Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

The studio was founded in July of this year, so I wouldn't expect much meaningful material for a while. I'm kinda surprised they had what they showed in that amount of time, part of me wonders if they are working from material developed from a scrapped project. Who knows.

The director worked on KOTOR and Mass Effect, so it has some potential, maybe? Most SW projects I've been interested in were cancelled or butchered, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

The amount of cope on twitter because Clair Obscur pulled a 2014 Carey Price is hilarious

Anyone expecting it to not win is living in a different dimension. I wish KCD2 had at least won one award though.

Timber!!! The tree is dead. :)

Edit: I need someone to draw Yggdreant Mboze decked out in Christmas tree lights with a star on top.

Dang

Now in the same boat that Nickeny was in a few months back. My life belongs to multiple layers of RNGesus.

I roll my dice and hope they come out right, and watch everybody else actually do ze work.

Another FFXI video, of someone trying it for the first time and liking it and you just can't help but see similar patterns in the comments.

I agreed that they shouldn't even comment on retail related videos.

I think whoever created that video is no XI fan so I don't think she will last that long.

Look at the locked thread in the PS subforum for an example.

I always assume these fluff videos are done for "content" or growing subs, usually from xiv players just doing some nostalgia bit. So they usually dont stick around, which is okay. Its always a benefit to have a positive video about the game, so it doesn't hurt and I enjoyed hearing their perspective. I couldn't help but think the voice is AI but who knows these days.

So that stupid comedic relief McKenzie character has no business in this game, but its made so much worse in how he just doesnt S T F U
"Oh, you got a new map, lets look at it together so I can mansplain where you need to go for you"


And now I just hit another absolute wtf point:
Why am I riding a *** dirt bike in Metroid
and why the *** am I doing time trials on this stupid bike in Metroid???

Their comments about any PS game that have gone all the way to the bottom make them look irrelevant.

Mob Psycho 100 is a very interesting and fun story overall, though in my eyes, this last arc is starting to become dragged.

Mostly because the mangaka decided to turn the story in a typical battle shonen story for the last arc.

What is annoying because it was never meant to be one, it hadnt a proper build up to be one. And the terrible art just makes this worse.

Thanks God they decided to do this right in the end. If they decided to go battle shonen earlier, probably I would have dropped it like I dropped Dandadan.

Im ok with fights in manga, but they must have a meaning, a context, a setup. Most modern manga fail in this aspect, and just drop long and boring fights with secondary, maybe tertiary characters with no background and stupid motivations.

Generally is the same of having two NPC fighting each other just because. And modern manga have been abusing this for a while

Jesus Christ. I look at the phone. Negative fifteen.

*** this. I'm moving to Mexico. Rather live in a $5 tent than a million dollar igloo.

Why not California?

Im still not sure if I prefer too cold or too hot.

I suppose I prefer colder if there isnt any drastic temperature change. Here, October and November had too many temperature fluctuations. I spent most time being sick during that time.

I also generally dont go outside too often, so I suppose staying at home during cold weather is better than spending the day sweating while sitting.

Sweat is one of the things I really despise, and here we sweat by walking a few meters or just sitting in a chair

Judging by the channel itself, seems like the person is trans and not very consistent about their voice masking. But, it could be AI.

Either way, it feels like Horizon stans are camping YouTube just to advertise. It's always the first few comments, somehow. Wouldn't be that surprised if they were advertising bots, tbh.

are we reading through the same comments?

just scrolled the first couple pages and there was like 1 horizon comment to 50 not.

which if there is 1500 active online players on horizon, retail out numbers them about 10:1 so a 50:1 comment ratio would make pretty good sense.

it is the first comment though, not denying that. but i'm also going to assume horizon players are likely to be more engaged than non-ffxi players or even ffxi players in general

Huh, I didn't get that impression. Usually XIV players who are trans are pretty vocal about it.

Weirdbarbie here has a lotta other labels for themself like, "AudHD" and pronouns listed into the, "They" column. Just seems like a chick that buys into all those kinds of labels. "AudHD" is supposedly, Autistic with ADHD, and this is my first time encountering it (course I don't go around much of the internet as I used too). Also tons of her vids are labeled as being filmed in Edmonton which is the capital of Alberta Canada.

So northern-western Canadian either way.

Enough about that though, about the comments... Since they're coming from the angle of being XIV player first (though their XIV experience seems just as new as their XI experience) there's a lot of XIV players being like, "Oh I always wanted to get into XI! I just never had the time!" or any other list of excuses/"I always loved this game I never played because it's being endorsed now"

Better late than never, I suppose, but it all reeks of insincerity. Maybe I've reached being an old curmudgeon territory though.

She sounds like an ordinary woman free the eastern half of the US. Also, the Lo-Fi in the channel name explains the for the deep, slightly raspy vocals without much bass.

FFXI is great because it reminds us that if you put an upper-limit on things like graphics, you're free to expand almost infinitely on areas that makes games enjoyable: story, depth, play-style (RPG, multi-player, solo, combat, crafting, etc etc)...These are all of things that make up a "great game" and with FFXI specifically, these qualities are allowed to take front and center stage. (I think weirdbarbie's video implies this).

Also, while writing this, I came up with an idea for an addon-scenario: A obnoxiously wealthy Tarutaru named Elmo Fusk, shows up in Bastok with an an army of Cardians who are all ready to take the Galkas' jobs.

Humidity.

It makes cold colder and hot miserable. I live in an arid climate. 105 F (40.5 C) here with under 20% humidity is far more comfortable than Washington DC or Ohio at 95 F (35 C) and 95%.

The most miserably cold I have been was New York city at 5 F (-15 C) with a fierce wind blowing through the steel canyons and humidity in the 80s somewhere. I have been outdoors in temps as low as -20 F (-29 C) with the sun out, no wind and low humidity.

Too expensive and over populated

Actually its why California?

Woody Guthrie - "Pastures of Plenty."

Pro-tip for everybody on the site:

If you wanna get angry at a moderator in PMs, and then delete your account, just know that if you delete your account before the mod reads the PM, they will never see the contents of the PM.

Cause when you delete your account, all your posts become unobtainable, including PMs.

Can't just be dropping spicy posts like that with no deets, was it K123?

Going back 2 or 3 pages in dev tracker, their posts are gone

Looking forward if some user K456 appears.

Well, I supposed California weather is closer to Mexicos?

Or maybe living in the US ***: Florida? I heard there are lots of spanish speaking people there.

I personally think I just had pacific talks with K123 so I think it is a shame he deleting the account.

I know some of you went pretty hard on him, so you guys are also to blame for forcing him to be an *** at times.

There are. They tend to be concentrated in FL's SE.

I guess K123 took my advice that posting on ffxiah dot com is a very inefficient way to spend the precious time one has in their life.