# fantasy vii (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover fantasy vii. Page: Feed: --- ## [Down to the Bones](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/down-to-the-bones) _2026-07-30 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ Dungeon Encounters and minimalism in games ## [My Favourite RPG Towns](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/my-favourite-rpg-towns) _2026-06-12 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ I've been told that the internet loves lists ## [A Guided Tour of Final Fantasy XII's Rabanastre](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/a-guided-tour-of-final-fantasy-xiis) _2026-05-14 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ Taking a walk through one of the best cities in JRPGs ## [What Makes a Good RPG Town?](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/what-makes-a-good-rpg-town) _2026-05-04 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ Continuing my series on RPG towns by getting to the heart of the matter ## [The Appeal of Towns in RPGs](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/the-appeal-of-towns-in-rpgs) _2026-04-13 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ Part one in a series exploring our favourite places to return ## [Back to the Grind](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/back-to-the-grind) _2026-03-27 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ Should RPGs have so many battles? ## [Giving Real-Time with Pause a Fair Shake](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/giving-real-time-with-pause-a-fair) _2026-03-13 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ Trying to find the good in my least favourite type of battle system ## [A Deep Dive into Dragon Quest XI's Interludes](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/a-deep-dive-into-dragon-quest-xis) _2026-02-23 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ How the game's midpoint character vignettes builds, then subverts expectations ## [What's the Plot of a JRPG?](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/whats-the-plot-of-a-jrpg) _2026-02-05 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ How typical ideas about plot structure don't always work for JRPGs ## [Battle Systems, Abstractions, and the Limits of Plausibility](https://mechanizednarrative.substack.com/p/battle-systems-abstractions-and-the) _2026-01-23 · Graham R · Mechanized Narrative_ Or, does Ichiban really fight a giant squid? ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/clipoYyBKSNz) _2026-01-23 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [What Apple Executives Cared About in the Epic v. Apple Injunction](https://stevestreza.com/2025/04/30/what-apple-execs-cared-about/) _2025-05-01 · Steve Streza_ Link I am not a lawyer. I am an iOS software engineer who is a law nerd and who handles a lot of contracts. I am also biased against Apple's anticompetitive practices on the App Store for over a decade. Background: On April 30, 2025, the court involved in the Epic v. Apple lawsuit issued a ruling that Apple was blatantly and deliberately acting against their previous injunction, lying under oath,… ## [Framework's February 2025 Event](https://stevestreza.com/2025/02/25/framework-event/) _2025-02-26 · Steve Streza_ Link It’s nice to be excited about a computer company’s products again. Framework held an event today, showing off some new updates for existing products and a couple of new ones as well. I’ve been daily driving their Framework Laptop 16 running NixOS as my non-work laptop for the last year, and a few nits (and some WAY too loud fans) aside, it’s been a great machine. While I was hoping for some… ## [Games Played in 2023](https://massalabs.com/blog/games-played-2023) _2025-02-23 · Sean Massa's Labs_ My favorite games (and everything else) I played in 2023. ## [How to Use: Linear](https://massalabs.com/blog/how-to-use-linear) _2025-02-16 · Sean Massa's Labs_ Linear is a fantastic project management tool. In this article I share notes on how best to leverage it for effective project management. ## [Favorite Social Commentary Sources: If Books Could Kill, Last Week Tonight](https://massalabs.com/blog/favorite-social-commentary-sources) _2025-01-31 · Sean Massa's Labs_ Why these are my favorite sources of commentary on society in general. ## [Why I Experiment With LLMs](https://stevestreza.com/2025/01/03/why-i-experiment-with-llms/) _2025-01-04 · Steve Streza_ Large language models (LLMs) are a polarizing technology. It seems that no matter who you talk to, they are either magical tools that will bring about machine consciousness and the end of scarcity and human labor, or a worthless autocorrect that steals the work of the world’s creators while boiling the oceans to fill the internet with regurgitated content slop. In many social spaces online, there… ## [Hello Again](https://stevestreza.com/2025/01/01/hello-again/) _2025-01-01 · Steve Streza_ It’s been a while, huh. Looking at the archives, I haven’t updated this site in over four years. Quite a bit has changed in that time: an entire US presidential cycle, my three-and-a-half-year job at Microsoft Teams has come and gone, COVID-19 is still here, I had to say goodbye to our kitty, I bought a house, the entire nature of social media has radically changed, we lived through the boom and… ## [Detangling Opportunity and Impact](https://massalabs.com/blog/opportunity-vs-impact) _2024-11-19 · Sean Massa's Labs_ Impact is often a requirement to advancement, but a lack of opportunity can get in the way. Here's how to navigate that conflict. ## [Detangling Outcomes and Outputs](https://massalabs.com/blog/detangling-outcomes-outputs) _2024-11-19 · Sean Massa's Labs_ Team performance perception is dominated by Outcomes and Ouptuts. Here's how to understand how that works and why it matters.