Dara

Top panel showing a setup prompt saying "The wizard will now install your software" Bottom panel showing Gale in glasses, wearing his adventurer's robe while being on a laptop

Thanks Gale 😌

#galedekarios

A little tiny bit hilarious to give a comment from a exec at the company who declares every other game they publish as 'not meeting sales expectations', who then also dumped off two highly iconic properties for 3 million, much thought or seriousness. :'D

Begging people to just embrace that we're in a MMO landscape where one single MMO isn't sucking up 80% of the market, and that people can just bounce between them based on their interests at any given time.

as long as i still have fun playing xiv and the patches keep coming out i literally dgaf about the numbers its pulling, shareholders are bitches i dont care what they have to say about anything

Hell, SWTOR, ESO and GW2 are still alive and kicking.

(Also, unfortunately, how much you vibe with the writing is going to fluctuate as well. I felt the plot drag in the EW patches, I have my DT critiques. Peace out, come back later.)

I miss the boy.

me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything

me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

athena jumpscare [wip]

haurchedera

For suuuure just Thancred. Though I guess the leather armour lends itself to it. EW Paladin Meteor constantly rolling with disadvantage on stealth checks. :'D

I headcanon that while Thancred and Viana are both gunbreakers, you can see the fundamental differences in their combat training showing through that Thancred do a lot more evading and dodging (gotta preserve some cartridges)

... Viana just takes the hit, because WAR will WAR (It stresses him out)

Hnnngh is this the real life did Ms. ANA HUANG really recommend Tusk Love on THE TODAY SHOW??? 😭❤️ I have never felt so in my feelings!!! And of course my favorite quote from the segment is “He’s a half-orc—” “He’s a WHAT??” 🌚

Watch here ➡️ www.today.com/video/ana-hu...

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*squishes her cheeks* The more interesting camera angles during cutscenes are great.

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The devs heard y'all say the EW raids were too easy and chose violence. Don't think I've ever had to RDM rez that much in a Alliance raid. Must've picked up the C healers like 5-6 times each.

ffxiv screenshot list of items the npc roarich sells

so you can buy plain versions of the gold saucer shirts from the same npcs that sell the hempen gear. i went there to check to see if they had new glasses (doesn't look like it)

but yea if you want the shirts without a moogle/cactuar/chocobo on them there are right here

General comment on the patches: Feels like a bit of a missed opportunity to have a theme around remembering those you've lost, and not let the Scions have moments to reflect on their own losses.

Like, yeah, I know the twins have long since processed their grandfather's death but y'know...

can they PLEASE give the blue baby a new outfit he looks like a traffic cone that got left in the sun for too long

A reminder not to let the National Center On Sexual Exploitation's official-sounding name fool you: they're the rebranded busybody group "Morality In Media", whom you might remember from such hits as "Trying to have Life Of Brian pulled from theatres" and "trying to connect queerness to mass murder"

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

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Camera angles in this MSQ really feel more dynamic and interesting. Less centered shots, I think? The depth of field helps focusing as well.

A) This is such a feel good video.
B) It is so important to see these people calling the ICE agents exactly what they are. It is important away their illusions.

Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!

Artwork commission feauturing Hildebrand and Nashu from FFXIV. Hildy takes up a lot of the composition as he flexes, in a way where Nashu (also posing), Enkidu and even the Etheirys beneath him appear very puny!

Gentleman Inspector 🛸👽!!
this was a completed comm from last year for @monochromemedic.bsky.social!

Y'shtola summer

Remembering that time we made a giant cardboard Nightmare (out of Arby's boxes!) from Soul Calibur VI #EVO

Valve breaking silence on this is huge, they really dont do this. Companies, at this scale, dont -do this-.

Visa, mastercard, stripe and paypal are feeling the pressure. They are making mistakes under pressure.

Keep it up

Heavensward Thancred #ffxiv #Thancred #ThancredThursday