@tumblr
You actually annihilated a massive queer safe space on the internet after you folded to weird puritanical culture rules about “female presenting nipples” and NSFW artwork.
You don’t get to wear “queer” like a badge of honor when you actually destroyed so much queer artwork.
Okay hear me out: Elezen are amazing looking in general but Shale is quite literally the most gorgeous Elezen NPC they've put in this game and that's a damn high bar to clear.
No matter what I still think one of the CLEVEREST uses of music in FFXIV was Soken introducing us to "Measure of Our Reach" as a Garlean anthem and then USING IT as the "Quest Complete" music throughout Stormblood without *any other context*.
Which leaves players wondering why.
Yoshida’s shirt hint isn’t anything to do with the turtles weapons or anything, it’s their names: they’re named after the 4 famous Renaissance painters.
The Caster DPS Job is Relm’s job from FFVI: Pictomancer.
This is gonna make me sound like a hater and I'll own that but I genuinely think that modded face sculpts in 14 that don't account for the game's existing art style universally look terrible. They give off incredibly intense uncanny valley vibes.
@tumblr
Also the “you” is directed at tumblr as a platform and company. Not direct at you, person who is made to run their social media account on Twitter.
NOW I have people saying I must have bought a story skip for the MSQ in Heavensward because I like an NPC from Dawntrail the most.
That tweet about FFXIV players being mean girls online because they get to play pretty people in a video game continues to just ring true.
@Sylvelleprince
I turn my phone over in public because its polite for me to not be tempted to look at my phone but also have it accessible for a phone call and I have lock screen art that is VERY MUCH borderline NSFW.
Y'all need to start having trust and communication in y'alls relationships.
@Apple
why are you trying to force apps into following your weird puritanical rules about NSFW content, why is
@discord
being made to ban NSFW server access to iOS users? Stop trying to babysit us that are adults. Force parents to be accountable and stop punishing everyone else.
@salweetah
@LilNasX
*Mischief* to rile up insecure religious people who wanna say that he’s being a Satan worshipper or knowingly going to hell by being gay.
It’s all one big troll.
Only for the *very end* of Stormblood's MSQ to reveal that ACTUALLY the song we'd been associateing with the Garleans the entire expansion was ACTUALLY the Gyr Abanian National Anthem the whole time and the Garleans had literally just co-opted it for their colonization efforts.
If you're an FFXIV content creator, please forgive me if I don't engage with your review of DT because honestly, I want to just *like* the expansion. After spending the last 7 years having my previous favorite expansion shit on by the majority of the community I'm just tired, ok?
It is SUCH a clever subversion that re-contextualizes our association with the song and its associated "Quest Complete" jingle.
Its such a small subtle way to show how DEEP that level of indoctrination goes in the reality of conquest and war.
@FaiththeLibra
It depends. But servers hate if you do it *wrong* — if you stack things in such a way that it makes them unstable or hard to carry (i.e. not scraping food or trash from the bottom plates onto the top).
@airco_ki
I also love the very explicit comment shutting down the whole “flawless ending” argument by saying “even though end of battle dialogue is different depending on match results - the overall story is exactly the same. There is no “good” or “bad” ending based on how well you do.”
@nauticalsun
@cutielamerr
@eunjeechong
There’s several dresses from famous designers that Takeuchi used as outfits in the Sailor Moon manga. Koan/Catzi’s outfit from The Black Moon arc is a Thierry Mugler dress from ‘92. Similarly, Calaveras/Avery’s outfit is based on a Christian LaCroix outfit in 92 as well.
@gina_scooter
@Ven13Vance
As someone from the city where this happened I also wanna add context that one of the stylists actually WENT TO URGENT CARE to get tested and she got told it was "just allergies" and they NEVER TESTED HER.
Like, how is any of that HER fault. She tried to actually be responsible
@valarynn
@Makoto_Ymir
There's also the fact that if you did play 1.0, if you came back to ARR, you get a completely different opening cutscene when you start the game:
@NinjaOrange12
@hellenataylor
“I don’t have the context on what you should properly have been paid.”
The woman literally said the Bayonetta Franchise made $450,000,000 USD in game sales alone. She deserved *considerably* more than $4,000 USD. If that isn’t obvious to you I don’t know what to tell you.
@MissEvaStyles
@BaraArchery
They’ve been conditioned to believe that they could someday be one of those people. They wouldn’t want to be treated that way if *they* were the billionaire so how dare you bully other people with obscene amounts of wealth.
@nauticalsun
Queen Beryl’s dress is modeled after another Mugler creation from 92, and Black Lady’s outfit is based (loosely) on a dress used in an Yves Saint Laurent ad. There’s also some manga only splash art: Setsuna appears in a Chanel dress, and Hotaru in another Mugler piece.
@cinnieatworld
I mean they’ve already been using these methods forever. This isn’t teaching them anything new — it’s informing everyone else what to watch out for.
This is an older piece but I just can’t get over how cute Aerik looks here. Plus I wanted to share it again since I have a lot of new followers.
Art is by
@KokuKokuBoo
@FF_XIV_EN
@Warcraft
People are acting like this is the XIV team being shady but it isn’t??? The two dev teams may make competing products but they respect each other???
@Dubaderp
@_F_R_O_M_
Surprise, the people that don't like JKR *have* been boycotting ALL of that stuff, this isn't a good defense AT ALL.
Like we're *aware* she makes royalties off the merch, so we don't *buy it*.
@Puranichu
He's a smug villager who has a rather cute design and is also pretty effeminate in terms of his personality -- he's a lot like Julian (the unicorn villager). He's also super new to the franchise, since he was first added in Pocket Camp, so he's rare.
@JuliaFtacek
I’ve also noticed that many of these people see pictures or videos of stuff like Folsom Street Fair or Dore Alley (which are *adult only fetish events*) and immediately conflate them with Pride because they tend to have mostly queer men present at them.
@Sureasyoureborn
@AITA_reddit
She literally asked "Does everyone feel this way" and no one else had the spine to stand up and call her dad out for being a misogynistic asshat. She had every right to toss everyone out on their damn ear for it.
@haalasback
Women in their 30s and 40s in the 1960s are literally responsible for “fandom” as we know it because of Star Trek. Saying we should outgrow fandom by our 30s and 40s misses the entire birthplace of where fandom came from.
Modern fandom started with adult women.
@sarahmcgphoto
@youstrflh
People on Twitter love to preach about caring for yourself and your mental health, but the second someone shows up who's clearly struggling but trying to do better and showcase that, they jump on that shit like starving dogs to tear it apart. It's real fucking sa.d
This is simply a THEORY. Its based on the fact that Yoshida said to "think outside the box" about what his shirt meant.
It could also be something like Green Mage or Chemist - but I like the Pictomancer idea.
@gwenisonline
This person's account is very much a grift account designed to spread anti-trans agenda. The account is literally 6 days old and suddenly they make a post like this that goes massively viral with bad faith talking points?
@LaurenFoxWrites
@tumblr
Oh even *better* (and by better I mean **worse**).
I left the platform with the NSFW purge and haven't looked back but god I'm sadly not surprised to see its turned into more toxic sludge. I know there's a pretty rampant TERF problem there too.
@Hbomberguy
Was Harry Potter an entertaining series of books to read when I was a teenager? Sure.
Do I have good memories of them? Sure.
Am I going to continue to cling to them after seeing all the critical discussion of them and also based on how their TERF of an author behaves? Hell no.
@SaintsGhost
@y2_kazoo
There’s also the possibility that the markings on his face are meant to resemble a skull, making him a “Ghost” pepper and possibly hinting at an evolution type of Fire/Ghost?
@Nigerian_OG
My household has been struggling to pay bills and all the affluent people in my life have done absolutely nothing to offer financial assistance to us despite me asking for help.
Meanwhile my friends working as servers or in retail are scraping together what they can to help us.
@G0ffThew
And people are like “ITS SUCH GOOD BAIT CANT WAIT FOR THE SJWS TO BE MAD” and I’m like “just because you call it “ironically racist” doesn’t stop it from still being racist, y’all.”
@losebetter
Whoa whoa whoa "I worked as a consultant for Critical Role" -- "I wasn't actually hired by them, I offered my services to them unprompted."
So you didn't actually work *for* them. You OFFERED services to them and then did a TON OF WORK without their express permission OR consent
@iamcardib
Imagine watching your multi-million dollar yacht sink as you tread water away from it and from the fucking shoreline you hear Cardi B's voice screaming "ITS SINKING OH MY GOD".
@Puranichu
The reasons I listed are exactly why. I don't know how to explain it more clearly than that. He's rare, he has one of the best personality types for male villagers, he has funny/cute dialogue interactions, and people like his design a lot. He looks like a little hipster cat.
@quinrex
Sis I promise you that almost no one cares you boosted. Or that you ended up not liking the game. It’s whatever.
They’re on your ass for you acting high and mighty and like you were doing amazing and you weren’t.
If you hate the game, fine. Practically no one cares about that.
@David__Pena
Also at least Yoko Taro was honest about why he made 2B “sexy”. He just said “I like pretty girls”. I have way more respect for the dev being honest than trying to squeeze sex appeal out of a character and pretending there’s a deep message behind it.
@Dreamboum
It is criminal to me that Ul’dah’s 1.0 opening questline is 1) something you could miss if you didn’t start in Ul’dah and 2) that it’s locked behind a defunct version of the game since it’s literally Minfilia’s fucking backstory!!
@aarond
It actually wasn’t the locksmith, based on what I remember. It was someone else (there’s pictures floating around of them stocking the machine) and the locksmith knew who they were but elected to keep their identity secret to keep the whole “mystery” angle going.
@Frostpebble
Its Azem's own creation - the symbol appearing is due to it reacting to Azem's own magic being invoked. In the last "Tales from the Dawn" short story, Hythlodaeus is looking at a crystal accidentally left behind by Azem that they were working on to try and ease travel burdens.
Also some of y’all need to stop being so adverse about associating with FFXIV players that play character races outside of your sexual interest zone.
It’s honestly kinda uncomfortable?
Just talk to and befriend people because they’re nice???
Providers at any healthcare facility have a duty to their staff to protect them from violence, be that physical or verbal.
If you’re abusing their staff or making them uncomfortable, they have the ability to dismiss you from their care. You’re not a victim here.
Ok-I was gonna try to get over this-but I am a liver transplant recipient with breast cancer facing double mastectomy at the end of August and now I have no primary care doctor.
A lawyer contacted me-i hesitated-
Nor more!
Would any lawyer out there help me?
Very scared. 💜💚🤍
I like G’raha but man I’m kinda tired of them making him the new face of FFXIV. Like why is he on so much Dawntrail promotional art? He’s BARELY IN THE EXPANSION.
@roegamaniac
I also think it’s weird that people are getting angry about consenting interactions between two grown ass adults on social media.
Like it’d be one thing if she was underaged but she is a literal whole adult. Also the community propped her up as this person and is NOW MAD AT HER?
@jam_etc
Also like...this practice of demanding stuff being sanitized as a means to "keep people safe from uncomfortable narratives" is like...so easily abused and turned around on minorities and made so their stories are no longer allowed to be told?
@WishfulWren
@MichaelaOkla
Correcting lies or misinformation isn’t shutting down anything. The woman said she wrote the movie and that what was said in that article was incorrect. Because it was.
Twisting that into a narrative that presumes she was doing it to shut down queer representation is bad.
@FF_XIV_EN
Where are streamers like
@birdofchess
and
@Very_Merri
and
@HelloGlennAngel
?
Where are the BIPOC creators?? Where are more LBGTQ+ creators???
Who picked this list and why is it so not diverse or representative of the wider FFXIV content creation community.
@valarynn
@Makoto_Ymir
You get several different cutscenes throughout ARR. Minfilia recognizes you basically immediately, and Cid then remembers you when you're on your way to fight Garuda.
The rest of the Scions and City-State leaders don't remember you until after you beat the Praetorium though.
@EarthToZero
@SnowdenNamdar
They were even more obvious when those glasses were first implemented, which is hilarious.
Here's a shot I took back during August of 2018 right after the set was released.
@lovedcore
@FSfangirl
@mioshuns
No, if you look at the Japanese script, he actually says "koui" 好意 ("good will") - it is regularly misheard as "koi" by English speakers. Hence why the second panel has Shinji saying "[He said I'm] deserving of his grace."
@TomJamesSlade
@watery_day
He doesn’t even sell you the land. He charges you for materials, building costs, and labor! He’s a contractor, not a landlord.
@realitea20
@ChloeInCurve
@BeckFlatley
"I'm a ballet teacher" says the person with the cat avatar and the entire profile that tweets about nothing but reality TV series.
FFXIV is this but the opposite. Toxic casuals who say they just want to have fun but that constantly shit on and are rude and hateful to anyone who gives a modicum of a shit about playing the game well.
@Patsy_Wilcox
Speak for yourself and not for other Missourians. I’m *ashamed* that he’s my Senator and I can only hope he resigns or is arrested for his part in assisting in sedition and insurrection.
@ABadDadJoke
@LiamLambrini
Can we please for the love of god stop calling stuff that isn’t gaslighting “gaslighting”.
The other dude didn’t gaslight him, he called him mental. That is NOT the same as gaslighting. That’s just calling someone a name.
Me: “I wish FFXIV’s content cycle included more hardcore endgame content or long form content.”
People: “WELL WOW’S ENDGAME CONTENT SUCKS WVEN THOUGH THEY GET LOTS OF RAIDS.”
Me: “I....said nothing about WoW????”
I legit don’t care what WoW does. This complaint was about XIV.
@allaganeyes
And it’s thanks to Soken going super hard on Pharos Sirius’s music that we ended up GETTING looping dungeon music in Patch 2.2 with Lost City of Amdapor. Because everyone demanded it after hearing it in Pharos Sirius only for it not to loop.
@councilofgeeks
For me it was when one guy at the end called The Doctor “contaminated” and it was like internally I had a That’s So Raven level flashback to every single microaggression that happened before that in quick succession and I just went “OH!!! Oh *fuck*!”
@losebetter
Leading with "I worked for them" is INCREDIBLY disingenuous and misleading. You *offered* something to them before they had even accepted or agreed to it. You made a contact and technically don't even know if that contact had the *authority* to promise you anything.
@CohhCarnage
This.
Like yeah parts of the community can be weirdly defensive about the game sometimes for no reason but this is definitely not a case of that. This is the community looking at him blaming everything and everyone else but himself for his failures and going “Dude no.”
@FF_XIV_EN
$85 USD for a 6” figure with this level of face sculpt/painting. y’all be out of your minds. I’ve bought better UFO Catcher Prize figures for $15.
@Blizzard_Ent
"The specific views expressed by blitzchung were NOT a factor in the decision we made. I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision."
@ChristinaTasty
@ffxivstruggle
That healer isn’t spitting facts. In fact they’re actually even admitting to possibly griefing the party by saying they won’t follow a tank who pops Sprint.
Sorry, but going into content and then deliberately attempting to screw up the party by not doing your job is griefing.
Like this is blowing up a bit and I really want to emphasize and add: The vast majority of the FFXIV RP community would not do anything like this and I'm well aware of that.
However - I feel this needs to be a PSA regardless given the community's growth lately.
@AeroViro
Like if people were harassing me constantly about a game I was playing, I’d quit too? Why do these people dismiss your reasons out of hand????
@TaliesinEvitel
Imagine unironically saying "I don't like good Orcs" after posting a meme saying that Blizzard somehow "changed" Orcs since 1994 and completely ignoring literally ALL of Warcraft's canon from the first damn game.
@theblingfisher
@redemptionarcs
And it literally takes a tiny bit of effort to google Judy Garland to see she was a prominent Civil Rights activist as an adult and spent many years working with the black community to fight against racism and segregation.
This person could have just looked it up.