Dribs and drabs

[thistlechaser]

Lots of little pieces that I've been meaning to post about.

The "garden" (various pots of plants) is going well. I'm hoping to do more planting tomorrow, I have to go out and get more soil/pots. Some of the wee little seedlings need to be moved into bigger pots, I think. Also, one of the random seedlings is a sunflower, so I need some kind of a tiny little cage for it. Poor thing keeps flopping over, it is too tall and too thin to hold up its leaves.

Pictures will be posted sooner or later!

WoW: We took a group trip to ICC the other night, and our party makeup made it amusing. Basically all hunters. We did have a spiffy tank and a healer, but we did pet tanking as well. And by "we" I mean "people more skilled than I". I mostly just stood around and shot things.

Alas, none of the daggers I wanted dropped, but oh well. More and more of my RP is over IM, so it doesn't really matter all that much.

WoW AH: Thanks to a tip from jadall, I've been making money hand over fist. I hadn't done the Obsidium Shuffle since early in Cata, but someone dumped a mess of cheap ores on the AH, so I snagged 500 or so stacks of it. I mentioned it a while back. I'm still selling the results of it. It's a lot of work, but I've made about about 14K off it, very roughly estimated. It's slowing down now, but thanks to it, it's looking more and more likely that I'll hit a million gold again soonish (under 80K more to go).

FFXI: (Yes, FFXI news!) kaelash found an amusing old picture, done by Draque (I can't find his LJ name).

That made me laugh. :D (The answer: That moss for G1, from that cave with the crawlers. It had to be kept warm and moist, so where better!)

In picking out the icon for this post, it's sad how wrong "dark knight" now feels. My brain wants to correct it to "death knight". But on the other side of the coin, I watched some random FFXI CoP video I had saved on my work machine, and it amazed me how well I could follow the battle by sound effects alone. Even these years later, I can follow the audio cues so much better than I can in WoW. I'm not sure if the ones in WoW aren't as clear (I don't think that can be the case?), or if it's that I "PvE"ed more in FFXI. Voking, stoneshell, dispel, slow, haste, ice spikes -- I'm not 100% sure I have the names all correct, but I sure did recognize them in the video.

Also, a comm rec: drawsome. People submit drawings from that... what's it called... that app. Like pictionary with friends. They're surprisingly good and generally amusing!

Comments

[kelen.livejournal.com]

*laughs* You mean me? I'm Draque, remember? ;)

And god, I stumbled over some others of those the other day. My Got Carby? one and such.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! Yes! I looked at my friends list so often but I kept missing your name, arg! <3

Ha! I remember that one, too. :D

[kelen.livejournal.com]

Found it!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

HA! That's so great. :D

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Heh, I need to track down some tomato plants...growing season is really short around here.

I got an invite to a Walking Dead meet-and-greet (evening with the execs and stars, plus snacks!) and thought of you...most of these events are for shows that I have never heard of, but you introduced me to Walking Dead.
If we were anywhere near Los Angeles this weekend I would have taken you as a guest.XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oooh! LA is far away, but if we both could have gotten there, that would have been great! :D

And with the weather we've been having lately, maybe this year you'll be able to grow them year 'round!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't even send any of my LA friends there because they would need my ATAS card and photo ID to get in. One of the very few times when I wish I lived a bit closer to work!

I don't know, maybe this year I can finally get Hubby to build me a greenhouse. It has to be a solid building because the elk would just knock over a plastic enclosure. There is a local guy selling premade ones but he wants $800 for them, no thanks!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

A greenhouse would be lovely. Imagine being in it in the middle of winter, snow falling all around you, but nice and warm and humid inside. :D

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

I've always been wandering by the garden section and Walmart and considering growing something. I don't know what or where I'd do it, but I fear I'd totally murder the poor plants. D:

Amg you guys have to do ICC again! It ended up that was the night I was flying to Atlanta and didn't have internet for the longest. :o

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah! We missed you! I kept an eye on AIM in case you got on.

And you should! It's fun, even if it's just in a little pot. (Shh! I kill plants endlessly too. Don't tell my little herbs! :P )

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about FFXI a lot lately myself...the audio cues in FF were a lot more clear than WoW. I've been playing SW:TOR, and it is definitely a WoW clone. Neither game uses distinct sound effects for abilities and such. Just some generic lightning and energy-blaster noises. Whereas think, right now, what SneakAttack+TrickAttack sound like. With no effort at all, I can hear the KACHING-WHOOSH-SMACK-FOOM-kurSWISH of third-eye, meditate, sneak attack, trick attack, tachi:gekko.

Makes me miss FFXI, but not enough to go back. Some things have had their time, and that time is definitely over.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah! So it's not just me misremembering. That's good to know that they really were different. I wish WoW were better about it, but I guess WoW doesn't really need it so much. (Skillchains in WoW would bring all the laughs.)

And yeah, I do miss it, but never going back. Even if I wanted to, Thistle can't be recovered, so that door is closed behind me for good.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I've got to say, it seems extremely retarded that SE deletes characters. I bet there have been thousands of people who would pay for at least a month here and there if their characters were still around! It's like the company is deliberately trying to run itself into the ground...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

They usually don't. After some time limit (5? 10? years) they do a deep archive of it, so it's harder (read: more expensive) to get it back, but in my case I think it was caused by a technical issue. The servers got merged, and there was already a Thistle on the server, so I bet they hadn't been ready for that sort of situation. New Thistle's info overwrote my Thistle's, I suspect.

Or it could have been just some other technical issue/bad coding/whatever. Some of my mules were gone, but some were still there. I can't recall if it was split by common/unique names or not.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Incompetence makes it even worse. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise after FFXIV, but dang. o.0

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Everyone else who quit at the same time as me were able to get their characters back (with the same name). It could be just bad luck for me, but I was the only person who wasn't playing at the time of the server merge and there was already a character with that name and couldn't get their character recovered, so... it looks like a coding issue.