also this is a very silly little thing but i like my little JBL clip speaker because i hung it off a cupboard knob and it gave us music the whole time without taking up counter space

+5 remembering what I was planning to do or get after crossing the threshold of a room

from top to bottom: oldest, middle child, youngest

10/10 all three very baby excellent shot

if they have a personal problem with me calling them out (they won't, I'm an insignificant bug), then they can yell at me. I just won't hear them over the sound of mass layoffs in the gaming industry and all their regurgitated ideas leading to toxic communities b/c they poison everything they touch.

Other guilty pieces of shit whose howling mouth pieces led to the enshittification of the gaming space come from the same time: Jeff Tigole Bitties Kaplan (yes the name is what you think) and Afterthott.

So you can see how miserable raiders are basically the source of all that is bad in gaming.

Now I'm gonna point out here that the producer/director of FFXIV, Naoki Yoshida, is a fellow classic EverQuest player so he likely did know of this as well. You can see it in how he leads his team to make sure FFXIV doesn't fall into the same trap. But anyway.

...work environment that led to at least one woman killing herself and the rest suffering under extremely hostile conditions where coworkers crawled drunk under the desks to grope them.

Furor had a huge cult following at the time and that's why WoW took off, because he endorsed it in alpha

omg perfect

aaaand ENHANCE charm points of the triangle

his lifespan in ffxiv would be even shorter if the WoL saw him so yeah

do you perhaps radiate alucard vibes IRL

the drop-kickability factor is heavily in play here. you can drop-kick jaken. you cannot drop-kick tonberries. therefore i believe jaken would be dead within minutes if he encountered a tonberry because he wouldn't even know how to run in a straight line away from danger