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| Been about half a year now of no FFXI. Having a blast out in the real world (although I still don't know what sort of life/career I'm truly headed towards and for the most part I'm rather okay with that... for now, hahah).
The first few months was really hard. Kept wanting to ask Grissy if I could log onto Tomatopotato and enjoy Vana'diel once more (bless her btw for graciously taking in the little taru). The last couple months though I've become sure that I'm done for good. Besides not having time to play anymore, it's just... a different feeling. It's not that I don't want to play anymore. Hell, I still have a few XI tracks running through WinAmp every once in a while that take me back to some nice memories and set me on the path of wishful thinking... But... not sure how to say it. Hmm.
Well, I'm suddenly reminded of something Tanthalas wrote a while back, equating XI to an ex-gf. I think it's a pretty dead-on statement. You still care a whole lot about her (assuming you don't bear some crazed bitterness towards her), but once you put something into that dusty, but shimmering coffer labelled "The Past," it's hard to find key to re-open it. It's hard to find the desire to even find the key to begin with (damn droprates :P).
Even if you do end up re-opening the box, you sometimes find that either she's changed or you've changed. Except that XI isn't an ex-girlfriend, which makes it that much more hard to come back to I think. Okay, forgive this miserable excuse of an English major for abusing XI metaphors, but you know what I mean, I hope. :)
What I really want to say though, is goodbye. You all have meant more to me than you might think, even those of you I've never spoken with. Hell, thanks (and also {I'm sorry.}) even to those I've been wrong to or been wronged by. I'm grateful for the experiences you've given me.
But most of all, thanks to those of you I've chatted, chilled, smiled, /cry'd, /panic'd, laughed with.
I wish all of you a great time and great success in whatever you do, in and out of the game. And be good to eachother, yeah?
P.S. Message me if you're ever in Taiwan and I'll do my best to get you lost among the stinky tofu and pearl milk tea. :) 歡迎歡迎, 哈哈哈哈哈! ^^ | | |
| Stuff I've been playing now that I've quit XI:
And also a bit of Dynasty Warriors 4, that animal matching game at www.cunzi.com and online poker.
Don't play games nearly as much as with XI, for two reasons. First off, they don't take as much time to play. Secondly, and I guess more importantly, they're waaay boring in comparison. Sometimes I even miss LFG. :( | | |
| You know derz always disliked cheating/stealing/botting back in the day. I remember him dragging yagudos over to the East Saruta cliffs to fuck up the level 1 fishbotters (long before that retarded mob depop patch). I always thought that was pretty admirable and characteristically gruff of him. But beyond that, I felt he deserved respect more because of how much took care of his LS and shellmates. I remember a friend of mine in-game once criticized him for condoning cheating by proxy, since he was the leader of Kupo. That couldn't have been further from the truth. Yeah, some of you cheat/cheated. And yeah, some of you can be just plain assholes. But derz didn't accept that because he accepted cheating or asshattery. He accepted that because he was your teammate and friend. That overrode all the other bullshit.
And now he's gone. Turned into just another Awesome Great 75 Tarutaru Black Mage. Yours for only $529.99. All because one of you cockless fucks has shit for brains and jello pudding for morals. I don't even care if karma catches up to you for stealing his account, though I'm sure it will. I'm just sad and disappointed at how the level of cowardice and greed multiplies when you can hide yourself behind a seemingly friendly mask. And it's just incredible that you'd do that to derz of all people. What good is being ranked first in kills if you have to rank dead last in friendship and plain human decency to get there?
I guess it's probably time for a little self-reflection, for some of us at least. I guess there's one or two people that will probably be basking in the fleeting glow of a little petty cash instead. Though I wonder how pathetic your sorry life/lives must be that you're desperate/depraved enough to hurt somebody else for your own benefit.
Cheers to you derz. I'm glad to have met you in this little corner of the internet and sorry to see you go. | | |
| Figured I'd ask here before resorting to allakhazam  , since half of you have RDM levelled, whether as your main or just on the side. 
+M.Acc vs. +X.Skill
I've heard efficacy ratios of 3:1, 2:1, and 1:1. Personally, I'd always thought it was more or less 1:1 with regards to accuracy only (not potency). Which is it? T.T | | |
| Deleted FFXI last month, so no random scenery entry this time. Instead I've been playing some golf and this:
And especially this:
 
For me, the Jet Bike Race >>>>>>>> Golden Saucer. I remember the first time beating Chronotrigger and seeing the "developer's" ending with one of the devs asking if you can beat 2100 or something on the race. I was like, "wtf how!? I only got like 1200?" So I had to go back and try and figure how to beat that somehow. Got a little obsessive about it. Friend was like, "Dumbass, why the heck are you playing a dumb mini-game so much?" =P I dunno, I guess it kinda reminded me of the "Death Wind I" track on F-Zero, which I also played to death. Shot above is from emulator. I think my highest score on an actual SNES was around 2265. As lame it sounds, I think that's my proudest video game moment, even more so than online PvP stuff. It was so fucking repetitive too. Sometimes I amaze myself... (with my sheer idiocy >.>). To this day, whenever I try to replay CT, I end up stopping at the Jet Bike Race and forgetting the rest of the game.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll be smoking cra... playing FFXI again later on. But for now, I have some pressing (and exciting =D) real life concerns coming up. My long iron shots are improving too. =P Like Shatei says:
P.S. Another pic of gf's puppy =D
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