Politics

[ZavosEsperian]

They do this constantly, yes. This is just a particularly efficient form, because we've all played the part of the game they're misremembering/misunderstanding/ignoring like, two days ago.

The issue they are having does not deal with the words on the page, but how it is presented against their own, personal, IRL beliefs. This could be for a variety of reasons, most likely all personal, but the point of the matter is that regardless of the framing the story does, it cannot escape the appearance where we are backing a specific person inside of a presumed contest for power, which is extremely beneficial for the foreign party as they are able to likely receive various concessions, some more significant than the rest, and where personal political favor can occur.

This is not too unheard of in the realm of IRL politics either, as nations or people will rally around someone who they perceive as the best person in regards to their own interests, be it personal or for a wider group of people and they will do this regardless of citizenship, especially with the reach of the internet. Foreign influence in these sorts of political contests, especially when a foreign military/fighting force/etc is involved, is generally not viewed as a good thing at this point in time. Working with foreign allies typically is less of an issue but can still raise a few eyebrows to this day as well. Working with a foreign adversary or someone viewed as an adversary for political gains is HEAVILY scrutinized.

Herein lies the issue. While it is encouraged behavior to speak with foreign powers in the game's setting (as it also typically is IRL for people inside of a democratic system as this happens rather often), us directly picking one side over the other in the setting's case, let alone us (WoL mainly) physically going over to Tural, is like having a world-class military IRL being present inside of the nation where this contest is going to take place. The WoL is also part of one of the three Grand Companies of Eorzea, and thus is actually a member of a formal military and as this cannot be skipped (using a story skip makes you a member of your starting nation's Grand Company), it is canonical. This can be extremely intimidating for anyone who lives in the nation as now a foreign power can project its military within its own borders during this process. And while we ourselves in the setting do not have a nation behind us per say, it is a rather common settlement in some parts of the world where it is the own citizenry of the foreign power who do not want the military to be present in a different nation, particularly if it is for political reasons related to political contests.

I do not know which country you are from, nor do I care. What I can tell is that for people from more war fatigued nations where it is there military conducting missions and being the one used globally, this is an unavoidable interpretation. This can also happen if someone's nation has also been subjected to this sort of behavior in the past, as people do have long memories and can read history.

Now that I have provided a perspective of how Lady_Silvermoon could have interpretations or opinions like she does, you directly attacking her character or making assumptions about her is extremely rude. You appear to demean and use remarks aimed directly at someone's overall character as a means of attempting to win arguments. The use of ad hominem is considered extremely weak in terms of actual arguing since you are directing arguments at a person themselves, hence why I do not like engaging with people who use it as a primary means of debate. From my experience IRL with people who do this, it usually means their arguments are, at best, extremely flimsy and are heavily based on personally held beliefs which do not necessarily reflect the matter being discussed.

Were I to use arguments presented to me from other forum posters, I would have to remind you your WoL does fondly remember characters you may not agree with at all or characters you despise and this is all within canon and directly stated. Emet-Selch seems to be one such character I have seen floating around recently as your WoL recalls him with relative frequency and wants you to remember they all once lived and you were friends with him. Whether you like this or not is a personal opinion, but this is what the game states, and is a reason why it is good to remember people can have different interpretations and feelings about specific events.

Finally, as I believe I have spoken about your behavior once before, I really must thank you for providing evidence backing up my claims without me needing to dig through old messages prior to that initial post. I do not like wasting my time with that. You should probably look that post over again and familiarize yourself with the behaviors I outlined.

[Cleretic]

Finally, as I believe I have spoken about your behavior once before, I really must thank you for providing evidence backing up my claims without me needing to dig through old messages prior to that initial post. I do not like wasting my time with that. You should probably look that post over again and familiarize yourself with the behaviors I outlined.

See, here's the thing that gets me about you: You haven't. You've alluded to me having allegedly unacceptable behavior, but when I've asked for specifics (which I've done several times) you have been completely silent. In fact you've only left me more confused, because you're demonstrably okay with the things that I'm actually not okay that I've said.

I don't expect you to come back. But if you do, could you enlighten me?


As to the actual subject of the thread, I think it's important to remember--and something the people being negative about this seemed to miss or ignore--that our first priority in Dawntrail has been explicitly stated not to be 'immediately go and throw hands'; rather, it's to go and gather information, learn what's actually going on. It's actually a normal thing for the Scions to do, it's just rarely been us doing it. It was normally Thancred's job, although we did see Tataru and Alphinaud try their hand at it at times.

I think that's important because it shows in multiple ways that they're conscious of not going in blind; not only do they want to avoid making a problem worse through not listening, but G'raha also seemed conscious of the notion we could be getting given incomplete or misleading information that gets us manipulated. (Fitting that he, of all people, is aware of that possibility.) I think it's a given that we'll be participating in the rite, just by game design virtue of 'you don't tell players abut a cool thing and then not let them do it', but I think our reason to is unknown right now.

My guess, we'll find something out that forces our hand. Maybe that the warmonger is even more prepared than we first thought, that the Golden City is more than just pretty, or that there's a familiar face outside of Thurianger that we can't in our right minds let go uncountered. ...Granted, the list of candidates for that second one is pretty small unless you go into side-content, but there's still people. If we saw Nero or any of the other Garlean Empire tech-heads (who are most of the ones still alive), we'd probably get involved at least initially because we want to stop them.

I think we'll enter on the side of Wuk Lamat, because otherwise why make her the first one we met, but our motivation will not be 'because Wuk Lamat asked'.