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Here is my super pro tip: You can record and remember history in lots of different ways! Context and framing is important. How you elevate the heroes, remember and reflect on the atrocities, and learn from errors. Statues of heroes should be placed grand and tall in public places. People whose actions, ideals, and principles that helped shape society for the better, who fought for a better world, rolemodels for future generations to strive and achieve. People like Fredrick Douglass and John Brown. Replace every Confederate statue on public grounds with statues of people who fought to end slavery, rename every public road and public school named after traitors and those that believed other humans could be property. The CSA should not be glorified, their leaders not used as a symbol of oppression, which is what those statues are.

Atrocities are still remembered. Auschwitz still stands and it serves as a memorial of the atrocities inflicted on the Jewish and Roma and other victims of the Nazis. You do the same: A somber place to learn of the horrible things people and nations inflicted on others, where victims are remembered, and an apology and promise of never again. You don't throw a giant Adolf Hitler statue outside throwing Seig Heil.

I was going to write a third paragraph here of stopping the whitewashing of history, teaching about the American Civil War in school and that the CSA were the baddies for fighting to maintain slavery should be absorbed into the collective knowledge of society but I'm out of energy to post here about it (and really the subject is huge and writing a good case is beyond my dumb abilities). Have a gif instead:

author=Roden
I'm glad that resistance to white supremacy and neo-nazism is building though. Related:

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My favorite followup response to this is "How Millennials are killing participation trophies". Spitting on and kicking the monuments of the CSA should become an honored American pastime.

I like the one where a splinter fights a teenage mutant ninja(?) turtle. It's actually impressive how there's a yearly event to play through it with a random set of jobs and people are able to clear the game even with some absolutely dire builds. To be fair though the game has been thoroughly dissected and some stuff is straight up abusing game mechanics or bugs (We'll take it Quick then we'll take it slow).

I still like parts of FF1 just being a big dumb ol' adventure. IMO it's aged the best out of the NES games, but I can't deny part of it is the PS1 Origins FF1 where they fixed and improved the UI without too many big changes, like replacing the Vancian casting system with a MP pool.


FF14 has far and away the best music though when it finally hit its stride. Soken is the best FF composer.


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author=Marrend
I think the first FF game that I played that wasn't a ROM was the highly bug-ridden PC version of 7. Despite the bugs, I still had a lot of fun with it. I played 8 with an emulator, but, I still had an absolute blast abusing the Limit Break system playing it. Some time after the PS2 was acquired, I picked up 10. That story really gripped me, and the ability to see where the turn sequence falls at a glance was the best thing that happened to an FF combat engine since the Charge Time mechanic from Tactics.

Isn't the PC version also the version where everybody is going :O? That looked horrible, even by FF7 popeye-arm standards. (I love FF7 popeye-arm standards)

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