*rolls* Snake Eye! Yay! (FFXI, movies)

[thistlechaser]

I finally made the time to get to Campaign and make the 14K XP needed for the last adjustment to Snake Eye:


Yay! Max Snake Eye reduction! Happy happy happy happy! Of all my 75 jobs, that's easily the most handy ability of them all! I'm not sure what else to do with the rest of my COR group 2, maybe max Fold, though I almost never use that. (I'm a conservative roller, so I almost never bust.) I think I'll be working on maxing Random Deal next, since that rocks so much as well.

Right now I have: Snake Eyes (5), Fold (1), Loaded Deck (1), Winning Streak (0). One is all you need in Loaded Deck, and Winning Streak (extending rolls) isn't the path I'm taking with my merits. So that really only leaves Fold, I guess.

Group 1 needs, well, everything still. I think I'll max Random Deal recast (I think. 150,000 XP for a total of 2 minutes reduction in recast? 20 minutes to 18 minutes? That's an awful lot of XP for not a lot of difference...). Anyway, whatever I don't use in Random Deal will go into Quick Draw Acc.

In other redundant news, I'm up to 800 chocobucks saved. Gah. When I handed in my egg (10-ish days ago) I had less than 100 chocobucks. I'm sooooo sick of "free" racing! And so poor! About 5 minutes and 1K gil per 1 or 3 chocobucks. I don't want to think how much gil I've dropped on this. (I know how much time though, many hours a day. :/ I'm doing little else in game right now.) The max you can have saved is 1,000, so at least I'm almost done.

Because I'm stupid, I decided to camp another NM for that darned quest. I had a couple hours to kill, so I went out to look for Sharp-Eared Ropipi. Two hours spent, no NM ever showed. So I'm up to: 9 (8.75) hours total spent, 2 of 16 NMs gotten. Why yes, this is a very productive use of my time! :P

Lastly, I did that Babban Ny Mheillea for the tree saplings (Kat's are going to be ready to harvest soon). It was very... cute. As many people know from my anime days, 'cute' really doesn't work for me. I like dark, serious, depressing (lol emo?). For me, those kinds of quests have an impact on you, stick with you. Heck, it's been 3 years since I did the scythe NMWS quest and I still remember/love that story! And I still feel bad for that darned elf and rather guilty that I haven't gone to visit the poor guy lately. :/ I can't recall the last 'cute' quest I did. Cute's like cotton candy -- it's sweet and nice when you're eating it, but it doesn't stick with you. YMMV, of course. :)

Anyway, one amusing thing about that quest. So these two mandies have children, right? (I won't go into details, not going to spoil.) So why doesn't the husband notice that his wife has been getting it on with the mailman? c.c

Tomorrow: More Double Dragonian runs! Thursday: ToAU 44! (Eeeek! I want to start packing already!)

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HBO's new summer movie of the week was The Simpsons Movie, so I finally got to see that. Wow. Wow. Wow. I'm so amazingly glad that I did not pay to see that in the theater. It was, at best, like one of their current eps: Sometimes chuckle-worthy but in general so painfully unfunny that I felt bad for all the people who put effort into making it.

I'd be tempted to say that HBO really failed with their "Billion Dollar Summer Movie" thingie, but it's not HBO's fault that some horrible movies were popular. Most of the Billion Dollar Movies have been big misses for me:

FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER: Skipped. Didn't see the other movie(s?) in the series, don't care to.
EVAN ALMIGHTY: Meh. Was watchable once, but I had major issues with it. (I still <3 God in it though and I'm tempted to watch it again just to see him.)
KNOCKED UP: I'd stab my eyes out before I'd consider watching this.
SHREK THE THIRD: Watched it, it did nothing for me.
HAIRSPRAY: Tried to watch it, didn't work for me.
OCEAN'S THIRTEEN: See Fantastic Four.
RUSH HOUR 3: Tried to watch it. God. Painfully, painfully, painfully bad and unfunny.
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX: Surprisingly enjoyed a lot (I'm long since out of the fandom), and watched it multiple times.

Copied from HBO's page, forgive the caps. Funny, I thought 300 was part of their summer special, but it's not on the list... I wonder what the rest of the summer movies will be? Hopefully there will be better choices in them. Edit: Oh hey, found a list for the rest of July:

THE KINGDOM: Never heard of it, but it sounds kind of okay?
LICENSE TO WED: Eh. I like Robin Williams, but I recall thinking the commercials made the movie sound really stupid...

Comments

[binarybeer.livejournal.com]

The Kingdom was not too bad, lots of medieval action. The protagonist does not talk much, so I was left wondering about his line of reasoning, lol

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, huh. I guess I'll see what you mean next week! :)

[sethimothy.livejournal.com]

I raised a chocobo once. Rode it three times. Haven't touched it since. I really don't know why; I felt that for the amount of time I'd invested in it, I shouldn't have had a chocobo that was notably slower than the ones I could rent. I've never considered trying to get him to race; wonder if he still can? Getting the dye to make the next one an artificial color might be kind of fun... Hmmm.

It's fun reading about your misadventures. Makes me think I should write more about the ones I have in game, but recently they've been so... tame and unfocused, in comparison.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I felt that for the amount of time I'd invested in it, I shouldn't have had a chocobo that was notably slower than the ones I could rent.

Any chocobos you raise will always be no faster than a rental one. Raised chocobos are mainly for other things (digging, racing), so they won't be as fast as the rental ones.

Makes me think I should write more about the ones I have in game, but recently they've been so... tame and unfocused, in comparison.

Everyone should post as much as they like! :) That's what personal LJs are for.

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

[advice] Stick with The Kingdom if you've never heard of Uwe Boll, but avoid it like the plague if you know who I'm talking about. That asshole's reputation for crap makes all the difference when watching his movies. [/advice]

And I don't blame you for skipping the Fantastic Four movies. As someone coming in as a fan of the comics, I was horrified to see my favorite comic series turned into a pile of garbage. I still weep every time I hear mention of those movies.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

if you've never heard of Uwe Boll

I've heard the name, and that people think he makes trash (assuming I'm thinking about the right person), but nothing more than that. I suppose I'll give the movie a try!

[southern-hell.livejournal.com]

800 bucks already! I wish I could really settle on something and do it until it was done like you do, I only have about 200 because I don't want to spend hours and tens of thousands of gil a day >_

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I wish I could really settle on something and do it until it was done like you do

Oh, but you'd have to be insane then, and that's not worth it, right? ;)

Seriously, I get obsessive about things. That's not such a good thing! :P

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

Knocked Up is hilarious!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*pokes his sarcasm meter* You being serious? If so, maybe I'll have to give it a chance. :)

[mertondew.livejournal.com]

It's a trap!

Horrible movie. I stopped paying attention halfway through because it was so bad.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah. :/

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

I figured the last mandragora kid could be explained by recessive genes. ;p And I loved it, but I'm all about the cute. Your dark and angsty preference explains a lot. ^_~

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I figured the last mandragora kid could be explained by recessive genes

Or the mailman! The princess mandy was so totally a slut~ ;)

Your dark and angsty preference explains a lot. ^_~

It does! :D

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

I was also amused at being cast in the part of a baby tree, considering my feelings on trees in FFXI. ^_~

And you talk about darkness and angst with such a happy face! ;p

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* When I first did the quest, I had to ask if the sapling was named Thistle or 'PC's name' -- Thistle is such a plant-ish name, I thought maybe it was the name everyone saw!

And you talk about darkness and angst with such a happy face! ;p

The happy face is a lie! I'm dark and angsty and eeeeevvvviiilll!