Author: Padraig Fahy

  • Attending the Final Fantasy XIV: Fan Festival, 2023 in London

    Attending the Final Fantasy XIV: Fan Festival, 2023 in London

    This weekend will be the 4th in-person Fan Festival for Final Fantasy XIV Online in Europe and the 3rd that I attend (I didn’t attend the Germany event in 2017)

    Additionally, I’ll be celebrating my 32nd birthday on Saturday, so I might have a couple of drinks to celebrate.

    The event is being held in the ExCeL, London. Tickets for the event are sold out. If you are going to be there, let me know!

    Just like the 2019 Fan Festival, I’ll be taking lots of photos and sharing them here once I am back!

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  • WWE Fastlane 2023 Predictions

    WWE Fastlane 2023 Predictions

    We’re on the Fast lane to Wrestlemania Survivor Series (?) – I guess WWE needed to put on an October PPV that is not a gimmick PPV (Like TLC, Hell in a Cell, etc) which is a good thing as WWE needs to distance themselves from that.

    5 matches on the card (at the time of writing) with 3 titles on the line tonight.

    Non-Title Matches

    • Latino World Order (Rey Mysterio & Santos Escobar) & ??? vs Bobby Lashley & The Street Profits in a 6-man tag team match.

      • PREDICTION: LWO to win. The extra person for LWO is either going to be Carlito or Dragon Lee.

    • John Cena & LA Knight vs The Bloodline (Jimmy Uso & Solo Sikoa) in a tag team match.

      • PREDICTION: I feel there are going to be shenanigans with this match with someone interfering from The Bloodline…Maybe Judgement Day which is going to allow Jimmy and Solo to pick up the win

    Title Matches

    • The Judgement Day (Finn Bálor & Damian Priest) (C) vs Cody Rhodes vs Jey Uso in a tag team match for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship

      • PREDICTION: I don’t see any valid reason for the titles to change hands… unless there is interference from JD McDonagh which costs Finn & Damian the titles. Finn & Damian to retain

    • Iyo Sky (C) vs Asuka vs Charlotte Flair in a Triple Threat Match for the WWE Women’s Championship

      • PREDICTION: Immediately, I am discarding Charlotte as she should not be anywhere near this title. Iyo and Asuka are going to be a banger of a match. I would like to see Iyo retaining the title but I wouldn’t be disappointed if Asuka won.
      • Also, since there are rumours about Jade Cargill, I will predict that Jade Cargill will appear at the end of this match and square up to Charlotte Flair setting up that rivalry.

    • Seth “Freakin” Rollins (C) vs Shinsuke Nakamura in a Last Man Standing match for the World Heavyweight Championship

      • PREDICTION: As much as I like Seth, I don’t see any immediate future with him and the title. He has also been a workhorse for the last 3 years and it would be nice for him to rest between now and Wrestlemania. It would be great to give Shinsuke what he rightfully has deserved for the last several years and that is a world title! Shinsuke to win and become champion

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  • Free Trial in Final Fantasy XIV Online Expanded

    Free Trial in Final Fantasy XIV Online Expanded

    This past Tuesday, Patch 6.5 for Final Fantasy XIV Online was released titled Growing Light

    While I won’t be spoiling anything story-wise, there was an entry into the patch notes that is quite good for new players.

    The following additions and adjustments have been made to the free trial:

    The level cap has been raised to 70. Players will now have access to the expansion data of Stormblood.

    * Ultimate raids are not included in the free trial.

    This is huge. That means new players will have access to 16 battle classes including 2 new classes introduced in Stormblood, Samurai and Red Mage.

    And on top of that, you get access to another 2 years worth of content for free. That is 6 years’ worth of stories, side stories, battles and more.

    The only minor downside is that no Ultimate tier is available, which is understandable. They are for the very upper echelon of FFXIV players and require a high degree of organisation which wouldn’t be available via the Free Trial.

    If you want to try out the free trial, go to https://freetrial.finalfantasyxiv.com/gb/

    (I am not paid for this shilling, but if Square Enix is reading this… Hi 👋)

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