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Final Fantasy XIV updates with sightseeing, weapons, and poses
Final Fantasy XIV is going to have a big week at E3 next week. That's not speculation; Naoki Yoshida is running two live letters from the show floor, and players have been promised big announcements. But a big patch has just dropped for the game, and patch 2.28 brings plenty for players to enjoy all by itself. The promise of more in the near future is just icing on the cake. Owners of Animus weapons can now continue advancing their weapons to Novus incarnations, with larger Mythology tomestone rewards making the road to Animus a bit less onerous. The patch also includes the new sightseeing log, challenging players to find the scenic vistas across Eorzea. It also improves the existing posing system, with new poses for each race and a memory of what pose you were in when you move. You can read through the full patch notes to get an idea of everything contained therein, and take a gander at the Ramuh preview for an idea of what's coming next in patch 2.3.
Korean tourist submarines get cellphone service
You should take most of the facts in this post with a grain of salt, as they were all gleaned from a garbled machine translation, but it seems that South Korea Telecom has actually installed cellular repeaters on coastal ocean buoys to allow tourists on submarines to continue gabbing even underwater. Apparently half a million people per year take trips on the Cheju-Do sightseeing submarine, which had previously forced people to pass the time by watching the sealife go about their mundane lives instead of the much more exciting activity of ordering ringtones from Jamster. Actually, from what we can tell, the new service seems to have been implemented to increase cellphone-dependent passengers' peace of mind, some of whom would apparently freak out at being 45-meters underwater with no emergency lifeline. Now, thanks to modern technology and a few whiners, what may have once been a soothing underwater journey will probably turn into a cacophony of 60-odd people screaming into their phones about the cool octopus or coral reef they just saw.
