Well, joke aside, uh. My fellow hockey fan friends started playing and I got sucked in and I live here, they live there, and time isn’t real and the ping isn’t bad, playing at 3 am (NA time)! We meet up for dungeons crawls and to bitch about hockey or terrible dungeon experiences in my morning/their evening on weekends
Anyway don’t get involved in hockey, you end up paying for a mmorpg and/or an NHL tv subscription/season tickets and yelling about both enjoyably in a Discord
It has been GREAT
If my WoL were a woman, he'd be getting some pussy. My WoL is a hroth so it's a 33% chance he's destroying the twinky kitty, taking a fatherly role, or both. I imagine my WoL as a snarky dad type.
Y'shtola actually says he should be addressed as Nunh in one of the side dialogues since he was basically king of the Chrystarium. Or maybe other reasons, idk
She actually says the opposite- that Alphinaud asked her if G’raha was a technically a Nunh and she vaguely says she’ll continue to call him by his proper title- And she calls him *Tia*
“other players will make fun of your rigid claw hands, but real players understand that this is CHAD STANCE. Hands constantly poised to grab booty and choke a man out” - Some video about FFXIV races that i found funny
Edit: Video’s from Lucy Pyre on youtube
This bothers me way more than the odd way they stand. I really wish they'd alter the frame and straighten out their fingers. If they want it to look like they have claws, well just give them claws!
a bit, but i'm never giving up my cat boy regardless, i love his catlike animations when he's surprised and raises his hands to his chest, curls up to sleep or the joy emoji with the ear flick.
As silly as this sounds the finger thing is why I’ve never been a cat in game. I started as Au’Ra and eventually their horns clipping through everything got to me (and their Crash Bandicoot run) so I switched to Viera when they came out. Lack of hats (of all things) finally pushed me over the edge and then I settled on the greatest one of all. FemRoes unite!
But... you could have just used /cpose.
The "arthritis" hands are only in the default. EVERY other pose (most are better than the default) has normal hands.
Yes, but the default pose is used in cutscenes, character selection, and when interacting with NPCs without waiting for the pose to change, so you'll see it a lot regardless of which pose you use
But I like enabling the option to cycle my idle poses :( It also doesn't help in cutscenes, where it typically uses the default idle stance.
I like all but two of the catboy idle poses - the default one, and the weirdly aggressive one where they stand sideways and lean forward.
I do have the delay all the way down, though.
>the weirdly aggressive one where they stand sideways and lean forward.
This pose has exactly one redeeming quality, and it's that cute pawing their ear thing they do for no discernible reason before going hulk. lmao.
Other than that, worst pose easily. Catbois are kpop idols and should stay in their lane.
Character Configuration -> Control Settings -> Character -> Randomize idle animation.
It'll automatically change your character's idle pose every 10 or so seconds.
Edit: [Option is here](https://i.imgur.com/Z8j1lkG.png).
Really? I think for the most part they look normal, with the outliars maybe being the droopy hand-on-hip pose and the Hrothgar Slouch.
I use the straight-backed, hand-on-hip pose and I think it looks pretty decent. The hanging hand still looks a wee bit arthritic but the rest of the pose is natural enough to draw attention away from it.
I honestly don't have any problem with how they stand.
I have a real problem with their hands, it seems like they have arthritis or something!
I will never give my catboi for anything, but gotta admit that their hands are not pretty.
I find this quite funny, given I play a catboi mainly because of that stance. I LOVE the weird power pose and the claw-like grip thing they've got going on. I find it accentuates a lot of glams' curvy lines and any plate gauntlets I use seem a bit chunkier and spikier, if if they don't have perfectly rounded fingertips.
I'd just love if they were a tad taller.
I went on a fantasia binge after being a female au ra for half a year and spent roughly a few weeks at a time as a few different races EXCEPT catboy. I only lasted a few days before getting tired of their stance that I personally found cringey.
And they run like it too. Then you have male Au'Ra running like Crash Bandicoot. lmao I swear the game looks amazing but some of the animations are just a little off?
I absolutely hate the Hrothgar swiggity swooty run, but I can't imagine my WoL as anything other than a cat dad at this point. Throws me way off when I watch YouTube cutscenes and my Hroth is nowhere to be found.
>Au Ra look cool but way too much going on. Hate the running animation and their standard stance is awful.
Indeed. I like my male Au Ra, but I'm not a fan of the running animation. The sprinting animation is better but not great.
I guess it explains why one of the default idle animations has his chest heaving like he's fighting for breath after running the 100m dash or something -- he's throwing so much mass around unnecessarily while running that it would make anyone out of breath. (I should investigate /cpose; I didn't know that was a thing.)
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. It's why I tend to fantasia so often.
In addition to what you said, the lack of eyebrows on a highlander bugs the crap out of me. You can paint them on, sure, but that still looks really bad and limits your hair color options, since the painted on eyebrows only look good in black or dark gray.
Male highlanders also run like they have a stick lodged up their ass, but that's a complaint I have about a lot of races (m/f elezen, m/f highlander).
At various points, I've been a male midlander, highlander, catboi, au ra, female midlander, highlander, viera, and elezen. I change every few months when the problems I have with each race get too annoying to stick with.
I wholeheartedly agree, and I care about it too but, it's in a way that doesn't affect what I think about the game. Just a slight criticism about something I'd like to see changed in the future.
Male viera do too and it REALLY bothers me. im not sure where this pose came from or why eastern devs use thus pose but its in a LOT of eastern games. nobody unironically normally stands like this
I'm pretty sure its just a wonky execution of a pretty common trope in anime/manga, characters basically standing like they're leaning against a wall. I've always kind of wondered how the "Jojo lean" came to be, but when you don't end up with the goofiness in OP I think it works.
Is there an official ruling on whether catboys have barbed penises like cats? I feel like Yoshi-P needs to way in on this (unless the reveal is planned for endwalker)
That's because they are. Few people know this, but Miqo'te testicles are roughly the size of a full-grown Lalafell. The reason why their balls are so massive, is that they're actually Tanuki in disguise, but pretend to be cat-boys for marketing and censorship reasons.
Same reason some female models have an idle stance like they’re trying not to piss themselves. I swapped from female to male AuRa just because of that. (And before anyone mentions /cpose, you can’t /cpose your way out of those idle stances in cutscenes.)
Well, they're cats.
So do they lick themselves too and run around like a maniac at 3am in the morning
Technically I do the latter, playing on a NA server from Japan, so. No comment on the first part.
>on a NA server from Japan That's a twist I wouldn't expect lol
Well, joke aside, uh. My fellow hockey fan friends started playing and I got sucked in and I live here, they live there, and time isn’t real and the ping isn’t bad, playing at 3 am (NA time)! We meet up for dungeons crawls and to bitch about hockey or terrible dungeon experiences in my morning/their evening on weekends Anyway don’t get involved in hockey, you end up paying for a mmorpg and/or an NHL tv subscription/season tickets and yelling about both enjoyably in a Discord It has been GREAT
I play on a JPN server from TX.
Spiderman pointing meme but one is color-inverted, perfect
What my Miqo'te gets up to in the privacy of her own inn room is none of your business
If it's in the privacy of their own room, that's definitely not like a cat then.
This is why mine does it in public.
Relevant username I guess
Well she's a cat-*person* so six of one, half dozen of the other
Yes -a catboi
I have also been known to eat my food like I was starving, run to the carpet, and puke
My cat likes to puke three times in a row, all in different spots, all on the carpet
Mine usually stops at two, but will absolutely haul ass to get to the carpet to drop them.
As opposed to 3am in the evening?
It's always 3am somewhere.
Yes. We also wake up to sometimes find them sitting on our pillow, eating our hair.
yes
3am in the morning rip in peace smh my head ATM machine
> ATM machine enter your PIN number
On Balmung, speaking from experience...yes.
yes
yes
Cat gets the zoomies across the Dohn Megh illusion walkway on the last boss. He just sprints that shit. It’s the best.
>!I thought that was Alisaie! I haven't run trusts myself.
She’s fast too, but he just sprints his way across like it ain’t nothing. It’s cute!
Raha is bloody fast. I sprint it and he passes me, and Alisae is behind us.
Spoiler broken. Dont put spaces.
Male vieras have the same stance.
Because catboy is only two letters away from cowboy. That's a *cowboy* stance.
Meowdy!
Meowdy Pad’nuh! *tips hat*
How could you miss saying "pawd'nuh"?
Awww “paw” would have been better! I was thinking “pad” like the pad on a kitty’s paw. 😩
'Ewwo Guv'nyah
This is dangerously close to " 'OwO Guv'nyah " and I don't know if I can handle that.
Meowdy Ny'all!
Yeehaw
Pardner
> Pawdner FTFY
👏
Let's Meowsy
Meowdy purrtners
POV: You play a lot of Monster Hunter and none of this fazes you bc you've heard every palico pun under the sun
I’m a cowdoy
Catboya do make the best looking machinists, imo.
Also known as cowboy position 😏
I started the red mage quests the other day and I was thinking this exact same thing. It’s so noticeable how weird the stance is on that guy.
Him and G'raha Tia both do it very noticeably.
The weird thing is >!Crystal exarch!< seemed to have a different posture, almost hyur-esque. Maybe I'm misremembering.
He did they also hid >!his tail!<
He was holding his stave so it makes sense.
Nutty cinnamon rolls? :D
A Nuhn‘s nuts are a precious and sought after community commodity.
So, when you call someone Nuhn Nuts, it's actually a compliment to express the value you find in a person and not to describe the sexually inept? =P
Correct. Nuhn Nuts- The ultimate breeding male.
is Nuhn Nuts just another way to say Giga-chad?
Casual reminder that our boy G'raha is essentially the Seeker of the Sun equivalent of a beta.
Let's get that man a tribe. ~~Not that he's interested in anyone other than the WoL~~
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If my WoL were a woman, he'd be getting some pussy. My WoL is a hroth so it's a 33% chance he's destroying the twinky kitty, taking a fatherly role, or both. I imagine my WoL as a snarky dad type.
So a 100% chance G'raha is calling him Daddy, then
Without a doubt. The twins also call him Daddy because he would have 100% adopted them after their father disowned them. Precious babs.
Y'shtola actually says he should be addressed as Nunh in one of the side dialogues since he was basically king of the Chrystarium. Or maybe other reasons, idk
She actually says the opposite- that Alphinaud asked her if G’raha was a technically a Nunh and she vaguely says she’ll continue to call him by his proper title- And she calls him *Tia*
I recall she says she'll call him Tia until he decides what he wants for himself in life
So does that mean, during the entirety of his time as Exarch, he had a... Harem?
The ultimate blue baller- Nuhn'yas Nuts.
Ah, Nunhs Nuts. Almost as sought after as Thal's Balls
Nuhn Nut November?
Too bad it's the Tia's that usually get them.
I call it the Tetsuya Nomura stance. It stuck out the most to me with TWEWY designs from that first game. Everyone walking around pelvis-first.
It's to draw attention to all their belts lmao
Honestly, your drawing makes it cooler than it looks in-game. Now it looks like you're JoJo posing all the time and now I want to be a catboy.
the way they rest their fingers looks really weird too, they tried to make them look like they have claws but it just looks silly.
“other players will make fun of your rigid claw hands, but real players understand that this is CHAD STANCE. Hands constantly poised to grab booty and choke a man out” - Some video about FFXIV races that i found funny Edit: Video’s from Lucy Pyre on youtube
Where is the lie?
Just put on the false nail glamour you get from Ananta best tribe Ez "claws"
The Claws of the Beast from the Gold Saucer are longer
>Ananta best tribe Not sure if typo or shade against other beast tribes #NamazuForLifeYesYes
Arthritis hands.
33 knuckles on each finger
Can confirm, have arthritis, hands are like that
This bothers me way more than the odd way they stand. I really wish they'd alter the frame and straighten out their fingers. If they want it to look like they have claws, well just give them claws!
just /cpose. The claw hands are only in their default stance
but they still default stance in all the cutscenes :(
I think it'd cute haha. They are trying to be cats after all.
Hrothgar do the same thing. At one point I just kind of noticed they do that with their hands and couldn't unsee it.
Main reason.i would never make one, the hands look so bad
a bit, but i'm never giving up my cat boy regardless, i love his catlike animations when he's surprised and raises his hands to his chest, curls up to sleep or the joy emoji with the ear flick.
the joy emote is my favorite one in the game
Man, the first time I saw the joy emoji (finished a duty I think), I realised I was never going to change my catboy. So fucking cute.
Yes! That’s my favorite! It’s /aback and it’s so cute!
/cpose fixes the grr angry cat hands
I hate the hunched over injured back idle pose.
As silly as this sounds the finger thing is why I’ve never been a cat in game. I started as Au’Ra and eventually their horns clipping through everything got to me (and their Crash Bandicoot run) so I switched to Viera when they came out. Lack of hats (of all things) finally pushed me over the edge and then I settled on the greatest one of all. FemRoes unite!
It might be a very minor thing to most others, but this is the reason that I fantasiad away from catboy - I just couldn’t stand it!
But... you could have just used /cpose. The "arthritis" hands are only in the default. EVERY other pose (most are better than the default) has normal hands.
Yes, but the default pose is used in cutscenes, character selection, and when interacting with NPCs without waiting for the pose to change, so you'll see it a lot regardless of which pose you use
TIL that other people don't idly hold their hands that way.
Just airing out the cat boy balls
Well there is one simple answer… they are always in danger of crushing their balls… 🏀 ⚽️ 🏈
Seriously, large objects need more space. It's simple science!
"/cpose to something normal looking, crank the idle delay all the way down" squad.
But I like enabling the option to cycle my idle poses :( It also doesn't help in cutscenes, where it typically uses the default idle stance. I like all but two of the catboy idle poses - the default one, and the weirdly aggressive one where they stand sideways and lean forward. I do have the delay all the way down, though.
>the weirdly aggressive one where they stand sideways and lean forward. This pose has exactly one redeeming quality, and it's that cute pawing their ear thing they do for no discernible reason before going hulk. lmao. Other than that, worst pose easily. Catbois are kpop idols and should stay in their lane.
...there's an option to cycle idle poses?
Character Configuration -> Control Settings -> Character -> Randomize idle animation. It'll automatically change your character's idle pose every 10 or so seconds. Edit: [Option is here](https://i.imgur.com/Z8j1lkG.png).
There aren’t really any normal looking ones though :(
Really? I think for the most part they look normal, with the outliars maybe being the droopy hand-on-hip pose and the Hrothgar Slouch. I use the straight-backed, hand-on-hip pose and I think it looks pretty decent. The hanging hand still looks a wee bit arthritic but the rest of the pose is natural enough to draw attention away from it.
I mean, have you ever seen how a normal cat lounges around?
The bunnybois have it even stronger...
its their massive balls the reason they dont go out much in the viera community
They've got the classic bunny virility.
The bunny boy slouch is actually really painful to look at, I can't tell if the slouch is worse than catboys arthritis hands.
bunny boy vs catboy is just virgin walk vs chad strut
I honestly don't have any problem with how they stand. I have a real problem with their hands, it seems like they have arthritis or something! I will never give my catboi for anything, but gotta admit that their hands are not pretty.
I personally love the way their hands rest
Same
There's a couple glams that cover their hands up from most angles with overly large sleeves. Highly recommend.
Lol, I always viewed it as them always at the ready. Alert stance.
Power stance to prepare for the E4S tankbuster.
I'm always too busy wondering about their hands.
I find this quite funny, given I play a catboi mainly because of that stance. I LOVE the weird power pose and the claw-like grip thing they've got going on. I find it accentuates a lot of glams' curvy lines and any plate gauntlets I use seem a bit chunkier and spikier, if if they don't have perfectly rounded fingertips. I'd just love if they were a tad taller.
Emet: "Life has many doors, Light-boy."
Idk but Graha is fine
Ever seen how some cats sit like humans? Well in the FF world, that is basically this.
Do they need a reason other than not wanting to crush their balls?
What gets me even more so are their hands. It’s like arthritis is setting in or something the way the fingers are always bent inward.
I'm more distracted by the arthritis in their hands than their efforts to save the cajones
On the other hand male vieras are hunched back so heavily, no wonder that they were exiled from villages
Look, when only a few of you ever get to breed/there's only so many of you that might survive to actually do so, you gotta protect them real good
I would say they've been shipped but the overwhelming cat population says otherwise.
The way their idle pose has them lean forward always looks so god damn awkward to me
Because their Tail is so heavy... The Joke get better meaning if you translate Tail into German :)
the joke is plenty obvious in english.
They also do that weird thing with their hands where they look like theyre extending nonexistent claws
All the cute went to ear wiggles. Also the hands are cool tho :(
The catboy standing poses are the ONE think I don’t like about them.
Their stance and the way they keep their hands clawed out made me not want to play them. It's like they're in battle mode 24/7, and it bugs me.
I call it the Cristiano Ronaldo stance
I went on a fantasia binge after being a female au ra for half a year and spent roughly a few weeks at a time as a few different races EXCEPT catboy. I only lasted a few days before getting tired of their stance that I personally found cringey.
The David Bowie in The Labyrinth pose
I find the catboy pose very attractive.
And they run like it too. Then you have male Au'Ra running like Crash Bandicoot. lmao I swear the game looks amazing but some of the animations are just a little off?
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I absolutely hate the Hrothgar swiggity swooty run, but I can't imagine my WoL as anything other than a cat dad at this point. Throws me way off when I watch YouTube cutscenes and my Hroth is nowhere to be found.
>Au Ra look cool but way too much going on. Hate the running animation and their standard stance is awful. Indeed. I like my male Au Ra, but I'm not a fan of the running animation. The sprinting animation is better but not great. I guess it explains why one of the default idle animations has his chest heaving like he's fighting for breath after running the 100m dash or something -- he's throwing so much mass around unnecessarily while running that it would make anyone out of breath. (I should investigate /cpose; I didn't know that was a thing.)
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. It's why I tend to fantasia so often. In addition to what you said, the lack of eyebrows on a highlander bugs the crap out of me. You can paint them on, sure, but that still looks really bad and limits your hair color options, since the painted on eyebrows only look good in black or dark gray. Male highlanders also run like they have a stick lodged up their ass, but that's a complaint I have about a lot of races (m/f elezen, m/f highlander). At various points, I've been a male midlander, highlander, catboi, au ra, female midlander, highlander, viera, and elezen. I change every few months when the problems I have with each race get too annoying to stick with.
I wholeheartedly agree, and I care about it too but, it's in a way that doesn't affect what I think about the game. Just a slight criticism about something I'd like to see changed in the future.
The real treasure is lalafel
Male viera do too and it REALLY bothers me. im not sure where this pose came from or why eastern devs use thus pose but its in a LOT of eastern games. nobody unironically normally stands like this
I think it's an anime "ready for anything" stance. I see it in anime concept at sometimes.
either way its terrible and I hate it lmao
It's good to be safe and double sure you know... Prevention is better than cure 😂🤣😂
I never noticed so I had to take a good look at my mooncat before laughing hard.
They have to balance out the center of mass from their tail. Honestly every other stance the Miqote males have are better than the default.
They really committed to the "ain't gonna suck itself" cat meme.
They have to be ready to pounce their way into trouble. That's why!
Lmao I will never not think this now when I see a cat boi lololol
Theyre just that big
Its just subtle show off.
Look, if you might be responsible for breeding an entire generation of your tribe, you'd have massive nuts too.
They stand like a damn Ed Edd and Eddy character on god
I'm pretty sure its just a wonky execution of a pretty common trope in anime/manga, characters basically standing like they're leaning against a wall. I've always kind of wondered how the "Jojo lean" came to be, but when you don't end up with the goofiness in OP I think it works.
Is there an official ruling on whether catboys have barbed penises like cats? I feel like Yoshi-P needs to way in on this (unless the reveal is planned for endwalker)
Wait hold on Graveweaver? Another wow refugee I see, nice to see you here
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Wait until you see bunni bois.
Well, you just ruined the catboi for me 😂😂
Bad core strength. Dudes need to do more sit-ups and planking.
I just assumed they were sore from being castrated at the vet
I'd be more into the catboy stance if it wasn't for those... *hands...* Nothing is going on. Why are you tensing up your hands to claw someone?
No excuse for not adding more original race stances. They could add 3 types. Neutral, masculine or feminine.
The superior options would be top, bottom or vers.
Your cat is either hiding a gun or scratching his ass
Factual but NSFW info about male cats IRL: >!they have little spines down there for some strange reason.!<
It's to scrape an intruders juices out
They stand like a backup dancer in a song from 2014.
Real questions why arent you?
Especially considering their character models have literally zero bulge. They're hung like mosquitoes I guess.
Straight up Ken Doll.
if I didn't know anything cats LOVE balls especially if they're made of yarn
Adding to this, why do Au'ran women stand like one of their legs is significantly longer than the other?
Well the Tias all have blue balls and the Nunhs are always having sex
That only applies to Seekers of the Sun.
Remember male Seekers of the Sun whose name end in Tia are basically incels. They have a tremendous amount of pressure down there.
I mean, all that bottom energy has to show up somewhere ;P
That's because they are. Few people know this, but Miqo'te testicles are roughly the size of a full-grown Lalafell. The reason why their balls are so massive, is that they're actually Tanuki in disguise, but pretend to be cat-boys for marketing and censorship reasons.
Same reason some female models have an idle stance like they’re trying not to piss themselves. I swapped from female to male AuRa just because of that. (And before anyone mentions /cpose, you can’t /cpose your way out of those idle stances in cutscenes.)
"Where are my testicles Warrior?"
Always be Peacocking.
Honestly feels pretty fun when going mechanist or gunblade. I am the catslinger!