Doodle for Google!

[thistlechaser]

I'll be the first to admit, when I heard "doodle for Google" I thought of something totally different. Must be because I'm so tired. Heh.

Stupid me stayed up late last night, when I should have gone to bed early. (Three hours sleep total for the two nights before =/= should stay up late last night!) So very tired.

I hate to keep grumping about it, but Besieged really, really, really seriously sucks. (Last night was my third time doing it since Wings came out.) I'm making the same complaints others made pre-Wings; I don't know how I always used to defended against these arguments. The lag makes it basically un-playable -- I did five WSs total, and four were lost to "too far away" messages. After using my giant's drink (which brought me to over 2K HP) some mobs got me down to 55 HP before they even popped and I could see them. And the risk of being dead at the end and thus getting no reward? Unacceptable. Oh, and let's not mention the hours long wait for them to start advancing, then another 45 minutes for them to walk to the city, and that the attack lasts an hour. All for 1K XP.

At least that makes me more thankful for Campaign? :P Three strikes and you're out, Besieged!

On a vaguely-related note, SE finally released the video of them killing AV with a "normal" alliance setup. Except, you know, for the people two houring 8+ times in a 20 minute fight... without any Corsairs (not that even an army of CORs could reset two hours that much). So, yeah. "lol SE". (Edit: Ha ha ha, most/all the people killing him have relics.) (For non-FFXI MMO people: AV is the only mob that has never been killed (without using a cheat -- it was killed before that cheat was made bannable/fixed/whatever). Since it's never been killed, of course it's of great interest to people. SE claimed that even a normal group could kill it, so of course the elite folks who weren't even close to being able to kill it took exception to that. This video is supposed to be proof.)

/end random babbling. zzzzz

Comments

[taperkat.livejournal.com]

it's much more than 20 minutes - at least iceday + thundersday, if not more. :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm still reading through the thread. People are guessing that it's many hours edited together into the little video. (Lightday is in there, too.)

[snoopybrown.livejournal.com]

They warned this would happen at Fanfest, actually. They said they wouldn't be able provide the entire fight because it would be too long, etc... The thing is, it still feels like they could be cheating unless they just made it time laps. =/

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Someone had commented that it could have taken 212 hours to fight, and they just cut out all the kiting time. 212 or some insane number of hours, whatever it would take to let the PCs 2 hour so much.

Someone else pointed out that maybe the video isn't supposed to show a "fair" fight, just give hints as to how to beat it. While that sounds somewhat reasonable to me, I'm glad I'll never have anything to do with AV. The whole thing has gotten to the point of insane.

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

Assuming the clips are in chronological order, it shows at least a 16 hour timespan. When they first engage AV, the video shows just rolling from iceday to lightningsday. Next shown is 6:46 lightningsday. The next part is still lightningsday, but 5:09. Then back to noon iceday. That makes it almost 2 weeks of gamedays.

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

Huh, that 'doodle for Google' thing is cooler than I expected it to be. It's a shame that my youngest nephew (he's 6) doesn't live around me; I would've signed up his class in a heartbeat.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? :D