TV and FFXI
Feb. 21st, 2007 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserTV: It's official. I love The Dresden Files more than I do Heroes! It's not even a close race, either. I love the characters so so so much in Dresden (EEE!) and the story is so cool! And all the ideas are just so... so... cool. I hate to keep reusing that word, but I must have gone 'Cool!' out loud four or five times in the last ep. I love all the supernaturalness of it, the spells, the witchcraft (the main character is a wizard! How cool is that!).
The characters are so great (so much love for Bob! Eee!), and the plots are always so interesting. (I should have seen the twist coming in this last ep, but I didn't! I was grinning once I saw it!) And the way there's magic/witchcraft in the real world is just so... cool!
Really, it keeps coming back to the characters though. I can't think of a single one I don't like. Even the one-ep characters are really interesting.
It's showing on SciFi, but you can find whole eps on YouTube (that's how I watch it).
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FFXI: Ugh. Another of those nights that made me wonder why the hell I'm still playing this game.
First part of the night: Hello Dunes! All I needed was 5K XP and I had all night (and TWO XP band charges) to do it. 2K free XP, 3K XP needed. Easy, right?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
At first I thought I was in luck. A good enough party with a PL. I got 2K XP! Yay! Then the PL and the WHM left, and the whole night fell apart. The party leader took a 5 minute smoke break every 15 minutes, plus told us he was on drugs. Did I mention he was our puller? By the end of the night, I actually said "For the love of god, pull! Pull something! Anything!" He would just stand there, not moving, WHM's MP full and us all waiting.
Parties during the night featured: A RDM/WAR, a WAR/BRD who had never used a single song scroll, but the real winner was a MNK 19, no subjob, in a few pieces of level 1 armor (but mostly naked), using a level 1 staff as his weapon.
The staff MNK was the straw that broke the night's back for me. I try not to be pushy in parties, but I told the leader to boot him. The NIN told him to boot him. The WHM wasn't happy. The leader wouldn't, but finally the MNK picked up on how much we hated him and left. 9.9 And the leader replaced him with the WAR/RDM! Wheee!
It took me about 5 hours of this hell (god awful party with no PL), but eventually I hit MNK 20. As a 19-20 party, we were killing crabs and flies, and the WHM's MP was fully drained after each fight. About 50 XP per kill.
So anyway, MNK 20! Yay! I trotted off to Jeuno to do my chocobo license quest!
SE to Thistle: Ha ha ha! Fuck you! You think your night's about to get better? Ha!
That god damned 'chocobo on the loose' quest blocked my license quest! The fricking quest where you have to run around the world and you're rewarded a chocobo egg! $&*#@&$)~&$~)&)
I wanted to cry or scream or take a hammer to my computer, but instead I did all the required running around for the damned quest. And I dropped the egg as soon as I got it. I would have dropped it sooner if I could have. Damned thing.
By the time I was done, it was about 30 minutes before I usually log off, and I hadn't even logged Thistle on all day. I almost skipped digging, but I'm so broke I decided to push and do it. Went straight to Meri Mountains, got mostly crap (1 gold ore, 2 gold beastcoins).
And, as if that wasn't enough crap to ruin the night, the Candysense was taken while I was at work. ><
So very sick of the game right now. Really and seriously.
I am never, ever, ever, ever going to XP another job outside of a LS party. Never. Not a single random XP party ever again.
Two small good things from leveling MNK:
1) Counter may be the best job ability ever. I don't think I've ever had anything so satisfying as hitting a mob back because it dared to hit me.
2) I can no longer call BRD boring after playing MNK. Engage, nap, WS when you have TP, nap, oh look the fight is over! Stand around and nap while someone pulls... (Tonight was semi-better because I was backup voke for the NIN tank.)
The characters are so great (so much love for Bob! Eee!), and the plots are always so interesting. (I should have seen the twist coming in this last ep, but I didn't! I was grinning once I saw it!) And the way there's magic/witchcraft in the real world is just so... cool!
Really, it keeps coming back to the characters though. I can't think of a single one I don't like. Even the one-ep characters are really interesting.
It's showing on SciFi, but you can find whole eps on YouTube (that's how I watch it).
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FFXI: Ugh. Another of those nights that made me wonder why the hell I'm still playing this game.
First part of the night: Hello Dunes! All I needed was 5K XP and I had all night (and TWO XP band charges) to do it. 2K free XP, 3K XP needed. Easy, right?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
At first I thought I was in luck. A good enough party with a PL. I got 2K XP! Yay! Then the PL and the WHM left, and the whole night fell apart. The party leader took a 5 minute smoke break every 15 minutes, plus told us he was on drugs. Did I mention he was our puller? By the end of the night, I actually said "For the love of god, pull! Pull something! Anything!" He would just stand there, not moving, WHM's MP full and us all waiting.
Parties during the night featured: A RDM/WAR, a WAR/BRD who had never used a single song scroll, but the real winner was a MNK 19, no subjob, in a few pieces of level 1 armor (but mostly naked), using a level 1 staff as his weapon.
The staff MNK was the straw that broke the night's back for me. I try not to be pushy in parties, but I told the leader to boot him. The NIN told him to boot him. The WHM wasn't happy. The leader wouldn't, but finally the MNK picked up on how much we hated him and left. 9.9 And the leader replaced him with the WAR/RDM! Wheee!
It took me about 5 hours of this hell (god awful party with no PL), but eventually I hit MNK 20. As a 19-20 party, we were killing crabs and flies, and the WHM's MP was fully drained after each fight. About 50 XP per kill.
So anyway, MNK 20! Yay! I trotted off to Jeuno to do my chocobo license quest!
SE to Thistle: Ha ha ha! Fuck you! You think your night's about to get better? Ha!
That god damned 'chocobo on the loose' quest blocked my license quest! The fricking quest where you have to run around the world and you're rewarded a chocobo egg! $&*#@&$)~&$~)&)
I wanted to cry or scream or take a hammer to my computer, but instead I did all the required running around for the damned quest. And I dropped the egg as soon as I got it. I would have dropped it sooner if I could have. Damned thing.
By the time I was done, it was about 30 minutes before I usually log off, and I hadn't even logged Thistle on all day. I almost skipped digging, but I'm so broke I decided to push and do it. Went straight to Meri Mountains, got mostly crap (1 gold ore, 2 gold beastcoins).
And, as if that wasn't enough crap to ruin the night, the Candysense was taken while I was at work. ><
So very sick of the game right now. Really and seriously.
I am never, ever, ever, ever going to XP another job outside of a LS party. Never. Not a single random XP party ever again.
Two small good things from leveling MNK:
1) Counter may be the best job ability ever. I don't think I've ever had anything so satisfying as hitting a mob back because it dared to hit me.
2) I can no longer call BRD boring after playing MNK. Engage, nap, WS when you have TP, nap, oh look the fight is over! Stand around and nap while someone pulls... (Tonight was semi-better because I was backup voke for the NIN tank.)
