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MoogleKupo141 posted...

oh I thought it was pretty great. Elizabeth was doing an excellent Julie Bowen impression, and Vision did a Jim face. Agnethas I bit a kid once cutaway was legitimately funny too.

The pacing, comedic timing, and jokes (to the extent there were any) were all off. It felt like the superficial aspects were all there but like Para said the writers weren't enthusiastic about it. The structure was more about giving exposition while using the format than actually taking advantage of the format to tell the story. At some points it honestly feels like the people making it don't like this style of sitcom and are having to write around it.

There were some inspired bits the part where the offscreen cameraperson asks Wanda if she deserves this, the part where Vision realizes he's being stalled and leaves, and the part where it's revealed Agnes was doing the interviews but all of these are subverting the trope. The attempts to play it straight for humor largely fail.

I do have to give special shoutouts to the intro credit theme song for this one though, they really nailed it in the best and worst possible ways.

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Tbh I just want to watch the Agatha show now. Fuck WandaVision. That's the good shit.

Episode was fine but...man, I felt they were really struggling with the Office/Modern Family sitcom format. It felt off, and not in a way like they intended it. Did not expect this show to give me more respect to the interview cutaway trope but here we are!

Also a little bummed that Pietro was absent but they got me with the stinger. I have officially moved into "just want more of the villains" territory lol. They're good

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Suprak the Stud posted...

I wonder if this whole debacle is enough to actually shift Texas blue or at least closer to an actual toss up? I'd say probably not because they'll just find a way to blame the democrats, but if anything might make Texans be normal for even a little bit, it's this.

I mean the Texas GOP is still better organized, control the state government, and will draw the districts, so. It's still on Democrats (the party) to organize an actual fight. Hope they learned from Georgia.

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Real talk: I don't actually think they would nominate anyone significantly improved from Tanden if her nomination fails, but I'm still willing to accept the mystery box option here. Let's see how this plays out.

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I will say it would be pretty shitty of Manchin if Bernie votes to confirm and Manchin does not

Otherwise I don't care much either way

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Looking over your MCH post, one thing I'd change is that you don't actually need to wait to 100 meter to use Rook Autoturret. It's easier in some aspects to do so but also easier to overcap battery this way if you're learning. And it's better practice to get in the habit of trying to use it once a minute, which means using it generally around the time you're using Reassemble + Drill. Maybe it's easier to catch more buffs in suboptimal groups if you wait but I personally find the "summon generally around Reassemble timing" to be super comfy.

(really unnecessary optimization talk)
Queen doesn't lose anything from being used at less than max meter, but Rook Autoturret is garbage and has a chance of losing a hit if you use it at 50/70/90. So the optimal use of Rook is to only use it at 60/80/100, which makes waiting for 100 good, but a bad habit. And ofc this barely matters in normal content.

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JonThePenguin posted...

So...is there some convenient guide like that for dragoon? <_< Not that I'm fully kitted-out yet, still a couple hundred thousand exp from 60 (and only in the 52-53 zone so it'll be awhile before I can start doing the 61+ quests), but it'd be nice to have on hand...assuming Endwalker doesn't change it all anyway.

https://saltedxiv.com/guides/drg

This is for level 80 but should help. This site has a bunch of guides you can use, though I can't speak to the individual quality I think it's mostly maintained by The Balance people who do high-end content so it should be good.

I only have DRG at 50 so I can't really say much about how it plays at 60, but I do know from doing POTD you get the 4th hit of your combo and Blood of the Dragon, another timed self-buff that's extremely important to keep up.

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Earthshaker posted...

It was basically "unload all of your damage into one buff window and then try and get that buff window up ASAP again with chance-based mechanics."

And yes, not-autonomous turrets, that could get killed by AoEs, same as every other pet.

Yeah, Wildfire was the big change - currently it counts number of gcds and you just fit 6 in and get max damage. It USED to track all your damage and then deal a percentage of it again (I wanna say 25%?) so you would do truly outrageous damage with it. You also had self-buffs and a dot to keep up, that kind of standard stuff that's been streamlined out of most jobs. I didn't play it back then but I know people who miss it. It was very complicated but apparently satisfying to do, especially at high levels where it was one of the best jobs in the game.

Stormblood MCH was the real disaster, where they tried to simplify it but made it complicated in different ways. You had way less control over the Heat meter, but your Heated GCDs were tied to it, so you had to keep it above a certain level without going to max because that will overheat your gun, except you do want to overheat your gun sometimes, but no one was sure when because they kept changing how it worked. It was a mess.

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masterplum posted...

The funny thing is flying to cancun is really a proxy complaint against the badly managed power grid, because honestly, who among us if we were multi-millionaires wouldn't fly to cancun when a giant blizzard was coming? It seems kind of obvious. Snow birds are a thing.

So that action would be a complete nothing story if nothing bad happened.

Weird take since actions exist in context

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LordoftheMorons posted...

For dps keeping poetics gear until 60 is probably fine, but if you keep it as a tank you'll be quite squishy by 59

Yes but the best way to gear up is to simply run the dungeons anyways, and poetic gear is good enough to do so.

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Smoldering Air is actually very good, the key is to not already have Aphrodite's call. Some people seem to like the Charm spam but I'm not a fan. You also have to be in the mindset to keep your Call "on cooldown" but it's a ton of free damage if you do. I also hated it for a looong time but I have since seen the light.

Aside from Cold Embrace these are all pretty great to have. Aphrodite is just too strong, huh? Personally my favorite out of these is Low Tolerance just because I like making huge poison damage builds, and with Privileged Status it fits my playstyle perfectly.

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Yeah and you're going to be rolling in poetics from doing level 50 stuff. Every time there's a new player in the duty (you), it gives everyone bonus tomestones.

For reference, that augmented ironworks set you're buying now at level 50 is good enough to last you until level 60. You won't have to worry too much about gear throughout all of Heavensward and can just take whatever upgrades fall into your lap. Then at 60 you can use poetics to buy gear that will last until 70, etc. So poetics are going to be your best friend for a while, try to not let them go to waste.

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The Mana Sword posted...

oh god I just resubbed a few weeks ago and did collectable harvesting for the first time since they changed the interface what's happening

They buffed the shit out of it is what's happening.

Do Scrutiny + Meticulous twice, then whatever action would bring it to 1000 (ideally another Meticulous), then collect. Every time.

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did people just sleep through the Trump admin's attempts (and thankfully, failures) to incite a war with Iran all throughout 2019

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Pokewars posted...

Yeah, doesn't sound psychotic at all. Yeesh. And you people think you're "morally correct."

he was a white supremacist and his life's work was spreading his destructive views to as many people as he could

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https://twitter.com/mannyfidel/status/1362136883225051138

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

What is Hussie

Andrew Hussie, guy who wrote Homestuck, if you don't know then you're probably better off

anyways I thought to check up on this because I just heard the second chapter is out. wtf? did this man actually write something all the way through before releasing it???

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Dels posted...

Without knowing how it worked, I think a better fix would be to make it so you can't fish for stuff. You get the card you get and you have to decide the best way to use it.

The issue with this, presumably, is that if you get bad RNG you'll just get lower damage contribution overall 'cause you didn't get the best card. But meh, the variance should even out...

The variance doesn't even out, that was the problem. At the very end Balance was still optimal but Spear was worth using as an alternative, and Arrow if you had a BLM (and maybe monk? not sure), but only as in, using those isn't a huge loss and can make up for some bad RNG. But like...this was fine? It was close enough to even. It was changed more because the gameplay felt bad.

But this was the fixed version. Originally the Balance was so strong because it was the ONLY DPS option (except for Arrow on BLM) and was also twice or thrice as powerful. The above was after multiple rounds of nerfs and buffs to the other cards.

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I like the matching game on new AST but I do miss the old one. I think it was better to have more effects, especially once they nerfed the Balance into the ground and buffed Spear to compete with it. Yes, you can simplify it to fishing for Balance but what made it interesting was trying to line up good Royal Roads and Spreads.

And yeah I personally dislike the amount of oGCD spam you have to do in the first few GCDs to get a fast and strong Divination, I'll honestly take RNG fishing for spread balance over that.

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Man I forgot about Hildebrand but to be fair so did the devs ha ha ha so I'm glad someone remembered.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Yeah I'm trying to get the MSQ of the ARR patches before maintenance tonight at 1 AM EST. Just had the Ramuh fight, no idea if that feasible.

Ramuh is 2.3, so you've essentially done 3/5ths of the patch story. Each trial storyline is 1/5th, except the last 2/5ths are slightly beefier because there's dungeons to do as well.

Depending on your pace it's doable, though I would advise against rushing if you think it's close if only because when you hit the very end the game gives you a cutscene warning and you will legit need to set aside at least an hour to get through all of it uninterrupted. But you can probably get pretty close!

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Anyone here end up playing this yet? I've been putting it off.

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FF14 - To the Edge comes to mind immediately (and this is the only video I found without spoilers)
https://youtu.be/MX_Fk7sLSg4

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trdl23 posted...

Modern's "iconic identity" was that it was garbage for years and years, which is why Pioneer ate its lunch.

are you living in some kind of alternate universe, because this was absolutely not my experience either at local metas or big tournaments <_<

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Admittedly I was not paying attention to it very much when it released but I don't think that's true given that it launched with a hefty banlist of what were the most powerful cards in past Standards. If it seemed like just a "super standard" that was probably because the Standard environment when it launched was Scars/Innistrad which...was very high-power, to say the least. But that means that the instant the RTR rotation occurred it already had its own identity.

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Honestly don't think any deck playing SSG is healthy to have in the format anyways, but I understand that it's just another thing contributing to the death of Modern's iconic identity.

But hey, bring back Pod and Twin and maybe we can discuss the combo mana monkey.

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Holy shit

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https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1361318365638328322?s=19

Webster's dictionary defines a city as "a place with stuff in it"

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granny goodness is real and kicks ass and yes, does just look like an old white lady

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Oh yeah fuck that place. That's the one where it's mandatory.

Last time I got it in a roulette we wiped three times to it (even though I thought everyone in the party knew) so it sounds like you had a better experience imo

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Manning these cannons may be the least intuitive thing I've ever encountered in a game, wow. Took well over a minute to figure out.

There's two instances of those stupid cannons I can think of around where you are, which one are you doing? In one of them people tend to ignore the cannons entirely these days, in the other they're still mandatory. So I don't know how impressed I should be.

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KamikazePotato posted...

I miss certain voices, specifically Alphinaud, Thancred, Raubahn, Yda but their replacements are still good, and I can agree agree that the Lalas are much better now, and some of the old cast had some really questionable performances.

Alphinaud's I thought was really close to the new voice, although the old one is certainly more smug and punchable. I am certain that is due to the obvious writing choices around the character though. I guess I'm saying is the old voice actor did a really good job now that I'm absolutely certain that was the intent.

Similarly, I don't know how much of Yda's voice performance is due to the choices around that character! I do think I prefer the old one but it's hard to say for reasons.

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I must be in the minority but I think the voicework is a massive improvement post-ARR. I'm going though again on an alt right now and part of it is what I'm used to but it's rough.

I attribute this mostly to voice direction though, I know the original talent they had was largely good, but the direction makes a huge difference. Like thank fucking god they dropped the whole "all lalafels must sound like squeaky cartoon children" shit.

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EM4 Hades is not a good fight IMO, too much complete bullshit, but it's worth trying to beat at least once.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

....Just visibly, I assume?

Yeah, I mean not being able to equip them at all would be some shit. But they tend to not be visible on Viera and Hrothgar, with some exceptions.

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You should be warned that if you change to bunny girl then you can say goodbye to wearing (most) hats

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Jakyl25 posted...

The fact that they technically can do that and theres no check on that power aside from packing the court is a real doozy

Red Sox is actually right about this. Judicial review is a power the Supreme Court gave itself, not in the Constitution, so the check is literally Congress or the Executive Branch deciding to exercise their own power and just ignore the court's ruling if they disagree.

We are free to start playing hardball any time! The problem is 200 years of goodwill towards the Court and ignoring the rule it literally made up would immediately expose how badly structured our government is.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Wow, I know you guys already said to expect it, but was the playrate for this Bahamut raid so bad that they straight up broke it up into 5 smaller chunks...and it still has a 30+ minute wait for the first one?

The Bahamut raid is not only outdated content but hardcore content. There's no reason to do it the normal, at-level way except if you want to get a coordinated group together and throw yourself at a difficult fight for hours. And very few players actually do hardcore content, I would be surprised if it was much higher than 10% of the NA/EU population.

Starting with Heavensward they also include normal mode versions of the fights so that everyone can do them and get the story, but they never did this for Coil because they expect people to just cheese them at max level. But you don't use the queue for that, you have to manually set up a group with Party Finder.

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Has to be Theseus and Asterius. I mean, I hate it, but it's so good. It's very satisfying to do well and the EM3 version is hilarious.

Also you forgot TinyVermin but that's OK no one should vote for that anyways

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Level 50 hit! And on the level 49 MSQ at that. Definitely caught up on me there with me mainlining it, I was 15 levels ahead at one point.

Oh yeah I have a question for you about this and the sidequests since you said you were able to avoid most of them.

Did you end up having to do Aurum Vale for the exp? The true ARR experience isn't complete without it!

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we're talking about the guy who made I'm Having a Baby (And the Baby is You), I doubt he is going hard on Christian symbolism

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CasanovaZelos posted...

If we skip the opening skit, "We Don't Care" is probably Kanye's best track not released as a single? If not, it's at least up there.

Came in to say this, all-time great opener. The skits flanking it actually enhance it so it definitely counts.

(also kanye has too many great tracks not released as singles but this is one of the more noteworthy ones)

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Gear for alt jobs, maybe. Dyes you want for glam. Glamour prisms and dispellers if you can. Not a whole lot of good stuff to buy without access to the market board.

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Earthshaker posted...

- Making Yotsuyu and the Tsukuyomi fight as awesome as it was. She was amazing both as a petty villainess and when we're supposed to pity her.

high key one of the worst parts of the whole expansion, though the fight itself is neat

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I dunno about straight up worse but Stormblood's story is definitely more infuriating than ARR's. It's one of those things that only gets worse the more you think about it.

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Luis_Sera89 posted...

I went from level 1 to 80 on FSH almost exclusively from Ocean Fishing over the course of about a week. I wouldn't have come remotely close to level capping without it.

It's actually really easy once you hit 60 because you get access to the gathering tribes quests which are extremely efficient. But before that it was leve and collectible spamming before they added ocean fishing, which was not fun.

Oh and custom deliveries, tons of exp from that and you could even start those at 50. I did 70-80 around Shadowbringers release, before ocean fishing, just by doing turn-ins on fisher every week and of course the crystarium quests which are each like a whole level.

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Well not just that but I'm reasonably sure you have to have completed at least the 3.0 story, maybe even the patch story.

Too much crafting/gathering quality of life stuff is locked behind Heavensward main story stuff anyways, I really wouldn't recommend trying to do it earlier.

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KamikazePotato posted...

I view those willing to go 100% into the gathering/crafting classes with a mixture of suspicion and pity

I can craft and repair my own gear and have 80 million gil, your pity is not required

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

THEY'RE LAME

They're like 1 step away from the goblins.

Oh man you WILL regret your words and deeds

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The Ixal quests are by far the best of the ARR tribes, but unfortunately you will have to become a crafter to do them and I would not recommend going down that rabbit hole anytime soon.

The kobolds are also pretty fun! The Amalj'aa have an interesting setup but honestly I think their potential gets wasted. It's an issue with most of the nonhumanoid races.

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