I love this one. Usually you’d expect Black Mage to be depicted as a s god of destruction, but this time they opted for adorable. I dig the sorta papercraft style they were going for, too.

They’re sold for scrap. Just gotta go to a scrapyard and say “There was something wrong with mine, I replaced it, here’s the old one I’m selling for scrap.”

That or extract the previous metals yourself and sell them directly.

I don’t mind questions being somewhat focused or topical. But the ones I don’t like are “Here is my long-winded opinion on x, what do you think?” or “Here’s a random article or other thing I found on the internet, thoughts?”

If it’s a post asking opinions on a recent event, that’s one thing. But I think the soapboxing should be limited. There’s more that a post should need to actually qualify as a discussion-fueling question than just the fact they ended a sentence with a question mark somewhere in their post.

Thoughts?

I haven’t played it yet myself, but based on the pre-release info I’ve read, I am assuming it’s the separate progression system the DLC uses.

The normal strength of weapons in the rest of the game doesn’t matter as much, there’s a different way of powering up exclusive to the DLC content. So anyone who was buffed up like a god before the DLC is not that far ahead of someone jumping in early during their first playthrough.

Some nicknames do a consonant shift for the first letter, like William > Will > Willy > Billy

Margaret > Meg > Meggy > Peggy

So is God powerless to stop people from committing evil?

I don’t know, why do Japanese schools have culture festivals? Is it not enough to say that some countries have different cultural norms and traditions?

They can change their logo to whatever they want but actually calling it “MTN DEW” abbreviated and in all caps like that just seems cringy. It’s trying way too hard to be a “BRAND”, as if just spelling the word “Mountain” and using fewer capitalizations will plummet the stock prices.

You’ve basically touched on one of the core logical issues at play in Abrahamic religions (and others). God is omnipotent and omniscient, or people have free will. It can’t be both.

I generally like Yorgos Lanthimos films, but I hope this one can avoid some of the uncomfortable implications of Poor Things.

It’s like asking why people smoke.

Is it bad for you? Yes.

Is it a burden on society? Yes.

Is it addictive and does it make you feel good? For some, yes.

This is the mentality I’ve taken as well. It is rare that prices of goods fluctuate so significantly that I am taking a huge loss by rebuying. I only stock up on a few things like monster materials that are a pain to farm on demand and (for that reason) tend to be pricier on the market boards, but Botany and Mining, I either buy back from the markets or put on a good show on my other monitor and farm in bulk when I need a lot.

Hard to compete when the government heavily subsidizes the local industry while simultaneously making it very difficult for foreign companies to operate.

If anyone is planning to maximize EXP gains on day 1 for new jobs or whatever job you are taking through the MSQ, there’s prep you can do this week and on Tuesday to start with a good leg up.

1. Pick up Wondrous Tails this week and do all 9 objectives, but don’t turn it in.
2. On Tuesday, pick up Pixie and Arkasodara tribal quests on a current job you want EXP for. Do them but don’t turn in.
3. On Friday (early access day), log in early in the morning before reset.
4. Pick up one or both new jobs if you want to level them.
5. Turn in the Arkasodara/Pixie quests for EXP on a current job and pick up another set on new or current job you want to level. Complete and turn in again for more exp.
6. Turn in your complete Wondrous Tails on new or current job for EXP, grab another one, and turn in again.
7. After daily reset, pick up yet another set of Pixie/Arkasodara quests and complete to triple dip on tribal dailies.

In sum, on one day, you get EXP for:

• 2 Wondrous Tails

• 9 Pixie Quests (3 must be for a current job)

• 9 Arkasodara Quests (3 must be for a current job)

That should get you about 2 levels with relatively low effort, and then you still have your roulettes and weekly challenges available for more EXP. Though if you want to do roulettes, pick something role-agnostic like Frontlines or make sure you have a healer/tank friend to group with, because those DPS queues are going to be LONG.

Other than that, my FC has over 2 weeks of Rank 3 EXP buffs available, and the job quests themselves should help get some good starting EXP as well.

And remember that Azeyma’s earring gives you bonus EXP up to and including level 90, so feel free to swap out your level 90 earring for a level to get bonus EXP until 91.

I wouldn’t bet on the new jobs getting Manderville relics, unfortunately. They don’t typically add old relics for new jobs. Sadly no Bozja relics for Reaper or Sage, for instance.

Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry.

Tech news tells me that this measure ended up getting postponed. Not defeated, just postponed.

I’m sure it’ll end up back on the table when they think it has a better chance of passing.

Fair, it’s a loose definition of woody, but all wood really is is load-bearing cellulose.

Bamboo, for example, is completely hollow inside, very unlike normal wood either, but we still consider it “woody” even though it’s really just a reinforced piece of grass.

Part of the reason why Boston transitioned from streetcars to the subway is how many people died each year after being hit by them. There is definitely no reason in the modern day why rail needs to share space with pedestrian traffic, and protections should be in place in any area where they intersect.

The banana argument is dumb, too, because there is no taxonomic definition of what a “tree” even is.

I’ve also commonly heard “Palm trees aren’t actually trees, they’re grass,” which is correct from a taxonomic standpoint but ignores the fact that “tree” isn’t an official classification of anything. It’s simply a term applied to any tall plant with a woody trunk, which banana definitely counts among.