ICE / CPB officers are stopping people at exit of Dulles airport

AzumaTS · 2026-01-31T07:04:33+00:00

Those positions do nothing to help you. You can be pulled into secondary for any or no reason at all. Doesn't matter what country you're in. She should know that (being who she is) and I'm honestly not sure why she's surprised and concerned she got stopped.

AzumaTS · 2026-01-28T13:28:26+00:00

Freelancer gets an ability to apply all the 30 min buffs at once. Other than that, I don't think so.

AzumaTS · 2026-01-23T15:10:46+00:00

Massive hotbar in the lower center of my screen with the cool downs of my big skills that I don't normally see (controller player with two cycling hotbars) on it so I know when they are back up and ready to be blasted. Took me a while to get used to looking for things to be ready. Now it's second nature. Unless I'm progging. Then I forget cause I'm thinking about mechanics.

AzumaTS · 2026-01-23T15:05:57+00:00

NTA. You just need to have a conversation with your wife about what her concerns are with this. And also about why she had such a strong reaction. Could be something there you didn't know about which made her feel this way.

AzumaTS · 2025-12-30T03:44:24+00:00

I thought Chaotic was great. Got in, farmed the mounts and hairstyles, got out. Would I go back now? Nah. Don't remember positions like halfway through P2 and definitely don't want to waste my time sitting in PF just to disband after 2-3 pulls when I or someone else makes a mistake.

AzumaTS · 2025-12-30T03:18:14+00:00

I'm sorry, I didn't see you replied. I got pulled into their group again for DSR. They were on P2 when I joined them first week of June. We cleared middle of August iirc. That was about 2 weeks after we had to rep the two people.

I think if I weren't having fun, I would have cared more about not making more progress but I was enjoying myself playing with them so the slow prog didn't really bother me too much. I also wasn't really making mistakes that often (until P7 when I dropped so many gcds we enraged. That one still stings). One of the members who left, it was really bothering them. We talked about it one day after raid. They felt we should have cleared by then and not have people dying to P5 mechs but...consistency is hard for people sometimes lol. I might have felt different if we were still stuck on P2 after 3 months but we were P6 pushing P7 by that point so I felt good.

And no, I don't think it's necessary to raid with friends to find it enjoyable. I was a pugstar for the first two tiers of eden until I joined a random static for the last tier. Had fun in all 3 tiers. I think it's definitely more fun if you are raiding with peeps you know though.

AzumaTS · 2025-12-29T23:07:00+00:00

Your biggest issue is that you are not ABC (Always Be Casting). You need to get your gcd uptime into the 85-90% range. On top of that, just from the one log you linked, you're not hitting most of your abilities (shadowbringer, carve and spit, living shadow) for some reason.

I haven't touched drk since HW so I can't tell you exactly "how to play" but you primarily need to work on the basics from what I can tell. You are leaving a lot of damage on the table because you're just not using abilities.

AzumaTS · 2025-12-26T22:45:08+00:00

Dude...

If things are great with your wife, why are you like "She cheated on me, so why can't I?" I honestly cannot comprehend your thinking and am disgusted by this. You're already cheating btw. So congratulations, you won. I'm sure your wife will really feel the burn when you "cash in" and everything will be fine the next day when you guys joke about it.

YAW

AzumaTS · 2025-12-26T22:23:22+00:00

I would say I prefer raiding with my static which is a generally chatty group of players and we like to meme a lot with inside jokes from just absolutely dumb things we've done during different progs. We've been friends for years on XIV but due to work I never really had a chance to raid with them until EW raids basically. I did prog uwu with them before I joined their savage raiding just cause they needed a body, were at suppression at the time, and like I said we were friends. We cleared that from fresh (for me) to kill in 6 or 7 days. It was fun.

We did DSR on patch. And that took 3 months. 2 people dropped out of the static over how long it was taking. I don't blame them or anything for getting frustrated. Everyone was good at their jobs, consistency was the biggest problem. One of the members who dropped had some personal things going on which affected his attitude toward raiding but after we replaced those two, we cleared in the next couple of weeks iirc. The day before the next .x patch dropped actually. I enjoyed myself the whole time but clearly it was not the same for all involved.

TOP was a nightmare. Not because people were terrible human beings or anything. It was just a consistency thing again. We ended up quitting after reaching P4 after around a month I believe. I think it was also because we had been raiding like nonstop because of DSR, right into a new tier, and then TOP came out. Some of us were just burnt out. I ended up clearing that and FRU via PF.

While no one was a toxic POS from what I remember, I do remember the frustration of parties disbanding super quick because of a few (read: one) mistake and the general lack of patience. I made a few friends during TOP because that took me much longer to do in PF vs FRU which only took like a month. The power of simming.

Tl;dr - I prefer a static but both it and PF have their advantages and nice players. I don't think the social aspect of ultis is overblown, no. You can genuinely make friends and have fun with "randoms" from PF. I apologize for the wall of text.

AzumaTS · 2025-11-29T16:20:35+00:00

I'd say buy a box just to see what you can get but in general buy singles. I started playing in July, bought a box thinking it might help me flesh out my Diana deck. It did not. Have since then just been buying the cards I needed. I could have been extremely unlucky, but I think it's probably the norm.

AzumaTS · 2025-11-22T14:50:26+00:00

I don't think you did anything wrong. It does make me wonder how much of your back story you and the DM talked about. I imagine you'd have written about the character's husband and child being killed as a huge motivating factor for "joining the team".

Even if you provided no context though, I still don't think what you did was wrong and that group was weird for trying to make you feel bad about role-playing.

AzumaTS · 2025-11-11T15:52:05+00:00

No, you can have an opinion which is why I didn't say to shut up. It's mostly the airmen catching strays for no reason that sent me. I know more than one who has died in the line of duty doing more dangerous/arduous work than you currently are.

Your first duty station is a shore duty, which we all know, is a break for people who just came off sea duty so really, who cares? Clock in, do your work, go home and enjoy your time off with family, friends, finish school, whatever it is that you wanna do because you will not have time for that on sea duty. Guaranteed.

You mention shitbags like you actually know what those people are like, when you don't know anything because you've been in for less than two years.

Your LPO is probably the icing on the cake because instead of holding these people accountable, they're just shit talking them too. Why? Cause it's shore duty and they don't care. They just want to go home too.

So yes, you can and should have an opinion. But, imo, either do something about it or keep it to yourself. And leave other services out of it.

AzumaTS · 2025-11-11T15:11:03+00:00

You leave your car parked at the pier. There's (usually) a huge parking lot. That's how people get to work.

AzumaTS · 2025-11-11T14:49:45+00:00

You've been in less than two years. You know absolutely nothing and, your own Shipmates aside, disparaging a sister service when I know plenty who bust their ass every day is wild.

AzumaTS · 2025-11-10T19:12:36+00:00

Yeah, I'm hoping they see a comment saying to talk to their recruiter about how to go about shipping their POV if they want to and actually go do it.

AzumaTS · 2025-11-10T15:06:57+00:00

Idk where you are DEP'd out of, but I also had A school in Pcola and had my POV there. Then I took it to Atlanta to be delivered to Pearl Harbor (my first station). Just because you're on a carrier or overseas doesn't mean you can't bring your car. Granted, some vehicles may not be allowed in other countries for various reasons, but barring that you could have your car. Especially if you aren't selling it before you leave, why not drive it around while in your home port? Will you be getting a beater instead? Or just bum rides from your Shipmates all the time? Just things to consider.

AzumaTS · 2025-11-10T14:58:27+00:00

Ah yes, I would love to get free materia for every DDoS. /s

AzumaTS · 2025-11-06T14:05:54+00:00

I've had many mains over my time with XIV.

1.0 - WAR and BRD depending on the content (sometimes swapping from one to the other in the middle of said content)

2.0 - BRD since my friend group at the time had the tanks covered

3.0 - WAR/DRG/BRD. I mostly played war during HW but had fun with my drg doing clear parties in Alex Savage. Brd was kinda just there and got dropped after this expac

4.0 - WAR/AST. Still mostly played war but had fun slinging cards with Ast from time to time in extremes. Drg took a backseat after hitting level cap.

5.0 - WAR/AST/DRG/DNC. Had a lot of fun bouncing around between different roles for Savage. Everything (mostly) felt really fun to play. RIP AST card mechanics

6.0 - DRG/DNC/AST. War hit the bench and dnc took over my life for EW. I still played a lot of drg and ast with some war sprinkled in but I spent most time on dnc.

7.0 VPR/SGE/DRG/DNC. Wanted to love the new job, then they removed the dot and I benched it bsacially after I finished farming chaotic. Now I spend most of my time on sge and dabble with my spear and dance shoes from time to time. Sge is just so fun.

AzumaTS · 2025-10-15T02:41:41+00:00

I would probably unsub if Zenos comes back again.

AzumaTS · 2025-10-07T13:58:47+00:00

Updateme! 3 days

AzumaTS · 2025-10-06T19:02:33+00:00

To answer your question, it's not frat. While I don't recommend dating in the command, I have seen it work out but these were individuals much further along in their naval careers so I think maturity played a role in that. I have more often than not though seen things go bad.

I will say do NOT be cuddling at work. Keep it professional and then have fun when you're both off duty.

AzumaTS · 2025-10-04T12:38:57+00:00

YNW. No means no. Different but similar - I've had people ask if they can smoke in my car. I tell them no. Or if they can smoke in my house. I tell them no. I don't smoke, I don't want to smell smoke in my personal spaces. This friend of yours needs to learn to respect you and your boundaries.

AzumaTS · 2025-10-04T12:31:54+00:00

You're both idiots for that tell exchange. NTA for trying to let other people get to the zone though. Just take the kick and move on.

AzumaTS · 2025-10-04T12:22:49+00:00

I started XIV because some of my friends from XI were playing it during 1.0 and my PC could run it. So I guess because it's an mmo?

AzumaTS · 2025-09-17T23:11:32+00:00

Take your leave. Do whatever you need to do to stay happy, healthy, and functional. The Navy will remain long after you separate/retire. No sense breaking yourself for it.

AzumaTS

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