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The Fancies 2021: John Warren’s Top 10 Games of the Year

In a year I promised myself I’d play more Final Fantasy XIV to prepare for Endwalker, I ended up playing everything besides the best MMO on the market today. It’s not that XIV isn’t great, nor that I don’t want to see it to its magnificent conclusion. It’s more that…

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FFXIV Carpenter Unlock Guide: Quest Locations & Coordinates

In Final Fantasy XIV, Carpenter players fill a slightly odd role. Not quite Blacksmith, not quite Goldsmith, they nonetheless craft weapons and accessories for several other roles throughout the game. They’re notably responsible for building bows, lances, fishing rods, and some tools used by other crafting classes. That last one…

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FFXIV: How To Set Up Your Hotbars For Keyboard and Mouse

Jumping into Final Fantasy XIV as a whole can be daunting. Hell, starting up a new job can also see you moving out of your comfort zone. You might’ve been a White Mage for years, but you want to try tanking as a Paladin now. Just understanding a job is…

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Hunktears Recap: Wrestlemania 35

I watched Wrestlemania 35 as it should be watched: in a bar full of wrestling fans, comedians, exhausted indie wrestlers, and curious friends. How many drinks did I have? I don’t know. How many lovely people did I meet? Too many to count. How many times did I cry? Once.…

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Resident Evil Village Makes Me Appreciate Games With Good Journals

I finished Resident Evil Village (or Resident Evil 8, whatever you prefer) yesterday. I liked it well enough! It was fun to watch unfold, even if it fell apart in the last quarter and never reached the highs of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard for me. It has an exquisite art…

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Dillon’s Top Ten Games of the Year 2019

Let me get this out of the way to begin with. I have a backlog problem. I’m notorious among the Fanbyte team since I’m still trying to work my way through 2017 gems like Prey, Hellblade, Nier: Automata, and a whole lot more. Turns out there were a lot of…

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NBA 2K20 Paints a Picture of Basketball in an Alternate World

NBA 2K20 is a video game about basketball. The 21st game in the series, the picture that Visual Concepts paints using the game of basketball as its medium could be mistaken for a perfect simulacrum. The sights and sounds are nearly immaculate – the men and women are as sweaty…

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15 Super Mario RPG Characters That Would Ruin an Anniversary Party

It’s the 25th anniversary of my favorite video game of all time, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars! Originally released for the Super Nintendo in Japan on March 9, 1996, this colorful game was developed by Square and published before Nintendo. While there are a myriad of absolutely…

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WWE Summerslam Card Preview, Predictions and Summer Fashion Trends!

I feel like WWE really wastes the opportunity that Summerslam presents to celebrate summer vibes. Like, do you remember the Marvel swimsuit issues? WWE could do something like that for Summerslam where they have all the competitors modeling the latest summer looks. I can’t make that happen for you, but…

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The Wet and Wild History of American Nintendo Cartoons

Video games and animation have had an interesting relationship over the years. In Japan, video games commonly lead to anime series and vice versa, with some of the most popular anime series starting out as visual novels or dating sim games and some of the most popular video games being…

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2021 Tarot Wrestling Readings, Predictions, and Vibes

2020 proved to us that absolutely nothing is known and we are all at the whims of the universe constantly. We are but pawns on a turtle in a garbage truck, or something. In that spirit, and inspired by Colette’s discovery of a 70’s astrologer’s predictions for various wrestlers, I…

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The Best FFXIV Levequests for Making Gil in Endwalker

Levequests, otherwise known as just Leves, have long been a great way to make gil in Final Fantasy XIV. Endwalker addressed that little “problem” by nerfing them somewhat, but it’s still a perfectly reasonably way to make around 62,000 gil per day without a major time investment — and you…

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