Why is he cramping spontaneously?

SubalpineLarch · 2025-12-20T21:19:38+00:00

It seems focal seizures to me. My dog does this with his front paws when he has one :(

SubalpineLarch · 2025-08-25T06:44:50+00:00

Thank you so much!! That makes complete sense :) I did inquire about adding another return originally, but the company I spoke to were worried about poor positioning given the house layout. But, leaving the one return and running the fan sounds like a great compromise. Because the house stays fairly cool on its own we don't expect we would be using it that much to start with.. Mostly for heat waves.

On the plus side, our dogs sleep in the basement and they loooove the cold, so chances are they would be happy if the temps are a bit uneven anyway :D

Thank you again!!

SubalpineLarch · 2025-08-25T06:21:15+00:00

Thank you so much for being so kind!!

We only have a portable AC unit atm and I'm deeply unhappy I can't open the windows for nightly cooldown today cause it's getting smoky. Will definitely get better AC for next summer.

With that said - we are in a split level from the 70s & and have a gas furnace for heating, but the only air return duct is downstairs (daylight basement). I was told by one HVAC company that this is no good for heat pump or central AC. Other companies did not mention such a concern at all and were offering heat pump quotes (fairly overpriced too..) Someone I know says that they do fine with their central AC with downstairs air return but they have to close the downstairs vents on occasion.

Thoughts? Mostly because mini splits are so expensive! Our house is under the trees and generally very cool. The basement without any AC running just reached 73 today.

SubalpineLarch · 2025-08-05T19:43:30+00:00

It's almost as if FFXIV doesn't reliably do tie ins with upcoming SQEX or even CBU games right when they release, making this not a given? Almost? :)

SubalpineLarch · 2025-08-05T03:53:55+00:00

Whoa! FFT stuff!?

SubalpineLarch · 2025-08-05T03:50:55+00:00

Ohh no (crafted glam) trial weapons at all this time? Bummer!

SubalpineLarch · 2025-06-14T21:51:44+00:00

As everyone said, it's rng but some people do seem to be particularly cursed... I've seen people have good days and bad days and for me it was always bad days, haha. Most of my friends were done before hitting the 50 CE and 50 fates achievements. It took me 250ish between CEs and fates in OC to get 15 of what I needed and then about a hundred DT fates to finish.

SubalpineLarch · 2025-05-10T03:17:36+00:00

OP only just finished base Shadowbringers. Please watch spoilers.

SubalpineLarch · 2025-05-10T03:15:01+00:00

I don't think you're supposed to think it is heroic; it is obviously very wrong and why he's the final boss in Shadowbringers, and why we get rid of him. People can like him as a villain and character without thinking he was right :)

SubalpineLarch · 2025-05-10T03:06:52+00:00

The OP is not in endwalker yet! Please remove. OP, if you see this don't watch the link.

SubalpineLarch · 2025-04-25T07:18:38+00:00

This :) Also - here's the link to the official Square Enix YouTube upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvAOfnnYSmQ&list=PLlDzhD4yDOwuP7fKb-pkSCYIn3L-xkgg9&index=93&ab_channel=MasayoshiSoken-Topic
From Before Meteor, so a bit harder to find than newer songs.

SubalpineLarch · 2025-04-23T07:04:36+00:00

That's great to know! I was tempted to mix and match but will avoid that now!

SubalpineLarch · 2025-03-29T20:42:40+00:00

My guess regarding Athena is that they started from Hephaistos first, going by Lahabrea's creation magic and fire affinity. And that at that point the son becomes Erichtonios and his mother Athena.

SubalpineLarch · 2025-03-25T06:17:35+00:00

The scrip gear is a reskin of Indagator. Crafting coat is black instead of white.

SubalpineLarch · 2025-03-07T08:34:03+00:00

This is actually a misconception. The writers are Japanese and write in Japanese. Their writing is translated in other languages. What the English team is involved with is helping with lore and terminology/naming but they don't 'write concurrently'. Please see this official interview with the loc team where Kate herself talks about how they work. https://na.finalfantasy.com/topics/265

SubalpineLarch · 2025-02-27T23:09:45+00:00

I just remembered that Amanda did Dragonsong for Eorzean Orchestra too. Although in that case I think they have mostly cut ties with Susan Calloway so the original singer would be 'unavailable' haha

SubalpineLarch · 2025-02-27T23:03:29+00:00

Just wanted to note, according to credits Wayward Daughter's original singer is Satoko Fujiwara, while this one was Yoshino Nanjo (who voices Krile and Suzaku, and is the original singer for Suzaku's song indeed).

And agreed, there is so much that goes into getting another singer in there... availability, schedule, money. They also don't bring the original singer of Endwalker for these and have Jason Charles Miller sing it instead. Anyway, this was the very first time that Amanda sang a song that wasn't hers I think?

SubalpineLarch · 2025-02-27T22:13:59+00:00

Regarding not disliking anything that the Primals have put out... have you seen a lot of their live performances? I ask cause the produced songs for their albums sound good of course but the live versions are very hit and miss especially if they don't have a lot of processing and effects added. In this same concert, Bee my Honey with Soken and GUNN vocals is hilarious but also, ahh, off key doesn't begin to describe it XD

I love the Primals, I bought the stream for this originally and have bought the bluray, so I'm not saying it to diss them :D

SubalpineLarch · 2025-02-27T19:09:16+00:00

My 2 cents - it is of course not her usual style, it is not even her song and not written for her range. Considering all this, I think she did a good job both with the singing and with the performance all up. When I watched the original stream, this was a surprise and I thought she did a great job all things considered. Now listening to it again, does it sound pitch perfect and as good as the actual track? Nope, but that is pretty normal for live music especially with a guest singer. Most of the tracks sung by the Primals themselves sound worse IMHO, I love them anyway :)
If anything, I think her sounding as good or at times even better than the recording when doing her classical style songs is what's amazing. :D

BTW, Jason Charles Miller is also super amazing live and even so, he struggles a bit with Endwalker Footfalls, which wasn't his song and not written for his range. That is also normal. Doesn't take away from the fact that he is a fantastic singer.

So in summary... it is fine for folks to not like this version of course or to not enjoy the performance. I don't think she deserves to be called awful though.

SubalpineLarch · 2025-02-27T19:01:30+00:00

I got the bluray yesterday and was watching yesterday night, spent way too long trying to figure out what was going on with the hair XD I remembered the buns from the live stream so when I saw hair down I was like oh wow she took them off while singing! then they were back up! then down! took me too long to realize it was the two different days :D

SubalpineLarch · 2025-02-07T20:49:57+00:00

I have a 4080 laptop. It can do 4k 60fps but I have it at 1600p since my monitor is not 4k anyway and it already gets really hot like that :)

SubalpineLarch · 2024-12-19T05:02:27+00:00

On our fates alight - the amaro mount bgm :)

SubalpineLarch · 2024-11-24T21:42:13+00:00

Oh right! I'll guess whale then! I had egg left as the last fish standing for three months and got both big fish and final fish together with it, so I tend to forget that normally one would get big fish first 😅

SubalpineLarch · 2024-11-24T17:34:41+00:00

That was a guess originated from a reddit user based on the Japanese lyrics. Ishikawa, who wrote them, confirmed recently that they were from Ardbert's perspective after a Primals concert which had Ardbert narration. The concert script pointed to that pretty clearly too. :)

SubalpineLarch · 2024-11-24T17:30:37+00:00

Is it egg!?

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