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Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 10:44
by iamafish
red dwarf?

no idea what episode it's from, but it sounds like a conversation between Kryten and Lister.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 10:47
by Machalllewis
You get a half internet for getting the source but it was between Lister and Holly. Season 1 I think.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 10:53
by iamafish
ah yes, i think i remember that now.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 12:26
by Elaro
"This one wasn't so great", I thought depressingly.

"I think there was potential for joke follow-ups, especially regarding the mechs walking all over the Christmas tree. And I found the Mode 7 part not very funny, although, to be fair, it didn't provide much material to begin with."

"And the delivery! 'April Fools, I guess'? Come on! This is not one of your better Unskippables." Upon this thought I remarked that 'Unskippable' needed an abbreviation.

"If anything did deserve a good riff," I continued with literary obliviousness to my chosen medium, " it was Final Fantasy XIII. Or maybe it was a case of rad nauseum?"

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 12:35
by iamafish
i think it was a case of 'too soon' Not everyone's played the game who wants too yet, so they might well do it in a couple months when everyone has.

i agree that this wasn't the funniest unskippable so far, but they didn't really have a lot to work with tbf. the whole point was that it was an April fools joke

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 12:50
by Keab42
Very funny, I actually enjoyed this more than I probably would have had you done FFXIII.

Also I never wondered about those mechs before, I guess suspension of disbelief works better than I realised.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 20:48
by wartjr2373
I would like you guys to eventually do FFXIII, but this was quite funny in spite of that. Best part was the comments regarding the music at the beginning.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 21:21
by Graham
We will likely be actually doing FFXIII at some point.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 22:41
by Cybren
I disagree that it's totally incongruous since the mechs are powered by magic.

Not that you know that quite yet.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 23:11
by Kag
"and I can do that, because it's mode 7" is worth the whole 5 minutes, easily.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 31 Mar 2010, 10:23
by wartjr2373
Graham wrote:We will likely be actually doing FFXIII at some point.


Awesome. Can't wait.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 01 Apr 2010, 13:46
by the amativeness
Okay, I have to nitpick:

There are actually 8 modes, numbered 0-7. Based on one octal of binary.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 01 Apr 2010, 20:49
by Graham
the amativeness wrote:Okay, I have to nitpick:

There are actually 8 modes, numbered 0-7. Based on one octet of binary.

We found that out afterwords.
We should have said "what happened to the first six modes?"

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 03 Apr 2010, 04:28
by His_Ryanness
the amativeness wrote:Okay, I have to nitpick:

There are actually 8 modes, numbered 0-7. Based on one octet of binary.


Isn't an octet 8 bits? 0-255?

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 03 Apr 2010, 05:11
by Lord Chrusher
0 to 7 would only be 3 bits.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 03 Apr 2010, 05:42
by Ayailla
Aww... this is not nearly as funny when you get back from a week of holiday on April 3rd and decide to catch up on missed LRR Videos. Still had me giggling though.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 03 Apr 2010, 10:59
by wartjr2373
Lord Chrusher wrote:0 to 7 would only be 3 bits.


Is this some aspect of binary I'm not familiar with? Because as far as I know, one digit in binary represents one bit, so an octet would be eight bits.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 03 Apr 2010, 17:47
by Lord Chrusher
0 = 000
1 = 001
2 = 010
3 = 011
4 = 100
5 = 101
6 = 110
7 = 111

Only three bits are required to store the integers 0 to 7. An Octet can store the values 0 to 255.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 03 Apr 2010, 20:09
by wartjr2373
Lord Chrusher wrote:0 = 000
1 = 001
2 = 010
3 = 011
4 = 100
5 = 101
6 = 110
7 = 111

Only three bits are required to store the integers 0 to 7. An Octet can store the values 0 to 255.


Ah, that makes sense now. I know binary, but I thought the modes referred to binary digits themselves.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 04 Apr 2010, 19:58
by Vaughn
I'd been avoiding this Unskippable because i'd resolved not to ruin any of FFXIII until i'd gotten it. And it took until now of my being lazy and not getting it, and my curiosity to win over.

This unskippable was an extra delightful slap in the face.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 05 Apr 2010, 15:03
by keswickgallagher
Machalllewis wrote:You get a half internet for getting the source but it was between Lister and Holly. Season 1 I think.



Season 1 Episode 2 a conversation about the north west electricity board just before rimmer see's listers son die exploding in the drive room because there traveling faster then the speed of light and are thus seeing the future.

I know my dwarf 8)

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 12 Apr 2010, 21:07
by Trymantha
ive put watching this off until i finally got around to playing this game first(last week) so now that im a few hours in i wanted to watch the unskippable see how they made fun of the start, and then as soon as i realized it was 3/6 i faceplamed then proceeded to LOL

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 12 Apr 2010, 21:12
by Vigafre
I want a count on how many people have done this or are currently doing this.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 13 Apr 2010, 05:16
by Emperor Gum
This is bullshit, I haven't played FF6 yet. No spoiler warning or nothing, way to ruin the intro.

Re: Final Fantasy XIII

Posted: 15 Apr 2010, 17:43
by Sylval
To be fair they did give you 20 years give or take.