Such devastation...
Posted Feb 12, 2021, 6:00 AM UTC
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I will speak with you later ascian the question of who is mightier still remains
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Such devastation
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This was not my intention
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How very glib
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I still can't reconcile the new VA with the goofy old one, they're just too different
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Me either.
I know he's kind of in attonement mode but they need to show him giving a big speech for me to think of them as the same character. Really hope they don't off him, and have him become like a Vegeta character.
At least let him live long enough to have him interact with Nero and Maxima (and maybe Fordola if the writers ever remember her)
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He's more in crybaby mode. What he said in ARR was simply correct. That the strong stand above the weak, that's simlpy what those two words MEAN. What you make out of it is the point. That the impotent ruler will not even be able to help the weak if he wants to is also just a fact. And even worse, the impotent ruler will very likely have become ruler by other means already, by abuse and alike and continue to do this to stay there.
You can have the best intentions, without power you simply LACK the power to do anything. And most violence is born from lack of power, because it's lack of power that leaves you with a life out of control and full of fear. And people in fear are easily controlled. That's why creating and pushing fears is the most used propaganda tool of all times.
Without magical plot armor Mary Sue WoL who just slaughters all problems, Eorza would already be a burning hole in the ground, ruined by its own corruption. And even the WoL wasn't strong enough to save for example Ala Migho. Without Fordola Ala Migho would be utterly dead, followed by Eorza. Just one of many examples.
What did Gaius want in ARR? He wanted to get rid of the primals, because they are fucking dangerous, even more dangerous than ABC weaponry, and unite Eorza (something that should have been done a long time ago, since small city states are never a good way to run thing).
Wow, that's so evil.
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Uh I when I said atonement I meant more for his conquests as the black wolf and his contributions to the weapons project than his ARR stuff. Although I guess we haven’t seen what was happening in that area yet (maybe they had a rampant primal problem)
Nah Eorza is really fucked up, especially with regards to beastmen. I just hope Gaius gets his vigor back to give us big speeches.
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I still don't get the problem with the weapons beside the possibility to abuse them - like you can abuse all kind of other power.
The idea to have, well, weapons against primals seems like a really good one
Yeah, sure, there is the action jesus, master king of all murder hobos who can insta stomp any primal and in this fictional story it will never happen, that a primal lives long enough to threaten anyone.
But from an IG PoV it's just absolutely insane to put everything on ONE guy hopefully being around to kill these things before they mass murder or brainwash thousands if not even millions of people - especially when this guy's allies seem to think it's a funny idea to spread primal summoning as part of their war tactics (those weapons WERE alreayd infused with a primal, so very likely the chaos sowing of Eorza, playing with the lives of countless innocent for their own peronal gain, already led to primal summoning).
Garlemald surely also got other means to kill primals (as seen when Bismark was quickly crushed by their firepower and had to consume one of these floating islands to heal its wounds) - but that just makes the whole "oh no, they got weapons" pretty pointless, since they really don't need these things for anthing else than against Eikons. Such flying heavily armored outposts are far better to obliterate any other enemy than such laughable weak weapons were and they still GOT even chemical warfare since many years - -- and never used it.
I indeed woul hope for the story to develope some depth, but I don't see this anymore. Since the pirates are now suddenly merchants (without any base for it, beside Uldah for sure very excited about it... not) or survive by guardings fisher boats (really? how?) and we just pulle a cure for tempering out of our ass and of course just solve the whole beast tribes problem out of sudden. As exass said "if there only would be a cure for the victimes of the tempered".
The victims of the tempered? If only there was a cure for all the victims of Eorzan and Sharlayan fascism, what LED to the whole primal and tempered problem, not because they were brainwashed, but simply out of greed and arrogance.
But that's just easily washed away of course, what else and to make sure that no on even asks, we just put in some completely bland psycho who simply wants "everyone to die", including himself, while Zenos, instead of just porting over to the WoL to fight him/her or whatever just sits there and goes along with that dumb plan, as if that would make any sense at all. Oh, yeah sure, it's probably about some "Hydaelyn vs Zodiark" showdown, but how would make that sense? Hydaelyn sucks powerwise. It's simply a weapon with the specific ability to cut things into pieces. So merging with it and Zodiark would not really lead to an exciting duell at all, it would be the planet itself vs that weapon that was created to cut it into pieces.
Not that this will matter in the end, we will just get scripted fight #123 and win it.
And I really wish to be wrong. But I wish that since years meanwhile and sadly only ever was when I thought it would get better somehow.
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I had this issue with depressed Thancred
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Probably saw, that Gaius arguments made way too much sense, so they told the guy voicing him to speak like a mad man. People fall for such tricks all the time, just give someone a sweet, calm voice and they even chear to the most fascistic shit, because someone with a nice voice can't be evil, movies (and games) teached them that.
Same the other way around, the ugly guy with the creepy voice clearly must be evil annd/or insane, that's how you become ugly and get a creepy voice.
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Such intention
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This was not my devastation
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...do you think this devastation was his intention?
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I have a sneaking suspicion that it was not.
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Eorzea, mine by right!
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Weebhunter 9000
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This needs one more panel where the killer says "Pathetic"
And a panel before that with the tidus laugh. That laha laugh is creepy xD
YOU WERE GIVEN THE ULTIMATE WEAPON! THE ULTIMATE MAGIC! AND STILL, YOU FAILED. SO MUCH FOR THE GLORY OF MAN.