I like the narrative choice of how they moved away from the typical trope of "Fire dude is wild and crazy" and instead went with a more pensive, measured character.

fun info (didn't see it mentioned going through the stream), not only was Hyadain a guest composer who got their start on youtube parodies like the superchat mentioned, but his parody of the FF4 Four Fiends theme was one of his especially-known ones. The Rubicante song in FF14 is actually based off of his parody version, not the FF4 version, because it contains the bell instruments that are direct references to the parody (and don't show up in the original).

21:00 You can't die on the 13th, because "death" in FFXIV happens when your aether returns to the aether flow (big aether river inside the star). The 13th is separated from the flow, so your aether just kinda fluffs about for a while before resurrecting somewhere on the 13th, because it couldn't find the river. You could still die on the 1st, because the 1st was still connected to the river. That's why sin-eaters still die unlike void-sent. Ascians are immortal because they can control where their Aether goes when their body dies, so they just straight up choose not to rejoin the great flow until they want to. In fact, Elpis touches on this, how Ascians choose when they return to the star. This is also how Zenos resurrected in Stormblood. Weaker characters will get washed away in the flow of Aether (like Y'shtola was... twice). But Zenos was literally strong enough to fight the flow and "swim" his way out until he could find a new body to inhabit. Zenos talks about this experience (I think in the Garlemald section) of the MSQ. Man loved the challenge, and rekindled his will to fight you again. It's not talked about a lot, but teleportation in FFXIV is kinda dangerous as hell. You literally ride the river of the underworld, and are ripped out of the river by beacons (Aetheryte's) along the stream. If an Aetheryte is destroyed mid teleportation, or you jump into a river that doesn't lead to a beacon you end up stuck there (like Y'shtola). Oh no, am I a one-guy?

Subtle shift in Zero from "I will do no more than we bargained" to "I will do no less than I promised."

Not all voidsent share the noble aspiration that Golby has. Unleashing that gigantic amount of voidsent unto the source would be absolute insanity, a global war for survival with no winners.

The summoners being in perfect sync for the start of the trial makes my smn brain happy!❤

Did you guys know that the lyrics of 'Forged in Crimson' (Rubicante's theme) are entirely in English? There is a video somewhere on YT that has them. It may surprise you.

I love that Rubicante opens a little portal to his hellscape domain so we can play shapes. 2:31:00 I was so sad when my heart of corundum activated after Kyle had died I wouldn't call what Golbez did "sacrificing the archfiends". More like, he's alright with them being defeated. Though, that may be a distinction without merit. On another note, I wish there had been more buildup with the fiends.

VoD squaddie adding to the "(x) was filmed in my city" discussion. As a Birmingham UK player we have, among others, The kingsman series and ready player one.

1:32:17 the first dog I ever owned was a black husky mix named Zero :)

My fan theory is that Zero is the thirteenth's fraction of our soul, like Ardbert was on the first.

Fun fact, on normal, when the middle purple segment spins, it always goes from straight to crooked or from crooked to straight so the original target before the spin will always be a safe spot after the spin. This doesn't work on extreme ;-)

Congrats on wrapping up. 6.3

Vod Squad checkin in again! Your upcoming schedule looks crazy but I'm excited for all the content to watch while trying to grind out my third yokai watch event lol. Hyped to hear about the plans for the meetup in Orlando but sad to miss it. Going to be in the area for a belated honeymoon in october so I'll have to aim for the next fanfest meetup or something lol.

Just want to add to the podcast discussion that I don't agree that Asahi (as people in chat said) would have a podcast. He would have an "anonymous" tumblr with only Zenos fangirling content on it and everyone would know it's him but not say anything because they don't want to have that discussion :D

Bit of a dumb-man's cheese for when the inner circle is going to rotate: Go stand where the straight line leads. He always aims down a straight line, with the rotation pushing it to one side or the other. So the fake 'danger' spot is safe.

Vod Squad - Rubicate Extreme is punishing and a huge pace change from Barbie Ex. Barbie is fast and claustrophobic, Ruby Ex is slower-paced but every mistake is punished very aggressively. I like them each as different types of healing challenges.

The trash pulls after the 2nd boss in the Tower of Zot are some of the hardest in the game for any healer/tank combination. I've done them wall to wall with all those jobs, and failed more often than not.

The whole "You pull, you tank thing" is a weird topic in the community... technically, having that mentality and voicing it as such in-game is against TOS and is reportable (as lethargic gameplay/not fulfilling the requirements of your role as tank, which is simply: hold aggro for the party and contribute some damage). I personally don't mind if I'm tanking or healing and DPS intentionally pull more mobs into the group, unless the the DPS are being asses about it; and I actually appreciate it if they're using Arms Length and their own personal mit/heal cooldowns to help the tank/healer manage a bigger pull... but it took me quite a while to even know that this what some players were doing, rather than taking it upon themselves that the entire party should play their way and move faster, as I had always assumed. Don't get me wrong, some players DO act that way, but they're usually easy to recognize. Like most things in the game, a little communication usually clears it right up.

The "pacing problem" are pretty much what happened to most weekly series when people binge-read/watch and caught up. It's not that the pacing are bad, it's just the same as usual. The only thing that changed is the format.

All of Garrett's complaining about the 'demon slayer' method of showing you the backstory of the things you fight to make you care about them just makes me want to go back and finish Demon Slayer lol. I don't know why caring about an antagonist's motives is supposedly a bad thing, especially coming from an Emet Selch fan.

They filmed parts of Yellowstone in my hometown

You guys should post your schedule on your Community thing 👀

wish they'd do post-6.2 & 6.3 side quests & 6.1 post-EW quest especially. we all know that one's peak. these quests'd do so much for EW and post-EW... well cannot spoil what exactly what.

Vod squadding. No i don't remember valve making real games, but I've always felt they were overhyped with the slight exception of portal

With 30 minutes, you guys coulda played blunderville LMAO

14:00 I don't know, either. Didn't you guys go like 6 weeks between stepping foot in Sharlayan and actually doing something? 36:10 ARR Urianger impersonation killed me. 56:00 I can understand that. Y'all shoulda done the role quests as soon as they unlocked which I think was after Vanaspati? Correct me if I'm wrong. At that point in the story you're deep into the blasphemies, final days, horrific suffering of the people gotta save them mindset. But then you go to Elpis and suddenly all that stuff is furthest from your mind. 56:26 Kyle gets it. 57:10 Yeah, I get it. Best time I think would've been the instant you met the folks, before you went to meet the Scions and G'raha namedropped Elidibus. After that you just get carried away. 1:00:55 Hythlo, Azem, and Emet, the three musketeers. 1:35:30 Just so long as it doesn't play that horribly depressing rendition of the Garlean main theme. 2:32:15 Yeah, that thing is FAST. It gets everyone the first time.

Does anyone know if they have done the quest chain with the backstory of the archfiends?

Wall of one--guys when?

1:46:30 no, just no, that's terrible, if anything they would need to make the content introducing the characters mandatory, otherwise it will be like Shadowbringers before CT was mandatory where for like a half of the players Graha reveal fell flat because they haven't met him yet.

Isn't "telling Garrett he would like something he doesn't understand" literally explain how he got into FF14 though?

2:39:20 This is why people think the patches were somewhat poorly paced I think. All of a sudden, all 4 archfiends are dealt with, even though it feels like you were just barely introduced.

20:36 Lower left corner, above Garrett's head: what is this mount two vieras ride?

Rich Campbell levels of stalling for donos