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@excalibeard.bsky.social

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this dojo is for warriors local FF MMO boomer FF11: Bahamut (prev. Alexander) - PUP/RUN/GEO/WAR/SCH/RDM FF14: Excalibur - retired enjoyer of battle network, legends, SaGa, beyblade and probably other stuff, too

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 14h

once i got the login screen, it was basically a race to enter recovery before steam or whatever else needing the GPU pre-loaded in the background and hard-crashed the laptop again. kept losing that lmao

finally got in earlier this morning. made sure it was stable and grabbed lori’s data

yippee

puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 14h

another ?? decision from the mfg: no way to enter safe mode outside of the OS. all pre-OS shortcuts disabled besides diagnostics and BIOS, no way to get to safe mode from BIOS either lol

forcing recovery environment looped back to POST, which meant being yelled at again (sorry neighbors at 10pm)

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 14h

most annoying thing was the manufacturer defaulting to RAID0 on multi-SSD configurations. couldn’t just pull them to get the data, so had to get this going somehow.

biggest issue was being hardwalled at POST (and yelled at) 9/10 times

if i could get in to the OS, died as soon as the GPU was called

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 15h

"oh yeah i'll just reseat the RAM and go from there"
RAM is soldered in

"okay cool. CMOS reset then"
no CMOS battery. whatever just disconnect the main battery and do a funny power cycle. ah. the cable is tiny with barely enough space for a precision tool to pop it out, let alone a fingernail

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 15h

the weekend nightmare of dealing with post-vaccine aches/brainfog + the most anti-end user laptop i have ever had the misfortune of dealing with is finally over

i won*

*the GPU on said laptop is dead

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 4d

your next quest is to get an iced coffee from dunks in the middle of a blizzard. i’m counting on you.

puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 4d

lori, as i'm listening to the protomen: what if you did a drinking game where you took a shot whenever a song says the city in it

me: idk but i'd probably be dead by the time breaking out ended

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Emmy @tetrabunz.bsky.social · 24d

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 25d

not gonna dive deep in to the mess the AH and overall economy has gone through lol

there was a point shortly after asura locking where you could see things being bought out to artificially spike prices up even higher, or others pushed so low to make it not worthwhile for actual players

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 25d

it’s not nearly as bad as asura (yet), but up until a couple months ago i only had to blist variants of that dennys guy and the very occasional RMT shout, while watching folks clown on attempted merc advertisements

now it’s a steady flow of sortie/ambu/aeonic/JP/ML yells clogging up city channels

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 25d

we knew it was coming, but bahamut is being locked down next week lol

it’s being handled the same exact way as asura, which many could argue is what got us to this point

give RMT a very clear window like this and they shift and start new hordes on the server being locked and the next largest world

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 25d

yeah, a little too loose on the upper body movement for 1.x if that makes sense

puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 25d

ah yeah i forgot they used that shirt for the 1.0 character renders, so i can definitely see the mixup especially with the colors lol

puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 25d

the current racial gear was not added until ARR, though they did tease it and later showed concept art around august of 2012

1.x you got specific weathered gear based on your initial class

you might be thinking of the old race-bound undergarments that were unified in to the generic hempen sets?

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 25d

wasn't this ARR beta? we didn't have RSE back in 1.x

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 25d

that's another 2x
time to hope my gold numemon that's ready to digivolve isn't one of the builders

puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 25d

probably won't be able to get time stranger right away so going for some grindy min/max stuff in cyber sleuth in the mean time

lucky 2x tactician USB drop on a single development cycle, so that's 4x now (other slot was 1x researcher USB)

should probably get another platinum numemon going soon lol

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puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 29d

good news i lived
we got sandra's m.level back at least

puppetmaster enthusiast @excalibeard.bsky.social · 29d

i guess both XI and XIV exploded at the same time lol

hopefully i don't log back in to a delevel since we were mid-temenos pull :^)

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Fooly Cooly @foolybot.bsky.social · Sep 16

You know I appreciate Digimon keeping their games 2 gens behind graphically so they don't take up 100gb+ on my fucking hard drive but it looks like they actually gave the team a budget for this g... IS THAT A BABY DOOR THAT GOES TO A BABY RESTAURANT FOR BABY DIGIMON ONLY?????