https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lode.....edbafa4f7eef54
(scroll down to "Equipment can now be glamoured regardless of class or job requirements" (or just take my word that it's there, I'm not your dad))

Turns out it's all fun and games until you're scouring the whole-ass videogame for fashions you might have liked but initially wrote off because of the class it was anchored to

Duder could have been maximum childhood-crush-I-didn't-know-was-a-crush material if not for the PS2 era being obnoxiously weird about 2D graphics. I was robbed back in 2004!

Anyway fan translations are still cool and good, it turns out.

hey
hey kid
you want some unreasonably visceral nostalgia pangs
https://youtu.be/PtPYp-etfCQ
https://youtu.be/8v_BISgU584
https://youtu.be/XDAKjvmj0m4
The Laguz were in fact one half* of the reason that I do the whole furry thing, and while I didn't realize it at the time I was really, really into the homoeroticism of Ike/Soren and Oscar/Kieran and that really did one hell of a number on my brain chemistry.



*the other half is Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, which turned 20 a couple years ago, which I talked about at the time

https://apnews.com/article/james-do.....c01d457e9d46aa
rip in piss "neighbor" (read: bozo), you deserve worse for ruining as many lives as you did (including mine)

(No I wasn't actually literal neighbors with Dobson, I just grew up distressingly close to his bitch-ass organization's headquarters.)

More like Tales of X-"I really wish the games industry would stop calling straight ports remasters, it's both dishonest and denigrates the noble port, especially in cases like this where being trapped in old console jail for a decade and a half makes a port the best thing for it"-llia Remastered.

Oh hey, look at that, it's happening again, right down to it having been in old console jail for far too long. You could argue I was being to harsh on Ivalice Chronicles characterizing it this way but I have enough pattern recognition re:Namco's other re-releases that I'm confident in using it here; I guess it doesn't really matter and all I'm doing is letting my own personal nitpicks get the better of me anyway.

Anyways I actually used this game (dumped from my own disc) to test if my ROG Ally could emulate the PS3 and it did so perfectly and I still need to be careful about spending money on media I already own (a lesson I learned from the Switch port of Tales of Symphonia, funnily enough), so all I can do is wish this re-release well.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lode.....d88a5d447419c9
The new dress (look under "new recipes have been added") isn't gender-locked! I think this is the first time this has happened for something that's not a cash shop item, at least from initial release! I didn't even get the memo until I saw a Hrothguy in the wild with one!

(Also, Echoes of Vana'diel is quite possibly the hardest one of this game's "indulgent homage to different FF game" has ever pandered as of this second tier.)

More like "I really wish the games industry would stop calling straight ports (or straight ports with upscaling photoshop filters and extra voice acting, as the case may be) remasters, it's both dishonest and denigrates the noble port, especially in cases like this where being trapped in old console jail for almost two decades makes a port the best thing for it"-valice Chronicles

Anyway I've actually watched the trailers this time and I'm on board now; not sure why I was kinda mean the first time I talked about this really, the aforementioned old console jail makes this a good thing on its surface. (Now I'm just torn between "really need to be careful about spending full retail on media I already own" and "they're dubbing it like they do FFXIV and I'm really interested in seeing how that works out on a much older game".)

Oh, honey, I'm just irresponsible.

It's to fffffffffFUckIng hot out for this shittttt
"For which shit?"
Yes.

More like I've-already-bought-this-game-several-times-over-decades-ago-and-it's-really-easy-to-emulate-valice Chronicles

I promise to think this even more than usual this month.

https://youtu.be/tJpkg8wMEbE?si=7D0LUPVpP0iSGK_J&t=16
There is always vengeance.
There is ALWAYS vengeance.
THERE IS ALWAYS VENGEANCE.

...to be windmill slammed by the Vana'diel March in the first goddamn second.

I will not be providing context for the above statement.

It's like I'm a hostage in my own dang brain lately

They have no idea the sort of power they've given me
I have become a monster

https://youtu.be/tJpkg8wMEbE?si=7D0LUPVpP0iSGK_J&t=16
Y'know, I mentioned that this quote had become my ethos for Pride Month, in particular, but as time goes on I can't help but feel it about, like... everything. Every time some sort of current event happens (or even just something shit happens to me personally) this one movie quote haunts my thoughts.
I also thought I had more to say about this but it turns out I don't. Damn.

"How is that different from just gay?"

Extremely tedious pride month activity, do not recommend.

June is only a few days away and we all know what that means: I get to have a bunch of intrusive thoughts about my childhood trauma.
As such, I've been thinking about this quote a lot lately:
https://youtu.be/tJpkg8wMEbE?si=7D0LUPVpP0iSGK_J&t=16
(final line of the video, 16 seconds in)

Just, y'know, a favorite of mine.

At no expense to you, and at Capcom's own behest:
https://captown.capcom.com/en/super_elections
Tell them it's high time to bring back the Breath of Fire games after more than two decades. Cite the popularity of stuff like Persona or Xenoblade or that new Granblue game.
Please and thanks!
(also I am mostly joking but I'd still like it)

33 years!
And as previously alluded to things are going quite poorly, so there's that.

Always catches me off guard, I always forget how early in the year February is.

anyway my mental health is still in shambles* and im lonely and miserable because of it, lol, lmao

*And trying to rectify this is Herculean; whoever thought multiple long, dense, agonizing forms were something reasonable to foist on someone with a mental illness can go to hell.

If you know what I'm talking about then you know what I'm talking about but I do find the above description very funny when removed from context.

I spent a huge chunk of 2023 suffering an existential crisis over 2003 being 20 years ago and man, this year's gonna be so much worse.
2004 being 20 years ago is already bad enough (World of Warcraft and the Nintendo DS are turning 20 among other things) but also there's 2014 being 10 years ago (that was when things started Going Badly™ for a variety of reasons and I still haven't really been able to process any year since) and more generally I'm just not emotionally prepared for it to be the mid-2020s.
And that's all on top of 2023 itself utterly sucking ass and 2024 almost certainly following suit for all the same reasons.

holy moly is fanfast hard to follow when it's both on a weekend where i have work and in an overseas time zone

ANYWAY
https://youtu.be/2ISoqghadkE
https://youtu.be/s-t3tj_lJWg

I think this is the first time Meteor has spent the entirety of the trailer as the new job? I know he was partially a samurai for Stormblood but there was still a little more focus on monk.
Also I know they've been saying that it's a job that's entirely new to the series as of XIV but I still can't stop thinking of Zidane when they go from dual-wielding swords to Darth Maul swords, especially since it shares gear with ninja.

Has FFXIV officially passed Avengers on the crossover tiers yet? I feel like it should have; if nothing else it doesn't leave its audience bizarrely media illiterate and allergic to emotional sincerity the way the MCU does.
Either way the goodest of boys being involved the way he is is the only proper way to do this particular bit and I approve.

Honestly what I'm most interested of this Fanfest's reveals is that the Echoes of Vana’diel being the alliance raids. How much of XI's history are they gonna mine for this? There's a fuckload of it! 20 years of it!
I guess it looks like they're leaning more toward XI's heyday what with the Moblins and Mamool Ja (the XIV version of the latter admittedly already an established thing), but I will still die on the hill that Rhapsodies of Vana'diel is the most underrated narrative in the entire franchise.

I have become the hurtful stereotype all my shitty high school peers had of gay people and you know what? Fuck those guys, hot guy smooches are great.