Tobias McNabb

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately Taco Bell decree:
Where Blast, the Baja river, ran
So everyone across the land
   Could live both más and free

Screenshot of Tweets that say: "Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up. My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people who profess to like it."

Well, against all odds, I'm going to Fan Fest next year!

Tell me. For whom do you fight? Hmph! How very glib. And do you believe in Eorzea? Eorzea's unity is forged of falsehoods. Its city-states are built on deceit. And its faith is an instrument of deception. It is naught but a cobweb of lies. To believe in Eorzea is to believe in nothing. In Eorzea, the beast tribes often summon gods to fight in their stead--though your comrades only rarely respond in kind. Which is strange, is it not? Are the "Twelve" otherwise engaged? I was given to understand they were your protectors. If you truly believe them your guardians, why do you not repeat the trick that served you so well at Carteneau, and call them down? They will answer--so long as you lavish them with crystals and gorge them on aether. Your gods are no different than those of the beasts--eikons every one. Accept but this, and you will see how Eorzea's faith is bleeding the land dry. Nor is this unknown to your masters. Which prompts the question: Why do they cling to these false deities? What drives even men of learning--even the great Louisoix--to grovel at their feet? The answer? Your masters lack the strength to do otherwise! For the world of man to mean anything, man must own the world. To this end, he hath fought ever to raise himself through conflict--to grow rich through conquest. And when the dust of battle settles, is it ever the strong who dictate the fate of the weak. Knowing this, but a single path is open to the impotent ruler--that of false worship. A path which leads to enervation and death. Only a man of power can rightly steer the course of civilization. And in this land of creeping mendacity, that one truth will prove its salvation. Come, champion of Eorzea, face me! Your defeat shall serve as proof of my readiness to rule! It is only right that I should take your realm. For none among you has the power to stop me!

Gaius van Baelsar FOR Eorzea

Gaius van Baelsar

I mean, he'd have our vote.

#FFXIV #FF14 #GaiusForEorzea

This sounds very reasonable to me. I probably was not making it to Fan Fest next year anyway, so this sounds like a great alternative.

#grahatia #emetselch

Reminds me of people complaining about procedural generation in games like it's the same as GenAI. A program that uses dev made assets to quickly create environments is not the same as stealing art and mashing it together like generative AI does.

You actually cannot do that. So the picture above would be a machinist wearing a white mage robe.

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.

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The Venture Brothers Halloween special has become an annual watch for me, and this little sentiment from Dr Orpheus is a big part of it. Be a sicko, be kind and have fun everybody 🕯️

Happy Halloween 🎃

New Turning Girls dropped.
Ok this isn't really like Turning Girls at all, but it's nice to see these little web series like this!

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Unchanging, Everchanging #FFXIV

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Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game

Holy COVID herpes monkeys, Batman!

The month in which I'm spending a grand on car-related stuff isn't the month to tell me your convention is $250 to get in the door. :(

What's it like inside your head?

Chainsaw Man is Never Gonna Score

First workday after GwF has been such a struggle ugghhhh

Probably a fan spinning up and making a sound only he can hear.

no time to explain get in the spaceship from Flight of the Navigator

Well well well

XIV players in shambles rn

Well now we know what the mechanics for the next tier of Savage in #FFXIV are gonna be about

Useful FFXIV Websites That WON'T Break The TOS! - OSMcast! Presented at at GATEway FATE in 2025, a Final Fantasy XIV themed, unofficial meet-up convention style event. And one of these panels is all about some of the most useful websites you can use to make t...

Here it is! The full listing* of all the websites we talked about in The Most Useful #FFXIV Websites That WON'T Break the TOS panel we presented at this year's #GATEwayFATE! Hopefully they will serve you well in future adventures.

*Plus two bonus links!

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Goodbye @gatewayfate.bsky.social and also the Bass Pro Shop

Got to see our amazing friend, Katt Kirkland, give a panel on the rapidly approaching chaos the Gil will cause in the world.