Endwalker's Answer | FFXIV Deep Dive Analysis

Has your journey been good? Has it been worthwhile?

Endwalker had some things to say, and I have some things to say about it. Lets talk philosophy, ecology, sociology, and MMO-ology.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Content Notes
01:14 Has Your Journey Been Good?
14:33 Thirst Trap for Sad Biologist
34:15 Nihilism for Sprouts
51:48 Zenos, and Whats Not The Answer
1:04:58 Multiplayer Made Medium
1:22:25 Despair
1:45:08 Our Answer
2:09:55 A Send Off

Works Cited
Tomova, Tye, and Saxe. The Neuroscience of Unmet Social Needs
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/hand...

Orben, Tomova, and Blakemore. The Effects of Social Deprivation on Adolescent Development and Mental Health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Stuart Grassian. Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi...

Steinkuehler and Williams. Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as "Third Places"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

Frederick Engels. Dialectics of Nature

Friedrich Nietzsche. Human, All Too Human and The Gay Science

Singularity by Maria Howe
https://poets.org/poet/marie-howe