The final day of Blaugust, and the final post to hit the 31 target. A target I told myself last year I wouldn’t be shooting for this time around. I had the wildest notion this morning of intentionally skipping the…
Alright, this has to be a quick one tonight. I have an expansion to finish. I am all but two quests away from completion of the Heavensward -> Stormblood patch content. I’m in 3.56, or ‘The Far Edge of Fate…
OK, so, the closest FFXIV got to actually asking me was just confirming my payment details, but still. The point stands. I’m thinking I’m back. My action bars and UI are set up again, and I played through a healthy…
“I’m done with WoW.”“I’m done with MMOs more generally.”“I’m reinstalling Final Fantasy XIV and Lost Ark.” Buuuuut… Neither of those are really MMOs. Sure, they support a large number of concurrent players, and– yeah, OK, they are played exclusively online……
Blaugust hasn’t quite come to a close, but the challenge component of it has. For those who either love to write like Bhagpuss or who appreciate looking back at a completed challenge in the rearview like I do, the ‘requirement’…
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it yet — but the COVID swab from last week came back negative, which is good news. New Zealand saw 41 new cases today, bringing us up to 148 total. Still seeing an increase in…
Last Sunday, and again yesterday when I jumped back into Final Fantasy XIV — I did so with purpose. A mission. A mission other than the Main Story Quest. The MSQ could wait. Right now I needed to do something…
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these! I did one right back at the start of the blog, in 2019 and then another for 2020. In both cases, they played the role of looking forward to what…
This month I restarted my Final Fantasy XIV journey in earnest and discovered just how remarkably close I was to the turning point in the story. If I had just pushed even a little bit harder when I was last…
Almost exactly two years after I started, I’m through the post-ARR content. I don’t know how much of this to credit to the MSQ streamlining that occurred with the 5.3 patch or whether it was simply the case that the…
Most of the time, at least. And not so far. Out of the gate, I’ll caveat this by saying I’m not at the end game. Not by a long shot. But with that out of the way, I can say…
