Spring clean-up (Defriending, etc.)

[thistlechaser]

Between last night and this morning, I've defriended about 20 folks. (All of the 20 are people who never friended me back, so if you're reading this on your flist page, it wasn't you!)

I've left about five communities as well, including the unfunny and spammy-as-hell metaquotes (nothing like a dozen posts an hour, all of them crap!). I suppose that's what happens when a community gets well over a thousand members and everyone can post. Bah. The other four were writing communities (I join with every intent to read everything and write for every challenge, then within a week stop writing, and within another week don't read a single thing.)

I left all RPG communities except small_room_rp (need my Kiba and Gaara and snarky-neko love!).

What's with all the cleanup? Prep work for FF XI. (How the heck are you supposed to write the name of the game? FF XI? FF11? FFo? Sheesh.) Anyway, I've been looking for a game like FFX forever, and I suspect FF 11 might be it. Looks so cool, so pretty! Plus you can actually interact with real people! I'm hoping/worried that I'll be playing it non-stop, so I'm cutting back my LJ flist to reduce the time it'll take for me to keep up-to-date on it.

Though I haven't totally decided on a name yet, this is what I'll look like. My first thought was to do something Thistle-Chaser-ish for my name, but I'm sure all the variants of that that I use will be taken. I'd try Chaser_of_Thistles, but that might be too long. (Need to see if I can find the limit on name lengths somewhere. Oh, and print out some FAQs here at work! I noticed (at least on the demo) that you can't switch out of full screen mode.)

Little more FFo babble: I downloaded the benchmark/demo last night. (You run the benchmark to make sure you have enough system resources and to see what level of display you can get.) Though I well exceed even their recommended resources (not minimum resources), I still get slight choppiness in the animation on the high resolution. It's not awful, it's just noticeable. (I'd like it to be perfect, darned it all!) The benchmark was full of those little... um... the little guy race. I never thought they were cute until I saw them dancing and clapping and singing and waving to me! And eee! Them riding on chocobos! So cute!

Eee, I'm so excited! I wish I could start now!

Comments

[caillen.livejournal.com]

OMG! i so want to ploay FF11 online ;_; with slow bandwidth, can't T.T *is waiting for the PS2 version though it won't be the same*

same reason why i didn't try Ragnarok Online. (Although I tried and it was like being the snail and watching all the turtles just whiz by)

Will just see you wibble on LJ and check out screencaps if you have some. Daa~aaaamn *ENVY*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I'll be sure to post about it and add screenshots! Yay! :)

And enjoy the PS2 version once you get it! Maybe I;ll see you online sometime!

[caillen.livejournal.com]

wish they put it out on the linux platform so i can play at work (no one heard me say that :D)

good luck XD and maybe next time you'll see a thief trying to snatch your character's pocket ^________^ (is that possible? XD)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Evil! And no, as far as I know, thieves can't steal from other PCs. (So ha ha ha!)

;)

[sileas.livejournal.com]

I've left about five communities as well, including the unfunny and spammy-as-hell metaquotes (nothing like a dozen posts an hour, all of them crap!).

I've been thinking of leaving to too, especially since the junk posted the last few days by obvious teenagers or people with a serious mental condition. But I'm too lazy to unfriend. :-)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Heehee, it's worth the effort! I no longer have to groan and roll my eyes while reading my flist!

:)

[sileas.livejournal.com]

:-D *goes off the delete metaquotes off friends list*

[velutlunas.livejournal.com]

*GLEE* you stayed with us at SmallRoom!!

*happy dances* I'm so glad you like it enough to stick with us. *pokes you* eep.

*scampers*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Of course! I love you guys! :)

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

The generally accepted way to shorten the Final Fantasy games names and numbers is FF(Roman numerals). So you're going to play FFXI.

I am very surprised you have any interest in this at all. I mean, it's a MMORG. A MUD plus graphics plus even worse cheaters/twinks/whiners/whatever (though SE is trying to keep that down). I hope you're expecting it to be like FFX only in prettyness factor, because it won't be like it with anything else.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I hope you're expecting it to be like FFX only in prettyness factor, because it won't be like it with anything else.

Yeah! I want to wander around and see everything (as levels allow), and level up as I can, and just heal people! It'll be different, but I suspect fun. (I hope!) I really want to see the monsters animated, and everything looks so good on my monitor!