Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

I know plugins and addons are a big thing in MMOs but do you need that many? I can see some being very useful but others...not so much.
If you read what most of those addons do, it's basically short of making the game even more braindead and automated than it already is, with a touch of QoL for the lazy nigger that doesn't want to open up certain resources in a browser tab on the side.

I will begrudgingly respect the amount of technical autism that goes into the thing, but there's a whole other argument to be made for automated flowchart optimizing of your rotations.
 
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Im currently leveling MNK(lvl57) and i feel that i go fast, can i go faster? Can i go faster than the server can handle!?
Yes...and soon...you will go EVEN FURTHER BEYOND.
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I know plugins and addons are a big thing in MMOs but do you need that many?
Nah. Noclippy (or an equivalent) and simpletweaks are basically mandatory unless you live next to the data center, and ReAction (or an equivalent) makes healing a lot less frustrating since with that you can singletarget heal something without switching targets.
I should probably disable most of them while i'm not using them but i can't be bothered.
 
yeah and i'm the resident addonfag
...shit. I think I might have made myself the resident raidingfag. A lot of my posts are talking about recent raid content, PCT destroying FRU DPS checks and PF retardery.

I know plugins and addons are a big thing in MMOs but do you need that many? I can see some being very useful but others...not so much.
I've got a bunch too. It's easy enough to play addonless but I've also got quite a lot because you'll usually come across one thing and go "huh, maybe there's something that could help with that" and automating stuff you don't care about.

I'm levelling an alt on another DC right now and I tend to use a bunch to try and make it as quick and easy as possible. Something like YesAlready to skip all of the "Do you want to open this door?" in dungeons, TextAdvance to skip all of the dialogue on the alt, CharacterDataSync so I can copy my hotbars exactly as they appear on my main over to my alt, and some UI mods that make it easier to find things or get around quickly. I still play all of the battle content myself. You can't really automate that for the most part, but everything else I'm trying to optimise and make as quick as possible so I can get my alt to endgame as fast as possible.

I also have DeathRecap and FFLogs plugin for my main. Helps out a lot since I usually play healer and it helps to know if someone's death was avoidable, or whether they fucked something up and got overkilled by like 400k. FFLogs is mostly just there so when I'm doing ultimates in PF I can see whether we're gonna be dealing with someone who's got prior ultimate experience or managed to clear the Savage tier pretty well, or if we've got someone who did shit damage throughout the whole savage tier and is now going into FRU. Also helps that the plugin also includes a link to their tomestone.gg profile so you can check their progress inside of those ults where someone being two phases behind might mean they're a week or two behind the rest of the group (depending on the fight and where it is of course, tbh, if someone is on TOP enrage P3 then they're probably fine to join a P5 start group).
 
I hate when Great Hunt EX shows up for Wondrous Scams. As soon as Rathalos hit sub-10 HP, King of the Skies magically comes off cooldown
 
Wrapped up the Shaaloani segment of latest MSQ.

- Echoing what other people said about how braindead Koana is. He stands to defend everyone in Tural because everything/everyone is a 'citizen' ...except for the predator who is just doing what it does.
- The whole premise with the Not Buffalo is just more contrived bullshit. Since it is time for Koana to have a """character moment""", we have his big brave stand against the dinosaur, while the tribal elder expresses a 'we didn't expect you to get involved' -- despite not expressing this opinion once before.
- Koana's solution is also profoundly simplistic and retarded. "Everyone just shoot at the one big spot, right there!" If the whole goal is peace and tranquility, why couldn't they have subdued the predator and relocated it or something instead of just slaughtering it. Weird how Tuliyolall's religion politics of peace are discarded at the very first appearance of trouble.
- Continuing the trend of profoundly retarded, we have the big 'reveal' with Koana that ranks right up there with FF8's reveal that all the main characters grew up in the same orphanage. Everyone acts amazed/shocked at this revelation as Koana pieces it out in real time. Also, again, back to the well of contrived. No one besides this one random trader heard about this village getting wiped out and was able to put two and two together? C'mon.
- There was actually 2 lines from Trooncat which were actually decent and deviated from the flat singsong shit that is emblematic of Wuk Lamat throughout Dawntrail. They were both very short, little exclamations and then Sena just slumps right back into the bland delivery. Thankfully they were relegated to very little audio and most of it was what I'd characterize as generic NPC lines, like the shit you'd see in Trusts.
- I don't know what the fuck the miqote with the furry cosplay and flute is, but holy shit is it annoying. Background NPC and if they explained what this fucko does I missed it, but it's at the camp if you want to go look at it.

Also, unrelated to the MSQ, but I am getting bloody tired of the 'combat' tribal quests basically being tard/animal wrangler. I don't mind if there's a component of that but it seems like they're actively hostile towards anything involving combat.

This is a minor ass complaint, but I'm so sick of the cutesy animal handling shit. I usually don't care about this shit but something about it just rubs me the wrong way.
 
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This is a minor ass complaint, but I'm so sick of the cutesy animal handling shit. I usually don't care about this shit but something about it just rubs me the wrong way.
You know how in James Cameron's Avatar they do that thing where the tribal aliens live as one with nature and never unnecessarily hurt living creatures because muh ecosystem, while the more advanced humans are pure evil and exist to cause suffering and destruction? It's supposed to be the pro-environmental but it falls flat beyond the most surface level imagery because it's completely disconnected from what living with nature would actually be like. Just like the Na'vi the Hhetsarro are shown as living in an incredibly convenient environment without worrying about food, disease, maintaining their population, etc.

The 'nobility' of the 'noble savage' trope comes from the willingness to endure hardships to live in harmony with nature (never mind most real-life tribal cultures aren't actually that great at protecting the environment, but whatever). This means living with the fact that nature can be incredibly cruel, requires rigid conformity and sacrifice to survive without modern comforts, and drives people to conquer and destroy each-other over scarce resources.
When you depict a tribal society as easygoing tree huggers that thrive in harmony with their environment rather than in spite of it, it's kind of impossible for anyone over the age of twelve to sympathize because they've basically had everything handed to them since "muh Pandora" or "muh buffalo". They're closer to rich hippies than actual primitives.

Compare to the Mi'qote of the Sagolii Desert/Ala Mhigo who are also 'noble savages' that reject civilization and live nomadic lifestyles but are shown to be feral hunters with strict patriarchal gender roles, because how the fuck else do you survive and maintain traditions living in desert huts eating giant sandworms?
 
Koana just fucking sucks, and it’s not only because of his faggy VA either. I don’t care about any of these characters. Zoraal Ja was the only somewhat interesting character and even then they make him so obviously le heccin evil that they fuck up his character. There is literally nothing interesting about Koana saving buffalo. I just want these shitty characters to fuck off to the back.
 
You know how in James Cameron's Avatar they do that thing where the tribal aliens live as one with nature and never unnecessarily hurt living creatures because muh ecosystem, while the more advanced humans are pure evil and exist to cause suffering and destruction? It's supposed to be the pro-environmental but it falls flat beyond the most surface level imagery because it's completely disconnected from what living with nature would actually be like. Just like the Na'vi the Hhetsarro are shown as living in an incredibly convenient environment without worrying about food, disease, maintaining their population, etc.

The 'nobility' of the 'noble savage' trope comes from the willingness to endure hardships to live in harmony with nature (never mind most real-life tribal cultures aren't actually that great at protecting the environment, but whatever). This means living with the fact that nature can be incredibly cruel, requires rigid conformity and sacrifice to survive without modern comforts, and drives people to conquer and destroy each-other over scarce resources.
When you depict a tribal society as easygoing tree huggers that thrive in harmony with their environment rather than in spite of it, it's kind of impossible for anyone over the age of twelve to sympathize because they've basically had everything handed to them since "muh Pandora" or "muh buffalo". They're closer to rich hippies than actual primitives.

Compare to the Mi'qote of the Sagolii Desert/Ala Mhigo who are also 'noble savages' that reject civilization and live nomadic lifestyles but are shown to be feral hunters with strict patriarchal gender roles, because how the fuck else do you survive and maintain traditions living in desert huts eating giant sandworms?
The easy answer to all this is that the Hhetsarro (and the humans living in their dirt huts) are just basically the stand-ins for native americans in this fictional slice of america. And because they're too scared to depict them anywhere near historically accurate native american tribes, they just make them tree hugging hippies who all hold each other's hand by the fire and sing their koombayah songs while staying out of trouble as the euro trash stand-ins shoot eachother with rubber bullets and play pretend cowboy. Child slavery casually happens in the background and bandits are apparently so rampant that they steal from people in broad daylight and threaten to chop people up and hang them by their ears.

It's really weird how they have these dark themes they try to sprinkle in to trick people into thinking it's not all sunshine and rainbows but it's just a huge case of whiplash. You have these real actual issues going on but the story instead decides to focus on sunshine animal care. It really irks the fuck out of me because I get annoyed when writers who are trying to tell a story can't figure out or decide what kind of story they want to tell or twiddle their fingers and sheepishly write the most innocent things they can think of because they're too scared of telling a dark story with people these days getting their feefees in a twist about every goddamn thing.
 
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I took advantage of the 4-day free campaign to see how the role quests wrapped up since that wasn't implemented when my sub was last active in Nov.

It's amazing how transparent Hiroi's writing is. The conclusion quest is all him. The fucking lame Jojo's reference whose only point is a one-off gag, the antagonist's motivations being explained in a two-sentence line that then gets revealed to have been a rugpull and actually! actually! it's just a joke about how anyone who is an anarchist just doesn't want to pay for anything. Look, I get it, the Japanese Communist Party was uniquely retarded. They commandeered a plane, flew to North Korea to join The Resistance, and were executed for their troubles. This is the laziest caricature, in a fantasy medium in which we're supposed to be able to explore shit that makes no sense in the real world - like "fuck all of the governments, I have a magic rock and the ability to bring about genuine anarchy." AND WHY DOES HIROI THINK TACOS ARE THE ONLY THING HISPANICS EAT WHY IS THIS THE ONLY FOOD HE HAS MENTIONED LITERALLY EVER

All of the raisin-bran-ass cast of characters standing around and going "please, explain your motivations," "I can understand your perspective," "Wow, I totally sympathize with you." "I knew you were the savior of eorzea, who basically defeated multiple gods to save the entire star the whole time! ...but how are you so strong??? how is this possible????"

It's worth noting that I don't think he wrote most of the role quests beyond the intro. The healer one leans into the comedy angle, and feels like the Hildibrand writer. The mdps one also leans into the humor, but it has a bit more of a dramatic turn that actually has a certain gravitas. The rest suck, but they don't suck anywhere near as bad as the conclusion, which stinks of him. Fire this fucking sad sack. I'm genuinely angry that someone this shit at writing can work his way up to the lead position, because if I had to review his slop as a peer it'd be fucking riddled with actual bullet holes. Like I need to end the existence of the fucking drive that these drafts were saved on.

The Endwalker capstone was great. The Shadowbringers capstone was great. I don't think any part of this capstone felt like anything more than "phoned in." Fuck me, they don't need to voice act for these. You can write anything you want, as long as you want -- oh, but that involves effort.
 
To be fair, in his defense and also as a spic, tacos are pretty heccin good.
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Imagine if we had a character- say, one of the Scions - whose gag for the expansion was that they only ordered tacos. Like Urianger and rabbits in EW. Everyone else is enjoying all this other shit - and let's say they come across some street merchant who only has fajitas. Autistically, our hero refuses to get any, and will only eat tacos. Our street vendor then says they'll prepare a 'taco' and puts the ingredients into a tortilla, which is held like a taco shell, and our character is content to indulge.

It's the kind of basic character beat + cultural beat that any writer could shit out, including some retard on an autist-stalking website. It drives me up a fucking wall. It'd be one thing if I saw literally any other food mentioned, but it's just fucking tacos everywhere. Maybe they like went through a full course in the midget village, I kindof skipped through that because I was afraid I'd have a heart attack from how boring it was
 
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Imagine if we had a character- say, one of the Scions - whose gag for the expansion was that they only ordered tacos. Like Urianger and rabbits in EW. Everyone else is enjoying all this other shit - and let's say they come across some street merchant who only has fajitas. Autistically, our hero refuses to get any, and will only eat tacos. Our street vendor then says they'll prepare a 'taco' and puts the ingredients into a tortilla, which is held like a taco shell, and our character is content to indulge.

It's the kind of basic character beat + cultural beat that any writer could shit out, including some retard on an autist-stalking website. It drives me up a fucking wall. It'd be one thing if I saw literally any other food mentioned, but it's just fucking tacos everywhere. Maybe they like went through a full course in the midget village, I kindof skipped through that because I was afraid I'd have a heart attack from how boring it was
They mentioned Cochinita Pibil (Slow Braised Pork marinated in annato paste) but with a made up name during the friendship cooking segment, but otherwise they treat tacos like the most exotic item ever like a 2nd gen spic that calls themselves Latinx without a hint of irony
 
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They mentioned Cochinita Pibil (Slow Braised Pork marinated in annato paste) but with a made up name during the friendship cooking segment, but otherwise they treat tacos like the most exotic item ever like a 2nd gen spic that calls themselves Latinx without a hint of irony
Maybe I'm just being a filthy Asian here but isn't tacos like a Spanish-American thing to begin with? Where's the actual Latam dishes?
 
Imagine if we had a character- say, one of the Scions - whose gag for the expansion was that they only ordered tacos.
It's me. I'm the taco eater. I prefer soft shell though.
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Where's the actual Latam dishes?
I unno. That's what the rest of us want to know.
You must be suffering from rice withdrawal. Don't worry, we also eat rice. But it's much more flavorful.
 
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ou know how in James Cameron's Avatar they do that thing where the tribal aliens live as one with nature and never unnecessarily hurt living creatures because muh ecosystem, while the more advanced humans are pure evil and exist to cause suffering and destruction? It's supposed to be the pro-environmental but it falls flat beyond the most surface level imagery because it's completely disconnected from what living with nature would actually be like. Just like the Na'vi the Hhetsarro are shown as living in an incredibly convenient environment without worrying about food, disease, maintaining their population, etc.
Just to clarify, I was talking about the Pelupelu tribal quests where you're dealing with handling alpacas (omg SO Latinx!!!!!!11) and those stupid manatee things.

And before that we were giving hippos baths in EW.

There's some retard who is deriving great joy at writing out animal noises and thinking it's the coolest thing ever. Look, I don't mind cutesy schlock, but you know how if you eat Oreos every day for dinner you get tired of Oreos? Same shit.

E: But on the topic of the Hhetsarro, I'd say they're less noble savage and more unintended White Man's Burden savage. I do think that the general vibes of what they're about are on par with Plains Indians and their cultures (and honestly I feel like they were obligated to shoehorn it in because of the glamour pieces that existed prior to Dawntrail that basically screamed North American Indian) and there's nothing wrong with them or how they are depicted (except for that stupid furry flutist) given that you're getting a very surface level look at things.

The big problems are that Koana basically turns into one of those morons who saw Avatar and was depressed it didn't exist IRL and that the Hhetsarro have about as much agency as a Chinese infant who is footbound. They're essentially useless despite knowing everything that's going on and just sort of stand around so Koana can have his 'character moment' because The Plot Demands It. (There's a similar issue with the train guys in that these issues shouldn't be a massive ass problem and nothing they haven't dealt with, but I think everyone knows people who are into trains are natural born autists so it is a little more forgivable.)

The whole arc is there to just give some background on Koana in the most hamfisted way possible and requires everyone else to become -400 IQ mongoloids in order for the story to progress. It's such shite, lazy writing and like I said, makes it so that the Hhetsarro are fully reliant on the 'enlightened' Koana (or whoever) to save them from their plights...despite knowing exactly what the problem is and having dealt with it before.
 
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It's such shite, lazy writing and like I said, makes it so that the Hhetsarro are fully reliant on the 'enlightened' Koana (or whoever) to save them from their plights...despite knowing exactly what the problem is and having dealt with it before.
But big scary dinosuar is nomming all the baboon faced buffalo. We need to save them so we can harvest their shit to use for...whatever it is they use it for I forgot already.
 
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But big scary dinosuar is nomming all the baboon faced buffalo. We need to save them so we can harvest their shit to use for...whatever it is they use it for I forgot already.

Medicines, poultices, and soap, to drive away pests and other evils, to sustain fires, and to flavor food.

I honestly think this was yet another mistranslation error and I'm curious what the original JP reads like.

The NA text reads:

Playful Hhetsarro: You're learning about the Hhetsarro way of life, are you?
Playful Hhetsarro: I may have a thing or two to share... But rather than talking your ear off, let me test your powers of deduction. I find answers much easier to recall later if I arrived at them myself.
Playful Hhetsarro: Ahem! Our hhetso provide us with something that we use in medicines, poultices, and soap, to drive away pests, and to sustain our fires. What is it?

< Is it dung? Again? >
Playful Hhetsarro: It sounds like there's a story there...but that is indeed the correct answer! We've discovered myriad uses for rroneek chips over time, each a boon to our way of life. Where there is a need, our hhetso always provide.

It's a wonder they all haven't died out.

They eat shit, bathe in shit, treat illness with shit and worship shit.
 
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