Annoying yesterday, annoying night, annoying day. Grump. (RL, other than the first sentence)

Often times people are the reason I keep playing FFXI. Now and then they're the reason I want to quit. Last night was one of those nights.

And thus ends the FFXI potion of this post.

I've been having seriously disturbing dreams lately, but last night's takes the cake:

( Cut for penises doing disturbing things. )

I couldn't go back to sleep after that.

Today... today. Tell me this: If you can't hardly speak or understand English, why the hell would you rather do support over the phone than over email? I couldn't understand nine words out of ten, but this idiot wouldn't switch to email support. It took me nearly an hour (when a call like this would usually take me 1-2 minutes). I wanted to kill him. How could you be so stupid and annoying?

Grrrrr.

Hopefully this will post, because (as is too common) LJ is sucking so much ass. Won't keep me logged in, keeps challenging me as a "non-human". Grrrrrrrrr!

Annoying yesterday, annoying night, annoying day. Grump. (RL, other than the first sentence)

Often times people are the reason I keep playing FFXI. Now and then they're the reason I want to quit. Last night was one of those nights.

And thus ends the FFXI potion of this post.

I've been having seriously disturbing dreams lately, but last night's takes the cake:

( Cut for penises doing disturbing things. )

I couldn't go back to sleep after that.

Today... today. Tell me this: If you can't hardly speak or understand English, why the hell would you rather do support over the phone than over email? I couldn't understand nine words out of ten, but this idiot wouldn't switch to email support. It took me nearly an hour (when a call like this would usually take me 1-2 minutes). I wanted to kill him. How could you be so stupid and annoying?

Grrrrr.

Hopefully this will post, because (as is too common) LJ is sucking so much ass. Won't keep me logged in, keeps challenging me as a "non-human". Grrrrrrrrr!

Cats and Russians, and FFXI... oh my!

I enjoy poking through those sites that pull random images off the latest LJ posts. (this is the one I use.) For the last few months, it seems like 30-40% of the images come from Russian LJs. (I almost never find any from other non-English sites, maybe a Spanish one once or twice a week.) But hey, Russians post the most interesting stuff, so it works out!

I have no idea if this is real or photoshopped, but man, what a cool looking cat! I guess that's a Russian fireman saving it from a fire?

And on the FFXI front: When I feel like I don't have enough pain in my life, I read through the message boards on Alla. Today, for perhaps the first time ever, I actually found something useful!

Recall a while back that JP folks were calling Dark Knights 'Souleaters'? And how odd that seemed? Quote:

Dark Knight -> Ankokukishi
Souleater -> Ankoku

So yeah, both terms start with the same 2 kanji, and like how the English version uses short terms like DRK and WHM to shortern job names, the Japanese version uses the first kanji of each job name. But due to typing reasons, people type ankoku instead of just the first kanji. And when you get lazy-tab-auto-translate that, you only get ankoku (Souleater) instead of ankokukishi (Dark Knight)

Cats and Russians, and FFXI... oh my!

I enjoy poking through those sites that pull random images off the latest LJ posts. (this is the one I use.) For the last few months, it seems like 30-40% of the images come from Russian LJs. (I almost never find any from other non-English sites, maybe a Spanish one once or twice a week.) But hey, Russians post the most interesting stuff, so it works out!

I have no idea if this is real or photoshopped, but man, what a cool looking cat! I guess that's a Russian fireman saving it from a fire?

And on the FFXI front: When I feel like I don't have enough pain in my life, I read through the message boards on Alla. Today, for perhaps the first time ever, I actually found something useful!

Recall a while back that JP folks were calling Dark Knights 'Souleaters'? And how odd that seemed? Quote:

Dark Knight -> Ankokukishi
Souleater -> Ankoku

So yeah, both terms start with the same 2 kanji, and like how the English version uses short terms like DRK and WHM to shortern job names, the Japanese version uses the first kanji of each job name. But due to typing reasons, people type ankoku instead of just the first kanji. And when you get lazy-tab-auto-translate that, you only get ankoku (Souleater) instead of ankokukishi (Dark Knight)

"..." (FFXI)

What a night. What a wasted night.

The only good thing that happened tonight was that I realized that I'll never need to level BLM, since RDM isn't going to make any progress. (lol angst n drama lol)

Put my flag up and got an invite the same minute. Asked if they had a tank/healer, they did so I accepted. Went to QSC. Fights were really rough. Party was 50-51 (I was the only 52). After each fight we were drained... but we weren't getting 200+/fight, so they wanted to move to crabs in Kuftal. I suggested that it wasn't a great idea, but they all wanted to go. First fight: Nearly full party wipe (except me, yay). I said goodbye and left.

Came back to Jeuno. Put my flag up. Got invited. Asked if he had tank/healer. No. Told him to let me know when he had both. Person replied "lol you speak jap". Buh? I had been speaking in English, not using the autotranslator. Idiot. Eventually he gets a tank, invites me. I asked if he had a healer. Nope. Time passes, and he got a healer, so invited me again. NIN tank was 51, DDs were 51-52. WHM and BLM were 54. They wanted to go to Kuftal. I wished them luck and said goodbye.

Three hours of partying gave me (with band) 2K XP. Sigh/grrr. A whole night wasted on this, all for 2K XP.

I think I've spotted a trend though: Both party leaders today, and the leaders of my last four really awful parties, have all been DRGs. I wonder if DRGs are so desperate for parties they'll put anything together, just so they get XP?

I know some people get good parties. I hear tell of getting 5K per hour. I know good random parties exist. I'd really like to experience one some day...

Edit, an hour later: No matter how sucky the XP has been lately, at least there's one good thing: So many invites! It's too late for me to party, but I've gotten three since taking my flag down. That's a total of five invites in one night! *boggle*

"..." (FFXI)

What a night. What a wasted night.

The only good thing that happened tonight was that I realized that I'll never need to level BLM, since RDM isn't going to make any progress. (lol angst n drama lol)

Put my flag up and got an invite the same minute. Asked if they had a tank/healer, they did so I accepted. Went to QSC. Fights were really rough. Party was 50-51 (I was the only 52). After each fight we were drained... but we weren't getting 200+/fight, so they wanted to move to crabs in Kuftal. I suggested that it wasn't a great idea, but they all wanted to go. First fight: Nearly full party wipe (except me, yay). I said goodbye and left.

Came back to Jeuno. Put my flag up. Got invited. Asked if he had tank/healer. No. Told him to let me know when he had both. Person replied "lol you speak jap". Buh? I had been speaking in English, not using the autotranslator. Idiot. Eventually he gets a tank, invites me. I asked if he had a healer. Nope. Time passes, and he got a healer, so invited me again. NIN tank was 51, DDs were 51-52. WHM and BLM were 54. They wanted to go to Kuftal. I wished them luck and said goodbye.

Three hours of partying gave me (with band) 2K XP. Sigh/grrr. A whole night wasted on this, all for 2K XP.

I think I've spotted a trend though: Both party leaders today, and the leaders of my last four really awful parties, have all been DRGs. I wonder if DRGs are so desperate for parties they'll put anything together, just so they get XP?

I know some people get good parties. I hear tell of getting 5K per hour. I know good random parties exist. I'd really like to experience one some day...

Edit, an hour later: No matter how sucky the XP has been lately, at least there's one good thing: So many invites! It's too late for me to party, but I've gotten three since taking my flag down. That's a total of five invites in one night! *boggle*