Monthly Archive for April, 2007

Road trip of sorts

Published on April 30, 2007 in Final Fantasy XI and Life. 0 Comments

So Friday my dad calls me up out of nowhere. He says, hey buddy (one of my really old nicknames), I just got promoted to Plant Manager. My reaction is a simple “WHAT?!” that even the guys on Skype heard. So I put the Skype call on hold and we talk a bit about it. He then mentions they were going to have a celebratory dinner that Sunday. Now I’m thinking, what in the world would make me want to drive out to Utica for that? So I pondered a bit thinking of motivation. I came up with, “I haven’t seen Maeve in a while and I’ve wanted to get back with some of the old Whitesboro crew (who weren’t total fucking retards).” I call her up, we discuss it and it’s decided I’d show up before I went to dinner that night. I figure, cool. We’d get together and maybe do something fun.

First off, I haven’t the damnedest clue where Morrisville is. So I figure I’d pull up Yahoo maps and figure it out from there. Ok, an hour to get there. Not bad. I call her up Sunday morning and she was still in bed from pulling the night shift. I said call me when you’re more awake. She does that afternoon so I get on the road over to where she is. I get off the thruway (I-90 in this case) and start taking a few roads to the college. After about ten minutes the only thing I could think of was: “Did I die and move out to farm/cow country?” seriously. So this is what the rest of New York State does. Farms, trees and cattle as far as the eye can see and then some. So I ended up at the school and one of the first things I say to Maeve was, “You couldn’t of picked a more out of the way college could you?” I thought that was marginally funny. To be perfectly honest, it’s like the town lives for the college.

But as I was there we kinda yapped about random things (such as how it’s always windy down there), sat on the trunk of her car, walked around, hung out in her room and listened to music. We talked about seemingly random things and found out there are more things we have in common than I originally knew. I called my dad around 4 and it turns out nobody was showing anyway. Though, the only real bonding we got to do was a goodbye hug as I headed out.

I got home and just felt really pissed at myself. There were so many things I wanted to talk to her about. Like her boyfriend (about what she sees in him, I don’t know him), if she was going to hold up her promise (won’t explain this one, personal) and the truth about what she said to me before. See, I’ve been having these thoughts going through my head recently about my rejection and someone brought to my attention later “Well maybe she doesn’t like you.” This was really a put down and I couldn’t figure it out. Would she lie to me for my own good and why? I couldn’t figure myself out. I turned in early.

I woke up the next morning and took out some frustrations in XI. I earned Level 75 Black Mage (finaly) but have not capped my buffer yet (I’d say it’s about 10K out from it). I was feeling sleepy again so I went and took a nap. I got up again and Johnathan Stopchick was there, so since she knew her I struck conversation with him about her. He basically gave me some insight on her and said one thing. “Rationalize it.” He said to make a list of stuff I like about her, not opinions. I think I’m going to do this. I don’t know how I feel about chasing her anymore.

Fall of the Zilart

Published on April 24, 2007 in Final Fantasy XI and Life. 0 Comments

It’s been a wonderful few days in XI. I’ve managed to get more done in the past few days than in the past few weeks. First up was Divine Might. Yeah, I know, I could of done the six player version and been done with it, but I decided I wanted my damned earring already. So I joined a mostly manaburn group for this. I get there, the leading Red Mage who supposedly had done this before was level 68 and to be perfectly honest, I don’t believe she had done this before. Her strategy was: Tarutaru (everyone starts with him), Galka (Moderately common), Hume (Totally retarded), Mithra (Too late), Elvaan (Give or take one). She said that the Hume would be manageable if we chainstun it (Didn’t work). We go in, wipe the floor with the Tarutaru, go after the Galka, get our asses handed to us and then wipe in bad places. Though, one of the kiters literally left the BCNM after taking his mob to the entrance area of the BC, so we kinda had a mob running rampant. We get up, attack the Galka with a blast of mana, destroy it then wipe again. Basicly, we’re already out of time. We all get up and get ejected. I finally take my stand, say, “This is wrong.” and took over the next orb’s run. Some people had to go, others stayed and we got a little more firepower. I started with the same basic strategy. Tarutaru dies first (see above), Mithra goes second (Squishy, Pet problem), Galka goes next (Walking brick, Pet problem), planned wipe on the stairs, Elvaan next (Benediction would annoy the crap out of us if the Hume was around) and Hume last to avoid sheer destruction from Mijin Gakure. So it went incredibly well. We defeated the Tarutaru easily, moved on to the Mithra and took her out without much trouble. The Galka was next. I was drained, though I got a couple shots off. We defeated him, I called for the wipe and we did with a tad of resistance. I look at the clock. 17 Minutes left. We’re rocking this. We get all set to go, I organize a combined hit against the Elvaan, set our Ninjas into play with a call for enmity bonus gear, while a pair of Summoners annoyed the Hume a while. We got her down to half, she kicked on Benediction but that didn’t stop us. We wiped her clearly and were on our way to victory. The Hume was returned and all 18 players unloaded all the firepower they had in a glorious bomb. At roughly ten percent, he blew up. Almost nobody felt it. Mages kicked on the manafont and we successfully won the fight.

My heart was pumping. I was stressed. Why? I just lead a complete group of strangers into Divine Might with a zero and five record and won. That was sickeningly good. I finished the cut scenes, got a picture of some of the people who went and got my Bushinomimi and went back to Whitegate. While I was there I saw someone shout for mission 16. I thought, cool, let’s do it. I came on White Mage and we didn’t do very well. The Black Mage, like a retard kept killing all the orbitals. They respawn quickly and basically killed us all. We managed to get past stage one, but even Barneyrubble (the trooper Paladin he is) couldn’t keep up with it. We all died, we all had to home point. After looking at my EXP gague I realized I’m about ten-thousand EXP below my cap. I thought I’d need to EXP for it back, so I did. Got it, got some merits to boot and felt better. The next day (Monday) the person who shouted for the mission asked me if I wanted to try again. I said sure and he asked for my 71 Black Mage. I figure, that’s ok, I can rip out some damage and help more that way. We already had one kick ass White Mage (even better armed than me), a second Black Mage, Barney was now Paladin Ninja because of the enemy using pretty much nothing but Ancient Magic and the Ranger (the shouter) and a Monk. We end up getting there, the Monk was horribly trailing behind because of going away from his station, so we go without him. We did way better this time, though I got out of the BC dead and had to Home Point again. Bleh. So I went to EXP my Black Mage. That’s 72 now. That’s about all that’s gone on. I did manage to do some Audio/Visual work for the first time since high school and got paid decently for it. That’s about all for now.

Fire!

Published on April 11, 2007 in Final Fantasy XI, Life and Video Games. 1 Comment

Yeah. Great number of things to catch up on. I’ll get to the tile a bit later because that’s marginally recent. First up, let’s do the standard Final Fantasy XI update. I’ve taken every job to level 20 or further and this includes Beastmaster at 23. Ladies and gentlemen, Valkurm Dunes is no longer a place I need to be in to level. All jobs have had their grueling time in “The Den of Evil” and no longer need to be succumbed to the sheer n00bness of the popular place to level between 10 and 20. This makes me a very happy person. Quifm on the other hand, well, that’s next, but I have a more pressing concern at the moment involving my Black Mage earning level 75 (I’ve gotten it to 69 as of yesterday.) I guess that’s all that has happened there. Onto other video games.

First, Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door. Ok, I kinda liked it though it was boring and repetitive towards the end. I always seemed to have an abundance of money and it seemed rather easy but once you get to the final boss you get smacked in the face with difficulty. I mean really smacked. As in I epicly failed. I eventually beat it, but that wasn’t until I got three levels in the Pit of 100 Trials. On a scale of one to ten I would give it a 6.

Second, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberian Wars. Total disappointment. The game doesn’t work at all. Here’s the proof. COME ON! This has been a problem with the beta and it still hadn’t been fixed! Who in hell is in charge of the debug crew? I can’t play it on my new laptop but for some unknown reason it works perfectly fine on my box and my box fails the video card requirement! Ok, enough ranting. NEXT TOPIC!

I JUST SAVED A BUNCH OF MONEY ON MY CAR INSURANCE BY SWITCHING TO GEICO! Problem with that sentence? It’s true. I went from paying $209/month to $78/month. That’s nuts! It’s a savings of almost $1,500 a year! Skip you Nationwide. But the joke has kinda worn itself off. I’m in better shape with my new insurance policy.

Ok. Time to talk about the fire. Last Monday I was in my apartment and was thinking about dinner. I thought, frozen pizza. Cool. I take it out, unwrap it, turn up the oven, slap it in and minutes later I turn around to check it and there’s this cloud of smoke above the oven. I go over to it, turn it off, open it and realize I left the box from the last time I had pizza in there. On the top rack. Right next to the heating unit. Now, the temperature to cook the frozen pizza is 450. If anyone knows the book Fahrenheit 451, you’d know that it would be about the temperature it combusts. I open the door slightly, see the box is just charred, slam it shut to choke it, go for my oven mitts, fall over in my bed room gasping for air. I start opening windows to get the smoke out and look in the storeroom for a fire extinguisher but it’s no use. I look back in the oven to see if it’s fixed but we have a bigger problem. The box that was charred is now blazing. I shut the oven again to choke it. The smoke alarm goes off, my neighbor comes outside yelling “What the fuck?!” and then “Oh shit.” because there’s an actual smoke problem. We converse a little, I call 911 on his cell (I forgot my charger in Utica again), grab a pair of his gloves, rip the charred box out of the oven and throw it outside. We then grab some bowls and put out the box. The fire department comes down with two trucks and a SUV to deal with it, but the fire was out by the time they arrived. It was really a training session for the group. After a few words with us (it wasn’t about being more careful, it was about the smoke alarm we ripped the battery out of) the department airs out the apartment so it’s livable again and we head back in. I part ways with the neighbor, look inside the oven again and, ironicly, eat the pizza. It was done perfectly and didn’t taste at all like smoke. Something about that is funny, I think.

Well, I can’t think of anything else right now so I’ll be on my way.

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