And watching people ship their characters with NPCs is super cute anyway and they make fun stuff in the process :P

LARPing inside of an MMO, complete with a homebrewed ruleset PDF dozens of pages long, is one of the nerdiest things you can possibly do. But it has been the most fulfilling creative outlet I've had maybe in my life. It owns, and we've told unforgettable stories together

I don't WoLship or ship in general, really, but I'm 35 and have also been enjoying turning my brain off to what's cringe.

I have been playing what's essentially a 4 year long DnD campaign inside of FFXIV with some of the closest friends I've made online (and am traveling to see Friday!)

That's. Insane. Who's lost sponsorships to it? O.o

This is only an anecdote but I've also spoken to someone on the XIV GM team who modded extensively, but I respect their privacy enough to not say who lol

They're more lax with it than you may realize

I've never heard of anyone in the community getting in trouble with Square over liking and retweeting modded gposes, that feels like something you'd only try to avoid if you are a part of Square's PR apparatus. They can't really go after what you do outside the game, anyway, esp for smth that minor

It will? Has that caused problems for anyone before?

Technically talking about mods in-game isn't allowed, but even Yoshi P said that they generally look the other way if it's not making the game worse for others. Outside of game, even big content creators talk about modding themselves

huh? why would that cause problems?

I'm so offended that I'm going to have to go graze the top of my favorite acacia tree

Never seen an elezen before? smh :(

Bruh I was already following it and didn't notice 😭

Sorry for the unsolicited advice, sometimes I just see people with good art and am like damn I wanna help it beat / use the algo

The algo sucks but your art is good and eye-catching, taking a quick peek, but it's also some SLIGHT effort to see only your art in the media tab. And .0001 seconds of extra effort tends to lose people who are on the hook and may otherwise follow

Have you tried making an art only account? I was in content creation for a couple years as a stream manager and had to pay attention to branding and algo stuff. Artists seem to do best when only posting art, which also serves to make an easily navigable gallery of ALL of your art w/o unrelated pics

It did? I thought they were referencing Promathia

That's exactly why I was so sure she'd be the main villain. The Shadow Lord's room is clearly in the Walk of Echoes and the very titles of the raids bring to mind the Walk. But no peep from her and they seem to want to end with a Promathia boss, going by the epilogue to the last step

duskwight! duskwight! duskwight!

Apollo's Gift of Prophesy -> Denim Shorts noticer

Tataru is evil because she likes money [affectionate]