Chocobo racing/raising, screenshots (FFXI, TV)

[thistlechaser]

TV first: When I think back on the Oz series (men in prison, not Wizard of), I don't recall the later seasons with any fondness at all. The only plot element that ever comes to mind was that horrible 'aging drug' arc. However, there was a whole lot more than that, and some surprisingly good stuff. I had totally forgotten that there was a musical ep! (Men in prison singing, yes. :D ) I love musical eps!

Oz is such a heavy series though, it always kills me to sit down and watch a half-season in one sitting. In Demand releases it a half-season at a time though, and I just can't resist watching it all. But it's so dark and heavy and emotional -- I feel drained and exhausted even before I get to the last ep. This set of eps featured this rape (well, gangrape) that was so emotional (the aftermath of it, the act wasn't even shown), it just killed me. This poor guy sitting naked afterwards, half curled-up, shaking, cringing from even his friend who found him. You could just see from the set of his shoulders and curl of his back how hurt he was by it.

How out-there Oz used to be! (And sort of is, I guess.) Men openly kissing (gah, one couple is so fricking hot! Just a kiss melts me!) , and of course tons of M/M sex/rape. Lots of power play and various emotional reactions, too. Mmmm. And the number of naked men just walking around! So many penises dangling and swaying this way and that. It's so odd to see that much male nudity so... open. Very cool but odd. :D <3 Oz!

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FFXI: Thank god for Oz, because otherwise my brain would have squirmed out of my ear and ran off. I spent 12 hours doing chocobo racing for chocobucks. 12 hours of the same damned CS, dialog, hitting enter at the same places, all that. Gah. I was shocked and sad to see my gil, too: Today's racing alone cost me over 250K! Gah gah.

However! gbeans came to my rescue! She gave me four racing training tokens! That saved me many, many, many hours. DIS got two levels up today, thanks to that! That means I'm, um, sort of halfway done. (I call it halfway done to help keep me sane, but it's not exactly really.) One more DIS level and one more END level through chocobucks training, and then STR and REC through overnight training care plans, capped off with bucks-training as needed. *babble*babble* No one probably cares about this other than me. :P

For veloxe, this is the shield dat mod xvolph (Tenshihi) and I mentioned on Vent: Is it not beautiful? I switched it out for my little RDM shield, though it feels silly. The shield was a little round buckler type, now it's a big massive one. :P

Can anyone tell me what this means?

Is it some language I'm not understanding? Some geek-speak thing? He continued to /tell me more stuff like that after those lines.

And lastly, my cactus finally "bloomed". This is the oddest looking thing I've ever seen:

The glowing lines would alternate between that and totally dark, so it would "pulse" at you. Freaky.

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

That is a very weird plant indeed o.O

Ya, I actually looked up the shield right after we finished the runs and you escaped. It looked pretty cool. Don't think I'd personally use it though simply because I haven't found dat mods that I think look good yet...Oh well!

Also, I'm coming up in some gil soon (thank you windy missions) and was wondering what the odds of a nice signed Chaser flame ring would be? :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

and was wondering what the odds of a nice signed Chaser flame ring would be? :P

I have plants that should be ready to be harvested soon. If I can get an ore from that, sure! If not, it'd take me longer to get an ore (I have rings on hand). It's cheaper to buy one at the AH than to have me make it, so I'll just give it to you for the AH price?

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

If I could get a signed one that would be cooler than anything I think. Even though it would cost more. I don't have the money yet but once we finish the Windy Missions I'll have enough so maybe by then everything will fall into place. Plus, if I'm in town gear it will go: Gloves > Ring and it will be: Thistle > Chaser!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

If I could get a signed one that would be cooler than anything I think. Even though it would cost more.

No no I'll give it to you for AH price, so it won't cost you more. :) Or if the AH somehow goes below the raw materials price, I'll give you that one. Whichever is cheaper for you. :)

Gloves > Ring and it will be: Thistle > Chaser!

*laughs!*

My plants aren't ready for harvesting yet (I don't keep notes, so it's sort of guesswork), but I'll let you know once I have it ready for you.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

It might be a little longer to get my gil then I had planned as well. Even if I get rank 10 after the maint today I'm going to throw all that gil at alchemy in hopes of hitting 29 and then working on churning out combinations of scorp arrows and shihei. Wish me luck!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Good luck! And no worries, we'll work something out. :) For all we know, my plants might give no ores at all! That'd suck. :P

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Just remember! Eventually I will be coming for one...eventually...

If this goes really crazy and I somehow make millions I'll come for 2! But what are the odds of that?

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the chocobucks could be used for something useful! They just getting stockpiled for me since I'm never, ever, EVER going to raise another bird again. Ever. [hugs her cheap little bronze trophy while giving SE a raspberry]

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

since I'm never, ever, EVER going to raise another bird again.

Same! Never ever ever raising another one.

:D

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

I think Cptn was just drunk and taking the piss. No natural language contains numbers in the middle of a word.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I thought maybe it could be net-talk 7337 stuff in the middle of some other language...

[tormentormike.livejournal.com]

That's arabic, their characters aren't supported so apparently they can communicate with numbers and random letters to give off the impression that it looks like another word.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! I wondered if it was something like that. Thanks!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Huh, learn something new everyday.

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

Heh, after I got home it occurred to me that it could also be a substitution cipher, since any printable character is fair game for those. Hell, there was even a substitution cipher in one of A.C. Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories that was made entirely out of stick men.

[phoenix-leandra.livejournal.com]

What kind of cactus is that again? Looks cool! 0.0

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I think it was a cactus stem? My first one I ever grew!

[iniadelphinae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a cactus stem planting. I've grown a few - and am tempted grow more since you can get gold ores - and they are quite freaky looking when they bloom.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Amazingly freaky, yeah. I didn't get anything good from mine (little worms, bah), but I had just tossed random crystals at it, so that's not a surprise. I had gotten the stem from chocobo digging, so it was no big loss either way.