200 lightning bolts, WOO!

[sammy_h]

Final Fantasy X

This morning, just before work, I dodged a total of 283 consecutive lightning bolts in Final Fantasy X! >.< FUCK YEAH! You needed 200 to get Lulu's Venus Sigil, the harder of the three items needed for her ultimate weapon, Onion Knight. After work I'll grab the Venus Crest from Guadosalam and power up her weapon.

Dodging lightning

Comments

[epicurius7]

One of my great(?) grandmothers doesn't even have a tombstone. Her relatives either could not (or would not) pay for much beyond a hole in the ground. We had to guess the place of burial at the cemetery. I found the whole affair sad, and a little disturbing.

[sammy_h]

I saw plenty of plots like that. Was there a marker of any sort, or simply a bare plot?

[epicurius7]

An overgrown patch between two obvious gravesites. We just had to guess, by the numbering system.
I had this delusion as a kid, that everyone living in some form of civilization gets a marked grave, no matter what. Turns out I was wrong.

[sammy_h]

As a kid you don't expect adults to be so heartless :/

My mother always wanted to be cremated, unfortunately, so we had that done and scattered her ashes out at sea. Me, on the otherhand, I demand a tombstone. I also want to design it myself, so I can truly leave a mark on the Earth in the event I don't accomplish anything with my life.

[epicurius7]

My personal quote: "Like everyone else, I hope to leave a mark on this earth. Preferably not a brown one."

I'm not that fussed myself, as a) I'm not 'spiritual' (the concept of a Creator/Spiritual world is perfectly acceptable to me, I just tend to rationalize it in a more clinical fashion) and b) the body is just a piece of (rotting) meat in the end.
The memory of someone is the important thing. And yeah, a tombstone is a reminder or sorts. But... I'd rather not be boxed and pinned down to a particular place. Neither in life, or death.