Hmm, it’s not quite what I’m looking for but it’s a lot better than a lot of options I’ve found so far. Thank you for the recommendation 😊 It’s something I’ll be getting anyway once I hit 80 so will give it a try once I get there!

This is as far as I’ve gotten with it so far. But not happy with the weapon choices I have (right now I’m just using the level 70 poetics weapon cause I just ticked over to 70 last week and haven’t bothered to glam it).

They do, they’re probably just hoping the advertisers don’t and keep paying for more ad space.

We had a system at work that generated 4 character alphanumeric reference numbers. Originally to avoid this they just excluded vowels from the letters but eventually they grew enough they ran out of available reference numbers so they added the vowels back in and I had to built the blacklist to avoid stuff like this happening. I reckon I probably tripped every IT filter known to man in a week long period looking for swear words in a variety of languages 😂

The part where people share asterisks when they talk about their passwords? Just seems like good security honestly 😂 Glad Lemmy is keeping up with this pinnacle of security best practices.

Perhaps, or perhaps not, but by drawing attention to it you can be it’s gonna be full Streisand Effect and it’s going to get media coverage specifically because he’s asked the community not to.

There’s usually Discord servers too that coordinate runs on the different servers if it’s something you’re wanting to jump into! I haven’t does DRS yet but there’s a new DRS player group planned for the start of next month on Materia that I’m really thinking about giving a go (especially since it’s a weekend where my wife is away so I’ll be at home just with the kids so taking over the lounge room for a run wouldn’t be a major hassle 😊).

Congrats on the clear, and the mount!

Fun fact as well, if you have one of the custom facades being used on your house and then upgrade to a larger plot, the facade upgrades to the new size as well! So you don’t need to say grab a small one initially and then craft a medium one later, it’ll just upgrade with the plot.

Don’t think it applies to the piecemeal facades though (not 100% sure on that) where you pick all the individual features.

Don’t worry, I’m embracing the non-grind mentality

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And yeah, totally understand about the lack of good plots. That being said if you can afford it I’d still recommend getting your foot in the door so to speak with a view to upgrade later when you can, only because it gives you access to the company workshop and submarines, which while it takes months to fully max out eventually becomes a license to print gil with minimal work. And since it does take a while to get to that point, the earlier you start the sooner you’ll be done.

Plus you can unlock workshop crafts to make the new housing facades. They’re often a good money maker right when the new patches drop!

It’s definitely a spiritual successor to Apollo and is the main reason I’ve stuck with Lemmy.

Games that have already been classified prior to September 22nd aren’t affected by this unless they need to go through classification again, however I’m going to laugh if Pokemon Red & Blue are rereleased on the Switch 2 at some point in the future and get slapped with an R18+ rating 😂

I’d argue there’s enough difference there to flag them separately. The original number two is more about personal responsibility; choose a different retailer, go to a different place, etc. Voting with your wallet so to speak.

Government regulation, while it’s still about people pushing back against companies, with the state of most western governments at the moment you can’t assume they will automatically have the public’s back. So there’s a tie in to the personal responsibility aspect by electing representatives who represent your interests, but given that’s not always feasible (either because not enough people share that view to get someone elected or because there isn’t a suitable candidate available to support) I would argue it’s distinct enough to warrant its own category.

Regulations and anti trust laws would both fall under a government intervention category though I think.

Urgh, the Zodiac weapons are such a grind 😒 But congratulations on getting it done! Now you can decide if you want to keep it or trade it in to skip a step in the HW relics. Since you’re never going to use it for stats these days, and trading it in permanently unlocks the ability to by replicas (if you haven’t you need to have the weapon on you to purchase the replicas, so if you lose it for some reason you have to do it all over again), it’s usually a good option to pursue.

And good job on the Ixali - that too is a big grind and I was so happy when it was finally done! Now you can finally get rid of that stupid crafting glove 😅

You can always move over to Materia if you want housing, we’ve still got small plots available for FCs 😊 Probably not the smartest idea if you’re not in Australia though…

I didn’t enjoy the variant dungeons enough to bother going through all the routes personally. They felt like a slog. To be fair I did do them solo, would probably be better in a group, but yeah, it wasn’t content that grabbed me. I do want to go back to whichever one gives you the giant pixie mount though at some point. Will get to that some day.

I finally got my last Endwalker role quest done a few weeks ago too! I didn’t have a high level melee DPS and picked up Viper after Dawntrail so was finally about to get through it all (kinda cheated in ShB since melee and ranged were just grouped as physical DPS). They’re a bit of fun honestly, I enjoyed doing them. Hope you are as well!

And nothing wrong with feeling disinclined to play for a bit! The game is honestly structured around that, so put your feet up so to speak, do what you feel like doing and don’t feel worried about not logging on!

I was away over the weekend so was a short week for me in game this week, but I’m trying to start tanking more in content to get more familiar with it. I think I’m finally at a point now where I’m comfortable just joining a roulette at any level as a Warrior and can do the Arcadion raids as a MT. Just need to use my mitigations more frequently.

Note to self: FRU is the acronym for the new Ultimate 😅

Regardless, congrats on the clear and reclear! And at least the price is dropping on the orchestrion roll so you can always Seto “screw the rules I have money” Kaiba it in a pinch.

I’m assuming you’re gearing three separate characters if your goal is FRU launch? I wouldn’t have thought BiS for 3 jobs on one character was doable in that amount of time.

Be the change you want to see in the world! Spank, and be spanked in return.

Don’t believe so, you can still use it at places that offer it. Pretty sure they expanded the service to also work as a Visa card so you can technically use it anywhere, not just at retailers that offer it (no idea if there’s extra costs involved in that though).

Completely get the concerns on a static. I tried to get a group together with some friends for Anabaseios, we were getting to the FIFA mechanic regularly but people stopped showing up regularly before we could clear it. I don’t want to be that person in a static and my work schedule does make it challenging some weeks so I’ve just stayed out of Savage this time around.

It sounds like you’re getting there though, and if you’re seeing the enrage then you’ll be pretty close to start joining a clear party at least! And once you’ve gotten to that point it’s just repetition for reclears 😊 So don’t get discouraged, you’re definitely getting there! And thank you for sharing 🙏🏻

Well done! Are you finding your groups are getting through the mechanics now and just struggling on damage output or are they still limping through the fight and going down regularly?