Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

Praetorium fishers aren't that annoying.

I have no sympathy or love for Emmet Selch.

Sure he experienced tragedy, but that doesn't justify the extermination of life on multiple worlds. And before someone says it, I think his justification of "I don't think you're really alive" cuts it for me. It's justification that felt a lot like the progadanda of certain regimes who justified killing certain ethnic groups because they didn't consider them to be fully human.

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Originally Posted by wereotter

Sure he experienced tragedy, but that doesn't justify the extermination of life on multiple worlds.

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And what are your feelings on Venat/Hydaelyn? The one person who made the decision to extinguish all life as she knew it on her planet, for what she felt was right?

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

And what are your feelings on Venat/Hydaelyn? The one person who made the decision to extinguish all life as she knew it on her planet, for what she felt was right?

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dear god can we not turn literally every thread into a Venat debate?

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Originally Posted by MilkieTea

dear god can we not turn literally every thread into a Venat debate?

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I mean, if you want to talk about how a character is bad because they did a mass murder, you can't get too salty over pointing out that the so-called savior brought us into existence through genocide as well.

I personally think this should be debated, strictly because the white knights are out in full force over anyone who dares question or criticize endwalker.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

I mean, if you want to talk about how a character is bad because they did a mass murder, you can't get too salty over pointing out that the so-called savior brought us into existence through genocide as well.

I personally think this should be debated, strictly because the white knights are out in full force over anyone who dares question or criticize endwalker.

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There's already threads for discussing her, leave it there if you really want a discussion. You don't have to turn literally every thread that mentions one character into a discussion about another character.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

And what are your feelings on Venat/Hydaelyn? The one person who made the decision to extinguish all life as she knew it on her planet, for what she felt was right?

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I have no strong feelings about her either way.

Though since you're asking the question, there's a difference between sundering life so that life can continue at all, and committing genocide to "Make Ethyris great again"

Hot take: Everyone who treats any single side of the conflict as 100% right and the other as 100% wrong is missing the entire point of the story. With the exception of certain minor antagonists like Asahi or Valens, nobody has ever been pure evil in the game.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

I mean, if you want to talk about how a character is bad because they did a mass murder, you can't get too salty over pointing out that the so-called savior brought us into existence through genocide as well.

I personally think this should be debated, strictly because the white knights are out in full force over anyone who dares question or criticize endwalker.

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Strongly agree with this.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Hot take: Everyone who treats any single side of the conflict as 100% right and the other as 100% wrong is missing the entire point of the story. With the exception of certain minor antagonists like Asahi or Valens, nobody has ever been pure evil in the game.

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Valens was 100% good, he just wanted to burn out the bad. :^)
Asahi was merely overcome with lust for a blond chad who never noticed him.