The Musings Of The Consensus

 This part follows up from Part 2 to explain some things that make the writing bad in more detail. All warnings since Part 1 still apply 1. The Muah being plot relevant at all is lore breaking The mere fact a lot of key plot twists hinge on the Muah is a massive canon breaker in and of itself. The Muah were part of the big series reveal in SO1 and SO2 that humanity, via their common ancestors the Muah, inadvertently seeded many of the races they would later encounter. Further, the fact anymore more than scattered records of their existence were available in SO4 is canon-breaking. The whole point to them being a "lost civilization" is that their continent Mu (an archaic term for Atlantis) and the Muah themselves were essentially yeeted across time and space, leaving nothing but apocryphal records of themselves behind, which matches how Atlantis is portrayed IRL, which is what they were based on. However, in blatant defiance of canon backed up by SO1 and SO2 and even SO3, SO4 d...

 The first part of this review of the plot of Star Ocean 4 covered general issues with the story and the characters and their story compatibility with the plot itself. This post will cover the plot in more detail up to the end of the Alternate Earth arc. All notices applied to the prior post still apply, including this including spoilers. This will not be a line-by-line breakdown of the plot, but more an overview and pointing out the flaws where applicable. 1. The Backstory As a prequel to the rest of the series, Star Ocean 4 is set in SD 10, quite early on. It's set a few decades after a nearly apocalyptic World War 3, after which humanity not only realized they needed to lay down their arms lest they destroy themselves, they looked to expansion to the stars as a means of saving themselves. That said, it's worth mentioning Star Ocean 4 is a bit inconsistent. Early games mentioned Earth was somewhat dirty but livable, and Star Ocean 3, set at the end of the known timeline, is a...

 This will be the first in a series of posts why Star Ocean 4 is not only a terrible Star Ocean game, but also a terrible RPG. It WILL contain spoilers. Also, I shall refrain from any profanity whatsoever unless I'm citing any direct quotes or pertinent material that includes that to describe plot points. This post is going to cover the more general aspects of why it's not a very competent game, later posting will go into further specifics. This post was made based on the Steam port. 1. The voiceacting in the English version is pretty bad The voice acting in this game, compared to all the other games, is pretty terrible. The English script is overall pretty stilted in delivery, and the game does a horrible job of syncing the dialogue to the dramatic times of most scenes, so even some of the more competent voice acting comes off sounding weird. Worst of all is Edge Maverick, your main character. He is voiced by Matthew Mercer, and this was a role much earlier in Mercer's car...

 This guide has been written for two reasons. First, it was originally to help my own mother, who has commenced a study of ancient cultures as an adjunct to her Bible study, in order to get a more well-rounded historical picture of the cultures mentioned in the Old and New Testaments. Second, believing this could be useful for other history students, I have edited this into a study guide for others interested in doing research in this vein, for both secular and religious study of the Bible. It is my hope this proves valuable in that regard. Aside from public domain documents, this guide will recommend no particular secular historical books. Most general world history texts and many secular studies of particular geographic areas mentioned below will be more than adequate for this purpose. I do not wish to prejudice anyone into believing only certain texts are ideal. I have outlined certain topics to do more in-depth study on for clarification of certain topics only touched on in the...

 Regardless if you are an enemy or a friend of the Kiwi Farms, the below information is being provided to both sides. They have a Tor address to access them here: http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd.onion/ You will need one of these two browsers to access a Tor link: Tor Browser Brave Browser also allows for securely accessing Tor links, useful if you just want to read the forums, use the Tor Browser for greater security. https://brave.com/ They have a public facing RU site here: Public facing .ru domain here, uses DDOS-Guard, not Cloudflare https://kiwifarms.ru/

 Now, before I begin the post proper, I am going to attempt to emulate the style of the following website: https://www.badassoftheweek.com/ However, while I do like how Ben Thompson takes the subject of history and makes it entertaining for the people who would otherwise zone out at the issue, I shall refrain from the profanity and as much crude humor as I can, though I will attempt to emulate his signature bombast and larger than life writing. FYI, before I continue, I do want to say, despite a few differences I have with Ben as a fellow student of history (primarily minor nitpicky stuff really), he is a legitimate historian, and writer of several excellent books on the subject, and I do appreciate how he tries to make the subject of history appeal to a wider demographic. With that out of the way, let's begin. The Bible has long been a font of all sorts of interesting information. Ranging from religious instruction to legal codes to life stories to random wisdom, there is somethin...

 Recently, an alliance of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have come out in opposition to what they see as the excesses and depravity of the transgender movement lobby, specifically, against the "grooming" by the transgender lobby of impressionable minors into getting body-altering drugs and surgery to become transgender themselves. Given said lobby advocates against parental consent and often want to separate children from proper supervision by their legal guardians to involve children in discussions of sexual activity and the permanent alteration of their minds and bodies with surgeries and hormones as an apparent panacea for the stresses and rigors of adolescence, this alliance of the LGB have come to view the transgender lobby as a threat and believes such things should be legally barred from anyone who is not a consenting adult or at least such activities should only take place with the active knowledge and participation of parents, with the parents having veto power over t...