Lurker > Isquen

Goodbye, RuneScape, it was nice to see you, however briefly.

(More like Ephemeral Root amirite)

Isquen posted...

XBox child getting launched from the womb, aging through puberty and growing old as they scream through the sky, landing in their grave a few moments later.
Early Paul Rudd Zelda commercial
Final Fantasy X-2 just basically showing a cut of the real Emotion scene.

For the first one: amend it to - "XBox - Life is Short"
https://youtu.be/y3jZB4sxA_w

For the second and third one here, remove those, add on the DoA3 "she kicks high" and the creepy PS3 doll because holy shit that thing.

Smash 64 (Me and you and you and me...)
XBox child getting launched from the womb, aging through puberty and growing old as they scream through the sky, landing in their grave a few moments later.
Early Paul Rudd Zelda commercial
Final Fantasy X-2 just basically showing a cut of the real Emotion scene.

Alternative Root
Obstructor
Deserted - Younger Brother and Elder Sister and... (Stage3)

Lots of my sound all around today save for part of match 2. I'd be happy with any of these moving on.

XKCD
Somethingpositive
8-bit Theater
Questionable Content

Aurora (Skhizm)
Zero Gravity Area
Stage 3 - Voile, the Magic Library

Oops, had a vote up this morning and didnt post it.

Burger King Futo Lettuce (Futo's Theme)
Love Psalm
LIGHTNING BUG/MOO

REPOSITIONING LEY LINES

Screw Pictomancer, BLM back on the menu for me.

Deceive looks very cool and I wanted to get it on PC- hopefully the PS5 crowd puts some life into it

I know Astro is getting an overhaul (again) so I haven't been leveling it at all beyond the occasional walking wasteland in frontline. Dragoon, though, is my second most recent maxed job (I just finished Dark Knight last month.) Didn't work on gearing it up at all- sort of put all my tome focus into Aiming, Striking (for Monk,) and Healing.

To tick each of these off:

• Crystalline Conflict is a quick 5v5 capture-the-moving-flag, and it lets you learn the PvP rotations on the fly since matches are short, if you don't want to bother being in the Wolves Den. You can also Frontline to see them, which is nice for levelling classes (queue as class you want to level, then switch to class you're good at... or don't, and just screw around as a "wtf am I doing on aggressive gunbreaker"
• The post-MSQ trials are the best part of the postgame. The dungeons are... meh.
• Pandemonium starts in Labyrinthos, if I'm not mistaken, in the Ragnarok's hangar.
• Myths of the Realm, the alliance raid, is very pretty, and it says a lot when the biggest disappointment of it is the final fight (which just plays out like a final exam of mechanics you've seen in all three wings.) It's also better than the Nier ones for both duration and story.
• I still haven't done Tataru's Grand Adventure beyond like, one step.
• The DoH/DoL relic quests this go-around are in the Crystarium and have a cute story with the First's version of Rowena and Gerolt.
• Island Sanctuary is... meh. It's self-sustainable once you put some effort into it, but starting it from scratch is going to blow. Decent money, though, since you can buy the Ishgard restoration dyes there eventually with surplus, and tradable mounts.
• Criterion Dungeons are a bit too long for my liking, since finding a four-man party is gross, but if you clear all 10 paths of them, you get a mount relevant to the dungeon. "Another" version of each dungeon also unlocks, which is basically a Savage Criterion - I'd rank their difficulty between Extreme Trials and a full wing of Savage Raids. Fuck the bubble mouse.
• Eureka Orthos exists - it's the level 80-90 version of Palace of the Dead/Heaven-on-High, but it is much more punishing to begin than those two (things WILL one-shot you in floors 1-10 until you start getting your armor/weapons up.)
• This is the first DoW/DoM Relic grind that is... uh... just a timegate, really. You pay 1500 of the lesser tomestone to advance your relic. That's it. The only requirement for it is going through Hildibrand quests, which you should have done anyway by that point.
• The EX fights this time bridge the gap between really fun and "fuck everyone in party finder" quite well. EX Zodiark was my first on-level clear, which is belittled a bit by the "danger dorito" strat (one person who knows what they're doing can guide you through basically the entire fight sans the tankswap, since the week one DPS check is way easier to hit now.) EX4-6 though, they're all flavors of hectic. I have not tried EX7 yet. Not spoiling what they are yet, but it should be pretty obvious once you get a few post-patch quests deep.
• Beast tribes/tribal quests this go-around are the elephants in Thavnair (combat - gives a cart and hippo mount,) the Loporrits in Bestway Burrows (BUNNY RAVE - crafter quests that give a robot supporter mount and a disco floor,) and the Omicron in Ultima Thule (gatherer quests that give an electric jellyfish mount.) Maxing all three gives a dance emote this time.
• You might not have hit this back in Shadowbringers, but in Idyllshire, there is a side-quest of sorts called Faux Hollows that challenges you with Unreal Trials - basically, older EX trials scaled up in stats. With each patch or so, the fight changes; currently, the Unreal trial is Thordan EX. The past has had Shiva, Titan, Leviathan, Ultima Weapon, Sephirot, Sophia, and Zurvan, with the only major patch break being Endwalker's release. Presumably, it will be on cooldown for Dawntrail's release, so give it a go before that if you want to try it out.

b10
Memories of Memories
Softbank

And yeah it feels like a slog, they don't wanna pull another "and then we freed Doma well, back to Ala Mhigo I guess" with little fanfare. Seriously, the Lochs is such a cool location but it is not endgame-appropriate- I wonder how it felt being a player when Stormblood was new, rather than the tail end of it like when I joined.

Funky Dealer
Burger King Futo Lettuce (Futo's Theme)
Astral - Prison

Maybe it's just the time of night for round 3, and maybe it's when I'm listening to Atelier, but it just sounds like any number of Sonic Lost World/Colors tracks, and I'm not about that tonight. On the other hand, I will almost always appreciate decent ambient.

Rage
Moiety Theme
Round

Erg... matches 2 and 3 are both hard for me.

Also for the Aitiascope, it's worth noting that sundered Fandingdong apparently most closely identified as Amon instead of Hermes - the soul remembers that sort of thing in 14-land.

Binding Coil, Crystal Tower, Void Ark, Azys Lla... yeah, Amon did A LOT.

A takeaway from Shadowbringers, though, which applies easily to Endwalker, is that shattered Ascians can easily carve out their own path. You have. Gaia was starting to despite another one who loved her - the mind stuck in stasis as Eden - trying to get her to join him (PS - in the Savage what-if, he succeeds and she becomes the final boss of E12S to the tune of The Extreme from FF8)

There's also precedence that the more you do the body hopping thing, the loonier you become over time (see: Lahabrea). Heck, there's even some further fuel for the insanity theory in Zenos himself, what with the person-who-should-be-capital-D-Dead still hounding you. So yes, Fandingus was Amon once, but no telling who or what he was before that (but after the Shattering.) Also of note is that the body of the possessed did not approve - you've been in the Aitiascope, you saw just how livid Baby Bowlcut was afterwards- and for once his hatred wasnt primarily directed at us. (As an aside, I wonder how Ardbert-in-us reacts to Elidibus-in-Ardbert, or if the First has it's own flavor of lifestream where a part of either of them are.)

I'm just soured by how many ophiotauroskin map runs and failed Furcacauda catch attemps I've had to do.

I love Ktisis Hyperborea as a dungeon, though.

Endwalker is great, but there is a lot. A LOT. Of fluff. Like holy shit a lot of fluff. Also, the second visit to Labyrinthos, apart from the reunion with Moenbryda's parents, is boring as hell and no amount of ill-fitting music is going to fail to remind me of Kholusia v2.0, which was at least somewhat exciting while it was going on

Actually, it's a problem with Labyrinthos as a whole. It seems like a zone I would love but everything in it is fucking boring - story, layout, fish... even the impending doom of the world is just a big ol' "meh, we'll get there with minimal problems since everyone's on board, right?"

Elpis is a pretty cool payoff to the end of ShB though, even if it's not the most amazing of "omg spoiler" zones.

----

That said, of course there's a lot of cutscenes. A big thematic takeaway I got from the expansion is "we hope you've enjoyed the journey and all its ups and downs." I also don't want to spoil anything from the *post* MSQ (the usual "after the credits roll") but the post-MSQ patches aren't very well received if you try to marathon them. Take them like a week a patch instead of one sitting and they're more digestible.

Aria Math
b10
Duel VS Fortress Leader

Outer Wilds remains one of those soundtracks I imagine sould hit harder in context. Aria Math wins in that for me as a result (and I dont know where in Minecraft it plays either)

I'm voting for Falcom o no.

Boing boing is cool but I'm a bit more mesmerized by the metronomic kangaroo than I am the actual melody throughout. TCG2, meanwhile, doing funky GB soundchip things.

Match 3 was the standout for me today.

Still a fun thought exercise, though.

My vote would be for Cloyster, and have some Pokedex shenanigans occur between it and the Slowkings/Slowbros but also Clamperl (and its evolutions) to prove that Pokemon marine biologists are roughly as terrible as Cara Liss.

Hypnospace Outlaw with the page loading increment turned up by 1000. No thank you, I already lived through the dialup era.

FightFirstDeusExMachina_Dearest
Awakening ~ Nrburgring Suite
New Bodhum ~ New Bodhum -Aggressive Mix-

I think the standout for me was match 2. That was really cool.

TomNook7 posted...

what?

JoCat, animator/creator of crap guide to D&D (and also MonHun videos, and FFXIV role videos). Pretty funny stuff, but, uh, yeah. The shitty part of the Internet started making IRL threats his/his family's way and he pulled back on public videos as a result.

Still super shitty that he was getting doxxed by people upset over his Girls animation.

Buffalo Wild Wings
Applebee's
Ruby Tuesday's
TGIFriday's

Out of context of Baldur's Gate, it should be noted that there's nothing wrong with statting your character weirdly (I personally just rolled up a L10 barbarian for the new Vecna sourcebook) and the way my stats fell before bonuses I'm strangely adequate or better in everything but my absolutely hideous Charisma - leading me to the class Fantasy of an outcast-half-elf-barbarian-turned-woodsman that looks completely nonthreatening and may have a problem with chemical dependency (and can "see the spirits" because Ancestral Guardian barbarian is fun that way.)

As for the dying too quickly: welcome to being a low level Wizard, which also occurs in tabletop. Mage Armor (the spell) in tandem with better Constitution is your friend. If you want Strength on a Wizard, there's a spell or a magic item for that; if you absolutely must have physical stats on a Wizard, your priority order is likely going to be Con (more HP) > Dex (dictates ranged physical attacks and AC if you get caught unawares) > Str.

Withers exists so that you do get to play around with whatever - and whomever - you want. There is absolutely no shame in paying for his services to do that; that said, strength *is* rather wasted on a wizard. If you're just going by baseline characters, you're better off having one of the ladies deal with it (none of the men have kept up with their lifting.)

Stained

Up

And I thought I was so clever despite NFUN getting it the very first post.

That fight is fun, yeah. Release week as WHM we kept dying to Oblivion because it was an enrage and people kept on dying before the phase change and the resultant damage-down-of-shame made it so we couldn't just wait that phase out.

Alley

I like the spread this year! I'm not going to have any "I'll Face Myself (Shadow Battle)" moments where my r1 nominations, supports, and supports-I-didn't-support square off until at least r3 (if they make it that far) save one matchup in bracket B.

Mega Man 3 was my comfort game rental when I had the chickenpox in the pre-Internet days of yore. I didn't beat it then, but I got close (child Isquen had the Nintendo Power grapevine to work off normally, but being sick, he had trouble with the Devil fight when he finally got to the Wily stages.)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/333ec493.jpg

Just Limsa things.

Girl from Ipanema

Endwalker is 100% a slow-as-hell boil, but... uh... you'll know when it picks up (and then it only lets off the gas pedal shortly before the 89 dungeon)

Sent request.

Sure I can pop in for a few. Crystal, right? I've got raid night starting at 7 Eastern.

Leafeon13N posted...

Its a fun instant gratification game that makes fun of American politics.

Gee, and you wonder why blocked countries being unable to play it review-bomb it, but [the rest of this post was moderated for being politics outside the Current Events board.]

Ultima 4 mention

I still mourn the death of that series and the postmortem desecration that was Pagan -> Ascension.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Can you buy the high level IL gear with normal times yet, or do I gotta wait for DT to launch?

Nope. Weapons still require P12 clears and the capped weekly Tome. Armor still requires the capped tome, and augmenting to 660 requires doing each of the Alliance Raids once. (which is cool, it's easier than Ivalice/NieR) Thaleia, the last wing, also gives 650 gear, the final L90 dungeon gives 645, and Pandemonium 9-12 give tokens for 640 (which is craftable)

*Heavy breathing*

Tagging.

FD mains Smolder, shun him.

htaeD posted...

Isquen I also would like an explanation

No explanation about it. Blade's being nasty for no reason and if he's town, well, cool, Corrik shot himself in the foot. If he isn't, the attitude is way too much, because while I've been quiet most of the game, I haven't been "I didnt read four topics or twenty posts before a rant idgaf scum will read for me" levels of jackass like SOMEONE here.

Meow1000 posted...

You also do this to Crescent every single game.

Maybe you shouldn't be literall her, then. I'm not speaking any more about her, or you, unless you try to be your own person and do something useful.

I'm at work and still managed to find a moment to watch the video, and it's host approved. You're being deliberately obtuse in a moment of pique. I'd still rather be on Kirby but, if it's a glorified gladiation between you and Peaf, I'd rather be against you.

Speaking as the pot calling the kettle black, maybe you shouldn't have the charisma of a wet paper bag.