FFXIV positivity thread. I've been complaining a lot, so here's a thread where I'll jot down things I like when they come to mind.

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"Why do they hide lore in sidequests?? Why did no one tell me this sidequest from Endwalker has Papalymo's dad in it??"

Some of you never walked around talking to every NPC you could find when you played older JRPGs and it shows.

Today I learned, completely by accident, that if you hold down ctrl while clicking in Sublime Text, you can place the cursor in multiple spots at once and then type or paste the same thing in all those spots at the same time

One of these days I'll demake FFXIV for SNES or something and Kairos will be a hopeless boss battle but if you somehow win anyway you make an alternate timeline

Tried out Futo keyboard for a while but it just got so many words wrong all the time… Back on Thumb Key after months of not using it and I picked right back up where I left off. It's so good. Except that bc of how I hold my phone I keep typing A instead of O half the time.

Janine is gay in the Netflix BSC series???? I need to pirate season 2 yesterday, omg.

Using the Archive Of Your Own template to port my fics off of my site and into a filterable little archive page. Because I want to and I think it's neat.

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So like. Why was Hail replaced with Snowscape, anyway? Did Ice really need nerfing?

Working on something

so do yakuza in the pokemon universe have pokemon tattoos

Zap Photon lived in fully automated luxury gay space communist society until she was hit by a maglev train and reincarnated into the body of JK Rowling, minor villainess of Zap's favorite dystopian novel. Can Zap revolutionize the dumpster fire world she now lives in or is it a lost cause?

"we found out in Endwalker that the planet is actually called Etheirys" is so fucking dumb, it's like saying "I went to Japan and found out Earth is really called Chikyuu".

Spent two days re-playing Cat Quest on my Steam Deck (did I mention I have a Steam Deck?) and now I'm finally playing through Super Mariomon on Retro Deck. This is way more fun than it has any right to be.

Emet ➡️ Azem / Emet ➡️ WOL AMV set to Baby One More Time, send woot

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I get why sandboxing applications is good for safety, but something is fucked up when Flatpak is telling me a web browser is unsafe because it has read/write access to ~/Downloads.

Did anyone else just get a bunch of "new release" emails from Homestuck on Bandcamp for albums that came out 13 years ago?