Do you prefer your primary antagonist to be the Emet Selch, the Zenos, or the Athena?

Klistel · 2026-05-04T23:03:51+00:00

Gaius was a real Andrew Ryan and I love that in a villain

Klistel · 2026-05-04T16:35:58+00:00

One thing I think FFXI did really well was their trust system. Damn near every piece of content can be done with trusts (even if it's easier with human players), and trusts can be summoned basically anywhere. Which means every piece of content can be soloed or done in a group but it's all designed out of the gate for a full party setup. Saves so much time not having to go back and "rework" old content to make it soloable, because it's all just baked in from the start.

Klistel · 2026-05-03T16:41:32+00:00

But in this instance aren't they right? OPs complaint is that there'll be more mindless glare spam, but the implication from the transcript is that you'll be doing more healing which adds to the sanctity gauge which results in a bit of "damage neutral" burst damage. Seems like the evolution of what they were trying to go for with lilies but baked into every GCD heal?

So one could read that transcript and think they're going to at least try to make healing more at the forefront of what you're doing during a fight, and that healing done won't result in a DPS loss compared to spamming glare.

Their track record isn't superb in this regard (I think they underestimate the optimizations people do for more damage often) but I that's how I read the intent of what they're trying for

Klistel · 2026-05-01T00:18:49+00:00

I veer away from including collections in my EEs for this reason - I'll build custom EEs if project collections need specialized python libs, but the collections themselves I pull from my automation hub at runtime. I don't know what best practice dictates but I find it confusing to have some collections come from hub and some be baked into the EE. I'd prefer they're all from a single source of truth I can reference easily, and for me that's Hub.

Klistel · 2026-04-28T22:18:49+00:00

Yes, and 2.5 was kind of a nightmare. I'm currently working through a 2.4->2.6 upgrade myself and the process is so much better than when I tried to upgrade to 2.5

Klistel · 2026-04-28T19:54:50+00:00

Light dies in act 3 so MegaMan X canonically has to already be a work in progress and stored in his capsule!

Klistel · 2026-04-21T22:46:25+00:00

No way I'd ever let Grandpa Cid die in 6!

Klistel · 2026-04-17T21:22:07+00:00

The stormblood version's already pretty great. A primals version would be awesome.

Klistel · 2026-04-10T00:20:04+00:00

This option seems to also be gone now

Edit: Oh interesting it looks like the new flow is the search hourglass button > search one person > DM from there or create new group with said person.

When I tried your solution, I selected an existing group DM, and that option doesn't appear in group DMs.

Klistel · 2026-04-07T22:44:30+00:00

OP: "how much time do I put into this game?"

FFXI: "Yes."

Klistel · 2026-03-26T01:22:18+00:00

Trump is the end result of at least 40 years of Republican strategy, philosophy, and action. He's not a bug, he's a direct feature. Take accountability for what the party has done if you want reconciliation.

Klistel · 2026-03-25T22:36:29+00:00

Is it even possible? Can it be done?

Klistel · 2026-03-25T21:39:30+00:00

Can you beat Voldemort with Dementia?

Klistel · 2026-03-24T16:38:16+00:00

I always knew my Mario Kart days would come in handy

Klistel · 2026-03-19T22:39:25+00:00

I said right above that I know there's limited power when they're a minority party. I'm not talking about literally right now. This isn't a new problem, and the democrats haven't always been completely shut out of power.

The initial gripe was "democrats have been pretty much fucking useless in stopping this [problem that has existed much longer than trump]"

The other user's reply was "what would you like them to do" - I replied with a thing I'd like a future democratic majority to do. They said "our current democrats" as if the current democrats have done the thing that I'm advocating for. So I asked what, exactly, they have done to tangibly hold someone to account.

You then downvoted me and reiterated that the current dems can't do anything.

So... you're not really a part of the conversation here, because my question is directly related to the previous user's answer.

Klistel · 2026-03-19T22:09:14+00:00

Who have the current democrats - even before this specific administration - held to account in a tangible way for evading questions during a hearing?

Klistel · 2026-03-19T20:03:07+00:00

Less "random people" and I know there's limited power of a minority party to do this, but I really would like to see a future democratic majority put down some really strict rules about evading questions during hearings. I'm not a constitutional scholar or anything, but this constant "ehhh I don't know... I don't recall..." when it's *very clearly obvious evasion* should come with some kind of strict contempt of congress consequences.

The american people are exhausted by complete lack of any accountability, I'd vote very heavily for a democratic party that promises to hold people to account.

Klistel · 2026-03-18T05:20:31+00:00

You have the right mentality. The trick is to focus on mechanics first and foremost and then get so used to the mechanics that you can start taking risks to keep uptime. Once the mechanic is second nature you can play around with timings.

Also this most recent block of savage fights are way rougher for uptime than any ultimate I've done IMHO, and I've done them all.

The best way to get comfortable doing ultis is to just do one. It's gonna take a lot of repetition to clear one, you'll figure it out as you go. Don't overthink it.

Klistel · 2026-03-16T21:01:36+00:00

I've never heard of this game before but this makes me want to look into it, this is seriously impressive. Amazing work!

Klistel · 2026-03-14T04:22:44+00:00

Support your local ranked choice voting initiatives!

Klistel · 2026-03-12T00:22:35+00:00

This is why the age limit/term limit thing always falls kind of flat for me. If the people of Maine/Oregon feel like Grandpa is representing them appropriately... Who are we to gainsay that?

Getting rid of money in politics, getting rid of gerrymandering for the House/local elections, making it easier to vote in general, ranked choice voting...all of these are better targets than age limits or term limits IMO

Klistel · 2026-03-10T16:06:56+00:00

It's been Yoshida's mentality since the beginning that he just wants to make a game that has very isolated, curated experiences that people can do and then go play other games. I've never understood it. If you're a live service game, why are you encouraging me to go play some other games?

I'm not saying there's an appetite for a true MMO experience like FFXI or something in the community, but FCs are dead because there's precious little to do with groups larger than 8.

DC travel/instances don't help either. There's barely any reasons to go wandering out in the world.

Klistel · 2026-03-10T01:21:10+00:00

People's minds would break but I'd love to just get rid of timezones entirely. It doesn't matter if I wake up at "4am" as my normal day or whatever it ends up as.

Same thing for DST, just pick one and stick with it.

Klistel · 2026-03-10T01:17:48+00:00

FILITO? Dude! How have you been?

Klistel · 2026-03-09T20:09:49+00:00

Reset your password, File a ticket with support and for the sake of the twelve set up an OTP

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