Lier X. Agerate

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Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· 29d

For sure, I'm halfway through his book now and am loving it (except for the AI generated illustrations but maybe the hidden joke here is that Brian would be taken in by AI grifts)

My hand holding the book "There's No Business Like Business" by Brian Butterfield (actually Peter Serafinowicz) the front cover, showing the husky business man in a fighting stance, is upside down relative to the actual text, a great visual gag

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jul 9

10 years ago, in a random coffee house somewhere in Louisiana, I ran across this cursed Pikachu I think about this lil guy and his (unknown to me) artist sometimes and I hope they're both doing great

Cursed Pikachu (2016), artist unknown since they wrote most of "Pikachu" where the signature should have gone

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jul 7

Finally, after 31 years, I have my own Sega Saturn! Not only that, but I grabbed some component cables, new battery, 2 wireless controllers + 1 OEM, 2 light guns, and a SAROO flash cart with 256GB card filled with every English game I could find. All for the price of one (1) physical Saturn game lol

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jul 6

Never thought I'd be almost done with an 800 page rewrite of a Twilight book but here we are lol It's abysmal by the way don't do this to yourself

Image of the book Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer with a bookmark placed very far into the book, page 662 to be exact. Bookmark is a print of the painting Almond Blossoms by Van Gogh because I need to be in proximity of SOME kind of art while slogging through this crap

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jul 6

Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke can no longer play Devil May Cry 5 :(

Age entry screen in the game Devil May Cry 5 (Switch 2 version). The counter starts at 0 and ends at 99

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jul 2

yeah we're posting hole

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jul 2

For sure! And I do understand why people use the term, but it just rings hollow to me. Like, nobody in any other artistic discipline calls what they do "content", it's got factory worker energy to me Still, if Van Gogh's Almond Blossoms is "content" then I could relent, he struggled too after all

Almond Blossoms, a content by Vincent Van Gogh (1890)

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 30

If you're a Princess Daisy enjoyer as well, you are NEEDED for the voting or she is getting COOKED

Princess Daisy's sprite from Super Mario Land (Gameboy, 1989), she's looking good

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 29

Speaking of Shining Force, shout-out to that time I scored the most perfect copy of Shining Force CD I'd ever seen, for free! (traded in extras of stuff I also didn't pay for). And yes I did initially make a joke of finding it in that trash can. The things people throw away!

Copy of Shining Force CD being photographed outside near a trash can

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 29

(Again, only hidden for spoilers, it's just a status screen however) Using all female characters means that, yes, I only had Sarah for the first 5 battles, but that's great for me because she's my favorite character, my ride or die. Even over Karna, she's my forever MVP of this game. Those stats!!

Switch 2 screen shot of Sarah, shortly before the final battles of the game. Her stats are above average for a level 23 character (as she was promoted at level 40). Her Attack is actually ?? meaning they were above 100. She was one-shotting everything basically, and doing a full heal whenever needed thanks to 80 MP and Heal 4.

Basically, the reason she's my MVP, besides that I simply like her the most (which is truly all you need in Shining Force to have a "best" unit) is that she's a VERY competent all-rounder, especially if promoted to Master Monk. In that capacity, she can hit HARD (and tank the hits) as well as Heal up to 3 squares away with Heal 3 or do a 100% recovery with Heal 4. Her Detox fixes all status ailments, Blast gives her mage-like offensive in a pinch, and well, Slow is there too lol.

Why do I prefer her to Karna, who has Heal, Blast, AURA, and the mighty Boost? Well, I love Karna, I do, I always pick her at Creed's and she also never leaves my team, but the thing about her is that she is leaned ALL the way into support, in fact I might make her a Vicar instead of Master Monk just to give her a bigger healing pool. If you're using Karna to attack instead of boosing, aura-ing, or Healing in the end-game, you might want to re-evaluate your actual fighters lol. Karna's amazing but by the time you even have access to her, Sarah's already on her way to that mega-promotion, and heck she might even be already promoted to MMNK by the time you get to Karna if you've been leveling her consistently. The second Vigor Ball isn't even available until the end-game, which leaves Karna behind somewhat if your first choice is Sarah. So yeah, Sarah's my top healer/fighter/reluctant Mage, and Karna's my top Healer Who Is Trailing In Levels A Little Because I Don't Boost Or Aura Farm In Shining Force 2. Thank you for coming to my SARAH talk.

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 29

(Image hidden because of potential spoilers) All right! I beat Shining Force 2 with a "limited force" playthrough for the first time! For the entire run I could only use female and cute characters! And yes, we even did THAT (pictured, alt tag for more info) Now on to Shining Force CD!!

Switch 2 screenshot of the final "Game over!" Dialogue from the bonus fight in Shining Force 2, which you access by just hanging on the End screen in a regular game for about 5 whole minutes. This particular fight pits your team (whichever character you used to do the final fight) against every boss in the game plus 2 Prism Flowers. I managed to win this bonus battle without losing a single unit!

Speaking of units, here is the list of SF2 characters I was limited to for the entire game:

Hero ("Bowina")
Sarah
Slade
May
Peter
Kiwi
Karna
Janet
Skreech
Sheela
Taya
Claude

Of course, some of those "cute" characters are what I would also consider "essential", but I stuck with the theme of female and/or cute because that neatly fit the 11 characrer limit, as there are only 6 female characters in a cast of 29, which is even less than the first game! I hope the future games are better about this

And yes every character held their own, even Taya and Skreech, who are pretty much universally hated in the community, if youtube is to be believed lol

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 28

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 27

Well now I'm just picturing her as this guy

Saitama from One Punch Man. He's a bald man with an exceptionally tiny mouth whose catch phrase is translated as "...okay"

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 25

it was my first fmv game!

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 17

For some reason it didn't upload the video, let's try again

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 17

WARNING: Video shows the final boss of Shining Force, avoid if you don't want to see it! Finally got them all, and yes we beat the game with a very special item that enhances the gameplay to its limits

Screenshot of my completed Random team in Shining Force. From left to right, top to bottom:

Arthur
Luke
Tao
Khris
Torasu (not yet promoted)
Diane
Hans
Balbaroy
Kokichi
Musashi
Jogurt
Hero (with Jogurt ring on so he looks like Jogurt, yes even in battle, and his portrait)

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 14

Godzilla meme pages have been busting out all kinds of stuff about GTA VI since DAMM remastered seems to be the only game willing to come out at the same time. As someone who is definitely buying at least 2 copies of the latter and none of the former, I am loving the enthusiasm

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 13

And don't even think I'm not putting this little freak to work

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 13

Phew! The Shade Abbey fight is always the true test of how a random team is coming together, and we passed it just fine! We also got Diane and I fully expect her to outshine Hans throughout this playthrough

Screenshot of Shining Force that says Balbaroy joins the Shining Force

Screenshot of Diane in Shining Force saying "If you're going to the quarry to rescue the men, you can count me in!"

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 10

There are many reasons Arthur is my favorite centaur, one of them is that he will totally talk to hens if given the opportunity

Screenshot of Arthur from Shining Force talking to a hen. He says "What's up, hen?"

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 9

I love Khris, she's deer to me

Screenshot of Shining Force, showing the prison in Alterone castle where Khris has just busted Max out of prison. She is a deer-like demihuman, and says "Please help me save Alterone! I'll fight alongside you. I can heal too!"

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 9

Well here's the initial troupe! Hate to dismiss Ken and Lowe (and don't forget Gong!) but at least we get a healer (Khris) soon, plus Arthur and Torasu later, my favorites in their respective fields!

Screenshot of battle 2 from Shining Force on the Switch Online Genesis app. The characters shown are Max (renamed Rando626 so I'll remember which one this is), Tao, Hans, and Luke.

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· Jun 9

Khris-ening the Switch's Genesis Online app with a Random Force playthrough (see alt text for explanation), and after over 10 of these playthroughs I finally rolled the dreaded Jogurt lol I'll post updates here as I remember to <3

Results of my Random Force randomizer results from random.org.

The list reads as follows:
1. kokichi
2. arthur
3. luke
4. balbaroy
5. tao
6. diane
7. torasu
8. jogurt
9. hans
10. musashi
11. khris

If you haven't heard me explain it before, Random Force is where I take all of the 29 non-hero characters from the game Shining Force on the Genesis and place them all in a randomizer, and then the first 11 results from the scramble are hard-locked as the ONLY characters I may use in the entire game. Any characters I have that aren't these 11 characters must be killed immediately in battle or shuffled off the team as soon as that option becomes available. There are no other rules or restrictions, I just have to make do with the names I'm given. It's a really fun way to play without resorting to things like mods or whatever (which I'm not above, but since I typically play on authentic or at least unmodded versions of the game, is not the direction I tend to go.)

By the way, I mentioned Khris-ening the Genesis app, so I have this weird tic where, every time Shining Force becomes available on a new video game system, I feel like I have to beat it at least once. I guess it's because it's one of my favorite games, is relatively breezy and short, and truly available EVERYWHERE the Genesis pokes its head. So far I've beaten it on its original Genesis cart (MANY times), Wii, Genesis Mini, Switch (via the Sega Genesis Classics Collection that's no longer available), and my Mega Everdrive and Analogue Pocket FPGA. Since I haven't yet played it on the Genesis App for some reason, that's the goal for this playthrough. Thanks for reading lol.

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· May 31

No accounts. No logins. No color screen. No day-one patch. No battle map. No road pass. Just the system, and two Wheel of Fortune games and a port of Duke Nukem We didn't realize how good we had it.

Game.com system, image from wikipedia though I do indeed own one

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· May 26

It's raining, this is as far as I could get lol

Me in front of my home (the trash can) and it's raining though not hard enough to pick up on the camera

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· May 17

if u see this post your getaway vehicle

Dry Bones in the Dry Bomber from Mario Kart DS. Drawn by NocturnalHanna

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· May 16

I decided to start participating in #randomgamesaturday, so I closed my eyes and reached into a NES bin and pulled out... Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus! I beat this game years ago, it's good if a bit cheapish, but 10/10 -no notes- on the cover art, rad as hell! Vivi says hi as well lol

My hand holding a copy of Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus for NES. The cover shows a blue robotic-looking guy shooting a laser through a T-Rex-like dinosaur's neck on what looks like an alien planet. It's extremely rad in that way that almost guarantees that the game is actually kind of a budget title lol

A blurry pic of Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus with my cat Vivi headbutting it because he saw me open the NES games and wanted a look

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· May 9

Hey friends! It's FFFSaturday and we are Finally starting everyone's favorite FFVII! We're live RIGHT NOW on twitch.tv/lierxagerate

Cover of Final Fantasy VII on Playstation

Back of the case of Final Fantasy VII which features a misprint on the word "masterpiece" where the i is right above the word

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· May 8

"Give me your favourite Non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor." I'll have to turn in my 80s-kid cred for not selecting Howlin' Mad Murdoch from The A-Team, but for real Dwight Schultz as Master Neloth in Skyrim is one of my all-time favorite voice acting roles in all of video games

Dwight Shultz as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek The Next Generation

Master Neloth in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Dragonborn DLC/Legendary Edition/Anniversary Edition), voiced by Dwight Schultz

Lier X. Agerate@lierxagerate· May 3

*image hidden for spoilers, not actually graphic media* We did it! We beat FF6 with mainly Relm and Strago! Also I found out JUST TONIGHT that "Sketch" DOES work against the final boss! It lets you cast Ultima, so it's actually useful! We also got 100% spells and Lore for the pair, really fun!