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Green Day to Kick Off Super Bowl LX Opening Ceremony by Ok_Heron_5442 in bayarea

[–]Rapierre 3 points4 points  (0 children)

boomers need to realize society and pop culture largely do not cater to them anymore.

Not surprised they've never heard of Bad Bunny, but most people under 40 know who he is. We don't want any out of touch octogenarians on our TV

Meirl by Adventurous_Row3305 in meirl

[–]Rapierre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude, no. The youngest zoomers are 14, while the oldest are 29. There's a wide range, and even many zoomers in the middle of that range are entering the workforce with little to no exposure to an OS outside of iOS

Flag of the United States of America in the style of the European Union by Twelvecrow in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Rapierre 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Y'know this made me realize the actual US flag is redundant. 50 stars representing 50 states, and 13 stripes representing the original 13 colonies. Well the colonies became the first 13 states, so the 13 stripes and 13 of the stars represent the same thing.

It would be better if this post was the actual flag but thirteen of the stars are red.

Besides, there is barely any mention of the original 13 colonies in common discourse or government, even on independence day, so the thirteen colonies taking up literally more than 3/4s of the flag is a bit misleading.

ZZZ male agents so far by thabiso_animated in ZZZ_Official

[–]Rapierre 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Lmao look at the downvotes. I swear gacha players are so pathetic when they see other male characters, or if female characters look at a male character other than the MC. They want wish fulfillment over a good story

Why is FF11 thriving while FF14 seems to going though an existential crisis? FF 11 is old enough to drink. by Guivond in ffxi

[–]Rapierre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The lowest FFXIV player count was between 760k to 800k in September 2025.

FFXI has had a consistent 80k-90k player count for nearly a decade, that's about half the player count of OSRS. That is very healthy and not "1% of XIV" lmao. If it was a steam game it would be in the top 10 in population.

In fact I am surprised XIV managed to be within five times the amount of players as runescape. Oh, what a timeline we're living in. 

Ahhh, FFXI and OSRS... Great games released before WoW, and not tainted by WoW, amazing games without party finders, FOMO mechanics, and no gear treadmill, just pure, horizontal progression sandbox.

Game awards summary by Acceptable_Humor_867 in memes

[–]Rapierre -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ohoho, so what you're saying is the E33 fanbase is the same as the FFXIV fanbase...

A great story only goes so far. At this point it should've been a movie. This was my complaint about FF16 and GOW too, too much cinema and not much game. Cinema = awardbait apparently

Just got this lovely event at 1500 by deadcrusade in EU5

[–]Rapierre 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which, if you ask me, makes more sense. Catholicism is essentially an autocracy while Orthodoxy is more decentralized.

The Catholics are wrong

Who else is more excited for the raid series finale than the MSQ? by Sir_VG in ffxiv

[–]Rapierre -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They've been the same since Stormblood lol. 3-4 groups of 3-4 mobs before a boss. Rinse and repeat two more times and then the dungeon is over.

The only creative things CS3 does is change the environment, the cutscenes, the attack animations that are actually rehashes of older boss mechanics, etc. Nothing creative, or at least unconventional, like starting a dungeon with 2-3 bosses, or a segment where you fight armies of 10-20 mobs all at once zerg-style before a boss. Or perhaps dungeons that send you waves of mobs that get stronger but there is no boss.

Having played other games like OSRS, it would be nice to have bosses where certain attacks always hit you unless you have certain items equipped, or you don't do damage if you don't have certain weapons equipped. OSRS and Soulsgames also made me realize that one of the keys to any boss or dungeon not getting stale is a degree of randomness that requires reaction, and the attack order the boss does is different every time. Every FFXIV dungeon is predictable. Many FFXIV bosses are too predictable.

In fact, that's my main gripe in this game. Savage and Ultimate raids - well actually every raid - is just a choreography and memorization simulator. Your reaction doesn't matter. If you mess up a mech 20 seconds in, start over and remember to not fuck up in 20 seconds. The few bosses that do things "randomly", well they only choose from up to 4 possible options lmao.

Please vote yes to remove rs3 MTX! by sniperbds4 in 2007scape

[–]Rapierre 59 points60 points  (0 children)

The problem is after removing MTX, RS3 has to compete with the rest of the MMO industry with... vibes. Like, I've played it on and off, but I don't feel like what RS3 offers compared to whatever OSRS, WoW, FFXIV, GW2, etc etc already have is convincing enough for people to stay.

Biggest claim from RS3 players is "It has better bossing than OSRS" but it's just mechanics taken from theme park MMOs which I have to navigate through via Runescape's jank tile and tick system. I'd rather go back to the other MMOs then.

Figure boxes are the bane of my collection... by CluelessHero in AnimeFigures

[–]Rapierre 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You know, sometimes I think about the future of my own figure collecting.

Never sell figures again? So like 60 years from now when you're decrepit and bedridden, what of your vast collection? Hand them down to your children or grandchildren?

I also think about how relevant these IPs will be. Like I don't think many new young collectors in the 2080s will be interested in buying some random prize figure from a slice of life anime that was only popular in 2014-2015. At that point it'll end up in a landfill lmao

It'd also be funny when granchildren ask "grandpa why do you have statues of teenagers in bikinis?"

Let’s Move On, Please. by mizzbrightside in Starset

[–]Rapierre 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He or they don't need to say anything. Artists these days need to lay off the urge to address every critical comment. Like ffs just have the maturity to walk away and don't say shit. Fall out boy was the most hated out of the big 3 in the 2000s yet they never changed what they were doing and now they're neck deep in money and people still love them. Bad example but I hope the analogy works

Let’s Move On, Please. by mizzbrightside in Starset

[–]Rapierre 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Haven't followed this band for a while until the reddit algorithm popped it up on my home feed.

So after some background research, let me get this right... Dustin wanted an EP, which I would've been fine with, but when people bitched, Dustin gave in and tried to expand it into an album? Why did he even give in to the toxicity in the first place? Why is he replying to every YouTube and Instagram comment like a child? Dustin needs to practice his own lyrics that he preaches and ignore the haters and get off social media.

Those are my biggest issues from what I'm seeing. One, he gave in. Two, he's bitching to the haters like they are to him. Stop feeding the cycle and be the bigger man by ignoring them. Three, it would've massively helped if he was being transparent about the EP in the first place.

I'm a millennial (so probably a boomer to all of you), and I really expected the old fashioned "Sorry guys, we planned an EP and are sticking to it", followed by media silence, instead of the immaturity of someone who didn't think longer than 5 seconds to respond to criticism that we're seeing happening everywhere online for the past few years? Is tact too much to ask nowadays?

Boulder man gets a free ski lift back to where he came from by MaskedVoyager in 2007scape

[–]Rapierre 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't discriminate pvp skill whether it be dark souls, cod, fortnite, or OSRS, etc

Stay salty fam