i… forgot when i drew this 2019(?) 2020(?) while watching a ‘Let’s Play’ for ffx and ffx2

i love ffxiv but my soul belongs to ffx www

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"That drummer lookss like ush… Maybe he'sh a big relative of Hypello?"

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That one line from FFX getting stuck in my head😅

After pizza I'll be diving into some rp threads on here as well as maybe Tidus! :DD

I really like Final Fantasy X's nonhuman races, they're all pretty unique

Guado fill the haughty, reclusive, magical role of elves, but they're ugly fuckers with green tendrily hair, long arms, visible veins on their faces, and nails as long as knives

Pelupelu look like gnomes or Hobbits but they're (literal) fast-talking entrepreneurs with funny verbal tics who never take off their bird beak masks

Hypello are frog people whosh talksh funnilysh

Ronso are tribal giant cat people who have the inherent genetic ability to use blue magic

Then you got those weird musician guys that are forest spirits with instruments literally as part of their bodies, like a drum torso or harp strings on their arms.

Combined with its SEA/Okinawa/Polynesia inspired architecture, Spira is a super original setting that I really love.

the hypello feel like extremely racist caricatures of an ethnicity that does not exist

Just realized I've always imagined marshwiggles from Narnia as Hypello from Final Fantasy X/X-2

When you were hyper as a kid and basically useless to the monk who was supposed to oversee your upbringing so you literally did stupid shit to get attention...

It's how he learned that he was good at the sword. But he hadn't the aptitude for much else (magic, basically) and was considered a bad fit for a guardian trainee or warrior monk. He was too gung-ho... and asked too many questions. He questioned a lot about Sin and Yevon... and when it started to affect the students alongside him, to the point they started asking questions as well, he was kicked out. He's basically been alone since.

Even though the Djose Highroad and temple fill him with mixed feelings, he visits often, because it's on the way to the Moonflow, which has always been his favorite place in all of Spira. He's spent many days running away from everything to be along its banks... and he's worked odd jobs for the Hypello, which is why he loves the Shoopuf so much.

i legitimately hope dawntrail has hypello, i feel like if they did show up they wouldn't end up being a tribe quest but like. i want them to be. please expand on whatever you were doing with the frog men

I GET TO WRITE HYPELLO DIALOGUE!!

As Hoped, Still Annoying

So I was vexed by the exercise of extending the mad-libs program in my programming course. Not because of the four or five steps - the existing word types gave a very clear template (If you have ArrayList<String> nameList, ArrayList<String> countryList, and ArrayList<String> fruitList, even someone who knew nothing about programming could make an educated guess about how to add a list of verbs into the mix) - but because I’m still not entirely clear how much I was intended to learn and get used to the process of extending functional but slightly brittle code and how much I was intended to identify that class structure as a problem.

We’ve now gotten into the refactoring portion, where we’re able to swap a big pile of variable declarations and a piled-up if statement out for a HashMap that associates a String with an ArrayList. This lets us loop through an iterable of all the names and check all the near-identical conditions of the if statements more cleanly. Pro Tip, if you’re using more than three if statements stacked on each other - not inside each other but just handling different variations of what might happen - you probably want to see whether there’s a way to shrink it down and make your code more elegant. Anyone who wants to extend your code later - including you - will probably have to come back to this pile of if statements, make sure their situation isn’t covered, and then add a new situation to the mix. It gets sloppy and error-prone fast.

It may be that the answer is “both,” and you’re going to have to make executive decisions when coding about how much time to spend refactoring older stuff. XKCD had a great chart about efficiency

and I consider it valuable to this discussion. Unfortunately while the theory is worth a look and the chart is good to revisit for other things it doesn’t help much here because the time shaved off (the “time shavings”? That makes me sound like a Hypello) is far more difficult to judge - practically unknowable - and may even be distributed not just within your own team and the people extending your code but also out into the world, represented as seconds saved by people using your program. Which in theory could put it to the far top left of the grid, shaving off 0.4 seconds 14,000 times a day.

I’d consider that a moral good - saving millions of people a little bit of time is kind of what automation is all about - but that doesn’t mean it’s worthwhile to my own business to spend X hours on it right now. Doing things as a gift to the world kind of has to have its own calculus for worth.

I do appreciate the lesson - and they didn’t even focus on it like it was a big deal (maybe they should have) - that these complex data structures can contain other, equally complex data structures. You’re allowed to have a multidimensional ArrayList. You could have ArrayList<ArrayList<String> > - a list of lists of words. I already used a two-dimensional List like this to search through all my existing word lists and remove words when they got used, so that “He liked to <verb> and <verb>” never turned into “He liked to sing and sing” due to chance rolling the same thing twice in a row.

The more recent point about being able to have a HashMap that makes your ArrayLists more searchable by type, by having the type as the key and ArrayList as the value, is what makes the above replacement-of-pile-of-if-statements possible.

I’m sure there will be more, though I think the bigger lesson will be what I already learned in C# when I was doing Unity, where beyond the current complexity you just want to be making complex objects - for instance in Unity you could have a PlayerCharacter object and it could contain pointers to all the sound files for that character’s voice lines, a tie-in to the parts of the tech tree that character unlocks, all the player controls to let you maneuver the unit around the world, and all the rendering and animation to let the player view them, and then because that’s all “one object” as far as the system is concerned you could index all PlayerCharacter objects with an ArrayList or HashMap in order to quickly search a scene for them and do something to everyone in the scene (such as fixing everyone’s relative point ranking when anyone scores a point).

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the hot-spring scene... paine says no ones looking... MA’AM THERE ARE TWO HYPELLO RIGHT THERE !

Underrated part of what makes Hypellos so good is how every single one of them has the exact same voice

the hypello's accent in the FF10 games is really racist to a nationality that doesn't exist

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