Movies, TV, anime, FFXI (In that order!)
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thistlechaserOver the weekend I watched Master and Commander. I had sort of wanted to see it while it was in the theaters (but not so much that I could actually get myself there), so when it was on HBO I pounced on it. Dear friendslist, you mislead me! When the movie was first released, all I heard was how slashy the whole darned thing was... but I picked up on nothing. Bah! (Maybe my slashdar is broken? But I don't think so!) I sort of liked the doctor character, but I dislike Russell Crowe a lot (and even more so after watching the movie), so that sort of killed some of my enjoyment of it. The boats were highly keen though! And (surprisingly?) I liked the boy/kid characters more than the adult ones. So in the end, I'm glad I didn't pay to see it (other than the whole monthly HBO charge thing). I think I would have liked it better if everything was more centered around the doctor instead of Crowe's character and the battles.
Amazing Race started last night. Yay! Is it just me, or are there more nasty people in it this season? I could handle them for one hour, but I spent most of the second hour cringing. How could people who like/love each other be so darned nasty to each other? It made me sick to my stomach. Hopefully the worst of them (the guy in the yellow shirt!) will lose soon. The black FBI father guy seemed great, so nice!, but I didn't need to see him half-naked. :p
Lost is tonight! Yay! I don't even know the ep's title yet. :)
I have to find out what this House show that everyone is talking about is. (A good show? On Fox?) Well, okay, that's not a totally fair jab. I love (love love love!) Malcom in the Middle, and Sunday's ep especially. All those body builders! Heeheehee.
This morning I watched whatever the current Naruto ep is. (The end of the Naruto/Sasuke fight.) Every time I watch a new ep, I'm reminded how much I love this series. :) Sakura so totally needs to die though. "She's such a girl!" I growl out loud every time she cries or does something utterly stupid. And yes, she's a girl, but she's a ninja too, dammit! The other female ninjas are not so useless and worthless! Does she have a function other than to cry and to have pink hair? Grrr. It'd be keen if Sasuke turned evil. (I've not read the manga, I don't know and don't want to know until the anime shows it. :) ) If this were an American series, I'd say he'd never ever turn evil for real, but since this isn't, it might really happen!
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FFXI: I've not been writing about the game much lately, have I? Mostly because I'm somewhat stuck. My static leveling party meets once a week, and other than that I have nothing I really have to or want to do. (I wish we could meet 2-3 times a week, but that wouldn't work for the others. I'm the only one in the party who is leveling their main job.)
Sniper's rings: Grrr! I bought my first one for just under 800K, so when I had 840K saved again, I went back to Jeuno to buy my second one... only to find the price had gone up to 880K! 800K was really the most I wanted to spend, so I grumped and left without my second ring. The next day I checked the price. It was up to 900K. The prices have only gone up since then, so finally I gave up and started spending my money on crafting instead. Part of me (well, most of me) thinks that's a very stupid idea, but I did hit leather 85 (and will likely push further tonight). And I really don't want to pay almost a million for a sniper's ring, but... (The prices are unlikely to ever drop back down. SE "adjusted" the spawn time of the NM who drops the ring you need to upgrade to make sniper's.) So, while I think I do really need a second sniper's, I'm undecided at the moment as to what to do.
So other than that, I'm mostly just fishing. For non-players: Fishing is probably the most boring thing in the game to do, other than standing around and waiting for the airship to arrive. You just press a macro to fish, then keep an eye on the screen and hit enter if you hook something or press the macro again to cast your line. Zzzzz. Picture doing that for 12 hours, and you had my weekend day on Sunday.
I know there's more stuff in the game that I should or want to do, I just haven't been able to figure it out lately. I did all the Sandy quests I could (alone and at my level), and the Bastok and Windy ones are too annoying to do. (Windy is too big to run around in, and Bastok just sucks and makes me want to cry.) I've done all the outland quests that I can do alone and at my level.
I hit level 37(WHM) last night, using the Dragon Chronicle thingie that we get at Eco. Now I just need a couple more weeks to get a darned buffer so I don't delevel if I die! (It's keen to be able to level without partying! Eventually I'd like to get to WHM 38 by Eco'ing.)
Amazing Race started last night. Yay! Is it just me, or are there more nasty people in it this season? I could handle them for one hour, but I spent most of the second hour cringing. How could people who like/love each other be so darned nasty to each other? It made me sick to my stomach. Hopefully the worst of them (the guy in the yellow shirt!) will lose soon. The black FBI father guy seemed great, so nice!, but I didn't need to see him half-naked. :p
Lost is tonight! Yay! I don't even know the ep's title yet. :)
I have to find out what this House show that everyone is talking about is. (A good show? On Fox?) Well, okay, that's not a totally fair jab. I love (love love love!) Malcom in the Middle, and Sunday's ep especially. All those body builders! Heeheehee.
This morning I watched whatever the current Naruto ep is. (The end of the Naruto/Sasuke fight.) Every time I watch a new ep, I'm reminded how much I love this series. :) Sakura so totally needs to die though. "She's such a girl!" I growl out loud every time she cries or does something utterly stupid. And yes, she's a girl, but she's a ninja too, dammit! The other female ninjas are not so useless and worthless! Does she have a function other than to cry and to have pink hair? Grrr. It'd be keen if Sasuke turned evil. (I've not read the manga, I don't know and don't want to know until the anime shows it. :) ) If this were an American series, I'd say he'd never ever turn evil for real, but since this isn't, it might really happen!
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FFXI: I've not been writing about the game much lately, have I? Mostly because I'm somewhat stuck. My static leveling party meets once a week, and other than that I have nothing I really have to or want to do. (I wish we could meet 2-3 times a week, but that wouldn't work for the others. I'm the only one in the party who is leveling their main job.)
Sniper's rings: Grrr! I bought my first one for just under 800K, so when I had 840K saved again, I went back to Jeuno to buy my second one... only to find the price had gone up to 880K! 800K was really the most I wanted to spend, so I grumped and left without my second ring. The next day I checked the price. It was up to 900K. The prices have only gone up since then, so finally I gave up and started spending my money on crafting instead. Part of me (well, most of me) thinks that's a very stupid idea, but I did hit leather 85 (and will likely push further tonight). And I really don't want to pay almost a million for a sniper's ring, but... (The prices are unlikely to ever drop back down. SE "adjusted" the spawn time of the NM who drops the ring you need to upgrade to make sniper's.) So, while I think I do really need a second sniper's, I'm undecided at the moment as to what to do.
So other than that, I'm mostly just fishing. For non-players: Fishing is probably the most boring thing in the game to do, other than standing around and waiting for the airship to arrive. You just press a macro to fish, then keep an eye on the screen and hit enter if you hook something or press the macro again to cast your line. Zzzzz. Picture doing that for 12 hours, and you had my weekend day on Sunday.
I know there's more stuff in the game that I should or want to do, I just haven't been able to figure it out lately. I did all the Sandy quests I could (alone and at my level), and the Bastok and Windy ones are too annoying to do. (Windy is too big to run around in, and Bastok just sucks and makes me want to cry.) I've done all the outland quests that I can do alone and at my level.
I hit level 37(WHM) last night, using the Dragon Chronicle thingie that we get at Eco. Now I just need a couple more weeks to get a darned buffer so I don't delevel if I die! (It's keen to be able to level without partying! Eventually I'd like to get to WHM 38 by Eco'ing.)
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Date: 2004-11-17 09:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-17 09:52 am (UTC)And I meant to catch you last night: Would you make me another brass tank or two? I could get you the crystal (earth, I think it was) and animal glue, and you get the brass sheets and I'll pay you for them and your time? I actually sold a water tank out of my bazaar, so I need to replace it!
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Date: 2004-11-17 11:21 am (UTC)Don't worry about paying me for my time, I need to build up some good karma with you to get a belt crafted in a few levels >.>;
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Date: 2004-11-17 11:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-17 11:56 am (UTC)(Psst, if you're serious about Anima farming there are many people on FI who would also be interested. Pick a time you might want to do it and post to fantasyinsanity.org <.<; If you go farming somewhere *other* than Mea, I'd be up for that. I have all I can get from there and need to hit up some other crag for Anima variety now...)
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Date: 2004-11-17 12:52 pm (UTC)Well... it depends on how! You can't go wrong with kissing me to death! ;)
And woo, that's a good idea! I need to look at my stuff and see what I still have (if anything) for WHM 30. But yay, soon DRK will be 30 and I can do it as that!
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Date: 2004-11-17 02:49 pm (UTC)Master & Commander
Date: 2004-11-17 10:07 am (UTC)Re: Master & Commander
Date: 2004-11-17 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-17 11:17 am (UTC)But thanks to this whole Fanfic thing, I've written my own. Thanks for the site you replied with, btw. :)
Mine's a little more subtle, but it's got Charlie and Claire too.
And squee! Amazing Race. And I know. Johnathan, the guy in the yellow jacket, is as bad as Colin was at the end of the last one. Just think what this new yellowjacket guy will be like in the next one! Sheez!
I like the two pro-wrestlers Lori and Bolo. And the Mormon Sisters. And Freddy and Kendra, if only because of Kendra who is damn hot.
And you play so much FFXI. Don't you ever get tired of playing it?
Delenn is in Lost tonight! Er, Mira Furlan, I mean. You know, the Minbari woman from Babylon 5. And the episode title is called Solitary. I can't wait. :) I'll have to get my recap up of Sawyer's ep before I see Sayid's ep. :P
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Date: 2004-11-17 11:25 am (UTC)Delenn is in Lost tonight! Er, Mira Furlan, I mean.
Hoooooly sheet! Thanks! *had no idea, is now even more excited*
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Date: 2004-11-17 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-17 11:33 am (UTC)Oh, agreed! Peanut butter slash would be silly. And, um... new car slash... no, that could actually work. Hey, the peanut butter slash really isn't that bad of an idea, either! Eeee! (Eh, what was your point again? ;) )
And you play so much FFXI. Don't you ever get tired of playing it?
Sometimes. But whatever I do, it's all I do at the time, so all I do is FFXI right now. I'm not good at that whole moderation thingie...
Yay Lost!
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Date: 2004-11-17 11:58 am (UTC)Well, better than me. You still watch TV and anime ocassionally... ^^; I haven't seen any PoT in *forever* (and from what you've been saying in your journal, I haven't been missing much :< )
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Date: 2004-11-17 12:51 pm (UTC)And yeah, sadly it's been sucking much ass lately... or maybe my tolerence for its lack of quality has vanished. There isn't the "Ooo, it's so openly slashy!" wonder anymore, which leaves me with only the "story" and *gag* animation.
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Date: 2004-11-17 01:42 pm (UTC)http://www.lostfic.com./viewstory.php?sid=90
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Date: 2004-11-17 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-17 11:23 am (UTC)Where have you seen people talking about House? My flist isn't the biggest and most people on it watch other things Tuesday nights. I really thought it was good, though I'm not sure I'll get any kind of emotional attachment to the characters (unlike Lost where it was almost immediate), but it was still good for a medical mystery/drama. I hold out hope for creepy shenanigans in later eps... if it's not cancelled, that is.
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Date: 2004-11-17 11:26 am (UTC)Where have you seen people talking about House?
Well, okay, it was only two or three people mentioning watching and liking it (but that's a pretty uncommon thing!). It was enough to catch my interest.
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Date: 2004-11-17 01:29 pm (UTC)Lost~! I can't wait. And I should really not ask about this House, since I've never heard of it and fear falling for yet another series. ._.
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Date: 2004-11-17 02:20 pm (UTC)It's like night and day. While Naruto continually refreshes my interest in it,
Even just thinking about it now has me grinning. There are always new angles and new info on the characters, things that keep me wondering between eps! I'm really glad that the series is continuing to go strong.
And I should really not ask about this House, since I've never heard of it and fear falling for yet another series. ._.
Hee, exactly! I've not hunted down further info on it because I'm afraid I'd get hooked!
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Date: 2004-11-17 10:18 pm (UTC)That's really funny, because my sister
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Date: 2004-11-18 08:10 am (UTC)