[Rant] Some Players...

What's so hard with doing a little damn "game research"?
<(><;)>
Meaning...

Scenario #1:
Person1: Could you help me kill this [some random NM]?
Person2: Sure.
Person1: Great! So, where does he spawn?

Scenario #2:
Person1: Could you craft [some random item] for me?
Person2: Ok.
Person1 All right! So, what're the ingredients?

I highly suggest folks bookmark the following websites...

http://ffxi.somepage.com - Excellent for a quick look-up with basic details. Good update on recipes.
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com - Excellent for a look-up with many user-input details.
http://www.killingifrit.com/ - Excellent for searching extensive user-input and discussion for information and details.
http://mysterytour.web.infoseek.co.jp/ffxi/us/index.html - Excellent for static lists of armor, weaponry, recipes, specilized NPCs, and etc.

Another thing that bothers me...

Gilbuyer Behavior.
I cannot take a stand against the act of gilbuying as much as I can take a stand against gilbuyer behavior. Is it just me, or does a large majority (99.999999999999999%, anyone?) of gilbuyers have no sense of money value whatsover? I can understand the instance of gilbuying where the buyer is an actual person who worked for his/her own money who then decides to use that hard-earned money to buy virtual money. Working folks generally do not have enough time to play the game and "earn money in the game" like some other folks do. That I can understand, and it would be "them paying someone else for a service," the service of "playing the game for them. Yeah, sounds stupid, but it's their money, and they can do whatever they want with it.

But what about the folks who "use Mommy's or Daddy's credit card and buy virtual money"? To put it bluntly: Using someone else's hard-earned money for buying virtual money. To make it worse, too many of these folks frivolously spend that gil by contributing to inflating the prices of high-end, high-marked items, like, let's say, Vermies and Haubs. "Who gives a damn if a Vermy's 10 mil. I've got the 10 mil; I can buy it." No bloody value to the value of gil. And it turns around and hurts the folks who actually earn their gil and not go buy it with RL money that they did/didn't earn themselves.

I can probably summarize my thought about this "gilbuyer behavior" in one sentence:
What the hell ever happened to "pride in your work"?

Anyhow, time to go back home for me. And it looks like I can freely draw - whee!

... I just need to hold off final drawings until I get home and regain access to the Model Viewer for FFXI models.
<(-.-;)>

[Holiday] Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

Now, back to FFXI withdrawal and being unable to freely draw here. <(-_-x)>

*lol* <(^___^;)>

[Rant + Random] Blargh!!

Heehee, after a littaru prompting-wompting from Wyred (and, sadly, I should have made him bribe me with a Buche au Chocolat or Black Pudding), I've finally gotten off my fat buttaru and made another blog post.

First off, I hate my campus connection. I could be running nothing else except FFXI, and it's making a 24k modem look like lightning! <(@_@;)> What kind of bullcrap is that? To make matters worse, two months ago my connection started to go down the drain. I wouldn't have thought that the sudden surge of students online would affect it THAT bad! I've had to resolve to being absent from my beloeved Teamspeak because my bandwidth makes me skip. I skip so badly in FFXI, it... ugh, imagine getting responses about 5+ seconds late. Thank God my cooking mule can make insane loads of pear au lait, and thank God for the random moments I don't get that confounded "Communications seem to be congested" messages when I delivery and receive items! <(>_<)>

Needless to say, it's been majorly getting in the way of my gameplay. Leveling WAR/MNK has become dangerous, and had it not been for the PLer in the PT I reluctantly joined, I firmly believe the PT would have had problems. I seemed to have done a good job holding hate, but, again, my connection was ridiculous. I wouldn't have doubted I've have been able to hold hate with a "normal" connection. This honestly makes me worried, seeing how I'm staticing my NIN/WAR with a couple of friends from TS. I duo-tank with Acolyte as a NIN, so I need to be able to react quickly, and seeing how prohibiting my connection is... yeah, I'm not a happy camper.

On a slightly brighter note... I am such the crafting whore. <(-.-;)> The very instant I upload and update FFXI, what do I do? I go to my Cooking mule and shark up all the new recipes in the Cooking guild... and proceed to post about them on Somepage.com and KillingIfrit and sending a friendly email to Allakhazam. <(^^;)> Some further reading dug up the recipe for the cute Love Chocolate (HQ: Truelove Chocolate). Someone mentioned it was a Clothcraft, so I went out to personally find out myself. Sure enough...

Love Chocolate (Clothcraft 1, Leathercraft 1, Cooking 1)
Crystal: Earth
Ingredients: Parchment, Heart Chocolate, Scarlet Ribbon
Result: Love Chocolate
HQ #1: Truelove Chocolate

So, yeah, I made a couple in an attempt to sign an HQ one. Hope all the folks who bought mine enjoy them!

Meh, too frustrated to keep playing. G'nightaru! <(- -)>