Dove commercials and FFXI

[thistlechaser]

I love Dove. I should go out and buy some of their soap just because they make such nice commercials. First they did that one which showed the woman going from normal to billboard, and now Pro-Aging. It's not as amazing as the first one, but it's really well done and makes me sad; what I'd give to see women like that in a TV commercial! They're all so pretty in normal ways. (I love the long earring/hair combo on that one woman!)

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FFXI: Chaser hit gold 70! Yay! There's a "reasonable" (for gold) synth that's gold 80, so I actually started it at 69. Her shades made her 70 plus advanced support = do-able but not easy. It takes "only" one gold ingot (and a shield I can make for under 10K, plus a couple other little things), so it's actually pretty nice. A stack of gold ingots goes for about 330K, and it took me 3 stacks for one full level on these. It'll probably take less once I level a bit more.

Alas, I had to start doing turn ins on Thistle. I have the sheeting key item on Chaser, but I need it on Thistle as well. :/ (The shield she needs requires 2 iron sheets. She can't make them because her smithing is 0.) So yay, doing guild turn in on two characters at once. drusies_pet mentioned people paying BRDs to join their party, and tonight I actually considered that as a way to make money. :P So very broke!

I finally edited my backlog of screenshots! Here we go~

SPOILER: From the cutscene for raking up to SP in Assaults. OMG, the owner of that hoofprint is so cool! I saw that in screenshots from the modelviewer, but only the CS really did it justice! So cool!

Zoraal Ja's Pkuucha -- the NM Des found and we all killed last night. We got all the drops, and I got the axe! Yay! I wish I had gotten a better screenshot, but it was a BRD and I was trying to keep out of the AoE range.

An odd bug hit me one Besieged: Black trolls! They were all like that, then suddenly for no reason they all changed back to normal colored.

A while back I killed Falcatus Aranei. I didn't get his drop, but belatedly noticed it was rare/ex so I wouldn't have been able to sell it anyway.

For Nai~! Heehee, don't kill me! I'm showing it to you totally OOCly. ;) (Mmm, looks so nice though!)

Erm. Maybe also for Nai? What the heck is going on with his crotch? You stuffing that, dude?

Tiny little screenshot: I know it's totally OOC, but I love the RSE dat swaps! It's so cool! All the black! And sneakers! Don't ask me why, but I love seeing sneakers around in the game (usually OOC stuff annoys the heck out of me).

And on the subject of dat swaps: I'd love to wear this RL! The screenshot came out a little rough for some reason, but in game it looks like it would be made of a blanket-like material, all warm and soft and snuggly. It makes me smile to see it on me, because I bet it must be one of those things that you just love to wear because they're so warm and comfortable.

And lastly, from this morning: I couldn't decide which was funnier, his name or his typing:

Comments

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I like to buy Dove products to support their more realistic ads. Hopefully other companies will eventually catch on.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[iniadelphinae.livejournal.com]

Yay again for Dove! So sad to read the forums and watch people have a cow about naked women, even though you can't any naughty bits. Way to miss the point!

[iniadelphinae.livejournal.com]

can't see*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

"Won't somebody think of the children?!"

It's very sad, yes. :/

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

If you want to try before you buy, Dove also gives away free samples with coupons. I've gotten to try a lot of Dove products that I couldn't have afforded otherwise like that.

The catch is that you have to give them your personal info, but I usually make stuff up or shorten information to qualify and I've yet to see them question me or sell my info to a third party.

As for 'Greatnaruto', well...god bless his little Narutarded heart. At least he didn't name himself 'Goodnaruto'; that would have been hilarious.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool. Thanks! I'll try that.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

That was such a great ad! I liked the second woman with the grey streak, but hey, they are all pretty in normal ways, exactly.

Oddly, I find that as I age I find youth less attractive. That is, I find myself considering older men and women to be better looking than younger ones.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I find that as I age I find youth less attractive. That is, I find myself considering older men and women to be better looking than younger ones.

I've found that, too. I wonder if it's because we're older and can think more for ourselves (as opposed to younger people who would be more inclined to believe what the media says is "beauty").