Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Happy New Year... 2019 Arrives! Its been 10 Years!

Happy New Year everyone... we usher in 2019 with great aspirations and happiness.

Warm regards as well to all of you and all your respective families, friends, significant others, and loved ones.  Thank you as well to everyone from around the world who kept contacting me both by email, discord and in-game to give interesting comments, exciting discussions on a bevy of things, and solid words of excellent encouragement.

It's been almost 10 years since I started this blog and it is truly incredible how much people continue to give me encouragement on here, via emails and in the game.  I have met the most interesting people from around the world and was also able to maintain contact with most of my closest friends from FFXI in Japan, Europe and Canada.    The blog gets quite a huge number of hits from around the world now and again, so to everyone who found something here that piqued your interest, thank you so very much for your continued support.

I initially started this blog in 2009 after Sony's announcement for FFXIV at E3 as a method of creating a lasting chronicle of all news, information, artwork, music, patch updates and my adventures within the game.   Another interesting thing I realized when Stormblood was released what that when I first started the game during 1.0 beta in 2010, I was the only "Atreides" I could find whenever I searched the playerbase... now there are over 1000 players with the illustrious Atreides name spread across 17 servers.  I thought that was a interesting tidbit to note. 

Furthermore, in early 2011 when Amelia got injured in London, I added some of her favourite music onto the blog so that she had something to listen to on her hospital bed while she caught up on FFXIV news.  It is amazing that today, she's back to running every morning three times a week.

Once again, I say... Thank you everyone.

And below are just some random images from around the game and also from the new Heavensturn event that just commenced... by the way SquareEnix, I need that white kimono shown below.

Yes I do.

By the way, also take time to read Yoshi's brilliant New Year Message.  As always, he has yet again thrown us a cryptic message for us to decipher and I'm already having some interesting speculations from a handful of my friends.





And that is obviously the Drak Knight's armour that Yoshi has on as his garb in the image... Hmmmm.   There is much more to discuss on this.  I keep going back to the various cutscenes from 2.0 and 3.0 regarding the Ascians, seeking clues and I do believe there are several of them....








I'll be posting up more items and stuff later on (mainly for laughs), but in the meantime, I have intentionally posted the last image below as a way of saying we all need to remember... we are one world, one people; both in game and in real life.










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