Man, there’s so much to unpack here and I’m going to do my best to not be super snarky about it. Honestly.

Look man, there’s two outcomes here: We reopen, kill a bunch of people and continue to tank the economy, or we keep taking measures and tank the economy. There is no outcome from this pandemic in which the economy is not tanked.

But that’s not as convincing an argument as his straw man, and he’s got BOATLOADS of money, so he’s right!  God damn communist!

I reeeeally don’t think that’s going to be an issue here. I don’t know that it’ll be good, but there’s two things:

I get that as a fan of the original, but you can’t end a huge 40 hour RPG on... the end of a highway and just walking out of the city. There had to be some kind of big bad, and it makes sense that they have to establish Sephiroth as the true villain after Shinra goes down.

I didn’t level it up either in my playthrough either, I think it’s just because its requirements are so much higher than everything else. I can’t find the pure numbers, but I know arise takes 5000AP to level, but level 3 of an elemental is only 900.  

I do not have that reaction to Tonberries, it is always, “Aw fuck I’m gonna get rocked here.”

Definitely finish the game first. Bahamut isn’t really intended to be a first playthrough boss.

Leviathan you can get on your first playthrough, but I really don’t think you’re expected to get Bahamut in your first playthrough. You need to max all the magic materia to complete one of Chadleys items before you can get the Bahamut fight, and you get 3x AP gain after beating the game.

I’m pretty sure there’s a difference between difficulties as well. I did a couple of Colosseum battles on easy and it looked like it the summon bar appeared pretty much as soon as I staggered an enemy.  I haven’t tried hard yet, but it seemed to me that Easy difficulty was way more willing to get your summons into…

I felt that was by design.  You’re supposed to cycle through characters, get their ATB up, use it, then move on to another character while they’re executing whatever it was you selected.

You’ve got some pretty serious gymnastic chops yourself for putting that strawman together.  Yeesh.

Aside from the dungeon gimmicks (a tour de force in level design this game is not), most of the other stuff is hiding loading screens. Pretty blatantly, but I’d rather have my character slink through a tight space for a few seconds than cut to a load screen just to show up on the other side of some boxes.

“I feel terrible about the lives lost, but at some point, we have to say ‘Mission accomplished’ and come up with the next phase of this that doesn’t have us continuously locked inside our homes,”

This is fantastically stupid.  Where does he think the PS4 was made?

Bollocks.  They don’t have a single wit about them collectively.

Jesus Christ that’s stupid. The general populace already willingly puts tracking chips into their pockets every day.

You could take a good look at a t-bone by sticking your head up a bulls ass but I’ll take the butchers word for it.

I sincerely hope you find the help you need.

People discuss Star Wars, and also people die? Is that what perspective means to you? Do the truth of life and death invade all of your attempts at participating in society? If so, that’s not perspective, and that’s not normal. You should seriously think about seeing a professional if you can’t compartmentalize…