#patch cycle

[autumnslance]

All of this ☝️

But Also: those video essays are just emotional click bait, gang. They are coming up with something because they need easy content they can produce fast and that will make you click so their numbers go up and they make money. That's it.

Play the game. Talk to your actual friends. Decide for yourself how you feel about the game, not what some random youtube "influencer" (it's right in the dang title even) tells you based on their own subjective opinion and really dubious "evidence" they pulled out of their ass for monetization.

(also maybe reconsider inhaling new patch content in the same week it drops + also playing other games during lulls or when you're bored or annoyed or whatever, as the producer himself recommends, cuz we know the patch cycle timing, and the story and content in FFXIV is always relevant unlike in a lot of other MMOs.)

You guys, FFXIV is not dying. These video essays about how "the game is dead" are wrong. Just because you aren't enjoying the current content, does not mean the game is dying. FFXIV is doing fine. It has a set schedule that's been the same since StB (possibly HW) and always has low pop times and high pop times.

This whole "omg the game is dead it's bad abandon ship" trend is stupid.

[cimtee]

neck kisses :)

I’ve always thought kissing someone’s neck is a really intimate gesture, not just in a sexual or romantic context. I think it’s about it being an exposed, vulnerable, sensitive part of you and the way bodies might fit together to make it happen

And as you can probably tell by now, I love depicting people in moments of familiarity and comfort <3

(this was the insp for the second one)

[starcurtain]

I was asked if I was going to review 3.2, and unfortunately I really don't have time to go into it in full detail, but as a Mydei fan, what an annoying patch.

"Ummmm ACTUALLY, the reason I'm immortal is that I continually resist the call of death and drag myself back to the realm of the living."

"Dude, you spent two patches calling your immortality an inescapable curse and blaming Thanatos for refusing to take you."

"Yeah but actually it was my choice all along."

"Even when you were a literal infant with no ability to form rational thought, let alone forcibly drag yourself anywhere?"

"Stop thinking so hard about this, okay?"

"They gave you an Achilles' Heel specifically with the plot significance of being your 'one weakness' and the way to actually kill you, but you're telling me you could just choose to die at any time???"

"STOP THINKING ABOUT IT--"

It actively makes anti-sense that Mydei only survives death by his own choice, having to intentionally walk himself out of the River of Souls. How would an infant achieve that? Why would his immortality be a "curse" if it's something he's actively choosing?

Please Hoyo, take five minutes to make sure the people writing your patches actually know the lore of the characters they're writing... Please...

I don't trust this writing team as far as I can throw them, for real for real. 😂

[miiversian]

[plutonicbees]

cassie sandsmark star jorts from issue #23 of yj98 you have always been famous to me

(before pic + additional photos and unnecessary ramblings under the cut)

I made these jorts in 22 hours over the course of 3 days! pure willpower via my love for cassie sandsmark because I am a total novice in sewing and i am still not very good at it. (i really just combined various tutorials and improvised on measurements and then regretted improvising measurements later on).

I thrifted these jeans last year for cassie vibes (even though I had already made her star-spangled red bellbottoms at that point) and wasn't a fan of how they fit + I couldn't figure out how to style them. I enjoyed sewing in the panels to flare them out and then everything else (cargo pockets and sewing in stars) was hell <3

the pockets are not placed well (nor are they particularly well-made), the hem is uneven, the stars are quite janky (and I think I stitched on too many), I probably stabbed my fingers a million times, and I am so in love with them

[welcometoteyvat]

Many years have passed, and none now remember you. But when the stars light up, I'll sing your last elegy.

endless list of favorite cutscenes: glory endures in legacy

[cozyautumnhalloween]

[i-am-l-ananas]

when we figure out how to talk to mushrooms I think they'd be cool with us eating them. like I think they'd just get that

[armedwooper]

I know this will piss off some people but I want to say it anyway: Yes. Dawntail sucked complete and utter ass. But I will appreciate it for one thing and that's collectively taking the communities causticly toxic positivity about the game and breaking it in half like a damn KitKat.

Seeing people talk about issues that have been in the game since Stormblood and have only gotten worse overtime was so refreshing.

We can winge and bitch about how "X would have done the story better" but here's the thing and this is going to piss off even more people: The entire fucking reason the game has not innovated at all since Heavensward is because of Yoshi-p.

Yoshi-p is a Project manager. For those who don't know what that means it means he is there to make sure the pipeline of "Concept->profit" IS MAINTAINED. Someone even asked him in a dev/CC interview during a fanfest if they would ever consider doing stuff beyond what they would normally do for an expansion and was told, point fucking blank, that that would never happen. (For context the specific question was about adding something into the game similar to Mythic+ from WoW or a similar feature.)

The guy isn't a game designer and he never WAS. His entire job is to keep the hamster wheel spinning, adding some new bells every so often that are just out of reach that the hamsters keep paying to run on the wheel.

This is also why the story hasn't truly evolved since Shadowbringers either. Think about how the dungeons are laid out, about how the final X.0 dungeon FOR THREE EXPANSIONS IN A DAMN ROW NOW have been some dungeon made from that expansions big bads memories. This is a prime example of Yoshi-p and the creative team taking the wrong lesson from how the players engage with the game. They saw all of us collectively screaming about Amaurot and took the wrong lesson by thinking "Thats what we need to do to make money. Look at the public reception, the player counts, the fact that the community is doing our marketing for us."

Yoshi-p literally saved FFXIV. 1.0. It was a disaster and he has made it so that FFXIV is now Squares fucking only lifeline. Without FFXIV Sqaure Enix would be not be making money. He was brought in to take the entire team behind 1.0 and wring their fucking necks to make the game even functional. It was a hail mary that actually worked out.

Dawntrail fucking sucks muleass bro.

[shortqueershakespeare]

could my brain just take the "i'm gonna kill myself" thoughts out of rotation we KNOW i'm not going to and they're getting really fucking tedious

[freakbeastcentral]

7.3 wait so bad i’m considering picking up bridgerton

[shivapvoid]

what do you mean 7.3 is in august

[trenchcoatofisopds]

I don’t know how to yap coherently so all ill say is WHAT THE HELL WERE THOSE NEW EPISODES

[startedwellthatsentence]

Currently crocheting a couple of projects, and I’ve ripped them out and recreated most facets of them multiple times.

I never save copies of worksheets that I make, I just remake them over and over. If it’s a form I’ve used multiple times, I may make a blank template, but I VERY rarely save an entire worksheet.

Currently writing a paper that’s supposed to be based on a paper I wrote previously, and my advisor has advised multiple times that I should just keep what I’ve written and build on that. Cannot convince myself that I shouldn’t just. Rewrite the whole paper because it’s been two years and I have a whole new basis of knowledge about the topic.

I’m possibly too invested in iterative design.

[sunshades]

Obviously a complicated subject to navigate but the theme of "a person's worth" in the canto is a very interesting adaptation of the book and I'm enjoying it very much.

Heathcliff's attitude towards and understanding of his own upbringing shapes how he acts with the second generation- it's a sort of experiment for him, as he sometimes likes describing it in scientific terms. Talking about the boys with Nelly he draws this distinction between Hareton and lil Linton, that Hareton is an incredibly smart child and very aware of his own situation and degradation- especially as he meets other people his age, namely the younger Cathy, for whom he quickly develops feelings for, and love becomes yet another thing he cannot be allowed to participate in.

While in game it's someone else who ends up saying these lines, what they're actually referring to + what they represent in the book is actually shown through Hindley, the degradation, relegation to servant and denial of education as well as the condemnation that to Hindley is the most cruel and most important: losing the worth "necessary" to be loved.

In the end book!Hindley's efforts go through in making Heathcliff a horrible person just like him, though neither his nor game!Hindley's plan ever manages to actually deprive Heathcliff of his sister's love (though they certainly work in making him believe that!), but book!Hindley's plans are further defied by Heathcliff becoming rich and educated, and book!Heathcliff's plans go off the rails even further as Hareton is not only smart, but also manages to become a legitimately good person- which is where I think it's very clear how game!Hindley is inspired by Heathcliff's book self. This line describes game!Hindley's behavior towards Heathcliff and Catherine just as much as it describes book!Heathcliff's towards Hareton and young Cathy.

But in the end the point is there's this awareness of being hurting and turning a person into something they're not, something worse.

I think it's also very important to note those first rate qualities he talks about are very heavily referencing Hareton's ability to learn. While Heathcliff doesn't talk about this when referring to himself by this point it's obvious his own learning abilities are something he's quite proud of, all through the book he's adapting and changing to what he's faced with (from his first appearance as a child, where he doesn't even speak the same language as the family, but learns soon after, to his final plan for his own burial) and by comparing himself to Hareton he's recognizing those same qualities in him. And I feel like with what we've seen of game!Heathcliff ever since the first chapter, and what we see of him in the different identities and mirror worlds, this is gonna be quite important in part 3- all the abuse has never deprived him of his ability to improve, to learn new things, to trust in new people, just as it's never deprived him of the love he no longer feels worthy of. So! Hope we'll get to see you realize that soon, Heathcliff!!!

[androdragynous]

the portal coffee shop post haunts me because people are like ohhh why would a coffee shop have a keurig wouldn't it make more sense to have her be a - like why does the aperture science obstacle course that exists in the game have a Living AI With A Woman In It to.give basic instructions and watch camera footage? that's THE JOKE