Being embarrassed by baby photos of yourself (FFXI only)

I was looking through my /ffxi directory of screenshots, and it amazes and embarrasses me how... new I had been in the beginning. (Yeah, that sounds silly.)

This is one of the very first screenshots I ever took/posted. I'm in starting armor! And look at my weapon! (And the fact that I took the screenshot using S-E's built in sucky tool!) It's so boggling, it doesn't feel like "me" at all.

I had been so clueless (there's no better word for it than that!). I took this screenshot because I wasn't sure if that was a Dragoon or not. I posted it so I could ask people if it was. :P

Can you believe I used to wear a robe and used a hammer? o.O

I took a screenshot of the first synth I ever saw being done because it had looked so cool. Little did I know how familiar I'd become with that animation. :P

It's odd how my FFXI path has changed. I wanted to be a WHM so I could "help people" (ha), and look at me now: About as far from being a WHM as you can get!

Unfortunately it was weeks before I actually named my screenshots (more than the tool's default clp37.jpg, clp38.jpg, etc), so they're a pain in the butt to look through now. Even more unfortunatly, once I started naming and dating them, I hadn't included years till we hit 2005 and I saw that I'd be overlapping. I could say "I fail at planning ahead" but it's more like I never, ever, ever would have believed that I'd be playing a MMORPG for a year and a half now.

Being embarrassed by baby photos of yourself (FFXI only)

I was looking through my /ffxi directory of screenshots, and it amazes and embarrasses me how... new I had been in the beginning. (Yeah, that sounds silly.)

This is one of the very first screenshots I ever took/posted. I'm in starting armor! And look at my weapon! (And the fact that I took the screenshot using S-E's built in sucky tool!) It's so boggling, it doesn't feel like "me" at all.

I had been so clueless (there's no better word for it than that!). I took this screenshot because I wasn't sure if that was a Dragoon or not. I posted it so I could ask people if it was. :P

Can you believe I used to wear a robe and used a hammer? o.O

I took a screenshot of the first synth I ever saw being done because it had looked so cool. Little did I know how familiar I'd become with that animation. :P

It's odd how my FFXI path has changed. I wanted to be a WHM so I could "help people" (ha), and look at me now: About as far from being a WHM as you can get!

Unfortunately it was weeks before I actually named my screenshots (more than the tool's default clp37.jpg, clp38.jpg, etc), so they're a pain in the butt to look through now. Even more unfortunatly, once I started naming and dating them, I hadn't included years till we hit 2005 and I saw that I'd be overlapping. I could say "I fail at planning ahead" but it's more like I never, ever, ever would have believed that I'd be playing a MMORPG for a year and a half now.

Unexcitingness (FFXI)

Didn't do much of anything tonight. I could have/should have logged off FFXI and played WoW, but I didn't really feel like playing that either.

Ironically, after spending two hours yesterday killing orcs in the Meadows to clear fomor hate, I went back there today, this time to level my NPC. (And unlike yesterday, that tabbing=freezing bug didn't hit me and cause me to lose my NPC. Bonus!) Gunner leveled up to 35. Yay? Fellowship NPCs are still nothing but a time-killer, not much of a help at all. I had him set to "healer" job, and while I got down below 50% HP three times, he never ever ever cured me, not even once. I had to two-hour at one point to save myself. But hey, he silenced those MNK and RNG gigas real good! Thanks, dude.

Half my reason for going was to farm socks, but it wasn't until I had spent nearly two hours killing them (only about 20 kills, gigas were even harder to kill than orcs) did I ask and was told that gigas in the Meadows don't drop socks. ...joy... So my time-wasting task was actually more of a waste of time than I had thought!

I did get a chameleon diamond drop (about the only drop I got), so I went to Jeuno to do that quest.

Yeah, thanks NPC dude. Nice backhanded compliment there. "Even for me", huh? c.c

I did get a spiffy title though:

CoP static or anyone doing the Promys: Is there anima farming happening anytime in the coming days/weeks? I'll need a set, but I can't do it solo. If anyone goes out to do it, let me know?

Unexcitingness (FFXI)

Didn't do much of anything tonight. I could have/should have logged off FFXI and played WoW, but I didn't really feel like playing that either.

Ironically, after spending two hours yesterday killing orcs in the Meadows to clear fomor hate, I went back there today, this time to level my NPC. (And unlike yesterday, that tabbing=freezing bug didn't hit me and cause me to lose my NPC. Bonus!) Gunner leveled up to 35. Yay? Fellowship NPCs are still nothing but a time-killer, not much of a help at all. I had him set to "healer" job, and while I got down below 50% HP three times, he never ever ever cured me, not even once. I had to two-hour at one point to save myself. But hey, he silenced those MNK and RNG gigas real good! Thanks, dude.

Half my reason for going was to farm socks, but it wasn't until I had spent nearly two hours killing them (only about 20 kills, gigas were even harder to kill than orcs) did I ask and was told that gigas in the Meadows don't drop socks. ...joy... So my time-wasting task was actually more of a waste of time than I had thought!

I did get a chameleon diamond drop (about the only drop I got), so I went to Jeuno to do that quest.

Yeah, thanks NPC dude. Nice backhanded compliment there. "Even for me", huh? c.c

I did get a spiffy title though:

CoP static or anyone doing the Promys: Is there anima farming happening anytime in the coming days/weeks? I'll need a set, but I can't do it solo. If anyone goes out to do it, let me know?