We escaped from the hellmouth of a wedding filled with Eldritch horrors too grotesque to describe so we could bring you this episode. Just kidding, we’re definitely going to go into detail about the weird and wonderful wedding of the century between two of our very own hosts where nobody got swallowed whole by a horrid human/chocobo hybrid! We also get into a pretty deep discussion about parsing peoples’ in-game performance and the toxic behavior that can enable in less civil players, along with some common sense advice on how not to be terrible to other people.

After we bungee jump into the abyss of toxic players and a wedding wrought in the darkest fever dreams of Stephen King we return to more pleasant topics and discuss the finer details of progressing your crafters through the intermediate levels and how you can make that as pleasurable as possible. Finally, we get to peek in to whether Final Fantasy XIV elves are French and which of the many in-game races might asexually reproduce.

Hosts

Christina Zammarrelli

Gaming has been a core part throughout Poptarts life. Though her specialty is JRPGs, she tries to branch out and try new things. Most of her time gets put into the MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV, but she still finds time to play new games.

Chip Locke

Chip has a boring adult day job and then burns as much free time as possible playing the videos james. Fond of a variety of MMOs, JRPGs, and action games without active time button mashing.

Kristen Allison

Began the gaming life with a game boy to be kept entertained during a vacation in the early 90s and forgot to put it down after that. Currently, most gaming time goes into FFXIV. Doing her best to prove she's not a robot.

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