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thistlechaserThis post will contain: SGA, RL, FFXI meets RL, then meta FFXI/MUSHing. In that order.
The SciFi channel showed six or seven Stargate Atlantis eps last night, and I was able to catch three of them! So I've now doubled the amount of eps I've seen! Yay! Unfortunately that volume issue is still happening with SciFi (even when I turn my TV's volume up to 100%, the sound on all shows on SciFi is way too low. I had to turn the fan off to have a chance to hear anything, and couldn't even type while trying to listen!) so I missed a lot, but I did hear a lot, too! (I've contacted Comcast about the sound thing, but who knows if that will help.)
I never, ever thought I'd ask this about any TV show, but: Dude, what's up with Rodney's nipples? Is it some reacton the actor is having while shooting? Or do the scrips call for him to have perky nipples? And if the latter, does he do it himself or does he have a "nipple fluffer" to get them all perky before the cameras roll?
But other than the nipple-issue, it was nice to actually start seeing backgrounds on the characters. Wish I had seen the pilot eps, but I saw the three after them (I think).
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I hate it when I'm so stressed RL that I start having "stress nightmares". Not horrible bloody violent nightmares, just stressy ones. Like last night it was that everyone in the world had some sort of animal they were bonded with. Could be any animal at all (frog, horse, dog, bee) but once you were bonded you had a mental connection. You could talk to the animal in yur head, and there was a constant 24/7 flow of love into your mind (and into the animal's in return). Mine was (of course) a cat. Some mission had to be done, and my cat was perfect for it but I was not, so I gave her up so she could bond with the guy who was perfect for it. (And bonding was a one time thing in a person's life, a human could never bond a second time.) No one understood how horribly lonely it was to have your mind be "empty" -- no friend's voice always there, no love and warmth always there for you. Everyone just wanted me to go on and keep working and act normal and all that.
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FFXI meets RL: While there's no real "IC" on FFXI and what little RPing we do is just silly fluffy stuff, I often RP in my head what FFXI Thistle would do if he found himself in the real world. I've had him interacting with cops (in his AF with his scythe, heehee) and stuck in a grocery store and things like that. This morning while deleting the spam out of my email, a subject line caught my eye:
become the man that women desire
That made me laugh, because poor Thistle would so totally respond to that. :P
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Meta (FFXI/MUSH staffing). Back when I ran a MUSH, one of the things most able to ruin my day was a staffer quitting. It didn't matter if I didn't like the staffer or if they were a slacker or whatever, we usually needed however many staffers we had, and one quitting would mean I'd need to find another. After years of being head wiz, I developed a sort of "sixth sense" for when a question was leading up to someone quitting. "Can I talk to you for a minute?" "Got a minute? Can we talk?" There was never one exact wording, but I always knew from the first line that someone was quitting.
Imagine my surprise when that alarm dinged last night. Ashn had asked if he could talk to me, and I knew from that first line that he was going to quit the static.
Bah.
Replacing a static member is just as annoying as replacing a MUSH staffer, and not surprisingly has many of the same issues. (Personalty of the new member must fit in with the current group (and we're not exactly normal, so that could be an important thing!), they must be a hard worker and willing to take a "game" seriously, etc.)
Unfortunately losing a static member has a bigger effect than losing a staff member does; other MUSH staffers could pick up the slack when we were short handed, but if we don't find another tank (one to keep or a random one), we can't party. Period.
Static members, assuming you've read this far: No nibbles from my CTY post yet. Beanie and Aurian both think that Cade's PLD might be about the right level, so I'm trying to catch him online to ask him. Also, where we go this coming week could possibly vary on the tank we get? If we do end up with a PLD (random or otherwise), want to try orcs maybe? Or we can go back to the Chasm, either way.
The SciFi channel showed six or seven Stargate Atlantis eps last night, and I was able to catch three of them! So I've now doubled the amount of eps I've seen! Yay! Unfortunately that volume issue is still happening with SciFi (even when I turn my TV's volume up to 100%, the sound on all shows on SciFi is way too low. I had to turn the fan off to have a chance to hear anything, and couldn't even type while trying to listen!) so I missed a lot, but I did hear a lot, too! (I've contacted Comcast about the sound thing, but who knows if that will help.)
I never, ever thought I'd ask this about any TV show, but: Dude, what's up with Rodney's nipples? Is it some reacton the actor is having while shooting? Or do the scrips call for him to have perky nipples? And if the latter, does he do it himself or does he have a "nipple fluffer" to get them all perky before the cameras roll?
But other than the nipple-issue, it was nice to actually start seeing backgrounds on the characters. Wish I had seen the pilot eps, but I saw the three after them (I think).
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I hate it when I'm so stressed RL that I start having "stress nightmares". Not horrible bloody violent nightmares, just stressy ones. Like last night it was that everyone in the world had some sort of animal they were bonded with. Could be any animal at all (frog, horse, dog, bee) but once you were bonded you had a mental connection. You could talk to the animal in yur head, and there was a constant 24/7 flow of love into your mind (and into the animal's in return). Mine was (of course) a cat. Some mission had to be done, and my cat was perfect for it but I was not, so I gave her up so she could bond with the guy who was perfect for it. (And bonding was a one time thing in a person's life, a human could never bond a second time.) No one understood how horribly lonely it was to have your mind be "empty" -- no friend's voice always there, no love and warmth always there for you. Everyone just wanted me to go on and keep working and act normal and all that.
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FFXI meets RL: While there's no real "IC" on FFXI and what little RPing we do is just silly fluffy stuff, I often RP in my head what FFXI Thistle would do if he found himself in the real world. I've had him interacting with cops (in his AF with his scythe, heehee) and stuck in a grocery store and things like that. This morning while deleting the spam out of my email, a subject line caught my eye:
become the man that women desire
That made me laugh, because poor Thistle would so totally respond to that. :P
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Meta (FFXI/MUSH staffing). Back when I ran a MUSH, one of the things most able to ruin my day was a staffer quitting. It didn't matter if I didn't like the staffer or if they were a slacker or whatever, we usually needed however many staffers we had, and one quitting would mean I'd need to find another. After years of being head wiz, I developed a sort of "sixth sense" for when a question was leading up to someone quitting. "Can I talk to you for a minute?" "Got a minute? Can we talk?" There was never one exact wording, but I always knew from the first line that someone was quitting.
Imagine my surprise when that alarm dinged last night. Ashn had asked if he could talk to me, and I knew from that first line that he was going to quit the static.
Bah.
Replacing a static member is just as annoying as replacing a MUSH staffer, and not surprisingly has many of the same issues. (Personalty of the new member must fit in with the current group (and we're not exactly normal, so that could be an important thing!), they must be a hard worker and willing to take a "game" seriously, etc.)
Unfortunately losing a static member has a bigger effect than losing a staff member does; other MUSH staffers could pick up the slack when we were short handed, but if we don't find another tank (one to keep or a random one), we can't party. Period.
Static members, assuming you've read this far: No nibbles from my CTY post yet. Beanie and Aurian both think that Cade's PLD might be about the right level, so I'm trying to catch him online to ask him. Also, where we go this coming week could possibly vary on the tank we get? If we do end up with a PLD (random or otherwise), want to try orcs maybe? Or we can go back to the Chasm, either way.
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Date: 2005-08-24 05:09 pm (UTC)Xal was an idiot ranger who constantly whined about gil, and dropped none too subtle hints about how we should buy ammo for him. (Zomg! I have to use a bow because I can't afford to buy bullets! Woe is me! ;o;) Then ignored things like hate, our tank, and got dead more than all the rest of us combined thanks to doing stupid shit like using all the ranger abilities in a row. "Zomg! Sharpshot! Barrage! Sidewinder! Getmyselfdead! I'm the coolest RNG there is!" About the only saving grace was that Xal didn't blame Cehra for the deaths. (I wonder if he even still plays rng after the 'nerf'. He'd be the type to quit for that.)
Next comes Ashn.. who for a while was an excellent tank, and then strangely did a 180 and turned into a crappy one. No clue what happened with that. All I know is that he's been a royal ass on LS events, and is more worried about the damage he's doing than in tanking. *scratches head* I really think he quit because we asked him to stop worrying about damage and start tanking... And I KNOW we were polite about it. I hope he doesn't blame us for his lack of ninja tanking ability. c.c;
I... should really stop bitching now. 9.9; Sorry. I can't say I'm sorry to see him go. I had talked to Ead about quitting I thought Ashn was so bad. Doesn't matter how good we are if our Tank is being a slacker.
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Date: 2005-08-24 05:22 pm (UTC)And I'm not sure about Ashn's change. Didn't his inability to tank start with the change to NIN? He stopped using the wheel thing and could no longer keep hate? I don't know what was up with his shadows; I know so little about NINing I shouldn't comment, but I want to say that I suspect he wasn't paying enough attention and thus failing to keep them up, but that comment comes with no personal experience. Just a total guess.
Sometimes I wonder if it was a money issue for him, too. Maybe he didn't want to save for a SH?
I suspect losing him will be much like losing Xal: We'll be better off for it. I just hope we can get a good tank as a replacement. I'm not terribly confident in the person we're talking about on the other post.
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Date: 2005-08-24 09:30 pm (UTC)Oooohh... There go my nipples again.
<3 Sealab's Murphy Episodes
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Date: 2005-08-24 09:54 pm (UTC)That... would not be fun. :P
And yay that ep! One of the few Sealabs I liked.
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Date: 2005-08-24 10:06 pm (UTC)I've come to the conclusion that it is not for us to question the nipples, but to rejoice in their presence.
I'm sorry you had such a painful dream. :(
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Date: 2005-08-24 10:13 pm (UTC)I've come to the conclusion that it is not for us to question the nipples, but to rejoice in their presence.
Heehee! I can try, but they're so very distracting!
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Date: 2005-08-24 10:35 pm (UTC)I hope you can get your hands on S1 at some point, because there were a lot of really wonderful eps (also, I loved Ford, and though Ronon is hot... he's no Ford).
but they're so very distracting!
It's why I love them.
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Date: 2005-08-24 10:41 pm (UTC)And I like him even less now that I know more of his backstory. The bad guys (Wraith? Right spelling?) are really cool looking though!
I hope you can get your hands on S1 at some point, because there were a lot of really wonderful eps
I'm thinking I'll just need to download it and catch up that way. Looks like I'm going to have some downtime from FFXI, so maybe I'll be able to do it then.
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Date: 2005-08-25 12:39 am (UTC)Heh, my reaction could not have been more different. I started out thinking Ronon was too much a Stu, but he's grown on me and, looking back, his manly manpain was kind of sexy (okay, honestly, right now I'm mainly just interested in his hotness). And I think the Wraith are just kind of... laughably Marilyn Manson-esque, with a little bit of catfish-ness thrown in.
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Date: 2005-08-25 01:35 am (UTC)And maybe Ronon will grow on me, too. I'm trying not to set any opinions in stone, since I know so little right now.