Final Fantasy XV is on my mind this morning.

I have what I have to assume is an abnormal reaction to music posts.

I’m going to play Final Fantasy XIII next. That’s a 13. Those roman numerals are confusing.

I have roughly 15 minutes to think of, write, edit, illustrate, and publish a blog post this morning.

We interrupt this blog post creation for an unscheduled visit from some deer.

Mainly so that I can remember this, here’s a list of the outstanding problems with the blog that need to be resolved someday.

A quick summary of the current status of the Quest for The One Blog.

It’s time for a brief Final Fantasy update.

I would say that getting me to talk or write about myself is like pulling teeth, but I’ve had five or six teeth pulled in my lifetime (or more, I honestly don’t remember), and a ton of root canals, and a ton of dental work in general, so pulling teeth is no big deal to me.

Magi mentioned a topic in the Blaugust discord: “How do you personally get your opinions or thoughts across in a post?”

Bless Unleashed: I mean, it’s free.

I have the day off today, and I have to talk for a moment about the What Up With That SNL sketches.

The Stupid Face Boss in Final Fantasy XIII and The Gandalf Moment in Final Fantasy XIV.

Yesterday I flippantly remarked, “Not exactly a deep meditation on the human condition,” about the Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers story so far. But there was a conversation that my mind keeps returning to: A conversation between the Crystal Exarch and Lord Vauthry.

I ran into a problem with Final Fantasy XIV and I thought I’d share the solution I came up with, because you certainly won’t find it anywhere on Reddit.

I wish the arbitrary geometric leveling curve didn’t mess up story pacing.

Sometimes MMORPGs make you play a different character for narrative purposes and I don’t like it very much.

I spent last night in Final Fantasy XIV standing at the Neverending Storybook (not the actual name) refreshing my memory on story events from the very end of A Realm Reborn and the post-Heavensward stuff with The Word Of The Mother and the Warriors of Darkness.

I was going to pull out one of seemingly hundreds of half-written posts to finish them, but then I realized I hate all of them! And now it’s evening. So here’s some screenshots. It’s from that game I’ve been playing. You know the one I mean.

Hey, writing blog posts every day isn’t that fun sometimes. Here’s some screenshots. From that same game again. Because they’re the only screenshots I took yesterday.

I didn’t even rename the screenshot files this time.

I think we’re supposed to be writing about how we bloggers stay motivated when blogging, but I think a much more relatable topic for the masses is how we definitely, positively don’t stay motivated.

I’m waking up to this news that Final Fantasy XIV has closed off all the North American Aether servers to new players indefinitely because they can’t handle the strain anymore.

Yesterday I mentioned how much I worried that Final Fantasy XIV was staggering into their new expansion on duct tape and bailing wire, so I thought today I’d mention the MMORPGs that appear to have a much more solid technology base that I don’t have to worry about.

I finished the first ending of Shadowbringers. The one before the long series of post-expansion patches.