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FFXI Update: up to Wings of the Goddess 38/54

Think I call call it here, this is my fav arc/expansion yet... that is to say, WotG > CoP since the rest isn't close, but yeah I really liked CoP so til now I've just been keeping it at oh hey I legit really like both but now Lilith just brought out Spitewarden Me and that just ramped up my hype like nothing else. Also really helps this the cast of baddies is great, particularly the main antagonist which so far these stories haven't been doing so well. Even a much better showing for the Shadow Lord here wrecking up the battlefield!

Lilisette & Prishe are real close... and similar, although Lilisette feels a good bit more personal with the main story here I give her the edge - plus cool action scenes.

we got a storm the other day with 40cm of snow

thankfully I'm a hermit so I don't even remember it

I want that hoodie so bad... a cosplay has to exist surely

Republican legislation on education is really ramping up these days, Tennessee banning "teaching that could lead an individual to feel discomfort", Indiana on "anti-American ideologies", and then you got Florida with the freaking Don't Say Gay bill

guess they found how much CRT really amped their base they gotta do it for everything they don't like

sad when the best political news in some time is still capable of going straight to shit depending on the final outcome

Viridian's too small for a dental office... wait is there any dental office in Pokemon

FFXI update: cleared out my stockpile of traverser stones, 6 Zone Quests done (all Vision & Scars maps). Story's barely a thing but I'm enjoying going around hunting NMs... except fuck Tahrongi's chain of NMs requiring combinations of pop-items that just weren't dropping for the longest amounts of times making me have to go back and forth (particularly hated going back for that far out-of-the-way corner for Efts with no good teleporters nearby). It was my 2nd zone so I was surprised everything else so far has been completely straight-forward, kill these 2-3 NMs only for the big guys.

Tahrongi boss was also the only one that was a toootal bitch, god damn phases of absorbing damage as recovery that I utterly failed at keeping track of. HP's just constantly bouncing up & down and the fight ended up taking me like 50 minutes because of it, by that point I was worried about my visitor's status wearing out. Most painful moment though when I got him to 10%, then (maining RUN) I stacked Gambit+Rayke ele-resist-downs before unleashing my 5/5 merit Resolution WS... only for it to get absorbed and bring him all the way up to freaking 30% aughhh....... but I mean yeah it was a fun tense fight, even while feeling pretty safe outside of time.

also Attohwa is just already an abysmal map I wasn't happy to return to.... but I also see Uleguerand Range has an Abyssea zone and fuck thatttttt oh god noooo that place is just atrocious to travel, not looking forward to that.

anyhow now that I'm out of traverser stones I should finally get back to Wings of the Goddess, left off there at... #7/54?

and now on my way back from picking dad up at dentist I get a different 2BA Master song in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzwHs9PhJwY

I sure got Pokemon 2BA Master stuck in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmvWPiV37BM

waking up with this in my head rn

god it sucks how toxic fandom communities get

of all people you'd think calli would at least get chill fans since that's the core part of her personality but nope jesus

although I guess there's always antis happy to stir the pot

oh god alright that one got me laughing like nothing else, like you think the description is ridiculous but then you listen to the video where he complains about not being turned by a chocolate anymore because she took off her stilettos

and how do you not just burst out laughing at that

*edit* and the follow-up tweet projecting sympathy for the orange M&M because "maybe he liked the sexy boots" bruh what are you talking about

Treasures of Aht Urhgan beated

... annnnd yeah it definitely picked up at that Mission 30 mark. Like yeah that was a lot to trawl through to get there buuuut alright I've grown attached to Aphmau - and I'm glad Naja Salaheem got a pretty great role in the end greater than her simple shtick. Decent story - I'm really glad I finished BLU artifact quests before the last few missions because it really clues you in on a few secrets of theirs that's touched up on. I will say tho Alexander is like a little baby summon compared to Promathia, but I really like the Odin design.

also Shantotto finally getting some actual presence, while sure there's also the Bastok/Sand'Oria counterparts, she definitely gets a lot more out attention here.

epilogue still to go

oh yeah and I like how they still use Promathia's First Ode during all the big melodrama moments lmao aww yeah

agesboy posted...

are you gonna go windurst for WotG too? gotta pick a nation to follow along with. in retrospect windurst is absolutely the most interesting, but i only did san d'oria again lol (you have to do all 3 for CP gain bonuses tho so its on my to do list....)

oh right and for this yeah I already started out with Windurst S too, my Windurstian Pride is strong (aww yeah little Ajido-Marujido)

and geez Shantotto's rhyming shtick is the best thing she's got going, so without that in JP makes her spotlight even more baffling

FFXI Update: up to Aht Urhgan 32 done now.... I guess it's finally starting to pick up a bit but boy is it taking its time and even then kinda whatever. I like Gessho, Aphmau's... alright. Naja Salaheem is a fun prick although sometimes can drag about since she's pretty one-note. Surprised Not!Trion really noped out for the most part.

I will say however this expansion does a good job building up the lore for the jobs it brings. I really wanna just use them and be like a COR/PUP/BLU throughout these quests but they're so far behind so eh... I did bring BLU to 60 for artifact armour just to look fancy for one cutscene with the empire though (... I already had it at 50 as a potential subjob option for my RUN)

is it just me or have Ankha cosplayers really had a rebound

another geekjack notification goods arriving at the warehouse that still can't be shipped yay, this time the Myth mascot plushies

let's see that brings the count up to... it looks like 6 orders with this same subject format for items being held :(

that looks way wilder than the D+ shows we got so far, hyped

yayyy a date, March 30th... let's see Boba's got until Feb 9th so that's almost 2 months of waiting time arrrgh

Big fan 'o Promathia so far at least, Prishe is A++. Really though it's just the first content that really feels whole and fleshed out, Nation 1-5 is a bit of a quick scramble between unique nation stuff with build-up leading into Zilart, but then the Zilart content still felt pretty hollow. I like Lion but it just doesn't feel like there's much there, and Aldo I'm more intrigued by a RoV scene I saw him in than anything else.

Promathia though has a pretty full cast of characters that all really shine out well, again to reiterate I love Prishe. I hate to say it in the case of Nag'mola since his design is so bland in comparison, but the Zilart Bros just really fall flat as villains.

so far though I'm kinda completely baffled how Shantotto has always been the face of the game despite being so uninvolved. Like yeah he's one of the original content cast but going by that there's still Lion who's quite clearly actually part of the stories going on. As a Windurst citizen though I've got Ajido-Marujido making Shantotto feel even more insignificant.

At least DFFOO is giving Prishe a BT weapon which are typically reserved for protags/antags (Shantotto got one ages ago, in addition to both Zilart Bros). I've done a bit of Wings which I'm excited for, Lilisette's got me sold but tbf I was already sold on her from DFFOO as well

I have a massive big brain regret of only getting the Echad Ring without yet understanding what Capacity Points where, not bothering with the equivalent yet

at least I'm pretty sure that was also available but I just ignored it for the time being not realizing it was a temporary offer ffffff

technically beat Promathia, including the final cutscenes that required waiting for the next day (I finished at 1am jp time lol RIP), but tonight now on the Epilogue to it and Zilart

ToAU tho just up to mission 15/48

*looks up*

shit, not familiar but in combination with covid (namely with regards to breathing) that sounds like a horror show =/

hoping for the best with ER

fff yeah that's frustrating, it's already just kinda weird these Silver Keys are locked behind having your character 45 days old... dammit I'm ilvl 117 I want my stuff!

although I didn't realize during the returners campaign that there was a big exp boost campaign as well, it seemed levels were going incredibly fast and then I realized oh that wasn't actually the norm

RoV I did actually proceed a bit into Chapter 2 for the Rhapsody in Astral/Crimson items, I forget which one I think let you take trusts into the 75 limit break quests

all boosted up baby

geeeeez welp not much to do but hope for the best for you all!

my niece's gonna be 8 months in a few days and with my sister in colorado so my dad's all concerned telling my sister about the daily cases every day

well, he has a few things he repeats every day like asking when she'll speak or what she weighs

facebook please don't push notificantions about people I have literally never interacted with in my life

they're on my friends list out of vague familial obligation not because I care about whatever video they just posted

my extended family is large there are so many cousins I don't even have a clue what they look like or how they're even related to me

if you wanna know what the essence of by-the-books MCU schlock is, it's Black Widow

sana wat

my spanish knowledge is mostly the lyrics to feliz navidad

Soon! Soon!

Ryokles sighting! I think it's been a while since.... *checks Shadow_Tenchi creation date*

boy we even had Smurf here last month

Isquen posted...

Is it pronounced in Spanish, like "Kono dillo da?"

wait have i been watching spanish animes all along

I need more of these mumei road rage rant streams

living up to her title as the guardian of civilization

Mega Dillo makes me think of like RF4 Dylas being called Big D

... but then Dillo Mana... the life-source of a dillo

FFXI progress, Windurst nation missions complete plus Rise of Zilart and I'm liking the game overall, the few Rhapsodies of Vana'diel cutscenes I've come across are hype but that's the last content so I wanna wait on that

almost done Chains of Promathia expansion and this one's been pretty great, Prishe top tier FF character

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awESZa3yTnc

I need a long version of this fffff, 56 seconds but I love every time this comes on in these Promathia cutscenes.

bonus for prishe
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/8/AAN7AaAACzqu.jpg

maybe somewhere between 60-90

at the very least none of the 2017 to 2022 topics used "fantasy" in the title, nor the few predating that are archived... which tend to just be named like "dillos topic [random#] - [subtitle] [hashtag] [dillos]"

my local files seem to have a few 2013 topics, dillos topic 2nd semester, dillos topic 56, and 382.... geez that's 3 whole topics in 2 months, things sure were faster back then

so it took a decade to get a final fantasy title huh

... okay actually looking up it seems the dillos topic 10th year anniversary could be crossed either during this topic or next (more likely next). i checked if i had any earlier topics stored locally but nah I think that's the first of the actual topic series

noted

introducing a bunch of characters was one thing I was worried about going in but during the movie I felt it was done pretty well with giving most the cast some shine

... oddly enough the character that felt pretty minimal to me is one I've seen a lot of praise for, Makkari

Kumail Nanjiani certainly nopes right out at the end, but I like that not everybody agrees with the choice to stop the emergence but that his character doesn't want to fight his family.

if only he was like this at the start of the pandemic this might not have become a core part of the current Republican identity

also lol that his son clearly isn't on the same page

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I didn't hate it. I would say it did too much. Felt completely unnecessary to have both Deviants and the Emergence in the same film.

I know I've heard criticism about Kro getting wasted by Angelina Jolie, but I was just glad for him to be done with because it wasn't building up to anything good and all the actual focus was on the inner-conflict with Ikaris.

like some people point out how blatantly misleading advertisements were showing Angelina x Kro scenes that were literally 2 seconds before her killing him but I just lol'd and moved on. I get the deviants were set up as a red herring but yeah it is a bit of a waste on that end of the concept.

colliding posted...

The ending of Eternals is so weird

yeahhhhh, I liked the movie a good bit but uh... Ikaris's ending is just so completely over-the-top silly and an unnecessary wrap-up in what was overall a rather slow-paced film with a serious tone.

plum trying to make the topics after I block him for gaslighting over transphobia

oof I just saw the birthday tweets and went to check, that is a big batch of goodies tho-*sees price*....... oof

tho I'm currently glaring over at Okayu's 1mil milestone fork & knife set...

so in addition to Boba going up today

Eternals now on D+ for those who didn't bother with theaters

Yeah for sure it was a pretty easy decision to go for this year's bundle since it's pretty easy on the wallet.

Speaking of phewww Myth's post-NY outfit reveal anouncement wasn't more merch but an OG song produced by them together! Sounds nice with the creative freedom they were allowed with it, premier hypeee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKJErsN-ylU

ummmm 3 was like the best episode

lmao Towa main stream keeps switching audio to Calli just before she belts out a swear

... Choco maintains her bottom placement from last year. Mio clearly deserved better than the losers bracket but ouch the disconnect in main games =/... So this means Bae best of people who didn't disconnect I'll take it. That was a chaotic stream following her.

Started Block B following Ollie + Gura, hilarious how dead-tired Gura was compared to super amped Ollie but then holy crap Gura's stream ended up so tense I couldn't look away.

another year another ame complete birthday set purchased

although I'm probably still more hyped about the omocat stuff I don't think has shipped to me yet T_T

I haven't had a good record of keeping mugs around the place without other people taking them tho, never forgetting my friggin dad used my Tales of Orchestra mug that came with special tickets and that's completely disappeared but luckily I found a replacement on Rakuten I now just keep in my room

amedayyy

ame vr karaoke continues to be the best

yeah true, beating the league + getting National Dex, because part of what PokeRadar does is find previously unobtainable Pokemon like Ditto (... so also having a Ditto is kinda also locked behind E4 as well)

there's PokeRadar chaining which is kinda frustrating in BDSP due to the random chance of chains breaking for no reason, but if you chain up to 40 the shiny rate jumps to 1/99, and 3 guaranteed max IVs

but for simple consistency there's the Masuda Method, breeding with a foreign pokemon increases shiny rates 6x (8x with Shiny Charm), so just get HoloEN to trade dittos with JP members and just start mass breeding

Masuda Method is like having a consistent radar chain of 37-38... and not having to catch with pokeballs

mel's getting an H-game