{"id":40120,"date":"2015-01-20T21:56:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T01:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40120"},"modified":"2020-07-14T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T01:56:26","slug":"oh-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40120","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-40121 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ohsquare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ohsquare.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ohsquare-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/final-fantasy-xv-features-the-first-female-cid-1673478411\"><strong>Long story short<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<em>Final Fantasy XV<\/em>\u00a0(fifteen(!!)) becomes the first Final Fantasy game in the franchise to have the trademark Cid character be a female.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Knee-jerk reaction<\/strong>: It\u2019s sad to think that Cid, who has always been somewhat a symbol of integrity, importance and sometimes humor, has been reduced to a token pile of tits for this one.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying that she\u2019s not going to be possibly important, possibly humorous and possibly have integrity, but she\u2019s still going to be paraded around like a pile of tits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s seeing things like this that make me tell myself that I really wish the franchise would go with its namesake, and actually finalize the fantasy, and stop making them.\u00a0 Obviously that will never happen, because the franchise is a veritable printer of money, but it\u2019s still a sad state of affair that the series continues to go down this bumpy slope, even if it is reflecting and attempting its hardest to appeal to modern ideals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I understand that change is sometimes necessity and change is sometimes inevitable, but to not only just swap genders with Cid, but to basically wave the slutty wand on her too?\u00a0 I basically give the :\/ emoji face at this thought.\u00a0 I am not impressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So I guess it\u2019s only a matter of time when there\u2019s Final Fantasy XVIII has a female character who has an alternative outfit that\u2019s the equivalent of \u201csexy moogle dancer\u201d who races Chocobos for a living, who\u2019s named Cid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Honestly, I just don\u2019t care about the franchise anymore.\u00a0 It\u2019s just sad to think that the franchise where I couldn\u2019t wait each successive game, where I had subscriptions to two video game magazines with hopes that news, screen caps any information about them would be available, and I\u2019d draw characters and imagine fan fiction about, would eventually turn into this putrid series of fluff over substance, pandering over delivering, and characters with cool hair and attractiveness over being able to tell a god damn story.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short:\u00a0Final Fantasy XV\u00a0(fifteen(!!)) becomes the first Final Fantasy game in the franchise to have the trademark Cid character be a female. Knee-jerk reaction: It\u2019s sad to think that Cid, who has always been somewhat a symbol of integrity, importance and sometimes humor, has been reduced to a token pile of tits for this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, Square<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,93,15],"class_list":["post-40120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-final-fantasy","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40122,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40120\/revisions\/40122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}