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Square
A square is a quadrilateral with 4 right angles and all sides the same length.
It can also refer to a person who is just not hip. Old-fashioned and unappreciative of the latest fads and fashions.
A square number is a number that can be written as
x
Tue Apr 03 2001 at 20:04:54
The quality of being un-hip, or a person exhibiting that quality. The word was originally used in this sense by beats in the 1950s, but became widely used by the 1960s to pick on the wallflowers or others not up to the minute on the latest styles and trends. The glyphL7 forms a near-square, and came to be used as a synonym.
Fantasian.
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi,
Fantasian was initially teased as a diorama-filled role-playing game (RPG) “that shouldn’t exist” during a brief 30-second section of a larger Apple Arcade sizzle reel.
But fast forward two years and we’ve actually seen very little of the game, outside of what could be gleaned from occasional pictures shared to Twitter by Sakaguchi and, in one case, even Apple CEO Tim Cook himself.
That’s all changing, as Mistwalker is finally pulling back the curtain on
Fantasian, which should prove more pleasantly familiar than fans of the 58-year-old legendary designer’s work might have expected from the Apple Arcade game.
Some of the best Final Fantasies are not called Final Fantasy
That’s the truth, sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Has the (main) Final Fantasy series had some problems in development, mechanics, feel, game-y feeling? Yes it has, but the big , capital-T Trouble is twofold:
The gaming media tends to oversee the bad way more than it sees the good, and
Some of the best Final Fantasies of the last decade have not had the title “Final Fantasy” and have not been on consoles.
Here’s an old joke running in some circles. If you ask
Seriously, look at it. Many of the best ideas of JRPGs of the time went to Chrono Trigger and not to FF VI (the one released in North America as Final Fantasy III). The time travel, the music, the design, the characters, the many nooks and crannies that are invisible unless you go look for them, the multiple endings… I’m not saying Final Fantasy VI is a bad game it has a killer story and interesting cast but I’m saying that the best