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hey you know who i realized i never saw in clive's getup when everyone was going around putting every NPC in clive's getup

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #final fantasy 14 #bless you kind soul for this miracle

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The Pandæmonium Experience™

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well...? 👉👈

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So about the benchmark...

Something incredibly funny that folks over on Twitter have discovered is that if you set your computer's date to 1st April, Meteor will... change somewhat.

Looking a little more gentlemanly than usual, Meteor.

Apparently he can get pretty damn blocky too, so make sure to check your hardware if you can count his polygons.

#ff14 #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #dawntrail benchmark #hildibrand manderville #hildibrand helidor maximillian manderville #love me a good easter egg

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Powerfully Smug

The Lizard has been benchmark'd and she's come through pretty damn well. Got a little more smug in her now. She's earned it after all she's been through. Go flex your world-saving muscles, lizard.

#ff14 #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #arashi washi #meanwhile syn made a hrothgal who resembles her while trying to avoid her looking like an “anime protagonist” in her words #stalwart and fareena also came through pretty good #stalwart's skin tone is a little darker which is what i was hoping for #while fareena looks like her usual smug git self

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Stalwart ran into a weird amnesiac man and stole his clothes, his dog (twice somehow) and whatever dignity he had left. It looks better on her anyway.

#ff14 #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #stalwart mountain #quietly ignoring the clipping nightmare that is her hair and the hood #it's fine everything's fine it's non-canon anyway

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so we're all posting our wols in the benchmark on sunday, right

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awwww cute gaelicats hold on wait-

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So last night, I was running around in a couple of Stormblood zones, taking some screenshots for something, and I had a realization hit.

In all of the Doman areas (Isari, Namai, House of the Fierce, Doman Enclave), there are only two living older women. The majority are either young women, young men, elderly men, or children. One woman is in Namai, sweeping the square around the aetheryte, so it's clean when her grandson returns from the war, and the other is Minazuki, the children's teacher in the Doman Enclave.

I don't know about you, but that's a bit chilling. Because it means several things. They died of starvation, of illness, of overwork, or they were killed by the Garleans. Either way, it's not a good thing and is a sign of how bad things really are/were in Doma.

May have taken me a few years, but man. Realizing that was a hammerblow.

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ooo wee ooo I look just like lahabrea

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Ladies, if your Clive FinalFantasy has...

A giant sword...

Messy hair...

Unresolved guilt regarding his younger sibling...

And a habit of running into giant monsters...

That ain't Clive FinalFantasy, that's Arashi Washi and she's just mugged the man and stolen his top.

#ff14 #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #arashi washi #event is fun and my lizard looks good #that's all i can ask for really #looking forward to how stalwart looks in the top #arashi's titties pale in comparison to clive's alas #but stalwart will probably fill that shirt much better

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As I've been putting together a timeline for fic purposes I have been going back over dialogue and cutscenes for a LOT of old quests--all of ARR especially kind of blurs together in my head so I've needed a refresher to remember the order things happened in, and something jumps out at me

and that's that Urianger getting drawn in by Elidibus and deciding to act alone without telling any of the Scions what he's doing, in addition to coming not long after Moenbryda's death, also corresponds pretty directly to Minfilia not being around to check in with him anymore.

I think it's evident in ARR how much Urianger looks to Minfilia, how much he respects her and how much trust he places in her as a leader. As the Antecedent she is in many ways Louisoix's successor; she's the glue that's holding together these two groups with aligned goals but pretty different reasons for being there, Louisoix's archon book club and Minfilia's echo support group. After the Scions move to the Rising Stones and Urianger stays at the Waking Sands as its caretaker, more than ever it's probably Minfilia who is keeping him in the loop.

And then one day she's just gone. And Urianger is still in touch with the Warrior of Light and Alphinaud and Tataru as he aids in the search for the missing Scions... but his anchor is missing. The one person he might have turned to is now beyond his reach. And in a way, he still does turn to her; it is Minfilia on whom his plan ultimately hinges, once he knows she has been chosen as Hydaelyn's intermediary. But any chance to consult with her before he undertakes all his shadowy maneuvering is denied him.

I just wonder how differently things would have gone for him, had he not lost her too.

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Estinien Varlineau rigorously trained himself as a dragoon. After the death of his family by a dragon, he sought out revenge. Similarly, Sasuke Uchiha rigorously trained himself as a ninja. After the death of his family at the hands of his brother, he sought out revenge.

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i do love how Jammingway saw people dealing with soul crushing amounts of grief and existential dread and said "hm. i think i can i fix this with food." and was kinda right about it