FFXI link, then RL stuff

Buy RL mandy hats! The mithra outfit scares me, a lot. I want a plush mandy! The TP shirt makes me giggle, and while I like the idea of the Yag Drink mug, the graphic is pretty poorly done.

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For some odd reason (perhaps because I didn't check my flist all weekend!) I had to ?skip=200 this morning. :/ It's been a long time since the last time I didn't keep up with my flist over the weekend!

Related to that, I watched zero TV this weekend. Sadly that means I didn't clean Tivo off, which means I may never catch up again. I even missed the second half of the SGA pilot ep, which I hadn't wanted to miss for anything. Bah. (Or hmm, I wonder if I had set Tivo to record it? I hope so!)

You silly northerners will laugh at me, but it's so darned cold out now! And I had to fill my car up with gas this morning, so I had to stand outside for way too long. I'm surprised I couldn't see my breath.

I can't believe it's October already. Nearly Halloween! When I was younger I'd have all my Christmas shopping done by now, but as I've gotten older I've become a real slacker.

*struggles to think of something else to write about, fails*

Ha ha ha, see how boring and low-on-content my posts are when I try to write about RL stuff? :P

FFXI link, then RL stuff

Buy RL mandy hats! The mithra outfit scares me, a lot. I want a plush mandy! The TP shirt makes me giggle, and while I like the idea of the Yag Drink mug, the graphic is pretty poorly done.

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For some odd reason (perhaps because I didn't check my flist all weekend!) I had to ?skip=200 this morning. :/ It's been a long time since the last time I didn't keep up with my flist over the weekend!

Related to that, I watched zero TV this weekend. Sadly that means I didn't clean Tivo off, which means I may never catch up again. I even missed the second half of the SGA pilot ep, which I hadn't wanted to miss for anything. Bah. (Or hmm, I wonder if I had set Tivo to record it? I hope so!)

You silly northerners will laugh at me, but it's so darned cold out now! And I had to fill my car up with gas this morning, so I had to stand outside for way too long. I'm surprised I couldn't see my breath.

I can't believe it's October already. Nearly Halloween! When I was younger I'd have all my Christmas shopping done by now, but as I've gotten older I've become a real slacker.

*struggles to think of something else to write about, fails*

Ha ha ha, see how boring and low-on-content my posts are when I try to write about RL stuff? :P

I'm flying! I'm flying! I'm... dying. (FFXI/WoW... slash for the geek in all of us.)

Night was split between the two games. Two hours on FFXI (the uneventful Eco Warrior followed by the more exciting Escort). Happily I got a little epenis stroking in:



WS + SE (without AF head). Left me down about 400 HP, but meh. Whatever. (WoW's infected me, I don't care (much) about death anymore!)

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WoW had some really good times and some really ... somewhat less good times tonight (still good but a little frustrating). I died five or six times, which just about doubles my total deaths there. I died three times in ten minutes! (I swear to god, some mobs aren't showing up on my mob radar. There is no way I could miss packs of things stalking me!) I died a couple times in combat, but those were acceptable. (I'm at a tough level right now: The easiest things in this new zone are just a little too hard, and everything else is highly deadly, but the zone before this is way too low.) What annoyed me was that twice a herd of centaur somehow appeared around me (not having shown as incoming on my radar) and killed me dead fast. (I mean sheesh, what do they have against me? Stupid horse-butted things.) Then once a pack of something else killed me, again not showing on my radar first (I never even saw what they were, I was just attacked by a bunch of things at once and died fast).

After the three-deaths-in-ten-minutes, I decided to give it one last chance before giving up for the night. I sent loyal (and often dead) Fluffy in to attack, and tried to shoot from afar... only to find my gun had broken! Grrr, stupid death-wearing-out-things. So ha ha, I died again.

Fluffy and I both hit level 14, so I went and bought all my new abilities and such. Since I had "a lot" of money left, I went and got all my armor and weapons fixed, no matter if they needed it yet or not. Sadly I only found the skinning-abilities-teaching guy after that, and found that my next level was going to cost 50 silver. Gah! I've never even had that much money before! :/ So I went out and tried to farm (the FFXI cure-all for low funds!) but found I can't farm very well at my level. I ended up just killing wolves to get meat for Fluffy -- he died so much, I had to feed him my entire stockpile just to make him happy again. Darned lovable eating machine. :)

And speaking of Fluffy, he rocks. It's rather odd to find myself in a support role for my pet: I sent him in to attack, once he has hate I shoot once with that DoT shot that I have, then I let him fight and heal him. Only near the end, once he has hate for sure, do I jump in and help kill. (Or that's how it goes in theory, anyway. Hate is terribly wobbly sometimes.)

And to file under "Dude, I may be new but I'm not stupid". He asked me if I was a new player and if this was my first character.

(Sorry if that's hard to read. I've not fixed that chat window to make things more visible yet.)
I have no idea if he was offering to PL me or (more likely) he expected me to give him my login info. o.O Buh? And if nothing else, you're promising to get my character to 20 in three days? If I worked at it, I'm sure I could do that myself!

And, the subject of the subject line: Wheeeee! I can fly! Oh my god, I love flying for getting around! I wasted money doing it, just because it rocks so much! Whatever the heck that thing I ride is, it's ugly as heck, but it works! And it's so cool: Sometimes you fly low enough you can actually see the mobs walking around below you! And it feels so much like really flying! And unlike FFXI's airships, there's no wait and no minimum level (you just have to talk to a NPC to get access to that place, so you need to visit once first). I'd call it a lot more expensive (the short hops I take cost me a silver and change, which I suspect is worth a lot more than 500 gil), but it's so so so much more fun.

If I had known I'd be posting so many WoW screenshots, I'd have made a new directory for them. :/ Maybe I'll have to do that and edit all the old posts before I make too many more. Or leave copies in both places. Hmmm.

Edit: I still can't believe I'm playing a giant ugly bull thing. :P 99.99999999% of the time I see myself only from the back (I can't get the camera to swing around to more than my side) so I can usually pretend that I'm just a big hairy human. On rare occasions where I can get the camera swung around enough to see me from the front, I boggle at just how ugly I am. :( I totally should have been a human, if only they could be hunters. When I look at Thistle on FFXI, I think "Gah, I'm so sexy! I'd totally do me!" But WoW me makes me cringe. :/

I'm flying! I'm flying! I'm... dying. (FFXI/WoW... slash for the geek in all of us.)

Night was split between the two games. Two hours on FFXI (the uneventful Eco Warrior followed by the more exciting Escort). Happily I got a little epenis stroking in:



WS + SE (without AF head). Left me down about 400 HP, but meh. Whatever. (WoW's infected me, I don't care (much) about death anymore!)

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WoW had some really good times and some really ... somewhat less good times tonight (still good but a little frustrating). I died five or six times, which just about doubles my total deaths there. I died three times in ten minutes! (I swear to god, some mobs aren't showing up on my mob radar. There is no way I could miss packs of things stalking me!) I died a couple times in combat, but those were acceptable. (I'm at a tough level right now: The easiest things in this new zone are just a little too hard, and everything else is highly deadly, but the zone before this is way too low.) What annoyed me was that twice a herd of centaur somehow appeared around me (not having shown as incoming on my radar) and killed me dead fast. (I mean sheesh, what do they have against me? Stupid horse-butted things.) Then once a pack of something else killed me, again not showing on my radar first (I never even saw what they were, I was just attacked by a bunch of things at once and died fast).

After the three-deaths-in-ten-minutes, I decided to give it one last chance before giving up for the night. I sent loyal (and often dead) Fluffy in to attack, and tried to shoot from afar... only to find my gun had broken! Grrr, stupid death-wearing-out-things. So ha ha, I died again.

Fluffy and I both hit level 14, so I went and bought all my new abilities and such. Since I had "a lot" of money left, I went and got all my armor and weapons fixed, no matter if they needed it yet or not. Sadly I only found the skinning-abilities-teaching guy after that, and found that my next level was going to cost 50 silver. Gah! I've never even had that much money before! :/ So I went out and tried to farm (the FFXI cure-all for low funds!) but found I can't farm very well at my level. I ended up just killing wolves to get meat for Fluffy -- he died so much, I had to feed him my entire stockpile just to make him happy again. Darned lovable eating machine. :)

And speaking of Fluffy, he rocks. It's rather odd to find myself in a support role for my pet: I sent him in to attack, once he has hate I shoot once with that DoT shot that I have, then I let him fight and heal him. Only near the end, once he has hate for sure, do I jump in and help kill. (Or that's how it goes in theory, anyway. Hate is terribly wobbly sometimes.)

And to file under "Dude, I may be new but I'm not stupid". He asked me if I was a new player and if this was my first character.

(Sorry if that's hard to read. I've not fixed that chat window to make things more visible yet.)
I have no idea if he was offering to PL me or (more likely) he expected me to give him my login info. o.O Buh? And if nothing else, you're promising to get my character to 20 in three days? If I worked at it, I'm sure I could do that myself!

And, the subject of the subject line: Wheeeee! I can fly! Oh my god, I love flying for getting around! I wasted money doing it, just because it rocks so much! Whatever the heck that thing I ride is, it's ugly as heck, but it works! And it's so cool: Sometimes you fly low enough you can actually see the mobs walking around below you! And it feels so much like really flying! And unlike FFXI's airships, there's no wait and no minimum level (you just have to talk to a NPC to get access to that place, so you need to visit once first). I'd call it a lot more expensive (the short hops I take cost me a silver and change, which I suspect is worth a lot more than 500 gil), but it's so so so much more fun.

If I had known I'd be posting so many WoW screenshots, I'd have made a new directory for them. :/ Maybe I'll have to do that and edit all the old posts before I make too many more. Or leave copies in both places. Hmmm.

Edit: I still can't believe I'm playing a giant ugly bull thing. :P 99.99999999% of the time I see myself only from the back (I can't get the camera to swing around to more than my side) so I can usually pretend that I'm just a big hairy human. On rare occasions where I can get the camera swung around enough to see me from the front, I boggle at just how ugly I am. :( I totally should have been a human, if only they could be hunters. When I look at Thistle on FFXI, I think "Gah, I'm so sexy! I'd totally do me!" But WoW me makes me cringe. :/