We've had a lot of laughs today at Dresden Codak, but what's *no* laughing matter is not knowing you can still pre-order my Dark Science book that's coming out in a little over a month! dark-science-volume-1.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Day 17: Favorite Soundtrack! As much as I want to say "FFXIV", that's got a soundtrack about 14 times the size of any single game by virtue of being an MMO. So I'm going a step further and saying a *specific album*: Death Unto Dawn.

Day 16: Favorite Summon/Spell! A-to-the-L-to-the-E-X-ANDER, GOBBIES GONNA RISE UP, BOOM LIKE THUNDER (Alexander, it's XIV Alexander)

Got this Wobbuffet today, and a Houndour a couple weeks ago. Haven't checked if either is something I'm actually gonna use, but shinies is shinies!

Please if you have the chance could you boost?.The money I've raised thus far was put towards fixing my car and keeping my storage units open. I'm trying to stay positive but I've got three or four bills coming up that are vital. Any help is beyond appreciated. I love you 🖤

Ok so am I totally off-base for thinking Wicked was about intersectionality and a criticism of kyriarchy? 'coz uh, that seemed surface-level obvious to me, that polite society called her wicked as a lever of oppression against the marginalized, but I've seen the take every so often...

to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did

Day 15: Favorite Boss Fight! If raid bosses "don't count" I'll revise my answer, and it's a little on the nose, but I'm gonna go with Omega (O11S). Banger of a background track (so I didn't hate prog), and fun mechanics (especially once you get to what I call the "hard drive platter" phase).

Today's Legends Z-A for the Pokémon enjoyers! It's Corbeau time!

It's almost like nobody wants AI except capitalist ghouls!

I didn't realize Sen was on here until today, but if you like SciFi, cyborgs, WLW, a dash of surreal humor, and/or art, you should totally check out Dresden Codak. (I'm probably gonna go binge-read Dark Science since it's been a bit and I'm behind, but I've been reading the comic for ~12-13 years.)

The Mayo Clinic says when you are sick with covid to mask up around pets, don't sleep with them, try to stay away from them, wash your hands before handling them while masked I know we've all gotten lax, but pets can catch it. Covid started zoonotic, so it easily spreads to animals and between them

Day 14: Favorite Summoner Character! One could *technically* make the case that Y'shtola— hah nah, I'm actually going with Ysayle! She uses herself as the vessel for Shiva, which to my knowledge (and wiki searching) might be the first time this happens in the series?

Alright, y'all. It is Fund Me Friday. In honor of Link, who remains unjustly banned, I am doing a thread of mutual aid. Post your links below and I will repost them for as long as I am able. Let's help some folks survive a dystopian capitalist hellscape not of our making.

Me: "How long is the next pokemon editing chunk?" Also me: "Less than an hour." Me: "Good, focus is a premium today and I could *not* stomach longer."

Block instantly.

Day 13: Favorite Black Mage Character! She can't keep getting away with this! (No really, she can't, if only because there aren't any remaining questions for which Y'shtola fits the criteria I think?) But yeah I like Y'shtola lol

Day 12: Favorite White Mage Character! This is probably a hot take for someone, but I really only know FFXIV White Mages, and of those few, my favorite is Y'shtola!

Today's Legends Z-A for the Pokémon enjoyers!

has this been done already? idk, either way have a mgs2 meme // #FFXIV #FF14

Day 11: Favorite Dragoon Character! ESTINIEN! (He's the Azure Dragoon) This man goes hard. He starts as a Job NPC, gets corrupted by Nidhogg twice, comes back from it, takes a brief respite, then returns as one of the main characters! Who else could do that? (FFXIV Meme & image by @jocat.net)

Final

Finally realized that I'm experiencing sunk-cost fallacy on a series I was watching, probably gonna dump it. So I'm gonna try Stargate since I've been seeing some of that on the timeline and the YouTube algo.

"Machine Learning" and "Artificial Neural Networks," not LLM or GPT type "generative AI"

Kept chipping away at this today, but when I logged in, I realized "oh, oak wood kinda looks meh as the floor", so I spend the majority of this sesh replacing the floor with walnut from two different mods, as well as some smooth stripped dark oak. Added some lights on the inside, and clocks...

QTP with 4 games in your backlog! (Ok yes this is a lot of Pokémon and the legacy collection is actually 6 games, 10 if you count versioning, but some of these I haven't beaten and others I really wanna replay!) I also wanna get around to Dai Gyakuyen Saiban and the Investigations collection.

Day 10: Favorite Job/Class I love me some summoners! That iconic horn! The green cape! The different summons that you can unleash on your enemies! Such devastation was definitely my intention (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) (Enjoy my summoner doodle hehe)

I forgot about this until I saw @datvivar.bsky.social's, but here's my 2025 Nintendo Year-in-Review!

Day 10: Favorite Job! FFXIV Sage, hands down. It may not be the most "interesting" Job (that's probably FFXI Blue Mage), but of all the jobs it's the closest to the vibe of my persona (a hardlight barrier caster), and it shoots plasma bolts from Gundam funnels/bits. That's exciting AF.

T•RIDEN•T Land Cruiser!

Shopify. what the fuck You can opt out but it's automatically enabled. Those using Spotify be sure to turn this off on Jan 26th. Don't let shitGPT have access to your products.

Day 9: Favorite Battle System! I think probably FFXVI, at least for solo play. It's really dynamic, has the mix and match primal system, lets you develop satisfying combos. FFXIV has amazing raid choreography though, if you can get a team together.

Accidentally walk head into ceiling. Me: "Oh god, what if I gave myself a concussion? I *am* feeling a little more tired than usual." Also me: "It's normal person late, you have a sleep deficit, you're probably fixating on the fatigue you usually feel but ignore. But uh, don't go to sleep early."

What four classic video games do you find yourself replaying no matter how old they are?

Slightly diminish a game E-Negative-One

Day 8: Favorite Cutscene! There are a lot of contenders for this one, but I think it might be the Honey Bee Inn from FF7R. I have actually gotten this far in the original, and where that plays "Cloud in a dress" for laughs, the remake approaches it from a genuine expression of queerness, IMO.

Today's Legends Z-A for the Pokémon enjoyers! Slowly getting back into my release cycle after much delay.

Welp, I scheduled the next Pokemon vid, and chipped away at the greenhouse/train station! There are a couple elements I may change, but the broad strokes are pretty good. The big remaining things are the top dome and all the functional bits inside, but getting closer to the next MC vid!

This is the most trivial of examples, but on my "you can do these weird glamour tricks in FFXIV 7.4" vid last month, someone replied with the whole "it will erode class identity" argument. (The vid, mind you, wasn't even about the bigger change to glamour, but mainly PLD shields on WHM & BLM.)

Day 7: Favorite Job System! Its a tie between FFXI and FFTA. Very similar in that they both have main job and sub job, but unlocking jobs and skill acquisition are very different. The latter also restricts some jobs to certain races.

Still setting up commissions! Got a couple more to go before the 15th. Slots available for 3D characters, rigged/printable/etc. Feel free to reach out if interested! Shares are always awesome. Thank you again to everybody for the support!

Day 6: Worst NPC, the Chebukki Siblings. I almost said Zenos Galvus or Asahi sas Brutus... but then I remembered doing Chains of Promathia and running into these three. Despite my dislike of the XIV characters, these twerps made me want to put a fist through my monitor. So annoying!

Glamdring

(96 quite bitter beings starts playing)

I posted this almost two years ago and not for one second has it stopped being true.

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Day 5: Favorite Villain! Almost certainly Emet-Selch. Incredibly well-written, motive I understand too well, very handsome, all the drip, ridiculously charismatic, absolute gut-punch of a last* line. Don't usually cry for villains, but he got me good.

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