Rhonne posted:

Low level trust system is still the biggest thing for me, I'm really excited to see what kind of npc allies we get for those dungeons.

Vermain posted:

it's probably ultra low on the priority list right now, down with blue mage updates

Cleretic posted:

So, is there a way I could get a largely DRM-free version of the Endwalker soundtrack when it comes out? Mainly asking so I can use actual quality versions of its music in the background of videos, right now rips of basically any song that isn't Radz-at-Han's theme is at best spotty.

Macaluso posted:

Who gives a loving poo poo about old and busted Hildabrand, I got important poo poo to do with Tataru

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

The official blu rays have always just had a zip file will all the tracks as mp3.

King of Solomon posted:

It seriously blows my mind that this is something they're implementing. By the time 7.0 drops you'll be able to go through every instanced dungeon with trusts. Just absolutely incredible.

Blueberry Pancakes posted:

The lack of ShB Blue Mage fills me with despair.

Moofia Boss Val posted:

Seems like this will be a pretty lukewarm expansion cycle.

Moofia Boss Val posted:

A king is invested in the fate of his country. It is in his selfinterest to ensure the wellbeing and prosperity of his people and his land. The king cannot easily walk away from his kingdom when things go south; his fate is anchored to it. If his people revolt or his kingdom is invaded, he and his family will most likely die. The king is extremely motivated to act in the best interests of his kingdom.

Elected officials in a democracy, however, are not invested in the fate of their country. They do not own the land or the people, nor are they at personal risk if things go south. The worst thing that can happen to an elected official is that they don't win reelection. As such, elected officials tend to not act in the best interests of their country, but for personal gain. They will take bribes/lobbying money or pay back favors by voting to do things that are counter to the wellbeing of the people and the country.

Furthermore, kings are highly visible public figures. They cannot act as a tyrant, or else they won't be king for very long. Pop culture likes to depict evil kings a lot, but in history most evil kings who fell in line were quickly punished and regined in by the aristocracy, and if not... they were overthrown and killed, and replaced by someone else who doesn't antagonize the populace. Whereas democracy as an institution exists to hide who the real decision makers are (usually wealthy unelected officials who are bribing the elected officials to work for them). People in feudal kingdoms were often more free than people in modern democratic societies, but I digress.

Ala Mhigo had a bad king, and as what usually happens in history, he was overthrown rather quickly. The only notable damage he managed to accomplish was sneak attacking an order of monks and wiping them out, before the rest of the country promptly took up arms and shut down the king. I find it most incredulous, however, that there were apparently no survivors of the royal family whatsoever. Ala Mhigo must've had some pretty awful bookkeeping of the royal family's heritage for no one to be able to figure out who was the next one in the line of succession, be they a cousin five times removed or whatever. Even that couldn't be found, there surely had to be some popular aristocrats who would have been nominated to start the next dynasty. Even if all of the aristocratic families had somehow died out, they could have just grabbed some popular local community leader and made him one too.



Then again, the Ala Mhigo storyline in Stormblood is quite poorly written. We're talking about Conrad's resistance group - said to be the largest of the many different resistance groups - apparently didn't even have a successor they planned to restore the throne, let alone an idea for what kind of government they would establish. Conrad also brought up that there were multiple factions in the Resistance with different ideas for what Ala Mhigo's government should be, but we never see them and that conflict is never brought up again (would have been great patch story material, but alas).

Could have been made by a good willed Amaurotine like Azem or Venat, but once the founders died out the society could have easily derailed as the following generations had slightly different ideas from their predecessors, until by today modern Sharalayn ideology is unrecognizable from whatever it was originally like.

Going by how it seems that Sharlayan is somehow involved in the creation and working of the towers, I suspect that the Forum is in collusion with Fandaniel and Zenos.

https://twitter.com/chocoboof/status/1396233293708763136


I think that (5.55) dad saw which way the wind was blowing in the Forum, but disagrees with the rest of the Forum (who voted unanimously to reject Eorzea's call for aid). So to maintain appearances, he voted to agree with the plan. That means he won't have to resign or be imprisoned... or possibly killed. He still has some power. I'm guessing he's going to try to work from behind the scenes to stop whatever is happening. He may have cut ties with his kids in order to keep them from being targetted by the Forum if they ever discover he is actually working against them. We know from the Astrologian storyline that the Forum is quite ruthless when comes to dealing with perceived traitors.

He was there as the Eastern Alliance's representative so the two continental alliances can coordinate with each other.

G'raha Tia was the useless guy in the room. He didn't have a single line at the meeting. Then again, G'raha Tia and Alphinaud are constantly fighting for screentime whenever they are in the same scene together. Whenever Alphinaud is the lead speaker, G'raha Tia has nothing to say, and vice versa.

sexpig by night posted:

yea I dig this vibe for LLs, nothing huge revealed in super detail (lots of cool broadstrokes stuff) but just lots of nice information from relaxed sounding devs getting us hype for what's coming.

Cleretic posted:

Well, that's disappointing, the S-E store's shipping to Australia has never really been a thing, and even if it was I don't have a blu ray drive.

Time to keep praying for Mekkah Dee's return, I guess.

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Augus posted:

oh my god lmao

Waffleman_ posted:

https://twitter.com/Nova_Crystallis/status/1494895717864906754?s=20&t=YyBGT3ssuo9LxGEkaLQRGw

Koji's reign of terror is at an end

quote:

Q: I wanted to harvest some Thavnairian onions in Thavnair. Where are they keeping them?

A: These onions have surpassing effects on chocobo feed and have a unique effect on cultivar. They are probably only available in a small area of Thavnair.

a kitten posted:

Gimme the drat onions squeenix

Countblanc posted:

did they talk at all about what Criterion actually is?

Countblanc posted:

did they talk at all about what Criterion actually is?

Countblanc posted:

did they talk at all about what Criterion actually is?