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thistlechaser) wrote2010-06-22 06:28 pm
thistlechaser) wrote2010-06-22 06:28 pm
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WoW being down = homesick for FFXI! // West Wing
WoW has been down for 16 or so hours now, almost eight hours longer than intended, which has given me lots of time to do other stuff. Pick lint off the carpet, balance my checkbook from 1994, count cans of soup in my kitchen...
Among other things, I've been looking through my FFXI screenshots. It's easy to do, since I have a directory of many hundred of them still online. For the first time since I left, I actually have a positive feeling towards the game, a real homesick feeling. Literally! Looking at screenshots of my house was what did it, but the more I looked, the more things that made me smile. Besieged! Man, I remember waiting up until 3 or 4 AM on work nights waiting for them! Going to work late, having "lunch" last four hours so I could catch one...
I know when I was playing I didn't have fun, and I know if I went back now I'd still feel the same*, but... I sure did have a great moghouse. :)
*I don't like XPing, I don't enjoy doing missions or things like Dynamis (did I spell that right?), the idea of the level cap being raised makes me sob, and I sure as heck didn't need more gil, so, really no reason for me to go back. :/
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West Wing. I've been wanting to write about this show for a week, but it keeps never feeling like the right time. It's such a good show, I want to write the best post about it, but all I end up doing is going EEEEEEE IT'S SO GOOD EEEE, which doesn't make for a great post.
I'm near the end of the second season (five more seasons to go, thankfully!), and I don't think I've ever watched a better TV show. Every ep is amazing. Every character is amazing. This darned show can make me laugh and cry in the same hour! I mean seriously, laughing out loud and sobbing my eyes out!
If you're like me and somehow missed seeing it, GO FIND IT NOW. It's all-caps worthy! I'm dying to watch more, but I'm trying not to rush though it! I don't want it to end!
Among other things, I've been looking through my FFXI screenshots. It's easy to do, since I have a directory of many hundred of them still online. For the first time since I left, I actually have a positive feeling towards the game, a real homesick feeling. Literally! Looking at screenshots of my house was what did it, but the more I looked, the more things that made me smile. Besieged! Man, I remember waiting up until 3 or 4 AM on work nights waiting for them! Going to work late, having "lunch" last four hours so I could catch one...
I know when I was playing I didn't have fun, and I know if I went back now I'd still feel the same*, but... I sure did have a great moghouse. :)
*I don't like XPing, I don't enjoy doing missions or things like Dynamis (did I spell that right?), the idea of the level cap being raised makes me sob, and I sure as heck didn't need more gil, so, really no reason for me to go back. :/
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West Wing. I've been wanting to write about this show for a week, but it keeps never feeling like the right time. It's such a good show, I want to write the best post about it, but all I end up doing is going EEEEEEE IT'S SO GOOD EEEE, which doesn't make for a great post.
I'm near the end of the second season (five more seasons to go, thankfully!), and I don't think I've ever watched a better TV show. Every ep is amazing. Every character is amazing. This darned show can make me laugh and cry in the same hour! I mean seriously, laughing out loud and sobbing my eyes out!
If you're like me and somehow missed seeing it, GO FIND IT NOW. It's all-caps worthy! I'm dying to watch more, but I'm trying not to rush though it! I don't want it to end!
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What's more, I STILL HAVE SCREENSHOTS FROM IT! (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060423155901a.jpg)
Plus I had huge goals in FFXI, goals that actually seemed to mean something (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060611211725a-1.jpg) in FFXI...
Even what seemed like the silliest little things (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060618165947a.jpg) seem to still hold meaning now.
Hell, there were friends I actually felt like protecting (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060621142223a.jpg) instead of some faceless, nameless, racist scrub I found in the LFD queue...
Maybe it was because I was younger and felt like I could do the impossible (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060704031451a.jpg)...
Maybe it was simply the atmosphere of the game (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060716162816a.jpg), something which WoW seems to be lacking in WotLK...
Perhaps I just found so much more to have great fun with (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/WingsoftheGoddessBTTF.jpg) in XI...
In the end though, I suppose things do come to an end, but the best we can do is remember the times past (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel061108160529a.jpg) and use them as a compass to the future...
Fuck it, I'm going back to tanking. Watch out WoW, it's go time!
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You wouldn't catch Vel dead in PLD AF2.
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