Enough's Enough

Hm - hardly been the most productive weekend, has it? I have achieved part of my Star Trek Online, with one character now in possession of the full Borg equipment set after some serious mission grinding - the other... well, that's not looking very promising, with an additional dozen missions to complete, and me feeling very much "ground out". There are a few things I had wanted to do this weekend, and they didn't get done - which is happening a bit too often for my liking.

I'm not going to allow myself to use the "Weekend Malfunction" tag again this year. It's too easy. Tonight, however, I'm going to do some more Skyrim house-building, then make my way to bed. Hopefully, I can refresh myself enough to get stuff done tomorrow.

Wow. And Whoa.

Since lunchtime, I have been overawed by something I came across on a visit to the Massively website. It's the "final cut movie" of troubled MMO Final Fantasy XIV - yesterday, the final event in the game before its reworking for next year took place, and after the servers went down, the movie was aired to players.

Given previous semi-satisfactory attempts to embed videos, I've included this one after the cut...

( ...and here it is. Watch it full-screen, and turn up the volume. )

I've never played the game - I don't want to get into another pay-to-play MMO - but holy sh8, what an ending. "Glorious", I suppose you could call it, and damn I know none of these characters or their back-stories, but I very nearly cried. Beautiful...

..and then, in the comments, as I was metabolising the emotion invested in what I'd seen, I read this:

(x.armitage.iii) Amazing cut scene. It did make me a little sad to think this is how my character met her end.

Ah, crap.

I'd rather have that than just see the screen go black for the last time on any game I play.