You dig and you dig, but find nothing. (FFXI)

Quiet night on FFXI last night. Since the Castle Oz/Yag High Priest CTY LS event thingie was for fun and not a necessary quest for someone, I didn't attend. I have no death buffer at all, and even a death with a raise wouldn't be enough to get my level back, so I didn't want to risk it. Turned out that was the right decision, as everyone who attended (other than Nif, I heard) died.

I didn't have much of anything else to do, so I got off my butt and went back to work on chocobo digging. (Non-players: You buy some special greens and feed them to the bird, then it will dig for you. You may or may not dig something up.) Finally, finally, finally all the time and money I've put into this paid off! I leveled! Woo! (Unlike jobs or crafting, there are only 6? 7? chocobo levels. It costs hundreds of thousands of gil per level, and much much much time.) A six second delay on digging is just amazing! It feels like I'm flying!

I spent about 80K on greens for digging last night, but for the first time ever I actually made a profit! (Higher level in digging = you get better and more stuff.) Best things were: a darksteel ore (20K+), 8 oak logs (eh, or elm? the 10K ones), and a whole stack of mythril beastcoins! It's so amazing to be digging and actually making a profit! And the faster digging might mean faster leveling! (But maybe not. I suspect that each level needs double the digging to level than the one before it.)

Players: Do not let people tell you that there's a "hidden test system", that you have to dig X item to level. That is NOT TRUE at all. I've not dug up test items, and I've leveled fine. Also: You can level on a dig that you don't even get anything on! It's just a matter of digging lots and lots and lots.

While digging, I saw the oddest thing: Flowers growing out of thin air! And it wasn't a one time glitch, they stayed there! I saw them first at night, then dug a while and returned to the area in daytime, and there they were floating again! Oddness.

Lastly, can anyone tell me what this guy was trying to say?



I have no idea why he apparently didn't understand my use of the auto-translator...

You dig and you dig, but find nothing. (FFXI)

Quiet night on FFXI last night. Since the Castle Oz/Yag High Priest CTY LS event thingie was for fun and not a necessary quest for someone, I didn't attend. I have no death buffer at all, and even a death with a raise wouldn't be enough to get my level back, so I didn't want to risk it. Turned out that was the right decision, as everyone who attended (other than Nif, I heard) died.

I didn't have much of anything else to do, so I got off my butt and went back to work on chocobo digging. (Non-players: You buy some special greens and feed them to the bird, then it will dig for you. You may or may not dig something up.) Finally, finally, finally all the time and money I've put into this paid off! I leveled! Woo! (Unlike jobs or crafting, there are only 6? 7? chocobo levels. It costs hundreds of thousands of gil per level, and much much much time.) A six second delay on digging is just amazing! It feels like I'm flying!

I spent about 80K on greens for digging last night, but for the first time ever I actually made a profit! (Higher level in digging = you get better and more stuff.) Best things were: a darksteel ore (20K+), 8 oak logs (eh, or elm? the 10K ones), and a whole stack of mythril beastcoins! It's so amazing to be digging and actually making a profit! And the faster digging might mean faster leveling! (But maybe not. I suspect that each level needs double the digging to level than the one before it.)

Players: Do not let people tell you that there's a "hidden test system", that you have to dig X item to level. That is NOT TRUE at all. I've not dug up test items, and I've leveled fine. Also: You can level on a dig that you don't even get anything on! It's just a matter of digging lots and lots and lots.

While digging, I saw the oddest thing: Flowers growing out of thin air! And it wasn't a one time glitch, they stayed there! I saw them first at night, then dug a while and returned to the area in daytime, and there they were floating again! Oddness.

Lastly, can anyone tell me what this guy was trying to say?



I have no idea why he apparently didn't understand my use of the auto-translator...

Yo, firebyrd!

I don't have an email address for you, but I thought you might be interested in this: alchemia put some My Little Ponies up on eBay. Link to all her auctions here.

She's a nice person and you're a nice person, so I thought I'd hook you two up.

I feel like a pony pimp. :P ("You lookin' for a pony? I got me some connections to pretty ones. Reeeaaaal pretty ones. Lemme hook you up, sista.") "My Little Pimp" coming in June! Get one for your daughter today!

EDIT: And while I'm posting messages to people, gbeans: zubis is stalking you! ;)

Yo, firebyrd!

I don't have an email address for you, but I thought you might be interested in this: alchemia put some My Little Ponies up on eBay. Link to all her auctions here.

She's a nice person and you're a nice person, so I thought I'd hook you two up.

I feel like a pony pimp. :P ("You lookin' for a pony? I got me some connections to pretty ones. Reeeaaaal pretty ones. Lemme hook you up, sista.") "My Little Pimp" coming in June! Get one for your daughter today!

EDIT: And while I'm posting messages to people, gbeans: zubis is stalking you! ;)

Bah and woo! (Something for everyone... unless you like to rob people!)

FFXI: Screenshots like this one depress the heck out of me. But then it got worse! I googled "FFXI packet sniffer" and got tons of results. Mining bots, crafting bots, provoking bots... sheesh.

I know bots and cheating are nothing new, but... wow. So depressing. I'm so glad that I generally do things that don't bring me into direct competition with others, because I'd lose for sure.

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Non-FFXI: The news is so educational! Today I learned that women, much like bees, get angry when poked! No wait, that's not right. It's more like: Never piss off a mob of women holding curling irons!

Note to anyone on my flist planning a crime: As tempting as she may appear, if you're going to rob someone don't pick this woman:

News story here. A man tries to rob a beauty school and the students kick his ass.

I love it. :)

EDIT: I usually cut images, but that one amused me too much to hide it. If anyone minds it at all, I'll change it to a link! I don't want to clutter friendslists!

Bah and woo! (Something for everyone... unless you like to rob people!)

FFXI: Screenshots like this one depress the heck out of me. But then it got worse! I googled "FFXI packet sniffer" and got tons of results. Mining bots, crafting bots, provoking bots... sheesh.

I know bots and cheating are nothing new, but... wow. So depressing. I'm so glad that I generally do things that don't bring me into direct competition with others, because I'd lose for sure.

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Non-FFXI: The news is so educational! Today I learned that women, much like bees, get angry when poked! No wait, that's not right. It's more like: Never piss off a mob of women holding curling irons!

Note to anyone on my flist planning a crime: As tempting as she may appear, if you're going to rob someone don't pick this woman:

News story here. A man tries to rob a beauty school and the students kick his ass.

I love it. :)

EDIT: I usually cut images, but that one amused me too much to hide it. If anyone minds it at all, I'll change it to a link! I don't want to clutter friendslists!