Endwalker Alliance Raid Storyline - Contrary to the Plot

I just ran this today, and after watching how it plays out, what a massive disappointment.

Not only does it fly in the face of the central idea of the MSQ that sentience/life has meaning as opposed to the fatalist/nihilistic short sighted point of view that it does not, it leaves you with an ending as equally pointless as it is contrarian.

It feels like this was written as a way to discard any loose ends rather than be meaningful, and is literally the nihilistic/fatalist end point we've been fighting against the whole time. It completely destroys the meaningful actions of the WoL other than pointless hedonic self worship. Disgustingly short sighted.

Taking them out of the picture severs any meaningful relationship man has with the star.

Instead you're left with "hey we're happy to perish, now go worship indifferent rock."

It's awful writing, and despite the rosey tone square tries to put on it, is actually one of the most hopeless and despairing ends to the lore they could have written.

Shame on you square, and shame on anyone not versed enough in the most rudimentary of philosophical principles to understand exactly how pants on head stupid this conclusion was.

Seriously, what a massive disappointment. You fell short in the end square.

This has got to be a bait post. Otherwise, someone missed the point entirely. True the ending might have felt a little anticlimactic, but the raid hammered home the central ideas of Endwalker. It didn't go against them.

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and shame on anyone not versed enough in the most rudimentary of philosophical principles to understand exactly how pants on head stupid this conclusion was

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Philosophy is overrated.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

This has got to be a bait post. Otherwise, someone missed the point entirely. True the ending might have felt a little anticlimactic, but the raid hammered home the central ideas of Endwalker. It didn't go against them.

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Yeah, not only is it a complete whiff in actually understanding the story (which... y'know, isn't hard to understand unless you deliberately refuse to understand it), the entire thing argues around a stance rather than explicitly stating one; I don't know why exactly the OP feels like Myths of the Realm goes against Endwalker's plot, I just know he claims it does and am left to draw my on assumptions about his base reasoning. That smells to me like someone who just wants to start a fight, but is being preemptively evasive so that if someone assumes their central viewpoint, they can just say 'that's not what I meant at all'.

I've got the OP muted already, so it's a returning poster who has said sufficiently trollish things in the past that I want a warning on their new posts.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I've got the OP muted already, so it's a returning poster who has said sufficiently trollish things in the past that I want a warning on their new posts.

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I'm also noticing that I don't think he ever posts in the same thread more than once. The epitome of a drive-by poster.

I don't know enough about PvP to know if he's regularly a contrary and argumentativetroll in his main focus, or just saying completely normal things for that environment.