Random pictures and WoW pictures! And cooking and FFXI.

(I know I'm behind on replying to comments! I should be able to catch up tomorrow!)

It was pointed out to me that I hadn't posted any random images in a while, so I picked out one to post tonight. Unfortunately I ran out of time so I had to pick just a nice simple one of a donkey. Or maybe it's a horse? You decide! Totally work safe.

WoW: My googlefoo has failed me. Can anyone tell me what instrument is used in the Vengeance Landing music? It reminds me strongly of Battlestar Galactica's Bill Adama theme. Scottish-ish, sad, very very pretty. Bonus points if it can be downloaded somewhere!

Bet you can't tell what I've been doing lately! I spent half the day fishing, hit 391 or so.

Other half of the day I spent questing, only got halfway through 66. Multiple deaths (real deaths for my poor kitty, Feigned Deaths for me. Twice we died to elite mobs a few levels higher than us, and twice we died to being swarmed by ~8 humanoid mobs at one time, blah. I can handle up to four, especially if they're a level or two lower than me, but eight of the same level? Doomed.

I'm not sure what I think about WoW's willingness to make anything into a quest.

Not one but two quests which require you to sort through animal crap looking for stuff? I'm either impressed that they're that creative/realistic or... well I guess it's impressed. Grossed out but impressed.

WoW's graphics greatly confuse me. Why do characters/towns/buildings/trees look so darned cartoony, but water and sky look so beautiful and realistic? WoW's water is amazing, it blows all water on FFXI, eh, out of the water. That's part of the reason why I'm enjoying fishing: it's so relaxing to watch the water. How's this for a sky? Or this one? (I have to say, WoW's graphics are growing on me. When I go back to FFXI everything seems so drab and grey. *sniffle*)

Lastly, an issue I never thought would come up in WoW: Form vs function in armor. In FFXI, people (me included!) would sometimes like to pick our armor based on looks instead of stats (gah, subligar!). I got a really, really cool hat (a "normal" hat!) drop off a mob. I did the ctrl-click thing to see it on me:

The stats were worse than what I had on (2 less agi, ~200 less defense), but it was such a cool looking hat! ...other than on me. I bet if I were human, troll, or undead (something normal-ish looking) it would rock. Instead I look like a bull with a hat on. c.c

And amusing part of the story? AH returned it twice, so finally I just tried it on and then vendored it.

Cooking: Even though I did my weekly cooking, I tried again! Sort of. I'm not really sure this counts as cooking, but since I put raw meat into the oven and turned it into cooked, I guess it does. I had a chicken breast left over from Friday, and I wanted to somehow make it with BBQ sauce, but I had no idea how. (If I just coated it and then stuck it in the oven, would it burn? Smoke? Set off the smoke alarm? Like it would if you grilled it?) Turned out that was fine!

Unfortunately I AGAIN forgot to salt and pepper it *facepalm*, which I think would have improved it a lot, but it was still fine as-is!

FFXI: Funny how it's gotten to the point where even just talking about CoP messes up my day. I had to log off WoW for a short time to arrange times for static on Monday, and by the time it was all done I was highly grumpy and didn't want to log back into WoW. achika_soladia is going to help us this week (switching in for one of our tanks, and we'll do it twice to get both through), so hopefully that'll be enough to win. *crosses fingers*

Random pictures and WoW pictures! And cooking and FFXI.

(I know I'm behind on replying to comments! I should be able to catch up tomorrow!)

It was pointed out to me that I hadn't posted any random images in a while, so I picked out one to post tonight. Unfortunately I ran out of time so I had to pick just a nice simple one of a donkey. Or maybe it's a horse? You decide! Totally work safe.

WoW: My googlefoo has failed me. Can anyone tell me what instrument is used in the Vengeance Landing music? It reminds me strongly of Battlestar Galactica's Bill Adama theme. Scottish-ish, sad, very very pretty. Bonus points if it can be downloaded somewhere!

Bet you can't tell what I've been doing lately! I spent half the day fishing, hit 391 or so.

Other half of the day I spent questing, only got halfway through 66. Multiple deaths (real deaths for my poor kitty, Feigned Deaths for me. Twice we died to elite mobs a few levels higher than us, and twice we died to being swarmed by ~8 humanoid mobs at one time, blah. I can handle up to four, especially if they're a level or two lower than me, but eight of the same level? Doomed.

I'm not sure what I think about WoW's willingness to make anything into a quest.

Not one but two quests which require you to sort through animal crap looking for stuff? I'm either impressed that they're that creative/realistic or... well I guess it's impressed. Grossed out but impressed.

WoW's graphics greatly confuse me. Why do characters/towns/buildings/trees look so darned cartoony, but water and sky look so beautiful and realistic? WoW's water is amazing, it blows all water on FFXI, eh, out of the water. That's part of the reason why I'm enjoying fishing: it's so relaxing to watch the water. How's this for a sky? Or this one? (I have to say, WoW's graphics are growing on me. When I go back to FFXI everything seems so drab and grey. *sniffle*)

Lastly, an issue I never thought would come up in WoW: Form vs function in armor. In FFXI, people (me included!) would sometimes like to pick our armor based on looks instead of stats (gah, subligar!). I got a really, really cool hat (a "normal" hat!) drop off a mob. I did the ctrl-click thing to see it on me:

The stats were worse than what I had on (2 less agi, ~200 less defense), but it was such a cool looking hat! ...other than on me. I bet if I were human, troll, or undead (something normal-ish looking) it would rock. Instead I look like a bull with a hat on. c.c

And amusing part of the story? AH returned it twice, so finally I just tried it on and then vendored it.

Cooking: Even though I did my weekly cooking, I tried again! Sort of. I'm not really sure this counts as cooking, but since I put raw meat into the oven and turned it into cooked, I guess it does. I had a chicken breast left over from Friday, and I wanted to somehow make it with BBQ sauce, but I had no idea how. (If I just coated it and then stuck it in the oven, would it burn? Smoke? Set off the smoke alarm? Like it would if you grilled it?) Turned out that was fine!

Unfortunately I AGAIN forgot to salt and pepper it *facepalm*, which I think would have improved it a lot, but it was still fine as-is!

FFXI: Funny how it's gotten to the point where even just talking about CoP messes up my day. I had to log off WoW for a short time to arrange times for static on Monday, and by the time it was all done I was highly grumpy and didn't want to log back into WoW. achika_soladia is going to help us this week (switching in for one of our tanks, and we'll do it twice to get both through), so hopefully that'll be enough to win. *crosses fingers*