Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

I'm interested in it, but only got about an hour and a half into it before I tapped out. I'm not saying Lionel didn't do anything to her, but girl was fucking damaged way before. Not to sound unsympathetic, but I have a hard time with "Tell me your feelings and how they made you feel type stuff," just not my thing. Dude's a massive fucking retard, don't need a Doctor Phil episode to solidify my thoughts on that.
 
I spoke too soon, new Desolance video dropping tomorrow night where "All Lies Exposed"

He's already talking to himself in chat
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Can I get a primer on this Desolance drama? I've never looked into XIV creators outside of looking at their guides for raid encounters and had no idea this shit was going on.
 
Can I get a primer on this Desolance drama? I've never looked into XIV creators outside of looking at their guides for raid encounters and had no idea this shit was going on.
Autistic retard gets butthurt that he's rejected by two women with connections to Xeems, one of them being his ex girlfriend. Also got made fun off and ran off from high end raiding scene because he's "too retarded to get addles off".

Proceeds to have a year+ sperg fest about Xeems, defaming him in every way poasible and harrassing and threatening all his friends and people associated with him. Xeems decides to sue him for defamation. Leonel's response is to call Xeems' lawyer and leave 3 different voice messages basically wishing she would die and get raped and that her 9 year old daughter should also die and be assaulted. Now Xeems' lawyer is pressing criminal charges and he has a sentence hearing in July. Leonel lost the defamation case against Xeems by default because he never bothered to defend himself and was ordered to leave everyone alone and pay up like 23k with interest. He's already defaulted several times and directly lied to twitch to get Xeems banned from the platform. Xeems has already reported Leonel's continued harrassment so the sped better start counting his days before he'll be sharing a jailcell with Tyrone.
 
Autistic retard gets butthurt that he's rejected by two women with connections to Xeems, one of them being his ex girlfriend. Also got made fun off and ran off from high end raiding scene because he's "too retarded to get addles off".

Proceeds to have a year+ sperg fest about Xeems, defaming him in every way poasible and harrassing and threatening all his friends and people associated with him. Xeems decides to sue him for defamation. Leonel's response is to call Xeems' lawyer and leave 3 different voice messages basically wishing she would die and get raped and that her 9 year old daughter should also die and be assaulted. Now Xeems' lawyer is pressing criminal charges and he has a sentence hearing in July. Leonel lost the defamation case against Xeems by default because he never bothered to defend himself and was ordered to leave everyone alone and pay up like 23k with interest. He's already defaulted several times and directly lied to twitch to get Xeems banned from the platform. Xeems has already reported Leonel's continued harrassment so the sped better start counting his days before he'll be sharing a jailcell with Tyrone.
Jesus Christ. Thanks for the information.
 
Jesus Christ. Thanks for the information.
Leonel's defense for calling a woman just doing her job and repeatedly tell her that both she and her 9 year old daughter should be assaulted? Free speech.

He thinks the first amendmant means he can say literally whatever he wants without repurcussions and he's too retarded to be able to distinguish between being able to express opinion and weaponizing it to commit crimes.

Leonel is unironically an unhinged lunatic who's 1 step away from shooting up an elementary school and what he needs is a nice little lesson in sodomy at the local prison.
 
Leonel's defense for calling a woman just doing her job and repeatedly tell her that both she and her 9 year old daughter should be assaulted? Free speech.

He thinks the first amendmant means he can say literally whatever he wants without repurcussions and he's too retarded to be able to distinguish between being able to express opinion and weaponizing it to commit crimes.

Leonel is unironically an unhinged lunatic who's 1 step away from shooting up an elementary school and what he needs is a nice little lesson in sodomy at the local prison.
It's kind of scary how many people actually believe "free speech" means they can just say anything to anyone without consequences. I ended up watching a couple videos on this guy and yeah, he seems like a ticking time bomb. If they don't lock him up somewhere he's gonna kill someone.
 
Probably old news, but just in case people haven't heard, prepatch is available to download now and the dataminers are out in full force.

Yes, it's a day early (console was supposed to be today and PC tomorrrow) but small indie company, etc etc.
 
I had a thought about what Desolance played in FF14 based on his unhinged behavior, and I was right. Why is it always the male Elezen?
 
Probably old news, but just in case people haven't heard, prepatch is available to download now and the dataminers are out in full force.

Yes, it's a day early (console was supposed to be today and PC tomorrrow) but small indie company, etc etc.
Thanks, I'm on mid-tier third world internet so this is most definitely helpful, now I can enjoy the launch issues (read: farm fates to unlock the higher shop levels when dungeons inevitably shit themselves) instead of seeing data bar fill up.
 
It's kind of scary how many people actually believe "free speech" means they can just say anything to anyone without consequences. I ended up watching a couple videos on this guy and yeah, he seems like a ticking time bomb. If they don't lock him up somewhere he's gonna kill someone.
Not to sound too much like a lunatic, but the lawyer phone calls are probably the funniest parts of this whole drama. I mean, dude is obviously unhinged and the shit he said to the lawyer isn't cool; but listening to the phone calls, dude has strong sovereign citizen energy while saying a bunch of nasty shit, and if there was a place to laugh, that's probably it. Because otherwise it's just a Internet bum being a fucking nuisance.
 
Can't call them tribal quest anymore.
Lmao this brainrot hit wizards of the coast & magic the gathering as well, who renamed all "tribal" cards to "kindred" cards. It sounds just as stupid and convoluted, because it turns out that "tribal" has multiple meanings beyond a pejorative for a third-world individual. Sorry, a developing-country individual (despite the fact that this would apply to, say, India, which is just a little further along than is say Afghanistan as things go, but you know white progressives and awareness don't get along)

That this is in a patch note suggests that this isn't just the racket banging on the localization team, but has been so vociferously expounded that it's gotten the higher-ups spooked enough to think they have to change it or there'll be some blowback. Then again, the way these rackets function is literally to target the higher-ups and coerce them to do retarded shit on the promise of blowback that will never happen.
Also, no more cheesing alliance roulette by under-gearing.
It just took them so fucking long to implement this, it's crazy. I get it - it's an issue mostly on western servers so they don't give a damn, but jesus christ was it annoying to drop out of every other roulette because you landed in CT and I'd rather watch paint dry
For all the videos pointing out how Endwalker has been the "downfall of FFXIV"
It's the downfall of the mid-core for sure, lol. For the super-casuals, it's great - most of the game is centered to them. For the ultra-hardcore, it's great - they're getting plenty of ball-bustingly stupid content to waste their lives on.

For people who like a bit of challenge and to see themselves gradually improving, there's really not a lot when you make everything both on-the-rails and nigh-impossible to fuck up. Every encounter becoming "stack, now spread, now don't stand in the fire, but anyways if you fuck it up nbd we've made it literally impossible to fail" unless you dip into the tippy-top of content hollows out the middle.
 
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Lmao this brainrot hit wizards of the coast & magic the gathering as well, who renamed all "tribal" cards to "kindred" cards. It sounds just as stupid and convoluted, because it turns out that "tribal" has multiple meanings beyond a pejorative for a third-world individual.
First-world rich white faggots being offended on my behalf is so tiresome.

I wish them a million 70 IQ Latino criminal imports.
 
First-world rich white faggots being offended on my behalf is so tiresome.

I wish them a million 70 IQ Latino criminal imports.
Lmao
I'm latina and they are going as far as attempt to rewrite our entire hispanic language because they find our gender heavy language to be too "problematic"
So their solution is to invent made up words to try to make our language gender neutral but uh...turns out that an entire race of people really don't like having privileged white people messing around with our culture.

But yeah, I'm slowly starting to notice a small uptick in wokeness being integrated into FFXIV, at least west side. The changes will start out small but as they get more confident, expect 20 different lgbtq+ characters who make their gender identity the entirety of their personality to pop up next expansion.
 
Lmao this brainrot hit wizards of the coast & magic the gathering as well, who renamed all "tribal" cards to "kindred" cards. It sounds just as stupid and convoluted, because it turns out that "tribal" has multiple meanings beyond a pejorative for a third-world individual.
To be fair, the game was always moving in this direction with Alphinaud's continued efforts to forge diplomatic ties. I'm not saying that I'm in love with this change, but there's a logical consistency as to why it's being done, compared to WotC doing stupid shit like getting rid of half-[race] in D&D or the efforts to make Magic 'more inclusive' but are ostensibly being done for performative issues.

Unrelated MSQ spoilers,

It appears that Wuk Lamat is 'getting Lyse'd' at the end of the expansion as she ends up becoming regent for person who does end up becoming Dawnspeaker. Troons are already malding over this.
 
Unrelated MSQ spoilers,

It appears that Wuk Lamat is 'getting Lyse'd' at the end of the expansion as she ends up becoming regent for person who does end up becoming Dawnspeaker. Troons are already malding over this.
You have got to be kidding me.

Wuk isn't even fucking trans. What, they think because a troon voices her that it means she's supposed to be a tranny? What are they getting mad for, what the fuck?

Why are these spoilers even coming out already?

HUH?

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Why are these spoilers even coming out already?
Going to guess dataminers hit the dialogue bits of the script or something, it could also be just entirely bullshit planted to make troons mald.
Wuk isn't even fucking trans. What, they think because a troon voices her that it means she's supposed to be a tranny?
Let's not go into how they picked a troon to voice the hulking furry who has a "female bodybuilder on T" physique and it has yet gone unnoticed, looking forward to one of her dialogue choices being "it's MA'AM!"
To be fair, the game was always moving in this direction with Alphinaud's continued efforts to forge diplomatic ties. I'm not saying that I'm in love with this change, but there's a logical consistency as to why it's being done, compared to WotC doing stupid shit like getting rid of half-[race] in D&D or the efforts to make Magic 'more inclusive' but are ostensibly being done for performative issues.
It's also mentioned on encyclopedia eorzea, there is a page in one of the tomes (I think II?) dedicated solely to debating if using the nomenclature of 'beast tribes' and 'beast man' is even necessary considering that many of the 'enlightened' races of eorzea (see, playable ones) also share characteristics with beasts so it blurs where the line from beastman to man could ostensibly be drawn. This page also mentions that making any Miqo'te scholars aware that they share more ancestry with cats than men is a surefire way to make them seethe.

I would guess the change from tribe to 'allied society' also being in JP (i.e. being canon, not a localization thing) could come not just from Alphinaud but rather the new 'tribal' quests being about the people of tural at large, in which case you're not dealing with a tribe, you're dealing with an entire civilization.

Well that or we can chalk it up to SE at large being pozzed, it's also a possibility.

I'm still going to keep an eye peeled during the MSQ though, I can see someone on the localization team trying to sneak some of their little 'latinX' virtue signals.
 
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