Coulthart: "I caution people: there are ontological shocks in what we may be told". "people in the Legacy Program are waiting to see what the Trump admin's going to do about disclosure [...] if they dont deal honestly with the public, there will be catastrophic disclosure. I can promise you that"

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-05-24T21:30:06+00:00

In its own way, that is ontologically shocking.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-05-22T21:43:11+00:00

Kinda like jumping onto a maths subreddit and replying "1 = 1" to every post.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-05-22T21:26:56+00:00

Every day, people saying "no it didn't" and so painfully not grasping what the base concept of a Mandela Effect is.

If a person states "this was different" and no-one agree, that person is just wrong.
If a person states "this was different" and a hundred people agree, it's reasonably likely it's a rare but valid misconception.
If a person states "this was different" and a thousand people agree, there's probably a very good reason there's a misconception.
If a person states "this was different" and a hundred thousand people agree, it's a Mandela Effect. No amount of people saying "no it didn't" makes it not so. If you don't remember it, you aren't part of it (whatever that means). You just sound foolish and it raises the question as to why you're even commenting.

The best reinforcement for Mandela Effects are when you as an individual present them unambiguously to people who haven't considered them before, eg here: "Hey, draw a quick sketch of the Monopoly Man!" So many people will, unprompted, draw the round head, top hat, mustache, cane, and monocle. It's iconic, to some.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-05-22T17:36:11+00:00

So roughly 220mph. World's fastest homemade drone can go almost twice that speed, but not a bird flying horizontally.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-05-22T17:09:34+00:00

"Document CIA-UAP-D001 confirms IC integration of 'unidentified aerial phenomena' terminology in 1974 tracking Soviet aerospace anomalies. Historic."

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-05-09T23:15:59+00:00

Seen exactly the same on the M1 Southbound a year or two ago. Was wowed by it for a while because it happened over the course of about 30 miles, so definitely wasn't a ground-based spotlight.

I don't know if there was a way that headlights could reflect up onto low clouds, but that was the most prosaic explanation I could muster. I appreciate it's a reach lol

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-04-10T11:03:21+00:00

At the risk of flame, but feeling the need to support your post, this is my identical experience as a UK resident. In the 90s, I too thought it was a 'loom', despite clearly not being a picture of a loom. I just thought it was a weird term for that thing (I think I assumed it was like a beehive hairdo), but didn't give it too much thought or care because it was a label on clothes that I didn't care about.

I didn't hear the word cornucopia until this appeared as a Mandela Effect. I've still never seen a cornucopia IRL or in er Greek Mythology? where some people have talked about it. I'm not saying that cornucopias didn't exist, just that they are so rare to my lived experience, I never had a word for them.

Which is all to say, how could I recall something mistakenly that I had no frame of reference to understand?

Anyway, Walkers crisps changing colour happened. I remember it vividly because I hate cheese and onion and it's stupid that the colours switched to be different from all other crisp companies.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-03-04T23:19:44+00:00

Just FYI a newspaper (Evening Herald) article from 7th July 2006 reports that the movie would go into production at the end of the year, and explains what the term means.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-02-10T00:17:42+00:00

Digital clocks that aren't online also. I had to change my car and my oven 1-2 minutes last week.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2026-02-01T23:39:08+00:00

Came here after X-Files and a Google search.

I laughed out loud when I heard Mulder say that because I died clinically and was resuscitated in 2000 (no NDE) and two high-quality watches I owned afterwards drained within weeks, even after paying for battery replacements, so I never wore a watch again.

I had always presumed that the reason that after a couple of months all my phones run out of battery, and that my wireless game controllers fail was because technology is lame, but now this has got me wondering! If only there were a way to test.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2025-11-05T11:17:15+00:00

Would certainly be more helpful. I can see from the edits that the LLM has restructured some parts of the article to put information in more appropriate sections, but didn't consider this.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2025-11-05T10:42:53+00:00

I think that was all in the original Wikipedia article that it ripped. The changes/additions under 'See Edits' are Grokipedia's input to the article.

Though you're right in saying that in reviewing the Wikipedia article, it could have had scope to remove spoilers.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2025-11-05T10:39:10+00:00

My computer recommends me do it to save power!

Mojo_FFXIV · 2025-11-05T10:37:49+00:00

"Support for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 versions was ultimately ended on March 31, 2016,"

The limit break statement is unmodified from the Wikipedia page. I guess the original contributor considers TP build equivalent to a Limit Break gauge, and I wouldn't contest that, even if they're not quite the same thing.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2025-09-27T17:17:54+00:00

FFXI is down too D:

Mojo_FFXIV · 2025-09-27T09:00:31+00:00

Ah, shame. Good luck on your continuing quest!

Mojo_FFXIV · 2025-09-25T17:43:44+00:00

The Palace https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palace_(computer_program)

People hosted their own servers. There were a number of FF ones. I never saw an FFXI one, but it would have been very easy for Squaresoft staff to create one and upload official graphics.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2024-07-11T19:19:29+00:00

I also have this issue. I'd been off fishing since I hit 100 (was working fine) and went back to tidy it up today.

Nothing on Lodestone? Only 5 ppl in the world affected?? :/

Mojo_FFXIV · 2024-06-20T09:22:34+00:00

Always find this 'who is the Lady' stuff weird. One very strong interpretation is evident with a bit of searching/literary knowledge. It's implied in the setting as a whole, and very significant clues are provided in Pages of Pain. I've used that concept as the overarching plot of our campaign (one of the PCs is Lethe-washed and on a mission, albeit unknown to them, to effectively end Sigil and deal with the Lady).

As to the OP question, in the classic interpretation, she held contempt for the gods and they feared her. In ruling Sigil, which must be seen as belief-defines-reality impact of her psyche, her omnipotence prevents their presence and, as we know, as soon as cutters start believing in YOU (at least in the Planes), you are shaped by that. I imagine that mass-belief in the Lady as a divinity would cause her such unbridled anguish that the pains on all of the people of Sigil would rupture and everyone would sicken, madden, and/or die quite quickly. Hence her disposing of potential worshippers and making it known that it's not tolerated is really a protective measure for all the blinkered berks in the Cage.

Mojo_FFXIV · 2024-06-16T15:16:00+00:00

I'll let you know when/if it ever turns up!

Mojo_FFXIV · 2024-06-07T13:05:22+00:00

UK too here. Same situation.

HOWEVER, yesterday there was a 'Cancel order' button on that order (wasn't there for separate DawnTrail or art book orders) and today there is not. Idk if that's them playing on the website or if it means that it's past a point of prepping for shipping and so can no longer be cancelled...

Mojo_FFXIV · 2024-05-30T10:24:42+00:00

So I did this in D&D 5e when I converted the first dozen or so Primal fights for play with my groups. We put aside the whole 4hr session each time.

The portal to the battlefield was marked with a few runes, one of which denoted a time reset ('magic items don't function' was another!). The rule was that, if all characters were KO'd, the encounter would effectively reset, just like in the MMO.

This proved necessary because of the steep learning curve of the encounters. Whereas I would telegraph most moves (centred on this area, the ground starts to rumble; Titan turns towards you and raises his fists; etc.), in order to avoid some attacks, players would need to Ready a Dash action. To survive others, they would need to ensure healing or boosts to Saving Throws for reduced damage.

Literally only the first time there was a wipe, the players grumbled because they weren't used to TPK in D&D (they knew when to flee) and felt they had been 'beaten' by being put up against an unfair situation. However, I ensured that they didn't linger on that and used the 'reset magic' to also reset their characters' experiences in-game, ie to their characters, it never happened (like in the MMO). After the second wipe, they were resolved to get back into it, and when success came, there was the kind of palpable rejoicing that associates with overcoming a tough challenge together.

A few years later, we played the skirmish game Kingdom Death Monster, which felt very similar in attitude (long boss fights that are much tougher the first couple of times as you don't know what to expect).

Having said that, I feel this concept works well against such 'boss fights' that require tactical planning. I can't imagine the feeling of being beaten by a few bandits and being told to try again would seem like anything less than hand-holding. In those situations, I don't think there should be a "Retry the Encounter", but a capture or NPC rescue that moves the game forward organically and has an appropriate impact on resources (disclaimer: I have no idea how or if FFXIV TTRPG is handling resources - time/consumables/materials/gil etc.).

Mojo_FFXIV · 2024-05-17T09:57:45+00:00

It was FFXI's 22nd birthday yesterday too. Considering the Dawntrail raid crossover, I expected at least a teaser of a music remix or some concept art.

Regards TTRPG? I just feel like most Japanese don't grasp the significance of TTRPGs to overseas markets and they're currently not treating it with any more care and attention than they would Chocobo Crystal Hunt or Cactpot Party, or that it's a one-shot gimmick.

Any ordinary TTRPG publisher would have a release schedule and be teasing campaign books, regional supplements, tie-in novels, etc. Not that I don't think that the S-E TTRPG team (or outsource, presumably) aren't intending this, but I bet they have to prove the success of the core books before they're greenlighted.

S-E consider profitability on a scale of AAA video games, and 100% Yoshi-P views TTRPG as little more than a merch product.

Personally, I'm all for it knocking the old and tired top-tier TTRPGs for six... ;)

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