What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[BaconBits]

Grow up please. Thanks.

No. You're welcome.

[Axxion]

No. You're welcome.

save this for later

[BaconBits]

save this for later

[Teraq]

(And yes, when you just spent that much time trying to randomly pick apart every word someone said, most of it falling flat to boot, it might be time to step away for a bit. That's not meant as a "get lost" comment, but actual advice to make a healthy decision.)

I won't blame you for not noticing, or not following my every moves on the internet, but I have in fact been away for a bit. I haven't bothered to post anything since September's Hermes short story. I am still subbed to the game however, because as I have said before on here, I still do enjoy its gameplay and play with a friend, much like I have played WoW for years without caring for its subpar story. Although I have definitely not been playing as much lately with the holidays and new games.

I just decided to randomly come back on the new year to engage in a bit of pedantry. Wholesome!

As someone who has gotten frustrated with the direction of the thread before, and even thought "yeah, its time has probably passed", it's always a little funny to see it starting to slide away and then get inevitably bumped back up to the front page for days by people asking "wtf why is this still here" and subsequently trolling. I mean, okay. Sure.

I love it when it's bumped. In fact, some of the posters could simply just write "BUMP" like this is 2002 all over again and the net value of their prose would be unchanged.

This has always been a little "huh" for me, since - not that it matters much for the purposes of game discussion in most cases - I'm about as hard left as you can ask for, and so are most of my friends who play the game; if you asked me personally, I'd say a lot of my own qualms with where Endwalker's writing took things are intertwined deeply with my progressive standpoint? Not into the whole orientation of one's worth around "strength" to the point of condemning a post-scarcity society that has accomplished strong social support and networks for supposedly lacking it (y-yay primitivism?), very weird Social Darwinist overtures, accepting the premise that one should and must prove one's worthiness to exist, the uncritical self-celebratory cheerleading, and bizarre abstractions to justify mass violence against an Othered population complete with historical/cultural erasure. Not into it!

Not that others can't - and haven't - expressed different angles for disliking Endwalker (that I often disagree with, and may or may not have outright clashed with people about), but I guess it's not the first or last time I've seen political-ish (or identity-ish) inferences made about one's general response to the game or characters where I've just gone "Huh. Uh. Hm. Unsures at"

I completely agree – I was just riffing on the strawman I've seen touted around some of Twitter's darker (or perhaps Lighter with a capital L) corners, the sort of extremely basic GOTCHA arguments of portraying people who enjoy the antagonist faction(s) as fully, unironically adhering to that faction's ideology because… that's exactly how the interactions between reality and fiction work, I suppose! Emet-Selch literally invented fascism [citation needed], therefore anyone who has Emet-Selch as their favorite character must either be a fascist themselves or a braindead fujoshi who thinks he did nothing wrong because OMG he's so hot teehee.

And yes, there actually are people all over the political spectrum in the fandom anyway. I, for one, suspect my fascist and eugenicist overlords would be incredibly disappointed in my voting track record…


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was kinda confused why no one contacted Cid earlier.

I found this really, really egregious. You're really going to tell me … we went to the Moon… the far ass-end of deep space…and Garlemald… and Cid wasn't invited? And Nero didn't even have a single snarky line in 6.0 MSQ?? File this one under Endwalker's weird decisions along with the rest I suppose.

[Reap00]

No. You're welcome.

I am so happy I was able to give you and your 7 forum cronies a meaning in life. You beat back that evil forum dweller! Good job kiddo!

[BaconBits]

I am so happy I was able to give you and your 7 forum cronies a meaning in life. You beat back that evil forum dweller! Good job kiddo!