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Xenoveritas's Incomplete Guide to Final Fantasy XIII Equipment Upgrading

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Fri, 2010-03-19 05:05

Based on what I've currently figured out, every item has a "multiplier" that they apply to items to determine how much XP they offer. Therefore, XP values between items are consistent between each individual item, so something that provides more XP to one item will provide more XP to another item, even if the exact amounts aren't the same.

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Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy XIII: Freaking Eidolon Battles

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Mon, 2010-03-15 20:29

The Eidolon battles in Final Fantasy XIII are stupidly hard. These are the battles where you fight against a summon monster in order to gain the ability to summon it in battle.

Now you might be assuming I'm complaining about them being challenging. Except they're not, they're basically just rapidly switching between Paradigms and mashing X. (Or A on the Xbox 360.)

No, instead they're needlessly hard because of the way they're designed.

Topics: 
Video Games
Final Fantasy

Quick Final Fantasy Quiz

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Sat, 2010-03-06 00:01

Here's a quick little quiz. Which one of these twelve sages do you need to speak to in order to move the game on?

There are twelve sages, eleven are dressed in red, and one is dressed in blue with a large blue hat.

Answer in the full article.

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Final Fantasy

CBS's "NCIS" Cold-Blooded Murder List

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Wed, 2010-03-03 02:54

The CBS show NCIS has had their characters kill people in cold blood quite a few times. This post attempts to create a list of victims who have either been killed in cold blood directly by a “good guy” or indirectly via ploys by the “good guys.”

Needless to say, there are spoilers below.

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Television

Garland will CRUSH YOU!

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Sat, 2010-02-27 02:44

This is photoshopped (well, GIMPed), but if you've played Dissidia Final Fantasy:

Garland: I'll CRUSH YOU!!

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Video Games
Final Fantasy

Wait, How Are They Going to do Tceles-B Hsup?

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Fri, 2010-02-26 07:07

One of the things in Final Fantasy was a "magic spell" taught to you by a broom that told you to Tceles-B Hsup - "push B-select" backwards. It brought up the world map. How can they do that on the iPhone?

Broom: Wodniw Sutats Dloh Dna Pat.

Ah. Like that.

Topics: 
Video Games
Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy is out on iPhone

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Thu, 2010-02-25 06:04

Hm... I may need to add an iPhone section under games.

Whatever. In any case, Final Fantasy (both I and II) are out for iPhone. Here are some screenshots from my first 15 minutes (yeah, I know, not very interesting):

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Video Games
Final Fantasy

I'm glad to see the StAX documentation is well proffread

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Fri, 2010-02-05 22:09

I'm glad to see the Java StAX documentation is proffread - because it certainly isn't proofread.

Two examples are below, one from XMLStreamReader, and another from XMLOutputFactory.

Topics: 
Java

Converting the http_proxy environment variable to Java settings via script

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Tue, 2010-01-19 22:01

Since this involves some shell parameter expansion magic, I've written a very simple script for copying the "http_proxy" environment variable to the Java proxy properties. Read More for the script.

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Linux
Java

Xbox Gamer Card

Submitted by Xenoveritas on Wed, 2010-01-06 05:56

I've already posted my PS3 one, so I might as well throw up my Xbox gamer card:

Topics: 
Xbox 360

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