#Battle on the big bridge

[titleknown]

The funny part of this vid by Play And Accordion is that this totally feels like something that unironically fits with who Gilgamesh is as a person.

[droshawoluv]

Do you like Final Fantasy references to previous games? I do, that’s why I did another video on a sleeper: FINAL FANTASY XIII TRILOGY BABY! VID: https://youtu.be/wYXSLkDbvDU

Don’t sleep on these. When a game had so many sneaky callbacks to previous games, I love to highlight it to see how care was put into it

[the-iron-shoulder]

An all-time great song, freshly covered by an all-time great artist. I love ToxicxEternity so much

[epicwin64]

I did not expect Gilgamesh to be in FF7 Rebirth. Yes he’s an iconic Final Fantasy character but I did not expect him to be in a FF7 game.

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

Have you ever heard the folk story in which it is in fact a monkey that stresses Arjuna out to the point where he contemplates hopping off a cliff for a hot minute because the monkey keeps tearing down his bridges?

YES it’s so funny bc they’re both super silly in the story

Context: arjuna is wandering around vibing and runs into this bridge built by animals for rama. Yknow from the Ramayana? And he’s like ‘why’d he ask little squirrels to make him a bridge when he’s such a great archer, he could’ve just made a bridge out of arrows himself?’ (Ngl I don’t know how tf that would work. Like…glue them together??) And just stands there for ages thinking about this bc I guess it was a pressing question for him

Anyway as he’s percolating a monkey wanders up and is like ‘what’s up’ and arjuna repeats the question. The monkey laughs and is like ‘lmao an arrow bridge would never hold his monkey army stupidhead. It couldn’t even hold a weak monkey like me.’ Arjuna gets annoyed and is like ‘uh an arrow bridge could totally hold your weight I’ll do it right now and if it fails I’ll kill myself >:(‘ (he threatens suicide all the time. He’s kind of dramatic)

So he makes the bridge while the monkey prays to rama. When he’s done the monkey puts his tail on it and it immediately collapses. He asks to try again and the same thing happens so he’s like ‘well damn I’ll kill myself then’ until a Brahmin passes by and is like ‘uh did you guys have a judge? Any trial needs a judge.’

So they do it one more time, and this time while the monkey is praying to rama arjuna prays to Krishna. The monkey, confident the bridge will collapse, steps on it…and it stays up. He’s incredibly surprised and decides to check it by revealing his true form- that of the giant monkey god hanuman (Arjuna is like ‘WHARGH’ and starts kneeling)

Hanuman starts jumping on the bridge to test it and it still stays up. Arjuna and Hanuman are both like ?????????? And turn to the Brahmin, who reveals himself as vishnu, who is both rama and Krishna. He explains arjuna lost the first two times because he was too proud of his archery ability, and that Hanuman lost the last time because he had become overconfident from winning before. They basically needed to stay humble and keep god in their heart to win. Vishnu blesses them and Hanuman apologizes and as an act of remorse puts himself on arjuna’s banner for his chariot.

Tldr: arjuna and Hanuman get in a prayer off and vishnu has to come mediate to get them to knock it off

[mycological-mariner]

Reenactment is so fun. I’m going next week.

[ostentenacity]

one of my favorite things to do in ffxiv of late is what my friends and i call "favorites roulette", which is that we go around and nominate 1-2 boss fights each that we like doing (up to a max of 5 because duty finder limitations), then queue up for all of them and see what we get. we only pick from normal trials and raids so it's always an 8-player story-difficulty fight, and due to personal preference we usually end up at level 80 or 90 (though there are sometimes a few 70s in there, and maybe a final steps of faith every now and again). the first time we did it, it was just for shits and giggles because we were bored, but now even though i prefer harder fights in general, Favorites Roulette is one of my favorite parts of the game. 10/10 would recommend.

[jadagul]

I knew that Gilgamesh showed up in FFXII, and was still surprised when Gilgamesh showed up in FFXII.

(And of course he's hanging out on a bridge. Goddammit.)

[rottengurlz]

Accidentally made my whole team fighters/barbarians/rogues sorry it’s so fun to punch stab and throw

[chippersweetbaby]

Final Stats as of winning the Platinum Trophy!! (When I say "final" I mean - this is where I am now that I've got all the trophies, but I'll probably come back and play more songs for fun.)

I decided to get Prompto to max stats instead of Yuffie because Yuffie, Terra, and Yuna reached level 9 at about the same time and Prompto was right behind them, so I figured I'd play a few more of my favorites and let him have the honor of being the character who helped me get the final trophy, since he's the chippersweetbaby.

My top songs played are 80% songs I legit like and played many times deliberately, and 20% songs I failed at whatever quest and had to play more than I wanted to. I'm not sure what the quest even was on Final Battle, but I'm sure I didn't play it 22 times on easy on purpose.

[doodles-on-big-bridge]

Giltober #7: Final Fantasy XV Gilgamesh

[divinesouldariax]

Lifehack for Game Masters who want to make super cool looking battlemaps with 3D physical objects but don’t want to pay $$$$$ for official TTRPG accessories: fish tank decorations are often very cheap, can be scaled correctly, and come in so many shapes and themes

[stra-tek]

This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it'll be beyond words.

There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.

Here's the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.

This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode "In Thy Image" was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it's legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!

The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there's even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.

Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in "Broken Bow"

Recognise this? It's the briefing room of Discovery season 2's version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the "real" ship, here it's off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.

I wasn't expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike's Ready Room located just off the bridge.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They've even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.

The Enterprise-C bridge from "Yesterday's Enterprise". This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set's back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG's immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set's real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.

You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don't have their screens lit (hopefully this'll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it's shiny and amazing.

The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it's here. And the lights are on.

Other bridges available to explore which I'm out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series "Starship"), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the "launch" U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!

Take a bow lads, you've done good. Now just add VR support!

That link again.