Zlatan looks like his 3am snack is a celery stick

Sometimes it's fun just to play the game and see what happens. Let me know if you'd enjoy more videos like this!

You did miss the most important reward from Wondrous Tales, since it's not so relevant this late in the cycle for GAMERS: 9 stickers in the catbook is a clean 50% of an XP bar for any combat job.

Car washes are important if you live somewhere where they salt the roads because the salt will corrode the underside of your car and needs to be cleaned off. And obviously cleaning your car keeps it looking nice and helps maintain the paint. Most car cleaning can be done at home but if you don’t have a hose or time going through a car wash had its advantages.

The flame thrower and casually smacking Khloe repeatedly at the end has me in fucking tears omg lmaooo

Pizza rolls are the only 3am snack that give the appropriate amount of self-loathing you need at 3am

16:20 gonna lore nerd here. The differences in stylizing is because the gothic look of the void is actually void built stuff. while the void ark was built by the mhachi. NOT the voidsent themselves. It was simple powered by the void.

There were points in this video where you could hear the emotion draining from your soul due to the dungeon you were in and I just wanna say: That's perfect. You are ready for Mentor Roulette. Also 3 lines is a myth and anyone claiming to have gotten 3 lines has some backroom deals going on with the demon child.

I once was trapped in a Ktsis where the warrior tank just could not keep themselves alive, while the sage healer kept accidentally healing themselves instead of, oh, anyone who might actually need healing. It took FOREVER and was one of the most baffling dungeon experiences I've ever had.

The true villain of Final Fantasy XIV is definitely Khloe. EDIT: the 3am snack is a gigantic bowl of cereal, likely Peanut Butter Crunch.

poor man's quesadilla (tortilla and cheese microwaved with salsa or hot sauce) has gotten me through many a 3am

Always turn in WT as a class that isn't 90, because you're basically throwing away half a level if you don't. I think cider already maxed everything, but it's worth mentioning for the comments section

This was fun to watch, it's a change from your usual videos. Especially when you stand in things most players would avoid like the plague. Also, your gameplay helped me get better at SCH.

The achievement videos have been entertaining, but I miss the mad because small series. I hope you make more of those in the future

16:10 This happens a lot with mystery plot in fiction. In World of Warcraft, goddess Elune was the last bastion of mystery and coolness. Then they explained her. And she became lame.

Late to the party with my answer too, but living in any region that salts the roads during the winter means you should use a car wash. The salt from the road gets kicked up into the undercarriage/wheel wells/etc and begins to rust the hell out of anything metal. If you live on the coast, especially if you deal with boats, the salt from the ocean water can also rust out anything that touches it if not washed. Dirt roads are another big one- mud is a real pain.

6:30 What I want them to do is to replace the now very outdated Hall of the Novice with a duty support dungeon that walks new players through the basics. Like: * Trash pull that talks them through the basics of enmity, mitigation, healing and dodging orange. * Bardam's Mettle style "here are some common markers and mechanics" non-fight, where the player can't progress until they know what a stack marker and look away mechanic is. * Final boss that is an actual boss fight that talks about tank busters and eases the player into fighting while also keeping an eye out for mechanics. And then make it mandatory.

Vids like these make me wanna get into content creation of my own. Just chill run throughs of content to talk in and have conversations with myself and an audience. Love your stuff Cider ❤

Cider obviously doesn't live in a place that has 1) Dirt Roads 2) Super high pollen count

winter time in cold states, car washes are good to clean off the salt from the road for...a reason for the car wash

Playing XIV while watching this and I just passed a lala named Jealous Of'tall lol

For me, if I need a SB leveling dungeon it’s *always* Doma Castle. That OST is a total bop! It’s one of my favorite tracks to this day!

leftover cold pizza is the way to go for 3am and i live in the desert, and i get my car washed multiple times a month because of sand and dirt 😂

I laughed at the Emmanellain joke. And my favorite 3am snack would have to be cereal. Probably Reese's Puffs.

This was sweet! A weekly wondrous tales with Ciderspider seems fun pretty fun until mentor roulette is online! Great video!

3 am snack: cheese. Just cheese.

Mechanically I really love the NieR raid series, they just need to tune down the HP pools a smidge. EW raid series mechanics are really fun but could stand to be a bit more deadly for failure and adding mechanics for later sections of the fight more. Llymlaen's fight is the best one in the whole series because halfway through she adds a whole new aspect to the fight that none of the others are really allowed to do. Also the stab she does if you /hug, /dote, or /blowkiss is such a fun detail and I even managed to kill a friend with it! Told him to hug her and he managed it in the exact window of time before the spear drop mechanic began resolving and he ended up locked at low HP in one of the aoes, the all caps discord ping I got was a thing of beauty.

You are my favorite content creator. And I’ve seen many over so many years. Thank you for making my days better! Big fan and happy to be with you through this!

what kind of psychopath willingly queues for aurum vale

peanut butter, honey, cold flour tortilla. if I don't have those, a fistful of pepperoni.

16:30 well, that's because Void arc is Mhach, not THE void.. Different things. Though understandable opinion on the void, though it was hinted/explained in parts long before Endwalker.

You also get like half an experience bar for whatever class you are when you turn it in.

Car washes are good for getting salt off during winter, and bug splats/bird bombings the rest of the year. In rural areas you can build up mud from dirt roads after rain, and occasional farmers can leave patches of... well let's just call it natural fertilizer in the road and it isn't always possible to dodge them.

Having worked at a car wash for a bit, there are actually a few reasons to get one instead of relying on the rain. Some places really don't get a lot of rain like you mentioned, so the cars don't get that natural wash. Vehicles that go through a ton of mud will likely need a thorough wash as well. Old vehicles might also arrange for a wash, so they can be refurbished (had to clean one filled with leaves in the back that had been sitting around for years in an unusable state). On a similar note, if you want a new paint job you will probably have to get the vehicle washed first. There's also cleaning the inside of the vehicle, which can be a real mess if kids or animals are involved, and even if they aren't there are spots like the rim of the doors that don't get enough water from rain to get rid of the dirt that builds up. I don't own a vehicle myself, and even if I did I probably wouldn't care about looks on a normal basis, but there are plenty of reasons for them to exist.

Worth noting that you can do tales objectives unsynced or with duty support and they still count for it!

"Come back to me, it's almost easy" Nice A7x reference at 7:45 haha!

I enjoy doing them as it gives me motivation to do my dailies every week. I've gotten 3 lines twice now and got both green mounts from them. Made my other XIV friends quite jealous for even getting 1 triple bingo, much less 2.

My 3am snack is brown sugar cinnamon pop-tarts.

"I don't wanna be a fern." - Cider Spider, 2024

Oh the editing for Brute Justice was so fun to watch and listen to, that was really nice!

"Never been a mess outside the car that the rain couldn't fix." My man has never been in the Winter Slop

Devs made the right call in making Khloe an adorable kitten, with an adorable kitten friend, because the RNG stings. Khloe's a troll... I remember the days before the bronze/silver/gold tokens, where the minion reward was out of your control. Basically broke my desire to collect every minion.

So I live in the Midwest. We have this nifty thing called winter. The city will salt the roads to melt the ice. Salt is bad for the car, so I need the car wash to spray the underside and coat it with anti-corrosive.

11:20 so, funny story. I once built the sidebuild/"B" build for a Lego set by accident. It was only when the beachfront shack turned into a lighthouse that I realized something went wrong. Still kept it like that though, since lighthouses are cool :3

Khloe is mostly useful for the xp if you're levelling different jobs, whatever job you're on when you hand in your journal gets the xp, and for getting some extra poetics if you're farming arr/heavensward relics

hotbar stressin me out

3am snack is usually "something" on bread. I usually have something to snack in my fridge that I can use for that: Pack of seasoned turkey strips, block of cheese, jar of hotdogs - but if not, a slice of bologna or cheese will do. Usually combined with some assortment of sauces that look appetizing in the moment. If I'm out of either of the three, I'll have to work without it. Hunger don't care, and I'm not awake enough to put any more work in... Or if I'm not feeling the savory in that moment it will be a handful of whatever biscuits or chocolate bars I happen to have around at the time.

3am go to before sleepy time snack: bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

The biggest reason I use the carwash is between the pollen here and the water being so hard the rain just leaves behind layers of calcium and lime I need something that actually washes it off 😅

Started doing Wonderous Tales after you're first Achievement video.....I've gotten 2 lines only twice. I've gotten the potential 3 lines about a dozen times, but screwed on the last 2. Key is to get to 7 and shuffle stickers. Most patterns for 3 lines will need 1 sticker to finish 2 lines.

9:02 Yeah, like as someone getting towards Endwalker content now I can already see how overtuned tanks are, especially Warriors. Like... I can see some balance patches hitting the tanks soon because you *SHOULD* always need your healer. I've been hearing a lot of healer mains feel like a lot of endgame content isn't fun, moreso than early content, because instead of being too easy, you have nothing to do. Where I live you also need carwashes because sap will cover your car and it does rain but no enough to keep the sap off your car.

Any time you mess with that demon cat will make like your video. It's always a good laugh.

so fun thing. In 3 of the last 5 weeks I've gotten a 3 line. I'd never gotten a 3 line in all the years since it became a thing. But now 3 of my friends get to jump into the world race with a fun chestpiece

Only cider could make a video about doing 9 random duties and i'd still find it interesting

The best midnight snack is Jimmy Dean sausage patty biscuits. Just don't try eating them fast without a drink.

Yeah I also liked the Void more when it was Super Hell instead of Novrandt-but-Dark

So one would argue that the angry baby is beating Chloe's..... ....nope, not gonna say it.

For those of you that wonder 'What the F is a Goober?' It is by definition 1) A peanut. 2) A foolish person.

don't know if I commented about this already since it is a 2 month old video, but I am rewatching it, and the bit about the mattress store front I may be able to add a small bit of insight into. I work for a furniture store doing deliveries, and we deliver up to 1000km+ (>600 mi) away from our physical location. on top of that, mattresses are one of our biggest sellers, since for whatever reason, people that earn more than, idk 200k a year seem to think they need a new mattress every 6 months. I kid you not, I have worked there for 2 years now and I have delivered at least 2 different mattresses to the same person over that timespan. it's truly insane the silly things people will do when they can simply afford it, even if it is uneccesary I have also owned a car for 4 years now and I have taken it to a car wash approximately zero times. I park under a power line and birds like to shite on my hood, but even that doesnt make me take it to a car wash. if it bothers me enough I will grab a wet cloth from my house and scrub off the shite. dirt will be handled by the rain idgaf lol

at 3 am, im getting a cup of microwavable mac and cheese. Everyone in the household is getting awoken by my tactical slop break

my go to snack nowadays is usually a few slices of fried spam lmao it's salty and oily but it hits right when you want just a little something but don't want to exert any effort at all. i tried the honeyed version, didn't like it, had turkey spam recently, it was fine, tasted almost normal, but regular spam is probs my fave your commitment to sound effects is what makes these videos all the more funnier imo lmao it's the little touches here and there that are cheesy but ultimately very funny, thanks for another hilarious vid :D

Something that I felt they did in trails and raids in ShB and EW was make the healer dynamic switch from healing tank mostly to mostly healing the whole party except for the tank due to raid wides and stacks, etc. I enjoyed this approach to healing a lot more than the only heal a tank approach. I hope to see them lean more into that

when no snacks: spoon of peanut butter when snacks: anything about the size of a granola bar

I am a complete weirdo whose midnight snack is mac and cheese, from scratch, with a full roux->bechamel->cheese sauce with mature cheddar, mustard and paprika. I am so practiced at this recipe I can do it at 2am while drunker than you were doing Delubrum

re: the game being too easy, yoship chimed in this weekend that he wants to shrink the target circles

3AM snack: Mozzarella sticks

"and now the heavens are going to fall and those rocks are poor cover" -- never going to not find cider using that damn quote wherever he can to be funny.

Great video, Cider. Sometimes I do Wondrous Tales, but only if I have second chance points at max.

3am snack probably mini cheeses like Babybell. Or lunch meat occasionally. On the car wash note, it rains in the winter here, but then doesn’t rain for 6-8 months at a time. That can occasionally compel me to get my car washed once in a blue moon. Especially if there’s been a lot of tree pollen lately.

A couple of things. Wondrous tails will give you experience equal to half of your current level on completion- making this a popular thing to do for leveling. You can run the dungeons solo and unsynced so you can do some of them in under a minute (usually ARR trial bosses). The content that shows up in your personal wondrous tails is catered to your character, so only things that you have available should show up.

Emmanellain catching strays 😆 the real enemy here is Khloe! p.s. we use car washes in places where we use salt to melt ice during the winter to wash the salt off the bottoms of our cars to prevent rusting lol

The limit break slap got me lol 🤣

Much love from a dedicated tank. Cant wait to see more. Also give Clhoe a flame blast from me!

I did the combining robot battle with the Japanese. They went nuts in chat.

Like 7 years and I got the 3 lines once... Khloe only dispenses pain and despair..

20:45 wait is that Ryne and Gaia dying together at the same time in that middle deathzone? crazy lore accuracy

7:45 The A7X reference I didn't know I would get just sent me down memory lane to playing Need for Speed Pro Street, banger soundtrack in that game tbh

Wonderous Tales, or as I think of them, solo tank queue times. Anything pre ShB, and some ShB raids I just solo run unsynched what I can to just do. Everything else, well, 2nd chances are to not do anything else.

3 am snack is pretty much peanut butter- Also love that a NieR raid showed up, it is a pain to actually try to get them queued in game as a DPS lmao However, this reminded me to do Wondorous Tales again. I've just returned after a year to the game, because of your videos and there are so many things I forgot, that included. Thank you for the fun content tho, always a great time to be had here.

I've been saying that about Bardam's Meddle for ages! I wish there were more bosses like that second boss

Bowl o' cereal for me. It's a comfort food and my brain tells me it is appropriate for eating in 'the morning' regardless of how early that morning is.

the LB noise into slam sfx spam at the end lol

a bag of shredded cheese, to answer your question.

OH BOY, 3AM! [Eats a burger]

Love it at 7:45 A7X reference

My first ever wondrous tails I got 3 lines. My friend was pissed 😭😭😭

Washing your car makes it look prettier. Also helps protecting the paint and/or keeps it cleaner for longer. And if you live in a place that has a lot of salt exposure it minimizes rust.

This is what the firmament would look like if emmanellain was in charge is the truest freaking statement lmao 😂😂 Best 3am snack is cheese and crackers!

The peak pre-breakfast for me was potstickers, holdover from the hard-drinking days. loved em so much I'd make massive batches, 20lbs at a time, and stored them in a chest freezer. Having to stumble through smileton to the kitchen would at least wake me up enough to use the range and grab a skillet.

Depending on the server, the bronze cert consumables sell for thousands. Each. You can rack up several hundreds of thousands of gil that way very quickly. So one line books can still be very profitable.

NEIR raid stories in a nutshell, below spoiler blank lines: More or less, in the same way that the extra ending of Drakengard created a hole between dimensions, bringing the magic weirdness to Earth to create the Neir and Automata games, here the machines of Automata were trying to break into the Final Fantasy XIV universe and take over the world/servers. We are basically acting as antivirus destroying the invading virus.

Hey Cider, just as a heads up, you can stockpile Bronze or Silver certificates for the next expansion. Assuming the pattern continues, then day one you can turn your certificates into the brand new tier of crafting materia to either use yourself or sell for profit.

The thing with the actual antagonists of the nier raids is that they're evil eldtrich gods from the Drakengard universe trying to invade the FFXIV world.

Eating straight out of the bag of shredded cheese with the fridge door still open staring into space.

i'm glad to se Khole scams lalafells she has been taught well LOL

i see you're still not fishing

My ideal 3 am junk food is some of those frozen white castle sliders. When tired or drunk those things are like crack

If I wake up at 3AM and get a snack, it has to be pop-tarts.

I live in Louisiana. Our cars turn yellow from pollen on a daily basis. We gotta wash or rinse ours if we wanna see. My snack is a peanut butter jelly sando.

1) Midnight snack is whatever leftovers might be in the fridge, or a slice of turkey wrapped around a pickle. 2) I was driving in Utah on the ONE day the mayflies were out in force. Had to stop halfway home to wash the car because the bugs were so thick on my windshield I couldn't see out of it. That was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on my car.