I'm feeling mighty crafty! And 300 (FFXI, movie)

[thistlechaser]

Busy, busy day today. I wanted to make scorp arrows to use up the scorp arrowheads that FB made while skilling bone. Needed insect fletchings. Had none. Hmm, FB needs to skill his cloth subcraft, insect fletchings are 51... but he was only cloth 20. Bah. So he went from cloth 20 to 51 in a day, and now he's in the process of making 84751750917031057041 scorp arrows. When I sell the scorp arrows I'll recover the money I spent skilling cloth to make the fletchings to make the arrows to sell to recover the money... Crafting: The Circle of Life.

Also, he hit woodworking 94 this morning, yay. Breaksynthing eight-sides poles worked out well. (91 to 94 in one evening and one morning, less than 12 hours total with a night's sleep in between. Amazing!)

I still have no idea what he's going to do for 94-100, but I might force myself to do his gold sub (UGH) first so that he can finally make coffee tables for me.

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I'm finally watching this 300 movie. It's on HBO, so it's free, so I figured I'd watch it. I have to say, I've never seen a more painful movie before. I'm glad I didn't see it in a theater, because I seem to be laughing at the wrong parts.

*Some leader from another country questions why the leader's wife keeps butting in, speaking rudely to him*
She replies: "Only Spartan women give birth to real men!"

I'm laughing just thinking about it. Gods. The woman's only value is that she gives birth to "real men"! And they make their seven-year-old boys beat each other up to make them into real men! But of course! How else could men be "real men" if they're not fighting!

I'm seeing this for free and it's still totally not worth the price. When I glance over at the screen the images are interesting to look at, which is the only reason I haven't changed the channel yet. I should turn off the sound and watch it that way, I bet it'd be a whole lot better.

Comments

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Scorpion arrows, you say?

I think I'm buying those. =x

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh ho ho? I have, um, 6? stacks of quivers on Catsoup right now, and I'm only halfway done making them (I'll probably finish tomorrow). Let me know once you're sure, and how many you want!

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

You're insane, and make me feel entirely too unproductive on any given day... x.x

[vorloxu.livejournal.com]

Well I liked 300 :X. It had it's rediculous moments of course. You may have been tainted by the excessive parodies over time after finally seeing it, making it more of a joke movie. I saw it in theaters, not the best movie, but I don't think it was a waste of money. Ironman would be a waste of money, I watched that bootleg and it was terrible lol. :o sign me a primate staff!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Clearly vor has no idea what he is talking about! Iron Man > most!

[vorloxu.livejournal.com]

Read my review of it :P. None of my friends like it either lol. It's not the worst superhero movie ever, it just needed more action!

[quistie.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen 300, but the film might have gotten it mostly right. The bit about the earth and water is related in many history books, as is the part about fighting in the shade of arrows. I suppose the Spartans can be rather melodramatic and their belief system is rather...grim and oppressive, but part of it has to do with our modern sensibilities, too.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You may have been tainted by the excessive parodies over time after finally seeing it, making it more of a joke movie.

Also, I went into it fully expecting to hate it, so I didn't really give it a fair shake. :/

sign me a primate staff!

Get me the materials and I will! :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha. Days like that make up for all the days I just stand there staring at my moogle. :P

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

In that particular instance, I think you mistake the meaning of the Queen's remark. She doesn't mean that Spartan women's only value is in birthing Spartan men...Quite the opposite, historically. Spartan women were actually the political ruling body of Sparta most of the time (all the valued men go off to war, who is left to rule?), and bossed around the slaves so farming and such would be done...Spartan women were held in very high esteem. What the Queen means is that the spawn of non-Spartan women were less than real men. Thus insulting the messenger (implying he is not a 'real' man), as well as a Iron Age 'Yo Momma'.

The more I researched Sparta, the more that movie was quite accurate. And I'd be hard pressed to call the things they did then crazier than much of the crap we do now. People I know put their kids through amazing shit to try to ensure their kids will be 'future executives' and whatnot.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

What the Queen means is that the spawn of non-Spartan women were less than real men.

Yeah, I got that meaning as well, though I liked it no better than the way I was reading it. The whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth... though I got lots of laughs out of it so that's something. :}