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FFXIV character blog/dnd/shitposting. .

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

[charlesoberonn]

If Sherlock Holmes was Isekai'd to a fantasy world he would just deduce the rules of this world and get back to solving crimes. He'll find an elf girl sidekick,name her Watson, and pretend like nothing happened.

[ironmyrmidon]

"If you look closely, you can see traces of chalk dust on the floor. Our murderer must have used a magic circle to kill our victim."

"Actually Holmes, this looks like salt. Quite unusual for a magic circle, since it can be scattered so easily..."

"It tastes like salt too. Good eye Watson. Let us start by visiting the fish mongers."

"Well I would enjoy some fried dragonfish, but how does this help our investigation?"

[charlesoberonn]

"A process of elimination, my long-eared friend. There're only two ways for the culprit to get salt in the city. They could have brought it in themselves-"

"But then they'd have to pay the tarrif!"

"Very astute! No, a much likelier option is that they bought it here. Either the docks or the meat market would be the place. And I have a hunch that our culprit is fishy in more ways than one."

[charlesoberonn]

"But Holmes, how did you know the merfolk ambassador was the killer?"

"An excellent question, the key was the footprints."

"But he doesn't even have feet!"

"He doesn't as of right now. But you forget, the magic circle."

"I see! The killing spell was a water spear, which normally requires a circle."

"But doesn't if you're already imbued with water magic like our scaly ambassador."

"So the circle..."

"To grant him a pair of feet. For just long enough to leave distinctive footprints in the scattered salt and to make us suspect a two-legged killer."

"By the Goddess, Holmes, you're a genius!"

[illuminopseudonymous]

Makes sense.

Anyway, getting sheer autism vibes from Holmes

[charlesoberonn]

Good. That means I wrote him in-character.

[fruitpeels]

[ruinedchildhood]

[phantomrose17]

[silly-jellyghoty]

[lenacraft]

March

[abstractandedgyname]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

straight up it should be illegal for a physical storefront not to accept physical currency, or for restaurants not to provide physical menus

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I'm assuming the above is a normie opinion (as it should be) so i do wanna go a tiny step further and explicitly state any laundromat that requires digital payment should be burned to the fucking ground

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if a business cooerces its customers to download an app, i should legally be allowed to set both the business and its board of directors on fire

[yhmir]

Can't turn off this wall heater, which means I can't sleep because I require ideal temps to not wake up every 2 hours with a massive headache.

Sure, let me leave the window open, on the first floor, so instead I can't sleep because the window is open

Just 5 more days to go, and about 5 months to fix my sleep schedule after

[swampthingy]

[actuallyapathy]

[the-lumpfish-queen]

I love environmental storytelling

[belphegor1982]

[hotlegsharker]

[berlynn-wohl]

[harleyklawz]

Its fucking hieroglyphs with you people

[mewnosodenwyma]

"just retrace your steps" I have adhd. as far as my memory is concerned i teleported here

[of-pale]

[potoh]

Two stunning winners ✨️

[yon3arts]

Mordred talks about his family situation. This was an aexcuse to draw a lot of Mordreds

The Bastard of Camelot by @llamagirl28 can be played here: LINK

[llamagirl28]

LOL I love everyone's expressions, they're just perfect!

[songsofwaterandnight]

No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-

[joey-wheeler-official]

there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

[joey-wheeler-official]

like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything

[joey-wheeler-official]

THE BOY

[vr-trakowski]

Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).  

[songofkeys]

The lack of skvaders is particularly frustrating when you realize it forms the third point of a wonderful cryptid trifecta.

You got the jackalopes, which are rabbits with antlers.

And you got the wolpertingers, which are rabbits with antlers and wings.

And then… what? Do you escalate? That’s unbalanced, those two rabbit cryptids don’t have the same number of extra things, the wolpertinger is clearly the jackalope But More.

BUT with the skvader on the other side, balance is restored. Antler rabbit, winged rabbit, winged antler rabbit. It’s a classic Venn diagram of imaginary lapine beasts, and it’s only complete if you acknowledge the fucking skvader.

Good thing Ursula’s got our back, at least.

[gallusrostromegalus]

This is a really excellent point and I applaud your advancements in Cryptid Theory.

[hatwithglasses]

Gentleman, if I might add:

[joey-wheeler-official]

yes you may add this

[thebestworstidea]

I think balance in crypdids is VERY IMPORTANT.

[bunnycuriosity]

but you see, bunnies own the moon collectively

[bunnycuriosity]

what the fuck happens in final fantasy

[janusfnc14]

God Stepped on another God and also the Planet so hard they split into 12 Bits, including everyone on it. She then proceeded to recreate her Best Friends who all Committed Suicide to help her and tasked them with Eternally Micromanaging the Planet as smaller, lesser gods.

Sadly, her planet splitting was not complete and Three (3) of her Old Coworkers survived the Splitosion. All of them decided to become Cryptids who Cause Problems on purpose for the sake of recombining the world. They are also

-Mega Depressed Sad Clown Wizard Hitler who recreated the entire City that was lost, complete with fake people. Which is Fine and Normal.

-Guy with The Most Toxic Ex Ever who literally cannot stop thinking about her Please Help and is also going through literal Work Burnout. He gets Vored by the Pope.

-Jesus if he turned himself into a Vessel and died for people’s hopes and was literally defined by people pleasing, but then saw people Fucking it up and dragged himself back out to tell them to Stop That. He is also on old friend, comes back to life, and wants you to beat him to death the second time round.

She then created an Entire Giant Spaceship to act as a Prison for the God she stepped on and an OH SHIT Button for everyone on the planet if they needed to leave quickly. This is the Moon staffed by Bunnies. They like Carrots and Dubstep.

[z-nth]

they've been banned from radz-at-han

[noscean-scholar]

Y’shtola has Stone IV, Foul, Blizzard IV, Aero, Water, and Thunder spells, and is called a Sorceress.

Alphinaud is an Academician, so he gets to have Scholar spells while keeping his carbuncle. Minfillia was able to cast spells as a Rogue. Urianger has a Death spell as an Astrologian.

Basically, don’t let your dreams be dreams. Have your character know whatever skills/spells you want, and if people call it lore breaking or Mary Sue tell them you don’t care. And that’s that.

[balthius-stark-blog]

THIS!!

I remember thinking about this when they showed off the trust system menu. I thought about it even more going through the MSQ and seeing their other abilities in cutscenes. I get lore is important to some but this is throwing wide the gates of possibilities. Let your characters learn/do whatever they want and have fun!

[mirkemenagerie]

IMPORTANT! Because doing this with your own characters is actually not lore breaking/bending at all.

People who’ve known me for a while have probably heard this speech before, but what defines a Disciple of Magic class or job in this world has nothing to do with what spells they cast! It has everything to do with how those spells are cast. How do they manipulate aether? How do they focus that aether into a spell? And sometimes what medium are used to facilitate spellcasting. These are the things that define a mage, not what spells they cast. 

For example, in lore a conjurer has access to all six elements: Wind, Lightning, Fire, Earth, Ice, Water. Y’shtola was originally trained as a Sharlayan conjurer. Thus, she has access to spells of all those elements. But how she casts those spells now as a “sorceress” might be different than what we, at a glance, might suspect from a conjurer, white mage, or black mage on the Source. It might be the same, just with a different name like how the WoD mage was a “Magus”.

Alphinaud isn’t a Scholar, because he doesn’t have a faery companion, or training as a Nymian Scholar. But he is a Sharlayan trained arcanist versed in healing magicks. Likewise, Urianger may be casting spells in the manner of a Sharlayan Astrologian, but he’s versed in other forms of magic from before, like arcanima. Those spells don’t necessarily go away just because you pick up a different tool… but you might have to reinvent how you work the spell!

A great example of this is Red Mage! They cast spells that were originally used by Black Mages and White Mages. The difference isn’t in the spells they cast, but again, it’s how they cast them that distinguishes them from their predecessors - casting using only internal aether.

So as @noscean-scholar said, don’t let your dreams be dreams! Just because we’re limited by the battle mechanics of the game, does not mean your characters have to suffer that same limitation. Mages invent spells. They come up with new incantations, geometries, and more efficient means of spellcasting. Just remember, it’s all about the “how” that defines the magic you use, not the “what” you’re casting.

[weirdmageddon]

i know most people have seen it but i cant emphasize how much this is literally my favorite breath of the wild clip of all time. also i can never fucking find this clip when i need it especially in high definition so here it is

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

To all my followers:

If this is a legitimate view you hold,

I want you to unfollow me. Then I want you to shut the fuck up and never utter a single word again until you unlearn dumbest shit like this.

This weaponizing of positive concepts like anti-capitalism to justify your shitty fat phobia is grounds for getting smacked if we met in person.

You can always tell good leftists from bad in my experience just by listening to how they talk about others. Leftists that act like this individual don't care about actual fairness, justice, or lifting up others in society. They're just looking for a righteous sounding framework that allows them to bully whoever they want.

[ginger-snaps014]

Also- being fat can be the result of many things…. Not just calorie consumption.

Other factors include genetics (aka god if you’re religious), certain medications (like steroids), certain diseases (like thyroid cancer), certain mental health disorders (like chronic stress), certain living conditions (like poverty or living in a good desert resulting in few healthy options), etc. The list goes on and on.

There a so many reasons bodies look the way they do. You do not know what is happening in someone else’s life or body. Don’t be judgmental. Don’t co-opt a concept to justify cruelty. There is no justification for cruelty. Just learn to shut up, be kind, and let others live.

[verycomplexheartlesswitty]

Also a giant thing to add if your family survived a famine it effects the metabolism of successive generations.

There have yet to be studies on if your parents or grandparent survived malnutrition or lesser forms of deprivation and what the impact would be but it’s safe to assume it would have an impact of some kind. Given the documented link between poverty and malnutrition and the subsequent connections between worse health outcomes and poverty it’s wild to me people have such brain dead takes.

You can of course be rich and fat and you’re no less than for it. Being fat is not something you have to explain or justify in order to be treated like a person. I’ve watched it happen hell I’ve done it myself. Head down saying “I’ve just always been larger,” and “I’ve tried everything nothing seems to work” or “I was recently diagnosed with XYZ.” And it’s always said with that tone of resignation and that note of shame that says “please don’t hate me for existing, this isn’t my fault.”

Which to me is the bigger problem that there is a perceived “fault” that must be justified or admitted to before you as a fat person get to be treated like a person. Even if you admit to the “fault” you’re still bad for not changing it- because it just that simple isn’t it?! It’s so incredibly fucked up.

As a closing note this is just fatphobia, you wanna talk “height or capital excess”?! Let’s talk about fast fashion and the beauty industry. Hell you wanna talk wasteful and food?! Let’s talk about food waste by the tons being thrown away by every grocery chain on the North American continent! Let’s talk about food deserts and lack of produce for those most in need, let’s talk community action and gardening. Get your head out of your ass!

Blaming an individual group (with the exception of billionaires) for the damage of an entire capitalist system will always be bullshit. And will always be thinly veiled racism, ableism, classism, sexism or fatphobia. Maybe all of the above.