HP > Survivor
May. 9th, 2004 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserOrder: HP/Survivor, FFXI (behind the cut), life/random stuff.
I'll admit it: For a few moments today, I did consider watching the Survivor final ep instead of the HP movie. I have good excuses though!
1) I thought it was just the original SS movie with a little sneak peak at the PoA movie. I had no idea all the new footage would be in there! I kept staring at the screen thinking 'how could I have forgotten THAT?'. (Like Harry talking back to Snape! And Snape almost getting into his face!) I figured that I've seen SS a hundred times already, and PoA will be out soon enough, so why miss something I've never seen for something I thought I knew by heart?
2) While this Survivor season has sucked, I did watch it all season. I wanted to know how it ended! And what the "big surprise twist" was!
But HP started at 7 and Survivor at 8, and that's what did Survivor in for sure: Just seconds into SS I was hooked! Yeah, I saw it over and over and over already, but eeeeeee! It's so good! Seeing it all on the screen! (I just started reading the first book over again (thanks to you text file person!), so it was especially cool seeing it all on the screen.)
I'm so glad I recorded it! All that new footage! And all the PoA stuff! And man, the kids looked so old! (Way too old... but on the other hand Snape won't have to worry about Harry being legal anymore! Heh.) I can't believe this, but the mustache is actually growing on me... It doesn't make me twitch and cringe anymore.
I'm just dying to read more HP fanfic (and what's happening with HP survivor? Eee!), but this is going to be another damned busy week at work. Bah... I'll be lucky if I catch up with my flist alone by Wednesday...
Speaking of having no time for anything else, a small FFXI update: Today was good. Though I died (totally and utterly through my own stupidity), it was a really relaxing day. I took a chocobo to Sel-whatever to drop off my subjob items, and since I was there I took the boat. Wheee! I love that thing! And it was nearly empty! Both ways there were only three people on at a time: One way one person fished and the other killed the random monsters running around (leaving me safe and free to just watch the water and stuff), but on the way back the other two people stayed below deck. I tried staying above for a while, but I wasn't sure what aggroed so I finally went back down. (It was raining, which was way way cool! A water element showed up! IT++ to me.)
Once I got back to Sel-whatever, the problem started: I took a chocobo there, and I expected to take one back. I had plenty of money, and they're so easy and fun, it was a no-brainer. Problem is, there's no chocobo stable there. Oh well! I figured I'd just run back. I made it through the dunes fine, but then in the plateau an orc aggroed me. I wasn't too worried... but then I realized that I was still in my fishing clothing, not in armor. And I had no weapon.
Question: What happens when a white mage tries to take an even challenge with no armor, no weapon, and lag so bad not one macro or the magic-menu will work?
Answer: Dead mage!
Bah. Bah. Bah. At least I didn't de-level, but still! Utter utter lack of planning on my part. Stupidity, assumption, and lack of planning. I deserved the death, and I'm just glad I didn't de-level (it was a close thing). (It's not the death that's bothering me, it's how damned sloppy I was. I'm feeling stronger in the game, so I'm getting careless. That's bad!)
Money troubles: I logged off yesterday with 50,000, and within an hour of logging on today I was down to 5,000. Four levels of new spells, all new armor (including one 20,000 piece), and a new weapon. I fished all day, but only brought in about 5,000. I did raise 1.6 levels in fishing though, which in the past had taken me literally weeks to gain.
So... yeah. I like the game, but it's too easy to spend all of your free time on it. There's so much to do! And it seems like every day something new you "have to" do is dropped onto you. (I got like four new quests today alone! I can't even keep track of them all!)
Bah. Wish it wasn't Sunday night (and an hour past bedtime with me not a bit tired). Oh well, at least there should be lots of new HP posts on my flist to read! :)
Edit before posting: I guess I'm feeling lonely, too. I miss a lot of online people. I feel cut off not just from the MUSH people, but from a lot of people. I'm sort of missing having a MUSH, too. A MUSH is like a home, FFXI is like... New York City -- it's big and there are tons of people around you, but they're nearly all strangers and it makes me feel more lonely. I should check that site which lists changes in who has friended/defriended your LJ, but I'm afraid it'll depress me. (Edit: Oh, it's not as bad as I thought. One person I didn't know left, one person "defriended" me because her LJ is deleted, and one person I knew defriended me. The last one hurts, but I understand it. Thank you to everyone still here! :) Second edit: Wait, does that make me sound too needy? It's just a real "thanks!", not a "defriend me and I'll throw myself in front of a bus!". :) )
A message to my LJ friends!
If you're a HP LJ friend: I'm sorry for so much FFXI talk, but at least most of the anime babble has stopped, right? ;) With the coming movie, I'm expecting more HP content.
Anime LJ friends: I'm still watching stuff (though much slower than before), but I'm posting less about it because I feel like I'm already spamming the HP people with so much non-HP stuff (FFXI).
FFXI people: Well, you all are probably pretty happy right now, huh? :)
If you're reading my LJ for info on my RL: Be happy I don't post much about it. It would be endless "I hate my job", "I hate my job so much I wish I were dead", and "Boy, I really should quit this job". I'm saving you from having to read the same complaint over and over. :)
I'll admit it: For a few moments today, I did consider watching the Survivor final ep instead of the HP movie. I have good excuses though!
1) I thought it was just the original SS movie with a little sneak peak at the PoA movie. I had no idea all the new footage would be in there! I kept staring at the screen thinking 'how could I have forgotten THAT?'. (Like Harry talking back to Snape! And Snape almost getting into his face!) I figured that I've seen SS a hundred times already, and PoA will be out soon enough, so why miss something I've never seen for something I thought I knew by heart?
2) While this Survivor season has sucked, I did watch it all season. I wanted to know how it ended! And what the "big surprise twist" was!
But HP started at 7 and Survivor at 8, and that's what did Survivor in for sure: Just seconds into SS I was hooked! Yeah, I saw it over and over and over already, but eeeeeee! It's so good! Seeing it all on the screen! (I just started reading the first book over again (thanks to you text file person!), so it was especially cool seeing it all on the screen.)
I'm so glad I recorded it! All that new footage! And all the PoA stuff! And man, the kids looked so old! (Way too old... but on the other hand Snape won't have to worry about Harry being legal anymore! Heh.) I can't believe this, but the mustache is actually growing on me... It doesn't make me twitch and cringe anymore.
I'm just dying to read more HP fanfic (and what's happening with HP survivor? Eee!), but this is going to be another damned busy week at work. Bah... I'll be lucky if I catch up with my flist alone by Wednesday...
Speaking of having no time for anything else, a small FFXI update: Today was good. Though I died (totally and utterly through my own stupidity), it was a really relaxing day. I took a chocobo to Sel-whatever to drop off my subjob items, and since I was there I took the boat. Wheee! I love that thing! And it was nearly empty! Both ways there were only three people on at a time: One way one person fished and the other killed the random monsters running around (leaving me safe and free to just watch the water and stuff), but on the way back the other two people stayed below deck. I tried staying above for a while, but I wasn't sure what aggroed so I finally went back down. (It was raining, which was way way cool! A water element showed up! IT++ to me.)
Once I got back to Sel-whatever, the problem started: I took a chocobo there, and I expected to take one back. I had plenty of money, and they're so easy and fun, it was a no-brainer. Problem is, there's no chocobo stable there. Oh well! I figured I'd just run back. I made it through the dunes fine, but then in the plateau an orc aggroed me. I wasn't too worried... but then I realized that I was still in my fishing clothing, not in armor. And I had no weapon.
Question: What happens when a white mage tries to take an even challenge with no armor, no weapon, and lag so bad not one macro or the magic-menu will work?
Answer: Dead mage!
Bah. Bah. Bah. At least I didn't de-level, but still! Utter utter lack of planning on my part. Stupidity, assumption, and lack of planning. I deserved the death, and I'm just glad I didn't de-level (it was a close thing). (It's not the death that's bothering me, it's how damned sloppy I was. I'm feeling stronger in the game, so I'm getting careless. That's bad!)
Money troubles: I logged off yesterday with 50,000, and within an hour of logging on today I was down to 5,000. Four levels of new spells, all new armor (including one 20,000 piece), and a new weapon. I fished all day, but only brought in about 5,000. I did raise 1.6 levels in fishing though, which in the past had taken me literally weeks to gain.
So... yeah. I like the game, but it's too easy to spend all of your free time on it. There's so much to do! And it seems like every day something new you "have to" do is dropped onto you. (I got like four new quests today alone! I can't even keep track of them all!)
Bah. Wish it wasn't Sunday night (and an hour past bedtime with me not a bit tired). Oh well, at least there should be lots of new HP posts on my flist to read! :)
Edit before posting: I guess I'm feeling lonely, too. I miss a lot of online people. I feel cut off not just from the MUSH people, but from a lot of people. I'm sort of missing having a MUSH, too. A MUSH is like a home, FFXI is like... New York City -- it's big and there are tons of people around you, but they're nearly all strangers and it makes me feel more lonely. I should check that site which lists changes in who has friended/defriended your LJ, but I'm afraid it'll depress me. (Edit: Oh, it's not as bad as I thought. One person I didn't know left, one person "defriended" me because her LJ is deleted, and one person I knew defriended me. The last one hurts, but I understand it. Thank you to everyone still here! :) Second edit: Wait, does that make me sound too needy? It's just a real "thanks!", not a "defriend me and I'll throw myself in front of a bus!". :) )
A message to my LJ friends!
If you're a HP LJ friend: I'm sorry for so much FFXI talk, but at least most of the anime babble has stopped, right? ;) With the coming movie, I'm expecting more HP content.
Anime LJ friends: I'm still watching stuff (though much slower than before), but I'm posting less about it because I feel like I'm already spamming the HP people with so much non-HP stuff (FFXI).
FFXI people: Well, you all are probably pretty happy right now, huh? :)
If you're reading my LJ for info on my RL: Be happy I don't post much about it. It would be endless "I hate my job", "I hate my job so much I wish I were dead", and "Boy, I really should quit this job". I'm saving you from having to read the same complaint over and over. :)
