You should all absolutely go vote for @drgriswald.bsky.social and their amazing Doomtrain piece.

Do we need to get "Fund FFXI development" signs ready for people to carry back inside? hahaha

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It really is baffling just how bad the iCUE software from @corsair.com is.

I just went to close it, because watching Twitch with it active causes my PC to lock up. Closing it, also crashed the program... what in the world.

Come listen to me talk about the Live Letter, my distrust of the #FFXIV dev team, balls, and what we think we might see later this week at Fan Fest!

#FFXIVFanFest be like "Give us hundreds of dollars, and in return you'll get-
-Porch pirates to steal your jolibee shirts because you'll be out of town.
-digital Fan Fest items you need to buy seperately
-Bigger cell phone bills from streaming Fan Fest AT Fan Fest to earn Twitch Badges.

$40 tshirts.

I might be more tempted if it wouldn't be sitting on my porch while I'm at Fan Fest.

Kinda funny how this is yet another thing that kinda screws over people that bought the most expensive Fan Fest ticket to date tbh.

From the same guy that brought you "cool app,bro" comes a brand new post.

Cool collab merch, bro.

There's not enough room for the tripod, though.

IYKYK.

Packing for VanaFest 2010 YouTube video by FFXIPetFoodAlpha

Oh holy shit, I had backed it up! Enjoy! youtu.be/VdtZ2KvgOQo?...

I remember Matt and Devin packing plushies in a video for VanaFest back in like 2010.

Clearly, this is a sign of a big #FFXI announcement. Nothing else it could be.

Props on getting the suitcase to match the color theme for NA Fan Fest, though.

Me last week hearing you could register for the merch line with an app "oh God not another app"

It's literally the same app. The 2023 XIV fan fest app updated, and I can't even log in with it.

Amazing.

Cool app, bro.

Doesn't even load.

Great sign for things to come at the #FFXIVFanFest I'm sure.

What if they just announce add-on scenarios for #FFXIV?

TFW you're listening to the new NIN but still get emotional at "She's Gone Away" because it makes you think of the Log Lady's last appearance in Twin Peaks S3

A photorealistic mask of Clara Peller, the woman who shouted "Where's the Beef?" in old Wendy's commercials. The mask features her wavy grey hair and a string of pearls. The eyes are cut out, giving an incredibly unsettling appearance

Just so everyone is aware, as a promotion in 1984, Wendy's produced terrifying, photorealistic carboard masks of Clara Peller, aka the "Where's the Beef?" lady

I'd love zero new jobs and for limited jobs to have a PVE rotation.

But I'm also good at making unreasonable requests, so...

Here's a picture of our table at the event with the cards spelling out "PFA". Funniest part is, the people visible in the picture aren't even hosts haha. You can just barely see me standing in the background there.

This has been your random ass #FFXI history for the day.

My biggest gripe with OC/FT outside of difficulty was they made the barrier to entry so stupid.

They perfected it with Bozja, and they went backwards.

These two things made any grinding and phantom job leveling in OC pointless because there was nothing to easily take them into.

I dont mean the grinding, I mean the dungeon/instanced content.

Eureka was rough because of the weird way to enter BA. Bozja perfected that with a simple pop up to enter.

So when forced to make a choice on ease of entry, they picked literally the worst option- like they learned nothing.

Eh, fuck it-

And by "reasons" I mean everything was set to go, we ordered them, and then ahead of the event, with not enough time to order more, they told us that it needed an SE copyright on it if they were to include it in the bags.

A wonderful waste of money for a podcast that made zero.

Update!

If the stickers weren't doing it for you, I'll also have *vintage* Pet Food Alpha business cards to hand out.

We had made up a BUNCH of them to be included in the gobbiebags at Fan Fest '08, but "reasons" prevented that from happening so we've had them just laying around ever since!

Thinking a lot the last few days about how #FFXIV's Yoshida told players to wait until 8.0 for jobs to be interesting again.

I really hope they've been spending an ungodly amount of time in the kitchen on that. Telling players to wait 2 years and then not delivering would suck.

Someone linked me an "article" on X the other week and it was one of the stupidest, most self important, ego boosting things poorly disguised as information I had ever seen.

I'm so glad I do not have to stumble upon things like that.

Spread thin- but it also highlights a terrible use of the resources they DO have.

They had to make choices, and THIS is what they ended up greenlighting? I've never had so little faith in the team, and the company.


At least they have a fire lit under them now. I truly hope it helps.

Reaction farming YouTubers are the worst thing that's ever happened to MMOs and their communities.

Any time I see people talking about shareholders and XIV I just think back to them asking Kiryu about spreading Yoshida too thin and him saying it's fine because he's learning things he's taking back to XIV- even though they refuse to give any kind of examples.

a girl is standing next to a robot that says capcom on it ALT: a girl is standing next to a robot that says capcom on it

Played some #Pragmata tonight with my wife hacking via the PS Access controller.

Was a fun way to play together!

Was contemplating some queues in #FFXIV to work on my relic and then looked up the quest... 1200 crystal paste in total?

LOL.

LMAO.

Did they make this even worse so that people would cheer harder when they announce the upgrade revamps or what?

Wild that you'll acknowledge that the notices were delayed, but not that the submission form was closed earlier than you advertised.