Thread 1850129

>>1793809
Join the Guild:YWR3QNYQERQCU

End of the year schedule.

rip SMithius

Last thread would have lasted at least another month you nigger

>>1850169
What happened

>>1850135
I'm saving for dirge after this month

>>1850129 (OP)
>>1850135
>>1850410
End of Serverus

wish I could play neir reincarnation for the plot

Alter waiting room

>>1851033
This anniversary really showed me that both Square and Applibot are retards who don't know what they are doing and just keep throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks.

The Sephiroth release, the exhausting amount of limited banners, and the memoria powercreep are proof of that, and of course, no BC remake in sight

>>1851199
What are you expecting?
Me? Gold Saucer shit would be cool to have minigames of squat challenges and Cloud's bike swinging and Chocobo breading etc

>aerith critic dress is getting buff
Lmfao why

>>1851329
>What are you expecting?
nta but i expected 1:1 ff7 remake with hd chibis

my wife
my angel

>>1852192
used
goods

>>1850135
What wil the Nier collab be?

>>1853116
Hopefully ASS

>>1853116
Every girl in a leotard

>>1853116
Probably another convoluted mess that will be labeled as a canonical AU by Taro.

Did you guys make top 100 again?

FFT Remake out on Steam today. Super psyched. Been watching youtube videos for the past month about it

>>1853129
This outfit is too revealing for FF and will likely be censored.

>>1853304
>he hasn't played the game to see stuff like the costumes or that Yuffie has her unbuttoned pants
Weak bait. Begone with you.

>>1853304
>This outfit is too revealing for FF and will likely be censored.
alright who's getting the leotard

>>1853297
Is it good?

>>1853346
Tifa. aerith doesnt get anything revealing. Her bikini costume is shit

>>1853391
i just played 2 hours. the voice acting is fucking crazy good. the atmosphere and dialogue is amazing on top of the music. really good experience so far

>>1853346
Eos finally

>>1853190
>again
now let's not get ahead of ourselves

>>1853297
i got filtered by tactics ogre when i was a kid, haven't played a srpg since

I remember some anon being completely hellbent on saying that they would never make adult Sephiroth playable. It was around the time where they had an event going that had him be a guest partner to advertise the FF7R Part 2. He would argue anyone and just general be a fag in any thread about it. And here we are.

>>1853628
I hope they retroactively rework the story chapter of the Nibelheim flashback to include him as playable.

>>1853628
that was me

i'm the gl btw

EoS?

>>1853752
Namput

>>1853814
>make profit
>EoS?
kill yourself retard

>>1853752
>FIRST SOLDIER epidose THREE
FSCHADS WE WON!

>>1853814
i blame fujos

>>1853814
Advent Children saved Ever Crisis and is the greatest action movie ever made.

>>1853524
Get it. This shit is good.

>>1854000
i do not support demakes/demasters in any way shape or form

>>1853346
Do robutts really need butts so juicy?

>>1854107
Yes, for basic needs

Breathe of fire 4 is amazing

>>1854008
Based, just emulate it.

>>1853814
>>1853984
NtA, but if i have to guess the AC card did its job and raised interest for the month. We'll have to see if it will hold up until early next year.

Lurking

>>1854619
L

The memoria is cool looking

>>1854624
>no more background
>makes good looking memoria

>>1854634
Barret

>>1854619
Lucia?

>>1854634
A shittier version of missing score, feelsbadman.

Lucia tummy...

>>1854654
Based

Titan ex 3

https://youtu.be/vW6BgTTbeRU?si=ozVlZsGE67_yEor-

>>1854619
he's literally me

we got trips, nice

you guys still crying if people don't do guild dailys?

>>1855346
No, that was Hw and GL.

>>1855346
Feel free to come back. GL needs to kick the other randoms that already quit

>>1855376
i'm already in the guild but i've been slacking with logging daily

>>1855389
Burn out is real

>>1855399
it have been happening with all gachas
>play a lot
>drop it slowly and only do events
>drop it even harder and do dailys
>start to drop it fully
but then i've only played like 5 gachas

Esca fight is dogshit. The guy seems to target at random, forcing you to provoke. Angeal cant bring his earth debuff without giving up a slot for provoke or pdef up. Barret can provoke and pdef up, but he cant earth imperil. They really want you to pull for glenn, but that aint happening. Maybe they dont expect you to avoid the stun with veil, but that sure seems like what they want.

Wait they put a canon plotpoint behind a limited time event???? Especially the one EVERYONE was looking forward to after playing rebirth...

This has to be a new low

>>1855647
I did fine with angeal not having pdef weapon

holy fuck the event tab is so bloated pls eos already

>>1855712
or they could make the tab less retarded/phone oriented

>>1855712
>nooo theres too much content

>>1855946
Disgusting

>>1855346
you gonna get kicked lil bro

>>1855376
i will kick afk redditors asap

also it's funny how ernie, a day 1 player, got outplayed on stage 1 by literal newfags who started playing this game during the anniversary

Titan ex3

https://youtu.be/0inyixHGbmk

>>1856023
https://youtu.be/QuVPH8rkgK0

This is the team I beat Escalation 20 with, but is just not quite hitting the DPS check for 25. Its close enough that I think level 10 memoria will drive it home. How do I deal with the massive def down with enfeeble? I simply dont give a shit. My squishiest character is at 700 PDEF, Glenn has 1100 and can apply 50% resistance and big veil to shrug off the big hits. On a fight as short at this there's about 100% uptime on 10% HP gain thanks to Lucia so healers are not needed. You just use Lucia to refill the command meter after the boss takes it away and and then drop a fat summon during the vulnerable phase.

>>1856116
Sephiroth has the LB here because I thought maybe the fact that I have LB potency R.Ability on Seph might make it worth, but the vulnerability makes Titan perform better, that was a failed experiment

>>1856037
https://youtu.be/MCkMcr85vvs

>>1856116
Seriously though, how tf did you survive without pdef up? That nigger enfeebles you and pushes your def to -5.

So do we see Rufus killing Glenn?

>>1856329
Probably when they add the next story batch of the event, the memory seems to suggest that.

>>1856298
I am being so sincere when I say I just don't fuck with it. Passively, there's a little more going on. Glenn's UW let's him start at +3 PDEF so the initial hit brings him back to neutral and using veil to take 0 damage prevents the debuff going through. It does eventually put him to -5 enfeebled, but it takes longer to get him there. Then like I said, you use the UW to block the scary attacks and just keep cruising. I assume the better way to do the fight is using Yuffie's watch or something, but this way is much funnier to me.

The only way to cheese titan is red UW.

>>1856657
Good thing I got 2 copies of lucias uw instead of 1 of reds!

>>1856672
Very based

Esc 25 yuffie

https://youtu.be/dwqd7qZ2J9Q

>>1857094
Esc 25 seph

https://youtu.be/ZsBcsqXJt9c

>make all these chibi costumes
>only time you see them is while tending chocobos
what a massive waste this "game" is man. I bet all these costumes were made before the game even released too.

>>1857094
I don't have enough crystals left for yuffies outfit and I should start saving for nier.... It's so over for me

>>1857557
You get to see them also if you do the dungeons. Shame that they stopped adding them for some reason.

>tfw no red

https://youtu.be/nRX1pmZGKDw?si=guB-tdtWUQPBm_Tw

>>1857783
>doesnt show stats
>limited moon
You didnt beat the game

>>1857783
Based

>>1858209
Obviously you need reprieve on all the characters and have red UW.

>>1858331
You probably also need to be a whale seeing as all his shit is ob10 lmao. I could test this if only I had reds uw.

>>1858439
You just need cloud wind weapon at ob 10

Budget build

https://youtu.be/bPH6QgM7SLU

>>1858854
>budget build
>requires hundreds of brand rerolls to stack pdef
Yeah its doable but I cant be fucking bothered to reroll brands to clear one specific fight. They need to allow brand loadouts so you can save good rolls and switch between them as needed.

Auto battle titan ex 3

https://youtu.be/vxZFQmL47T0

I haven't read the event yet lol

Lurking

>3 (THREE) pages of events
i'm on the verge of quitting, where the FUCK is the eos?

like why there are 2 (TWO) vortex towers and 2 (TWO) crashes at the same time? what were they thinking?

>>1860969
>wahh theres too much content mommy help meee

>>1861041
>>1861042
Works well with seph and aerith

Whats a good build for tifa ac glove?

>3 days out for a festival
well may i be back before i get kicked

>>1861787
thanks for reminding me, time to drain the swamp a lil bit

Cloud tifa lucia crash

https://youtu.be/F1StmF9UU1c

please yoshi p...give us a CRUMB of before crisis remake vefore eos....,

Masumune chads

https://youtu.be/qTFLo35nBdE

SE gonna kill us off

>>1863069
qrd?

>>1863070
Literally what anon's pic says, they're announcing a new mobile Dissidia in a few days. And Square has a tradition of killing gachas when new ones get released in a cycle-like fashion, combining that with the kind of content schedule we've been getting, it's easy to speculate the end is near for EC.
Personally, i believe we might get to the 3rd anniversary and that's it. No BC, they're gonna wrap up DoC and the OG and call it a day. Maybe repurpose a episode 3 of TFS in events like what they did to Glenn's team right now.

gl here:

i'm speaking for myself, but if there are people who REALLY want the top 10 guild emblem and have requirements to join a paypig guild (basically i'm talking about soldier), i don't mind if you leave us for one gb and then come back. i saw somebody coping about this in chat

i will still tryhard regardless, but we got the top100 before eos so we are a very comfy guild now, hopefully others agree

>>1863074
Yeah, I'm not about to go through all that guild stuff just for a little badge. It's just too much effort to get involved with a whole new community. I'd rather spend my time playing the game the way I want to.

>>1863006
>>1863069
Another story finished. Whats next? Eos?

>>1863298
>Whats next? Eos?
Dirge of Cerberus

>>1863074
I already came to terms that we wouldnt be in the top 100. The fact that we somehow managed to do it despite losing some of our strongest players was more than enough for me. I'm pretty over the game as it is anyway.

>>1863006
So nameless is masamune. Mehh

Titan ex 3 cheese without red UW

https://youtu.be/CSN-Egn68zA

>>1861824
i like to help

>>1863335
It's not Nameless. Different guard, no materia slots, no red ribbon. Masamune was just regular sword shaped for the smith and all the people who murdered each other over it. Then Sephiroth digivolves it somehow we will see in a few days

>>1863450
https://youtu.be/NGW7x34UTA0

>>>/v/723132475
EOSGODS WE WON!

>>1863610
Nothing will happen
We will keep living

>>1863610
Based

>>1863610
What source does OP even have? Specifically for the date.

>>1863642
his uncle works at applibot

>>1861041
new lucia costume?
is it time for me to reinstall and welcome back my waifu?

>>1863602
tifa's outfit is very cute!

>>1863610
>EOSGODS WE WON!
Did you guys forgot that they announced DoC story for 2016?

the compilation of ff7....forgotten....

>>1863722
>Did you guys forgot that they announced DoC story for 2016?
it's gonna the last event with ps2 cutscenes between recycled genesis fights

>>1863799
Can't wait

>>1863734
Don't worry.
Somehow, the compilation will return again.

EOS canceled. Dissidia looks like shit

there isn't a page to know which characters to use for each summon quest?

>>1864608
Use your brain

>>1864617
no thank you

>>1864608
The introduction of Memoria has made all previous content irrelevant. Literally just pick whatever 3 characters you like. You can do all of this with materia.

>>1864679
still not completing most of the last summon stages

Applied for the beta. See you there namput

I'm gonna call namput a nigger in dissidia

i'm never playing gachas again after this

>>1864853
honestly same

>>1864853
gonna finally read muv-luv after this sloppa eos

>>1864853
>>1864856
See you next week.

>>1864888
jokes on you my android is too bad to play it

>>1864889
lmao based

>got a job
Well if burnout wasn't enough i will be doing even less dailies

>>1865353
Get on my level. I log in to do my dailies on the daily reset even when I’m at work.

>>1865652
>>1865653
Sword seems okay. I'm sure some bosses will specifically require it, but it's not generally great or anything. Outfit will be good though. Use it with his limit break weapon

>>1865652
>Ramuh and Odin EX3 soon

Eligor crash 2

https://youtu.be/KKDI-7E-Rq0?si=G-SsHEFs5dwAmvrX

Gg ez crash 2

https://youtu.be/4vgH2thNm3s

>Sephiroth's over here pulling out his sword and making it grow longer in front of everyone like a pervert
>then Bachman want's him to do it again on camera
For free?

>>1865941
>young Seph gets Masamune
>still can’t use it in-game
That sucks.

>>1865962
Based namput

>>1866049
I was genuinely expecting it to go to the Crisis Medal shop now that we all maxed out the Buster Swords or maybe even have it be an Ultimate Weapon you earn by clearing the Extra Section like with Zack's 1st Class outfit but I understand now that asking these devs to care is unreasonable

>>1866049
>>1866049
This

>>1865941
Young Sephiroth Onlyfans account coming soon.

>>1866115
Maybe starting with next month?

>>1865962
Challenge fights in this game are surprisingly easy when you aren't expected to use characters you don't like/pull for

This was a very mid conclusion and everyone was already calling out on Alyssa being a nigger

>>1866215
I like both version

>>1863610
>not sure if they’ll release any more chapters for the main Ever Crisis storyline
>that faggot is so lazy he doesn’t even know SE had outright announced the next two months will be collabs
>also doesn’t know the Young Sephiroth story IS the main Ever Crisis storyline
LOL. LMAO even.

>>1866215
Big agree. This story just... stopped really. The characters don't even interact with the "twists" we all saw coming. It's just "Oh yeah, Jenova btw." Episode 1 had a few problems but it ended well, had an interesting epilogue and didn't feel so budget. Episode 2 started amazing, Chapter 1 is the best single chapter of story in this game, but then they just got lazy. Didn't even have the decency to tease Gackt to generate any hype or anything.

>>1866242
It's screaming to me that it was supposed to be a bit longer but they're rushing out content since they probably know in advance when they'll announce EoS. That's the same reason why we're getting barraged with events non-stop.

>>1866246
EoSchads we eatin good

Do you get the crash profile badges only when you beat crash 2 battles too? Because I’ve cleared multiple crashes ant this point and nothing.

>>1866232
he obviously mean besides the FIrst Slop chapters...

>>1866300
you need to beat solo crash 2 for re-runs

FUCK YOU APPLIBOT FUCKING NIGGERS

>>1866516
Lol GJ

>>1865614
i mean. i used to do that when i played that one piece game
but i only play this one on pc (one piece too lately) and i pretty much dropped that one

>>1866516
kek

>>1866659
Based gooner

>>1866658
LoL

>>1865962
My nigga

>>1867156
Based

Smelly Niggerpus is quiting the game lmao

>>1867513
lmfao, wasn't our paypig in one of his guilds?

>>1867513
Who?

>>1867517
Oink sama must be crying. He was in some octopus guild. He help carry this e celeb lol

>>1867513
>top 10 guild player
>that shitty build

Lmfao @oink oink. Imagine being some one bitch
https://youtu.be/SmVrdPKkYjs

>>1867517
>>1867558
I remember he outed himself by posting his rank here lmao

>>1867513
I don't watch youtubers for this "game". I hate playing it enough. If it wasn't for numput being a confirmed double nigger and my desire to call him one every chance I get I'd have quit a long time ago

>>1867580
kek he collects funkos
giga faggot

>>1867652
Based

uhm eosisters???? this isn't looking good for us....

finally finished the 2 latest story additions (first soldier event and chapter 5-6) and.... holy shit they were bad...

Well caught up with the plot. Not very surprising. Pretty much everything we said since it started became true more or less. This could have been one episode honestly. The dungeon while pretty was fucking dogshit. Man I wish literally anybody but applibot was in charge of this....

>>1867686
Save for cid

>>1867560
Saarrrrrr

Well, there is now officially no longer a way to acquire noble memories for the double summons.

>>1868857
>he didnt clear lv3 double summons

>>1853129
Yurie is too based for EC

>>1868896
The game wouldn't even let me attempt lvl 2.

i'm ashamed to admit it but i simply couldn't bother with the event summons from lv2 onwards

i'm so fucking tired of fighting those shitting summons, i've probably beat each one like 1000 times so they make me phisically sick

>>1869053
The burnout is real. If I didnt bother with the limited content I would have no reason to keep playing, even if it is just recycled crap. I enjoyed the fact they mixed it up a bit with making phys fights magic and vice versa, but I understand its pretty lazy.

>>1850135
Wheres the halloween event?

>>1850135
Save for dirge

>>1869550
what's the point of introducing a new mechanic 1 month before eos?

>no halloween event
Its over

>>1869666
Even last year we only had a pumpkin palette swap boss fight at best. If anything, i wish they'd repropose the 2023 event since it had been made before the PC version so having it in HD and a fluid performance would have been cool.

>>1870088
>>1870089
LB?

>>1870094
nope

>>1870095
Easy skip

Toblerone!

>>1870098
post it

>>1870098
>>1870113
I GOT YOU SENPAI

https://youtu.be/m8mwpQiUdfw

>>1870137
Rip namput wallet lmfao

>>1870137
>>1870139
Nvm

https://youtu.be/prNbIpcuTQo

>>1870140
Another double banner

This is it...WOS....

>>1870140
>crossover weapon can appear
Which crossover

>>1870221
Kamu time

>>1870137
that's a man

>>1870251
You still would

>>1870299
OH NO NO NO CLOUDSISTERS NOT LIKE THIS!

>>1870310
Barret still loves cloud

>>1870299
Lol

>>1870137
Lighting's Model looks really good

>>1870406
Do not rip

>>1870299
This has only the effect on me of reminding that we haven't got yet a character solo chapter that shows how Barret met Tifa for Avalanche.

>>1870140
>Glen gets Snow's LR costume
I guess it's because of the ice axe, but still, feels kinda weak. I definitely getting the vibes this events will get a rerun next year with an extra banner for another costume or two.

>>1870444
based ntr enjoyer

>>1870221
I will pull for this if we get DQ weapons and cid LB.

>>1870444
Is cloud getting a skin?

>>1870470
Look at the trailer, lazy fuck.

>>1870472
nah I refuse to consume the cringe stories.
I just want cool costumes

>>1870221
I hope FF9. Even after it re-ran I still didn't get the Kuja or Aerith weapon from it.

>>1870522
Whats aerith weapon? I forgot what it was

>>1870522
For me, its quina weapon

>>1870470
If this is any indicator, then yes.

>>1870538
Garnet Rod. That one is easy for me to check because it is an incomplete mission that has been sitting near the top of my mission list forever.

>>1870539
Cloud should also get Lightning's outfit.

>>1870546
He's Getting Hope's Outfit

>they moved the AC event with movie cutscenes inside the story mode section
another W for eosCHADs

Namput here.
We are chopped and cooked.

>>1870627
But your vincent

>>1870627
looking good

Earth is literally the Element I am least competitive in, lmao

>>1870737
Lol it's over

What's the team comps for this GB?

>>1871080
The ideal comp is something like
Vincent
>White Dog
>Galian Roar
Yuffie
>Uber 4-point
>Rocker's Guitar
Angeal
>Ghost Ensis
>Any Provoke weapon
Though I think some teams are going to use a lot of the Quaga A weapons on Aerith, Glenn, and Yuffie

I just click rcmd

>>1871109
>>1871109
The best mag weapons are LB lmfao

>>1871206
Most of the META shit is LBs

>>1870627
This can't be real

PIG BUILD. OCTOPUS GANG RISE

https://youtu.be/JaHpQv-kwpk

>>1871641
Shit, is Young Sephiroth really getting a Yaag Rosch costume? That would be hilarious and yet cool.

>>1871643
>>1871641
>>1871642
eosbros... not feeling good...

>>1871648
I read the leaks and though Adult Sephiroth was getting pic related in collab

>>1871641
>>1871642
>Crossover banners are basically double limited
>Cloud, Aerith, and Tifa getting crossover banners two months in a row
>This immediately after Cloud and Tifa got a regular limited banner
Fun

>>1871660
The NieR crossover is in December, so you have to look >>1871642 instead.

i just hope i'll be able to maxx out highwind before eos

>>1871642
wow cait shit banner finally

>>1871642
Why wind vincent....

This raid is just ASSCANCER

>>1871263
holy fucking kino

>>1871642
>Dirge
Very nice.

pulling for ob6 vincent unironically. +3 matk all, +4 mdef down + enfeeble is too good to pass

>>1872575
Another good support weapon wasted on a dps

>>1872575
I pulled for the outfit when the banner went up but it just doesn't make sense to pull past outfit on any featured banner no matter how good it is or relevant to current content. Wait till the banner goes away and wishlist, even as a paypig unless you are willing to go full whale. The weapon is unfortunately not all the special or useful until OB6, but one day I'll be glad to have it

EoS status?

Real talk, how tf do you have yuffies earth weapon ob10 and barely do more damage than seph and lucia? Why push ob10 lb weapons if you are just gonna auto battle content?

>>1873288
Makes sense

>>1873288
uhm cope? You don't pay my rolls.

Claire Armpits soon...

>>1873693
>>1873693
Cloud is cute

>>1873693
Wow another lightning event. We don't care about the upcoming remaster

https://youtu.be/Y44YOjjzuBk

>>1873704
I was so sure this game already hit EoS a while back and maybe you were just posting about other times a mobile game had Lightning until I saw the upload date

>>1873930
Only in JP server. NA eos

>called lightning
>give us Ice element

Whos getting lightning this event?

Save for cloud caius

>>1873704
I do. I remember reasonably enjoying XIII and really liking XIII-2 back when they came out.

You no rike triple banner? Ok, we go back to double banner.

>>1874442
>Lighting's rod
This is just reverse Kamura wand

can somebody explain to me how the FUCK is it POSSIBLE that when the fucking gallonbaloir patres does its first bodyslam the fucking AI DOESN'T GO INTO DEFENSE MODE?????

applibot i have so many bad things to say about you but i don't wanna get banned so i'll just stfu

>>1874478
It's not. It gives seph new buff

>>1874480
The auto AI has actually gotten worse after one of the recent major updates. It was never supposed to just win fights for you or whatever, but now it does shit like switching to defense when it sees Ifrit about to use Hellfire, then 1 second before it goes off, it will switch back to attack mode so you take full damage. I forget exactly which fight is was, but some recent fight had multiple stream phases and the characters would break all the sigils no problem during the first phase, but during the second phase they would just sit there and overcap on ATB doing actual literal nothing. It's legitimately the worst Auto I've ever encountered in all of gaming.

Not to be confused with level cap

Uhhh

>>1874730
That's not caius

>Skip Battle
What? Skip what battle? It's the main menu!

The FFXIII crossover was lazy as fuck.

I hope to see a FFVIII crossover.

>>1874790
Based enjoyer

>>1874790
ffx or eos next

skipping both safe coombait banner

2b better have some skin showing or i'll simply uninstall this pos and download blue archive

I WANNA SKIP MORE QUESTS

LET ME SKIP ALL THE DAILIES

LET ME SKIP THE DAILY SKIPPING

SKIP RIGHT TO EOS PLEASE

>>1874730
>everyone except Glenn has a Lightning costume
Jesus, how much influence did Toriyama had for this event?

>>1874730
Lightning Cloud
Based, should have given Aerith and Tifa Serah and Fang's costumes respectively and made Cloud the only Lightning..

>>1874909
BASED BASED BASED

E33 collab soon?

>>1875341
Are japs devs praising this game at gunpoint?

Esc 30

https://youtu.be/mQZFOffVR5U

>>1875471
https://youtu.be/bbD854u8ls8

>god cid's ultimate of the free roll
ez life

EoS soon

>>1875659
How

>>1875514
https://youtu.be/filHjHd-i80

>>1874727
Hey that the hell is this? I haven't seen any new menus or anything for this

>>1876211
Finish the panel

>>1876211
it's just like Limits and Summons

>outside top 50 again
EOSisters we are so back

I got enough to exchange for either Ragnarok or Heaven’s Cloud. Which UW do you guys recommend?

>>1876629
The short version is that Sephiroth's is better when you can use him, but you're going to be using Cloud way more often, especially since they already said Seph is getting particularly few banners. Cloud is therefore better value. The only thing going against that idea is that the model for Cloud's next UW has already been datamined so he is likely going to be one of the first to get a 3rd UW so some people are picking Sephiroth just in case Cloud's new UW just obsoletes Ragnarok.

>>1876738
Mostly agree with this, although datamine has shown that the first 4 new UW will be for aerith yuffie vincent and tifa, so no clue how long before ultima weapon. Ragnarok is mediocre imo but cloud will likely get more mileage even if you did pull for Adult sephs banner. That said, Heavens Cloud is the better choice if you want to bet on the future or simply never use cloud.

>>1876524
Brave Exvius shut down. I can feel death creeping up on us already. What is it with sqex and dead gachas...I really hope you guys didn't spend too much money on this one.

>>1877048
>Spending