Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I wish you could still find the vods, the program she had was literally real time. Yes, in the literal second. It would even go back and change the words it had already written if the following words changed the context.

It was mildly entertaining, though heavily flawed. ( i assume, i don't speak korean after all)

IDK if putting an actual computer in your ear is any better.

That's coming sooner than later. We're all going to get chipped.

May as well get a translator with it.

Luckily, they haven't figured out a powersource. unluckily, that means we'll end up sleep charging because that's not going to stop them. Only delay.

If we are going to get chipped we will be the powersource.

After all we run at over 98f. That heat can get tapped without even invoking the matrix.

Feeling slightly accomplished and big satisfaction :)

Finally got a Dyna-D run where we went all the way to Wave 3 final boss while I was on SAM with my 3-hit Mythic build.

We had two GEOs so got both Frailty and Malaise.

Bards were very kind and gave out Threnody in wave 3.

Mighta been my most satisfying Dyna D run. It was Jeuno, and goblins are squishy because the eyes don't matter for single target too much, but we mostly got Blue eyes anyway.

Spent basically the whole run getting many many 99999 Jinpus. There were plenty that were lower, resists here or there on NMs in Wave 2. Couldn't Jinpu wave 2 boss cause he resists magic (still hit about 18k Jinpu on him inspite of that, switched to Fudo after).

Wave 3 came around, and same deal. And my WS frequency is super legit. Highwind didn't even get to do Shock Spikes :)

Tri-boxing BRD, COR, and WAR in my party stayed late since we were so close to finishing when he needed to go Sortie. Very professional man! (we had a late start cause Jet pulled a Ninja vanish)

Wave 3 boss went well. COR in the first round of adds, and the other SAM with Kusanagi put it on the slab without it getting to Wild Card. Thanks to Hybrids not generating as much enmity I only had to Super Jump once, and High Jump did the trick the rest of the time. We did all the adds and I peeled to help kill them as one is supposed too.

And it was very stable. Very few deaths, if any. I don't recall anyone dying. :)

And I wound up at the top of the parse man's parse. 7 million damage and 621k SC damage attributed to me. :D For the boss alone!

30.7mil for the run entire :D! (not sure what total SC damage was, for some reason, people don't like to nod to it, and the parse man truncates the overall run parse to the highest 6, but I assume with it included I may have been responsible for upwards of 32mil)

It made me very happy. Not just to flex being good damage, but because of some very sentimental reasons. Almost storybook even.

I only decided to make the Kogarasumaru mythic to honor my late mom, cause the one time she asked me anything about FFXI back when I was a teen was when I was on Samurai. So whenever I'm on Samurai I feel like my mom might be watching, even though she's up in the good place now.

When I first started FFXI I had a mentor of sorts who was a black haired Elvaan who named his character Jinpu. It was actually his second character. He was Korean, and I guess he'd lost his original character to a ban for shady business. But he taught me a lot about the game, and I was real young back when XI started, so I looked up to him, even if he was a bit sour/stern/hard *** elite. He helped me break my first ever WSNM for Steel Cyclone.

My current main character's name is Calmwind. He's named for my best friend and 2nd ever PL in FFXI, who was a RDM and a RNG and a PUP. He was in the same group of friends that I met with Jinpu. Kind of had a wind theme going, I suppose. Maybe I should just declare that Vyre means wind (supposedly in that Stormlight Archive a character that has it means, "He who quiets").

Jinpu, of course, is the wind hybrid Great Katana weaponskill. I find it lovely that the Mythic starts with the Windslicer, kind of like a prophecy about which WS is gonna be your best bet in an ideal scenario. Of course, it's a reference to the Kazekiri or Tempest from FFVI, which had a 50% chance to deal wind damage to all enemeis. If you built Cyan's magic stat up, he could dual wield them, and potentially hit all enemies for 9999 with magical wind damage.

Which reminds me of another friend from that same friend group. Elvaan named Droca. He was tsundere, or maybe he just didn't like me for real. I was never sure. He took umbridge with me claiming to be a bigger FFVI fan than him. Maybe he was. He lost one of his hands in a car wreck, but managed to still play FFXI even after. I thought he was cool.

Droca and Jinpu were both SAM mains, and always talking about the different ways to maximize it.

I was never the biggest SAM fan boy, but it's a job that is somehow so full of memories. It was my 4th 75, because of Samurai Champloo and Tachi: Rana looking cool.

I wish it did more for the party, but not every job can be a group buffing kingpin, I suppose.

I'm feeling vindicated and nostalgic, and I miss my mom.

Been 5 and a half years about. Getting hard to remember her voice.

I feel you. It's been six and a half years for me, now. I have a tendency to repress past memories (as a subconscious coping mechanism for anxiety), but I still remember her laugh more than anything.

I just need my dad to hold on, because not having any parents or grandparents left will be really weird given that I'm only about 40.

At first I was like "A Vyre write-up! :D"
But then I was like "Didn't expect to get hit in the feels..." in Elden Ring message fashion.

This mentor talk reminded me of when I finally unlocked DRK after being a WHM for 30 levels (quite the turnaround huh?), then embarked on my journey to deal the highest damage number I could. Shortly after, I was in a LS that had this girl named "Lithia", a Japanese-American. She was sort of my DRK mentor. She was an easy-going, cheerful gal that made fun of everything, including the fact that I was leveling DRK, because she already had DRK at 75, and felt frustrated by not having the chance to play DRK at endgame, so she started leveling RNG instead. Lithia would cheer me on though and encourage my progress as I unlocked my AF pieces and got Guillotine. She also advised me to keep my Greatsword skill up to date, but ofc I didn't listen to her. We didn't get to party or play together perhaps at all, but I remember dragging her to the Kam'lanaut fight & perhaps the DRK AF helm fight (I had to make an alliance for that one anyways), and I'll always remember her as this mentor/big sister figure. She was a pleasant person to have around (but seemed to grow despondent in her "final days" before disappearing).

Almost 13 years here. It's a shame she never saw her grandkids.

Will the price of gil go up or down next week?

Yes.

British lady and a gacha? ;o

I was raised in an extended family structure. All the descendants of an immigrant couple five generations upline from me with get togethers and meeting 6 - 8 times a year. All kinds of family benefits including a family cemetery with plots laid out for all of us including decadents not yet born.

It all disintegrated in the '90s. Even the cemetery.

I remember being 16yo and my mom surprised me when I got home with FFXI. She allowed me to use her AOL account and let me download it for like 2 days so I could play - she would relog me in to keep the download going the 2nd day and told me when I got home. She then got me my bank account so I could pay it. I remember taking my Wendy's paycheck of 5.15 an hr x 25 to a bank with her. My mom watched me play all the time after that. My little brother would watch too and would be like Level up, bro.

I am 39 now, and I miss my mom and my little brother a lot

Does everyone have a box/cupboard full of questionable online shopping choices?

Asking for a friend.

Why Have Zombie Movies changed so much in the past 21 years?

My feet OF is a solid subscription

Bro.. don't even.

Kaffy seems like an innocent nice man, I don't want to break it to him.

I throw away lots of stuff, useless kitchen stuff bought and used once especially. The other stuff stays in the literal cupboard.

Computer stuff is only permanent if you back it up, and are able to.

I have a whole room full of those lol

Dodiks face reading this offer:

Ew, gross.

They dropped the whole 4th season of the Witcher in one batch.

I can't remember how they did it previously, but the message is clear. Try to get everyone to watch the first episode before the negative reviews crush it out of existence.

Absolute mastery of what not to do with an IP. Perfection, in how to *** up.

And zero sympathy for Helmsworth, he took the bag, that comes with the resentment and the disdain. That's the fair deal you make for selling out. Compromise your good will and fanbase for money.

I think the first two seasons were released at once and s3 was split. If I remember right, the witcher was the first show they started releasing split seasons. I'll watch it when I get home.

Also, this is the less famous, less successful Hemsworth brother, so he took the money because he needed it. He doesn't really have a fanbase because he has no credits.