Post-Apocalyptic JRPGs and Renewed Enthusiasm

[unseeingeye]

Unseeing, have you read Couliano's Tree of Gnosis? Very interesting book, goes into a systemic history of gnostic/Platonic Dualist belief.

No, I've not even heard of it! I'll definitely take a look at it, thank you very much for suggesting it.

 

[unseeingeye]

Fanged Noumena.
Pretty much his philosophy is under the line of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari on Techno-Capital increasing manifesting Willpower from a reactionary schizoid lens.
It's a really peculiar style of writing drew that connection in my mind.

Oh ok, Deleuze and Guattari I am familiar with, having read Anti-Oedipus some years ago. I've been meaning to read Thousand Plateaus but have so much other stuff piled up and psychosexual schizoanalysis isn't my present interest. Other than a recent re-read of Jung's Aion I'm mostly stuck on the history of post-Roman Magna Germania. I've been studying the history in general for a number of years now, using my trusty and battered old Cambridge Medieval History volumes as my foundation, then seeking specialist academic literature for each subject or person that I am most curious about through bibliographic recommendations and a glance at online reviews when possible. I have the first two volumes of the New Cambridge Medieval History, which covers the years between c500 AD and c900 AD and make use of them as well, but keep getting embroiled in the revisionists debates over the size, duration and significance of the barbarian migrations.

One of the tangential foci I am frequently invested in is studying Germanic paganism, the analysis of surviving materials bearing recorded fragments and the more substantial but ambiguously disposed manuscripts (Snorri, Saxo Grammaticus, &c) which detail the cosmology. I'm very interested in first-hand accounts or the more common second and third-hand annals and chronicles that describe the social milieu, ritual practices, and the beliefs generally of Scandinavian and other northern Germanic peoples contained within larger works authored by missionary bishops or their subordinates, especially during the Carolingian era though the surviving works from this period are terribly few. Later on though, some truly remarkable texts were written even before the more famous Icelandic and Danish chroniclers and theologians, notably Adam of Bremen's Gesta written in the 11th century, and the 10th century Res gestae Saxonicae of Widukind of Corvey.

I'll check out Fanged Noumena if you would recommend it, the title actually does read like something I'd write.

 

[unseeingeye]

For a post more directly on-topic to the thread, I was checking out two more games. The first one is definitely a JRPG while the second seems to be more adventure style of a game, but I thought it looked to cool not to include.

Bultaneun Yeonghon (1993) (DOS)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/56895/bultaneun-yeonghon/

Makyōden (1992) (PC-98)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/53176/makyoden/

 

[unseeingeye]

Surely much more well known, but want to include it.
The PC-98 version seems to have much better graphics than the later Windows version, which actually looks rather terrible.

Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku (1997) (PC-98)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/24904/giten-megami-tensei-tokyo-mokushiroku/

Windows version (1999)

 

[PapaPetro]

I mean we could be living in a Post+Apocalyptic world right now but we just don't know it. I mean I don't remember much shit from before 3 or 4 years old and I'm going on a lot of fiat from my family and teachers and stuff about history and what not? So there's that to chew on.

 

[PapaPetro]

I guess you just have to convince God or something on which reality makes the most logical sense...?

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Rawr!!!!

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR START WORKING!!!!

Aaaaggghhhhhh!!!!

That is what chat ai needs to bloody focus on. Stupid bots. Get your priorities straight.

 

[PapaPetro]

Rawr!!!!

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR START WORKING!!!!

Aaaaggghhhhhh!!!!

That is what chat ai needs to bloody focus on. Stupid bots. Get your priorities straight.

Translate this dickwad

 

[PapaPetro]

And all you motherfuckers better kiss my ass because that soliloquy (post #55) is a theological get-out-of-the-apocalypse free card if that is your spiritual hang up. We may be living in post-Biblical Armageddon.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I was actually referring to the posts above yours. These games need translation. I didn't really pay attention to your post. Those maps, those blobbers, need FULL TRANSLATION NOW. The world can end but these games MUST BE TRANSLATED NOW!!!!

It is all that matters. Those are the priorities.... it is... all that there is...

 

[PapaPetro]

I was actually referring to the posts above yours. These games need translation. I didn't really pay attention to your post. Those maps, those blobbers, need FULL TRANSLATION NOW. The world can end but these games MUST BE TRANSLATED NOW!!!!

It is all that matters. Those are the priorities.... it is... all that there is...

Oh well that too.
You posted in all caps and kinda looked schizo.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

That is the hold of games like this.....

.... beyond crazy

.... beyond all reasoning

...THEY ARE....

 

[PapaPetro]

I have no clue what this means KeighnMcDeath but why not?

 

[Modron]

I think Keighn is trying to summon lukaszek.

 

[lukaszek]

what is taht thing she is wearing and why does it have some sort of pocket on the back, where it cant be useful?

 

[flyingjohn]

That is what chat ai needs to bloody focus on. Stupid bots. Get your priorities straight.

I asked the fancy Ai, this was the answer.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Of course a digi-robot would say that. They're smug uncaring digital automatons.