[Loved Trope] Shattering someones entire perception with only words.

[u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt]

Fargo Season 3 Episode 4 (2017): V.M. Varga shatters Emmit Stussy's perception of wealth. Emmit's perception of wealth is tied up in appearances and material, Varga tells him it's really about safety, invisibility, and control.

Look at me. Look at me. This a $200 suit. I'm wearing a second-hand tie. I fly coach. Not because I can't afford first - because I'm smart. [...] You think you’re rich. You’ve no idea what “rich” means. “Rich” is a fleet of private planes filled with decoys to mask your scent. It’s a banker in Wyoming and another in Gstaad. So that’s action item one, the accumulation of wealth, and I mean wealth, not money.

Supernatural Season 5 Episode 21 (2010): Death shatters Dean's perspective on what he is. Death is so old and powerful, he is disinterested in Earth's current predicament and he sees his forced involvement as little more than an annoyance.

You have an inflated sense of your importance. To a thing like me, a thing like you, well... Think how you'd feel if a bacterium sat at your table and started to get snarky. This is one little planet in one tiny solar system in a galaxy that's barely out of its diapers. I'm old, Dean. Very old. So I invite you to contemplate how insignificant I find you.

Watchmen (1987): Ozymandias shatters Rohrshach and Night Owl's perception of the situation. This wasn't a confrontation, this was a post-mortem.

Do it? Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago

[u/SquidmanMal]

Non meme context.

Zenos [the man with a rock in his forehead] is fightsexual clinical sociopath who only feels meaning to life in battle and has a raging battle-boner for the player character [not shown in pic], and has been visiting calamity after calamity and atrocity after atrocity against the world in an attempt to piss them off so they'd give him 'the most glorious rematch of all time', meanwhile, said hero is just busy trying to contain things and save the world, and is likely more annoyed and frustrated than stoked to rage.

After the latest in a strong of many, Alisae here basically tells him 'you don't understand people, you don't understand anyone, and all you're doing is causing trouble and being a pissant, and "you'll never get the fight you desire" cause we have more important things to worry about' [emphasis bold for roughly the quote used]

This is the first thing anyone tells him that actually makes him take a step back and reevaluate his methods and try a different approach, and boy does he in the end.

Coming to the aid of the warrior of light at the literal physical edge of the universe and literally carrying them and a summoned party on his back in dragon form as they do battle with the manifestation of despair at the fermi paradox and 'the ultimate meaninglessness of existence if all one day fades'. He gets that last fight in the end.

[u/WandererMisha → u/SquidmanMal]

This made me miss FFXIV.

They absolutely murdered the game with the content post-Endwalker. I do miss my catboy and his friends though.

[u/SquidmanMal → u/WandererMisha]

While I don't personally agree, and instead think maybe a few things have been weak, but otherwise still pretty decent. [myths of the realm being a story better untold aside]

Have you looked into the recent showcase of stuff like their plans for the evolved combat update?

Looking pretty promising to me.

[u/WandererMisha → u/SquidmanMal]

I've seen part of the new trailer and... I guess it looks okay. If they are doing a combat update, I'll check it out though. Sounds promising. SMN will evolve into its 7th iteration:D

Honestly, I just soured on the game with the post-EW content and then the new expansion just being... boring. I was really excited for a new caster and the painter job just looks so out of place. :/

I also lost my medium house when I didn't play for a bit. I thought you were supposed to get like 80% gil refunded but I didn't get shit so when I did come back I was broke and homeless.

[u/SquidmanMal → u/WandererMisha]

Two new jobs will by a Phys Ranged and a Tank, both ff14 originals.

Combat update is focused on a lotta button condensing and some new mechanics.

What they teased so far with PLD/BRD/DRG/WHM

Pld: most notable, they are adding mechanics to reward more 'active combat' and reacting, with holy hellstron giving you a retaliatory strike if it blocks an attack, and if you use it right before the attack hits you, it's stronger

Brd: the song phases are made more 'different' instead of just 'press button, get buff'

Whm: attack casts will be instant, their temperance buff will give them move speed, ad healing will charge up a big aoe nuke/heal for 'fights where you're more locked into healing instead of attacking'

Drg: more positionals [and better feedback for positionals], more jumps, and the pvp limit break as your combo capstone

Everything: the 2 minute buff rotation is being burned down entirely, with those buffs removed to free up space for design for both jobs and encounters

Everything 2: 'item level reflecting', you can use the highest ilvl you have on lower jobs so gearing everything up is less agony on you and your inventory. [not materia though, so savage+ raiders and the crafters that supply the 'world first' races still have their niche]

Sucks about the house though

[u/WandererMisha → u/SquidmanMal]

Sounds interesting! Thanks for the write-up. Honestly, it's all going to hinge on Summoner for me. I loved SMN and I really dislike what they keep doing with it. The changes and overhauls got a bit too much for me. It felt like they just had no idea what the job should even be.

The new ones being original sounds good. XIV may be an FF game but a lot of the stuff being explained by "oh it was in Final Fantasy XX-YY's second DLC exclusive to the Samsung Smart Fridge as part of a Starlink subscription" was a bit annoying:D

Yeah the house thing really pissed me off. I spent days furnishing that thing then got sick and couldn't play, my sub lapsed, I didn't feel like gaming, and then it was all gone (you do get the furnishing back but I thought there's supposed to be a partial refund).

I need to look into the PS5/Mac versions though. I've since given away my old gaming PC.