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[thistlechaser]

I've been just treading water in FFXI lately. Getting my daily work done, racing for chocobucks (up to 960-something), then mostly just staring at my moogle. Yesterday I made myself Campaign for a merit so I could raise Quick Draw acc for ToAU 44 tomorrow, hopefully that'll help.

In Campaign I spotted a new WS, and the LS comment sums up the reaction I had to it:


I've been trying to clean Thistle's safe/locker/storage out, and I noticed I still had a Sawfish in it, so I shipped it off for Fishingbot to synth. I wish they hadn't renamed it. The Big One was a better name than 'stuffed "Big One" '.

Ha! I traded it out for Thistle's unsigned one. I should put the signed one into Fishingbot's bazaar with his signed fishing poles. Who wouldn't want to fish with a pole with 'Fishingbot' written on it? :D

Though I have them all, I only have room for two mannequins in my layout. I switched out the hume for an elf, and once I saw his special pose I knew exactly what he needed... Kegger time! I'm kind of thinking about reworking that corner of my MH into a bar...

And I made an impulse purchase tonight. Usually that's not a bad thing, but tonight it was. I've been wanting a buckler plaque for years, literally years. It's one of the reasons I started leveling gold on Chaser (though it needs wood and cloth subs, and I only just finished her wood sub and still haven't touched cloth). Finally one was up at the AH! They only sell a couple a year! So I grabbed it! ...then I remembered. I already had to take stuff I like off my walls for lack of space, and if we beat ToAU 44 tomorrow I'll get a new wall thing... Plus the sword plaque kind of looks better than the buckler plaque... So, bah. I guess I'll put it on a mule's wall. Maybe Chaser's, to mock her slacker ass.

And a screenshot from two years ago today!

Our server's most well known gilseller! He even had a (non-GS) LS named after him! I have no idea what he was saying there, but he saved some mission-party of mine from a bomb once and ever since then he /waved to me and we exchanged words a few times. At least one of the players behind CLF was nice, and to be totally honest I miss seeing him around. (Gilsellers are bad, yeah. But he was nice and he wasn't named something like Midhjreghea. Heck, I wonder if the name is free? If I needed another mule, I'd name it that. Oh poo, looks like it's taken by a real player. Aww.)

Tomorrow: ToAU 44! Eek! Hope I'm ready and I didn't forget anything!

Edit: Oh god, hee. I never replaced my Darwin Fish when it fell off my car, but I should do so with this. :D

Comments

[sethimothy.livejournal.com]

Yo WHM gon' shank me?

Or something.

I miss the days when gilsellers, or at least the notable ones, were players too. Only, you know, grinding out gil. Not that there weren't asshat gilsellers then either, but it was like back then some of them knew that playing the game was the only way to advance, and this meant playing with others.

Of course, now we're in a new sort of hell, where everything is cheap yet no one can afford to buy it, and the only gilsellers are camping freakin' moat carp, wth.

I need to get together a mannequin sometime. Started the quest, just need to accidentally stumble across the parts. Hmmm... Garrison time, maybe? :O

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Garrison is a great way to get parts. Fun, easy, and good money (and parts!).

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

I think the Darwin fish are pretty funny actually... In the true sense of what the "fish" stands for in Christianity, the Darwin fish doesn't really make that much sense, but the theory of what it's trying to say is funny.

I have always wanted to get both and put them on my car. I don't think the ideas are necessarily mutually exclusive and I'd be curious as to the reaction.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

In the true sense of what the "fish" stands for in Christianity, the Darwin fish doesn't really make that much sense

When used on cars though, they mean something different. It's my understanding that a Darwin fish means you believe in evolution, and an original fish means you believe in creationism. I take it you don't read them that way, otherwise I'd be curious about:

I don't think the ideas are necessarily mutually exclusive...

What are you taking the two to mean?

I hate bumper stickers, and even though my car is 10+ years old I'd not "deface" it with anything other than a Darwin fish. More than political crap, more than anything else, evolution is the only thing I believe strongly enough in to put it on my car. Darned California summers are too hot though, and they melt the glue on them and so they keep falling off. :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Rereading my comment, there's something ironic there. Darwin fish, the symbol of evolution, not able to hold up under the sun's heat... :P

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

Well... the "Jesus Fish" is just a generic symbol for Christianity. It is the symbol Christians used before the cross became the main symbol. So technically the opposite of a Jesus fish would be a devil fish. I think that the Darwin fish came about as a humorous way of teasing those folks that had the fish symbol on their cars.

I, myself, believe in Theistic Evolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution) and tend to think people who believe in literal seven 24hour day creation to be rather unrealistic.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know where it comes from originally (people could be sneaky and put it on their doors to recognize fellow Christians and hide from... Romans? Whoever were after them) but my understanding was it meant something different when stuck on cars. Maybe it was originally just a sign of Christianity and then evolved (ha ha)? Or maybe I could be mistaken.

I think that the Darwin fish came about as a humorous way of teasing those folks that had the fish symbol on their cars.

I could believe that, too.

I, myself, believe in Theistic Evolution and tend to think people who believe in literal seven 24hour day creation to be rather unrealistic.

I think that'll be another thing we have to agree to disagree on. :) What with me not believing in some supernatural force, we really couldn't agree, I guess.