WoW being down = homesick for FFXI! // West Wing

[thistlechaser]

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!

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

See, me, on the other hand, I hated missions. Well, some of the TOAU ones were okay, but all the sneaking through aggro crap? Fights that required just the right grouping of jobs (remember how it took us something like 28 times to beat the damned last ToAU fight?). And I still hate the letters C-o-P with a burning hatred!

I don't think there's really anything at all I hate in WoW. I don't hate the Alliance, I don't hate... well, okay, there's the drop rate, but knowing that's 74857454730570431 times better than FFXI's makes me feel silly for hating it.

I still want a mix of the two games. So much of FFXI, yet all of WoW's not-annoying-ness.

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

CoP was so nerfed in the last update.

Level caps removed. I don't know how they changed all mobs, but I've heard there are now IT to 75 mobs in Promyvions off the mission paths.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Huh! Suppose the airship battle is much easier now!

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

If I had to show one thing that shows that I still have an attachment to FFXI, it would have to be the draenei MNK I had commissioned.