#solution 9 in the shelll

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Thank you for the meal

Finally done with Omicrons. Doing this on and off alongside Dawntrail made me compared it to Living Memory and that one Solution 9 scene.

Which interestingly I was doing earlier Omicron alongside a leveling Culinarian and Studium as a Post-EW thing.

Dawntrail be the Culinarian Expansion? Shokugeki no FFXIV? This game made me Go eat tacos. Hard shell tacos. not too big....

In Living Memory, food for holographic(?) replicants of memories of dead people is tasteless to the living. It merely serve as a "something done in life" and food taste how it should taste to memories the replicants have.

While in the Last Dregs, the taste and sensation of food while being eaten by Hylnyan is replicated by the Omicrons for the dead spirits to try and remember their past.

Although this guy might be doing this more for new experiences instead of memories.

And in Solution 9 all your food is in a handy dandy space pack /MRE / caloriemate. What presentation to please the eye and aroma to tease and been pack in a handy dandy pack for convenience sake without any personal touches. Sharlayan and Koana have another forewarning coming if all they want is fast handy dandy MREs.

A lifetime of carrot derived dishes and tasteless bread Foruchenault. This might have been in what calming Meteion has done to avoid a lifetime of space carrot food and archon loaf

Food is something we don't think about sometimes. In my own case I visited a town I once lived in for the sake of eating shredded chicken noodles in tomato sauce that I used to have as a kid. The stall is no longer around now but there has been close replications elsewhere, sauce dependent. but yeah It was for the sake of nostalgia.

I do have nostalgia food in terms of snacks and meals. But there's nothing I can do when my local shops no longer import Tronky and I can't be bothered to ship in some. Went and settle for Nutella replacement instead.

Comfort food. Hence stuff like Ice Cream and Popcorn showed up in Living Memory. Is an amusement park after all. And players probably eaten ice cream or pop corn at some point in time.

Do Cornservant quest line. all hail the Corn for knowing food that is easy on the stomach and comfort food. And food associated with memories. All this talk of food and memories make Solution 9 and Living Memory sound like a nightmare under calm waters.

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Solution 9 in the shell

Mostly because how Solution 9 and Living Memory reminds me of Ghost in the Shell and its so recent that that it felt really weird hearing Atsuko Tanaka(one of various JP VAs who's work I enjoyed over the years) pass away.

Yes various things felt like it was done with The Major's color scheme in mind.

R.I.P Atsuko Tanaka. Thanks for your work

Considering the theme of Solution 9 and how Motoko is either an organic brain or digital memories depending on which part of the 3 (4?) anime series (or even anime movies) you're in. And yeah she was very big on maintaining her identity because of her highly customizable military grade body visually ain't too different from regular cyborg body (either OG movie or that old child body in junk shop episode mention /alluded this)

Gonna go sit with Gaius for a bit since his VA(also Iskander of Fate series) voice Batou my other fave in this series. since I'm not popping into NG+ for Minfilia (Miyuki Sawashiro - Logicoma AI spider tank~~~)

Please do go watch the GITS anime series and the anime movies. There be interesting things about digital memories in a replica shell. identity(Wol-Azem / Sphene / alt shards / G'raha in the shell- Motoko+Puppet Master/) and AI spiderbots maybe gaining sentience. Some dead dude running the stockmarket from beyond death. some CEO dude putting his brain in tin can robot. Memories of Appleseed's Briareos is even fuzzier.

It put me in squee mode because of this and I need FFXIV based answers.

Bonus

Because Medea is an omnicrafter.

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Further Levindome  - Whoa! Déjà vu

And chocobopoop hit the cpu fan.

Escalating lvl 99 msq is escalating and I'm rummaging through pop culture reference to process this.

Please be doing the cat quest with a 5.0 and up 4 legged ground running minion and calling it a glitch for Matrix or Reboot glitching fun

Glitchy cat spoilers below

Newly Entered the Matrix spoiler

Please give the ones(your wol too) who have been through ShB a hug and take note of them. PTSD abound. G'raha and Alisaie are not reacting well to this place, the process that powers this place is bringing back ShB trauma. Neither is Hlynyan, the whole removal of memories scares her(see the Fordola echo scene and probably what teaching Meteion to deal with pain and lost means). Forgetting people like Haurchefant or even Yotsuyu. Or Exarch somehow. Oh yeah it reminds her of Elidibus' dementia during his Amaurontine Guilt trip

Kinda glad Thancred isn't on the main team. I doubt he takes well to losing memories of loved ones and endangering other shards.

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- In general Wuk Lamat the newbie is naturally more incline to negotiation than veteran Hylnyan.( highly amused that both Hylnyan and Alisaie are seeing too much similarities in past expacs that Sphene was sussy from first sight)

- that thing about Gudako and Hylnyan not quite seeing eye to eye on stagnant shard pruning.

Hello folks, welcome to the Fujimaru Ritsuka's Lostbelts-Ascian experience. You ain’t nudging stagnant timelines in the direction you want to go no more.

/ Puts on mythril foil hat

- Which sundered or unsunder is Hylnyan to punt with her oni greatclub for the 2nd Calamity? - Was a Fandaniel involved in the removal and processing of souls thing?

- the whole memory and nostalgia theme feels like Emet's handiwork after what he did in the Tempest-Amaurot (which diorama is more recent? And what if Tempest-Amaurot happened after Solution 9 malfunctioned into a space-time lock?)

- Emet obviously knows something and was he expecting Hylnyan to clean it up?

- What are the odds that the Allagan empire was a project to get to unlock Levindome or Levindome tech part 2?

- For that matter, was Emet able to access Levindome after it got locked up?

- Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic, GITS and maybe Appleseed references aside. Paradise is the downtown business district… This feels like Emet remembering the glorious past of bureaucratic constancy of Amaurot. an then an NPC mention that the living used to use the area.

You are my special

Ghost in the shell

where the Volcano?

I am starting to lose my train of thought enroute to work

Because Dawntrail is amusing to me in that Hylnyan, Wuk Lamat and Sphene are all green eyed ladies.

Headcannon territory and really wild guessing alert.

Sphene is an Emet creation, she's a lighter hair and light jade green eyes version of Azem!Helen (if not the Persephone who was gone before he met Azem!Helen). Who juat happen to have a passing resemblance / personality (may or may not be a shard) and that was enough for Emet to trial run soul plug and play(whatever it was that he was doing to Zenos). The purge of an individual existence from the memories of others was an accidental side effect that couldn’t be fix by the time the rejoining happen.

Either he left the memories (failed project) as is or he can’t retrieve them

Tempest was easier without wonky AI but had a mouthy Hyth shade instead

I lost my train of thoughts and left Hylnyan to check on G'raha.