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[thistlechaser]

Remember that great trailer for the zombie game? Dead Island? It was really popular for a while:

Today I was linked to the greatest thing ever. The trailer for a goat simulator game that spoofs that great zombie trailer:

And in non-trailer game news: For the first time in forever, I've become an officer in a game again. After running the MUSH for so long, I was trying to just be a player (all the fun and none of the stress!), but my FC (guild) in FFXIV lost both of its officers, so someone else stepped up, and then hired a PvE and RP officer from within the player ranks. Out of all the people who didn't want the position, I didn't want it the least, so it ended up on my shoulders. I'm half-worried I'll stress myself out like I did with the MUSH, and I'm half-worried I'll just outright suck at it and ruin the RP (which is the main focus of the FC). Luckily all the players are great, and the other staff members are great, so hopefully it will work out.

Also: Got all crafts to 50 (except cooking, blech cooking), and all gathering jobs to 50. Bard is 43 and might actually hit 50 sooner rather than later. I'm rolling in game money, which hopefully will be useful when personal housing comes. Between my money and having all the crafts leveled, I should be able to have spiffy things.

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[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

I'm 50 ARM/CUL/GSM, and in the 30s everything else...I get ~1lvl per day or two in all crafts. Money stabilized around 500k, and I just buy all the crafting daily turn-ins (HQs if possible). Drops 20-30k, make it all back from challenges and such. They really made money worthless, which I can't help but wonder if that was an intentional F-U to the RMT that plagued FFXI.

My FC/LS focuses on PvE, though a few played in PVP this week (i joined in - love some PVP usually). I can't get past Titan EX - get him down to about 10% life, and someone always makes a mistake. Everyone knows the fight, most dodge effectively, but healer lags during an early Landslide and the attempt is a wipe. Reached a point where something like that would happen and everyone jumps off the cliff to save time. Other than that, we just started learning Coil turn 5. Harrrrrd.

Dedicating less time to XIV - trying to play in the ArcheAge alpha some, hit gym more often, and getting in good enough shape that I really have to set pen to paper (or lately, stylus to iPad) on tattoo design.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I ended up just tossing money at crafting, too. Not fun, but easy. I'm at 2.5 million, and depending on how much time I spend at the AH, I can make up to 500K/day (I bought the tidal barding last night for 150K, and made the money back plus more overnight while I slept).

I think the value of money will go up as more things to spend it on are introduced. I suspect personal housing will help.

We have some folks in our FC who PvP, and they enjoy it a lot. Once I hit 50, I'll probably check it out. (I know you can do it pre-50, but meh.)

On the PvE end of things, we're having trouble. Our already small FC lost two members, which means they don't have enough for raid-y things anymore. We're trying to recruit more, but as we're a "safe space" FC, our pickings are slim and we need to be careful about who we accept.

I'll be interested to see what kind of tattoo you get!