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i lived bitch

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How're we feeling Tactics fans?

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The Occult Crescent makes it really clear that Great Boss Arenas are a deep cultural part of all people across time and space. I mean, sure, lately in EW and DT we've been having some real wonky strange or impromptu boss arenas that we've had to cobble together spur of the moment or make do with, but this is taking us right back to our roots, to remember our forebears all really prioritised public areas with clear flat surfaces, perhaps with ominously evenly spaced lines, shapes or markers that neatly line up with potential bursts of spell effects. I think the era of of the War of the Magi in a way epitomises societies that had to shape their whole civic engineering around the potential that a sick wizard battle might take place and provided ample facilities for such activities, perhaps to help spare the civilian areas of a town or city by containing such fights in designated areas. The Occult Crescent preserves Awesome Battle Arenas of multiple types and purposes in their original cultural context (e.g. bottom of a weird cave, inside an ominous pyramid) but also exemplifies shaping your society to have appropriate areas for fights to spill over harmlessly (big courtyard, nice clearing in the forest).

(G'raha leans over Frog's shoulder to see what she's writing and sighs, leaves her to it muttering, "This would be your archon thesis...")

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cold comfort

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eyes forward, orpheus.

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sometimes i see posts about zenos and im like did we experience the same story

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Advanced searching on xiv.quest!

Using this Firefox extension!

My FFXIV script site works great if you already know exactly what you're looking for, but here's a solution for if you want to find something a little more vague. For example, the search in the screenshot says "find any time anyone except Urianger says "thou."

If you're familiar with regular expressions, this'll be pretty self-explanatory. If you're not, I'm putting a crash course under the cut to help you use this extension on the site!

Here's a basic setup for any and all searches you'll want to do:

Make sure all checkboxes are ticked (case sensitivity optional).

Put ^.* at the beginning of your expression (where it says "Type Regex here") to say "I want to see everything from the beginning of the line to my result!"

Put .*$ at the end of your expression to say "I want to see everything from my result to the end of the line!"

Type $0\n\n in the "custom template" field to put a line break in between results.

With that, you can start doing basic searches:

...but to do more complicated stuff is a little more work. Here's a small list of searches I've used myself — the useful ones written out below for those who don't want to leave Tumblr or if the link breaks, but this link to Google sheets is easier to read.

To find a specific character saying a specific word:

Format: Name:.*word

Example search: ^.*Zenos yae Galvus:.*beast.*$

Example result: Zenos yae Galvus: Man should fight for the joy of it. To live, to eat, to breed─lesser beasts snap and howl at one another for this. Only man has the wisdom and the clarity to embrace violence for its own sake.

To find a specific word said by anyone except a specific character:

Format: (?<!Name):.*word

Example search: ^.*(?<!Urianger):.*\bthou\b.*$

Example result: Ifrit: Thou art strong, mortal!

Note: Note the \b in the example search! It's not mandatory, but is very helpful in this particular case. It marks a "word boundary," so that you get results for "thou" but not for "thoughts" or "without" (basically like the "Whole Words" option in regular Ctrl+F). You can use this whenever/wherever it's helpful. Like it's not used in the above example with Zenos because I wanted it to return the plural "beasts."

To find anything said by a specific character or any of their aliases:

Format: Name\)?:

Example search: ^.*Vrtra\)?:.*$

Example result: Varshahn (Vrtra): That is all I need know of thee for now.

Note: You have to have the "Show real names" option enabled on the website for this to work!

To find any two words used in the same line:

Format: (?=.*\bword1\b)(?=.*\bword2\b)

Example search: ^.*(?=.*\bFeo Ul\b)(?=.*\bthey\b).*$

Example result: G'raha Tia: By the way, have you spoken with Feo Ul of late? Some days ago, they appeared to me in a dream─of the sleeping persuasion, that is.

Note: This looks so complicated because it will find the words in either order! Putting "they" before "Feo Ul" would work exactly the same.

You can keep these examples as templates to use for yourself without having to understand how they work by using the extension's built-in Profiles, and just swapping in the words you want to search:

...but the possibilities really open up if you want to learn how they work! You can combine the above examples in different ways and built your own profiles. I have other tabs in the Google Sheet linked above for learning how to use regex, and the Firefox extension itself includes a cheat sheet under the "Help" button which is super useful!

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one thing I would die for

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YOUR WORDS ARE THE KNIT OF NERVES FRAYED

YOUR VOICE IS THE CUT OF MY BLADE

GUIDE ME, MY BROTHER, DEEPER THAN THE GRAVE

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Am I too late to the trend?

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hello everyone!! it's yet again $50 headshot time. if you're interested in buying one, please send me a message here or email me at crwned@gmail.com !! alternatively, other commissions are open as well!

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I can't believe my longest lasting gripe with the ffxiv community is putting tails on viera

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The Streets of San Francisco, Kim Cogan