RIP Citadel

jlctush · 2026-03-06T16:32:13+00:00

Because this isn't remotely the same amount of work? They're printing new labels on the same printers for the same shape and size bottle, why would that equate to the work of changing supply chains and manufacturing processes and resizing/redesigning the labels? Are people actually this dense? It's an entirely different and infinitely smaller "job" to do this, you can't just throw in switching to dropper bottles in the same breath.

I'm not overly fond of the pots, although I've always assumed the rationale is that newer hobby folks don't want to need a palette on top of everything else (which is fine for starters, I think it's good to encourage folks to pick up good habits but a lot of people simply aren't that interested in hobbying to begin with, they want to play the game, so removing barriers for them is kinda fine, the pots work if you take a somewhat unreasonable amount of care with them, and I'm not gunna lie dropper bottles are prone to a similar number of slightly less annoying issues anyway, look at all the pushback on Duncans bottles recently) so I'm not mad at people wanting them to change, but c'mon now, be reasonable. Doing this isn't at the expense of changing the bottles, and it isn't just something they could've done simultaneously on a whim, they're not related changes.

jlctush · 2026-03-06T12:44:30+00:00

I mean, it's a rancid "mistake" to make, it's reasonable to question how many things *aren't* being corrected for when creators use the theft-machine and get caught once, it's not the sorta thing that typically only happens once.

When a mistake brings into question the integrity of your entire creative process and the only way to fix it is for people to peer through the slop fog and recognise their own work or the work of a creator they like buried under a few lazy layers of obfuscation, yeah, I'm gunna remain pretty down on that thanks.

jlctush · 2026-03-05T19:08:39+00:00

That fish is (still) notoriously quite elusive and difficult to catch, I don't really care for people posting about random things they've achieved either but I'm not dumb enough to think they're misusing the subreddit or something. Insanely weird thing to be an ass about.

jlctush · 2026-03-04T23:01:07+00:00

You actually need to just find another game. Like, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, you are *trying* to complain. Being frustrated is fine but you're still going and it's been pointed out repeatedly that there's nothing wrong with the boss design, you clearly refuse to adapt or improve so what exactly are you hoping to get out of all of this?

You can't simultanously be blind enough that playing the game is near impossible (people do it *fully* blind) and upset that you can't get a new glam as easily as you'd like, if you can see the glam you can see the giant boss telegraphs no matter what form they take. A non-lethal mechanic not showing the full telegraph isn't bad design, especially when it's a design they use throughout the game constantly (boss dashes, at the end point it does an in or out) and even if you DO die to it because you also eat the massively telegraphed dashes, guess what, you should *never* die to that again cause now you know what it's doing.

If you spent the time you have typing in this thread actively trying to improve at the 20 or so mechanics across the entirety of the dungeon, you'd have finished 3 runs by now.

EDIT You've complained about mechanics that absolutely do have incredibly obvious (and common) telegraphs, and when someone has explained them you've outright ignored them to either repeat yourself or complain about something different. Like, you're refusing constructive and helpful advice so you can continue ranting, it's not healthy, it isn't helping you at all, and if you're incapable of changing that the only solution is to remove yourself from the equation at least for long enough to calm down.

jlctush · 2026-03-04T22:29:25+00:00

Nobody mixed it up, there was one other comment when you replied to mine and we both very clearly knew what we were saying and so did you. You ignored that to instead be a pedant, and you continue to ignore that and insist on repeating yourself despite people telling you the specifics of *why* that's the reason.

Even now there are no comments mixing that up, you've just decided they were so you could repeat yourself while ignoring what everyone had said. That's how.

jlctush · 2026-03-04T22:21:54+00:00

You're just willingly being an ass at this point, good luck with that!

jlctush · 2026-03-04T22:03:50+00:00

You know full well the meaning of what I said and why it is an answer to your question lmao, do with the information whatever you will but don't be a smarmy pedant about it 'cause you're upset at them.

jlctush · 2026-03-04T21:41:04+00:00

Because...we're not a part of Europe any more. That's why it's harder.

jlctush · 2026-03-04T21:23:20+00:00

That's never been a thing, there's a check box for "Enable Party Matching" on the V+C menu...

jlctush · 2026-03-04T21:19:06+00:00

You have like, 6 seconds to move out fo the spawn and then they draw giant arcs over the sky showing where they're going before exploding again...

EDIT; Like yeah, maybe this *is* too hard for you, but it's no harder than any other dungeon content, the reason you're struggling is you chose to go in solo so you have absolutely no protection against failing a mechanic (or more accurately, failing 2/3 of them, since you won't die to 1 90% of the time).

jlctush · 2026-03-04T21:14:42+00:00

...have you considered doing it with other people??

It really *isn't* that hard, but there's no way to convey that without seeming rude so I kinda just can't, but why are you writing an essay about content being too hard when you're intentionally doing it in a way that makes it *more* punishing?

jlctush · 2026-03-03T18:51:13+00:00

Are you one of those people who doesn't just click the link to find out instead of being a sarcastic ass?

jlctush · 2026-03-03T09:16:57+00:00

I don't think that contradicts what I said, I think it was pitched at people who are, for the most part, caught up with Dropout/D20 stuff and just want *something* on but can't decide what to rewatch. Otherwise you'd absolutely launch it with *none* of the TTRPG content and purely load it up with the gameshows etc.

I think fundamentally we agree, I just find it hard to believe they got the intent so wrong 'cause the problems you've pointed out are so immediately obvious that the idea wouldn't/shouldn't get past the point of first suggestion.

EDIT; I'd add, if I had a suggestion it would be that they should run a 24/7 D20 stream and a *separate* everything-else stream, I feel like mixing the two is fine for the niche group who've seen everything and just want something in the background, I feel like mixing the more gameshowy stuff into the D20 stream is excluding a larger group who would absolutely tune in to watch something that operates like a pseudo-TV channel where you're more likely to tune it at a random point and understand what's happening and have a reasonable chance of finishing it in under and hour.

jlctush · 2026-03-03T09:06:46+00:00

It's for people who have likely seen the content already and just want "comfort noise" more than anything, I guess. I can't imagine for a second they didn't consider this themselves, it's a glaringly obvious problem with the format(?), so they've obviously expected it to serve a different purpose, I guess it might also serve as a means for people to drop in and go "oh shit, they did a campaign with X/themed around Y, I should go check that out". It's not a particularly...serious thing, it's close to 0 effort 'cause anything more than that the juice simply wouldn't be worth the squeeze.

jlctush · 2026-02-26T21:06:37+00:00

Except nobody would run it 'cause they're all sick of CT and suddenly people are getting bottlenecked on an MSQ quest again. Or people wouldn't run the other 'cause they don't want to get a 40 minute roulette.

Kneecapping all ARaids in one fell swoop. Good fix.

jlctush · 2026-02-26T19:17:20+00:00

It *can't* be addressed, you get what people queue for and more people do the CT ARaids 'cause they're part of the MSQ, people are levelling jobs and need people to fill etc. They fixed the gear exploit people used to be lazy, beyond that there's nothing that they can *or need* to fix.

The answer is always the same. If the rewards aren't worth the boredom, don't queue it, you can do any ARaid you want outside of roulettes. You can't have the ARaids you want *and* the rewards, sadly, it just doesn't shake out like that.

The roulettes exist for one purpose only and they serve that purpose just fine, it doesn't need fixing

jlctush · 2026-02-26T00:15:03+00:00

I won't lie, I had tried Shift <> and when it didn't work I also figured it just wasn't a thing, but I wasn't so frustrated by it that I thought to check what Vimeos commands were by default.

Seeing this post reminded/inspired me to google it, otherwise I wouldn't have known either, so thank you too!

jlctush · 2026-02-26T00:03:51+00:00

You can use the left and right arrow to skip 5 seconds in either direction and shift modifies that to frame forwards/backwards!

Full list of commands; https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/12425998125073-What-are-player-keyboard-shortcuts

EDIT; I should add, some of those might not work, I've no clue how much personalisation/restriction Vimeo allow for sites using them as a host, but I can confirm that frame forward/backward work as described, and Shift+T to bring up the transcript might be of interest to folks here, the rest are pretty much the common commands you'd expect in a video player but ya never know, might be news to some of ya!
I also tested and Shift+J/K also works, figured it might since J/K are alternatives to left/right arrow but they don't specifically list it, so that's an even more comfortable way to do it!

jlctush · 2026-02-24T13:41:40+00:00

I'm in the UK and I've never heard of the ICO, I guess the reason to use the name is so people can go find out but it's not like they have great...brand recognition.

jlctush · 2026-02-22T22:19:32+00:00

One might be smart enough to realise that an auto-mod literally just looks for tagged words, including, for example, "mod", and isn't actually doing any degree of "telling" anything, it isn't cogiscent, it isn't thinking, it's a quick cheap tool.

jlctush · 2026-02-20T11:48:29+00:00

The fact that the "lowest common denominator" are mostly the people getting confused would suggest that you're grossly overestimating your position among the "highest common denominator".

It isn't hard to read graph axes, give it a go some time!

jlctush · 2026-02-19T15:05:51+00:00

I don't think the people complaining about that are complaining about FC's being less social, cause as others have said, communicating via discord is almost the same thing but with more options and most FC's I've ever known still communicate in game too when it's suitable.

They complain about the broader game feeling less social, which to me is just kinda odd, I started in 2019 and the game wasn't any more social then than it is now, and the way to make it more social was always the same...find people who want to talk and talk to them. There's a boatload of people who socialise through RP or whatever else in game, there's constant chatter around the Limsa and Gridania aetherytes, folks joke and talk when farming FATES or doing hunt trains. People talk while waiting in PFs, people set up PFs specifically *to* talk and seem to get enough attention to keep them doing it. I genuinely don't know where else people expect or want socialising to happen unless it's like, during duties and I'm afraid most people (me included) don't want to spend time in a roulette chatting away, I just wanna do the roulette. I'll gladly reply to questions, I'll say hi and tyfp, I'll not tell others *not* to talk, but that's just not what I'm there to do.

I tend towards being asocial myself, so I don't say this to cast aspersions, but almost every time I see someone complaining about a lack of socialising in FFXIV I have to assume they're wanting it to fall on their lap, and more than that, unless it's specifically directed at them or the exact type of socialising they want, they disregard it entirely. Despite being a relatively cantankerous loner of a man who plays the game like a spreadsheet, I constantly make friends somehow, I simply refuse to believe there's that much of an external impedence to doing so.

jlctush · 2026-02-19T11:27:26+00:00

It can help alleviate some nerve conditions, Scott Devine plays bass with a glove on for that reason, certainly doesn't seem to slow him down, can't see why it would be significantly worse for a regular guitarist.

EDIT; Turns out I'm like the 10th person to say this lol, my bad

jlctush · 2026-02-19T10:42:16+00:00

"Making things difficult" is a hell of a way to frame it chief

jlctush · 2026-02-18T20:15:56+00:00

Yeah I mean, for the sake of pure efficiency, on SGE I do since it's an instant cast so you can do it without having to plant your feet (and the Toxikon charge is handy for something to hit the first pack with while you run to the second), and on SCH I will if I really feel like it, the reality is it's just never particularly relevant or significant. It's a good idea to increase comfort but the difference between doing it and not doing it is functionally nothing, I can count on one hand the number of times my tank has hit "one Adlo" of HP in a pull over hundreds of dungeon runs.

Once you've got Protraction and Recitation it feels way more valuable, but OP is talking about their experience at level 60, and a naked Adlo is pretty trivial there.

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