Hell has finally frozen over... (FFXI)

Chance wandering brought me to the old Curse the Yagudo website, and I poked through a few old blogs there. In lokyst's I found a video of our static's Promyvion-Vahzl run. Man, that looked so exciting! And HARD! So different than WoW. (Could you imagine skill chains in WoW? HA.)

I find I actually kind of... wouldn't mind doing CoP again. I know it's not the same anymore, the level cap for it is gone (it was so funny seeing us all in low level armor! Thistle had no pants! SUBLIGAR GO!). I can't believe I finally have fond memories of CoP. I wish I could go back and do it again as it used to be, with this new positive view on it.

And every time I watch an old FFXI video, I long for the graphics. If I'm not used to WoW being cartoony by now, I don't suppose I ever will be.

I was sitting here thinking, if I wanted to try something hard again I could attempt to raid, but it wouldn't be the same. All these years later, how do I still feel such a connection to FFXI, while WoW I'm all "meh" over?

This is probably just a "grass is always greener" thing. I quit FFXI for a reason (CoP!). FFXI had no in-game RP. Using even a single "addon" in FFXI could get you banned. Blizz holds our hand so nicely through everything, bends over backwards for us... so why do I miss getting smacked around by SE?

Hell has finally frozen over... (FFXI)

Chance wandering brought me to the old Curse the Yagudo website, and I poked through a few old blogs there. In lokyst's I found a video of our static's Promyvion-Vahzl run. Man, that looked so exciting! And HARD! So different than WoW. (Could you imagine skill chains in WoW? HA.)

I find I actually kind of... wouldn't mind doing CoP again. I know it's not the same anymore, the level cap for it is gone (it was so funny seeing us all in low level armor! Thistle had no pants! SUBLIGAR GO!). I can't believe I finally have fond memories of CoP. I wish I could go back and do it again as it used to be, with this new positive view on it.

And every time I watch an old FFXI video, I long for the graphics. If I'm not used to WoW being cartoony by now, I don't suppose I ever will be.

I was sitting here thinking, if I wanted to try something hard again I could attempt to raid, but it wouldn't be the same. All these years later, how do I still feel such a connection to FFXI, while WoW I'm all "meh" over?

This is probably just a "grass is always greener" thing. I quit FFXI for a reason (CoP!). FFXI had no in-game RP. Using even a single "addon" in FFXI could get you banned. Blizz holds our hand so nicely through everything, bends over backwards for us... so why do I miss getting smacked around by SE?

Oh happy day (WoW) + Link

I've been so bored with archaeology, I hadn't done it for a few days. Today I sat down and did hours of it. It took me so many jars on Hordeside to get this, I really wasn't expecting it on the first try on Alliance...



Woo woo! It kind of amuses me that the alt who already has the mount got the recipe for the mount. :D

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And for non-WoW folks, another interesting Reddit thread: "Albert Einstein once said “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” So, teach your fellow Redditor. Explain something you know a lot about in ONE sentence."

I love this one: "On advertising: The publicity image [ad] steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product."

This one too: "Cui Bono, a Latin phrase meaning, Who Profits? Find out who profits from a decision and you will discover the people behind the decision."

Feel free to reply here with a sentence on something! Mine would be:

Role playing is experiencing someone else's life, the good and the bad, often done through writing.

Oh happy day (WoW) + Link

I've been so bored with archaeology, I hadn't done it for a few days. Today I sat down and did hours of it. It took me so many jars on Hordeside to get this, I really wasn't expecting it on the first try on Alliance...



Woo woo! It kind of amuses me that the alt who already has the mount got the recipe for the mount. :D

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And for non-WoW folks, another interesting Reddit thread: "Albert Einstein once said “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” So, teach your fellow Redditor. Explain something you know a lot about in ONE sentence."

I love this one: "On advertising: The publicity image [ad] steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product."

This one too: "Cui Bono, a Latin phrase meaning, Who Profits? Find out who profits from a decision and you will discover the people behind the decision."

Feel free to reply here with a sentence on something! Mine would be:

Role playing is experiencing someone else's life, the good and the bad, often done through writing.