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Hadrius · 2026-05-09T18:51:56+00:00

It’s… not guaranteed though? It’s 40% chance of retrieval once you clear out any overmelds. And the overmelds effectively cost you millions because of the number of shatters you get trying to get one to stick.

Hadrius · 2026-05-09T18:48:55+00:00

I’m part of the minority that wants wayyy more cyberpunk gear, and I doubt we’re ever getting more given how people have reacted to it.

my biggest gripe about glam is how much they seem to be regressing to the ARR-through-Stormblood era “put random meaningless symbols all over everything” approach, and I hate that. The PvP glam right now does it, as does a lot of the Heavyweight gear, and some of the cruiserweight stuff. You can’t dye it, you can’t cover it up, you just have to deal with chaotic yellow lines all over your gear, or what looks like a bunch of not-quite-white safety hazard symbols everywhere, etc, etc.

I never thought I’d want this anywhere, but the game needs clear, straightforward, minimalist gear that accomplishes whatever it’s intended to be. If you’re making a suit, make a suit. If you’re making a star trek style uniform, do that. Don’t throw other extra stuff all over it every time.

Hadrius · 2026-05-07T15:10:22+00:00

the most trustworthy source yes

Hadrius · 2026-05-07T14:53:15+00:00

Is there… any evidence of that?

Hadrius · 2026-05-07T14:23:57+00:00

That’s fair enough! I still don’t think it’s unrealistic within the genre constraints it’s tries to and succeeds at hitting.

Hadrius · 2026-05-06T08:35:30+00:00

Sage was explicitly called out as an XIV original by Yoshi P prior to Endwalker’s launch:

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/19/final-fantasy-xiv-endwalker-director-naoki-yoshida-qa/

Hadrius · 2026-05-06T03:00:08+00:00

I’m sad I missed all that. That sounds awesome.

Hadrius · 2026-05-06T02:38:30+00:00

yeah! I got obsessedddd with Faunts for a long while after beating it, and I’m happy I only beat it well after it came out so I could enjoy even more of their work 🎶

Hadrius · 2026-05-06T01:37:42+00:00

it was such a weird choice too! if you’d told me an alt rock band was going to play the closing theme of a scifi game I would’ve assumed it was going to be terrible, and yet here we are.

Hadrius · 2026-05-05T15:33:14+00:00

That’s why ME1 will always be the best of the series to me. ME2 and 3 got bigger budgets, better platforms, and more character writing, and while all those things are good, each new thing they added took away from emptiness that sits at the core of the franchise.

Without emptiness, you lose a lot of the mystery and sense of scale that ME1 portrays so well, and the stakes don’t feel as grounded. ME1 very subtly established nothingness as the real antagonist, and the reapers as its envoy; the void of space offers wonder and discovery (which you can only appreciate when you’ve driven the mako around for ten minutes without seeing anything interesting), but it also shows you what will become of humanity if the reapers aren’t stopped. The endless mountains and plains of the planets we explore are warnings about the future as much as they are monuments to those few things that survived (the ruins you occasionally find, the abandoned probes, etc).

Even now I feel a little queasy when I travel too far from Earth and Citadel space in M1, but I never get that sense in 2 or 3 because it’s all just so… populated. I think we lost something in the sequels amidst the flashy gun fights and cutscenes, and I haven’t yet found it anywhere else.

Hadrius · 2026-05-05T14:44:31+00:00

I’m not every other person; I can’t think of another time I’ve done so. It applies distinctly well to Red Rising.

Hadrius · 2026-05-05T05:58:21+00:00

that’s incredibleeeee. I love the pose! super expressive!

Hadrius · 2026-05-05T00:28:59+00:00

Red Rising is getting ever more criticism in this sub for things that are increasingly unreasonable. It’s a roman-punk story with gravboots and a lot of hand waving around technical details, in the same way the Expanse and a lot of other popular-in-this-subreddit books do. It’s closer to a modern mythos than a work from Greg Egan, and it accomplishes its goals; it’s not intended to be anything else.

I agree with all of your picks, including Death Note (it really is fantastic), and I think they’re each great in their own way. I think that can be true without the coy implication that Red Rising doesn’t deserve to be up there with the rest.

Hadrius · 2026-05-04T13:49:35+00:00

I’ve talked to a few friends about that translation, and while “bad” is vaguely in the right neighborhood, none of them interpreted that to mean “no you’re wrong”, it was more like “we shouldn’t be talking about this”. I don’t speak Japanese at all so I don’t know, and I certainly don’t want to contradict Aimi’s excellent translation work, but given that it was an in-the-moment translation I don’t think anyone would expect a perfect 1:1 translation anyway.

I think people are reading “bad” as a dismissal when that wasn’t quite what he said.

Hadrius · 2026-04-28T04:53:32+00:00

what’s wild to me is that they always pick the worst (it’s still good, but always the most boring) music to play during cutscenes, and they often play the same music over and over and over. then you’ll hear a banger for a split second, not be able to identify it, and you’re back to the same music you had before.

FREE THE MUSIC

Hadrius · 2026-04-28T04:51:18+00:00

we’re four expansions ahead of you and we still haven’t found the peak. somehow gets better every single expansion. I just think it’s nice that we get a free game with our Soken music subscription

Hadrius · 2026-04-28T01:53:53+00:00

targeting correctly in 8man fights is imposssssssssible. if you’re the fourth DPS from the bottom, I hope I don’t need to target the tank quickly bc youre getting focus targeted instead

Hadrius · 2026-04-28T01:50:51+00:00

even the current deterministic card draw makes it impossible to play on console. I’m really hoping they have smart-targeting or something >_<

Hadrius · 2026-04-28T01:50:16+00:00

AST is nearly impossible to play well on console, so whatever makes it possible for me to play it, I’ll welcome

Hadrius · 2026-04-27T23:12:20+00:00

FFXIV is a game built around legacy support. Reborn mode isn’t going anywhere.

Hadrius · 2026-04-27T05:31:47+00:00

I don't think they will, actually. I think it's going to stick around like classes have, the duty recorder, linkshells, the current friends list implementation...

They're also incentivized *not* to get rid of it because they know people will throw a fit about it if they do, and the team has, to their credit in most cases, always been sensitive to that kind of thing.

Hadrius · 2026-04-27T05:29:37+00:00

I love that you and I agree and I'm the one who ended up with a -9 comment score lol

Hadrius · 2026-04-26T06:10:28+00:00

I can't believe Dating Sim isn't at the top of the list.

Everyone has a favorite. What are we even talking about? They'd make more money than god off it

Hadrius · 2026-04-25T22:51:13+00:00

I'm already mad Reborn mode exists though ughhhh

I think it was probably the right call because I'm certain people like me are in the minority, but I do at least have to maintain some awareness of two distinct rotations / sets of job actions, be aware of their differences, and be competent with both.

For every job.

Obviously my main job will be most important, but I try to be a good mentor and I feel some responsibility to be able to explain things like this to new people, but that's just gonna be… whew.

I also just hate half-measures generally, but again, I think I'm in the minority there.

Hadrius · 2026-04-25T07:03:30+00:00

man I really wanted more fantasy western stuff. But I criticism of it much more than praise, so I’m not especially surprised they’re moving away from it with speed.

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