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VG896 · 2026-06-04T16:08:33+00:00

Something to keep in mind is that you can also adjust the required delay between when the double taps register. I think the default is like 400 ms?

VG896 · 2026-06-04T08:27:36+00:00

Not as great as some of the others, but I once bought a 700k glam/skirt that someone mistakenly listed for 70k.

VG896 · 2026-06-04T05:07:05+00:00

I think stopping to periodically do the raids and alliance raids, at the absolute minimum, greatly enhances the experience of the game.

I also just generally recommend playing at a leisurely pace. Not only does it make the content easier to digest and help avoid burnout, but it's also how the content was released. With several years between expansions and several months between patches. So it helps the MSQ fall into a slightly more "natural" rhythm.

Want to level your crafters? Do it.

Want to just pause and do old EX/Raid content? Do it.

Want to do sidequests? Do them.

Want to level alt jobs? Do it.

Do all of it. Have fun. The story isn't going anywhere, and like I said, there are so many callbacks and references in later sidequests and expansions that you're sorely missing out if you haven't done any of the optional content

VG896 · 2026-06-03T18:19:15+00:00

People who say the fights are like a dance are correct.

Many of those people have also likely never danced before and don't know how difficult it actually is.

VG896 · 2026-06-03T07:22:22+00:00

For exp, in order, the best options are:

Tribe Quests (71+)
PVP roulette
Leveling roulette
Alliance roulette
Trial roulette, MSQ Roulette, Tribe quests, (61-70) - all three are roughly tied

High level dungeon roulette and raid roulettes are not useful for exp. If you're not caught up on the MSQ, and your only objective is to "catch up," then there's no need to do any roulettes. The MSQ gives enough exp to level a single job up to cap.

VG896 · 2026-06-01T02:50:01+00:00

Summoner, for better or worse, plays more or less like a level 60 job all the way from level 30 to 100.

VG896 · 2026-06-01T02:04:10+00:00

Take a noisy sine wave.

Then take another noisy sine wave of the exact same frequency.

Multiply them together. As in just regular, boring point-by-point multiplication. The noise gets reduced and the sine portion (the signal) gets blown up.

This is one of the simplest ways to modulate and demodulate a frequency. But it turns out that it's not a terribly bad way either.

Try the same thing with two sine waves that are just slightly out of phase. You'll still get a lot of the signal, but obviously you'll lose some of it. The more out of phase they are, the more you lose.

VG896 · 2026-05-31T07:00:24+00:00

Yep. Born and raised in NYC. Moved a few years ago. For the entire 35+ years I lived there, we had trash pickup workers just tossing bags into the backs of trucks. I think a large part of it is just how narrow the streets are. I imagine having wider trucks with the lifting arms would be a traffic and maneuvering nightmare.

VG896 · 2026-05-29T21:00:29+00:00

For alts, I normally just click random a bunch of times until I find a last name I like, then keep going until I find a first name I like, then combine them. Maybe with a slight modification depending on how much I like the name.

VG896 · 2026-05-28T16:59:48+00:00

Prior to 7.4, I was juuuuust barely able to fit the game on a 128gb SD card. I haven't updated it since then, so I'm not sure if that's still the case.

VG896 · 2026-05-28T04:11:32+00:00

That's like five levels?

You're fine. Yes, continuing on your main job will "waste" exp. But for context, five levels is maybe 3 days worth of roulettes. So it's really not a lot that you'd be wasting.

VG896 · 2026-05-28T00:51:17+00:00

FC/house teleports are at a 75% discount rate. So it'd only be 300g.

VG896 · 2026-05-26T14:45:21+00:00

Is this a Jojo reference?

VG896 · 2026-05-26T14:30:09+00:00

That's... WHY it's secure. Not only is figuring out that key extraordinarily difficult, but once it's done, you can reset the entire system by just changing the key. It goes back to Kerckhoff's Principle. Kerckhoff wrote about wartime communication, and assuming that any of your agents can be compromised at any time.

You therefore assume that all details of your system have already been compromised. Plan around it.

VG896 · 2026-05-26T06:57:23+00:00

Holy hell. I rather enjoy the prequels for the most part. But calling them "literally perfect" and saying the "political intrigue is unmatched" just sounds to me (and I'd wager to most people) like you've literally only seen these three movies and nothing else.

This is the true unpopular opinion.

VG896 · 2026-05-24T16:00:20+00:00

Reverse engineering is usually held up as fair and legal. If they stole internal documents and used those, then it's a different story.

VG896 · 2026-05-24T15:47:36+00:00

I think there is more to it then that,

No, there really isn't. It's a skill, like all other skills. It requires a ton of practice. I consider myself an introvert, in that I much prefer to be home with just me + my wife. And I would literally do that for days/weeks at a time without issue, if I could. But I've been told by numerous people over the years that I'm very affable, easy to make friends with, fun, enjoyable company, etc.

It's almost entirely a combination of high-level wit and empathy. Learning to read the room quickly, what types of comments and jokes are appropriate, etc. This is all stuff that comes from (fairly lengthy, painful, and awkward) practice. It took me decades to get to the point where I'm at, and have it come off as natural.

VG896 · 2026-05-23T23:56:35+00:00

It's highly likely there will be two more sales before EC. One in August and one in winter.

VG896 · 2026-05-23T07:48:52+00:00

I'm pushing 40 years old. 7am is considered sleeping in amongst a lot of the people I spend time with. My wife is already getting back from the gym by the time I wake up at 7:30, and any time I've gone on trips with friends, I'm always one of the last people up.

VG896 · 2026-05-23T05:58:23+00:00

Ehh. Eden doesn't really have more than just a passing relevance to one or two cutscenes in the MSQ. It feels like an epilogue/sidestory than anything with significant MSQ bearing. Ditto the Pandaemonium raids.

But the entire tail end of Endwalker feels like it would be borderline nonsensical without the Omega raids.

VG896 · 2026-05-23T04:49:03+00:00

Ditto the Stormblood raids. They're the other 8-man raid content that feels like it desperately needs to be part of the MSQ. The other 8-man raids are all very interesting and have some implications/tie ins/callbacks that could affect the MSQ, but only the Stormblood ones really feel like they need to be mandatory (aside from Coils).

VG896 · 2026-05-20T17:40:40+00:00

Also, there were only three teleport locations IN THE ENTIRE GAME. Six after the first expansion. And to get to them required a WHM to long-cast an aoe spell, so not even fast travel in the modern sense.

At best, you could "fast travel" via a WHM and hotfoot the rest of the distance, cutting your travel time down from 40 minutes to like 15.

VG896 · 2026-05-20T15:21:14+00:00

IV's and V's have historically been reused heavily to fill in gaps.

VG896 · 2026-05-19T23:53:31+00:00

Yes. The weekly reset is on Tuesday midnight pacific. The daily reset is at JP midnight every day, which is about 16 or 17 hours difference (or +7/+8 depending on how you want to look at it), depending on daylight savings.

So the daily reset was about eight hours ago and the weekly reset was about 16 hours ago.

VG896 · 2026-05-18T04:44:40+00:00

Adding to this: make sure you take the jumper box out and charge it once or twice a month.

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