Tracks out. I do not miss the days of my feed randomly refreshing itself all the FUCKING time
I also do not miss the days of its really inconsistent UX, there are like 2-4 different gestures to go back on iOS depending on the content you’re viewing that only work on that one specific content type

Taking a wild shot in the dark and guessing Bluesky and Discord

Twitter is my third guess if Discord’s a miss

AEW Dynamite spoilers below:

I was not expecting Ciampa to shake Darby's hand and stuff at the end of the match, that was pretty cool. I will always completely mark out when matches end with mutual shows of respect lmao, especially when it's from a heel or tweener

bluesky, we're a bit rocky right now, but this carousel thing instead of a mosaic of images is going to effectively make every photo you post that isn't the first one, invisible. nobody is going to be swiping for every post they see.

please consider that not being the default display, please

I'm a little behind but this Dynamite is pretty good so far. I've been a bit clocked out on wrestling for a few weeks because of IRL stuff going on so I'm glad I'm really feeling it again

I remember disliking Toni Storm for a while because she cheated in a match with Shida to either cost her the women's title or take the title off of her and I hadn't seen or didn't appreciate her current gimmick yet lol

I'm only casually familiar with pre-Oct 2025 AEW (caught bits and pieces of a lot of the PPVs available for free on HBO) but it still feels weird (in a good way) that Ospreay and Hikaru Shida are back
I liked the Shida matches I caught in particular and I liked her intros with the kendo stick lol

Just watched Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle. Shit was absolute cinema, Ufotable can't miss

I think a member of the bsky staff signing up to a block list and breaking those involved’s feeds in the process is really bad, actually
Like, “if there aren’t professional consequences whatsoever, that’s a very telegraphed death knell for the site” levels of bad

Why are people using AI to write looking for group posts in FFXIV now
You literally just need to post your logs, availability, and maybe some of your general experiences and strengths; if you can’t put any effort into that how tf do you expect us to believe you’ll put effort into learning mechanics

Stuff like the illusion of 3D when you climb Mt Corel, the top-down perspective when you go down the Shinra Manor spiral staircase, the weird bottom-up camera angle running through the cave right after, and really cinematic shots like the exterior Shinra elevator are cool as HELL

Real af
I think I posted a few days ago that it's a really pretty ugly game (I know I said that in one of my friend groups but I think I posted it here too)
A lot of the map backgrounds are really iconic and there is a LOT of atmosphere with the chosen camera angles, music choice, etc

To this day it genuinely intensely triggers me that draught is pronounced like draft
Don't get me wrong it SOUNDS better than the way I read it in my head (drot) but like... come on man

Woke up early & was excited to play FF9 but then I was sick all morning, got sidetracked when I started feeling better, & now it's almost evening and I'm starting to feel really tired so I STILL haven't launched it despite my Steam Deck being beside me for a few hours now LMAO
Actual wasted day fuck

Exploring a dungeon and hitting a reactor where the music changes to that ominous piano and the lighting is all weird and unnatural will never not be peak
The game does so much with so little it’s actually impressive

I’m not gonna pretend the game doesn’t have some glaring pacing and presentation issues but I think FF7 altered my brain chemistry a little
It’s rare for me to still be thinking about a story this much this long after I’ve finished it, especially given I’ve also started another game already

I’m FF7posting again you can’t stop me
Northern Crater (song is called Judgement Day) might be one of my favorite dungeon themes in any game literally ever
The Forgotten Capital is also up there

They did a big recipe change in the late 2000s/early 2010s iirc
I also find their quality varies heavily both per location and just by luck, Dominoes hits REALLY hard on good nights and has a knife battle in a Denny’s parking lot with Papa John’s for the title of Worst Pizza Ever on bad nights

That’s the story of my life LMAO

FF9 is pretty decent so far. Beginning’s a bit slow but I’m enjoying it
I’m really digging the aesthetic too, idk how to put it into words or if this even makes sense but it’s the most Final Fantasy-looking Final Fantasy to me

I have a suspicion I'm gonna call Beatrix Zelenia in my head a LOT

You can remap the controls through Steam itself on a per-game basis at least, forgot that was a thing. I just grabbed a community layout for the Deck lmao, swaps A and B and it binds the assist stuff to the macro buttons on the back+L3/R3 so you don't have to pause the game

I know OF the NGage since it overlaps several of my biggest hobbies but tbh I don’t know much about it, was it even popular in its heyday? I was always under the impression it was really niche even when it was current

Why the FUCK is confirmation bound to the B button on the PC version of FF9?????

I think the only reasons 9 wouldn't grab me is that I'm either burned out on turn-based combat or I'm just burned out on playing games period, but I feel motivation to play something rn

Gonna dabble in FF9 today I think. If it doesn't hook me I'll probably either give Rebirth another try (I really do want to finish it, when the dungeons don't burn me the fuck out I do like the game LOL) or maybe throw a curveball and try one of the other big JRPGs I've never played, Chrono Trigger

As far as I can tell (I haven’t played Tactics), Ultima in Ivalice isn’t really based on or similar to Jenova at all. XIV made a conscious choice to turn her into Jenova in almost everything but name
I’m really curious as to why

XIV’s Ultima, the High Seraph is a little bizarre to me. They’re clearly using Tactics as a base, except she has WAY more in common with Jenova than with the Ivalice renditions of Ultima she’s based on. It’s like they took Ultima’s base concept and retrofitted Jenova’s lore and abilities onto her

Bleh, I think I have to call off FRU tonight. We lost a melee and I got 3 hours of sleep, the idea of doing FRU past midnight on 3h of sleep sounds absolutely miserable
Hoping that 1. people won’t be mad and 2. this doesn’t make the group implode, I still want a few more totems lol