First thing is first, this is a link to my character in the WoW Armory. It will show many of the important stats, and is rarely more than 30 minutes behind actuality. It will also give me a place to start. I’m sure most of this information is old to many people, [...]
Good morning or good evening for everyone else on the west coast and
beyond. Welcome back to another edition of Awash in the Astral Sea.
Kind of a short update to bring you all up to speed this week as we
inch closer to the inevitable September version update. I'll be
writing more about that later on this weekend, but for now here's a
quick peek at everything happening over in Cloak & Dagger.
Finally, after enduring a couple weeks of being thoroughly
cock-blocked in Sky, we finally managed to get ourselves some badly
needed triggers & fought a few gods. Drops were pretty typical for
us, but in all seriousness Kirin needs to step it up. Seeing Shura
Togi time and again is getting us nowhere fast, not to mention
draining our coffers. How about a couple of those Kirin's Osode you
keep hogging, or maybe even a pair or two of Crimson Cuisses for Coji
and myself?
Some of the cool stuff we did manage to get over the last week:
Limbus as always continues right along as we've been dominating every
zone in our path. From climbing the central tower of Temenos, to
putting the smack down on Proto-Ultima himself. To be honest, if you
were to put our illustrious team up against any other group out there,
I'd honestly have to say we are amongst the elite of Limbus. It's not
boasting or prideful thinking... it's the simple, honest truth.
Our recent run-in with Proto-Ultima was one of the smoothest we had
to date, as we finally managed to get over the hump in terms of
hitting all 4 dissipation stuns. Granted, it doesn't help when
Proto-Ultima goes armor buster happy and starts beating us down into
raw meat, but we still manage to get the job done and get the loots
when we need them the most.
A huge round of congrats to Houri on Nashira Turban & Synergy on
Nashira Gages. /cheer
Last Tuesday, Cloak & Dagger kicked off its newest endeavor,
farming the jailers of Sea. We had toyed around with the idea of
making this a regular event several months back, but could never find
the time or the manpower for it. Now that we've had time to grow the
linkshell, it was due time to give this a proper go at it. We started
off our inaugural Sea event with a run-in against Jailer of Fortitude
& Jailer of Faith.
Fortitude (or Hex Dude, or that thing from Rez, or whatever you want
to call him) is an interesting fight. Popped by trading 12 Ghrah M
Chips to a randomly moving ???, this bugger comes equipped with 2
helper Kf'Ghrah's. While his pets are up, Jailer of Fortitude is
immune to physical damage, and instantly copies any spell cast upon it
back at its caster. Our trick to beating him with a low man group is
to pull the Kf'Ghrah's away, leaving Fortitude on his own, and then
using black mages w/ ninja sub to nuke him down. Utsusemi shadows
keeps the mages from getting completely owned by Fortitude's
counterspells, and makes kiting him a breeze. Once you get used to
keeping shadows up all the time on black mage, the fight itself is a
breeze. Fortitude also suffers from his own ability, as he will copy
any spell cast on him, even a lowly stone I, making him a joke to kite.
For our first effort in Sea against this challenging foe, we got well
rewarded with both a Fortitude Axe & a Fortitude Torque. Congrats
to Roelon on the axe & Pippy on the torque.
Next up for us was the flower-power known as Jailer of Faith. Popped
from another randomly moving ???, this fight is reminiscent of Kirin,
only much faster paced. Faith spams multiple earth based nukes such as
stone IV, stonega III, and breakga. Combined with a innate resistance
to gravity, Jailer of Faith needs to be taken down quickly before he
can take the group out. Thanks to the efforts of our black mage party
(myself, Synergy, and Houri); we managed to get faith down for the
count. Granted we took a few casualties along the way, but nothing a
healthy XP buffer can't handle. Faith only managed to drop his
baghnakas for us, which I'm sure found their way to someone's inventory.
We were hoping to pop Ix'MNK during our run, but got beat out by a
pair of BLMs trying to duo it for the cape drop. Mmmm... My dear
Merciful Cape, soon you will be mine.
Nothing new to report from both Salvage & Nyzul Isle this time
around. We did a quick Arrapago Remnants run last week and managed to
make it up to Armored Chariot. Even got the bugger down to about 10%
health before we ended up timing out. It's a bit discouraging to get
so close to beating the boss only to get shafted by time. Another
minute or two and we would have had him beat.
Nyzul, well... we don't talk about Nyzul from last week. Let's just
say that the Banta Effect occurred (the effect of having our resident
WHM come with us and have the absolute worst luck of any set of runs).
Ordered lamps, check... Defeat all enemies with bout 15-20 mobs in
each area, check... screwed over for the week, double check. /sigh
Finally managed to start grinding out a couple levels on Puppetmaster
over the course of the last week in what I would cause a mix of
leveling & skilling-up. I'd been worried that it would take an
abysmally long time to skill up Sakura's magic skill. Thankfully like
any good black mage, she learned relatively quickly in the course of a
few days in Qufim Island.
Skilling up magic skill for an automaton is fairly easy once you get
the hang of it. For starters, you'll want to equip your marionette
with a mana booster, which reduces the recast time between spells and
lets her spam magic more often for better skillups. Myself, I also
used a pair of loudspeakers for the added magic attack bonus, and the
trio of mana tank I, mana tank II, and mana conserver to keep her MP
up with outstanding refresh. Top it all off with a damage gage to
prioritize cures when you need them and your good to go. I'll
typically keep 1 to 2 ice maneuvers up at a time to keep the recasts
low, and occasionally throw down light when I need Sakura to heal me.
All you need beyond that is a decently challenging mob to cast on, and
you'll see the magic skill ups pour in.
One of the cheaper tricks I did manage to find when using the
stormwalker automaton is the deactivate/reactivate trick. If your
automaton is at full HP, you can deactivate him & then immediately
activate again, giving your companion a full boat of MP. Just remember
if you do use this that your puppet MUST be at full HP, otherwise
you're looking at the usual 20 minute wait to reactivate. Personally I
tend not to use this trick unless I can keep Sakura well out of harm's way.
Well, that about does it for this week's update of Awash in the
Astral Sea. I'll have a little something regarding the incoming
September version update sometime this weekend. Until then everyone,
stay safe out there and as always, you stay classy Vana'diel.
How about a change in pace and have a happy, loving image this morning? :D
A Softer World is a great "comic". It's dark enough to be satisfying, smart enough to make you think, and gives a really interesting (and often crazy) POV on the world/relationships/life in general.
I love love love today's strip. Yay love!
If you don't follow the comic, the image's alt text often holds extra jokes. I've included it here, just hover over the image to see it. (Would you believe it's been so long since I worked with HTML I had to google to confirm that alt="" was the right format? o.O I used to be able to do all that stuff in my sleep!)
Edit: Hm, maybe LJ doesn't support alt text. Well, here it is. "i come rough, tough like an elephant tusk."
Edit 2: Well, so much for keeping this about love. Um. Humor = love? *stretches* This image is too good not to link to, I'd display it if I didn't already have one image in this post:
Never say that the RNC doesn't get its share of time in my LJ. *snickers endlessly*
I hadn't even known there was an English Fail Blog! I'll have to hunt it down and check it out.
Edit 3: A Softer World put out two comics today! And I actually almost like today's second one better! It made me snicker out loud at work. :D
I almost did toau44 last night, but to no one's surprise the party disbanded without even trying because they couldn't find any black mages. lulz.
After that fun, I went with Immortality to do ZNMs. We had pretty successful drops, starting with the dragon NM who's name I forgot, then three Lil' Apkallus and ending with an evil Poroggo that wiped us. Lawl. I don't think we had enough people to make sure the little wartkins were being kited away.
Today I am going to try and get my financial aid sorted out or something, maybe. It depends on the size of the line when I get down there. Otherwise I'll be working on my scholar.
So many of you might recall that earlier this year, I spent many long and stressful hours camping the three Zilart kings to get my black belt. At that point, I had decided that MNK would most likely be my most decked out job, and that any other jobs I leveled would be good, but not as good.
After a brief conversation with another MNK in my shell, I've recently decided that gearing my MNK the best it can be might be a bad thing.
Someone actually compared themself to me.
I *hate* when people compare themselves to me. I mean, most of the shell knows by now that I can't stand e-peen talk. It works the other way too. I hate being regarded as someone who should have bragging rights.
Really, the only time I throw out bragging rights is if someone is talking out their ass about how awesome they are when they aren't. At least I try to.
I actually think my peers bring up the fact that I have a black belt more often than I do.
Seriously, quit bringing it up and quit comparing yourselves to me people!
At least until I get my hachiryu body and Shenlong's baghnakhs and Mars's ring. =x
What? D= We all know by the time I get those, everyone else will have one.
In other news about making mistakes, I took up the task of making the WindShire website. Why? Cause I have dreams!
Too bad I don't know anything about making a website. D=
Kinda learning how to do Dreamweaver though, so maybe I can actually make something soon.
A little over three weeks since I came back from my trip to Asia, but the LS and I are zooming through the goals we've set for 2008! I probably am at my peak of having fun with FFXI since I started playing again. I guess I'll start with our Einherjar progression. Dawn has added a new faction, sub-Linkshell if you will, appropriately named Dusk, strictly for Einherjar events. We now include outsiders that join our Einherjar faction, because our regular 21-24 Dawn heads at any given time is just not enough to progress past Wing III. It's working out great so far, and we are now 3/3 Wing II chambers and preparing to tackle the third wing of chambers.
Did I mention how fun this venue is? And it's only 30 minutes... of intense mayhem!! Einherjar being relatively new to me, I plan on improving my WAR (which I have been neglecting a lot) for this. Originally I was just going to save for 100k Ampoules, but I just couldn't resist. ( RDM posts soon I swear! )
On to another new venue for the LS, ZNM. I guess not too much of it was done while I was away, but now that I'm leading the ZNM branch of LS I hope to get lots of TIV ZNMs murked soon enough. Well the TIII's that we've done so far since I came back were super fun. The induction of ZNM is one of the best updates I've seen in a while, I have to admit. Although the pop system sucks to work out as an LS, having the chance to kill heavilly-camped ToAU HNM amongst other fun mobs is very refreshing.
On the road to getting all the Avatar pre-requisite fights for "Waking the Beast" Carbuncle fight. I suck because I missed like 4 of the previous Avatar fights while away in VN for summer.
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lol i can has? Who cares about Black Tathlum!
SAMURAI Update:
Finally got to use SAM/DRG to make use of this earring normally used for SoulKraken.. and let me tell you it was ridiculous. I been tryin to do this before Ruke's SAM/DRG post, but my DRG stayed lv. 34 for a very long time. Gear is same as the post below, except Merman's Earring ► Wyvern Earring.
I probably ended up eatting a billion DMG because of trying to utilize full haste+Hasso, but it's okay I had to put our LS's new RDM tryout through a real oreal. Anyway, the results were amazing. Teorem is an Ares DRG (meat) and Peach is Spamwinder (sushi) and I am of course SAM/DRG (Hedgehog Pie), Tadjana Islet Mamool Ja camp:
The above parse (SAM/DRG) I was attempting to see if I can use Askar Korazin, due to the /DRG Accuracy Bonus, but had I full-timed Haubergeon +1 I'm sure the accuracy would reach 90% at least.
The bottom parse shows another PT I had this week vs. Greater Colibri, after finally capping my Polearm and breaking the latent on Gondo-Shizunori. Teorem: DRG/SAM, Tabby: THF/NIN, me: SAM/WAR (Polearm, with 2 merits in it). During this PT we had March x2 and Minuet x2, spamming Mithkabobs. I think I'm satisfied with my Penta Thrust returns for now, but I guess I could work on my TP build for SAM/WAR Polearm vs. Greater Colibri. Using /WAR with a 5x hit WS is very nice for /WAR's innate Double Attack. I opted to add to my Crit % using the Claymore Grip, while still keeping the Brutal Earring for additional DA bonus. I think it worked out nicely:
That about wraps up this post. Here's a nice screen of my most recent goal of my next lv. 75 job. Just hit lv. 47 with Penta Thrust open to me now, too bad my Fellow Balu-Falu hasn't leveled up at all the whole time we were using this camp:
currently listening to: Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line
I’m working on Einherjar page which I’ll included every Einherjar I do and statistic of each one and will update in that page instead so main blog won’t be flooded by same Einherjar over and over. Stay tuned!
I’m still on Einherjar lucky streak. We did Gerhilde’s Chamber and end up with 3 waves of normal monster [...]
No wonder so many people post comments on Myrrial's blog. I don't often write emo posts, but I guess that if I want people to comment more often I should just threaten to slit my wrists every other day. :) Well, for my gil problem, I am working on it, and I have about enough to get about 2 and half more Orichalcum Ingots. Since I already have 5 O. ingots supplied by Izman, I only need 7 more, and hopefully after this weekend I will only need about 4 more.
Ok, enough of my gil woes, time to focus on something more positive. The other night Iz and I duoed a couple of the Avatars and we are going to try to do this more often. It's actually pretty fun, and the money reward is decent but the time it takes to run around to all the fights can get to be pretty long for 10k per fight.
I have some new projects that I am going to work on even though I have kind of stalled on my On the Cheap post for Dragoon. They should be coming down the pipe soon, and they are more segmented which means I should be able to get them out more often than the On the Cheap series.
We'll not much else to say, really! At 98 I took the painfully expensive Iron Splitter Route to 100. This included stopping to grab some Guild Points for Wood Enscrollment, and camping the AH for Earth and Dark Animas. It took around 30~ Adaman Ingots at 55k each to get to 100 from 98. That's pretty much all my gil gone safe for 98k until some other stuff sells on the AH.
I can't help but feel a little sad though. Don't get me wrong, it feels fantastic purely at the fact I don't need to waste time on total loss synths any more and craft for money for once, but it's also one less thing I have left to do in the game. :(
There's always Clothcraft and Goldsmithing to 60 though, haha. YEAH RIGHT, no more crafting for a LONG TIME methinks.
In any case, mission accomplished! Woodworking 100+3, over and out~!
Nope, that's not from one of those church sign generators. News story about it.
It makes me so sad. Religions* claim to be about peace and love, but all I see is hate and conflict. :/
Repeating for the millionth time: If you don't like something, if you feel it's wrong, then don't do it! Stop trying to force your opinions and so-called morals onto other people! *froth*
(*Some religions. Some are more honest about their intentions!)
I think our last trip to Nyzul Isle was early last week, but we were all able to get back together again this week for the 2nd week in a row. Just this morning, SE announced changes to Nyzul Isle Investigation for the next patch. Making it easier to obtain weapons, making it easier to advance multiple discs at once, etc. But the best change was that you'll no longer reset to Floor 1 upon clearing Floor 100... and discs that have already turned into the Runic Key will be granted access all the way to the top again.
So, with this in mind, it seemed foolish to waste our tokens by farming 100s as we had previously planned. However, since there would be no penalty to staying in the zone, yet we'd get a guaranteed hat drop, we decided to use my disc on one Floor 100 boss to start the night. Everything went smooth and we got Khimaira on 100... he's the easiest for us, heh. We knocked him out and waited for our drop!~
ORZ ! Yeah, normally we'd be happy with that... but I was the only one that needed it still and I've already gotten Denali Bonnet. So I reluctantly lotted, wishing that it had been a Denali for Murdoc or a Goliard for Jamann. ;_; Oh well, at least we'll be back at Floor 100s after the patch and ready to get some more drops.
After that run, we set our sights on Floor 60, since we need the most drops from there to finish off complete sets. I still have Denali wishlisted from Floor 60, but we had people who could use drops of any kind. Out of 3 runs, we made it to the boss twice... getting horrible floors once. Luckily, both bosses dropped... so Believer got him some fancy new Askar Manopolas (I still need them but passed since I got the helmet) and Mirallia won the lot on Goliard Cuffs.
All-in-all... not the best distribution of drops for our group, but all 3 drops were put to use which is pretty good, I suppose. We still haven't had to trash any drops, but I bet that changes before long. We're maxed on Askar from 100 with at least 2 more drops still needed.
“and a body that could melt a cheese sandwich across the room”
Streets of London on Thursday night:
I often wonder how well I could throw a punch while intoxicated. After watching Brian act like a cocky asshole, and trying to punch random innocent citizens, then barf all over the sidewalk I realize…. ‘not very well’. I [...]
Sea is one of the most place I hate, I hate all of them except Al’Taieu because it is only one place that I have a map for. I think don’t have a map is major reason I don’t like the place, every area is look just same and while I’m thinking I’m at right [...]
Edit: I had to switch to gmail to deal with my LJ comments. Can anyone tell me how to stop it from 'stacking' the comment emails? I keep missing new ones because grouping new comments together. I can't find anything about that in the options/setting area. :/
--- I'm trying to listen to the RNC, I really really am. It's just the... gah. Fiction? Lack of reality? of this crap makes it unwatchable. One speaker said Palin is more experienced than Obama and Biden put together. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over. Palin said the only reason people are saying she's lacking experience is that she's not a "Washington Elite".
Damned woman looks way too much like Peggy Hill (from King of the Hill), too. Like Peggy crossed with a batshit insane sports mom. Seriously, this woman scares me a lot.
*hits mute* I gave it an honest try.
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FFXI! Darned busy day. Turning a mule into a crafting mule is a whole lot of work, and I didn't even finish it all.
-Catsoup started in Jeuno. -Paid 500K for a pass to Whitegate. Day wait. -During the wait, ran him on foot back to Bastok. Kicked myself the whole way for not buying an airship pass, but that'd be another 500K and I have too darned many mules with airship passes already. -Did that Lure of the Wildcats quest, so he could pay to warp. -Deathwarp to Jeuno. -"Pick up boarding pass", ha ha. Get knocked on the head and teleported to that laypoint in Woods. -Sneak/invisibled him to Whitegate under the threat if he died on the way he'd have no way to get there again. (Other than running on foot from Bastok to the ferry in Mhaura.) -Picked up ToAU mission, turned in badge, sailed to Nashmau. -Dropped off supplies to finish mission.
Yay locker! Yay access to 300g warp from Bastok! I still need to load him up and take a shipment of moss to the sheep so he can get enough fame to max his gobbiebag.
Amusingly, all this stuff is the hard part. Leveling the craft is easy after all this. :P Only downside of this is that I've done alchemy 1-60 four times now, and I'm about to do it yet again. ; ; Gimme new stuff to do!
Getting your own house is like, whoa. I *finally* have internet again, though! Darkcow and I have been busy unpacking, forgetting things, shopping for things, and working all at once. Not to mention, college started back.. JOY. My teacher wants me to find a book that no longer exists in my entire city.... wtfsrsly. --- I, MUCH MUCH MUCH to my dismay, haven't been able to log on to XI since my last update. It is teh killzing me. I still don't have somewhere to play it at right now, but I'm working on it. *sigh* You never realize how much something (that normally gets on your nerves) means to you til you can't have it. Damn, that sentence was a train wreck. Aw well~. I hope to see my little Vacious again soon! ;____;
Rather than clear my backlog on all the exciting things I've done with Eminence, I'm skipping ahead to the most recent adventures. I intend to go back and cover what I've missed, but I'm too excited about the lastest to let it sit. Thanks to Alibeemac for her wonderful screenshots. They sure put my PS2 ones to shame!
The second Bahamut fight, as the BCNM The Wyrmking Descends, takes a bit of work to get to the point where you can do it. Everyone needs to have completed the Chains of Promathia missions, won the first Bahamut fight (The Storms of Fate), and then gathered Cloud Evokers, which are a rare drop from various ENMs. The Cloud Evokers are used to fight the BCNM Ouryu Cometh, where you face Ouryu. From winning this fight, you get a Monarch Orb, which allows a group to enter The Wyrmking Descends. I originally did Storms of Fate as a tag-along with Eminence back in January '07, so I had that part out of the way.
Eminence hadn't faced Bahamut V2 for quite awhile, and we finally had enough Cloud Evokers to plan the runs. For our Thursday event on August 21st, we had 3 Ouryu battles lined up. We headed out to the proper spot in Riverne Site #A-01 with more than an alliance, planning to rotate people in so we all got to fight at least one of the BCs. Naramaska wanted the PLDs to try with /RDM subbed, so most of us did that. It works so well with the Jailer of Love, I was curious to see how it worked with Ouryu. The basic strategy we were following was to sleep Ouryu when he was on the ground, and nuke him while he was in the air.
I sat out the first fight, but co-tanked the second with Sanjiyan's PLD/NIN. Kachiko was in the tank party with her relic horn, and the fight went really great. I had endless mp, despite spamming flash, bind, blind, gravity, dispel, and my cure-kit, and it was really a lot of fun. Sanjiyan couldn't keep up hate-wise without the extra spells, but did what she could to keep Ouryu under control along with me.
For the third fight, Tanta and I were co-tanks, both of us as PLD/RDM. Kachiko had to leave, so we just had a "normal" bard. The fight was so very different from the first. I had a lot of MP issues, getting devotion from Alibeemac twice, in addition to my chivalry. Hate was a lot looser. Ouryu also seemed to use more of his most annoying moves, making it that much more of a struggle. We still won, but I don't think we'll be using PLD/RDM on it again, at least not on both tanks.
With three Monarch Orbs available, we had The Wyrmking Descends on the schedule this past Saturday. A lot of shells melee-zerg this fight now, but we needed to use an army of black mages. Again, we had more than a full alliance available, so we rotated people in for the different runs.
Tanta went over strategy with the PLDs, and stressed that this is the hardest fight to tank in the game, since the main tank is solo on Bahamut, and doesn't have the safety of a co-tank. We went as PLD/NIN, with two per fight: one on Bahamut, one waiting for the wyrms he summons, as well as being ready to step in if the main tank was killed. For the first fight, Tanta was main tank, and I was on summons duty. I helped cure Tanta while waiting for the other wyrms to appear, then would flash the wyrm and bring it near the BLMs for them to quickly get rid of it. On our second summons, we got Vrtra, and he charmga'd all of the BLMs when he was at about 5%. They quickly killed me and ran around killing everyone else. It was a wipe, a wasted orb, and a sad loss.
For the second fight, I was main tank, with Infi on summons duty. I felt I did horribly on the fight. It started out poorly, with me taking so much damage trying to get Bahamut into position that Muffins pulled hate keeping me alive.
Over the course of the fight, I used up too much mp for healing and didn't have much left for hate. I always seemed to get my shadows wiped just before being terrorized, wasting the support crews' mp healing me. I had a hard time keeping Bahamut lined up properly as well, partially because I was having camera issues with my character being right up against a small wall to reduce knockbacks. Overall, it was a frustrating fight, but fortunately we won, with only 5 minutes to spare. And I learned a lot from it and hope to do better, given the chance. We won a Bahamut's Mask, which went to a happy Ragnorok.
On the third fight, Infi main tanked, with Karupt on summons duty. I sat outside the unstable displacment, going over my problems with Bahamut with Tanta, and got some good advice. As long as I can learn how to improve my tanking, having imperfect fights isn't bad. The third fight was also a win, and I was very surprised to see Ali say "kiki and karupt lot the mask". I really didn't expect to be able to obtain a Bahamut's Mask so soon. I was invited to the alliance, and out-lotted Karupt, winning one of my "dream" items for my little Tarudin.
I really thought I was further down the list for this, but with Solarus on a bit of a break from the game due to real-life circumstances, a couple other PLDs not there for the event, and Infi feeling the PLDs without an Aegishjalmr should get it first, I got really lucky. Karupt and I were within 10 points of each other in DKP - he's been with Eminence for years, but hasn't played a lot recently, and has spent a bunch of points in the past, so I actually had a few more than him.
I love my new mask! I still can't believe it's mine.
Yeah so… I figured it was about time i update some more. Imma update more on my gear and achievements the next few days and stuffs since my THF is now 75 and 95% complete… maybe more. A few bits here and there i need but im pretty much done!
Gear atm that i’m [...]
I've been trying hard not to post about political crap lately. I don't like fighting with other people, I don't like making others feel bad, and posting about that stuff tends to do both of those things. This post will probably do it in spades. However, these damned arguments have been circling around in my head for days now, so maybe getting them written down will finally make it stop.
Final warning: If you do not agree with my view on things, you really should probably just skip the rest of this.
How many issues do I have with Palin? Let me count the ways...
1) She's an Evangelical Christian, which would be amazingly scary on its own. 2) She's so anti-choice that she doesn't even believe in abortion in the case of rape or danger to the mother. Excuse my language but: That's fucking sad. 3) She's a Creationist. If I had more power in this world, I would make a rule that no Creationist could hold a position of power in the government. Want to run something? Your church is thataway. 4) (Less than 10 years ago, she was a member of a group who believed that Alaska should leave the US and become its own country. Great US presidential material there! In parentheses because there's not firm confirmation on this.)
The Creationist thing kills me the most of those items. The overwhelming majority of scientists believe that Evolution is correct, but you (with your zero degrees in any of the sciences) feel you know better? How arrogant is that? "Yes, yes, the scientists have spent a decade or so in universities studying this, it became their life work since then... but I know better~!" I try very very hard never to think that there are people in the world like that. People with no advanced education, or a degree in some totally unrelated field, assuming they could possibly know better than people who have studied this all their lives. The fricking overwhelming majority of people who have studied this all their lives. What in the world could lead people to think they could know better than the experts? (This isn't even just political/religious stuff. My mother often says she knows medical stuff better than doctors do. That drives me insane.)
That's the same arrogance I find in anti-choice people. "I know better than you what to do with your body!" You don't believe in something? Don't do it. But hey, if we're going to tell other adults what to do with their bodies, then all you anti-choice people form a line over here. I'm going to get 'I love gay sex!' tattooed on you. How about hot pink ink and all caps? With a giant rainbow behind it? You have no issues with that, right? Since we're forcing our own personal opinions onto other adults' bodies?
And the irony, utter irony, of Palin's 17 year old daughter being pregnant. How's that 'don't teach contraception in school because we can do it better at home!' argument working for you?
I'm torn between leaving comments on and turning them off, but since I believe that my LJ is a form of dialog, I guess I'll leave them on. :) Comment away!
Know those baby/weight/wedding trackers? X days/pounds until Y event? Well I've been wanting a way to track my chocobo racing winnings to see if I'd ever recover all the money spent, and I couldn't find one of those pre-made ones that I could easily adapt, so I made my own! (And feel free to mock my squiggly lines. i iz not fotoshop xprt ; ; )
The line under the birdie is the marker, not his head or anything. And it was 3M for raising it then another 500K for the mission races... I wasn't sure if it was fair to include the mission races in the final figure needed to recover, but what the heck! It's my chart, so I can track whatever I want!
Also, before anyone goes 'I need to raise one to make money, too!' don't forget: 1) The 200 RL hours that can't be tracked on this. 2) That to race you need to pay money and time for the chocobucks needed to enter; each race attempt costs me about 34K gil and 2 RL hours.
I really should figure the money spent to buy my way into the race in my above figure, but that makes it get kind of mathy. :/ Maybe I'll make a spreadsheet or something to make it easier and more accurate. It took 7 races to make that 420K, so that's really... 238K to make 420K, so the chocobo should be on the 200K mark (182K). Wow, I lose half my progress if I count the money spent to make this money back. Boo. Wait, but if I place in the race I recover some/all bucks... yeah, going to need a spreadsheet or something.
I’ve been slacking lately to update the blog, since I got 2 exams coming ahead (luckily, I’ll be free on monday) and I’ve kept forgetting to take pictures whilst doing important/notable stuff!
I’m enjoying the game everyday more, I guess quitting gave it the nice breeze I thought it’d never regain and making lots of new [...]
5th Sep 2008
Awash in the Astral Sea - The Chronicles of Kimiko & Kouhaku by Kimiko of Siren
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