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Regarding the "But ye DIDN'T" line, I believe the way it was spoken would be from Dr. Cox from Scrubs acted by John C. McGinley.
speaking as a melee main, I view positionals as an optimisation of my play. Sure I can do my rotation, but on a fight by fight basis where bosses move differently every time, can I keep up my positionals? It's an extra layer of gameplay for melee, and the reward is more damage. Not a LOT more damage, but damage is damage, and you ask any melee they're a fiend for uptime. We'll do truly disgusting things for a hint of uptime.
As for True North, sometimes a boss moves weird. Sometimes I'm doing a mechanic that means I can't flicker around its back corner. Sometimes it's my burst and I'm gonna have to move. True North's an insurance button that you can use to, when you do gotta move in ways different from positionals, maintain them. It's a grace button, but it really doesn't last too long. As a Dragoon, one use of true north will cover the end half of one of my two gcds combos, so either three positionals on one combo or two positionals on the other.
2.5 free positionals every 45 seconds isn't really that much. Dragoon's one of the most positional heavy jobs as well.
And speaking personally on it, I love routing True North into my per fight rotation just as much as I love routing in my mits. While I play a very static job in terms of rotation, figuring out and optimising true north and mitigation adds a satisfying layer for me each time. 15s feint my beloved.
Modern HARDWARE JP keyboards are basically QWERTY, but have katakana and hiragana characters (from their two syllabarires… writing systems sort of like an alphabet, but purely based on how each syllable sounds), but with several extra keys and functions unique to what they need that Latin alphabet languages don't (eg to bring up a prompt for kanji, type things unique to JP grammar, etc.).
A lot of JP as a second language folks, or JP folks in other countries, use alphabetical representations of their words (romaji). E.g. tsunami, instead of tsu (つ) na (な) mi (み) and then convert it to 津波 with OS language support functions.
There are some very old keyboards that have a lot of kanji, but they aren't used today really.
Software keyboards (like on a phone) are a different story, because it's easy to toggle (the same way we toggle between punctuation symbols, emoji, etc.
Sounds like the whole positional chat might be based on a mistranslation in the pc gamer article because it doesn't make any sense, there's no more positionals in Dawntrail than in Endwalker. I'm 99% sure what the article is actually referring to is hitbox size, where boss hitboxes were huge in EW and have been scaled down significantly for DT, at least in savage (less so in the extremes)
Curse you Jesse Cox!
Yes, please moar GW2 ☺️
God Mentioning Aion threw me back. Played that from the Beta until about a year after the 1st Expac, Fun but such a grindy Game.
Your guys' impression of ex3 difficulty is drastically skewed ngl