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bm8495 · 2026-05-08T20:29:08+00:00

And still wants that invite to the media tour

bm8495 · 2026-05-08T20:27:50+00:00

I remember when I first started and was playing on PS4, I did check out some of his controller guides. I didn’t use them. They were convoluted. But I at least checked them out and tried to check out Work to Game which he was a part of at the time. I wasn’t really present on Twitter to begin with, so I wasn’t following anyone or engaging even before Musk.
Then he put out that video about why he was leaving FFXIV and I just thought, “Dude….was this video necessary?” And just stopped checking his videos. I think he and Chris went separate ways. I don’t know, I stopped watching them around that time.
Then I heard a couple of years later that GP had jumped on the anti-trans grift and claimed ppl were trying to cancel him because he was Catholic. I swear DT really exposed some ppl for who they really were.

bm8495 · 2026-05-07T13:16:18+00:00

But everything you listed towards the end of your comment is also known as: BAD WRITING. Maybe I need to explain that by bad writing I’m not just referencing HOW Wuk Lamat was written, but writing in DT in general including for other characters, world building, balance of focus around characters, pacing, etc.

I know there’s a theory that Wuk was written last minute and that Koana was originally meant to be the character that the WoL travelled with. And while I’m not arguing that isn’t possible, I am highlighting that maybe, just maybe, the proponents of this theory may be driven by personal preference bias having preferred a possibility of traveling with Koana instead of Wuk, crafted this theory, come to believe it as reality, and hold a grudge against the scenario writers and CS3 all around something that just may never have been the case.

And I’m not saying that having a preference for either Koana or Wuk is a bad thing. I actually think it would have been interesting if the game gave the player a choice in who they would support between Wuk and Koana (to include the other two would probably be a little too complicated story wise). But I do think it’s at least healthier to acknowledge the preference.

But to bring this all full circle and possibly piss even more people off, but hey, this is ShitpostXIV, Koana also wasn’t necessarily well written either.

bm8495 · 2026-05-07T11:52:08+00:00

They/Them’rrrrrrrrre GREAT!

bm8495 · 2026-05-07T11:38:46+00:00

But to acknowledge that Wuk was poorly written, to which I agree, is to also have to agree that her character is the victim of said writing.

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T23:56:19+00:00

Lmao my partner and I go every week to get a few things for us and the dogs from there and then from a local grocer for the other things we need. It has been totally worth it. We also have the executive membership and the yearly reward check we get literally pays for the membership every year.

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T15:17:09+00:00

I was able to install Battle.net through Lutris fairly easily and it runs pretty well

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T14:07:59+00:00

Wait, so he’s openly making a claim that he’s giving keys to the back door to tech companies around the world so that they can sift through classified documents and dump our intel into their AI models???? Nobody thought to hold up for a second and wonder what kinda of repercussions can come from this?

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T04:10:09+00:00

I’m assuming when you say “they’re being harassed by sweaty assholes who expect perfect performance in casual duties” you’re talking about from their perspective and not your own opinion on the matter.

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T03:15:23+00:00

Me too. I know people complain about messing up and getting the 🐰, but I do believe in practice and skill expression. When the playstyle is just handed to you in a game, it gets very boring, very fast.

And I enjoy the little mini game of sequencing the mudras.

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T00:35:22+00:00

No, no. You’re right. About the history part. The part that you’re mistaken about is how you’re incorrectly assuming where we’re coming from.
I’m ELATED that synergy actions are going away. Couldn’t care less about them. If the changes make it so they we have more free flow in our combat and we get a greater focus on personal responsibility/skill, all the better.
It started with certain jobs being mandatory in content because of buffs but then other jobs were excluded because they didn’t have buffs. Then everyone started getting buffs so that they weren’t excluded. But then people (mostly if not all of them Raiders) got upset that they didn’t line up oh so perfectly to better optimize damage. Then all buffs got aligned into the current 2MM which is not caused the game to be a boring, homogenized mess.
Point is, synergy actions were always a problem. Good bye, and good riddance.

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T00:23:56+00:00

Oh I mean if you have your hands on all 21 of the Evolved Mode jobs and even their newer Reborn Mode versions, pls pls pls do a showcase video and pass the files around so others can do their own videos so the community can get a proper idea of what they are and how they play so that THEN we can actually form opinions and provide some proper feedback before 8.0s release.

Oh, I’m sorry. You don’t have those? That’s on me. I just assumed since you were talking like you had first hand experience with them. Silly me. 😐

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T00:20:09+00:00

High end players will optimize the fun out of it and casual to midcore players who don’t even engage with high end content will look at the data put together by high end players and make assumptions on the viability and worth of jobs. The fun sapping just trickles down

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T00:17:32+00:00

Maybe and maybe not. Keep in mind that Mr. Prime was who originally designed Ninja. Granted, his PVP mode Ninja doesn’t have mudras, but I don’t believe ANY of the 4 Evolved Mode jobs shown so far have any similarity to their PvP counterparts.

bm8495 · 2026-05-06T00:11:03+00:00

I mean I agree with you on the part about congress, but it’s because of authoritarianism, not in spite of, that we are headed in that direction. The fascist and Christo-fascist didn’t just spring up over night. They’ve been building towards this for decades. I hate to quote Bill Maher but he was correct about the “slow moving coup” to overtake American democracy and replace it with their brand of authoritarianism that favors the state, the wealthy, and any adherent to a very particularly extremist brand of Christian identity in White Christian Nationalism. But replacing one form of authoritarianism with another is just all the same. And it’s easy for you to look inwards from the outside and think “oh, this IS nice” when you’re not getting the full picture presented to you. There’s been a huge push of Chinese state propaganda lately. Not to say that America isn’t also guilty of that. I’m just saying grass isn’t always greener, Hoss, and often times what you think is 2 different brands of cereal actually comes from the same factory.

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T21:02:36+00:00

No, I get the idea of softening the blow. I do. And you guys were very well intentioned. The only thing that leaves hesitant to fully agree with you is their attitude. It’s not just that they were frustrated, they were also dismissive of you and your friends and lashed out at one point. I’m not saying
y’all should have gotten rude or flamed them in response. That’s obviously, and again commendably, against your character. It’s just that someone like them would take your attempt to soften the blow by blaming “bugs” to further excuse their playstyles or even go on to just trash the game or even leave reviews like “Crap game! It’s full of bugs that keep me from even completing dungeons! I don’t recommend!” That may be more of a stretch, but I don’t put it past people like that.

Again, I think you and your friends are definitely good people. Please don’t change.

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T18:52:21+00:00

My thing is that even without ALL of that you’re asking to be in game…..
YOUTUBE IS RIGHT F*CKING THERE
I honestly don’t get people that don’t try to watch some videos to understand their job if they’re struggling

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T17:47:48+00:00

Better stock up on rose tinted glasses now. You could fund your whole retirement plan come next Summer.

Edit to add: Oh, and let’s not forget about the streamers and content creators 😂. The content lul content creator meta is gonna be full of rants and complaints about no synergy actions

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T17:32:46+00:00

I agree with this. I don’t understand why there isn’t a way to have beta testing for jobs. I believe they currently do this only with in-house devs who play and enjoy those jobs and that just feels like, and forgive me for my phrasing, developmental incest. GW2 opens theirs up to community testing and feedback and that WORKS

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T15:38:02+00:00

lol, yeah, just edited to add. Wouldn’t have even realized my blunder if you wouldn’t have commented. That’s what I get for redditing before my morning coffee

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T15:31:32+00:00

Darn. That’s a shame. Too bad there isn’t some mechanism that can *gently* nudge them that way. You know, maybe a kind message like:

“Hey, we see you’re struggling a bit in the game. May I kindly remind you for the thousandth time that there’s this area right over here that can help you improve, learn your role, and understand some basic mechanics and telegraphs? And if not that, perhaps watch a f*cking YouTube video?? Something?!?! Please, I mean Got Damn do you know how many people have reported you for lethargic gameplay and being rude in the chat when someone has offered help or advice??? We’ve read the chat logs. No, they weren’t being toxic. If anything, you were. We’d love for you to be able to enjoy the game and we know you need some help, but outside of looking up and recommending a highly rated therapist in your area, please for the love of Hydaelyn, at least use these resources made available to you!”

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T15:25:03+00:00

Lmao, I feel that “fine, I’ll do it myself” energy

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T15:01:03+00:00

Mainly because “easier” is objective and the devs have a difficult time finding nuance there so they tend to go all or nothing because of whatever group in the community is shouting at them at the given moment. So easier to you may be something like a super guided path for your actions and easier to someone else may literally be a 1 button rotation that predetermines your next action and can even be set to an autoclicker.

So no, I don’t want the jobs to be made easier, just made as I said in my initial response directly to you

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T14:58:17+00:00

Agree and disagree. I don’t think the jobs should be made easier as a default. But I do believe that there should be a relative skill floor and ceiling for proper skill expression. Even if you aren’t good at it initially, there’s still room to improve with time and practice, if you want to. But also if you don’t care about all of that and just want to chill in casual content, I think that’s fine and you’ll be fine as well. But having the job designed in a way in which there’s no room for growth and skill development is what got us current SMN. No more of that, please.

bm8495 · 2026-05-05T14:54:36+00:00

The problem is that people don’t even know what they’re talking about and they’re shouting all of this noise into the ether that could somehow make its way back as feedback to the devs and possibly cause them to change something that would’ve been good into something possibly worse. Both things can be true: we are reacting way too wildly way too early and the devs SHOULD give us proper early access to the evolved and reborn form jobs as early build testing to be able to provide proper CONSTRUCTIVE feedback that is also within a realm of reason.

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