT: I misspoke.
Yeah, I’m looking for an offline dictionary program on the desktop, which is surprisingly difficult. I already have a suite of online dictionaries I use via the browser, but I want a dedicated desktop app that doesn’t use as much resources as my browser (cue the “unused RAM is wasted RAM” chorus).
I’ll try Aard2 on my phone and Aard2-web in the meanwhile.
Back on topic, kiwix is a neat program, and I was considering using wiktionary (en) through it.
What a coincidence. I was just trying out kiwix on my system just earlier. While it didn’t fit what I was looking for (I was looking for an offline dictionary program), I think it’s still quite neat.
Was Ultimecia characterized as (a) god, or wanting to be one?
I think Ultimecia wanted a world that consists of only her, hence she could be considered a god in her own world. She succeeded until the power of friendship and love defeated her but …
I don’t think it counts under what I understood the prompt in the OP is all about. But then again, it’s been a while since I last played that game, and I hardly paid much attention to the story (got too icked out by the love story). Cool game mechanics tho.
Give that poor bear a rest! They look exhausted and have had their liquids wrung out of them.
I’m echoing a lot of the replies here by saying “No.” Even if I’m given a choice as to what kind of life I’d live, still no.
Even if people say there’s a lot of good things in life, or that there are people living their dreams in this world, still no. I don’t play the lottery, even if I might end up with more money than I could ever hope to spend. The same logic applies here.
There would be no me to regret not existing if I don’t exist.
You’re Truck-kun’s handler?! Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to help me. Let me just wipe out my browsing history as well as all my storage here and I’ll be with you shortly.
I am from Manila, so I have been careful not to brush the area off as “backswoodsy and poor”. But yeah, that’s why I was prepared to explain things off as “yeah, they’re poor and desperate”. But then again, it feels wrong, IDK, lol~
I missed the word “indigenous” even though it’s mentioned not just in the article, but also in the news report I saw. With a possible few exceptions, the indigenous peoples in the Philippines have been neglected and marginalized, and their communities been poor because of that.
So, you want to be an isekai protagonist. Understandable, me too!
I think it’s still a sought-for delicacy, and they would have probably sold its meat if it weren’t for the environmental regulations making such a trade difficult.
Also, something is gnawing me about how the article said lots of other seafood are available in the area. So I am thinking the sea turtle crawled its way to where the victims are, and the victims thinking “it’s a waste if we let this delicacy go to waste, let’s cook it!” I don’t know.
Definitely not a bunch of rich dudes gorging themselves on a rare delicacy and getting their comeuppance tho.
I had to double-check the location where the incident happened, prepared to write paragraphs on how the area is poor and undeveloped and so environmental protections are ignored when literal hunger is the more important consideration… but I am not too sure now.
The overall area is poor, not entirely remote, but still remote in comparison to places like Manila or Davao. I was under the impression that this event happened on a remote island municipality where sourcing food is an issue, but maybe it’s just poverty?
Not excusing the act nor gloating over the deaths though, just trying to understand (and failing) how this came to be. Not to mention why they ignored the glaring signs before they slaughtered and cooked the creature. In the news report I saw here locally, and I am recalling from memory, it is said that the victims found the turtle’s shell to be discolored, but still proceeded anyways.
“Noted.”
Yeah, I get that. Watching the drama from the sidelines would have been entertaining if it weren’t for the effects such an infighting would result.
But hey, the voters wanted that shit. Let the popcorn flow!
It’s an open secret that the Marcos Jr.-Daughterte (son of a former dictator, daughter of Duterte, a wannabe-dictator and former mayor and president) tandem has been a marriage of convenience, and will break at some point, so yeah, no surprises there.
No surprises on Daughterte’s words either, given her father. If all you have is a gun…
It took me a stupid amount of time to realize that it’s not about mass transit system being underfunded and wanting for money. Not even the presence of the word “customers” tipped me off, it was only after I encountered the words “eat subway” that I thought, “huh, that’s strange. Don’t they mean ‘eat inside the subway’? Fare dodgers that eat inside public transport?”
I sliced, pickled, and ate the onion.
I changed schools. Now, even if I wanted to approach her, I can’t!
Kidding aside, I asked myself “if I am so anxious even approaching her, how can I even be in a relationship with her?” and basically forced myself to decide whether to: “yeah, this is a crush that I won’t be doing anything about it, better to not let it linger and move on” or “I must do something about the anxiety.”
If my feelings is not intense enough for the second option, the feelings will die soon enough, and will not make me regret that much.
In reality, I tend to think “no, they’re more than likely not into me (due to various reasons)”, and I’ll just let the feelings be until they decay. Did it lead to regrets? Not really. The few times I’ve actually asked and approached someone I had a crush on, they were flattered, but ultimately told me they’re not into me. The more it happened, the more I felt justified in my way of thinking.
Oh! Forgot which event happened after which other event in that long cutscene after the final boss battle.
FF8 spoilers
I thought Squall met the younger Edea after receiving Ultimecia’s powers. I only remembered the fact that Squall implanted the idea of SeeD into Edea, but I couldn’t remember how exactly it happened.
As for Rinoa, back when I first played the game, I was a bit younger than Squall is, and Rinoa annoyed the hell out of me—far more than I got annoyed with Selphie, supposedly the annoying one. Younger me would have preferred if Squall fell in love with someone else, heck, even Seifer would have been a better love interest for Squall as far as younger me was concerned. I guess then, their love story worked nicely, and younger me was just too stubbornly edgy to appreciate that.
I think Laguna and Raine’s love story resonated with me far better because it’s far less “abrasive” and in-your-face. It might be a more bland and ordinary love story, but it’s a nice foil to the main love story between Squall and Rinoa.
EDIT: failed my spoiler formatting