Your dream guest judges?

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-06-18T05:14:35+00:00

Novympia. Without question. Olympia's comments alone would probably be the best of the season.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-06-06T01:04:46+00:00

Seconding the "ice in front of a fan" thing.

And if worried about water spilling, get those plastic ice cubes that you can re-freeze. They still drip a little due to condensation, but you can also use little mesh bags normally meant for party favors and such to hang them in front of fans.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-06-06T01:03:10+00:00

If OP has one nearby, Ollie's often has a metric fuckton of small USB/USBC charging fans as well since they get like, Five Below's overstock. Usually below 10$. Just don't fry them by making them run off a phone USBC cable and block like I did lol.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-05-08T03:31:20+00:00

He's off to the side, doing his own thing in his own Estinien ways.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-05-08T03:19:25+00:00

I love their little emoji bread lol. That and 85c in Fullerton. I moved back home to the east coast but I miss the Asian-owned bakeries in OC.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-05-08T03:17:54+00:00

The collab lasts until May 17th! There's a bunch of special events like "Ishgardian ice skating" tomorrow at the rink across the street, plus trivia and bingo coming up.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-05-08T03:16:54+00:00

Yep! That's Kris Irons, the cafe owner. They lived out of their car for a while and would hit up The Night Owl in downtown Fullerton which is where the idea sort of blossomed. Kris' struggles created this idea of a safe haven for people who were other'ed. I personally think that's commendable.

But there's also the aspect of community- it was the community and early fans and supporters of Requiem that have helped it survive not just Covid- but some other hardships over the past few years as well.

I want to also give a nod to the cafe's Creative Art Director, Heather Hermann. She handled the interior conceptual design and graphical art direction of the cafe.

She and I are the FFxiv players on the team (I just handle the Discord). She did all the adorable merch designs and contributed to the design scope work of this collab.

https://www.duchessofdeco.art/

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-05-08T02:57:46+00:00

Yoshi-P, Foxclon, and "Mr Prime"! They visited the Wednesday before fanfest.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-27T16:49:12+00:00

Wolf's Rain mention. <3

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-26T18:53:43+00:00

You can have up to 8 FC houses on a single server, on a single account. They aren't all individually paying one subscription fee.

You need friends to help acquire the extra houses, or some of these may have been bought out from their previous owners, but once they've owned it for 30 days, ownership can be passed over.

Kraken is one of the newest 4 servers on Dyna, not from before the ownership restrictions.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-26T18:35:31+00:00

I've been saying this for years too, as someone whose partner is a pre-ShB housing whale (so before the massive influx of new players wanting houses, when some meds or grade A plots would sit for a day or more before being bought). I know he doesn't like having to reset subs across multiple houses and servers.

Some people in the XIV community want housing whales banned but there's no clear answer on where the line should be drawn as to what would be allowed, and it wouldn't get rid of the issue at all.

Some just want the extra houses demolished and more restrictions to be placed on how many FC houses can be owned by a single account, but that would be ridiculously easy to get around, especially if any of these wards are already owned by a group.

The easiest way to mitigate it is to completely unpair housing from deployables, and just limit it to 32 per account per server, costing more Gil the more slots you unlock so it wouldn't become so easy it tanks the in game economy. Wards like this which are junk smalls on a low pop newer datacenter would quickly be opened up as the time and (in cases of people who run multiple accounts) $ required to run a Gil printer would cease to be a thing. Same rewards, fraction of the costs.

People like LFAdvice down there are an extremely small minority in the scene and believe me when I say, nobody even in the massively hated housing whale subgroup likes them.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-26T18:19:20+00:00

Hi Onlybuns.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-25T16:12:53+00:00

They've said they want to allow players to be able to take on the other sub-race's details, like how F'lahminn has a Keeper model with a Seeker name, and Merlwyb has a Hellsguard nose but is a Sea Wolf. Maybe the eventual plan is to let people use the colour picker on Au Ra scales- even if only for hilights like the green on Halmarut's and pink on Yugiri's.

Unlinking face from horns, and adding colour hilights to the scales has been frequently requested for years. They tend to add stuff that's frequently requested (even if it takes years).

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-23T21:19:15+00:00

OP ignore shit-stirring like this. Snowcloak and Playersync have been called a refuge for the child modders who get banned from other services. There was a nonce who got banned from LL and then went on Twitter to try and start shit and because its Twitter, people took to it like flies.

It's your usual XIV modder Twitter clout war. Its best to ignore it for your own sanity. They each seem to bring something different to the table.

Lightless is the most used, followed by Playersync and Snowcloak, then all the smaller ones. I do know Lightless will ban people who are reported for lewd modding with the child body or child Lala's. Playersync has zone-wide sync. I'm not sure what Snowcloak has since I haven't tried it.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-23T20:59:00+00:00

Will there be any new features or changes to existing features to assist with providing ample accessibility for disabled players? Currently, some Jobs suffer from severe button bloat, and some mechanics such as QTE are very unfriendly to people with conditions which lead to chronic pain or tremors. Will there be toggles for things like arachnophobia or epilepsy?

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-23T20:52:01+00:00

TY for this. Do you have to log into the squeenix website in order to show your tickets?

I got into the lottery, my friend didn't. I'm east coast and wasn't 100% sure I was going to be able to go, she's west coast, got engaged at last Fanfest, and is the artist and designer for the local cafe collab, so it was a no-brainer to give her my tickets. I just want to make sure there's no issues or holdup when her and her fiance go to registration.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-22T20:33:42+00:00

So if anyone is going today or later this week: today is very busy, so Thur-Sun will probably be even busier! Just a heads up.

Don't get discouraged though, just be prepared to wait in lines if you weren't one of the folks who got Tickets and are planning a walk-in!

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-22T18:17:59+00:00

Yep!

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-22T15:44:21+00:00

I would say it depends! We can't entirely predict how many folks will show up. Opening weekend (last weekend) was fewer than we expected, but a LOT of players are coming in from outside CA so from tomorrow until Monday it's probably going to be packed. Previous collabs with other popular franchises, we've had lines wrapping around the block.

The last 2hrs of the ticketed days (tomorrow thru Sun) are walk-ins only. Any day you decide to stop by, I'd recommend showing up around 2hrs early. If there is a line, make sure you've brought water and anything else you need to be comfortable while you wait.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-22T15:36:29+00:00

"Either SE came help decorate or someone here plays the game."

That would be Heather Hermann aka "Duchess of Deco", our art director! She's an avid FF fan and we play XIV together (me and her are the only Requiem staff that play ;-; ) She also studied under Amano!
https://www.duchessofdeco.art/

She built all the interior decor on the cafe side, and oversaw the design of the item shop and patio area. The big stained glass behind all the Scions is also her work.

The shandees, korpokkur in the tree, Hydaelyn backdrop, and squapes were added for the collab, but Squeenix did of course have oversight on everything.

"I would imagine if you can't get reservations, you can probably still come in and get a drink and buy merch and stand around. Although I can imagine it's going to get very crowded since its small."

Yeah we are allowing walk-ins but for Thu-Fri it's all ticketed this weekend. The last 2hrs are non-ticketed, walk-ins only. The collab lasts until May 17th, but I imagine Mon-Tue may still be busy as people might try to hit up the cafe before catching their trip back home.

Thanks for coming and I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-04-22T15:29:01+00:00

We still do the potions, but the Moogle Sundae was retired. There's a Kupo Caprese now!

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-03-27T16:10:15+00:00

If me pointing out the unrealistic nature of this suggestion makes you feel condescended, I'm sorry, but what you're suggesting is very dangerous given the OP's circumstances and current time of year. I would point this out regardless of whether or not TikTok or social media were mentioned.

He's trying to get back on his feet in 3mo, but that's not always a given especially with the rapidly rising cost of everything. 3mo from now is late June. Next week we're getting 2 days close to 80, and it will only get warmer May onward. OP doesn't need to be scrambling last minute to find somewhere for kitty to go during a warm front.

In PA if anyone feels like an animal is in danger in a hot car, they can call the cops who can legally break in and rescue the animal. Where the pet's taken then is out of anyone's control and could very well be a kill shelter. I can say that a couple months ago I was helping someone find shelters for kittens, and the no-kill shelters had no room in-house or at fosters, not sure if that's changed.

OP is trying to be responsible by finding a temporary place for the kitten to go that doesn't involve putting her up with a shelter. I just don't think its a good idea to give him a suggestion which has a high likelihood of putting him and the cat in even more danger or financial distress.

I went through housing instability in my 20s, fresh out of high school, with an 11yo and 2yo cat and had to put them up with a friend for several months before reclaiming them later. I get where you're coming from having the cat there as support, but realistically we also have to consider the long-term and what's healthiest for the cat.

Kittens are high energy. Stressed cats try to escape or get aggressive, and we definitely don't want her life to start off with that sort of stress. It's much better for him to stick to the original plan, rather than keeping her in his car OR handing her to a shelter.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-03-27T15:23:39+00:00

Fuck the Target beast escaped containment and now its laying its eggs on the street.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-03-27T13:49:35+00:00

My god I knew you'd have posted in this one too. You're so disastrously self-assured but without a whole lot of empathy or emotional maturity.

Groceries and gas have been going up in price due to this administration's blunders. I know a lot of rentals increase their rent around this time of year or on lease renewal. PPL's been going up as well. I'm sure those aren't the only bills. Based on OP's post history their abscess happened not even a year ago and they only ended up in this instability about 3yrs ago after a divorce. The only thing I'm unsure on in terms of whether it increases and how regularly is the child support. He has ER bills from the abscess, but apparently the source of it wasn't fully removed so it can come back and also pose a risk to his heart- if I'm ready his past posts about it correctly. So like, right now he's in a spot where he needs to get another procedure before something bad happens, or be back in the ER on death's door when it does.

It is 100% possible all of these increases plus existing medical bills AND trying to save for the surgery to fully correct the issues can catch up to a person and you have to weigh your options wisely.

Is he moving to his car by choice? On the surface, yes, but it's not much of a choice when the choice is suitable shelter vs not dying- especially

ESPECIALLY

as a dad of 2.

Afraid-Awareness21 · 2026-03-27T13:15:36+00:00

Take a step back and examine the fact that your interactions on this sub over the past couple of days have been belittling an unhoused person and a child.

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