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James Whitbrook@jwhitbrook.bsky.social |
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Deputy Editor at io9 and Gizmodo. Questionable taste in puns, sci-fi, and video games. 🏳️🌈│He/Him │Icon by @joehunter.bsky.social ❤️
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maybe that will change by 100 and doing raids/expert roulette on it, but already I can actually see my character in big wall-to-wall pulls and my ability to avoid AoEs/have uptime on the move is already so much easier... with an omnidirectional dash, to boot!
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Couple dungeons of grind in and I have to say picto is surprisingly... relaxed? Maybe it's coming from viper but I feel like I've gone from having a strict rotation with a lot of demanding weaving to kind of hanging out pressing whatever and hitting big numbers on cooldown. Fun!
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paint me like one of your ishgardian boys
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there are people yelling in the street outside about it coming home, I am yelling my heart about vergences in the force
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in the continuing tradition of my life, no matter how much my parents attempted to instil it into me, I find myself looking up to the hysteria of a nation consumed by football and going 'okay but I'm trying to read about star wars here, can we settle down'
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My recap of the penultimate episode of The Acolyte, in which we love both misunderstandings begetting emotional complexities, and also the opening crawl of Revenge of the Sith.
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me: I love it when star wars is messy and complicated, and brings maturity to its story of good and evil to amplify the true diametric ends of that spectrum also me: I don't care, bring me the head of the coward [redacted]
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I think now I've unlocked it and there's a little time before the raids open up, I might actually pause endgame a little and level pictomancer. If only because trying to optimise my viper rotation while being a melee dodging 78 different aoe mechanics that keep me ranged is... 🥴
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Christ, Dawntrail's expert roulette is fantastic but it is kicking my ass. Significantly harder mechanically than anything Endwalker did, but gorgeous dungeons with (literally) killer design. I'm a very casual XIV player, but this definitely the hardest stuff I've tried in game!
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electrostaff? half an ewok spear? a mynock? throw in a babu frik for good measure, you little freaks
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I have to say, Hasbro's ability to re-use any old part is un-fucking-paralleled, for better or worse
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What a week to get a story about cherishing what was lost, and moving on to new dawns unbeholden by it. Loved it. Loved it to bits.
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Time for summer vacation to end.
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congratulations to the greatest superhero to have ever lived, Kamen Rider Pringles
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utterly obsessed with the new Kamen Rider being snack-based, complete with a horrifyingly teethed rider belt that chomps on his form changes
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only ffxiv can do an expansion that adds a new catgirl to thirst over, a new catboy to thirst over, and brings back beloved thirstable catgirls and catboys as necessary to the plot, only for the community to become even more degenerate about the two headed lizard with an etl arc
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This week marks a multitude of particularly not great anniversaries for me, which I am apparently dealing with by mentally referring to it as Shit Week, like it's a limited event series and not a perpetual state of mind
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There's a new Twinfang in town.
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Yoshi-P you can't get away with adding stealth tailing missions to FFXIV by culminating it with a riff on one of my favourite FF characters of all time, that only works once
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I hope she plays pink pony club
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I literally like 2 levels later I have reached a point of having even less idea of where this is going but now my brain is also just screaming at me (complimentary)
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hit what I *think* is the half way point of Dawntrail and I have absolutely no idea where it's actually going from here, but in a good way. I'd seen murmuring that the expansion was slow to kick off, but I've really liked the it so far–hopefully that continues!
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inside of you there are two wolves
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in this election at least I'm a horned big titty lion man with dual swords
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returned from voting to participate in the escapist fantasy of being involved in an election with candidates I support, and where my vote matters
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World-swallower.
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4K First Gundam? Don't mind if I do, day off, don't mind if I fuckin' do
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You have new gods now.
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New account I believe 🫠
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it’s always 2 dumb bitches telling each other 'exactlyyyyy'
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just realised that between having a mostly American social circle, existing on Terf Island, and playing Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, approximately 80% of my passive awareness to existence is electoral drama and now I yearn for Wuk Lamat to bring her axe down right in my forehead
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as if my mood wasn't bad enough!
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(I am going to go lie down and then, if I'm lucky, not get back up again for several hours/days/months/years)
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If you notice that things look slightly different on io9 right now, it's because... they are! We just migrated to WordPress, so if things look weird, please pardon our proverbial dust for the next few days (maybe weeks, what do I look like, someone who works at a tech website?).
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not to be dramatic but I need manny jacinto to give me the yord fandar special so I can stop having to deal with work today
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OH MY GOD???????????
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Absolutely insane that Disney let them linger on him swimming around buck naked while also being like 'holding a lightsaber again feels *good*, doesn't it'
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My recap of this week's Acolyte, in which Osha and the audience alike attends the Sexy Sith Summer Camp for Gifted Questioners of Jedi Ideology
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pov: you are cate blanchett's husband and she is about to sign on to the borderlands movie
gizmodo.com/cate-blanche...
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persona 3 reload figures they're being made by mcfarlane
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(at this point it would be the E or the F, which don't get me wrong are my favourite Enterprises, but??? the audacity?????)
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the audacity to offer Kate Mulgrew a garbage scow instead of a refit of the greatest ship in starfleet design history
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so help whatever almighty deity we have to kill this expansion if the leveilleur twins get access to hard liquor
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The most dangerous line in final fantasy XIV has been spoken
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like hot damn this makes me want to throw hands with everyone on the continent and you're just hearing it for stabbing turtles
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I'm still barely into Dawntrail because I ended up not playing much over the weekend after grinding Viper but holy shit the generic combat theme is the Vamo'alla Flamenco-iest Vamo'alla to ever Flamenco, and they already added Vamo'alla Flamenco back in SHB as the Dancer theme
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A question that could be easily resolved tomorrow, but I wanted to ask anyway, because I have not stopped thinking about this moment in The Acolyte since it dropped last week
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send this to me in the middle of the work day when I can't be playing Early Access is a cruel move, yoshi-p
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dropping this the first day after pride, what a fumble
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