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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people get weirded out when they see i have my mouse on the left of my keyboard, but are unprepared entirely for the fucked up controls i use in video games
i remember the good old days of arrow keys for movement and R-CTRL for action
i actually still use the arrow keys for movement, and have everything else centred around that
so in minecraft for example it's arrow keys for movement, numpad 0 for sprint, numpad 2 for crouch, right ctrl for jump, del for menu, and end for swapping to offhand
that seems legit
used to play co op with the brother on the same keyboard like 30 years ago, douche always hogged the left side of the board
that takes me back to playing shitty co-op flash games with my brother like 15 years ago
we played a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Dogs and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Wheels and Mortal Kombat II
he was like 15 and I was waaaaaaay too young
you know, I knew left handed people in school, but they all still used their right hand on the mouse in IT classes. I've genuinely never considered one would even put the mouse on the left
i've basically ended up ambidextrous in this case - i originally learnt to use my right hand, and it's what i had to use in school, but i tried using my left one day and just preferred it
I've tried it, but I'm more mixed handed/ambidextrous than left-handed. So, since I learned to use it right-handed, its easier that way. I learned to write on paper left-handed, so that's easier. On a dry erase board, I freely switch between hands without thinking about it; I just use whichever it more convenient so others can see what I'm writing.
Given all default layouts assume right-handed, I lost interest in trying to learn to use it left-handed.