Blah, Monday.
Aug. 22nd, 2005 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserAs previously mentioned, my brain is very odd. I also suspect that it's working against me. How else would you explain going from deep asleep to fully and totally awake in a second? Especially when that second was an hour or more before the alarm was due to go off? My eyes snapped open, and my brain came totally and fully online just like that. Because really, who needs more than four hours of sleep before work? (Me me me me! Stupid brain. *kicks it*)
I didn't feel like playing on Friday night, so I had the chance to watch the two Stargate shows with most of my attention! (A highly rare thing, I usually just listen to the TV while playing the game.) But stupid SciFi channel was doing an odd thing and the shows were messed up (even at 100% volume, I could hardly hear anything on the shows... but the commercials were fine). Other channels were normal, so I think this was something with the SciFi broadcast. :/ I still don't know the SG:A characters well, but I'm finding I dislike the women a lot. Especially the top woman (is she totally weak and ineffective, or am I not seeing the whole picture yet?), and that other one (who was doing the negotiating during Friday's ep) did nothing for me either. I also had thought I would like that guy with dreadlocks, but the more I see of him, the less I like him. On the other hand, my love for every other character aside from those three is growing by leaps and bounds!
FFXI: My whole weekend can be pretty much summed up in one screenshot. So if you look at this screenshot, you can skip the rest of this post! Okay, I'm not serious. *sniffle* Please don't skip or all my words will feel lonely and sad and get all angsty. And no one likes angsty words, right?
Can you spot all the good new things in that screnshot? If not, here are the answers: 1) Rank 8! Woo! 2) Level 61! Yay! 3) G4 complete! Woo! 4) And best of all: Yag hat! Woo! I also like how the screenshot works -- the figure balanced with all the text. And did I mention my cool hat? ("Don't you think I look cute in this hat?")
The rank 8 fight was fun (and I got to do it twice, because we had people who needed it the next day!), even though I feel bad that I was low level to be doing it. I'm not trying to mooch off people, honest. It's just easier for everyone if I go now while runs are being done, instead of making people take time later to help me.
The Sandy mission storyline is really... blah. (Though I can totally see how DRG Aurian would be bouncing over it.) Non-players: Sandy is the home city of the game's elves (elvaan, I call them elves cause that's what they look like). Elves hate EVERYONE. They probably even hate themselves. I've spent more than a year on the game being talked down to by them. I've done countless missions and quests for them, only to be insulted before and after doing the work for them. They have hated me for more than a year, now I'm supposed to care what the elf royalty is doing? That their (ugly) princes is coming of age and needs X because she can't go get it herself? (End of non-player foo, you all will likely get confused by the next sentence. Sorry!) Problem is, now that we have an outpost teleport to Windy, I don't expect that I'm ever going to change nations. I had sort of wanted to move to Bastok to see the hume storyline, but... Man. I can't give up an outpost teleport to Windy! (Do you even get those back when you switch back to the first city?)
Over the weekend I tried chocobo digging for the first time in many weeks. Made three runs, spent 15K on greens each time. Made a total of about 2-4K from the stuff I dug up. Not profit, total sales. I went at good times, in zones that weren't too popular. There are currently too many people digging on Midgar, and it's not worth trying anymore. I've thrown away millions trying to level digging, but that's it. I sold all of my chocobo riding stuff. If I want to do something boring, I can farm. At least you'll always make money doing that, not lose 40K+. Bah.
Our static XP party was Sunday, and it went much, much, much better than last week. We returned to A-whatever Chasm (I really need to look up the spelling of that name...) and it was mostly fine. We just chained VTs (lizards and flies) all day. While the XP was what I would consider poor (90-160, depending on critter and chain), we killed things fast enough we ended up with about 15K XP in 5 hours. Not bad, considering we never got 200/kill even once. The crystals were oh so good (fire and wind, ants drop dark but we killed only two of those). There was one death, but that can be chalked up to "Life's hard when you're a Taru NIN".
I had been carrying my yag hat around for ages, and I finally got to put it on! I love it! It looks like it's made to go with my AF! :D It goes so well, sometimes it looks more like a Yagudo is wearing DRK AF than it does me in a mask! (Sorry that one is a little dark, I messed up something on the game and now I can't see anything and all my screenshots are too dark.) I changed my mog into a Yagudo, and when I returned home last night she was missing, so I did a cute little pose about her being gone.
So the big game-things ahead of me are: Finishing the O-Hat (three more eyes, some of which in bad places; getting them synthed and hopefully not lost, the boss fight), G5. G5 worries me lots. I have no idea how DRK Maat is (why are there tons of write-ups for other jobs but none for DRK?), and I worry about... well, everything. I wish the fight wasn't 10 levels away; I've already been plotting and planning for 20 or more levels, and I know I'll spend the next 10 thinking about it even more. Bah. Hope I can do it. Hope I can do it in not too many tries. Hope I don't have to bug people to farm tests lots. :(
I didn't feel like playing on Friday night, so I had the chance to watch the two Stargate shows with most of my attention! (A highly rare thing, I usually just listen to the TV while playing the game.) But stupid SciFi channel was doing an odd thing and the shows were messed up (even at 100% volume, I could hardly hear anything on the shows... but the commercials were fine). Other channels were normal, so I think this was something with the SciFi broadcast. :/ I still don't know the SG:A characters well, but I'm finding I dislike the women a lot. Especially the top woman (is she totally weak and ineffective, or am I not seeing the whole picture yet?), and that other one (who was doing the negotiating during Friday's ep) did nothing for me either. I also had thought I would like that guy with dreadlocks, but the more I see of him, the less I like him. On the other hand, my love for every other character aside from those three is growing by leaps and bounds!
FFXI: My whole weekend can be pretty much summed up in one screenshot. So if you look at this screenshot, you can skip the rest of this post! Okay, I'm not serious. *sniffle* Please don't skip or all my words will feel lonely and sad and get all angsty. And no one likes angsty words, right?
Can you spot all the good new things in that screnshot? If not, here are the answers: 1) Rank 8! Woo! 2) Level 61! Yay! 3) G4 complete! Woo! 4) And best of all: Yag hat! Woo! I also like how the screenshot works -- the figure balanced with all the text. And did I mention my cool hat? ("Don't you think I look cute in this hat?")
The rank 8 fight was fun (and I got to do it twice, because we had people who needed it the next day!), even though I feel bad that I was low level to be doing it. I'm not trying to mooch off people, honest. It's just easier for everyone if I go now while runs are being done, instead of making people take time later to help me.
The Sandy mission storyline is really... blah. (Though I can totally see how DRG Aurian would be bouncing over it.) Non-players: Sandy is the home city of the game's elves (elvaan, I call them elves cause that's what they look like). Elves hate EVERYONE. They probably even hate themselves. I've spent more than a year on the game being talked down to by them. I've done countless missions and quests for them, only to be insulted before and after doing the work for them. They have hated me for more than a year, now I'm supposed to care what the elf royalty is doing? That their (ugly) princes is coming of age and needs X because she can't go get it herself? (End of non-player foo, you all will likely get confused by the next sentence. Sorry!) Problem is, now that we have an outpost teleport to Windy, I don't expect that I'm ever going to change nations. I had sort of wanted to move to Bastok to see the hume storyline, but... Man. I can't give up an outpost teleport to Windy! (Do you even get those back when you switch back to the first city?)
Over the weekend I tried chocobo digging for the first time in many weeks. Made three runs, spent 15K on greens each time. Made a total of about 2-4K from the stuff I dug up. Not profit, total sales. I went at good times, in zones that weren't too popular. There are currently too many people digging on Midgar, and it's not worth trying anymore. I've thrown away millions trying to level digging, but that's it. I sold all of my chocobo riding stuff. If I want to do something boring, I can farm. At least you'll always make money doing that, not lose 40K+. Bah.
Our static XP party was Sunday, and it went much, much, much better than last week. We returned to A-whatever Chasm (I really need to look up the spelling of that name...) and it was mostly fine. We just chained VTs (lizards and flies) all day. While the XP was what I would consider poor (90-160, depending on critter and chain), we killed things fast enough we ended up with about 15K XP in 5 hours. Not bad, considering we never got 200/kill even once. The crystals were oh so good (fire and wind, ants drop dark but we killed only two of those). There was one death, but that can be chalked up to "Life's hard when you're a Taru NIN".
I had been carrying my yag hat around for ages, and I finally got to put it on! I love it! It looks like it's made to go with my AF! :D It goes so well, sometimes it looks more like a Yagudo is wearing DRK AF than it does me in a mask! (Sorry that one is a little dark, I messed up something on the game and now I can't see anything and all my screenshots are too dark.) I changed my mog into a Yagudo, and when I returned home last night she was missing, so I did a cute little pose about her being gone.
So the big game-things ahead of me are: Finishing the O-Hat (three more eyes, some of which in bad places; getting them synthed and hopefully not lost, the boss fight), G5. G5 worries me lots. I have no idea how DRK Maat is (why are there tons of write-ups for other jobs but none for DRK?), and I worry about... well, everything. I wish the fight wasn't 10 levels away; I've already been plotting and planning for 20 or more levels, and I know I'll spend the next 10 thinking about it even more. Bah. Hope I can do it. Hope I can do it in not too many tries. Hope I don't have to bug people to farm tests lots. :(
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Date: 2005-08-22 04:08 pm (UTC)I'm not bouncing over this mission, honestly. It's just a 'filler' mission as far as I can tell, unless the CS have a plot twist or something. The missions in KRT had me bouncing giddily because it involved Ranperre and his Dragoon (or rather, his ghost). This mission? Not so much. ;3 But from an IC standpoint, yeah, I imagine Aurian is much more glad to do it than Thistle. After all, DRKs don't serve Sandy royalty, DRGs do. ;3
I had sort of wanted to move to Bastok to see the hume storyline
Hume storyline? What Hume storyline? It's all about the fracking Galka! :E
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Date: 2005-08-22 05:14 pm (UTC)The Kingdom once spanned the entire world of Vana'diel, with only the Tarutaru of Windurst and the Humes of Bastok resisting in small enclaves. Eventually, the Windurstians and the Bastokians defeated the San d'Orians and regained their lands. This reached a climax at The Battle of the Second Konschtat, where the Bastokan Army, which was heavily outnumbered but was armed with Muskets and advanced weaponry, crushed a much larger force of San d'Orian Light foot-soldiers and Royal Knights.
That's what you get for trying to take over another nation...
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Date: 2005-08-22 05:29 pm (UTC)And then I woke up!
:P
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Date: 2005-08-22 05:32 pm (UTC)But we'd
serveservice the princess just fine! ;)But I meant the whole entire Sandy plot as a whole, not just this upcoming silly princess thingie. The whole 'Last Dragoon' or whatever the heck all the Ranperre/Lightbringer thing is about.
Hume storyline? What Hume storyline? It's all about the fracking Galka! :E
Ha ha, in a way that's too bad, but more: Woo! I don't care about the Galka, I don't like them, I do not want to see plot about them. All the more reason to keep my butt firmly in Sandy even once done with rank 10 there!
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Date: 2005-08-22 05:35 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Second_Konschtat
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Date: 2005-08-22 05:42 pm (UTC)I can only imagine how much info is in it, how helpeful it would be to all players. NM locations, camps, best things to farm in a zone... So much info, so totally out of reach.
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Date: 2005-08-22 05:45 pm (UTC)I want to have rank 10 for a little while, not wanting to do what Aur did @.@, but I had planned to move. Aur's not gonna be happy that I'd rather Windy than Bastok. 9.9;
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Date: 2005-08-22 06:29 pm (UTC)I'd be interested in seeing that as well, but there's no chance in heck I'll ever move to Windy. All kidding aside, two of the four zones make me lag as badly as I do in the most tree-y part of Ronf. To get through Walls and Waters, I wait for someone to run by and lock a /follow onto them. My "lag" there is so bad I can't turn and run into things/bounce off walls if I'm not /following! Makes questing a little hard there... (I'm assuming it's all the details in those wooden walkways. Lots of tiny little planks, lots of graphics to build.)
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Date: 2005-08-22 06:32 pm (UTC)Aur's not gonna be happy that I'd rather Windy than Bastok. 9.9;
Maybe she'll wait and you two can do that one together? She can move back to Bastok (or stay in Sandy) till you're ready to switch, then you both go to Windy?
But really, you two can love each other perfectly fine from two different nations. :P
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Date: 2005-08-22 07:35 pm (UTC)Since I watch SGA and SG1, I've been seeing the promos (lots and lots of promos) for BSG, but I haven't given in on that one yet. No reason at all, really. Maybe this coming Friday I'll check it out.
Ronon Dex (aka dreadlock guy) gets worse every time I see him. I just hope he doesn't end up annoying me, because they got rid of another main character in the first season to shoehorn this guy in.
I'm not even sure what they could do to improve him. I liked him in the ep from two? weeks ago, where he was training people to fight, but this week's just totally didn't work for me.
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Date: 2005-08-22 07:49 pm (UTC)Yeah, I would say they need to give him some depth, but they've given him some additional backstory already and that hasn't helped. We'll see, I guess.