Lost + FFXI screenshots and offer for Ead

[thistlechaser]

Ead: Draque said you needed a whole bunch of minnows. Do you need more than I bought you on the ferry? I'm going to use alchemy to skillup goldsmithing, and I'm going to start with making minnows. Assuming copper ingots are cheap (I may or may not be wrong about that), I can make you a minnow for either 8 flint stones and 2 fire crystals or 1 glass fiber and 1 fire crystal (the first combo is likely cheaper). If copper ingots aren't cheap, I might need a little cash to cover them, too. Let me know!

Bossy ol' Aurian told me to post the screenshots I had, and since Thursday isn't a walking morning I had a little extra time this morning, so I edited and uploaded what I have.

Bard Aurian on the airship -- full sized + highest quality = big image. I was outside the ship near one end of it, and her playing music in front of the twilight sky made a nice image.

Tribes of fierce women! I wanted to change my moogle to Wolfgang but never found him, so used the mithra arcangel WAR chick instead. Hot and scary! What more could you want in a woman?

Pretty shot of the Dunes. The Dunes are so pretty and yet so full of annoying people. Here they are just looking pretty, no annoying people in sight.

As I mentioned in earlier posts, I had to die a few times this weekend to lose enough XP to match up with my static party.

Raptor death! Funny that this one raptor killed me so much quicker than many other mobs working together. Must be the cool moves like this one! And doesn't the raptor look evil?

Curse the Yagudo! Eh, or die to them! This was another time I let the mobs kill me. It was taking forever so I finally took off all my armor to make it easier for them. :p Apparently one of the birds hit me in the crotch, because it appears to be glowing...

I got alchemy up to 56 or 57 last night. I say this with almost no exaggeration: All of alchemy 1-57 together is way easier and way cheaper than one single post-50 level of leather. It's even easier/cheaper than cooking, which is saying something. Amazing, isn't it? I've actually made money through much of the skillup path, and when I didn't make it, I either broke even or didn't lose much. With leather, I lost hundreds of thousands a level...



An ep about Jack, Claire, and Shannon. ...yay...

The more I see of Jack, the more I dislike and am annoyed by him. The whole "gotta be a hero! Gotta save everyone!" thing is just so ... ugh. Annoying. (How many times can I use the word "annoying"?) At least Sun was there to keep him a bit in control. (Yes, you idiot, give Boone unlimited blood of yours. It's not like anyone else on the island needs you!)

Now tell me, what in the hell does Sayid see in Shannon? Aside from maybe, maybe, maybe some sort of physical attraction, what in the world would anyone like in her? I hate her hair, I hate how she looks, and every time she opens her mouth I hate the words that come out of it. (What the hell? Was she trying to get him to go beat Boone up? Sayid is smart! What in the world is he doing with her worthless ass?)

And on the subject of Boone: Even in death, you manage to cause problems. Well done.

Claire: The only positive thing I have to say about her is that I don't dislike her as much as I do Jack and Shannon. Still, she's gotten so annoying, and every time Charlie is near her, he gets even more annoying than he otherwise is.

Add on top of all this that FFXI stuff made me miss the last five minutes (which looked like they may have been good/powerful) and the ep did nothing at all for me. After such an amazingly good ep as last week's was, having to sit through this one now was just... annoying.



Edit: What the heck? I didn't see a preview for next week's ep, but it's all over the Internet that














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Sayid shoots Locke? WTF? That better not be really happening...

Comments

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

*amused* You're right, that shot is really nice. ^o^

... Yagudo make your crotch glow. Heeeehehehehehehehee~~~ XDDD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yagudo make your crotch glow.

CurseKiss the Yagudo?

Minnows!

[philia.livejournal.com]

Actually, what I need are the HQs of minnows, the sinking minnow. x_x And I'm not sure of your HQ rate on that. I've got three now, and they've been lasting recently.... but if you end up HQing any minnows, I will buy those from you, because I'm a lazy sod and I don't want to go to the ferry every time I need to replenish. ^^;

Re: Minnows!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh drat. Minnows would be a lot easier. :P I'm unlikely to HQ them, but if I do I'll let you know!

Re: Minnows!

[philia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The thing about the minnow is that it catches things I /don't/ want, as far as I know (then again, D could've been talking about something else, and I do need minnows. :P I'll ask him when I get home.), and breaks my fishing rods. But, we'll see once I get home and do some research.

Re: Minnows!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hey, I can fix a lot of the alchemy-rods now, so if yours breaks poke me and I'll look up if I can fix it or not!

[morinotokei.livejournal.com]

I saw the previews, and it did look like Sayid shoots Locke, but then again you know how misleading those previews can be. In any case, if he does end up shooting Locke, I doubt they'd actually kill off Locke. They better not, anyway. Ugh, now the wait begins again. Their episode scheduling sucks. For every couple new episodes we get, we have to wait a month in between.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Their episode scheduling sucks. For every couple new episodes we get, we have to wait a month in between.

Yeah, it's like four reruns before the next new one! Grrr.

but then again you know how misleading those previews can be.

In the time since I made my post, people have watched the preview screen by screen. Apparently Locke's shirt is wet in the "Locke falls down" shot and dry in the one where he's shot at -- so the two come from two different scenes with at least some time passing between the two.

Those sneaky previews!

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

[whistles] Owch. I take it you were a bit displeased by the episode then. I don't know how I feel about it myself; there were a lot of insights into Jack and even a chance of him redeeming himself as a character for me (which he sort of whiffed on, cause I still think he sucks).

As for the plot, while cliched, the whole 'cycle of birth and death' thing struck home. It just sucked because Boone had to suffer for his loyalty to Locke.

...I guess that's it. I liked what Boone was becoming and was disappointed he died because he had so much potential to be a good character. I didn't really care about the rest of the characters because I was more interested in Boone.

Yeah, I've got a one-track mind. ^^;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Most people loved it, but it was one of those "eh" eps to me.

Boone was becoming something interesting, yes. I would have liked to see how he developed further...

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

I didn't love it myself, but I was certainly moved by it. I remember sitting on the couch, shivering and gripping my legs when they were ready to amputate Boone's.

[kawaru.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time since I leveled cooking to 50, and I've just recently started powerleveling alchemy, so I can't compare the two very well, but they are both indeed very inexpensive crafts to level. I think I like alchemy much better so far. Reason being, I like making all these colored liquids in jars. >_> Stupid reason, I know, but that actually makes it more fun for me.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Not a stupid reason! You need to do crafts you like, and so whatever reason you like them is good enough if it's good enough for you! (Eh, does that make sense? :P ) Basically, you don't need to justify your reasons to anyone!

Good luck with it!