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Final Fantasy XI

Final Fantasy XI is the eleventh numbered installment in the… Okay, you know what it is, I’m just going to tell you about one of the storylines!

During the Wings of the Goddess expansion, adventurers will be sent back in time to experience the events of the Crystal War, a cataclysmic event that is the foundation for conflicts of the modern-day timeline. Should an adventurer choose to serve the Kingdom of San d’Oria, they will be immersed in the story of the Young Griffons—a group of children who would see themselves knights, many of whom grow into prominent characters later in life.

Among the Young Griffons, the player will find Bistillot, a shy boy who doesn’t like to be seen. With his penchant for engineering, shy demeanor, and lack of combat potential, Bistillot prefers to spend his time inside of an orcish war machine that he was able to repair to working condition.

He is often seen before he is heard, with his signature phrase, “HAAAALLOOOOOOOOO” being used to hail the adventurer. Through the course of the story, Bistillot finds his way, even contributing to the war effort with his engineering skills.

However, when another member of the Young Griffons is kidnapped and taken to the present day, the adventurer must return to the present day and reunite with the Young Griffons’ present selves! The adventurer’s first contact in the present day is Bistillot. When the adventurer hears the signature “HAAAALLOOOOOOO,” Bistillot approaches the player, but what the player sees is… a woman?? She introduces herself as Bostilette, a “friend of Bistillot.”

After the rescue mission, Bostilette comes clean. She is, of course, the very same Bistillot who was a little boy twenty years earlier. She explains that she was very sick as a baby, so her parents gave her a boy’s name so that she would be stronger and survive the illness. Once she overcame the illness, she was comfortable to reclaim her name and gender. Well, that closes the book on that story, except… I’ve decided that’s bullshit!

I have unilaterally decided that Bostilette is trans, the sickness she had was dysphoria, she stayed in the orcish war machine because she was an egg, and I hope you all agree!

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  • Spoonless again yes-honey-left everyone who has ever written a music player program that reads tags, and hell maybe even the people who programmed the tags: why the fuck?

    • As someone that has tagged music for an uncountable number of hours: autism. I hate when my songs have the capitalization all wrong or the year is wrong, etc. I also meticulously organize the files and folders and have foobar set up to generate tags from the file/folder names so I only have to get everything right once. And don't even get me started on people who upload albums without track numbers in the filenames.... Sure! I definitely want to listen to Something Else by the Kinks in alphabetical order instead of the album order! jokerfied

      • Why yes I do have autism how did you know bridget-smug

        Look right, Fiio's music player, you give it an album with these quotes in the title: " it will sort them into the # category, very normal. If you give it an album with this quote in the title: “ it will stuff that album into the letter U. Very normal.

        Other comedies include Winamp (via the WACUP project) not liking album images tagged to WAV files, shit like "Who" vs "The Who", certain players ignoring how Album Artist is supposed to work, AIMP reading album titles from folder titles instead of tags, and more. Basically no two players will read tags the same, and as a result trying to make my music library easy to plug into every player is torture. Why.

        • If you give it an album with this quote in the title: “ it will stuff that album into the letter U.

          ahahahaha okay so I'm 99% sure I can explain this one as a computer toucher

          since people (well americans at least) first came up with technology that required sending text over wires, they had to come up with a binary representation of each character. The baseline standard was ASCII, which only has 128 characters and some of them are invisible control characters that were supposed to tell your typewriter (telex) or terminal to do something besides "print a letter", so there wasn't room for every single variation of every character.

          There were a lot of different standards to add more characters, or different character sets entirely for regional variation, but eventually we kinda got our shit together and made Unicode, which can code for more or less everything from dead languages, to languages that read right to left, to kanji, etc.

          But not everything supports unicode, and even if it does, it doesn't necessarily have the fonts to display it, or software written to take it into account (sometimes there are fun hacks around this). So back to your albums:

          " is a standard ascii character, #34 but “ is a unicode character called "left double quotation mark". A common way of representing unicode characters in non-unicode-aware environments is U+<hexadecimal number>. So in the categorizing/sorting part of the fiio's software, it must be sorting based on U+201C, which is the hex representation of that character.

          Competent software written for english at least usually ignores special characters for the purpose of sorting, but software that has to be aware of lots of other languages I'm sure is even more complex. Either way neither of those weird sortings should happen in a well written software, but the software for single purpose devices like that is frequently half-assed these days, even more than it used to be, so you see a lot of quirks and bugs.

          You could see if there's a firmware update available, even my cheapo DAP had a surprising number of firmware updates that did moderately improve functionality and fix some bugs.

        • I am now wondering how it sorts emoji, if they also go into the middle of the U or somewhere else entirely

        • This is why I always use folder structure over media database with any DAP. I like my shit organized in my very autistic way and the tags are just for the now playing screen, as far as I'm concerned. I love the universal* standard** of ID3 tags!

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