man. i gotta get back on my platonic koana/nihyo'li bullshit, i was in the middle of brainrotting about that on the hellsite before The Event (hurricane but also one of the bsky exoduses) happened and just lost track of everything i'd been considering 😭 deadass just now remembered

Hermetica ☽ #halvedhekateart ☾

anyway. i will put the critical lens away for now bc there are plenty of other people who can explain those specific issues much more eloquently than i can (and it's also not my place to speak abt criticisms that relate specifically to how latino and mesoamerican cultures were handled in dt)

like. I'm just saying. imagine they went "hey we're gonna make an expansion based on the southeast united states and want to explore black culture there!!" and then they act like the only dish worth talking about is fried chicken. and also it gets fridged in favor of exploring sci-fi camelot or w/e

pushing fanfest merch before acknowledging the hell that's been the constant ddos attacks is certainly. a choice also yeah, i'm not hispanic or south american but. c. can we chill with the taco shilling. food is not all there is to those cultures, and even then tacos are NOT the only cool foodstuff

🤔 Wicked Thunder, Dancing Green, and Vamp Fatale (all normal, I don't do savage) M4 was probably the best finale for a set of raids to me in recent memory ESPECIALLY for that mini enrage, M5's mechs based on the music was super fun, and M9 just had the vibes/aesthetic I liked the most*

pretty sure I've shared this before but I would like to yap more about my guys here, so we go again 😤 His given name is Nikolai aan Moshan! Nothing too special about the name origins IC-wise (he has Hrothgar heritage), though the 'aan' does designate him as from a Garlean province!

so many people saying zenos would like the arcadion. personally speaking i think he would think it's weak shit bc as it was before the wol came, they weren't even true fights to the death. where's the thrill if the only risk is your reputation with the audience. it's an elaborate play with no stakes

its... happy new year...

so now that the whole raid tier is done we can all agree that wicked thunder/m4 was objectively the best fight in the whole series, right. like rest assured, basically every fight was fun as hell and a very welcome change of pace compared to endwalker, but. wicked thunder was the best fight, right

okay wait spoiler embargo is up (I'm not gonna post anything specific but still, vague spoilers) and going through those fights. single pressing thought: there is NO way any of these bitches are under the age of 20. especially the vampire girl. ffxiv writers you have GOT to let characters be over 25

NOOO I GOT THE DANCING GREEN MINION BUT I CAN'T TRADE IT TO MY FRIEND, THIS IS FUCKED UP AND EVIL!!! (also arcadion!!! done!!! good raid story)

THE PRESIDENT REALLY DOES NOT WANT ME TO BEAT THE GRAND CHAMPION TODAY, HUH... ddos attack my beloathed

relatedly i am staring REAL hard at the ffxiv/dt sale going on right now, i'm this 🤏 close to just going "fuck it" and buying it on xbox. ps4 may be old reliable but it's really been getting on my nerves irt connectivity and performance, it may just be time to commit to the switch

fucked up and evil that my console didn't update the game last night even though I KNOW I checked that it was connected to the internet before going to bed >:/ at least I'm not in a rush to get everything done, but I still wanted to mess with the glams a little

me sipping my coffee watching the ffxiv mod drama play out (I don't have a horse in this race, I play on console) surprising how many ppl are acting blindsided when the stakes have always been "don't talk about it where we can see it and you'll be fine" tho. like. that's very straightforward

RIGHT ALSO THE EMBARGO FOR 7.3 IS UP NOW... the cutscene quality has been fuckin UNREAL and i really dug the horror-lite angle they went with these patches, i hope they have the chance to play around with those kinds of ideas again in the future (also say "thank you, hildibrand" right now /jk)

crawls back over here. aight i need to get back on my bullshit again. we gotta get out of the hole, i gotta be more obnoxious about my son (also hiii to the small amt of ppl who follow me here exclusively, personal slow period for the game aside i also lost a pet in late june so!! yeah. better now)

Time for one of my favorite FFXIV posts ever for the Monster Hunter fans:

i should be allowed to do old alliance raids unsynced solo, frfr. yes i know there are mechanics that require multiple parties. my argument is that i'm build different now and should simply not die if those other co-op mechanics aren't done 😤

imagine thinking y'shtola is the mom of the scions when urianger is right there

the sheet contrast of how people feel about john final fantasy xiv is pretty funny tbh, dude really is the character of all time personally speaking, i think he's fine. just a typical poster boy for another series. it's fun to see people expand on that literal placeholder and give him depth

he is the eorzean equivalent of the big the cat cameos in SA2, LMAO (which is to say, he's just a guy living his life who happens to be around sometimes when story things are going on. not THE wol, but still an adventurer with the echo who helps occasionally)

also i can share these that i took while going through hw on the alt last week, bc LMAOOO who would win, a small battalion of trained fighters or one bunny (citation needed) boy with a trident

also re: i spent 1.3 million gil on the mb and all i have to show for it is a pair of sunglasses (it was worth it, i already earned like 700k back overnight, lmao)

got a triple comm in msq roulette as dancer, that basically never happens 😤 hell yeah

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THE NEW FACEWEAR... IT'S THE SUNGLASSES THAT I WANT 🥺 oh please tell me i can just get it from the gold saucer, don't tell me i gotta do it the hard way (cosmic exploration or an absurd amount on the marketboard)

also wishing i had a proper gotdang pc to play this game on, i would actually like to share screenshots as i go but there is no organic way to do that 😭have to go back and forth between the laptop and the ps4 with a usb if i want to post them, hell world

baby drk hours, i miss my shields :( blackest night why are you locked behind level 70 (i know why but i will still be sad about it)

YEAHHH!!! FINALLY DONE, DAREUS IS IN HW, I CAN DO MY JOB QUESTS AGAIN!!!

I Am Once Again feeling respect towards how the latter bits of post-ARR set up the Braves' eventual betrayal, there's plenty of instances where things feel off but it's not obvious enough to feel like something to be concerned over (especially when other things keep taking your attention)

32 quests left... post-arr why are you still so hefty even after the purge... you are nearly as long as base heavensward, man at least it's better in the 2nd half but MAN... I just want it to be done with, so much of it is just fetch quests

haucherfant is also sooo down bad it's not even funny. i didn't pay it too much mind the first time i played through arr but now that i'm actually In The Know and paying better attention to the dialogue and camera shots. LMAO IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS he wants alone time with the wol sooo bad

AAND CRYSTAL TOWER IS DONE, I'M FREE!!! s/o to the squirrel white mage, saved everyone from an endless abandoned queue because healers kept backing out??? probably lazier mentors, smh

"damn, a surprising amount of people are on hali right now" >checks twitch >shen's doing savage reclears "ah!! yeah that'll do it"

my strongest of soldiers in dynamis I need u one last time for this duty... we gotta get eaten by the dog, it's for the sake of msq progression, u understand

I Am Once Again Asking Dynamis To Cooperate, let me get all these mandatory hard modes out of the way 😤 i'm too lazy to swap to crystal

pspsps dynamis server you want players to queue up to fight normal ramuh sooooo hard, ooooooh you want to fight this old man SOOO BAD

also lemme just- grab these since i at least posted them to a site Not called twitter. alignment chart and a wol vs. azem chart. phys. ranged and tank are the roles he uses least often, though he's surprisingly taken a shine to reaper after endwalker/during the time the patch quests were happening

you know what. it's like 2 in the morning here, nobody will care if i start reposting old info i had jotted down on twitter. it'd be really annoying having to go back and forth for some of this so i can at least have some of it here- copy/paste and minor editing time, yeehaw.

HOWEVER with that in mind i will gladly say that dawntrail is at its strongest when its delving in more suspense/horror themed elements, and if future patch quests focus on that/the absolute existential fuckery that is living in as an alexandrian citizen it could be great

me when I forget that the spoiler embargo is lifted now- I still won't go in-depth with exact things that went on, but like. I'd really prefer if the current writers stopped feeling so inclined to explain/resolve anything and everything, lmao. especially when it's clear it won't be revisited

also i am legally required to add an addendum to the prev thread, and that is: while i did go with miqo all those years ago because of said androgyne aesthetic bias + being surprised that they weren't genderlocked, the animations were 100% the thing that got me to stick with it years after the fact

man. idr the specifics since this was like (checks message logs) 7 years ago, but the short of it is a friend introduced me to the free trial and immediately sussed out my type looks-wise (which is to say i'm biased towards more androgynous races, lmao). so it was either lalas or cat people

staring wistfully at the new dungeon's scouting top (i like it a lot but i don't give a shiiiit about viper or ninja... you could not pay me to grind either of them to 100) at least the maiming top is cute, too 😤

“In your darkest hour, in the blackest night, think of me and I will be with you. Always. For where else could I go? Who else could I love but you?” #FFXIV

FFXIV Mobile

huh..... ffxiv mobile??? that's a real thing?? oh hydaelyn, we're really in it now... tho (un)fortunately i hate playing more involved games like that on my phone, so unless it also gets released on the switch it's probably a pass for me

coughs up blood... spent 1.5 million gil on a top... the fate grind will be returning in the near future, i fear..... (aka probably tonight for a bit, just so i don't drive myself mad going into the new dungeon for gear and/or the minion)