I thought it sounded pretty silly, too. I gave the free trial a shot and for technical searches it was the best I had seen by far. Being able to lower certain sites and raise other sites makes it much easier to filter through shitty results like blog posts and stuff. I pay for it now and it’s worth it to me just for the time savings on technical searches. It definitely is still pretty far behind for things like local business info and stuff, but as a general purpose search engine it’s been extremely good for me.

Beksinski has always been my favorite. I love seeing his work pop up every now and again!

You’re right about that for sure. But a few TB isn’t that big a deal anymore, and if there was a need to deal with it we could come up with something… or just not use it at all. 😎

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are pretty cool from just a technology perspective. At university I studied a lot of math and cryptography and that happened to be at the same time that Bitcoin became a thing. It could have some real applications, but scammers and cryptobros ruined it for everyone and now I can’t even say I find crypto (meaning cryptography) cool without seeming like an asshat.

Oh, you’re right! Hot damn.

No great farming options, especially for BLU this time around…

P1N with 1 tank and 7 DPS at ilvl 660 is probably going to be the fastest for raw grinding.

I’m just going to do Aglaia/Euphrosyne to stockpile coins for 6.5, but Euphrosyne is still locked to one per week unfortunately…

Interesting outfit for a reward…

Pictomancer/Painter is the one I’m most on-board with, but I’m not sure how it would fit into the FFXIV design. Super excited to see whatever it is!

hell yea

Super excited! Gonna be hitting BLU Eden as soon as the servers come up.

Exactly! I always tell people this. I think a good gym is one of the most accepting and supportive places simply because every one of those huge muscular people started from the same place. Everyone understands the effort that needs to go into it and loves to see folks putting in that effort!

Yeah, 7.0 for that seems likely. It’s a bummer they’ve said no more “new” races in general, but at least getting the Hrothgar gender parity would be cool.

I doubt they’ll do a full reveal this early but that would be cool! We know we’re getting a caster this time around, it would be cool to know what the other role is. Maybe a ranged physical? We got tank/ranged physical in ShB and we only have 3 ranged physical… so maybe that one makes sense.

Oh yeah, I’d like to see an update on this. The first time it just kind of seemed like basic lighting changes but texture revamps would be awesome.

Ugh yeah chat bubbles feel like they’d be so trivial to implement and they really do help with immersion.

It can usually be a good idea to level a few jobs at once and switch back and forth to make the most efficient use of your experience. Eventually things will taper off a bit and you’ll be swapping around less, though.

I usually play healer so I get comms by default. To try to restore some amount of balance I always give my comm to whichever DPS had the least upsetting performance. However, if Limit Break is never used the entire time and I cast it on the last boss as the healer then I give it to the tank, instead. :)

I love the Squapes so much.