I appreciate the end clarifying that it's more intuition of an enemy's intent (Fordola got a hyper version of this b/c/o Krile's additional ability to see aether traces), but I bet a lot of people are gonna read that super literally. "The user interface is the Echo!" is undefeatable, lmao.

The pain of FINALLY finding a song with the vibe I want within the royalty / copyright free database...and it's Gen AI. Even when I find people offering commissions in chillstep / synthchill / psywave / etc. the bio is like, "I will use AI to..."

when I realize I haven't posted anything in a while so I gpose a meme

Tomorrow - on Twitch (FrostyMog) and YouTube (MogTalk)

The War of the Magi's Evolution (MogTalk 318 Digest) mogtalk.org/mogtalk-318-... @moosiferloringstar.bsky.social @emunarum.bsky.social @essalim.bsky.social

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The VOD is up for our recent episode with @emunarum.bsky.social @moosiferloringstar.bsky.social & @essalim.bsky.social discussing the lore leading into Occult Crescent! Also up on Spotify, etc - youtu.be/_zfjCOpHNeM

This weekend, @emunarum.bsky.social @essalim.bsky.social & @moosiferloringstar.bsky.social join us to talk about The War of the Magi and what Occult Crescent brings us on it!

"I MiSs WhEn MeDiA WaSn'T PoLiTiCaL" Lol. Lmao.

"Umbral God" oh no lol

Final Fantasy XIV x Magic: The Gathering harking back to the Zodiark glyph for black-masked Ascians in 2025, wow. #FFXIV #MTGxFINALFANTASY

Yoshitaka Amano making poster art for the Gex Trilogy was not on my bingo card but I gladly accept this boon.

I don't know how much attention anyone's paid to my on-again, off-again crowing about my nostalgia for Ecco the Dolphin, but my time has come.

...Why are 1.x Scions in the holiday art again? I am losing my mind... #FFXIV

We've been joking about a Fifth Astral Era time travel expansion in #FFXIV for so long that either it will be funny that this has been waiting in the Shade's Triangle the entire time or funnier that this was our brain's hallucination of choice when arriving at the Island of Mirages / Crescent Isle.

Back when I started Dawntrail I thought the Tuliyollal day theme reminded me a lot of the cowboy bebop theme. The idea got parked in my brain for a while but I finally got around to making it. Huge love to @senabryer.com for agreeing to voice the opening line. #ff14 #FFXIV youtu.be/21xp2EZ9Z04

Oh, this is going to include *feelings*, isn't it... #FFXIV

Fun #FFXIV Heavensturn Fact: On January 1st, 2013 - the last Year of the Snake - the servers were still dark in the space between 1.x and ARR, so we never had either a true snakey celebration or an official declaration of Llymlaen ascendant. This year they both get their overdue festivities.

The #FFXIV New Year's Poem for 2025 is up. (Panslation in the Lore Forum as is yearly tradition.) I think it's giving Solution IX. Alexandria's history is adapting to survive crises. If they look back with nostalgia on the regulators and the endless without adapting now, their future is doomed.

[opens link] ...Oh, HELLS yeah.

SURPRISE! The first of this year's Rising stories has suddenly arrived...! #FFXIV

Right before hanging out with @emunarum.bsky.social "Oh, man, I better write down all these tiny details just in case." Right after hanging out with @emunarum.bsky.social: "Lmao we should get Mitron this hat."

Streaming #FFXIV 7.1 Alliance Raid BLIND story run on Twitch / Anwyll starting...nowish.

Due to some IRL, we'll be taking this week off. Next week we'll also be taking off as we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the United States. But December 7th? Patch 7.1 review. With a moose who wishes to remain anonymous. #FFXIV

You know what? Fuck you. *ungoths your Ark Angels*

Respect to Keiichiro Toyama for releasing his third horror franchise in a row featuring a nurse named Lisa/Risa. #SilentHill #ForbiddenSiren #Slitterhead

Square Enix has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time and release four straight Rising celebration stories that all star Wuk Lamat.

SOLUTION IX WHERE PEOPLE NEVER DANCE PRICES WON'T DROP SO I CAN DYE THESE PANTS I CHECK BOARDS AND VENDORS BUT IT'S NO USE ONLY THING I CAN AFFORD IS THE BOILED GOOSE #FFXIV

Me going to the Doman Enclave every week to fence all the stuff my retainer stole at a 100% markup.

I think this might be our first "shit" (as opposed to "shite") since Baderon's "less time than it takes a seabird t' shit on yer best shirt" in 1.0.

If there's not a FATE called 【Yok Huy Watch】 I swear to Deryk...

Endless Ocean Luminous should scratch my itch for idealized fantasy oceanscapes … but ONE DAY I need the insane, time-traveling, alien-fighting Ecco the Dolphin version back, too. The post-Ancient-Aliens world could offer Ed Annunziata so many options…

Manifesting Masayoshi Soken unleashing his sense of humor and finding a way to include the PlayOnline theme(s) in ECHOES OF VANA'DIEL introduction / lobby / entrance environments. #FFXIV

I am utterly incapable of seeing this image without cackling at the memory of the time we hyper-saturated the colors to prove it wasn't focused on "black-masked Azem" only to find the troll standing in the back. Typical Azem behavior. #FFXIV

Oschon's Thirteen

Blind no-spoiliez playthroughs of #FFXIV 6.5 MSQ and 24-Player Raid tonight and tomorrow night 8:30PM ET. Live reactions, unpolished knee-jerk opinions, rough lore takes, and brain glitches where I say the wrong nouns probably.