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Re: Feature: Final Fantasy's 35-Year Legacy Of Innovation - How Square Evolved A Genre On The NES & SNES

invictus4000

Final Fantasy 2 (4) on the SNES is what made me a gamer. Because of that I started learning about Japanese culture and martial arts which led me to live and work in Japan and end up teaching martial arts. Not to mention Yoshitaka Amanos work on the series made me an artist and illustrator. Final Fantasy quite literally made me who I am today.
IX was the pinnacle of the series to me and my favorite game of all time. Hoping XVI restores it to its glory days.

Re: Fire Emblem Engage Introduces Two New Characters

invictus4000

@Classic603 I said the exact same thing. They all look amazing except for the main character who looks absolutely ridiculous. Looks like an escaped circus clown with cotton candy for hair. Luckily the female version looks sliiiiightly better but not much. Lol

Re: Famous Seattle Retro Gaming Store Has Been Hit By Armed Robbery

invictus4000

@johnvboy Good comment. Luckily, these self defense situations are indeed rare which I'm grateful for but they do happen. But thats the difference between just owning a gun and having it locked up in the basement and actually carrying and TRAINING with it. I do have a gun ready to go in several places in my house and when I carry outside, I'm always alert for danger and locked and loaded. If a goon is suddenly coming at me whether on the street or at home I feel I'd be ready.

I'm a 20-year martial artist though so maybe my sense of defensive situations is a little higher than the average person. Haha

Re: Famous Seattle Retro Gaming Store Has Been Hit By Armed Robbery

invictus4000

It only took 15 comments to turn political. Haha. Ill join!
1) This is of course very sad but the owner did the right thing to comply. Things can be replaced. Lives cannot.
2) Being in Seattle was thier first mistake. Haha. Terrible, anti-freedom leadership at the state level.
3) This is why I carry everywhere. I'm a concealed carry license holder and never go anywhere without my firearm (Taurus G2C 9mm). I pray I'll never ever have to use it but won't regret for a second if I need to defend someone or myself. Statistically speaking, criminals don't want a gunfight and often thier guns are airsoft or painted toys OR they are untrained and can't use them well. They just wanna get in and out with no trouble. If more people in the US took advantage of the 2nd Amendment and responsibly carried and trained, crime would actually go down a lot. Criminals will get guns no matter what so we may as well increase defenders everywhere as a deterent.
4) I dont know what the specific gun laws are in Seattle but here in Utah, its still the wild west. Many people carry and if someone draws a weapon on you like in a situation like this, it's considered a deadly threat and lethal force is justified.

Ok, I'm done!
PS. I won't be replying to any argumentative comments. Just thought I'd leave my two cents before the comments got shut down. Haha.
Hope the store owners can recover and the baddie gets caught.

Re: Feature: How Do Game Developers And Artists Feel About The Rise Of AI Art?

invictus4000

As a published indie author, AI art has been a godsend. Ive been using it a lot through Midjourney and DollE 2. As long as you clarify the art is AI generated, I see it as completely ethical.
What a lot of people don't understand is that many of these AI bots don't "copy and paste" pieces of others' art. It studies the noise and patterns of other art, down to the pixels and color combinations then truly does build something new from scratch.

Obviously, if you have it make a copyrighted character or something that resembles something copyrighted, that would be a clear no-no for the same reasons it would be if a human did it.

Re: Everything We Know About The Super Mario Movie From The Teaser Poster

invictus4000

@AstroTheGamosian I'm a big fan of the live action Mario movie too. Haha. And you're right. This needs to succeed if we want more Nintendo movies. Whether it's good or bad, I think it will be a massive smash hit simply from IP power alone.

Imagine if Nintendo movies end up being an MCU style multiverse that culminates in a Smash movie. Haha