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Chances are, profanity of a certain type is flagged automatically anyway. It doesn't cost much in the way of computing power to parse through all inputs to the game and to set aside any strings that have "hurtful content" to be later reviewed by a team of underpaid idiots power tripping. And it's not hard, if someone says "I suspect this is a guild full of racists," to do a simple search for various, hilarious slurs.
It's a part of why my every recommendation for networking in this game has been throwaway discord accounts for a throwaway discord server.
Do many classes even do this? I don't think most people really are clamoring for every class to be difficult, but rather for some to be hard - and for them to stop needlessly removing complexity. For example, combo chains. Warriors' one braincell had to be dedicated, before, to not overcapping on red juice. Now, you can 1-2-cleave-3, and it's totally fine. By contrast, I think most warriors love that you get your damage buff up from their AoE chain rather than having to do a single-target first, which is then refreshed on the AoE.
I love how totally out of step with... anything female this idiot is, and the sonic shirt is perfection. What do women see in this picture? Probably theeeeee: awful eyebrows, the hilariously high hairline, the disgusting and greasy hair, the awful lipstick application, the strain and tension on the muscles around the clavicle, just how angular and rigid the cheekbones are, THAT JAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, and the overall quality of the skin. It really is perfection, the total and complete obliviousness.
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Literally most high-end rotation guides recommend having just enough skill speed to weave two OGCDs between GCDs, so yes.
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Yes, but all the time? Dragoon has to here and there - and if my memory serves, they don't even have to worry about trying to double-weave jumps anymore. Samurai had their weaving seriously reduced with the removal of funny crit buff, BLM has perfectly-clear windows to weave, RDM has surprisingly little to weave for as often as it has an easy time doing so, and the non-DRK tanks mostly sit around doing nothing; even in DRK's case, outside of the burst window, you're kindof just sitting there.
I assume it mostly applies to NIN and MNK these days - who have pretty clearly signed up to be gluttons for punishment. I actually know genuinely nothing about neo-SMN because it looks so fucking boring.
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the big tell for me that he's claiming nonwhite status for extra diversity points is that he literally lists fucking "ella" as one of his pronouns in his twitter bio, and has his little Puerto Rico flag emoji next to a German flag???
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I'm enjoying the OF's unsurprising lefty fluttering, "illegitimate criticism! You say her voice is tripping something in your ear and you SAY you don't know why, but we all know it's TRANSPHOBIA!"
Me oh me oh my, how is it possible that your millenia-old skinwalker detector dislikes a tranny trying to mime a woman with creepy frog voice. It's a mystery, how could anyone possibly be skeeved out by a troon.
Me oh me oh my, how is it possible that your millenia-old skinwalker detector dislikes a tranny trying to mime a woman with creepy frog voice. It's a mystery, how could anyone possibly be skeeved out by a troon.
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I'm a bit disappointed that it seems Stormblood iss going to be the last expansion with a bit of realism when it came to ethnic make up of new areas and nations.
Like back in the day there were exceptions of course, but usually they followed certain rules
You were unlikely to find Roegadyn outside of Limsa Lominsa, the Lalafell were mostly found in Ul'dah, and most elezen would be found in Gridania or Ishgard, the latter being almost strictly hyur or elezen.
Now every area is a multi racial hodgepodge. You could perhaps justify some of it, the First was supposed to be the remains of the world all gathering in a tiny territory to escape the flood, Sharlayan is made up of scholars gathered from across the world,
but my suspension of disbelief is being shattered a bit by having to learn that the new world, which is supposed to be so remote that barely anyone knows anything about it, is apparently entirely multi racial and so accepting of foreign cultures that they
adopt a language based on that of eorzea and have multi racial families. I long for a bit of consistency
Like back in the day there were exceptions of course, but usually they followed certain rules
You were unlikely to find Roegadyn outside of Limsa Lominsa, the Lalafell were mostly found in Ul'dah, and most elezen would be found in Gridania or Ishgard, the latter being almost strictly hyur or elezen.
Now every area is a multi racial hodgepodge. You could perhaps justify some of it, the First was supposed to be the remains of the world all gathering in a tiny territory to escape the flood, Sharlayan is made up of scholars gathered from across the world,
but my suspension of disbelief is being shattered a bit by having to learn that the new world, which is supposed to be so remote that barely anyone knows anything about it, is apparently entirely multi racial and so accepting of foreign cultures that they
adopt a language based on that of eorzea and have multi racial families. I long for a bit of consistency
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Tural just from the way it's described sounds exactly like some joke country that people use to make fun of woke culture. The world is obviously analogous to real life being mapped almost exactly to Earth but playing loose with the location and make up of many cultures. Tural is clearly meant to be the Americas and it seems like we're going to retell the story of how those filthy evil Europeans crossed over the ocean and brought war to people who were living in a total communist utopia. We're supposed to believe that this entire continent is so good and generous and pure that they have only known peace. Everyone is so committed to the cause of unity that they were willing to give up their own language and learn something totally different that the king made up. And we're supposed to believe that this nation that has been isolated from the rest of the, but at the same time is immediately accessible to the rest of the world, is not only ok with foreign interference in their governmental process but encourages it. How Tural is not a puppet state already makes no sense when you are literally begging foreign super powers to usurp you.How the hell could anyone be ok with the idea that their nation's ruler was decided by whatever country put in the most influence, money, or power to win this contest essentially buying the throne.
That Wuk Lamat thinks what she's doing is acceptable shows she is incapable as a ruler. She has no plan for governance only that she can't let the orange man win. This comes right off the back of the Garlemald story that hammer home a nation needs its sovereignty and needs to be left to govern themselves. This is supposed to be an adventure, a summer vacation, and our motivation is overthrowing the government of a peacful nation. Why wasn't it just left at we want to find the city of gold? Why the whole fight for the throne thing? If we're gonna pretend to be Stormblood 2.0 could you at least give a good reason why we would go against everything we learned to meddle with politics again? Maybe we have to prove that Wuk Lamat is supposed to be first in line for the throne. Or maybe she already is the new leader and she asks how we were able to unify the rest of the world. There are so many better motivations they could've done and instead they went with "No really we want the rest of the world to decide who's gonna run this bitch and trust that they will respect our desire for peace".
That Wuk Lamat thinks what she's doing is acceptable shows she is incapable as a ruler. She has no plan for governance only that she can't let the orange man win. This comes right off the back of the Garlemald story that hammer home a nation needs its sovereignty and needs to be left to govern themselves. This is supposed to be an adventure, a summer vacation, and our motivation is overthrowing the government of a peacful nation. Why wasn't it just left at we want to find the city of gold? Why the whole fight for the throne thing? If we're gonna pretend to be Stormblood 2.0 could you at least give a good reason why we would go against everything we learned to meddle with politics again? Maybe we have to prove that Wuk Lamat is supposed to be first in line for the throne. Or maybe she already is the new leader and she asks how we were able to unify the rest of the world. There are so many better motivations they could've done and instead they went with "No really we want the rest of the world to decide who's gonna run this bitch and trust that they will respect our desire for peace".
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The entire concept of dawntrail completely set off alarms in my head when I played the patch. I think I remember Wuk Lamat saying that Tural is full of diverse cultures? Her and her brother being adopted is already telling. It sounds like CBU3 is taking the rainbow pill. I wonder when we’ll learn why multiculturalism is a bad thing. You’re mixing people of so many different ideologies and beliefs that it becomes a complete clusterfuck of people who do absolutely not fucking blend. If it’s anything like modern day America, I already don’t like it. Endwalker is looking real good at this point. At least it’s story just had horrendous pacing, but there were still good parts.
And going back to diverse cultures, just look at sandniggers if you want an example of a culture that can not fucking mix with a civilized people.
And going back to diverse cultures, just look at sandniggers if you want an example of a culture that can not fucking mix with a civilized people.
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Reading this line alone vindicates my decision to fuck off this xpac. This is going to be a trainwreck already.
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I didn’t think it possible but it’s looking like Dawntrail is somehow looking for ways to be worse than endwalker.
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...Yeah, after looking at all of this, I think I'm officially just going to dip after I finish up my alt. Seriously, looking at all of this stuff about Dawntrail, with the devs deciding to add in a bunch of woke crap, means that I'm just going to go ahead and leave while the game is still on a relative high note. It's been a rather good run; I was seriously considering keeping going after Endwalker, as I was genuinely interested in seeing where everything could really go, but after seeing all of this... no. I've dealt with enough pozzed shit in GW2, I'm not dealing with it here, too.
Damn shame. Part of me hopes that the devs will realize their mistake, but I doubt it. Hell, with how staggeringly woke the community is - I still see people bitching on some of the Discords talking about how we didn't get to raze Ul'dah and Ishgard to ground for their "capitalistic and religious right-wing extremist ways" - I'm frankly surprised the devs haven't added a ton of wokeshit in years ago.
Damn shame. Part of me hopes that the devs will realize their mistake, but I doubt it. Hell, with how staggeringly woke the community is - I still see people bitching on some of the Discords talking about how we didn't get to raze Ul'dah and Ishgard to ground for their "capitalistic and religious right-wing extremist ways" - I'm frankly surprised the devs haven't added a ton of wokeshit in years ago.
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About 70% of the way through the main quests. I'm calling it now that they're gonna do a "stop all the different races from arguing with each other" thing.
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Just another instance of troons ruining everything they infiltrate. The game slowly since Shb had an influx of them and the whole nightclub/modbeast scene started to dominate everything and it looks like that’s the crowd SE wants to lean into and retain.
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Yeah, Dawntrail has some red flags with respect to everything I've found annoying and glurgey about Endwalker. Multiculturalism! Everything's a melting pot! Coming together! The 'everyone sitting down and eating curry' scene from every fucking patch! Villains that aren't evil but just misunderstood woobies under the surface! Tiresome lectures from college professors! Making bestest friends with everyone in this universe and all parallel dimensions! Goofy Scooby Doo villains that pout and give up when those meddlesome kids catch them!
Please, god, I don't care about some edgelord Red Wedding everyone dies writing, but *spare me* the writing lately has been so goddamn afterschool special that I wouldn't be surprised if next patch ended with a bowl of curry, followed by Sharlayan breaking out in a peace and love musical number, followed by a pillow fight that they organized in the streets because they appreciate you sooooooooo much.
Please, god, I don't care about some edgelord Red Wedding everyone dies writing, but *spare me* the writing lately has been so goddamn afterschool special that I wouldn't be surprised if next patch ended with a bowl of curry, followed by Sharlayan breaking out in a peace and love musical number, followed by a pillow fight that they organized in the streets because they appreciate you sooooooooo much.
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The absolute fucking contrast between Endwalker and Dawntrail is astounding. Again, I have plenty of problems with Endwalker, but edgy dark writing is right up my alley. That’s why I loved shadowbringers so much. The fact that we go from an expansion about nihilism and the meaning of life, to one about a bunch of diverse island hippies that love peace and happiness, is so weird to me.
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The hysterical defense of late-stage Endwalker is equally baffling. The disingenuous fake-assed "but what do you expect, things can't be high stakes all the time!" interference the community runs for Squeen is exhausting. Nobody's talking about dialing the story up to a 10 at all times. We're talking about the pukey snugglefest tone the story's taking a hard turn into where we vacillate between lounging in our college rec center eating, and bapping planet-consuming abominations on the snout with a newspaper and telling them their problems would be solved if they were just NICE and here have a burger and oh okay we're friends now. You'd think George RR Martin was involved with the intense focus on eating and gobbling and dinner parties and drinking and chomping on chicken we've seen these last two years.
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If they at least did a story on the level of Heavensward, I’d be fine with that. Something that’s somewhere around medium stakes. Dawntrail isn’t even low stakes, it’s just no stakes.
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I haven't played the patch, but I really wouldn't say that multiculturalism in an isolated world is the indication of a rainbow pill. Rather, it's a symptom. They already took the rainbow pill back in Heavensward by these definitions because a nation perhaps justifiably wanting to keep itself safe from dragons and hunting them down (also ostracizing the hoe obsessed with bestiality) is painted as villains in every way they could be. Overzealous, treacherous, bloodthirsty fools. HW tugs at the heartstrings but the Ishgardians are almost comically evil, like we really are supposed to hate them.
Same with Stormblood. Yotsuyu is an evil traitorous caricature, the woman we really really need to hate because she ill treats her own countrymen. Zenos is a despicable imperialist viceroy with no redeeming qualities. Don't know. I've always seen the story as pozzed up the wazoo so what I'm hearing isn't surprising.
Same with Stormblood. Yotsuyu is an evil traitorous caricature, the woman we really really need to hate because she ill treats her own countrymen. Zenos is a despicable imperialist viceroy with no redeeming qualities. Don't know. I've always seen the story as pozzed up the wazoo so what I'm hearing isn't surprising.
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I haven't really seen actual stuff relating to Dawntrail itself besides the teaser trailer of the WoL on the boat and shit. Haven't done the latest patch quest.
That said, EW is pretty fucking grating in a lot of aspects, even when accounting for the fact that a lot of it is just typical JRPG bullshit.
The shit with Hades/Fandaniel makes sense. It's a bit rote by JRPG standards (powerful figure is confronted with the concepts of entropy/death, decides to end everything), and the sentiment (working together and finding meaning in the small moments rather than losing yourself in the big picture) is fine enough, too, and works with the story.
My guess on Dawntrail is that we're going to be dealing with some sort of Shinra/big megacorp entity encroaching on the native lands. That's gonna kinda be the lurking/secondary villain who doesn't come out til later in the expansion. The front and center storyline is going to be dealing with the succession crisis.
I am guessing that the end conclusion will either be doing away with the monarchy entirely (tying into the expansion's name--"New beginnings! Dawning of a new era! Etc!") or charting a new path forward in some new/unknown way (maybe whoever is named ruler decides to abdicate or something equally stupid.)
I do think that there has been a bit of a progressive creep, but it's likely to be caught up in the English localizations. The Japanese don't generally suffer this nonsense and it tends to get stamped out (see the bullshit with Zero 'originally' being conceived as nonbinary, with the end result having her being referred to as a woman throughout.)