Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[FencePost]

Pretty much this. One or a group of a few dedicated Jews can absolutely fuck the economy on a given server.

I was acquainted with people who used to crash the Market Board on a regular basis on a whim. Not even so much for fun or laughs, but just because they got assblasted about the price of certain things and they were petty enough to make everyone suffer for it.

You can also try world hopping and hope to get lucky but my experience has been that most other server's markets are somehow always more inflated.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

I leveled my gatherer's first so that way I can just gather whatever mats I needed instead of wasting money on the MB.

 

[Ravana]

Did maps with a group today and we got to the bottom! Turned in a submission to the contest

 

[Van Darkholme]

In other news to ruin the game further for everyone, the singer for some of the songs in Shadowbringers like Tomorrow and Tomorrow and the new arrangement album, has an onlyfans: https://onlyfans.com/museofyourdreams

Is that the same thot who sang at fan festival a couple of days ago?

 

[Disc]

Meanwhile, on the elemental server:

 

[Lion]

looks like saltedxiv will be shutting down if no one else wants to pick it up. for those who don't know what it is, it's a huge game guide that includes class strats, extremes and savage guides, and any other ffxiv related information that's easy to follow. the balance discord actually refers to the website a lot

the owner of saltedxiv did a long tweet thread and posted on her website about being sexually assulted by her ex boyfriend.

https://twitter.com/SaltedLevity/status/1394878889571274759

(archive isn't working for me atm)

This Great Community, by the way | Part 1 | Final Fantasy XIV | FFXIV | SaltedXIV

This Great Community, by the way | Part 1 | Final Fantasy XIV, FFXIV, XIV, Gameplay | A cautionary tale of sexism, elitism, lies, deceit, crisis, assault, and power abuse. When Final Fantasy XIV’s expansion, Endwalker, launches in November,

saltedxiv.com

This Great Community | Part 2: Bad Dragon vs. the Tender Lamb | Final Fantasy XIV | FFXIV | SaltedXIV

This Great Community | Part 2: Bad Dragon vs. the Tender Lamb | Final Fantasy XIV, FFXIV, XIV, Gameplay | A cautionary tale of sexism, elitism, lies, deceit, crisis, assault, and power abuse. This is a long one, and I don’t have a ton of energy to go into it

saltedxiv.com

This Great Community | Part 3: The sexism starts early | Final Fantasy XIV | FFXIV | SaltedXIV

This Great Community | Part 3: The sexism starts early | Final Fantasy XIV, FFXIV, XIV, Gameplay | A cautionary tale of sexism, elitism, lies, deceit, crisis, assault, and power abuse. We’ll end this series with the beginning. My journey in Eorzea began

saltedxiv.com

 

[Gravemind]

looks like saltedxiv will be shutting down if no one else wants to pick it up. for those who don't know what it is, it's a huge game guide that includes class strats, extremes and savage guides, and any other ffxiv related information that's easy to follow. the balance discord actually refers to the website a lot

the owner of saltedxiv did a long tweet thread and posted on her website about being sexually assulted by her ex boyfriend.

https://twitter.com/SaltedLevity/status/1394878889571274759

(archive isn't working for me atm)

This Great Community, by the way | Part 1 | Final Fantasy XIV | FFXIV | SaltedXIV

This Great Community, by the way | Part 1 | Final Fantasy XIV, FFXIV, XIV, Gameplay | A cautionary tale of sexism, elitism, lies, deceit, crisis, assault, and power abuse. When Final Fantasy XIV’s expansion, Endwalker, launches in November,

saltedxiv.com

This Great Community | Part 2: Bad Dragon vs. the Tender Lamb | Final Fantasy XIV | FFXIV | SaltedXIV

This Great Community | Part 2: Bad Dragon vs. the Tender Lamb | Final Fantasy XIV, FFXIV, XIV, Gameplay | A cautionary tale of sexism, elitism, lies, deceit, crisis, assault, and power abuse. This is a long one, and I don’t have a ton of energy to go into it

saltedxiv.com

This Great Community | Part 3: The sexism starts early | Final Fantasy XIV | FFXIV | SaltedXIV

This Great Community | Part 3: The sexism starts early | Final Fantasy XIV, FFXIV, XIV, Gameplay | A cautionary tale of sexism, elitism, lies, deceit, crisis, assault, and power abuse. We’ll end this series with the beginning. My journey in Eorzea began

saltedxiv.com

I started reading that Part 1 post, and then my brain started shutting off at all the self-pitying drivel, so I started skimming past it until it hits the note about SaltedXIV leaving a goddamned suicide note, downing an entire bottle of pills, and taking the police on a long-term, slow car chase while having a drug-addled phone call with her ex-boyfriend where she doesn't even remember most of the details that happened.

I have to say, the response she got from the Balance Discord seems more than fitting, as she posted here:


Imagine fucking your entire life over with police fines and an indefinitely suspended driver's license just because of an MMO community and a relationship turned sour.



Except the Discord logs she posted on her Twitter makes it sound more like a situation of dubious consent, not out and out rape. Plus, she did commit a couple of legitimate, actionable offenses what with her antics and got appropriately fined for them.

This is some real goofball shit right here. I mean, XIV's community is cancer and I've bitched about it plenty ITT myself, and someone like this is symptomatic of that cancer – not necessarily a victim of it.

EDIT: I'm reading a bit further and Part 2 is very easily chalked up to community-driven bullshit and nepotism, nothing really new in the XIV sphere. I will slightly fault her for being so driven to maintain some sort of passive-aggressive "professionalism" stance because that shit was never going to work once the bad blood was established and it was plain stupid of her to think otherwise, even if she claims to have had altruistic intentions. And I can guarantee you that once you have an entire group predisposed against you, even if you're completely justified in calling someone out on some blatant bullshit, that group will take it as their golden opportunity to bring the fucking hammer down on you like the wrath of Thor, if just because you've become the common denominator among more than one person as a cause of trouble. It's about having the wisdom to keep your peace and, maybe, to find greener pastures if you're finding that your contributions are being continually disregarded.

Part 3, though, I'm already taking heavy exception with because she out and out states she's operating with a chip on her shoulder about some perceived discrimination against her gender. Which, yes, does happen because some groups are leery and operate on the old adage that "women always ruin groups in MMOs", but she also goes on to describe a situation where she was discriminated against... By another woman. Which, yes, also happens, because, as I've noticed from my own playtime in XIV, a lot of women tend to be VERY tribalistic against each other once one of them has established their place in a group. It happened among my group of friends too. A lot of the issues she ran into with Heavensward raiding happened to me too, and I'm a guy. It tends to boil less down to sexism and more towards something like nepotism.

That, and it sure as shit didn't help things that she proved outspoken against the personal conduct, sense of humor, and "moralistic" dealings of the server. Levi sure likes to bitch up a storm about how she always has a target on her back and attributes it to sexism, but her testimony seriously gives the vibe that it's because she paints that target about as huge as she can make it on her own back. You tend to compound a problem of bias against yourself when you continue to start shit out of a misguided sense of defending yourself, and blaming it on "sexism" is just an easy way to avoid any self-reflection on your own actions, which is going to make itself manifest in how you conduct yourself going forward. There are times, unfortunately, when shutting up is the best move you can do, and it seems like she consistently failed to do that on account of that old "sexism" chip on her shoulder.

 

[Dave.]

I started reading that Part 1 post, and then my brain started shutting off at all the self-pitying drivel, so I started skimming past it until it hits the note about SaltedXIV leaving a goddamned suicide note, downing an entire bottle of pills, and taking the police on a long-term, slow car chase while having a drug-addled phone call with her ex-boyfriend where she doesn't even remember most of the details that happened.

I have to say, the response she got from the Balance Discord seems more than fitting, as she posted here:
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Imagine fucking your entire life over with police fines and an indefinitely suspended driver's license just because of an MMO community and a relationship turned sour.

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Except the Discord logs she posted on her Twitter makes it sound more like a situation of dubious consent, not out and out rape. Plus, she did commit a couple of legitimate, actionable offenses what with her antics and got appropriately fined for them.

This is some real goofball shit right here. I mean, XIV's community is cancer and I've bitched about it plenty ITT myself, and someone like this is symptomatic of that cancer – not necessarily a victim of it.

EDIT: I'm reading a bit further and Part 2 is very easily chalked up to community-driven bullshit and nepotism, nothing really new in the XIV sphere. I will slightly fault her for being so driven to maintain some sort of passive-aggressive "professionalism" stance because that shit was never going to work once the bad blood was established and it was plain stupid of her to think otherwise, even if she claims to have had altruistic intentions. And I can guarantee you that once you have an entire group predisposed against you, even if you're completely justified in calling someone out on some blatant bullshit, that group will take it as their golden opportunity to bring the fucking hammer down on you like the wrath of Thor, if just because you've become the common denominator among more than one person as a cause of trouble. It's about having the wisdom to keep your peace and, maybe, to find greener pastures if you're finding that your contributions are being continually disregarded.

Part 3, though, I'm already taking heavy exception with because she out and out states she's operating with a chip on her shoulder about some perceived discrimination against her gender. Which, yes, does happen because some groups are leery and operate on the old adage that "women always ruin groups in MMOs", but she also goes on to describe a situation where she was discriminated against... By another woman. Which, yes, also happens, because, as I've noticed from my own playtime in XIV, a lot of women tend to be VERY tribalistic against each other once one of them has established their place in a group. It happened among my group of friends too. A lot of the issues she ran into with Heavensward raiding happened to me too, and I'm a guy. It tends to boil less down to sexism and more towards something like nepotism.

That, and it sure as shit didn't help things that she proved outspoken against the personal conduct, sense of humor, and "moralistic" dealings of the server. Levi sure likes to bitch up a storm about how she always has a target on her back and attributes it to sexism, but her testimony seriously gives the vibe that it's because she paints that target about as huge as she can make it on her own back. You tend to compound a problem of bias against yourself when you continue to start shit out of a misguided sense of defending yourself, and blaming it on "sexism" is just an easy way to avoid any self-reflection on your own actions, which is going to make itself manifest in how you conduct yourself going forward. There are times, unfortunately, when shutting up is the best move you can do, and it seems like she consistently failed to do that on account of that old "sexism" chip on her shoulder.

I read this part and laughed hysterically.

 

[FencePost]

People have been lining up as DRK in Ul'Dah to honor Kentaro Miura. I don't know if they're still going since I have a stereotypical work schedule.
R.I.P. Miura

 

[Dopey Cunt]

Tbh, this kind of behavior is everywhere, not just in FF14 community as fucking cancer aids as it is.

People love to play victim to circumstances they created because in their fantasy world, they are always right and just in what they do and they never stop to think that the reason they are so disliked is because their character. But no, they never stop to think or realize that the problem is them. The classic "Everyone and everything else is the problem not me."

If you catch a thief who steals candy from a child, they will blame the child for being so easy to steal from.

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People have been lining up as DRK in Ul'Dah to honor Kentaro Miura. I don't know if they're still going since I have a stereotypical work schedule.
R.I.P. Miura

What???
NOOOOOOOO.
Awww F in the chat. God damn.

 

[Love Machine]

I play by myself so I don't have to deal with crazies. It's blessed.

 

[Lion]

funny how she went on about all the issues were caused because she's a game girl. ffxiv's community isn't perfect but if you're going to roll with a toxic crowd hoping to fix the issues because you're a stronk wiminz then you're an idiot.

Spoiler

i've played this damn game since 2.0 and i never ran into the issues of 'lol girl can't vida'. even now with raiding i'm the only girl in our group and thankfully none of the guys treat me special or have that gross 'i gotta protect you because you're just an woman

edit:

it sucks that miura died at 54 because of japans horrible view on work ethic.

 

[Gravemind]

I play by myself so I don't have to deal with crazies. It's blessed.

But there's about a 1 in 3 chance you run into a crazy just by doing anything that requires other people in XIV.

The only difference is that you're not under any obligation to be further involved with them after that one piece of content is done. Then it's just off to the next crazy.

 

[Love Machine]

But there's about a 1 in 3 chance you run into a crazy just by doing anything that requires other people in XIV.

The only difference is that you're not under any obligation to be further involved with them after that one piece of content is done. Then it's just off to the next crazy.

As long as the healer heals my nubile chadbreaker body. I don't really care if they're insane.

 

[Aegir]

I play by myself so I don't have to deal with crazies. It's blessed.

play with some like-minded shitters and you can find enjoyment just birdwatching the crazies. There is some genuinely hilarious retardation out there that only XIV can deliver.

 

[Van Darkholme]

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People have been lining up as DRK in Ul'Dah to honor Kentaro Miura. I don't know if they're still going since I have a stereotypical work schedule.
R.I.P. Miura

Same on Cerberus this noon.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

looks like saltedxiv will be shutting down if no one else wants to pick it up. for those who don't know what it is, it's a huge game guide that includes class strats, extremes and savage guides, and any other ffxiv related information that's easy to follow. the balance discord actually refers to the website a lot

the owner of saltedxiv did a long tweet thread and posted on her website about being sexually assulted by her ex boyfriend.

https://twitter.com/SaltedLevity/status/1394878889571274759

(archive isn't working for me atm)

This Great Community, by the way | Part 1 | Final Fantasy XIV | FFXIV | SaltedXIV

This Great Community, by the way | Part 1 | Final Fantasy XIV, FFXIV, XIV, Gameplay | A cautionary tale of sexism, elitism, lies, deceit, crisis, assault, and power abuse. When Final Fantasy XIV’s expansion, Endwalker, launches in November,

saltedxiv.com

This Great Community | Part 2: Bad Dragon vs. the Tender Lamb | Final Fantasy XIV | FFXIV | SaltedXIV

This Great Community | Part 2: Bad Dragon vs. the Tender Lamb | Final Fantasy XIV, FFXIV, XIV, Gameplay | A cautionary tale of sexism, elitism, lies, deceit, crisis, assault, and power abuse. This is a long one, and I don’t have a ton of energy to go into it

saltedxiv.com

This Great Community | Part 3: The sexism starts early | Final Fantasy XIV | FFXIV | SaltedXIV

This Great Community | Part 3: The sexism starts early | Final Fantasy XIV, FFXIV, XIV, Gameplay | A cautionary tale of sexism, elitism, lies, deceit, crisis, assault, and power abuse. We’ll end this series with the beginning. My journey in Eorzea began

saltedxiv.com

The Balance discord had a bunch of autismo fights in the suggestion channel when the news broke, one brave lad immediatly and suprisingly called her out on some inconsistencies

Spoiler: Wall o Text

This, inevitably lead to a bunch of minor spergery

Spoiler: Autism

Eventually, this caused the mods to attempt to get a statement out, ironically, if it werent for this, casual lurkers like me who were just there for autistic Dark Knight and Summoner tips wouldnt have found out and looked into this tism

Spoiler: Statement

Edit: if you actually read the first part of her statements, (ill try to archive them if i can) the first one is kinda psycho and telenovela-like and the other 2 is just rambling about women wanting attention in weaboo infested autism hives

This bitch went from trying to detail her apparent psychotic breakdown because of a sexual assualt to calling a bunch of unwashed MMO weaboos sexist

Women, not even once

 

[Dopey Cunt]

I swear we're not all like that.

@Lion help me out here.

 

[Gravemind]

Edit: if actually read the first part of her statements, (ill try to archive them if i can) the first one is kinda psycho and telenovela-like and the other 2 is just rambling about women wanting attention in weaboo infested autism hives

This bitch went from trying to detail her apparent psychotic breakdown because of a sexual assualt to calling a bunch of unwashed MMO weaboos sexist

Women, not even once

What a fucking whackjob.

It's pretty easy to tell it was never about helping anybody despite what she claims setting out, it was always about the clout for her.

I swear we're not all like that.

@Lion help me out here.

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See, I was talking to a female friend of mine about this whole thing last night, mostly just to show her more XIV community spergery for entertainment, and there's a point in Part 3 of her article where Levi brings up how she was "proud" to be featured on MogTalk because it "demonstrated a lack of female representation in the raid scene and she was finally able to challenge that," which I couldn't help but think "Fuck do you mean there's a 'lack of female representation in the raid scene'?" I've known and played with several women raiders. Women are all over the XIV community in various facets. I've known a fair few back on Coeurl although a fair number of them tended to get carried through raid content and act like they were hot shit for it. Thread regulars like you and Lion have talked about raiding frequently. My friend's even been dipping her toes into harder raid content recently (albeit with the safety net of a static and doing older Savages unsynched).

There's plenty of women out there raiding. God forbid they don't all try to make themselves community figures because of it. Like anyone else, some people just want to play the game to play the game.

 

[FencePost]

The Balance discord had a bunch of autismo fights in the suggestion channel when the news broke, one brave lad immediatly and suprisingly called her out on some inconsistencies

Spoiler: Wall o Text

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This, inevitably lead to a bunch of minor spergery

Spoiler: Autism

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Eventually, this caused the mods to attempt to get a statement out, ironically, if it werent for this, casual lurkers like me who was just there for autistic Dark Knight and Summoner tips wouldnt have found out and looked into this tism

Spoiler: Statement

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Edit: if actually read the first part of her statements, (ill try to archive them if i can) the first one is kinda psycho and telenovela-like and the other 2 is just rambling about women wanting attention in weaboo infested autism hives

This bitch went from trying to detail her apparent psychotic breakdown because of a sexual assualt to calling a bunch of unwashed MMO weaboos sexist

Women, not even once

I missed when Elitist Jerks shut down and I've always felt like I missed out on the end of an era but if it was even half as autistic as this, I feel better that I did.