Tales from the Dawn #4: "A Question of Death" (Jullus)

[SentioftheHoukai]

Did you click on the post before leaving a snide remark?

You probably didn't. You should. Please refrain from replying to this until you do so.

Bruh. Bruh.

It's TUMBLR.

Ah, my mistake. I must be very specific with you folk, you lot have a hard time following. Read it.

Do not reply until you've read the tumblr post. Also what is wrong with a tumblr link? I'm sure you have your little baseless assumption. Which would be quell if you read my comment to your other buddy about reading it. Do that before replying.

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This is about as helpful as linking a post from an alt-right white supremacist subReddit, then insisting that you MUST read it before responding once more. Surely, surely that totally non-bigoted post will improve your life by drastic leaps and bounds, you will experience profound wisdom unlike you've ever heard before and ascend to a heightened state of humanity upon your return from Enlightened Sage-land.

You can say anything on Tumblr, and proselytize without fear of being countermanded. It's as liable to be helpful and accurate as bloody Wikipedia. So no, I won't click that link because I have evidence and experience that doing so would prove to offer nothing but massive and numerous detriments.

[AwesomeJr44]

Also what is wrong with a tumblr link?

The fact that it's from tumblr. TUMBLR. Do you honestly expect anyone to take anything seriously when it's on tumblr? Do you have a MySpace edition too?

Bruh. Bruh.

It's TUMBLR.

[thegreatonemal]

The fact that it's from tumblr. TUMBLR. Do you honestly expect anyone to take anything seriously when it's on tumblr? Do you have a MySpace edition too?

Neat, neither of you did what I asked.

Do what I asked you please. You'll find it full of game lore. Mainly just quotes from the game about. Read it. Don't reply until you do. Third time is the charm.

[Lauront]

Ok I'll bite. The site is an entire repository of source materials. What specifically are you asking us to look at, and why? Copy and paste it here.

That's still a lot of "what if?" and conjecture. To my knowledge, no one in-game from Eorzea has made mention of plundering Garlemald's ceruleum and piping it to Eorzea.

But we're not just talking about Eorzea. And yes, of course it's conjecture - it's pertaining to hypothetical events in the future, extrapolating on what could happen to a nation in its weakened state. But the premise I am correcting relates to a point that is not hypothetical.

[MikkoAkure]

Whatever the Ilsabard Contingent's plans are, two things are clear: 1) there is an appetite for ceruleum outside of Garlemald, which will only grow as knowledge of its uses expands, thus fuelling demand over and above existing, readily available reserves and 2) not everyone belongs to it or will be bound by its commitments. It really doesn't take much imagination to think of a scenario where a former hostile neighbour of it tries to seize a weakened Garlemald for its ceruleum reserves, to marshal the sort of military force it had (to say nothing of potential non-military applications), even if none of the nations participating in the Ilsabard Contingent would - at present. And that's the sole point being made.

That's still a lot of "what if?" and conjecture. To my knowledge, no one in-game from Eorzea has made mention of plundering Garlemald's ceruleum and piping it to Eorzea.

The fact that it's from tumblr. TUMBLR. Do you honestly expect anyone to take anything seriously when it's on tumblr? Do you have a MySpace edition too?

Tumblr is still Tumblr, but Mirke's Menagerie is the greatest single source of properly compiled and sorted FFXIV lore I've seen on the internet and Sounsyy has done a really good job of putting it together. It's easier to flip through the topics to find bits of lore than opening up the encyclopedias, or searching through dialogue on other sites. Discounting it just because of the website it's on, not even clicking it, and posting an MCU reaction gif is what I'd expect a stereotypical Tumblr user to do so I guess you're already halfway there.

[jameseoakes]

Neat, neither of you did what I asked.

Do what I asked you please. You'll find it full of game lore. Mainly just quotes from the game about. Read it. Don't reply until you do. Third time is the charm.

What are they meant to even be looking up there, you just seem to be pointing at a load of plagiarised lore without and reason and saying if they don't do was you demand they can't post

[SentioftheHoukai]

That's still a lot of "what if?" and conjecture. To my knowledge, no one in-game from Eorzea has made mention of plundering Garlemald's ceruleum and piping it to Eorzea.




Tumblr is still Tumblr, but Mirke's Menagerie is the greatest single source of properly compiled and sorted FFXIV lore I've seen on the internet and Sounsyy has done a really good job of putting it together. It's easier to flip through the topics to find bits of lore than opening up the encyclopedias, or searching through dialogue on other sites. Discounting it just because of the website it's on, not even clicking it, and posting an MCU reaction gif is what I'd expect a stereotypical Tumblr user to do so I guess you're already halfway there.

Perhaps, but the author possesses a known bias. The Encylopaedia Eorzea lacks such things. Almanacs are expected to remain impartial, when they do not they lose the respect and trust they require to survive. It's indicative of the perils of the modern internet, that such repositories tend to be less reliable than that which is hand-written due to the considerable vetting and fact-checking processes that such knowledge gets put through before publishing. Tumblr lacks these rigorous safeguards, hence my comparison to Reddit and Wikipedia. Any such information found firmly on the internet and the internet alone is subject to butchering based upon bias rather than the factual and the court of public opinion can influence what is thus written.

In shorthand, I suppose then: Despite it's disjointed nature, I personally would yet sooner pick up a copy of one of the Encylopaedia Eorzeas' Volumes than trust what is written on an unverified, unvetted public domain blog. I cannot trust such a compromised source.

[thegreatonemal]

What are they meant to even be looking up there, you just seem to be pointing at a load of plagiarised lore without and reason and saying if they don't do was you demand they can't post

I had asked the person I was originally talking to to read the section on the Empire, since there have been quite a few leaps about how other people view the Garleans in the setting and what we went up there to do.

[MikkoAkure]

Perhaps, but the author possesses a known bias. The Encylopaedia Eorzea lacks such things. Almanacs are expected to remain impartial, when they do not they lose the respect and trust they require to survive.

It's been around for years so if they have a bias it hasn't affected their longevity and they're still posting and updating.

They mostly just compile a bunch of dialogue and passages from the encyclopedias and in-game items into something easily parseable so I'm not sure how a bias, if it exists, would matter.

It's indicative of the perils of the modern internet, that such repositories tend to be less reliable than that which is hand-written due to the considerable vetting and fact-checking processes that such knowledge gets put through before publishing. Tumblr lacks these rigorous safeguards, hence my comparison to Reddit and Wikipedia. Any such information found firmly on the internet and the internet alone is subject to butchering based upon bias rather than the factual and the court of public opinion can influence what is thus written.

People here link gamer escape all the time, is that any different? If you see something you don't agree with or don't think is true, you can always fire up the game and compare the text there to the text in the game. They're not free-handing whole passages of lore, they're copy-pasting it from the source. Jeez.

[thegreatonemal]

Perhaps, but the author possesses a known bias. The Encylopaedia Eorzea lacks such things. Almanacs are expected to remain impartial, when they do not they lose the respect and trust they require to survive. It's indicative of the perils of the modern internet, that such repositories tend to be less reliable than that which is hand-written due to the considerable vetting and fact-checking processes that such knowledge gets put through before publishing. Tumblr lacks these rigorous safeguards, hence my comparison to Reddit and Wikipedia. Any such information found firmly on the internet and the internet alone is subject to butchering based upon bias rather than the factual and the court of public opinion can influence what is thus written.

In shorthand, I suppose then: Despite it's disjointed nature, I personally would yet sooner pick up a copy of the Encylopaedia Eorzeas than trust what is written on an unverified, unvetted public domain blog. I cannot trust such a compromised source.

How would you know it has a bias, you refused to click on it.