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Twelve years of Fourteen

 It's been about twelve years now since I first stepped into the world of Final Fantasy XIV. Twelve years since Call of Duty Ghosts forced me to reconsider my gaming habits and launched me fruitlessly along the notoriously laggy PlayStation Store in search of something more to do. I had grown fatigued by the rollercoaster that is the annual games in the form of Call of Duty and of its ilk. The PlayStation 4 was relatively brand new and I looked for a truly next gen experience. Something that could utilize the power of the console. I think I searched high and low, even went through my cobwebbed library looking for another avenue. Some game I hadn't tried or something to keep my interest. I believe I had actually given up when an ad popped up for FFXIV. "Sign up now for the open beta". I had never really played Final Fantasy before. I had heard great things about it, particularly FF7, but never actually ventured into JRPGs. I had nothing else to do so I signed up, made ...

To the Remaining

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 This will potentially be different to the other posts, but please let me know if you wish for your name to be excluded.  To the Remaining Ones, the few I can't dedicate a single post to, but who very much deserve one nonetheless. You were incredibly important to me and someone I talked to daily for weeks or months only for us to fade from each other. In no particular order, and with the knowledge that some I have omitted, not due to any particular reason but because they deserve to be anonymous. If you wish I can change your name here.  Josiah Sylvan  You and I never really reached the potential our friendship showed early on. We befriended each other in mid 2015 or so, and talked before and throughout Heavensward. I remember doing King Mog with you unsynced. You and I and Tyke met through hugs, and I so wish things had been different. We both suffered and so we remained apart and away from each other. Taking longer and longer breaks between chatting, eventually not...

FFXIV Chronologicum

This is my FFXIV Chronologicum 'book', an outpouring of memories in text written in a really dark period of my life at the beginning of 2018. I don't know what's in it anymore, I haven't read it, nor do I remember it so I'm not sure I agree with myself, so keep that in mind. I wish to publish it here just to have it somewhere. I never finished it so nothing past 2018, sadly. Also, some of the images/videos may not work anymore. If you wish to read it on your own; click me, it'll open up a Google docs so make sure you can do so. Around 100 pages++

To Yuki A'zuma

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  To Yuki A’zuma or Mirasi -  Where do I even begin? I mean we haven’t really talked properly for at least a few years, and concurrent days of talking hasn’t happened since perhaps the time immediately following your departure from the FC. That, in itself, is now over four years ago. Four years ago. I find myself reflecting on my time in XIV and you were such a vital part of it for me for years, I remember looking forward to logging in so I could talk with you, or spend time with you. We didn’t have many interests in common, you were mainly a STEM- or anime person and I was mostly a social sciences or just your resident listener, but it was enjoyable. I remember spending so many hours just watching all of you, the ‘Bench Buddys’, interacting. You know what hurts a lot? The vast amount of time between then and now.  We became friends in April of 2014, and were great friends up until around 3.3, or mid 2016 or so. When you left the FC I felt that the world had shattered to...