We asked for it. We practically begged for it. Finally, we have a release date! We recorded the night before the Dawntrail preorders went live, so we'll save that particular debacle for future discussion. However, we did get a few interesting tidbits from Yoshi-P's PAX East panel, most crucially a surprisingly early release date for Dawntrail! The hype train has officially left the station and we are on board! Oh, and Kristen is back! So we're ALL on board! Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/3hk Show Twitter: twitter.com/Wondrous_Tails Hosts: Christina Zammarrelli twitter.com/SmorezPoptart Chip Lock ..read more

We're waiting for the next Live Letter, and not being weird about that at all. Also, a warm welcome to our new Xbox Sprouts (XSprouts?), we're genuinely delighted to see you in-game! There's also some discussion about the old news making the rounds again that the game devs are looking at changing the starting point of the game, and we renew our thoughts about how that could work. Episode URL: https://mashthosebuttons.com/?p=58414 Show Twitter: twitter.com/Wondrous_Tails Hosts: Christina Zammarrelli twitter.com/SmorezPoptart Chip Locke twitter.com/doubleyewdee Kristen Allison twitter.com/krist ..read more

First of all, to all you Kristenistas out there, we apologize for her absence in this episode. She had a doctor's note so we had to let her off the hook. This episode is really just an hour of Lili and Pan chatting about various things. Mostly it's all FFXIV related, but there is a harrowing tale of international travel in the middle that you won't want to miss. We also talk a bit about the new XSprouts, what makes a quality gaming controller, and when we expect Dawntrail to come out (we have no idea, but we'll speculate anyway, gosh darn it). Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/3gz Show Twitter: twit ..read more

Everyone doesn't take their Starlight tree down as soon as the new year rolls in, and in celebrating that grand tradition of not-quite-timeliness, we're here with a recap of the year that was 2023, in FFXIV, a mere 7 weeks after 2023 was over. We'll have a lot more to look forward to in 2024, so for now let's look back on all the times we had in 2023 as we hung out with Zero, Golbez, and the gang. Spoilers abound for basically all of post-expansion Heavensward. Episode URL: https://mashthosebuttons.com/?p=58379 Show Twitter: twitter.com/Wondrous_Tails Hosts: Christina Zammarrelli twitter.com ..read more

This is it, folks! It's the end of an era, and the dawn of a new ... uh ... trail? We're doing a full on spoilers filled discussion of the last bit of story content before we go to the New World. Pan learns that he's the only one on the show who watched or read Game of Thrones, Kristen brings a ton of spice, and Poptart is unfairly maligned for her choice of mousepads. We're also talking Hildibrand, Ozzie, and the Straw. Episode URL: https://mashthosebuttons.com/?p=58371 Show Twitter: twitter.com/Wondrous_Tails Hosts: Christina Zammarrelli twitter.com/SmorezPoptart Chip Locke twitter.com/doub ..read more

Welcome to 2024! The last fan festival before Dawntrail happened last weekend, and while none of us made it to Japan to attend in person, we gobbled up all the news regardless. Lots of big announcements, and we're super excited for the summer! Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/3gc Show Twitter: twitter.com/Wondrous_Tails Hosts: Christina Zammarrelli twitter.com/SmorezPoptart Chip Locke twitter.com/doubleyewdee Kristen Allison twitter.com/kristen_aka Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Website: mashthosebutton ..read more

Hello again! We ended up missing our last episode, largely due to Pan, but we're back to discuss the happenings during the European Fan Festival, and the release of patch 6.51. Some Guys will Fall, some more Trails will Dawn, and the Viper comes at midnight to ... dual wield your swords? we guess? Jokes aside there's a solid bit to discuss, from the new Final Fantasy XI Alliance Raid series, to whether it's okay to not let someone repair your horribly broken gear in Euphrosyne. Episode URL: https://mashthosebuttons.com/?p=58253 Show Twitter: twitter.com/Wondrous_Tails Hosts: Christina Zammarr ..read more

Pan didn't finish the alliance raids in time so we're pivoting to discuss the main scenario story in 6.5 a little earlier than we usually do. Beware lots and lots of spoilers. We also spend some time talking about feet and how they relate to Dawntrail, Runar's true name, and whether it's acceptable to "tp sauce" while redecorating your house. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/3ek Show Twitter: twitter.com/Wondrous_Tails Hosts: Christina Zammarrelli twitter.com/SmorezPoptart Chip Locke twitter.com/doubleyewdee Kristen Allison twitter.com/kristen_aka Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons po ..read more

We all got a little live letter surprise this past week when "mid October" became an October 3rd launch date for patch 6.5. This is the penultimate major patch for the Endwalker expansion, and has a fair few niceties and surprises inside. We also spent kind of a lot of time talking about other games, but we're not totally sorry. Episode URL: https://mashthosebuttons.com/?p=58199 Show Twitter: twitter.com/Wondrous_Tails Hosts: Christina Zammarrelli twitter.com/SmorezPoptart Chip Locke twitter.com/doubleyewdee Kristen Allison twitter.com/kristen_aka Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Butto ..read more

This episode is a grab bag of stuff. We're all just doing random game stuff and we ended up having a lot to chat about. There's a little discussion at the beginning and the end about Pan's inability to use knives correctly. It isn't super graphic but be warned if these things bother you a lot. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/3ds Show Twitter: twitter.com/Wondrous_Tails Hosts: Christina Zammarrelli twitter.com/SmorezPoptart Chip Locke twitter.com/doubleyewdee Kristen Allison twitter.com/kristen_aka Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in ..read more