Working hard to make myself hate FFXI

[thistlechaser]

I hate fishing. I used to love fishing, but then they went and changed the whole system to stop fishingbots. By the way: Ha ha ha on that. So anyway, I've not fished in years -- I won't willingly do it anymore.

What did I do tonight? After spending my whole evening yesterday doing something I disliked? I fished. For hours. For four hours. My whole evening.

And I didn't get a single thing done.

See, FB is skilling on making mithran fishing rods, which take some expensive stuff to make, so to recover my money I was going to have Thistle break them before selling. I spent four hours fishing in three different zones, bait which would catch only objects/stuff to break the rods, and all I got was mobs and one single pair of rusty leggings. Bah.

High point of the night was flirting (on Kat, my mithra bonecrafting mule) with some HNM LS PLD. He was actually pretty darned sweet and it was a fun way to kill time while we waiting for the fishing guild to open (I needed bait). He kept showing me all his different armor, Salvage/ToAU stuff/that HNM LS ugly stuff. Kat /clapped and /praised him and made other happy noises at him. ("Your hat matches! ^^", "Oh, I like those shoes! ~~<3 ", "That sword is so pretty!" Ha ha, I bet he loved having his sword called pretty!) I wish I could flirt on Thistle, but people take that the wrong way. c.c

So anyway, I'm going to try to sell the fishing poles whole. Hopefully they'll move, as I have eight of them made now. Going to look for a different thing to skill on tomorrow. (FB did hit 83 today though, so yay. Did a little work on gold, too.)

Know what's annoying? I'm already getting sad/worried about what I'll do next once FB is done with wood. Luckily he needs a crapload of subcrafts done, but I'm nearly halfway done with those, too. :/ I only have one starter-city mule and one Jeuno mule left that doesn't have a craft leveled, I am NOT making a new mule just to level a craft on!

Edit: Ah ha, I think the 'ugly armor' I was talking about is Koenig? The body armor the two humes in the front row of this picture are wearing.

Comments

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's Koenig. =p

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay, I was right! So ugly~

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

It was probably an elvaan, everything looks ugly on elvaan.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Nope! He was a Thistle-model hume. :D

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Wait--it takes WORK to hate FFXI????

*flees*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha, you might have a point there!

[pomr.livejournal.com]

^___^

No chocobos or moogles were hurt in making this post.
Sixteen naked galka were killed however.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*&$&~$&~$ ... or 'Yay!', whichever is the correct response here. c.c

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

Your idea of flirting is showering a guy with compliments?

Ick.

Last time a girl tried that with me, I asked her what the hell she was trying to butter me up for.

To each their own, I guess.

[iniadelphinae.livejournal.com]

Less... um, discerning guys eat that crap up like candy. I can't do it even online. I either start giggling uncontrollably at the absurdity of what I'm saying, thus rendering myself incapable of typing, or have to run to the bathroom to throw up in my mouth a little.

I found it mock-worthy for the fact this guy was dumb enough to actually believe a girl was talking to him. While it may have been true in this case, the number of men that play female characters makes believing the random person who tells you "I'm female IRL! Really!" pretty stupid all by itself.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha yes, I was amusing myself muchly. It was so silly! But it entertained me and he seemed to like it, so it was all good. :)

As I mentioned to Nilych below, I'm happy that I was able to be honest about it -- he did have some really nice looking armor, and that he was my (Thistle) model made it cooler to see. I just put a whole lot more energy and ^^s and <3s into it than I usually would. :P

the number of men that play female characters makes believing the random person who tells you "I'm female IRL! Really!" pretty stupid all by itself.

God, yes. And I never told him (and he didn't ask) about the RL me. This was just a bit of fun while we were standing around waiting for the shop to open, I didn't want to get married RL or anything!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I suck at flirting! But the nice part was, I wasn't lying! He did have some good looking armor (other than that Koenig stuff), and my reactions were honest (just more... um... enthusiastic than usual).

He seemed to enjoy showing it off, so it worked for both of us and passed the time until the guild store opened.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I have a lot of mules you could amuse yourself with if you wanted to keep crafting :P But if I did that you'd prolly use up all my Signal/Tactics pearl charges hitting on Raka or prance around my MH in panties -.- Maybe that's not such a good idea...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You could 'pay' me for skilling your mules by giving me Raka~! However I can't promise the shape your MH would be in once we were done.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

You just envy my Royal Bed :( But I warn you, it's covered in Moogle fur.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

By the way! Unrelated! Eeeee! I went to the pet store today to get food and stuff and they had kittens! Five kittens! Eeeeeee! And they were so bouncy and full of energy and OMG how did I get out of the store without adopting them all!

Then I thought of you not getting any sleep, and the kittens being as crazy at midnight as they were then, and it made escaping easier. :P

[vorloxu.livejournal.com]

I report fish bots that fish in my favorite spots lol. I swear half of them are legit players that are lazy. I'm one of the "rare" veteran fishers lol but I still get sleepy if I fish for more than an hour. Here's a hint, if you want to break mithran fishing rods go to the small lake in the glacier (at the outpost area) and use peeled crayfish. I wrote an incomplete fishing guide, I know this useless information! lol

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks for the hint! Maybe I'll try that! (Fishing there is a challenge, since I get distracted by the eles that spawn there. :P )