Your graphics card looks like it was grown in Idaho. lol

I love to hate Calgura

I can't seem to find this on steam! Is there an other source? Seems like something I might try

My friend recently started playing this game. Since we share games on Steam, and he recommended me some nice games (killer7 for example), I watched him playing and got interested, all I knew was that you could pick your hud and use as blocks as well but nothing else. The game is incredible and truly something else, it makes me feel like the Roguelike experience where you need to do it all again but in the end it DOES matter and IT IS worth it.

No you didn't get it - The Endless literally aren't people. They are Aetherial memories given form. They aren't lesser beings they aren't beings at all. When people die in FF14 - they are supposed to return to the Aetherial Sea and by choice disperse back within the world itself creating a constant cycle of renewed life. The reason the world of Solution 9 is in such decay is because they created a pseudo aetherial sea in their cloud. People cannot pass on the normal way and thus they require more and more souls to sustain a artificial existence. Emet Selch is talking about people who live and die as fractional half men. Or 1/14th men. In the unsundered world of Etheirys the Ancients chose when they lived and when they died. Create life as easily as they took it away. In our fragmented existence we cannot live eternal and we are born to suffer but by doing so we have an appreciation for life the Ancients didn't. Living Memory is trying to escape the suffering because of the terrible wars they had waged against each other... but it comes at a cost. Much like the Ancients (Though for different reasons) the peoples of Alexandria seek to rejoin their world with others to save the long deceased. You remember the Primals? Primals are a danger not as a threat of how powerful they are but because they draw on surrounding Aether into themselves so that it cannot be properly recycled back into the Aetherial Sea. Primals themselves are Aetherial manifestations born from fervent belief. Similarly these Endless are manifestations of peoples glory days, perceptions of memories stored in regulators. They aren't really real; similarly to how Titan or Garuda aren't real entities, much like Primals which are supposed to be benevolent saviors take on altered qualities based on the perception of belief. And similar also to Primals they require Aether to sustain their eternal lives at the cost of the living world. We've made this decision in the past - the only difference is these aren't giant demi-god monsters of great power. I can understand how it might be lost on you. But we're not doing this for a disregard of living people. We're doing this to preserve life. We're not trying to reconstitute the Dead or escape suffering. You need to acknowledge and take on suffering to move forward - or you lead yourself to ruin as the Alexandrians did.

God I love hearing positive takes on Dawntrail. It gets exhausting hearing people dunk on this expansion so much. I binged it all in like 3 days and Living Memory made me cry, and it was wild to come out of it to find most people just hating everything about it somehow. Its not flawless for sure, but this expansion really did hit me in the ways I think it wanted to.

You're character looks too much like mine. You'll be hearing from my lawyer for copyright infringement.

Love the video! Like and sub!

Thanks for the video! System Erasure games are amazing in every way except for the game design. After Void Stranger's player-hostile design, I'm glad I decided to watch this video rather than play Zero Rangers.

*pure depression and talking about the nature of art* then suddenly "look, the big chad got up"

Appreciate your analysis and commentary. Subbed.

I love that you also clocked the “theme park at closing time” vibe of the music of Living Memory. There’s something undeniably whimsical, yet bittersweet, to the tune that takes me back to Magic Kingdom’s Main Street, shuffling out of the park with all the other guests after the end of the fireworks show and the characters sang their last farewell for the night.

I said the EXACT same thing about Emet and the Ascians I’m glad I’m not the only one

sueing you for igniting my inner fear of thinking abt what is life and death, but good video btw

I think this is beautiful way to think about the concepts presented in Living Memory. Great video!

I think it’s unfair to compare ourselves to Emet mostly because these Endless are sustained by the souls of others. Emet refused to believe we were worthy of being considered alive and wanted to bring back a dead civilization. We saw the Endless as souls that were being forced to remain knowing that nothing living last forever. Again a reminder they were only still around because Queen Sphene was using souls to power them. If we didn’t turn off the lights she would have kept taking the souls from the living from our reflection and eventually the other reflections until there was nothing left. I will agree that it’s kind of similar but we did not pose the same level of threat and our existence doesn’t kill another so that we may live. Emet and Queen Sphene were fighting for the dead while we fight for the living.

dunno if you've watched "The Black Mirror" but Living Memory really gave me similar vibes to San Junipero. The people we meet there both are and aren't alive. When you remember their memory and what makes them who they are was uploaded into the cloud. Though the thing that I also remembered from that show (and similar end of life stories like The Good Place) was how dull existence would become for these people over time. With no real struggles or cares, all the joys around them would lose any real highs... not entirely unsimilar to the inhabitants of Ostrakon Deka-hepta in the Dead Ends. It was difficult because I did sympathize with Sphene, and what she was fighting for. But ultimately I determined that allowing the endless to finally have an end and to rest would be best for them. My choice to turn off the terminals was motivated by the desire to save the people of Hydalen too of course, but it was something I saw as good for both groups.

I know "WoL is Hydaelyn's ascian" has been around for a while, but I wonder if thats where we're going in the next few expansions? We're similarly shard-hopping nigh-unkillable demigods at this point. Between ensuring Wuk Lamat became dawnservant and erasing the "less-alive" endless, we're engaging in a lot of the same activities as Emet. Obviously our reasons are different, but whether motives count or not is an entire philosophical debate. I doubt that something so irreversible would happen in XIV, but it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility for us to accidentally cause a rejoining (perhaps in our effort to fix the void).

Boelizard's animation was taken down. TBH the worst part and only bad part of the video is seeing that. Sorry for the off-topic comment I just saw that and remembered it. Great video, I actually decided to play Termina because of it (Haven't finished yet, but it has become my favorite videogame).

I somehow wish the final act of the story wasn't so epic. I was really looking forward to a more grounded story as a palette cleanser after ShB and EW, but it seems they wanted to tread familiar ground yet again. I think these big final zone setpieces riddled with emotional weight are amazing, and I don't want them to grow stale from being overused, is all.

This was a very professional and eloquent piece. I really enjoyed Dawntrail and the final zone and the emotions involved. played a big part. Thanks for the video.

So for Emet's "I don't see you as alive, there for it is not murder if I kill you." I think it's important to remember our party DOES see the endless as alive after a fashion. They see them as valuable, they see them as people, and it is still murder that we kill them. The parallel to Emet isn't with us it's with Spheeme. They would both sacrifice our living for their dead. There is no contradiction and we are not now suddenly taking his side. One of the quieter themes in FFXIV, particularly in ShB, EW, and DT is that of progressives, the young folk willing to champion new systems, learning from what came before but not falling into the traps of the older generations. Emet is the overbearing father that walked to school 10 miles in the snow both ways, in Elpis we see that our "enlightened forbearers" were far too quick to tell their peers to bottle it up, and were no smarter than we are, we even get the twin's father buckling and admitting he is lost. Living memory is the current generation being asked to give up their future for the comfort of old folks who feel uncomfortable with sustainable energy, think wars they don't have to fight are good for the nation, and long for a world far less far less diverse than what we see in Tural. XIV does not inherently demonize these people, it encourages to see why they are the way they are, but it's no surprise that the villains are the ones that will not do the same, or if they do, just don't care.

To me, I was there the entire time at Living Memory saying that we were no better than Venat, we committed a genocide to ensure that life would continue. The Endless are alive, are people. I even quoted Emet Selch to my boyfriend when Cahciua tried to use an appeal to nature. That the Endless are unnatural is sophistry, and we all know it. They are still people, and I will not rely on the same lies Emet did to absolve myself of guilt. I'm firmly of the belief that, at least by the time of Shadowbringers, Emet does not believe his own lies, and he fully knows he's in the wrong. It's a great depiction of cognitive dissonance but that's neither here nor there. For myself, I'm of similar mind to G'raha. The Endless are a locust that will devour all in their path, and when they run out of food, die and leave the world barren. It's for a similar reason that Venat sundered the world, the Ancients couldn't find a way forward, so Venat committed a genocide, and recreated the world as the world of mortal men, so that Meteion could be defeated, and life would endure. Would that the Ancients could accept suffering and find a way to harness Dynamis. Would that the Endless could be maintained in a more sustainable way. But just like Venat, we aren't given the time to find that answer. If anything cleans even a little of the blood off our hands, it's that Sphene decided the course for everyone, and forced us to commit to a genocide before she committed an even greater one.

Your video essay was really well thought out! I loved Living memory i cried in this zone. Lol, like you said i'm so glad i finished dawntrail during my summer break and like you i found myself wanting to linger in eozrea as well!

I subbed for this video. I don’t feel people have been appreciating this section of the game. When you get rid of the first tower for the first time and that sections endless disappeared, I cried because how I view life and thought of my own personal experiences how I had to let go of people as well.

Yeah, what we did in living memory definitely left a bad taste. Necessary but I wish it wasn't. And that even after finishing MSQ, the place stayed gray and well..... Dead. Hits hard

I liked your video very much. Thank you.

The difference between us and Emet-selch here is the same as the difference between us and Sphene: we will not sacrifice our living to save their dead. It brings us back to our motivation that drove us and our party since ARR; For those that we've lost For those we can yet save

7:15 Funny enough, we’re not the equivalent of Hades wanting to rejoin everything to the source, this is much more equivalent to re-sundering the world after the unsundered rejoin all the shards. Soul extraction/Living memory/ Preservation is a very hardline reflection of Zodiark/Full Rejoining/convocation. Their worlds were beset by disaster so they offered up souls in exchange for living a bit longer (Zodiark/Soul extraction) and they were beset by even more disaster after that (sundering, rejoining.) the 12th shard succeeded in a way that the unsundered did not; they made their paradise for the lost, which is precisely what would’ve come of the source if the unsundered had their way; vain reflections of their fallen created by their god. Shutting down living memory is much more akin to re-sundering than anything else.

To comprimise and show my caring for the people in living memory, I did every quest in the zone i could find, even the optional yellow quests. Granted, it wasnt many, but i wouldve done far more if there had been. That was the best gesture i could think of for my character to see them off. This zone and the Endless hold special significance for me in a way that i think is unique to my circumstance. So i felt like i owed it to them. I relate to the Endless, to this idea of choosing to exist in a fantasy rather than face reality. The right choice will always be to remove the fantasy, but that doesnt mean the fantasy was worthless or that the time spent within it shouldnt be remembered and cherished.

I love this, and thank you for this. I love dawntrail even if they did BLM dirty.

Would recommend testing Pathfinder WOTR if you like diverse characters and character options. ESPECIALLY since you kind of almost are guaranteed to have at least one "Evil Character" in your party...

I'm going to hurt some of yall really quick... Listen to the pre and post shut down living heritage's theme and then listen to the Caretaker's "Everywhere at the End of Time". You are welcome.

I was interested in the video and the content that you had. But then the more you talk the more I realized how fragile you were as a human being You needed three weeks in order to touch this game again because your emotional state is so fragile? Congrats on the viral video, Seems like you never capitalized on it even a year later. Probably cause anybody who watched your next videos realized what I realized in this single video .

Loved this story beat. The Endless, and their existence in general, was really interesting to me as a sort of messed up reflection absent of what Hydaelyn's lessons to us were and what the Ascians failed to know: There is no such thing as life without suffering or sacrifice. Like the Ascians, they strive to keep their utopia and pretty much ignore the 'costs' of it (Elpis basically buried emotional pain and devalued it, leaving Hermes with pain with no where to go, seeking solice in an answer he tasked Meteion with, resulting in ultimate misery... And the Endless literally burning through souls to never expirience loss at all which is unsustainable) while Hydaelyn's entire lesson she wanted us to learn was to come to peace with this and live knowing it. The pain caused by her actions were important so our star doesn't shreik away from pain or try to reject it and make these terrible mistakes. Sphene's entire society fell into this same trap, and look what it's come to? I like this expansion lol

This was a good essay

Living memory is one of my favourite place at the moment, I did the side quest cause it just feels like the right thing to do for the remaining people in the area. I see people do new game+ to return the Colors but I kept it dull cause keeping it bright is what Sphene would do and not letting the people go

Are we gonna ignore the seed of destruction lore and parallels from Nier 🤔

What really did it for me was how much this place gave me nostalgia, specifically to one of my favorite games, Kingdom Hearts 2. This place has such a heavy Twilight Town feel to it. But the similarities didn't end there, as Cahcuia talking about how everybody is just recreations based off of memories, and that they aren't really people, sounded a lot like some plot points in the KH series. Not to mention the existential and depressing nature of this area gave me light Nier vibes, which is another series that tackles similar themes. I had already been conditioned to know that these people are just as living as us. What made this more difficult was that usually, in those games, you're watching this happen. Nier makes a decision that he would have absolutely no knowledge of what kind of effect it would have on the world, which is it's own tragedy, but you're just watching the story unfold. This game asks you, demands of you, to make that choice. To most people, your WoL isn't a character, they're you, an extension of you. The game isn't asking the character to make the choice to shut down the terminals, it's asking YOU to make that decision. And that was hard, because I already decided they were people. And then I think about how Emet was so adamant that you aren't truly alive. Probably just to make it easier for him, before he truly broke.

Wonderful video that was really personal! Thank you for sharing your experience 😊

Beautifully put! Also, I didn't notice the parallel with Emet-selch before and seeing it now makes me appreciate this part of the msq even more.

Thank you for sharing this amongst all the hate out there (not that every criticism is hate but a lot are). I enjoyed the hell out of this expansion and this area in particular really spoke to me. I loved how they made you destroy the area yourself and it made me go around to enjoy the moment and take pictures while I had the chance. Also here's a thought I had. I think the thing that sets us apart from Emet Selch is that the memories here had their chance. It may have ended unfairly or been sad in some way but they were born to the star, lived, and then most importantly... died. Emet wanted to bring back friends that had also for all intents and purposes ended. I think its super interesting that while the roles are somewhat reversed seeing that we are the ones shutting down the place now, ourm position remains unchanged, stopping people from denying others their only chance at life to give themselves a second one. Thanks for the analysis and I'll be watching to see what you make next :)

As someone stated in a comment section, "It reminded me of twilight town, followed by 5 moments of ugly crying."

Awesome video! That last zone has been on my mind a lot still too, I wonder if it remain as how it became or will something happen

This little essay was amazing.. and it earned you a sub, and a share to my FF groups. Thank you!

I noticed the parallels to Emet too! The idea that we're put into his shoes and are confronted with the same dilemma as him is such an interesting concept, especially since it comes from an expansion that was sold on how much more chill it's going to be then the rest. And to see people whine and moan about how "it's unfair that Square makes the WoL make such a difficult choice because their WoL wouldn't do that" really devalues a lot of the nuance this moment brings. It's perfectly in character that the WoL would end the endless, as it goes against every lesson they've learned in Ultima Thule; life has value because it's fleeting and short, and to remove all of the bitterness from life erases any kind of joy from it. This is to say that to experience joy, one must know pain. Though the endless aren't suffering, per say, they instead force that suffering onto those that fuel their paradise.

Is this AI narrated? The script gets pretty repetitive throughout and sounds super awkward at times.

This channel is underrated.

The Demo looks really empty Bru Where is August Marcoh and Others 😭

I've played through the banner saga series twice and I couldn't stop alette from making the shot either time. The first time I pretty much knew that she would die and the second I literally knew that she would. I just couldn't deny alette her autonomy or her role, I wanted to play like I was rook and I couldn't imagine doing that to my daughter. Her funeral made me cry, I felt terrible.