Blarg (FFXI, anime, RL)

[thistlechaser]

I'm trying to catch up with my flist. 150 posts read, 150 to go. I figured I'd jump on it now, since after tomorrow things will get hopeless.

FFXI's been okay. Trying to get ready for being away for a week. Mostly failing at that.

Spent the afternoon/evening today farming for a RDM testimony for Ead (a special object you need for a fight to raise your level cap). He got one, so yay! Plus we got a coffer key for Cehra's AF and she got the coffer, so then we went to right Dark Spark again for her AF gloves. I was happy there was something I could help out with, though by the end I was getting highly grumpy due to lack of dinner.

A guy I sort of know was AF hunting at the same time and in the same area as us today. Almost without delay, he started feeling me out to join the LS. It's highly annoying that people think of CTY as just a resource to use to get their [insert hard task here] done. To get help, you not only should give help, you should happily give it often. Be on the LS, be active, jump in and help when it's needed. Be a member, be a friend. People don't see that, they just see us as a big group of helpful people and think "Hey, I could use them for X...". Bah.

Anime: I started watching a new anime series! For the firsr time in, what, a year? So many people have been mentioning Bleach that I finally checked it out, and I'm totally loving it. I've seen about 6 eps, and have the rest downloaded. What a great story! And such fun characters! And no black-and-white, just shades of morals and such.

On the other hand, I'm behind on just about every other series I follow (all three of them!). Naruto, Champloo, and D-whatever D-whatever (the wacky 5 minute long animals-in-the-forest one).

RL: Mother is flying in tomorrow night. Eek eek eek. Still lots left to do to get ready. I'll be totally out of contact for a whole week starting tomorrow night. At the very most, I'll get on for a few minutes a day to check my email, and maybe I'll log onto FFXI long enough to check my auctions and relist stuff. I also probably will show my mother around the game a little, but I'll be turning the LS off the moment I log on. Never know what shocking things you freaks might say. :) But seriously, if you see me on after tomorrow night, my mother will be standing over my shoulder, so be good! (That means no vibrator jokes, loneguardian! :) )

Comments

[kelen.livejournal.com]

This is a serious question: what the proper "hanging around" on the CTY linkshell? Outside social, family, and personal obligations mean I'm not on every night, and often when I am in the game, it is to answer a request for help from PrincessGuard or spend some time with my sweetie, who has no CTY pearl. When I'm on, it's usually with a plan to do something. Lately, PrincessGuard has kept me busy helping them out: help with RSE, help with Tenshodo fame, cross fingers and cheer as they try a new BCNM. How do I find out what's going on with CTY in advance of it happening, so I can schedule myself for that? I like to spend my precious MMO relaxation time confident I'll be doing things that make me and my friends smile, not waiting around to see what will happen.


...So even though I too have a shitload of things going, my time limits are no consideration when it comes to what you want? I have friends, family, the LS, making gil.. all the things you do. Yet I have time to talk to my LS and invest time in it.

If you aren't willing to make time to get to know people, and help them, then it's not worth it to me to invest any time in you. I haven't barged into your LS and asked you to spend hours helping me. Take the same considerations, please. :)

[glaciation.livejournal.com]

If you aren't willing to make time to get to know people, and help them, then it's not worth it to me to invest any time in you. I haven't barged into your LS and asked you to spend hours helping me. Take the same considerations, please. :)

When did I ask you to spend hours helping me? When I asked if I could join an AF3 quest already being planned?

If you were going to participate in that, weren't you already investing those hours in your LS?

How would me asking to go along take those hours away from you?

Wouldn't I be investing my hours in getting to know you by participating in it? Or is the fact that I'd benefit from going along the problem?

[kelen.livejournal.com]

You have no idea what you are asking for, do you? n.n; AF3 runs take many hours and a lot of effort.

[glaciation.livejournal.com]

What we have here is a clear failure to communicate. If you'd like to answer my questions, I'd be happy to learn from your responses.

[1200seconds.livejournal.com]

This is why something like "alliance chat" in Dark Age of Camelot would be handy, where multiple guilds can have an additional, combined chat channel.

There is a difference between Draque spending time on the CTY pearl and Verity doing so: Verity isn't attempting to join CTY as a regular member. If I remember right, Verity picked up a CTY pearl for the purpose of coordinating combined outings between CTY and PG.

Speaking as Russet, a PrincessGuard member, you can't have my Verity all the time!

I continue to think it would be nice to do things with CTY, so that we can get to know you folks better, and also so that we may help each other out. (If CTY is large enough that PG isn't a useful resource, then I can see how that might look like a one-sided desire.) I am not interested in quitting my own linkshell to join CTY. If that's a condition we must fulfull before even broaching the subject of doing things with your linkshell, then I suppose we just have different cultures, and I'm sorry that we aren't able to work together.

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

No, we don't require people to join CTY to help, but we do require a friendship. None of us but Thistle know you guys, to be blunt. ^^ Like I told Verity, join us in Eco-Warrior, Escorts, keyhuntings, whatever. Stuff people work together with for the benefit of everyone. :3 CTY members will always take priority though, because we're simply too large a shell to help everyone that asks, unfortunately. Organize your own runs, ask CTY people for information if you need it, and I guarentee you that will give you all a better standing in our book. We look for friends, not for people that will benefit us. If we did, all our new members would be 65+ and you might as well call us an HNM LS. 9.9 Which we most certainly are not.

[kelen.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I'd never expect anyone to drop their LS. I'm just asking for more than *pops on shell* "Hi! Bye!" *takes off shell* which is what has been going on. :) Nor do I appreciate being called chiche`ish for expecting a little effort before lending my aid. A couple hours here and there, perhaps going to lend aid on coffer keys or what not, isn't going to hurt anyone.

From what I see it's a lot of excuses, and a little name calling, when we've asked for a little effort before we put in a lot of effort. AF3 runs take hours. The last one took 7 hours straight, and that one a short one. It involves large groups and keeping a horde of cats in line. @.@ It's tiring, stressful, and often annoying... when I too have a load of other things I could have been doing. I'm going on this run solely to help the others in my shell. I won't get anything out of it other than spending gil, time, and headaches. WHy should I expect less from anyone else? :)