Links and FFXI update

[thistlechaser]

My coolest links seem to always come from firebyrd's LJ~. This slideshow shows the typical week's worth of food for families across the world, and yet again America shames me. :/ Not only do we have so much (so much so that they had to stack our food to get it all in the shot), it's all crap. Only the California family actually had a tiny bit of green stuff in their mix.

The only way the slideshow would have been better is if it had listed countries as well. (Edit: See comments. :P ) I don't know offhand where Kodaira City is! Or Breidjing Camp or Cuernavaca or Konstancin-Jeziorna or Cllingbourne Ducis. Though I'm guessing that last one is in England, based on the brands shown.

FFXI: Update day today. Nothing big or exciting for me, but I'm happy for the people who are hyper about the merit point changes.

The upgrade in mog lockers (the biggest YAY for me) means I'll finally cash in some of my 180K IS and sell gold coins (eh, have to make space on the AH...). Chocogals (the second biggest YAY) sound cool. I suppose eventually the CoP changes will be good, too.

Chocobo digging related changes: The change in outpost fees rocks. I had been spending 3.5-4K daily on outposting to chocobo dig, and when digging sucks that brings things too close to a loss of money. Hope the mob-change makes Vollbow a more useable outpost now...

Level 8 Besiegeds scare me. We can barely win at level 7. :/

Being able to store event things and not throw bomb cores = win. Not that I ever threw my bomb core in two years, but I know others aren't as careful/lucky. It's nice that I won't have to be so paranoid anymore.

This last part makes me sad:
Items obtainable through chocobo digging have been adjusted in the following areas:
Wajaom Woodlands/Bhaflau Thickets
That's where I do the majority of my digging now. :( Yeah, yeah, yeah, in theory they could be improving it (no, I wasn't able to type that with a straight face), but I doubt it.

New ToAU quests and mission? Meh. Replacing/changing rings/earrings? I don't have any to begin with. Merit changes? Meh. But so long as they don't mess up Woodland/Thicket digging, I'll count myself happy.

Comments

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Prediction for Level 8 Besieged:

WERE IS GURFURLER
WAR IZ CERB
Forget Cerberus and Gurfurlur and kill the other NMs!
THIS IS AL ZAHBI!
Would you all just shut up so we can OMG GATES OF HADES *zone dies*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yes. :P

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

One day, I will remember that LJ doesn't accept the less than and greater than symbols.

It was funnier when it had names next to it.

First was Noob1, second was Noob2, third was BRP, fourth was Noob300, fifth was me. =p

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah! Well, I knew what you meant. :)

[kerai.livejournal.com]

They spelled Collingbourne Ducis wrong! It's in Wiltshire, UK. I'm googling all the ones you listed waiting for maint. D:

Konstancin-Jeziorna- Poland? All the top links for it come up in some language I don't even recognize.
Cuernavaca - Morelos, Mexico
Breidjing Camp - Chad, Africa
Kodaira City - Tokyo

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*coughs and points at the comment below yours* Apparently I'm blind. :P

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

It does list countries; they're listed right before the city, in bold. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

........ *rolls* Okay, I must be blind! But other people missed it as well, so at least I'm not alone?

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

"and yet again America shames me."

Why? Compared to the majority of the other families, the Americans didn't spend all that much more, and if you actually look at the types of food, it's not all that different. There's not a thing to be ashamed of.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, one of the changes I'm happiest about is the unhinted at "lol you can't throw your Bibiki Shell anymore, dumbass" one ; ;~! I'm ALWAYS incredibly stupidly paranoid about throwing that or my Fenrir Stone (though I could get another one of those if I tossed it). Especially since I spend large chunks of time on RNG and then swap back to MNK for something else. I've never sweated throwing my Morion (though it has sentimental value :( ) or Ampula because they could ultimately be replaced, but the Bibiki Shell worried me to the point of just leaving it in my safe. I was even more paranoid 'cause I do things with mobs that charm (I haven't killed my Limbus static in a few weeks at least! /waves hi). So very afraid of tossing it :( But tonight at Limbus, I felt really, really relieved. Limbus was kinda stressful 'cause of that nagging fear and I hadn't realized how much it nagged on me until tonight when it no longer wasn't. I looked at them and was like "Bwahaha, you're not leaving my inventory now, suckas :E!"

Now to add those CP bolts to the list and my life will be complete in the ranged attack category... 9.9;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, one of the changes I'm happiest about is the unhinted at "lol you can't throw your Bibiki Shell anymore, dumbass" one ; ;~!

It's nice of them to be making these 'logical' changes. It makes sense for people not to want to throw these things!