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yuri-is-online · 4 months ago
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Hi! I know it's a bit weird of me to put another thing in your periphery so soon after my last check-in. But I'm currently caught up in Princess Peach: Showtime! brainrot and I thought you'd like to hear it!
So in one of your earlier posts you came up with the idea of Yuu having a modern Alice in Wonderland-esque overblot with Grim as their phantom. But, having spent the better part of a week trying to hundred percent this game (why am I like this?) gave me another worm. And it goes something like this:
What if Grim isn't the only one gaining something from those blot crystals?
Because in the game, Peach changes "form" so to speak, after taking in a bunch of Sparkle. So who's to say Yuu isn't unknowingly absorbing runoff blot from those crystals? Then who's to say that Yuu doesn't have similar "forms" to the Overblot boys? Snapshots immortalized in ink and imbeded in a human who is slowly but surely losing it. And, going along with your idea of a Yuu overblot, what would it be like for the boys to have to effectively face themselves should that happen? Now it's not just Grim they have to face but a reflection of them at their lowest and the one victim who has been dragged to it every single time. The pain, the fear, the regret! Ah! I didn't know I could think of something so angsty! (And that's not even talking about Peach's last form and the Yuu equivalent!)
Anyway, make of that what you will. I just wanted to get that out there. Hope you're doing well and staying healthy! Looking forward to the next thing you make!
Sincerely,
The anon who loves Riddle & Azul
I really do love the way you format your asks dear friend, it is rather like receiving a letter. It is splendid to hear from you again so soon.
I had a brain rot myself a bit a while ago thinking about how it would be interesting for Yuu and Grim to channel the overblot forms similar to Eden's Promise: Eternity in FFXIV:
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In my mind I was thinking how I would design a boss fight where Grim has three forms and Yuu has three forms, and then they merge to channel the Thorn Fairy since she's too powerful for just the one of them... but meh that's neither here nor there. The idea of Yuu with forms that reflect the various phantoms and physical attacks that reflect the overblot boys is so delicious, but realistically I think the concept you are describing where the boys are being forced to face themselves is the point of the various chapters we are going through in Book 7 right now. Grim and Yuu twisted into an overblotted abomination... you could argue that facing them would be the equivalent of what is happening with the ob boys right now in his book. It would be easy for him to blame the other dorm leaders and act like if they didn't overblot then he wouldn't be forced to hurt his first friend... but then that would be a disservice to you. He very much had his part to play, the largest one perhaps. In you now is a twisted reflection of everything he hated about himself: his power and his inability to save those he loved with it. You don't need any form other than your own to taunt him with that.
I do think you are onto something about the crystals not just affecting Grim. If we think about the relationship between Grim and Yuu, I think it makes the most sense to say that what Yuu gains from the blot crystals is their premonitions of overblot? Memories sealed in crystal are a fairly common trope... so if the memories of the respective phantom is trapped inside of that crystal then Yuu's visions could be the crystals calling out to them. I am less solid on the "why" but when I think about it this way, something about Grim and Yuu's connection allows Yuu to "hear" the crystals forming, which is why we don't get visions of every bad thing that happens (Rollo and Fellow for example) because there is no "Flower of Evil" about to bloom. Perhaps the Great 7's crystals "belong" to Grim/the Chimera in some way so that's why they are calling to Yuu? I need to think a bit more, but oh I am so glad you sent this ask. It gave me so much to think about...
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azems-familiar · 7 months ago
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Huh you're a fellow endwalker downloader? What made you finally get it?
let's see if i can type this all up before gaius is done making his speech
so i used to play swtor, the star wars mmo, but in.....late 2022 i think it was? they dropped their 7.0 update and it changed the way gearing and shit worked. i hated it, as a hardcore raider, i quit the game for like 6 months, i came back and discovered that the story was just not great and i really could not handle the new gearing changes. so i quit for good. and then spent another 6 mo or so missing mmos and raiding and stuff, but i hadn't clicked at all with ESO when i tried it once, and i didn't have the computer space to try destiny...
anyway this january @sunderedazem kept poking me about ffxiv and telling me about some of the worldbuilding and shit. finally i went ok, fine, i'll try the free trial and see, but NO PROMISES. and then they dragged me through ARR and i got intensely hooked. and the rest is history.
(gaius is still talking lmao. yeah i'm in a prae run rn)
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neriyon · 10 months ago
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10 Characters from 10 Fandoms
Tagged by @zylphiacrowley , ty ty~
These are mostly in whatever order they popped up in my head, since I was hit with the "instantly forget everything you've ever liked" beam when I started writing this.
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Hythlodaeus - Final Fantasy XIV I wuv purple wife guy... All the way from when he was just a weenwoon ghost. Honestly, FFXIV has sooo many good characters that picking just one feels kinda weird haha.
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DIY - Welcome to My Home Help, the bastard chuuni wizard in a big hat has me by the throat. Everyone else seems ready to strangle him (both npcs and other players). And then there's me who's spamming the heart emote at him every chance I can lol.
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Waka - Okami Another bastard of a man. Like FFXIV, Okami has tons of cool characters! But teen me latched into Waka so hard on my first playthrough. And listen. He's a pretty man with long hair, nice voice AND has a flute that he both plays and uses as a laser sword in battle. Yeah. Oh and he shows up to tell you mysterious (and funny) prophecies.
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Wei Wuxian - Mo Dao Zu Shi (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) I'll be honest, he came to mind while writing Waka's thing (club long haired flute playing guys lol). But yeah, he fits in the "morally grey, overly dramatic and little asshole-ish pretty boy with long hair" category I happen to like very much.
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Ukitake Jushiro - Bleach Long white hair! Twin swords! Gentle and silly old man who can kick your ass! Bleach was one of my first animes ever, and I still like the setting itself (and many of the characters).
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Courier - Arknights First one that had me going "oh I like him, he's never leaving my team". Also first one I E2'd, and he's still my go-to vanguard for almost every stage. Who can say no to that adorable little smile and voicelines offering to make you food~
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Blade - nu:carnival Cute white haired assassin android boy! I started this game thinking I'd fixate on Edmont based on the website character infos, but nope, Blade being cute airhead with love for cute things (and Darling) got me first.
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Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose/Ibarahime) - SINoALICE Game may be gone but having played it for it's entire global run I felt I needed to include it haha. And! Who better than the character that got me into it~ Sleepy's basically what it says in the jar - she prefers to sleep 24/7 and will react violently if you try to force her awake.
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Devola & Popola - Nier Automata Cheating and putting them both (lol). I love 9S too, but kinda felt like they deserved to get mentioned so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Idk what it is about them, but I spent a very long time just standing next to them when they first showed up haha. I'm specifically mentioning the Automata ones, since I met them first, and am yet to finish my Replicant playthrough (ooops)
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Mashita Satoru - Death Mark I had hard time picking the last one since I didn't wanna go "too far back" in things I like/used to like, so I went with Death Mark since the second one came out not too long ago. The other characters are cool too, but Mashita is fan favorite for a reason. Guess we all love snarky detective who looks like he could really use some sleep.
Hoooo boy it was harder than I thought haha. I mainly only interact with FFXIV fandom, but at least I kinda.... glance towards these other 9 mentioned sometimes? Also purposefully skipping Ensemble Stars even tho I'm currently active player - I could not choose between Mika and Rei, and honestly straight up ignore 99,99% of the fandom.
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bioswear · 1 year ago
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As someone that likes to see your thoughts with DrakeNieR stuff, what are your thoughts about SINoALICE recently being confirmed canon to Drakenier due to The Library existing within The Cage in Reincarnation?
Ooh I haven’t actually played SINoALICE and I’m not caught up personally on reincarnation (but I don’t care about spoilers bc I have no context for them and I care more about the lore pieces anyway)
But I’m not surprised - the drakengard 3 crossover event that it had already made it canon in my mind lol. Yoko taro has certain MOs as a creator, and not that I think I’m on his level, but as someone who is also super into big expansive timelines and whatnot, I kinda figured it was connected. It seemed too deliberate to just be a fun crossover Easter egg. Too much effort went into it; same with the FFXIV YoRHa dlc
(On the other hand, the collabs with just skins like for that awful Nikke or whatever is just for money and building revenue, IMO. There’s no substantial lore there in my mind)
Since the whole Schtick is saving timelines and multiverses and alternate dimensions, this does not surprise me in the slightest. And in fact, completely excites me. 😂
I also think Voice of Cards is completely part of DrakeNieR canon too even tho he says it isn’t (Forsaken maiden I’m looking at you 👀👀👀 the maiden sacrifice and the Goddess system from Drakengard 1 are too similar to be a coincidence and I always interpreted it as a folktale that came about after the Intoners died)
ALSO, it 100% leads me to believe he is working on something HUGE for the next project.
Everyone is always bitching about “oh when is the next game coming out” but like 1) game dev takes time and 2) he’s probably already working on it otherwise why would he be dropping so much lore at such a rapid pace 👀
I’m wondering if something will be revealed at the orchestra concerts too - there’s a new story and the nier anime is now a Divergent timeline
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toadeyes-miqote · 2 years ago
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I don’t want to get hurt so I fight from all the way over here.
Spotted a fun WoL job tier meme. Template be on twitter
Maple the shield tank she is not. Started near Endwalker, only four jobs maxed out by 6.35. Pretty much leveling by headcannon affinity.
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As a Hunting Moon Miqo’te, the archer side of the bard is a way of life for Hylnyan, while the bard side added a magical tone to her skills.
Botany and Fishing supplement the gatherer’s life slightly more than Mining does. The leather and meat from game would either get stored or be used for trade as material or gear. That was the way in her village/clan.
Her cooking skills is rather basic and too simple to be unlocked. Since her mate is the master culinarian that feeds her. Their combined skills was what made them wanted to go to Gridania to look for a new life in the first place.
She tends to let main tank Thancred steals and maintain aggro. And he happily makes it his business to get her where she needs to go to do damage. G’raha is preferred as a healer but is the backup 3rd tank
Being Monk was for close quarters combat and the chakras that opened up helped make red and white magic easier to grasp.
There was something about Monk that felt familiar, it might have been a past life, it might had been a life on a different shard. Might Omega knew something during Sigmascape?
Mudras are confusing at the moment even though rogue was thought as a different type of hunter.. Recently started to learn White Magic after an unpleasant healing incident in The Void. Either that or she really wanted to run a Light Party with the Pandemonium crew
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The gamer am bard, it’s a strangely comfortable role until I can level monk up properly. Endwalker felt like one big Bard Expansion, or combined with Dancer .
Monk felt like my past life what with Sabin Prince of punch and fighting games roots. Would love to pull in my summoner self for memes about hoarding crystals and using Exarch and the Crystal Tower as a catalyst to summon Vritra, Data Musashi Loss or the Doctor.
But summoner is busy destroying shards to bring back her world and wrangling the spirits of dead heroes (aye Gudako be Elidibus during the Heroes Gauntlet (Basaka wa dare ni mo makenai. Sekai de ichiban tsuyoi dakara!) Five Shards(NA) and countless alternative budding timelines down. Two more to go, uncertainty of success in storyline it seems.
Playing FFXIV alongside FGO can get hilarious or freaky when you notice the parallels or themes they share.
I don’t tank in roulette as my ping makes me move slower even with sprint.
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astralartefact · 1 year ago
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FFXIV 6.5 Thoughts and Feelings the 1 ffxiv player that didn't come here for the story (me) keeps winning while everybody else seems to be losing
I debated writing a review at all - but I'm just weirded out enough by the discourse that I feel the need to say something.
I don't really get what's happening right now. The Fandom vibes in certain places are rancid (thankfully it's not here on tmblr all that much (yet)) and I don't really get why and how it happened so quickly.
I understand not liking the void quests or not liking that Zero gets a cecil makeover into default paladin or that Yoshi-P's vision for this game is kind of questionable at times or whatever else you don't like about these patches, but for some reason everyone is acting so... heated about it? We somehow went from "This game is the best Final Fantasy that ever Final Fantasied, I love you Yoshi-P, take my firstborn" to "This is the worst FF expansion I've ever played. Yoshi-P is a hack and a fool and I don't trust the devs to write something good ever again" in the span of one meh-at-worst patch cycle and I don't know how that happened??? And I know, 6.0 already brought this underlying "Hmm. Not as good as Shadowbringers..."-attitude with it, but still, It just doesn't really feel proportionate how heated people are right now.
To give you my feelings: I don't care. Perfect Indifference. Yes, some pieces are feeling like they're missing from 6.X, but the devs were obviously trying to restructure things in a way that just simply didn't work out. I'm sure they know that nobody really liked it all that much and will adjust for 7.X - but a lot of people are acting as if the devs are suddenly just stupid idiots when the same people - and this time it really is the same people - were acting like Yoshi-P could do no wrong just half a patch cycle earlier.
For the Void Quests: I do think this would have been better as an optional trial series or as the direct prologue to a void expansion right after it and not as a filler bridge to Dawntrail (a contrast you couldn't make more drastic) - and there are more than enough other things I could complain about (The mo-cap eating animations. Why is everybody so jazzed about them wasting so much resources and screen time on fcking eating animations???) but still, I just don't really care. At the end of the day I'm having fun every time I open this game. Yay for me :)
I have realized over the past few weeks that I never really cared about stories in video games. I might be able to really be into certain stories, but generally I'm just simply not a person that cares about that stuff all that much. If it's bad I just don't care. As long as I have something else to enjoy about it I'm good. And I just simply don't play this game for the story either, I play this game to see my definitely not self-insert WoL do cool shit and look good and that's the one thing this game constantly delivers on for me.
But why would I write all of this if I didn't actually care? Why type all of this out at all and not just move on with your life? Do I think I'm better than the naysayers for accepting mediocrity??? Certainly not, we're all equally capable to check if the thing we invest time and money in is worth our while. But clearly something has to have gotten under my skin here.
Well, there is one way to make me, specifically me, care about something too much and it's if I don't understand why something is received the way it is by the general audience/community. Doesn't matter if I think something shouldn't be as popular as it is or if something is consistently hated when I think it's not all that bad - if I don't get it, I can't stop thinking about it.
And I generally try to keep it on the positive/underdog side of things, mainly because I have better things to do than be negative about a thing I can't change anyways. In that case I will usually just happily live in my headcanon and ignore it - but sometimes something so egregious comes along I just can't help myself. And this time it happened again.
Everyone is so mad about everything except for the one thing I am really mad about. That one is apparently okay because it's bittersweet uwu. Yeah, just fully trivialise some of the most integral lore that shaped the entire run of the game, but it's okay because it's sad q.q And I just can't stand it anymore, why does this exact thing always happen to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?????
Fuck Eulogia.
Fuck that thing.
Fuck everything it stands for.
Honestly, it's kind of funny. I just wish I could commit to seeing it that way and not constantly feel threatened about it (I love anxiety <3)
Anyways. Moral of the story? Play YoRHa:Dark Apocalypse.
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casualjacobwrites · 2 years ago
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About Me
Hello and welcome! My name is Jacob or Jake, though you might also have known me once as Folami, and if you've known me online for a really long time, you might also know me as Jade.
I'm 42 years old (yes, really), very nerdy, and neurodivergent. Oh, and I'm trans masc. I was on Tumblr back in the day and was also on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth at one point or another. Please don't ask me to remember all the names I went through on those platforms. I'm old and have been online for a very long time now and have had many a handle. I promise you probably didn't know me back then, though if you were a very big name, I might remember you/hearing of you.
Oh, and I suppose I should also mention I stream on Twitch on occasion. You can find me there as Casual_Jacob_. I'm trying to do at least once per week now on Sundays and hope to expand my schedule again soon. Mostly I play Overwatch on stream, but on occasion you'll catch me doing playthroughs of other games. When I put my camera on, you can expect to see my cat Jack (14 years old) and the dog, Koda (2 years old).
Mostly expect reblogs of silly memes, fandoms I enjoy, and writing stuff I feel safe enough to share. Also expect posts and reblogs related to Final Fantasy XIV, a game I've played since ARR days. Yes, I've been playing XVI, too, and have played pretty much every game in the franchise. I would love to do XIV roleplay, so if that's your thing, please feel free to poke me. I'm on Brynhildr in the Crystal Data Center. Be warned: I can talk for days about FFXIV, its lore, and every little thing about it.
Other things I love: Mo Dao Zu Shi (from the live-action to the animated series to the book(s)), Faraway Wanderers (also known as Word of Honor on Netflix), Heaven Official's Blessing (please forgive me that I cannot ever remember the Chinese title), The Witcher on Netflix (the games are on my "to play" list), Dragon Age, Mass Effect (except the ending of 3), reading when my mental illness lets me focus, TTRPGs...
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paladincecil · 2 years ago
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Some more ff16 thoughts and mild spoilers
I'm about 50% of the way through the game now according to the little percentage thingy that shows up on the ps5 home page for the game.
I still have a lot of the same issues I had going into it.
I'm enjoying it so much more than I did ff15 at the very least. There's a lot of game here and there's no painfully obvious places where they can fit dlc in that explains some important story content as they did with 15 along with the movie and anime. Even at my low skill level the combat is much more engaging in 16.
I still have no real complaint on the music. It all fits for where it plays in the game. I do gotta wonder why the music to play at the hideout is so bloody expensive to buy though. You do not get a lot of gil in this game. I've barely spent any of what I've earned and I've only got around 90k. I think most of the music I've seen for sale costs like 40k.
I'm keeping up with the plot to a point. My eyes still glaze over with boredom whenever it switches to a little presentation about what the various factions are up to since the last time we saw them sitting around a table/throne room/church talking about taking over some place.
Then they introduced a new character that shows you a HUGE new lore thing that lets you see relationships between characters and what each nation is up to at every single point in the game. I'm sure the people that care about fantasy politics are gonna love that but it's very much not for me xD
The big mystery that has been getting slowly uncovered seems interesting enough for me to keep playing though. Happy enough it's not the kind of story I feared it was going to be at the very least.
Still struggling to really care about any of the characters. There's one that seems like they have potential if they don't end up the same as their ffxiv counterpart after all these hints they're dropping lately along with the nature of one of the games features.
I'm handling the combat better than I expected at this point but there's been several fights today I just couldn't win without having to put on the slow mo dodge assist ring. Still salty about that meaning I have to take off another of my useful stat boosting accessories though xD
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sephspark · 3 years ago
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Ok I have new ffxiv expansion time to go absolutely fucking feral
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noxtivagus · 2 years ago
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yk i still haven't done ffxiv 6.3 n the curiosity n anticipation is still driving me. crazy. a bit. yes.
#🌙.rambles#dedicated to moonlight.. words cannot express just how much i look forward to finally listening to it#N THEN THE RAIDS. MENPHINA'S MY DEITY MY GODDESS MY BELOVED.#halone bb too hlfkdajlfksd women....... n then. SORRY I LOVE THE OTHERS TOO BUT LET ME BE BIASED FOR A MO#n then zero. my wife. she's. she's. AAAAAA SHE'S SO !!!!?/1/! >< sorry zero is like. My Type. she's so. she's so Yeah#bbg that hat n the purple color scheme n then the n then the n then the UHHH YK YK EVERYTHING#hflkasjfkd.. i miss ffxiv honestly. i haven't been able too play properly in so long#goddamn my mind rlly ain't it rn i'm sorry for a lot of things n then i'm still.. stressed bcs#arghh my memory returns at the worst time i have to write so much. i want to i need to i#time's going by so fast 😭 now that i've actually started writing here it's a bit dangerous bcs#i have smth due in 2 hours n i'm nearly done but. yeah. n i have a few more due tomorrow too n then#today was.. a lot. i'm sorry. i wish i cld say more rn but. fuck#n then the future too bcs prom's like the day before our family vacation somewhere n yh T_T#excited i miss my aunt from the usa a lot she was my inspo as a kid n now i. still do rlly look up to her. that diligence n dedication is#ahh no i'll cry wait#my aunts from my dad's side rlly influenced me a lot. n then. i'm prolly yeah rlly similar to ^^#hfdaskfjsdfhasld i'd say she was the person who like. idk along w my other aunt (my dad has just 2 sisters n that's it for his siblings) n#my love for astronomy. my love for science n earth n the universe as a whole#oh dear i still remember i still remember.. looking at those books. such a curious young child. my imagination n curiosity was rlly so. yh#thinking of those times reminds me of kh too n i'm really trying not to cry rn bcs i still remember sitting on the floor n#i can't rmb which ps model it was anymore n i'm too emotional to search it up rn#but i rmb the start so well.. n. i don't remember it very well in fact i barely remember it at best but#i must've heard dearly beloved right? kh1. n it. brings back a lot of memories#was never rlly exposed to kh2 sadly. but kh1 was.. yeah. i barely remember i was so young but. yeah. yeah.#kh3 i finished n it's still very special to me despite its faults yk? like ffxv too. i rlly.. rlly want to play the other kh one day#especially 1. it's just. too special to me. n then aha i rmb.. i rmb earlier first time listening to it properly bcs on spotify n all n#i was gna cry fr :^) it brings back so many memories. not just of kh1 n my childhood but.. other memories too n my youth in general#how i want to hold on so badly. sorry ik i keep on saying 1/2 but yh 1.5/2.5#AGHHH MY BRAIN IS NOT FUNCTIONING RN sorry if i like make any mistakes i'm not. thinking a lot rn but you get what i mean#'AT DUSK I WILL THINK OF YOU' IM NOT OKAY IM GNA CRY FUCK BYE
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gardenmuffin · 5 years ago
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🌺🌼🍂
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plumbobsandllamas · 6 years ago
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Video Game Tag 🕹️
I was indirectly tagged by @jellybeanery!
Rules: Using gifs, and without using titles, list your top ten favourite games of all time. They don’t have to be in any particular order. Tag however many people you like.
Keeping with the spirit of things, I tag anyone else who wants to do this :-)
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lesenbyan · 2 years ago
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[ID: screenshot of the mentor qualifications in FFXIV. Under Trade Mentor the qualifications are
Gather or catch 300 Collectibiles
Synthesize 100 collectables
Reach level 90 in any Disciple of the Land class
Reach level 90 in any Disciple of the Hand class
There is a checkmark next to each one. under there is a picture of a hand with a stamp next to a box that says "You would make a fine mentor!" and the buttons "Apply for Mentor Certification" and "Cancel" /end ID]
Ey yooooooooooo
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bloody-white-wolf · 4 years ago
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So, I'm back (kind of).
Basically just been watching the stupidity on Twitter, playing games and looking for work.
On the games front, started up FFXIV again and remembered that, while I really do love the game, the whole "trail system" it has is just mind numbingly stupid.
The game is at the point where, not long ago, they added first expansion to the "trial", and to me, at that point just give up the fucking ghost and make the game a proper Free-mium title, already.
What do I mean by that? Well, for started, stop calling it a "trial", it's a Free-2-play track. Second, and in status/track for people who's subscriptions have lapsed for whatever reason so that they can keep playing, only with some limitations (as it stand, if your sub runs out in FFXIV, you will not revert to a trail account, you just won't be able to play again until you sub).
Remember, this is a $15/mo subscription, on top of costs of the 2 (soon 3) expansions it has for sale. Not a lot for some, but for others that's not something they can sustain all the time.
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illusiive · 6 years ago
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!!Roleplay history!!
The rules are simple! Post ten characters you’d like to roleplay as, have role-played as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten characters, just write down however many you can and tag the same amount of people). Aside from that, please repost instead of reblogging!
!!CURRENTLY PLAYING!!
Loki - Persona 5 / Mythology (kinda hiatus tho)
Ryan - GrandChase (hiatus)
Jin GuangYao - Mo Dao Zu Shi
Xue Yang - Mo Dao Zu Shi
Lia Ruan - OC
Iron Ram of Heavenly Flames - OC
Tamamo no Mae - Onmyoji
lots of people on my multimuse including
Shen QingQiu - Scum Villain
Tianlang-Jun - Scum Villain
Wen Ning - MDZS
Shi Qingxuan - TGCF
Qi Rong - TGCF
Yue Zhijue - Villain Rehab Plan
!!WANT TO PLAY!!
Bai Wuxiang - TGCF (just.. waiting a bit longer)
Orochi - Onmyoji (I just need to not..)
!!HAVE PLAYED!!
Morgan (Future Past version) Fire Emblem Awakening
Celice - Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War
Kris / My Unit (Male) - Fire Emblem New Mystery of the Emblem
Galen - OC (FFXIV / FE)
Adelphel - FFXIV
Zephirin - FFXIV
Actually I’ve played all of the Heaven’s Ward in some capacity now..
Haurchefant - FFXIV
Seyua - OC (FE/original)
Travant - Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War
Mikhail - Drakengard 3
Three - Drakengard 3
Xane - Fire Emblem New Mystery of the Emblem
Astolfo - Fate series
Lyon -  FE Sacred Stones
Lancelot - Granblue
Vee - Granblue
Lyria - Granblue
there’s way more than this and most of these are on blogs I still sometimes go back to... ;;
TAGGED: Taken from my dash
TAGGING: do it if you haven’t!
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astralartefact · 2 years ago
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after all that happened you still think they made nymeia, the incest sister god, look like manah on accident????? it was 100% an accident
FFXIV 6.3 Thoughts and Feelings - Heavy Spoilers (kind of turned into a weird rant? sorry)
First off I feel generally pretty positive about 6.3, I liked it, Euphrosyne was nice, I'm not in a 'Everything is going downhill' mood at all, I'm thriving, Bunny Boys finally have short hair, I'm super excited for Eureka Orthos (bc of the music q.q my favorite ff theme is comingggg)
...but...
I'm hardly the first person to point out that the writing in 6.3 was... pretty meh.
And I had a bit of a thought about why it felt like that, because on the surface, I'm fine with what happened. I like Zero and her arc about making friends and her starting to care about others, I like the reveal that the twelve + 1 are Venat's group (When they pointed out that the thirteenth god might be the moonwatcher I legit gasped, I don't know why, I began to care about this guy at some point and didn't even notice)
But like. All of the writing was kind of flavorless, which made it a bit boring tbh.
Zero learns the magic of friendship through another mo-cap eating animation bc people liked the Graha Burger scene i guess (what is it with Endwalker and animating eating please use that cutscene budget for something else I don't want to see it anymore)
Rubicante and Cagnazzo exist I guess. I love their designs and fights, but the other two had a little bit more build up and it shows imo. (We fought Scarmiglione twice, Barbariccia had a quest of voidsent being absolutely terrified of her arrival, with these two we only have "I have a plan Cagnazzo, come with me")
All of the Twelve are friends :) No conflict, no chaos, just happy people being absolutely unnuanced nice and non-controversial :)
Instead of actually learning about the gods we get to meet a weird cultist as a nod to 1.x whose conflict felt like we already did that thrice (at least i hope that was a reference, bc if it wasn't then why???) and we got a crumb of Krile development. Which is good and I love her. (I hope the 6.5 raid reveals her new outfit, If she isn't our company for the last raid I will be upset.)
I guess there's a lack of superfluous-ness in this patch that's usually there. Like in Lapis Manalis, one of the group (I think Y'shtola) goes to the village to search for lore/information/whatever. Usually the game would let you do that. "While Vrtra is sad, let's check out this village." And then you get to go around and the writers spoon feed us the lore we crave so much. It's superfluous in a good way.
Like imagine we go to a new place, we need to find something out, Y'shtola is with you when talking with a local. That local tells you "And as everybody knows Light Aether is black!" Cut to Y'shtola doing /ponder. "Interesting. Thank you for your time." The conversation ends and Y'shtola pulls you to the side and explains to you what exactly you were supposed to get in that situation. Actually, Light Aether is white, so why do they think otherwise? Here are some hypotheses based on the lore we know that either are correct or will explicitly be ruled out later on.
Of course we could also come to all those conclusions ourselves - and in another questline game you would be expected to do that work for yourself. And in my opinion both of these approaches are perfectly fine - But since ffxiv generally does it one way it needs to be done on purpose if you suddenly do it differently. Especially if you suddenly stop doing it from one patch to the other in the main story.
But this time Y'shtola comes back and tells you: "No, I looked and there's nothing here worth mentioning." Get a barrel and carry some fuel. You don't get to learn more about Galatea the Puppetmaster or Drusilla's home or some weird new piece of Reaper lore. Go and reread the three notes in the Dungeon if you want that. We have stuff to do so go ahead and waste play time with this engaging filler quest.
The gods say "Yes, what people tell, feel and think about us affects us and our being." And then nothing happens. No examples given, even though several are kind of right there and it's a lot weirder that they don't adress them. Not even something basic like "Althyk and Nymeia are siblings, some people think they had children together, but that's actually not true." And of course nothing like "For example, Nophica and Halone were actually good friends, but the stories of the people literally created hatred between them and turned them into rivals, even though nothing actually happened between them."
I am bitter they erased their feud. Justice for Nophica.
Anyways, that's a lot of words to say "It was fine." To me it's at most a worrisome precedent, but I doubt this will continue? Again, the general outline is fine, it's just filling the gaps between it that didn't work out great. They probably just took it easy on this patch or something, who knows what happened behind the scenes. Maybe XVI needed help with something, maybe somebody quit, we'll never know.
And even if this continued, the music and the art design continues to amaze me and they'll have to do a lot of things wrong to make me consider dropping this game anytime soon lol
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