Dave

From what I know, "Afro Engineering" is a way of referring to something being built in a shoddy or haphazard way in order to get it working but without finesse. Not to mention that the root of the term is replacing Afro with a far more offensive term. Basically, it's insinuating that something is hastily or poorly built as a result of the African portion of the name.

It's just one of those things where these references are dropped into a situation where the audience gets it, but there's no practical way for the characters to know what it is that they are quoting.

In one of the early dungeons, Ignis says "And then there was light." So does the Bible exist in the FF XV universe in order to justify him quoting it?

Uh, no, it has nothing to do with that.

It looks like it's all too real after all. My heart goes out to his family, especially at this time of year.

There were reports that Alan Thicke had passed away, and now there are reports that it was a hoax, so I'm not sure.

And now the reports are being replied to as a hoax? Not sure what the haps is here.

The best part is that we can now move on to Final Fantasy XVI.

Well, if we can accept that all of the worlds use to be connected as one, and if France clearly exists in some spectrum as seen with Beasts Castle and The City of Bells, then it's not out of the spectrum of possibility she's French. No rule saying all human characters have to come from Radiant Garden.

I live in Alberta, Canada.

Going to NASA is cool! Glad to hear about that. Thank you for the well wishes. Had to buy some new tires, but thankfully, everything turned out okay and painless.

I spent my Friday in a car with a busted tire in -20 weather. How was your day?

Well, both have OP powers that are poorly implemented into the game, negating the skills of the player, so it is a tough call.

If it were a matter of switching her costumes to something more revealing or overtly sexual, I would agree, but as it seems to be more a case of just giving her cool hats and accessories TF2 style, I don't think it necessarily lends itself to that. If anything, in lieu of having new costumes for Sora in different wolds as with Halloween Town, I'd love to see this kind of dress up be part of KH3 as well.

I'd actually like to wreck people as Maleficent. Dropping some high level magic would be fun while cutting through enemies.

What the actual hell is going on with Cindy's get up? That's not really safe to work around machinery in.

1. Timeless River 2. Olympus / Underworld 3. Beasts Castle 4. The 100 Acre Wood (Pooh forgetting who you are is still the most feels I got out of these games). 5. Halloween Town

The One Ring vs. Everyone Sauron is a unique villain in that he never really physically appears during The Lord of the Rings (the Eye doesn't count; it's what's left of his spirit still clinging to the world), but his presence and his true power is always present and felt in the embodiment of the One Ring. Because despite being one step below Valar and having tremendous physical strength when in one piece, Sauron's true power always was in subtlety, lies, and deceit. He took down the entire kingdom of Numenor with some well chosen words and got them to impale themselves on their own hubris. He's willing to play the slow game, and it's that gradual corrosion and corruption that Frodo holds around his neck. What's interesting with the Ring is how is plays against different people it comes into contact with. It manages to cheat destruction by appealing to Isildur's pride, convincing him that the Ring is a trophy worthy of his house, and fitting compensation for losing his father and brother in battle. With Gollum, it basically gives him a false sense of power and confidence to embrace the mischief and whatever inner meanness he might have possessed, unwittingly tricking him into using it too much until his village and Grandmother are forced to kick him out, which only serves to make him more self pitying and alone. With Boromir, it presents itself as a solution to the constant struggle that his father and Gondor are facing, promising false power to beat back the tides. With everyone the Ring meets, it is able to play on their unique and individual weaknesses with such subtlety that they don't even know they are being played. The Hobbits, though, are probably the most interesting, for they don't have necessarily the same folly of pride or ambition as Men or Elves might. So the Ring's options are left to just making them more and more attached to it over time, like an addiction that they don't even know they're falling for. But while Bilbo possesses it for a long period of time, it's still important that he's the only one who's able to willingly give up the Ring, and he does it out of trust in Gandalf, which is a testament to the strength of Hobbit willpower. Unfortunately for Frodo, he's not so lucky, as the Ring amps up all of its power in a last ditch attempt to avoid being destroyed, and turns Frodo into a half mad junkie. The closer they get to Mordor, the more Frodo falls under its spell until the Ring is all that occupies his mind. Even after the Ring is destroyed, Frodo is still in withdrawal, and half of the reason he winds up leaving for Valinor is because his mind and body are completely wrecked by what the Ring put him through. But the best interaction, I think, is with Sam, and the short time he picks up the Ring after Frodo is taken to Cirith Ungol. In the book, it shows how the Ring immediately presents Sam with a vision of breaking into Mordor, toppling the towers of Barad-dur, saving his beloved master, and replacing the ashen plains of Mordor with a field of flowers. What's important here is that the Ring appeals to Sam in the only way that Sauron understands power, through domination and subjugation, taking what you want and ignoring the consequences in order to get it. But even with this presented before him, Sam is able to realize that this isn't what he wants at all, and that all he really wants is one simple garden and a simple life. It's kind of a great moment in which this gardener is able to turn down the power that tempted the King of Gondor because he knows what truly matters, and its a kind of simple contentment that the Ring cannot understand.

"You got it, bro. How about we go over to the Shinra bar and get some shots?"

Can Tabata take over KH3 as well? There might be a chance of it eventually being released.

And now Castro is dead. 2016 is a bizarre year.

I got the warm fuzzies watching Mr. Popo smile again.

I don't think it's a deliberate design choice. If you think of Kingdom Hearts as the origin of all worlds and the blue print on which everything is based on, and it happened to have access to it in the form of a door opened by a key (accepting that the concept of doors and keys are not necessarily of man made origin in this universe so much as they are a natural formation), then it makes sense that all worlds, if an extension of Kingdom Hearts, would have the same default build within them.

Did Captain America join Hydra because he was ahead of the trend?