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Level Grind – A Song about MMORPGS and the Grinds We Take to Reach the Top

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Hey all, it’s Kern here, coming at you with a fan song all about Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, World of Warcraft, and the joys of a good level grinds… or in the case of this song, the ways in which it drives a player absolutely crazy after the near billionth go-around. We’ve all been there, I’m sure.

In any case, this baby is just all about the grind and hopefully you enjoy the ride on it. This has a rap, R&B vibe to it. Don’t we all know it by now? Level Grind, Level Grind, makes you lose your freakin’ mind…

So yeah… on your next grinding session give this song a play, and give yourself over to the mmorpg of your choice whenever it’s time to level grind.

This has been Kern of The Demented Ferrets, where stupidity is at it’s finest and level grinds are part for the course… Yep, that’s how deep this song is embedded into my brain… it’s literally in our catch phrase. Anyway, see you next time everyone! Don’t forget, you can find Kresh and I over on Twitch too. Come check us out, leave a follow and hang around with us when we’re live. We play a lot of different kinds of games, so stop by and say hello!

If you want to support what we do, become a member of our Patreon and you can get a hold of our MP.3s when we send them out!

YouTube Playlists of Interest:

FAIL: Fallen Angels in Limelight – rock, glam rock, hard rock.
City of Shadows Album 1 – A musical story about two cities joining together as one deep in the desert. A literal tyrant has come to lay claim to the city, and an uprising occurs.
Roll for Glory Album – An album dedicated to the wonderful world of DnD, and the fictional band in “Thunderous Power Kicks” (T.P.K) led by their fearless leader and Bard.
RWBY Fan Songs – Fan made songs for the RWBY series encompassing several musical styles. (Kern’s on going project).
Video Game Fan Songs – Fan made songs about video games spanning a wide variety of gaming genres and song styles (Kresh and Kern’s ongoing project).
Ferret’s Synthwave – Songs with a Synthwave vibe.

RWBY Fan Song: What I’m Sorry For

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RWBY Fan Song: Loneliness Like Mine

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Fandom, Gaming, Uncategorized

Fandom: Twitch Streamer – xCatilx

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Hey everyone, it’s Kernook here, coming at you with another fandom related blog post. As a Twitch streamer myself, it should be no surprise that I watch other streamers as well. That’s the nature of today’s post.

Picture it, you’re stumbling around on Twitch trying to find some content to watch. What streamer do you pick? I think we’ve all been there. In truth, finding good gameplay content has never been easier, but, it has also never been more flooded as a market.

With so many wonderful choices to pick from, it can be hard to pick and choose. Wonder no further, I’ve got a suggestion for you.

xCatilx is a twitch streamer that I’ve been following for a little while now. In an attempt to help support her content, I suggested that I should write a post on our platform to try and uplift her own.

To be absolutely clear: I approached her about this endeavor. That talk of ours inspired this post because… well… that’s what communities do, we support each other.

In any case, if you frequent the The Demented Ferrets Twitch Channel, you may have seen her own twitch channel hosted from time to time. That will continue to be true. Some of you might not have noticed though, and if so, this incredibly casual blog post is for you.

If you’re looking to find new and interesting content, stop by and say hello when xCatilx goes live. if you enjoy the content you see, click the follow button (and a few Twitch Bits for a song).

You’ll be sure to see me hanging around in the chat from time-to-time so don’t be shy. Typically, I hang around in the Sims 4 and WoW streams, but I’ve been known to jump into chat during other times too.

xCatilx takes a moment to read the chat and talk to the viewers.

Twitch Streamer – xCatilx

A word from xCatilx: “Hello, I’m Catil. I’m a stay at home mom who loves to play video games, watch documentaries, and listen to music in my spare time. I try my best to be a good person; someone that hopefully one day my kids can be proud of having as a parent. My favorite games include Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Legend of Zelda and Sims 4. I love comedy movies, especially if they involve Adam Sandler. Feel free to stop in if you’d like and say hi! If talking in chat is stressful for you, don’t worry about it. I don’t want anyone to ever feel pressured to chat in my streams. Just hang out for awhile and enjoy the humor.”

xCatilx prides herself upon cultivating a friendly community of viewers from many walks of life. As a follower of hers, I can say with steadfast resolve that the calm and relaxed environment isn’t one you’ll want to pass up. The atmosphere is always welcoming. The community has a decent number of active regulars, and they’re all friendly folks.

With a robust weekly schedule that runs from Monday – Thursday from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST, if you like to see consistency out of the streamers you watch, then you’ll find it here. Content spans the gambit from casual sandbox games to MMORPG’s.

There’s a little something for everyone, and if you enjoy Fallout 76, then this twitch clip should brighten your day. Juggling a body or two has never been so downright amusing.

Rag-doll mechanics ahoy!

As you can see from her Twitch channel, and the chat, she’s motivated to support good causes such as helping to support veterans or service members in crisis. That’s actually one of the reasons I was so motivated to do this blog post.

Every time I’ve watched one of her streams, without fail, there’s always been some sort of good cause or important event that she feels the need to support in some small way.

Streamers who use their platforms for good things like that, are streamers that speak to me as a viewer. She spreads awareness of these events in welcome and reasonable ways. She leaves it in your hands, basically. The information is there if you want to know more, but if you don’t that’s perfectly okay too.

Personally, I cannot compliment her style of streaming enough.

As a streamer, she interacts with her viewers. We’ve all spoken about a wide range of topics to pass the time during gameplay, and we’ve had quite a few good laughs too. You can redeem channel points to have xCatilx take her glasses off for a short time. You can also have her flip game controls around, adding to the fun. Honestly, there’s all kinds of things you can do.

I’d suggest that you follow xCatilx on social media to see when she goes live for a stream. You’ll see a few other interesting pieces of content there too. By the way, that’s where I first found out about that Fallout 76 clip.

Please don’t forget to follow xCatilx on Twitter for streaming updates and other cool content!

As a wife, mother, and pet owner, she’s about as down-to-earth as you can get. Fun times mix with the benefit of life’s perspective. She’s relatable, and more than that she’s kind.

As an Twitch Affiliate level streamer, she keeps her advertisement breaks minimal. She also tends to warn us ahead of time if she sees that one is about to play. That’s a nice courtesy, and I wish more streamers would do that.

Alright guys, gals, and others. That’s about it from me today. Seriously though, if you’re in need of a chill place to relax with entertaining gameplay content, go say hello and check out her social media and live streams.

In the meantime, this has been Kernook from The Demented Ferrets, where stupidity is at its finest and level grinds are par for the course. I’ll see you next time.

Let's Talk Games, Uncategorized

Things Final Fantasy XIV Did Wrong – Starting Cities

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Before I begin, let me preface this by saying that I think Final Fantasy XIV does a lot of things correctly when it comes to being a very solid MMORPG. I enjoy the game a lot, and I’ve spent plenty of time (and subscription money) to frolic around in Eorzea. What’s Eorzea you ask? Well, it’s the fictional world Final Fantasy XIV is set within.

A bit of backstory seems prudent. I began playing Final Fantasy XI back when it first released in the USA in the early 2000’s. I played the original Final Fantasy XIV before Square Enix tossed aside the project and went back to the drawing board (more on that game and its countless failings in a separate post). That’ll be a rabbit hole if I ever decide to explain that mess.

Anyway, when the game later released anew under the name “A Realm Reborn” I claimed my free copy offered to those of us who had played on the old game for so long and dove headfirst into my favorite type of MMORPG, the Final Fantasy kind.

For years though, I’ve always thought that Final Fantasy XIV made a few decisions that weren’t exactly wise for gamers like myself, coming from other MMORPG’s with the intent to “static” with other players.

What is a “static” you ask? Well, that’s simple, it’s when you play a game only with a select few people, and you do so regularly. In FFXI, static parties were a commonality among close friends. Many MMORPG’s seem to put systems into place that destroy the “static mindset” and considering that FFXI thrived on that style of gameplay, you can guess how I might feel about that…

Generally speaking, I’m not too happy at all with the concept.

While Final Fantasy XIV has plenty to praise, the story line particularly, it also has one thing I absolutely despise… well, it has a few things I despise, but none more so than they way they start you in a city based on what job you plan to level, rather than where you’d LIKE to start.

Say for example, what’s going on for Kresh and I currently as we plan a stream day around Final Fantasy XIV (yes, we both like the game that much, that we’re going to stream it regularly soon). There’s just one problem, I plan to level WHM (White Mage, a healer for the uninitiated). Kresh plans to level a tank… however, there are no tank jobs that start in Gridania, meaning Kresh would have to start elsewhere.

See what I mean?

It kind of defeats the purpose of friends starting off together on new characters. If don’t start there, I would need to wait to level the job required to unlock WHM, however, if we don’t start in the city Kresh where Kresh can get a tanking job, then it makes for the same problem in reverse. This is a confine of the game directly, and it makes for something of problem that is strangely antiquated despite the fact that the much older MMORPG (FFXI) never had this problem if the first place. Jobs were not implemented in this way.

Final Fantasy XI never had any such issue, because you could choose your job and your starting location. It wasn’t a lose-lose situation. It didn’t have to be. Final Fantasy XIV should have followed suit in my personal opinion, because games that discourage friends to play together based on something as arbitrary as starting cities loses focus on what an MMORPG truly is.

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Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game… that’s what MMORPG stands for, and it should be at the core of the valuable systems indicative of the gameplay experience.

In this particular aspect, and a few others, Final Fantasy XIV failed that concept. The starting cities based upon your job within the game is a key point to make about this.

Now, to be clear World of Warcraft had a similar ideology at one point. It was irksome there as well, particularly during the dark ages when being a druid forced you onto starting as either a Tauren or a Night Elf. However, at least in World of Warcraft that made sense within the wider lore and universe. Final Fantasy XIV has no set player-verses-player standard the way that World of Warcraft did, nor, longstanding lore to draw from. Therefore, I find the “lore” argument a harder one to make or even defend for Final Fantasy XIV.

Now, to be clear, in Final Fantasy XIV this really is just a minor annoyance at best, as you can change your job at whim… however, that’s kind of the point. In World of Warcraft, you couldn’t do that. If you picked say… a warrior for example, then that’s what you were… a warrior… you couldn’t suddenly change your job to a mage or or a priest just because you felt like it. You had to start another character and begin the grind again.

In Final Fantasy XI and in Final Fantasy XIV you can level all of the jobs on one single character, with no need to make a second or a third. With this ideology in mind, surely you can see how it might be just a little reductive and in some ways flat out idiotic to demand a starting location based on your starting job alone.

Some games pull off that sort of limitation more believably than others, but in my personal opinion, Final Fantasy XIV just isn’t one of them… you may actually like this system the way it is, and if you do, that’s fine too. This, to me, is just a personal annoyance, but one that sticks out so perniciously as one very bad idea, and one that just didn’t have any real need to be implemented in the first place.

This has been Kernook of The Demented Ferrets, where stupidity is at its finest and level grinds are par for the course. I’ll see you next time.

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