Cactus Piss

Death from above quest gives you a key item called Cactus Piss.

I'd love to here SE's rationale on this one.

Cactuars have to pee too !

Yeah, because you totally didn't change the name to an offensive word.
Stop posting.

It's a rated-teen game.

we have to deliver corpses in the main storyline so cactus piss is nothing.

? It's called cactus piss.

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Originally Posted by Taaz

Yeah, because you totally didn't change the name to an offensive word.
Stop posting.

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No...its actually called cactus piss. and it comes in a yellow potion bottle.

Seriously, in a game with heavily implied prostitution, grave digging, corpse delivery and quest dialogue where profanities are not uncommon you chose to focus on... Cactus Piss?

Why not?

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It's a alcoholic drink (very strong)

Bottle Of Cactus Piss:
A potent potable brewed from sabotender fruit by desert aldgoat herders to help them forget the fact they are aldgoat herders.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

It's a rated-teen game.

we have to deliver corpses in the main storyline so cactus piss is nothing.

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But in this world all the corpses magically turns into pretty flowers when they are put into the bag.

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Originally Posted by Ouria

But in this world all the corpses magically turns into pretty flowers when they are put into the bag.

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Not to mention you can carry 4-8 of them at the same time, as well as crates bigger than your average lalafell :P

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Originally Posted by Jahaudant

Seriously, in a game with heavily implied prostitution, grave digging, corpse delivery and quest dialogue where profanities are not uncommon you chose to focus on... Cactus Piss?

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Hey, you forgot implied drug selling too!

The pose of the cactuars have looks like they are in a real hurry to get to the toilet..

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Originally Posted by Ouria

But in this world all the corpses magically turns into pretty flowers when they are put into the bag.

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Back in beta phase 3 days, it was an image of a corpse, but it looked kind of disturbing, guess that's why it's a flower now.

Cactuar piss? I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

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Originally Posted by zaviermhigo

They are cross referencing words, the localization team is amazing, and if you think they're not you haven't read up enough on Michael Christopher "Koji" Fox, aka my hero Fernehawles. Every word they use is deliberate, if its a misspelling, that happens, too much text, but they don't just use the wrong word, this game isn't being translated into English by Japanese people, its being translated into English by people who speak English as a first language, and Japanese as a learned one. Fernehawles is also the man when it comes to old English, archaic slang, I wouldn't question the localization team unless you were like a serious old english scholar and had like a phd in it, then I'd be like "damn you educated!", but most people barely know modern english enough now a days which is sad.

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Good post about this in another thread

i dont see cactus pee pee beeing any problem.
you should see the funny replies when i shout for "Coke" item needed for ilvl 70 armor crafts.
at first it was fun, but now people actually wanna meet up in a dark alley for me to craft there items so SE dont see the drug smuggeling :p

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Originally Posted by finiteHP

One of the meanings of piss is cheap booze. It's why you sometimes hear of someone being drunk as being pissed or bad booze being horse piss. Maybe it isn't as common in the US. This would be one of instances of them going for the more archaic feel.

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And this. /10charsmeow

I think almost every male NPC in limsa has something to say about their "Stiff masts" or something equally as disturbing.

It's not unlike watching something like Shrek. It's designed for the younger audiences but the tongue in cheek references are there if you are adult/experienced enough to get them.

Cactuar Piss however is a fairly blunt one I'll give you that. Some did have a point above though that "piss" is olde slang rather than the common term it is used for in modern age.

So many pointless threads would never happen if people would actually, you know, read.

As others have said, it's not actually piss, it's the Eorzean equivilant of rotgut or moonshine. The game uses lots of crass adult phrases, so the word's use shouldn't shock anyone who has actually PLAYED the game.

Mountain - Molehill.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Not to mention you can carry 4-8 of them at the same time, as well as crates bigger than your average lalafell :P

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The tooltip for the corpse does explicitly mention that you wonder how you can fit a stiff body into your bag, but you dismiss it as the kind of thing that you're better off not knowing the answer to.

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Originally Posted by Botsan

Death from above quest gives you a key item called Cactus Piss.

I'd love to here SE's rationale on this one.

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Rationale on what, they don't need to explain anything to you... if your sensibilities are offended please keep it to yourself and move on to something more your speed...

Murder, genocide, slavery, rape, prostitution, violence towards women, every "deadly sin" in the book, and let's not forget the tempered - the remainder of this game is really going to offend if a bottle of pee is too much for you :p

FF14 is much darker and grittier than most of the series to date

Like we all know now, it is not real piss, it is a yellow alcoholic drink made from cactuars.
Maybe it taste like piss, but it isn't.

I remember a quest too near Costa Del Sol named "Put the cack in it" or something really close to that, though the devs probly had some fun with the quest naming lol

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Originally Posted by Ouria

But in this world all the corpses magically turns into pretty flowers when they are put into the bag.

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Hay you could carry an entire house of furniture in FFXI.

Hay you could carry a huge pile of *HAY* in FFXI.

You do realize that to tell someone that you're getting "pissed" in Britain means you're getting shitfaced drunk right? and lo and behold all of the characters or most speak with an english accent... hmmm i wonder

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Originally Posted by RyuujinZERO

Murder, genocide, slavery, rape, prostitution, violence towards women, every "deadly sin" in the book, and let's not forget the tempered - the remainder of this game is really going to offend if a bottle of pee is too much for you :p

FF14 is much darker and grittier than most of the series to date

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Pretty much this. I know for one that the 'subtle' rape references really disturbed me more than the cactuar piss thing. (Especially that part with the Corpse Brigade that literally leads no where story wise, like they just had it there to get the player mad, but five minutes later we're killing Amalja instead of the people who actually committed the crime. Kinda messed up.)

In the german version it is called Kaktorschnaps (cactuar booze)

Ein Schnaps, der die Kehle runtergeht, als hätte er Stacheln. Nur für hartgesottene Draufgänger.

A booze that goes down the throat as if it had spines. Only for hardcore daredevils.

It would be a lot funnier if it was actually urine though.

mountain dew so do the dew

Not to mention one of said corpses is completely mutilated with its face ripped off her head.
Just... wow.

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Originally Posted by AlexionSkylark

Not to mention one of said corpses is completely mutilated with its face ripped off her head.
Just... wow.

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Yet there happened to be a mask conveniently placed over her disfigured face when you got to the body. Who just runs out into monster-infested territory just to slap a mask onto the face of a corpse? Why couldn't they haul the body back to town?


Maybe the body was planted with the mask after the attack occurred in a different area. Or maybe with her dying breath she pulled a mask out of nowhere and put it on, but for what reason?

Or maybe... aliens? The incident does bear some striking similarities to cattle mutilations... missing face, no blood at the scene.

Paranormal mystery abounds.

/end sarcasm

SE did a lousy job of censorship on this one. They should have done this:

1) position the corpse so the face wouldn't be visible when we were sent to retrieve it
2) Not pan to the face during the cutscene

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