Avatar: The Last Airbender and FFXI
Aug. 4th, 2008 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaser(Icon because I'd kill for some chocolate right now. I'd love to buy a cake and eat all the frosting off it, lick every last bit off it, then eat some of those chocolate covered cream-filled donuts, maybe a dozen or so of them. Then some brownies and a whole bunch of chocolate cookies with chocolate chips in them. And a jar of that pourable fudge stuff you can microwave and pour onto ice cream...)
I've heard nothing but good things about Avatar, so when downtime got extended three hours I decided to put the time to good use and look for the eps online. Yay avatarchapters.org! They have (almost) all of them online!
I'm only up to ep #7, but wow do I love it. (I missed ep #2 and #3 because one was in Spanish and the other one was such bad quality it was unwatchable -- a third ep had its soundtrack about 30 seconds off from the image, but I put up with that one.) I love the world they set up, like how most animals are so close to ours yet just a little off. I love the "poses" the characters do when bending, so totally martial arts-ish! I love the humor in the series, especially when it's subtle and it takes you a moment of delay before you laugh. I haven't yet encountered one character I don't like, which is really really rare for me.
The voice acting (and actors) thus far have been outstanding. It was fun recognizing voices. :)
There's just one thing that could have made me fall 100% in love with the series, but I'm not surprised they didn't do it -- the ep where the earthbenders were imprisoned by the firebenders and kept on the ship, away from any earth? I was so hoping for a non-happy ending on that one -- let the prisoners have stayed, not have a change of heart and fight back. But it's a cartoon on Nickelodeon, so I wasn't really expecting anything but the ending we got. (Still, I'm really surprised something of this quality is on Nick. I can't remember the last time I watched a show on that station!)
So much <3 for the series! I can't wait to watch the rest.
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In FFXI land, blah. A total lack of sleep and too much pain did not make today's extended downtime any cheerier.
I was the 106th person back on the server... and there were already four people digging in one side of the Desert and three on the other. *holds head* I never try to dig there other than after downtimes, and even then it's bad.
I've been thinking about Dynamis pretty much nonstop today. I feel like it's something I "should" do, but god don't I hate "should"s in a damned game. When it comes down to it, I "should" do Sky and join a HNM LS to get the top stuff, if I'm going to act on "should" why should I just do Dynamis and not the other two? But I strongly don't want to. I've let myself not do Sky and stuff because "I don't want to", so I should let myself not do Dynamis, too. I really hate whatever's inside me that makes me want to turn FFXI into a job, into work, something that has to be done "right".
And speaking of non-fun things I make myself do, an hour tonight on top of the 11 from yesterday = enough chocobucks to do the last bump of DIS for my racing chocobo. Now I need another 560 bucks (12 hours of racing) to get enough for the last END bump, then I need at least another 1K on top of that... (At least I can watch Avatar while doing this, that's something.)
Very grumpy and down and tired. I'm sure the three are related. zzzzz
I've heard nothing but good things about Avatar, so when downtime got extended three hours I decided to put the time to good use and look for the eps online. Yay avatarchapters.org! They have (almost) all of them online!
I'm only up to ep #7, but wow do I love it. (I missed ep #2 and #3 because one was in Spanish and the other one was such bad quality it was unwatchable -- a third ep had its soundtrack about 30 seconds off from the image, but I put up with that one.) I love the world they set up, like how most animals are so close to ours yet just a little off. I love the "poses" the characters do when bending, so totally martial arts-ish! I love the humor in the series, especially when it's subtle and it takes you a moment of delay before you laugh. I haven't yet encountered one character I don't like, which is really really rare for me.
The voice acting (and actors) thus far have been outstanding. It was fun recognizing voices. :)
There's just one thing that could have made me fall 100% in love with the series, but I'm not surprised they didn't do it -- the ep where the earthbenders were imprisoned by the firebenders and kept on the ship, away from any earth? I was so hoping for a non-happy ending on that one -- let the prisoners have stayed, not have a change of heart and fight back. But it's a cartoon on Nickelodeon, so I wasn't really expecting anything but the ending we got. (Still, I'm really surprised something of this quality is on Nick. I can't remember the last time I watched a show on that station!)
So much <3 for the series! I can't wait to watch the rest.
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In FFXI land, blah. A total lack of sleep and too much pain did not make today's extended downtime any cheerier.
I was the 106th person back on the server... and there were already four people digging in one side of the Desert and three on the other. *holds head* I never try to dig there other than after downtimes, and even then it's bad.
I've been thinking about Dynamis pretty much nonstop today. I feel like it's something I "should" do, but god don't I hate "should"s in a damned game. When it comes down to it, I "should" do Sky and join a HNM LS to get the top stuff, if I'm going to act on "should" why should I just do Dynamis and not the other two? But I strongly don't want to. I've let myself not do Sky and stuff because "I don't want to", so I should let myself not do Dynamis, too. I really hate whatever's inside me that makes me want to turn FFXI into a job, into work, something that has to be done "right".
And speaking of non-fun things I make myself do, an hour tonight on top of the 11 from yesterday = enough chocobucks to do the last bump of DIS for my racing chocobo. Now I need another 560 bucks (12 hours of racing) to get enough for the last END bump, then I need at least another 1K on top of that... (At least I can watch Avatar while doing this, that's something.)
Very grumpy and down and tired. I'm sure the three are related. zzzzz
