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UHD posted:Is that what that is? I thought it was just an empty scabbard. It's where your cards go, dummy believe in the heart of the cards, astrologian
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A Spider Covets posted:That too. I think that's where saying very little in party helps. I'm sure there's dudes who will just explode cringe all over your chatbox regardless, though. That's when you bust out a full Vanu glam and do the manderville. How did you guess my favorite past time? 
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a7m2 posted:Is anyone playing on a Japanese server? I'm in Asia so I might switch to an Asian server but I'd want to play with an English speaking guild. I hear Tonberry has lots of English speaking people? I play on alt on Tonberry every so often and I've never once met a single Japanese or non-English speaking person there. It was just like an American server. Except presumably mostly Australian. It's still a Japanese data centre, of course, and I'm not sure how that works out at 50-60 when content sometimes requires communication. I never encountered any trouble doing levelling with a full group of Japanese people, though. I found they really respected the content.
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ruta posted:I play on alt on Tonberry every so often and I've never once met a single Japanese or non-English speaking person there. It was just like an American server. Except presumably mostly Australian. It's still a Japanese data centre, of course, and I'm not sure how that works out at 50-60 when content sometimes requires communication. I never encountered any trouble doing levelling with a full group of Japanese people, though. I found they really respected the content. Thanks. Is the FC you're in good and looking for members? I'm transferring my character there today or tomorrow.
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EponymousMrYar posted:Not if you use something with a suitable wedge. That's the thing. Katanas are not thin, and they are not light. If you take a cross-section of a katana, you will find, typically* blade widths at the spine of a half inch to 5/8ths, with little distal taper**. Most of that mass is iron, because while Japanese *steel* was pretty good, it was literally polishing a turd out of very lovely iron, and was very precious and very dear. Which can be seen in katana construction over the ages, in effect taking an edge of very sharp, very hard steel, and then wrapping iron around the backside of it in order to build up its mass. You are, in effect, swinging around a thick, heavy bar of iron that's been sharpened on one edge, that's of mostly uniform thickness. This is not a razor, under any circumstances. You are not going to perform surgery with a katana. In reality, if you were going to cut something with a katana, the two cut ends would probably be flung apart from eachother, not unlike an axe. And that should show you just how preposterous the trope of the samurai cutting something, standing up from his follow-through, and sheathing his sword with the thing he just cut falling to pieces along a razor-sharp line just as he seats the blade all the way into the sheath REALLY is. * There are no absolutes in swordmaking. You can almost always find an exception to the rule, but for the most part, katanas are pretty beefy. ** Distal taper refers to the tapering of a blade's thickness as it gets towards the point. Very common in Western swords, very uncommon in katanas.
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May 16, 2017 04:56
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but what if its a videogame katana
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May 16, 2017 05:00
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It's magic.
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Shy posted:but what if its a videogame katana Then it's made out of thousand-fold mooglium ingots.
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May 16, 2017 05:02
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in this anime game with dragons and magic and catgirls I draw the line at cutting bullets in half
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May 16, 2017 05:03
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There is no mythbusters that says catgirls don't exist, ergo they are more realistic than katanas cutting bullets.
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May 16, 2017 05:28
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SwissArmyDruid posted:That's the thing. Katanas are not thin, and they are not light. If you take a cross-section of a katana, you will find, typically* blade widths at the spine of a half inch to 5/8ths, with little distal taper**. *i turn from blowing up my enemies with the magical energies ambient in the air to see my ally cut a bullet in half* this is just so unrealistic. i can't handle it. what if they're using aether to make the sword super sharp. there is a sword energy mechanic. didja think of that mr. smarty pants
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Office Surprise Store posted:*i turn from blowing up my enemies with the magical energies ambient in the air to see my ally cut a bullet in half* this is just so unrealistic. i can't handle it. Uh, excuse me but I'm pretty sure katana-energy would not be aether, but actually the ancient Doman martial art known as chi-manipulation. 
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Rainuwastaken posted:Uh, excuse me but I'm pretty sure katana-energy would not be aether, but actually the ancient Doman martial art known as Qi-manipulation. Fixed 
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May 16, 2017 05:38
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You people need to go play Metal Gear Rising: Revengance right now.
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May 16, 2017 05:39
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a7m2 posted:Is anyone playing on a Japanese server? I'm in Asia so I might switch to an Asian server but I'd want to play with an English speaking guild. I hear Tonberry has lots of English speaking people? I'm on Tonberry and it's pretty much all english speakers. You'll be grouped with JP people via the duty finder, but you'll find everyone just stays silent so there's no real communication issues. For end-game content, there are a set of standard macro's everyone uses which, again, solve the communication issues. But it's recommended you join an english learning party before attempting to farm via the duty finder. Otherwise, just treat the server like a NA server, except the average player skill is much higher.
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May 16, 2017 05:44
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Brainamp posted:Managed to finally hit 50 on BLM before the servers went down. Also finally settled on what I wanted my caster dps glamour to be. Oxyclean posted:You look like some sort of creepy mannequin. No way. This was my final ARR glam. I even wore it into HW for a bit.   (2.5 story screen shot)  Sometimes I even consider going back. In pugs I'd get lots of compliments and comms... so yes it is like some kind of magician's kink I guess.
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May 16, 2017 05:51
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The final fight with zevos or whoever in stormblood is going to be one big revengeance reference get hyped
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Back a bit but Shogun's a great read.Farg posted:The final fight with zevos or whoever in stormblood is going to be one big revengeance reference get hyped Playing SAM so I'm hoping for Raiden vs Jetstream, more or less, with a little of the final boss's ridiculous lines.
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May 16, 2017 06:03
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May 16, 2017 06:51
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I need Zenos's triple sword scabbard. And the swords too I guess.
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jyrque posted:I need Zenos's triple sword scabbard. And the swords too I guess. 
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May 16, 2017 07:12
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a piece of art drawn by someone with a dbz name of a one piece character being used to reference a final fantasy villain
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May 16, 2017 07:20
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itskage posted:No way. This was my final ARR glam. I even wore it into HW for a bit. Heh I wore the same thing (except I think I had a slightly different coatee). Kinky mad hatter mage 
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May 16, 2017 08:06
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQm76wFfKk The Stormblood theme song, Revolutions.
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May 16, 2017 09:09
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It doesn't hold a candle to Answers but that's expected. Cool video though, apart from the bit with the Au Ra field area. It's just not possible to make them interesting.
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May 16, 2017 09:21
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Dragonsong was cooler but it's alright.
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May 16, 2017 09:21
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Thumbtacks posted:Is that the same lady that sang Answers? Yep. And Dragonsong and Distant Worlds.
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one day they'll top answers but that day hasn't come yet
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Guess Alisae is a red mage or something similar? At least her cutscene animations look similar as RDM battle animations like that backflip.
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Now I'm listening to Distant Worlds again god dammit.jyrque posted:Guess Alisae is a red mage or something similar? At least her cutscene animations look similar as RDM battle animations like that backflip. She outright has a rapier and crystal so yes
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I didn't realize until watching that how happy I would be that we're done with Ishgard.
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Thumbtacks posted:they can't make a story NPC a job character though. I assume. would be sweet tho There's no reason other than them not wanting to that they can't.
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Thumbtacks posted:one day they'll top answers but that day hasn't come yet I'm still waiting for them to top memoro de la stona, it's like the one thing i'll still defend from FFXI.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9SQzeALyH0 Looking back, I'm kind of shocked how far we've come in terms of cutscenes. Some of the 2.0 cutscenes are really awkward to re-watch, while the SB cutscenes look a lot more natural.
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Thumbtacks posted:they can't make a story NPC a job character though. I assume. would be sweet tho Yeah imagine if HW had a dragoon story npc.
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I'm glad they're sticking with giving you recognisable party members in SB. It worked really well in HW and would have improved ARR.kirbysuperstar posted:She outright has a rapier and crystal so yes I called it and lol at anyone who thought she wasn't. She'd better be in the loving party this time around, that trailer makes me hope she is. Also it would be cool if she'd invented the job wholesale and was also the trainer.
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Susan Calloway  They went all in with the Haohmaru/Mitsurugi look at 4:00.
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Filthy Haiku posted:I'm still waiting for them to top memoro de la stona, it's like the one thing i'll still defend from FFXI. A lot of FFXI's OST is top class.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:That's the thing. Katanas are not thin, and they are not light. If you take a cross-section of a katana, you will find, typically* blade widths at the spine of a half inch to 5/8ths, with little distal taper**. I just wanted to say I thought this was a good and interesting post, even though I still think cutting bullets in half is really cool and speaks to my inner 10yo.
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