"But do not forget what we cannot forgive"

[thistlechaser]

I need more time to watch movies... I still haven't watched The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and now I really, really want to watch Lion King and Lion King 2 again, too.

Tonight's RP kept triggering (if that word can be used this way) Disney songs. It started with one character saying 'we are one', and the Lion King 'We Are One' song started playing in my head (which is odd, because I didn't even remember the song or how it went, but when the character said the phrase, the whole song just started playing). Following a link from there, I got to Not One Of Us. Wow, what a powerful song! I kind of remember LK2 not being so good, but if this song is any indication, I'm remembering totally wrong.

(Song starts at a minute in.) Watching that makes me miss Lion King RP (and it's been 15+ years since Lion King MUCK!). Huh, wow, looks like the MUCK is still up and running. Must resist!

Then of course we got to I Just Can't Wait To Be Lich King, and things really took off. :D

In less cheerful news (or more, depending), I can't believe that archaeology was nerfed again, and another major one. "Archaeology leveling speed was also increased, now granting 5-9 fragments per dig. The number of fragments required to solve an artifact has also been decreased slightly." I don't know why they don't just give out a Professor title to anyone who opens the profession. Old rant, I know. I try to resist, but it makes me all grrrrr. Just give me a sign that reads 'I did this when it was hard' and I'd be happy. :P

On a very related note, FFXI still haunts me (in a bad way). I went into the new Darkmoon Faire expecting it to be horrible, painful, hours upon hours of boring, hard dailies. Even with the first-day rush, I finished everything on a lowbie alt in less than an hour. Not bad at all! I wish I could get the lessons FFXI taught me out of my head. WoW is different!

...no, don't ask me to explain how I can be against archaeology nerfs after that paragraph. I don't understand my head either. Even news of the fishing nerf annoyed me, and I don't even like skilling fishing!

Hmm, strange that I have no Disney icons.

Comments

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

I don't care what anybody says. It's not quite as good as the original, but TLK2 was an awesome movie. Good music, likeable characters (Andy Dick's lion was a little annoying though, but I mean, it's Andy Dick)... I haven't seen it in a few years though.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I should be in bed, but I've been watching all sorts of music videos (music "inspired by" LK and such). It's all so good! I have no idea how I forgot all this...

Edit: It's funny how much it makes me me want to go to Disney World...

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

I agree with you completely. Not as good as the original (I hate Romeo and Juliet anyway), but the music was utterly fantastic. And I'm a terrible person (Alex jumps all over me about this) but I actually like Zira's Lullaby better than Be Prepared. It's just so... so... sinister.

"The sound of Simba's dying gasp... his daughter squealing in my grasp! His lionesses' mournful cry - that's my lullaby!"

HECK YEAH. Evil kitty is evil!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I remember that! I really, really need to make time to watch these.

And I'm told this is the last week for Thundercats! For the whole season! D: Arg!

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

So many great lines.

"Trouble is - I know it's petty - but I hate to let them live."

"Oh, the battle may be bloody, but that kind of works for me."

I mean, come on: A symphony of death, oh my, that's my lullaby!

Zira's awesome.

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

Girl, I feel you, I don't have a sign or an achievement or anything that says "I was exalted with Darkmoone Faire before it was something a middle schooler with ADD could do on weekends," and it pisses me straight up OFF.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh gah! I didn't even think about that. That's a lot worse. Everyone's going to be able to do that rep now. :/

Story of WoW, I suppose. Everyone has to be able to succeed at everything!

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I like the new archaelogy change. =x I just leveled it on my druid because I didn't have anyone I could trust to make the Vial of the Sands for me, so I went and got it myself. So, so painful. I was already capped by the time that the patch came in, but I was pleasantly surprised to see the amount increase.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm thinking a lot of people will like it. Oh well, my two new alts will be leveling through it once they hit 60. I suppose I'll just add another couple Professors to my collection...

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, neither of my archaeologist characters have Professor yet. My druid is closer than my main though. =( And got some of the better things too (The bug from tol'vir, and she has the bone raptor project currently. D=).

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

The bone raptor is cool, but I'd LOVE it to be a bone flying mount instead!

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you know the DKs would complain if that happened. =P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I wish they'd open that mount to everyone. It's one of my favorites.

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

My DK doesn't even own it, I didn't want to pay that amount on a character that isn't my collector. XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I have it on my DK, it was his main flying mount until he got the HH one.

[blightheart.livejournal.com]

No bone chicken for you. It's bad enough everyone can fly into Acherus now! :[

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I know! I wish they hadn't. I suppose it makes sense, but...

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

That was one of the first things I did when I got onto the Cataclysm alpha. True story. That and a screenshot of the ruins of the Stormwind Park, so I could torment friends.

[ex-felknigh.livejournal.com]

A Northrend fossil project. Fossilized Frost Wyrm. I would do archeology on every single character if I could get a frost wyrm.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh man, yes. Every single alt would need it.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

...no, don't ask me to explain how I can be against archaeology nerfs after that paragraph. I don't understand my head either. Even news of the fishing nerf annoyed me, and I don't even like skilling fishing!

Actually it makes perfect sense. You did it when it was really hard and you actually had to put your nose to the grindstone to get it done. When you finally finished it you felt like you had actually accomplished something because you worked hard to get to your goal not because it was easy, but because it was hard.

Now when they nerf it, it's like slapping the memory of all the hard work you had to put in. Now all the little snowflakes can get the reward and what used to inspire "Wow, they actually did archaeology!" just brings about "Oh look, another person with a spare hour on their hands."

Something is to be said for the success they've obtained by continually lower the "You must be this awesome to enter" bar but it certainly does grate on some people that's for sure.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, to all of that. Especially "Something is to be said for the success they've obtained by continually lower the "You must be this awesome to enter" bar but it certainly does grate on some people that's for sure.". Oh well. I started it on Reed early. He can't fly yet, but I can't quest, I'm so sick of it. His very first dig, at level 1? NINE fragments. GAH! He;s going to be a professor so fast.

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. Mentioning The Lion King MUCK makes me feel old as hell. Especially since you said it's been 15+ years. Let me just crawl into this corner and weep for my long-gone, sorely missed childhood. XD

TLK2 was bad in the way that Disney sequels usually are, however their soundtrack has a few decent songs. 'Zira's Lullaby' is no 'Be Prepared', but as far as singing about murder and betrayal goes, it's pretty neat. XD I'm also rather fond of 'Not One of Us' and 'He Lives in You'. They even adapted 'He Lives in You' for the Broadway play (which also has an amazing soundtrack, of course!)

Now I want to go watch Hunchback because of 'Hellfire'. X3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You have very good taste in songs! :D I love Hellfire, that's the biggest reason I want to watch Hunchback again (that whole storyline).

I had all the soundtracks, including the "music inspired by..." ones, all on cassette tape. Heh. I doubt I have them around anymore, but even if I did, how could I play them!

Did you play on Lion King MUCK? I had when the game first opened, but I was an embarrassingly bad RPer back then.

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

Yep! I played there for a little bit. It was kind of nuts how big it was! And I was always making the non-popular species to try to be original and then getting all FFFF when they didn't get much RP. XD

I was pretty bad RPer too. I didn't actually start making sense until I started playing on smaller games. I was on a Jack London-based one for awhile which was epic and then a "multiverse" type called Crossroads that did Lion King and Balto. Actually, I was on a few that did Balto. That whole Yukon/Alaska RP thing with wolves and dogs was incredibly popular. O_o;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hm. I feel like I know Crossroads. The name rang a serious bell.

Oh yeah, I remember how popular Balto was! So many new MUCKs opened and then closed based on it.

I had been a cheetah on Lion King MUCK, though I recall mostly hanging out with the lions, so I got plenty of RP. Even though I was an EVIL cheetah, trying to kill the king's cubs.

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

:O Really? I was a wizard on Crossroads for awhile. Also the other Yukon/Balto game was Yukon Trails. So much dramaz.

In Crossroads' newb days it had many mini-realms inside it. It had Alaska, Rocky Mountains, Africa, and Australia altogether, I think. Then it downsized to be just African and Alaskan and then at the end we added the Amazon. Which was thrilling because for years I tried to get an Amazon MUCK together but didn't have a programmer, so this was the next best thing. Plus the programmer we had invented this innovative way to construct multi-leveled rooms so you could RP as a monkey in the canopy of a tree and hear people who were technically on the ground without having to type in your post "The monkey is in the tree". XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That sounds really familiar, though I don't recall what character I played there.

It was such a pain to find coders! Eventually I learned myself, when the game we founded lost ours. I'm sure my code was god-awful, but it worked.

Plus the programmer we had invented this innovative way to construct multi-leveled rooms so you could RP as a monkey in the canopy of a tree and hear people who were technically on the ground without having to type in your post "The monkey is in the tree". XD

Yeah, I remember either doing that or trying to do that, too. I suspect that was an idea we gave up on because I couldn't make it work... (Though I think we were trying to make things heard in an object instead of a room... but I think all rooms were objects? My brain! This was all so long ago.)