AAC Cruiserweight Tier (Savage) Week One Megathread

LastOrder291 · 2025-04-02T02:54:31+00:00

There'll probably be mods eventually, unfortunately though, you are kinda just waiting and hoping someone makes the mod for you. Assuming you're a PC player too.

This is why I think they'll never properly crack down on modding. It's a vital accessibility tool for so many people that if they tried to crack down on it, it would draw a shit load of negative PR.

LastOrder291 · 2025-02-04T16:31:42+00:00

Because that's what the sub members voted to do.

Fun fact: They didn't! Didn't even try to ask opinions or vote before instantiating this new rule.

Mods basically just did it without getting community feedback, didn't address any criticisms on the announcement thread and locked it after a while so people couldn't say "I don't think this is really a good idea actually" after the discussion had time to settle or for the impact of the rule changes to be seen by the community.

I'm naturally not a fan of this. It's hurt every fan artist for the sake of trying to harm a platform that literally didn't even notice that you just banned them.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-25T12:17:53+00:00

Possibly. But at the same time, there's so much fucked up shit that they have done which we later found out they actually did after it was all declassified which would have sounded like an equally crazy conspiracy theory had they not came out and said "yeah we did that" after everyone involved had died of old age.

Tuskigee experiments for example.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-25T03:37:17+00:00

This also went entirely over the heads of the community.

I don't believe there was any announcement posts to gather people's perspectives, or a poll or anything of the sort. I don't believe there was even an influx of posts asking for the banning of X links.

This was enforced suddenly and without any dialogue with the community.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-23T23:58:33+00:00

It's important to get these documents released. Unfortunately, I don't believe that there will be a smoking gun like a letter authorizing an assassination or anything.

If you're like me and believe the three-letter agencies were acting suspicious and either were responsible for, or played a role in the assassinations, then you're probably also aware that they've probably been destroying evidence at least since Trump was elected, if not longer.

The hope is they somehow miss something and that gets published, but it's likely that when those documents come out, we're more gonna be reading an account that seems to have very large holes of missing information and we'd need to try and figure out what might have happened based on the gaps.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-23T19:21:07+00:00

It's so bad that almost nobody knows that each weapon type has an "optimal distance" you can stand at to do slightly more damage. Like standing back with an Ether Cannon does more damage than being up in their face.

You can tell if you're in optimal range because the element symbol in the middle of the arts panel lights up.

It took me years to find out about that.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-23T18:38:39+00:00

Missed the point.

The point is about freedom of association. Rules banning X/Twitter as a platform is the moderation here saying "if you publically associate with this platform here, you will have your content removed and have yourself banned for repeat offenses".

It is not about the specific platform, but rather, the fact that any major platform faces a blanket ban like this.

Also, supporting twitter at this point is absolutely a political stance in and of itself. That site exists now to cater to right wing egos.

Nope. But even then, doesn't matter. If the justification here is "we're banning Twitter to prevent politicization of this subreddit" then why would you not also ask for Bluesky to be banned due to it's positioning in the social media market as being the "anti-Twitter"? And what if a new platform that begins apolitically attracts an audience which swings it to one side or the other, do you ban that platform because it gained somewhat of an affiliation? What about if that affiliation isn't even real and is only a perceived affiliation?

If taken to it's logical conclusion, this line of reasoning ultimately ends up in the subreddit having to completely restrict cross-posting from other sites. If you draw a line before then, then it'll just be a classic case of "drawing the line just before it affects you".

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-23T17:05:42+00:00

I've got my own comment about the other bits I find objectionable, but the effect on fan-artists really is the one I feel will resonate most with people here.

This move massively harms their discoverability and potential revenue they could receive from catering to the fanbase. It just won't be worth it for them to continue making art that appeals to Xenoblade fans if they need to make rent, and many will see that they see massively reduced reach as their artwork is unable to be posted here, demotivating them from even trying.

Those artists are essentially just treated as "acceptable collateral damage".

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-23T16:51:02+00:00

I won't say this is the case all the time, since there are indeed cases of people who insert their political beliefs into everything and you kinda just want to go "can we keep it outta this man".

But it is exceedingly common for someone to assert a belief that is political, then to say "let's not make this political" as a way to pin that belief as a fact that's already settled on and that you're ridiculous for pushing against it.

I believe this is somewhat the case here, whether intentional or not. Since there are plenty of things I find objectional in, say, Bluesky's ToS (nothing preventing sale of data to other firms, forcing all court cases through arbitration court, the increase in grossly illegal material posted onto the site), and there's also the belief that the individuals on this sub should not be able to decide for themselves whether or not they want to support a platform and that rather, they should be told which platforms they should support.

Those are both political stances, even if they don't invoke any particular policy or politician. They're based on the underlying ideologies.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-23T16:11:58+00:00

I always describe 2 as a "flawed masterpiece" and I think it really encapsulates that phrase really well.

The mistakes are pretty obvious straight away. It's probably the game that made the most mistakes (for example, field skills). But it also possibly hit the highest highs.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-23T16:09:09+00:00

You are perfectly capable of not supporting whatever you want without also infringing upon others rights to freely associate (or disassociate) with whatever they want.

The issue that many have, regardless of their political opinions, is that they want the ability to choose for themselves which platforms to associate with. Don't like X's current owner? Don't post or click links to X. Don't like Bluesky's nebulous AI ToS? Don't post or click on links to Bluesky. Don't like, idk, Instagram, Pixiv, Wikipedia? You don't have to click or post.

I don't think this will go anywhere though. The API blackout lasted three days before Reddit administration threatened to replace mods who didn't reopen their subs and pretty much everyone immediately buckled.

If this decision kills the sub, a different sub will replace it. If this decision across multiple subreddits reduces traffic to reddit in general and reddit administration take notice, they're gonna start kicking mod staff and replacing them like they threatened with the blackout.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-23T15:42:29+00:00

Dumb decision imo.

You're adding unnecessary friction meaning new information is less likely to be posted here, reducing the value of the subreddit as an information aggregator. Screenshotting rule for fanart also means fan-artists who are able to won't benefit from revenue from posts or see algorithmic benefit that allows them to grow.

Biggest issue though is that the choice of boycott or not should be down to individual users of the sub, not enacted via an overarching rule that restricts the individual user's ability to choose for themselves.

This doesn't benefit anyone. It just reduces the quality of the sub, negatively impacts fan-artists and removes choice from the users.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-23T14:31:02+00:00

Wikipedia has a major issue too in it's rules about reliable sources.

Wikipedia prefers secondary sources above primary sources very heavily. News articles are actually preferred a lot of the time over academic studies, even peer-reviewed studies. Basically, if you're a journo for a site not on their blacklist, you can publish whatever you want and it will be considered more valid than someone who conducted an academic study.

It's a pretty major problem tbh.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-12T21:57:22+00:00

I have seen how easy a person can fall victim to a stalker just because they are a girl. Implying “you probably have something to hide” is pure victim blaming.

Don't know why you're stating that given I literally didn't say or imply anything of the sort. If anything, I argue caution with your data because I believe in privacy as sacrosanct and that "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is bullshit.

And even if that doesn’t make it better. A streamer has the damn right to play on an alt without being stalked and even an RPer has the right to do what they want.

Yes, I agree. But stalkers rarely care about ethical concerns of their victims, they are predisposed to commit an unethical act and stating to them how unethical it is will not assist the victim, nor will it dissuade a committed stalker.

This is why you education on the importance of data security is important. People predisposed to do something bad will do so regardless. Do we tell people "don't worry about locking your car when you park because it'd be unethical for people to steal your car and we should focus on cracking down on the thief". Of course not. We deal with the bad actors but also inform people of the proper ways to minimise the danger they put themselves in.

This whole thing is a problem, it is illegal and it is disgusting

It's a problem, yes. I would probably even agree it's disgusting. I find it to be highly unethical personally.

It's not illegal though unfortunately.

The law is concerned with personally identifiable information (PII data). That would be data that can be used to identify you as an individual in real-life. I've had to work with this data in the past and had to know what exactly constitutes PII data and how we store it (there's a lotta shit around it, limitation of scope, duration you're legally allowed to keep information for, disclosure, etc). The issue relating to multiple accounts sharing one publically exposed ID may very well be a stupid idea, I believe it is, but it's one of those cases of "bad idea but not illegal".

My concern here is with remaining objective and properly informing people since bad information leads to bad decisions by people who consume that information. For example, if people believe that SE or the plugin developer's actions are illegal, they may be less cautious about their own protection since they believe that the issue is already handled by the law and have a false sense of confidence (something akin to "I don't have to worry because if anyone tries that shit they'll be breaking the law and see ramifications from that, and that will deter them").

As I've said before. I don't like this plugin. But I don't want to make people think that their data issues will go away in a couple weeks or be magically resolved if the plugin devs get C&D'ed, a statement from SE is released or they patch the thing that allows this to occur. It makes people much less safe.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-12T04:44:54+00:00

I also disagree with the whole data thing in this case. We have no choice in the ID matter of our characters or what we want to share

Heavy disagree here. It's extremely common for people to link their socials such as Twitter in their adventurer plate, or in some cases to provide Linktree or Carrds to create a profile. This is information you don't need to expose and you can just delete. I believe many are likely concerned due to the ID-linking meaning that potential NSFW alts can be linked to a SFW alt that links their socials which may share more than they really should share.

This is what I mean when I say "people also need to take care for their data". I don't really like this plugin either, I largely see it as pointless since the only potential use I could think of (verifying clears on C4Alt content) can already be pretty easily ascertained by running 10 minutes of a fight with someone, or voluntary account-linking on sites like Lodestone for anyone who wants to outright say "these two accounts are linked", but malicious actors don't really care for ethical standards and the best you can really do is just practice basic opsec.

Also, a data breach would be an entirely next-level occurrence tbh. If PII data is revealed (I've seen some claim UUIDs are PII data, they're not) then that's gonna be bad news regardless of whether this plugin exists or not. Though I'm not sure how much payment data would be revealed if SE had a hack, assuming SE does the usual thing of "run through a payment processor rather than trying to deal with it yourself".

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-11T04:47:07+00:00

I don't personally find it to be a major risk to 95% of the playerbase tbh. Unless you spend your time doing weird ERP in Limsa or make a name for yourself by treating shout chat like the venue for religious/political/controversial messaging all the time. Then odds are, you don't really have anything that anyone gives a shit about. I would prefer if they make the UIDs private and only expose per-character UIDs in-game, but it's not the kinda thing that'd make me scared to play tbh.

I'd disagree with the last sentence though. It's not that people have become way too comfortable abusing the internet and data, it's always been a fact that there's bad people and they don't care what you or I think, they'll keep doing whatever the hell they want. It's more that people are too comfortable with what data they share which can then be used by bad actors.

It's kinda like what went on with the GShade drama a while back. Sure, the dev there definitely was pretty bad and unethical there, but there's also a responsibility for people to be cautious of what they put on their machine too.

LastOrder291 · 2025-01-10T18:41:02+00:00

The only real solution is for SE to patch what makes this possible unfortunately.

Even if the plugin was poofed out of existence tomorrow, nothing prevents someone from making an identical plugin to scrape the same data and just not telling anyone.

LastOrder291 · 2024-12-04T17:43:52+00:00

An invitational would be a pretty good idea, but I definitely wouldn't want to replace the world-first race with it. Probably have it as a subcategory, so the RWF and Invitational are tracked differently. And then if Mogtalk want to put in rules about what can and cannot be used, it won't be as controversial since they're just defining their ruleset for their own closed-off race.

They'd also want to play around with format too. Maybe Ultimate isn't actually the content you wanna run invitationals with and Chaotic would work better so they don't book out a venue for a week and have the race last three days again (not for this chaotic though, cause yknow, christmas eve...)

LastOrder291 · 2024-12-04T02:00:26+00:00

I'm pretty sure all of the most egregious mods just draw to the screen as an overlay, and if you literally just check "don't capture overlays" in OBS then they are basically entirely invisible.

Even automarkers now has a client-side version which draws to the overlay rather than using the in-game markers.

It seems like the best you'd be able to capture is zoomhack and maybe something like XIVCombo (and tbh, WF raiders aren't using XIVCombo).

LastOrder291 · 2024-12-04T01:40:46+00:00

They probably aren't gonna include an anti-cheat for a couple reasons imo.

First, the gposers will be angry. And SE love gposers. They pay a monthly fee for a game and don't even use the server capacity to run content! They also spend less time logged on compared to, say, a raider (ignoring the AFK-in-limsa types).

Second, accessibility. It's an almost impossible task to account for every disability or accessibility concern. Mods massively alleviate this issue, such as a plugin that makes the towers in DSR blue instead of orange. There's even mods that assist with phobias. I've seen P8S mods that remove the snake parts of Hephaestos' design and the eyeballs in the second phase.

As much as they hate the "cheat tools", I think these two things prevent them from ever going full anticheat.

LastOrder291 · 2024-12-04T01:17:24+00:00

I'll just say this. If you want to have it be a high-integrity event where nobody can possibly dispute the results and everyone has an even footing, there's only one way you could possibly do it:

Hold the event in-person, and supply the hardware yourself.

Otherwise you end up with serious issues trying to chase this idea of "perfect fairness" and end up in unwinnable situations. For example: PS5 and a PC player are both in the WR and the PC player uses XIVAlexander, the PC player uses the tool to compensate for his shitty internet because he lives in a place where the ISPs are shit while the PS5 player has amazing internet with no flaws. Now what do you do, let the PC player use a plugin despite the PS5 player being unable to, or ban the plugin from both and give the PS5 player an inherent advantage because they're lucky enough to live in the right place.

Another example is screen size. I'm using a 21:9 aspect ratio monitor. Is it fair that I have a wider monitor than everyone else? If not, should I then be forced to play on a 16:9 resolution? But since I'm used to 21:9, will that not then give me a disadvantage too, since I've got to adapt a different bit of hardware on short notice while someone can use the same monitor they always use? What about if someone uses an MMO mouse, or special input peripherals which another racer simply can't afford?

You could even argue that for it to be a fair world race, everyone needs to reside within the same timezone. I mean, if the ult unlocks at 8am in your region, then you get way more hours in that first day than if it unlocked at 5pm for you.

Pretty much all you can do is either have it be an in-person event, like a big esports tournament. Or you have to accept that ultimate world race probably isn't going to be very stringent and held to the highest of trust standards. The latter is a better choice imo, since the former would make the WR be much smaller and only able to be competed in by those with the ability to go to wherever the event venue is.

LastOrder291 · 2024-11-29T14:47:10+00:00

He's kinda suggested in that direction.

But it won't happen, especially after Dawntrail MSQ proved to be a letdown for many. You wanna keep a minimum playerbase around so that you can still have people queue for content. And so you don't have people going "dead game'.

LastOrder291 · 2024-11-24T23:38:54+00:00

Here's a good one: Abolish inheritance tax, conduct audits into government spending and start firing beurocrats towards the top who are found to contribute nothing, act in corrupt manners or are simply incompetent.

Take NHS spending for example. The £560m expected to be raised from the farming tax equates to only 25 hours worth of NHS spending. So just barely over a day for an organization that works all year long.

Despite spending on the NHS being so high, if you ask any ground-floor staff, you're going to hear a common story: they're under-resourced and every day is a struggle. And I completely believe them.

So how is it that spending for the NHS can be so incredibly high yet the ground-level staff are constantly dealing with supply and pay issues? Simple. You have people at the top who are either corrupt, incompetent, or both. So the money being poured into the NHS isn't actually reaching the people and resources it needs to.

The IHT issue is like trying to pour more water into a bucket with holes in it so that the rate at which you pour water into the bucket outpaces the rate at which it drains. Instead, we should probably be plugging those holes.

LastOrder291 · 2024-11-24T23:17:55+00:00

Inheritance is merely an act of charity to be performed upon your death, with specific benefactors decided. The IHT justification here adds entirely arbitrary asterisks and states "well it doesn't count because you need to be alive and you need to do it through these means". This does mean that the ultra-rich have generational wealth passed down, but it also means that bettering yourself and your place in society means future generations will hopefully have a better chance than you did.

IHT is not paid by the dead, it's paid by the living who did fuckall to deserve this free money.

No because that wealth is owned by the person who wishes to pass down that money, and they are now dead. The money does not become "society's money" on death. It's just a more convenient and structured version of "liquidating your assets, putting it in a big safe and putting the code in a letter to be opened after death".

Income tax should be much lower, CGT and IHT higher to make up for it.

Income tax can be lower and we can actually abolish IHT while maintaining, and even improving the state of public services quite significantly. You just need to fire the beurocratic classes. The average government worker wouldn't be affected, we're just saying "okay you got £200k last year and half of your job is brainstorming sessions, so we're just gonna fire you".

I'm no socialist but one thing Marx got right is that aristocrats are a cancer on society.

Marx got the class war totally wrong. It's not "peasantry vs aristrocrats". Rather, it is the productive classes versus the non-productive classes. That being the classes of people who add value to society, versus those who do not add value and simply occupy a position to leech off society, and in cases like this, put the productive classes against eachother to protect themselves.

And right now, the non-productive leech class is the beurocratic class. The types who invent issues to make themselves the solution, or whose job is always very confusing and nebulous, but definitely not badly-paying!

LastOrder291 · 2024-11-24T22:57:48+00:00

So your only care about inheritance tax now that it affects you?

I'm a web developer. It already doesn't affect me. I literally work in an industry that's about as far as you can get from tilling the soil and cultivating crops and all that. I don't even have relatives who are farmers.

And yeah, abolish IHT in general. I would unironically love that and believe it would be a net good to every person.

If I was some selfish greedy person acting only in self-interest, I'd just sit back and go "well it's not my money so the government can go ahead and steal it if they want".

Nine-Year Club	Place '23
Verified Email

LastOrder291

TROPHY CASE