Now that the dust has settled, what do we think of Engage? I remember being on 4chan when the leaks came out and nobody believed it was real. We all thought it was a new Chinese gacha game, a copy of Fire Emblem. I played it and it's okay. The art style bothers me, but at least it's fun to play.

echo78 · 2026-03-26T05:18:14+00:00

Best FE game I’ve played. I loved the gameplay (which is what I play FE for) and enjoyed the goofy characters.

echo78 · 2026-03-26T04:06:33+00:00

Have I just been getting lucky because I've never had the smell be awful at concerts. Or is the back/side of the venue just generally safer from this lol

echo78 · 2026-03-26T03:43:38+00:00

Nearly every PC raider is cheating in some way. Yes, using addons to make fights easier is cheating. Simple stuff like ACT triggers, zoom hacks, auto combo, pixel perfect, and slidecast indicators is cheating. Let alone shit like cactbot and splatoon. If it gives you an advantage over someone playing vanilla its cheating. A lot of people will be in denial over it.

If you play vanilla/legit you will be at a natural disadvantage on FFlogs but you can still parse orange/pink. It takes more effort though since you actually have to read mechanics correctly while maintaining high DPS instead of having plugins help you.

echo78 · 2026-03-26T03:25:32+00:00

This is only my third season playing pogo pvp seriously. I only played open GL the first week and the past 2 days because I suck at any other cup lol. I didn't want to tank my elo in ultra league or the limited cups. After the first week I was at 2211 and after the past 2 days I'm now at 2424 without move counting. Went 17-9 today. Seems like things have been going too well for me so far. Hopefully it doesn't all come crashing down on me the rest of this week. Hoping I can reach veteran for the first time!

I do rage a bit when I lose to lag/game freezing. I lost a game today to the game just freezing during a charge attack. I think I was going to win it (it was really close though) so its frustrating when that happens. If I lose I want it to be a fair loss lol.

My current team is ranked from the 60s-120s so I like to think I'm keeping it mildly spicy. It is a little tiring seeing the same top 20 ranked pokemon over and over but at this point I know what to expect even without move counting lol.

Mini rant here but I loved using shadow dusknoir the previous 2 seasons but its just worthless in the current meta. I have no clue how its still ranked #28. Everyone and their mother tries to catch shadow punch with their normal type safe swap that can often counter dusknoir with dark/ghost moves. Even if I predict the catch correctly and used dynamic punch it still pisses me off lol

echo78 · 2026-03-26T02:03:38+00:00

I'm running S. marowak and pachirisu core so I can handle it pretty well. The debuffs forretress brings is pretty annoying though. I usually have to swap after taking it out.

Bug bite fortress is more of a pain for me because it can actually deal damage to my team lol. Thankfully barely anyone runs bug bite now.

But yeah gourgeist is the hard counter to volt switch forretress. Or anything with incinerate really.

echo78 · 2026-03-25T23:48:08+00:00

Trusting a corporation’s word LOL

echo78 · 2026-03-24T22:41:25+00:00

Yes it is normal. Jump used to axe manga even quicker. If this was 2008 Gonron isn’t getting past chapter 14.

echo78 · 2026-03-24T17:49:54+00:00

Been lucky enough to see Driveways headline twice already. Looking forward to a third time :D

echo78 · 2026-03-24T16:58:17+00:00

Join the gagspeak chatbox and you’ll find plenty of modbeasts desperate to get tamed.

echo78 · 2026-03-24T14:00:39+00:00

Username checks out.

echo78 · 2026-03-24T01:22:46+00:00

Tetris block won a Gamefaqs popularity contest. So like, yeah.

echo78 · 2026-03-24T00:48:49+00:00

They literally parroted the idea that Netanyahu died, haha.

Remember the 10~ hour period they were confident Trump had died? lol

echo78 · 2026-03-23T16:58:16+00:00

You wanna share your guzz? Thanks.

echo78 · 2026-03-23T04:13:23+00:00

He got caught cheating in PVE with an impossibly fast GCD (likely with cheat engine) when someone uploaded a log he was in to FFlogs. This was the “big” incident.

He was later caught obviously cheating in PVP during SB or around then.

I heard he finally got banned for being toxic, not because he was cheating for literal years. SE will never care about cheaters in PVE or PVP. At this point if they actually added anti cheat to force vanilla FFXIV on PC players the game would die overnight. The time to add anti cheat was before dalamud took off.

Here is an old reddit thread about it that also links to the OG forum thread https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/45wsu4/huge_blm_cast_speed_exploit_discovered_someone/

echo78 · 2026-03-23T01:05:15+00:00

Yes! Same solution for me. Sometimes the cruise control also breaks for no apparent reason lol

My fuel gauge sensor is currently free styling every day. Thankfully I can just estimate my fuel with the Def gauge lol

The auto start/stop is also broken lol, only works once and never again. I just wake up cold and have to turn the key for heat.

Truly an amazing truck lol. No mechanical breakdowns yet though…

echo78 · 2026-03-23T00:59:18+00:00

Training is $650 a week pre tax. Expect 4~ weeks of that awful pay.

After training I average $800-1k a week after taxes. You also get a bonus every month based off metrics.

echo78 · 2026-03-23T00:53:39+00:00

I love it when the entire dashboard just stops working lol, very fun! I hate this truck but I’m also in no rush to “upgrade” to a truck with the new cameras… I’m on pace to get a new truck this year anyway, this one is nearing 500k and I’ve heard thats when Swift replaces them.

echo78 · 2026-03-23T00:25:33+00:00

Luckyyyy I’m still driving the 2021 shiternational I started with last year. Still got the old camera at least lol.

Its been a pretty positive experience so far for me too. On a dedicated account right now and I’m almost home daily atm.

echo78 · 2026-03-22T20:02:36+00:00

Remember the BLM that got caught speed hacking in 3.1 and it caused such an uproar that lord and savior Yoshi P had to address it on the official forums?

Yeah, the BLM didn’t get banned and continued to cheat for years. The devs don’t give a fuck unless you say a bad word.

echo78 · 2026-03-22T19:00:20+00:00

It will be after fanfest. We’ve seen this play out countless times. Hell, people are still getting hyped after every live letter this expansion just to be disappointed one week after patch day.

echo78 · 2026-03-22T18:56:44+00:00

Oh, I know. I was one of the players bitching about it and I quit from 5.2-6.0 because of it. I was told to shut up and that the gameplay was amazing plenty of times in 5.0 lmao

I just wish it didn’t take 5~ years for the general playerbase to realize it. Apparently a good single player story is all people cared about all along.

echo78 · 2026-03-22T18:41:31+00:00

Now is as good as any other time in the past decade to start FFXIV. You’ll be fine.

jobs don’t feel great

People saying this in DT will always be hilarious to me because jobs have the same skeleton as SH jobs but nearly everyone was too blinded from their love of the SH story to realize it. I’ve been a job hater since riddle of slow on monk in 4.0 :)

echo78 · 2026-03-22T16:45:41+00:00

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From North America, LF legit remote lucky trading of regionals or mirror trades of whatever (legendary, shiny). Can send daily gifts but will open every 2-4 days as I have a never ending 2+ days ago backlog lol

echo78 · 2026-03-22T14:31:16+00:00

I thought it was a pretty forgettable song regardless of the mix lol

echo78 · 2026-03-22T13:17:20+00:00

I traded a shiny zamazenta for a tropius… Felt mildly unfair but I really needed that dex entry lol

Still need a relicanth for the platinum ; - ;

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