Jul. 19th, 2005

thistlechaser: (Snape approves!)
While writing up my HP post last night, I had forgotten that I put a bunch of my comments in [livejournal.com profile] hbp_chapters instead of my own LJ, so many people didn't get to see them. While last night's post had mostly negative stuff, this one is mostly positive. Too bad I wasn't able to put both into one post, since it would have been more balanced that way.

ExpandMore Half Blood Prince thoughts -- spoilers for the whole book. )

FFXI: This morning I was able to download the patch in one single try! Yay! Of course I wasn't able to log on after that, but hey. Hopefully by tonight I'll be able to! And hopefully enough others will be be successful so we'll be able to go Eco'ing!
thistlechaser: (Snape approves!)
While writing up my HP post last night, I had forgotten that I put a bunch of my comments in [livejournal.com profile] hbp_chapters instead of my own LJ, so many people didn't get to see them. While last night's post had mostly negative stuff, this one is mostly positive. Too bad I wasn't able to put both into one post, since it would have been more balanced that way.

ExpandMore Half Blood Prince thoughts -- spoilers for the whole book. )

FFXI: This morning I was able to download the patch in one single try! Yay! Of course I wasn't able to log on after that, but hey. Hopefully by tonight I'll be able to! And hopefully enough others will be be successful so we'll be able to go Eco'ing!
thistlechaser: (Sleepy Ken)
Look! Look! Look! There's a new Easy Prey comic up! And man, as if I didn't love the strip enough! The DRG is soooooo abused by the rocking, sexy, wonderful, cool DRK! I even love the DRK's name! Zeke! How cool is that? Heeheehee!

And check out the slash in that strip! Heeheehee!

In other FFXI news, I looked through the list of new items in the update and didn't see much good for DRK. Some DRK-usable stuff, but anything better than what I have now is 71-75 level stuff. Bah. At least there's good stuff for some other jobs.

I read a write-up and that "NPC friendship" quest thing doesn't look as awful as it might have been, though I have no idea how hard the NM in EN will be... Maybe I'll have time to try it tonight after Eco, though if I die on it it will seriously suck, since I'll delevel and lose my armor. Bah.

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RL is seriously challenging at the moment. I've gotten 4-5 hours of sleep a night for 9 days in a row now. That's way too little sleep for way too long. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Still enjoying catching up on HBP posts. So many good, smart, fun ideas out there! I can't wait till new fics (ha ha, typoed that as 'dicks') start rolling in! I'm actually sort of wanting Snape/Dumbledore stories now, even though the thought of old man sex still squicks me quite a bit.
thistlechaser: (Sleepy Ken)
Look! Look! Look! There's a new Easy Prey comic up! And man, as if I didn't love the strip enough! The DRG is soooooo abused by the rocking, sexy, wonderful, cool DRK! I even love the DRK's name! Zeke! How cool is that? Heeheehee!

And check out the slash in that strip! Heeheehee!

In other FFXI news, I looked through the list of new items in the update and didn't see much good for DRK. Some DRK-usable stuff, but anything better than what I have now is 71-75 level stuff. Bah. At least there's good stuff for some other jobs.

I read a write-up and that "NPC friendship" quest thing doesn't look as awful as it might have been, though I have no idea how hard the NM in EN will be... Maybe I'll have time to try it tonight after Eco, though if I die on it it will seriously suck, since I'll delevel and lose my armor. Bah.

---

RL is seriously challenging at the moment. I've gotten 4-5 hours of sleep a night for 9 days in a row now. That's way too little sleep for way too long. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Still enjoying catching up on HBP posts. So many good, smart, fun ideas out there! I can't wait till new fics (ha ha, typoed that as 'dicks') start rolling in! I'm actually sort of wanting Snape/Dumbledore stories now, even though the thought of old man sex still squicks me quite a bit.
thistlechaser: (Snarl)
This morning I got the update downloaded. It did the checking files, it downloaded, it gave me the 'update successful, must restart window', and the window restarted. I wasn't able to log on after that, but no biggie, right?

I decided to try to log on now, so I could be online for Eco tonight. Kept failing, then finally got through... and it started downloading and checking files again! What The Hell? I went through the update once, now it's trying to do it again! And, of course, failing, because 50,000 other people are trying to hit the same server as me.

Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. Having to do the damned update once is bad enough, but what sort of bug is this that makes me need to do it twice!

If you don't see me at Eco, you'll know why.

Dammit.
thistlechaser: (Snarl)
This morning I got the update downloaded. It did the checking files, it downloaded, it gave me the 'update successful, must restart window', and the window restarted. I wasn't able to log on after that, but no biggie, right?

I decided to try to log on now, so I could be online for Eco tonight. Kept failing, then finally got through... and it started downloading and checking files again! What The Hell? I went through the update once, now it's trying to do it again! And, of course, failing, because 50,000 other people are trying to hit the same server as me.

Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. Having to do the damned update once is bad enough, but what sort of bug is this that makes me need to do it twice!

If you don't see me at Eco, you'll know why.

Dammit.
thistlechaser: (Default)
Spent my lunch hour trying to do the FFXI update. Failed.

Spent the last four hours sitting here, just clicking 'retry'. I'm not even halfway done. I can understand the servers being slammed, but I cannot understand this system.

Non-players: For an update like this, there are three steps. A small download, a "file check" system to see if you've partially updated already, then the main download.

First you need to get the initial download. Click the button to attempt it. Wait while it tries. In 30 seconds to a minute or two it will fail (or perhaps succeed). Assuming it fails, you must be at the PC, see the fail (thus have the window forward), and click the button to try again.

Assuming you are able to start that first download, and assuming it completes (95% of the time you will not succeed at these two things), then you have to wait through the file checking. Five minutes or so, unable to be skipped. On the plus side, it can't fail.

So once you've had the rare successful getting of the first download, plus waiting the five minutes for a check, it tries to start the main download. You are more likely to fail on this download than the first one, and way way way (almost certain) to fail it before it finishes.

And if you fail on that third download, you start at the very beginning again.

Now imagine doing this for HOURS. I have been doing it for four hours straight now (plus an hour earlier). Others have been doing it 12 hours. And I'm still not even halfway done.

As if this wasn't bad enough, yesterday was a 16 hour downtime for server upgrades.

Sigh. This week sucks so hard.

---

But look! I'm so bored, I have an offer for people! For tonight only (or until the update actually finishes), if you leave a comment I'll draw something for you! It'll be done with a mouse in MS Paint so it won't be very good, but it'll be something! It might be from your LJ interests or you could suggest something (which I may or may not use!).

To start this off (and show you the quality of the "art" you'll be getting), here's a sample: Things besides FFXI that suck! (If you squint hard and use your imagination, there is a small potentially NWS image... just a stick figure.)

So get cracking! I'm bored!

Edit: Looks like the update is nearly done! Thank god for east coast people going to bed at midnight! No more art!
thistlechaser: (Default)
Spent my lunch hour trying to do the FFXI update. Failed.

Spent the last four hours sitting here, just clicking 'retry'. I'm not even halfway done. I can understand the servers being slammed, but I cannot understand this system.

Non-players: For an update like this, there are three steps. A small download, a "file check" system to see if you've partially updated already, then the main download.

First you need to get the initial download. Click the button to attempt it. Wait while it tries. In 30 seconds to a minute or two it will fail (or perhaps succeed). Assuming it fails, you must be at the PC, see the fail (thus have the window forward), and click the button to try again.

Assuming you are able to start that first download, and assuming it completes (95% of the time you will not succeed at these two things), then you have to wait through the file checking. Five minutes or so, unable to be skipped. On the plus side, it can't fail.

So once you've had the rare successful getting of the first download, plus waiting the five minutes for a check, it tries to start the main download. You are more likely to fail on this download than the first one, and way way way (almost certain) to fail it before it finishes.

And if you fail on that third download, you start at the very beginning again.

Now imagine doing this for HOURS. I have been doing it for four hours straight now (plus an hour earlier). Others have been doing it 12 hours. And I'm still not even halfway done.

As if this wasn't bad enough, yesterday was a 16 hour downtime for server upgrades.

Sigh. This week sucks so hard.

---

But look! I'm so bored, I have an offer for people! For tonight only (or until the update actually finishes), if you leave a comment I'll draw something for you! It'll be done with a mouse in MS Paint so it won't be very good, but it'll be something! It might be from your LJ interests or you could suggest something (which I may or may not use!).

To start this off (and show you the quality of the "art" you'll be getting), here's a sample: Things besides FFXI that suck! (If you squint hard and use your imagination, there is a small potentially NWS image... just a stick figure.)

So get cracking! I'm bored!

Edit: Looks like the update is nearly done! Thank god for east coast people going to bed at midnight! No more art!

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