i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.
Got home from work and someone on Discord had responded with "disable experimental UI-cache", because that causes patches to break? For some reason? Despite how I'm pretty sure it's on by default?
> Browsing FF14 cash-shop bcs FF14 won't launch
> Sees Fantasia-potions being sold
> Point and laugh at reminder of the transition-meme
> Keep browsing
> Sudden realization that I should buy one for myself (IRL)
> Pause
> Remembers that Fantasia is a game-item and doesn't affect reality
> Kind of confused about what my brain is cooking
It suddenly occurred to me that one of the reasons why the DRK-questline didn't really impact me, is that I first played through it as Azoth Llen.
As in, Fray says "why are we even helping these people?" and Azoth looks at him like he's got brain-damage. Because why would she be doing this to help people?
Azoth saves people because she likes to fight. They give her a monster or some bandits or a god to fight? She's going to fight and fight and she's going to love every moment of it.
(DRK spoilers under the cut)
So when the reveal finally happens and Fray says "I'm you, all of the resentment you feel against these people who are letting you enjoy all of these fights that you love".
It just... ends up sounding insane? And even if they have Azoth's face? It's so obviously not Azoth. Because any piece of Azoth's consciousness would already know that she doesn't give a fuck about the people she's saving.
Fray should know that it was never about "being the hero", or "helping people". It was about being given the opportunity to fight someone.
Getting paid? Is nice? But Azoth never cared about money. She had as much money as she could carry. She was only interested in it because there was a fight to be had.
So DRK? Ends up feeling horribly contrived and weird, because it's not a story written with Azoth as a participant.
Like. I can acknowledge that it's a good bit of story, but when the first time you experience it you're looking at it through the lens of a crazy person whose brain is not fucking compatible with the plot?
It makes it feel a lot like the DRK-questline is massively overrated.
(In comparison, Zenos' madness is a LOT more tangible for Azoth, because it's not just a "warped reflection" of her. It's her.)
(Zenos says something unhinged, and the Scions glance back at Azoth as they suddenly remember that she's said the same exact words.)
(Azoth does end up hating Zenos on "hello", and obviously that's because of a bunch of scripted instances that make for really miserable gameplay-experiences, but I think also because she sees a person just like her, that is now threatening people she actually does care about. And this is upsetting.)
Actually sat down and unlocked Mentor today, and it required... not as much as I'd thought?
Didn't need to finish all of the Endwalker EX-trials, didn't need to finish all of the Hildibrand/Relic trials, might've needed to finish all of the Guildhests (I was on a roll and just went through the lot).
But yeah, Vae can now technically have a little burger-king crown next to her name. I immediately looked up how to get rid of it.
(Also, there's a little sprout-thing next to my chat now, and I ain't ever going to click on it.)
I would like to state, on the record. Fuck, and, you.
Yes, during my endless grind for 100 fucking Necron-totems, I created a strategy-board for it.
I also ran those fights almost exclusively as a tank, because keeping a dps-rotation going during that shit was making my head go to shit, and because stacking a vuln on a tank here and there isn't going to make much of a difference.
god firefly had it all. the soundtrack. the way every costume looks like it was pulled straight from a goodwill. zoe and mal's whole deal. the terrible chinese pronunciation. sex work being the most respectable and unionized profession of the lot. spaceship cargo hold full of cattle. "shiny." teenage girl with mysterious unexplained psychic powers. old traveling preacher with a mysterious unexplained past. chekov's compression coil. "pretty spry for a dead fella." wash's slutty little hawaiian shirts. kaylee and inarra's whole deal. mark sheppard is there.
once you notice the lack of Asian actors--not even background--you'll never be able to watch it ever again, tho.
(and this is coming from someone who was deeply involved in the fandom and wrote a genuinely stupid amount of fanfic, I can't even think about it without wanting to bang my head against the wall.)
And let us not forget the Reavers! The ones Joss Whedon straight-up compared to Apaches! (Or rather, as fulfilling the role that Indians filled in 1950s westerns.)
Came into work with hinted-at-suggestion of "let me stay home with the fucking car again today and hopefully it'll never be an issue again, fuck me".
Was told in the morning: "We're getting visited by your teacher tomorrow" (what the fuck) "so come in anyway" (fuck you teacher)
Booked bus-tickets, because train-tickets are the same price and have ludicrous hours attached to it (and I just fucking know that the trains would get canceled day-of, as always happens).
Cost me something like 50% more than the fuel for driving myself, with still kind of horrible times, and taking nearly twice as long to get anywhere. But without a car it's what we've got.
Got a message two hours later from coworker: "Teacher canceled the visit, stay at home".
(I really wish those tickets were refundable, but at least I don't have to stress about trying to get there on fucking time anymore.)
So I've started in on leveling BRD, and uhh... what the fuck.
My experiences with BRD is basically that you're going to be struggling to beat the healers on the enmity-list. You do fuck all damage, because your role is to boost others through your songs.
So, being number 3 on the list several times over during a raid where people weren't even dying (in our group)? What the fuck.
To be fair, we had: tank+MCH+SMN+DNC+DNC.
But uhh... I was beating the dance-partnered SMN. And yeah I couldn't compare to MCH but that's kind of an insane thing to even attempt as any kind of support-role, let alone BRD.
(Yes, the SMN was probably asleep through most of it, considering that their DNC switched dance-partner after the first boss.)
But like, I wouldn't have ever put even a DNC below a BRD on the enmity-list? BRD is really bad.
At this point my only options for an explanation are:
BRD has been boosted at some point and now they're actually pretty good.
BRD has an absurd dps-spike at lvl-70 specifically.
DNC is actually really comparable to BRD somehow, despite me never having seen anything to imply this.
My teammates were bad at their jobs.
I'm actually somehow miraculously a genius-level BRD.
And I'm presenting those options in the order of most-likely to patently-absurd.
What do you mean my car needs a replacement-part that will only be available to you by friday? What do you mean "try not to use your breaks" until then?
So I was thinking about what skills I actually use as WHM. And so I made this monstrosity.
Green circles is "used during pulls and bosses" (except Aquaveil which is only used during pulls).
Yellow circles are "used during bosses" (except Esuna, which is just Esuna).
Blue circles are "oops", where it's not a full-on emergency, but not quite "business as usual".
Red circle is "something is fucked" (LB -> everything is double-fucked).
Green X is for Medica-2 because it's... really good early, but kind of bad late-game? It's an awkward skill to place.
Yellow X is for skills that you basically outgrow as you level, but which are important at their respective levels (also Rescue, because you shouldn't need to use this).
Red X is for "don't fucking bother with this shit".
If you look closer, you can also see how I'm not a fantastic savage-raid-level healer. Because one of the red circles also hides a dps-boost, and because I'm more likely to double-cast Lilies than use Benediction.
Use-cases:
Lvl 100-pull:
Regen on tank right as they aggro enemies -> Can now see all enemies on the list -> DoT on enemies as we run -> Shield on tank as we stop -> AOE-stun spam + Assize + Regen-renewal -> Aquaveil when they stop being stunned (Afflatus if I have it) -> Lily if tank hit 80% at this point -> Keep spamming AOEs + Regen-renewal.
Reasoning is basically that the shield is long-lasting so it won't care about me stun-locking enemies for a bit. Aquaveil on the other hand is like 10sec, so if the tank isn't actively being attacked during that, then it's useless.
Lvl-100 boss:
DoT+Attacks -> Temperance+Shield for the raid-wide -> Assize to heal the raid-wide -> Kill kill kill -> Asylum if more raid-wides, Bell if I know there will be multi-hits or if I've just run out of other oGCDs to throw at them.
Rescue:
Can be used on Sprouts to save them from forcing me to deal with rez'ing half the party (tanks dying and everyone else folding like wet paper), but is mostly a communication-tool of "fuck are you doing, keep running dipshit".
Resurrection:
Quick-cast -> Thin Air -> Resurrection
This is what I save my quick-cast for, and also why I never use Thin Air despite how I could probably squeeze more dps out of doing so. It does however mean that if I'm rez'd, I can rez someone else immediately for no cost without having to worry about my mana-levels. Which is nice.
(This is why WHM are priority-rez compared to other healers. Same as RDM/SMN are priority-rez for DPS.)
Newly rez'd:
Benediction on myself (fuck you guys) -> Rez anyone else dead -> Get mana -> Use dps-skill for the free attacks hidden behind it.
Presence of Mind is, again, one of those things where I know that I should use it. But it's so annoying to use early-game (suddenly you run out of mana waaay faster), that I've just learnt to ignore it, and it gives you... three (good) attacks for free. So yeah, a DPS-increase, but not to an extreme amount.
(And having it as a safety-buffer for if I get rez'd without mana, and still letting me hit things without standing around like an idiot? Kind of nice.)
Plenary Indulgence always feels like a waste during pulls though, because it buffs everyone and only the tank is taking damage. Aquaveil is better for that, and usually [Divine Benison + Aquaveil + Regen + AOE-Stuns + Assize] combines into "the pull is almost over already". So I'd rather just stick with using it on boss raid-wides.
Medica2 is amazing through most of the game, it's just that by the time you have things like Assize (heal+dps), and Asylum (free AOE-regen)? It starts to drop off and becomes ever-more situational. I still end up panic-casting it if I'm rez'd sometimes, because it means that people will have some kind of "self-heal" even if I get ganked again. So yeah, kind of in a category onto itself.
Side-note:
It should perhaps also be noted that I'm more likely to use Afflatus Solace than I am to use up one of the stacks on Tetragrammaton. This is because as an oGCD, I've basically put Tetra in the "press if you start getting really nervous", whereas Solace is more of a way to make sure people are "staying healthy".
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