The thoughts and life of Cyberstorm
I could be doing work right now, but my boss is at a meeting, so I’m hardly working, but working hard.
Small update, and it’s to the blog (since playing FFXI here would be over the top). I have removed a few inactive blogs from my small blog list (right side of every page), and replaced them with even more active FFXI blogs.
If you have a blog and want me to link it, comment or something and I’ll catch it. :p
Also, link me, I need visitors ;_;
So, I went a whole month without updating… Well let’s see… I guess I’ll start from the last time I updated…
February 29th, 2008
Baclrock, Rilian, and I got together a Double Dragonian run and did two orbs each. Making me, for once, not poor. Balrock ended up getting his Destroyers for his monk (the main reason he wanted to do this), and I got some cool stuff too.
March 1st, 2008
Somehow I managed to get 240 in Great Axe skill, allowing me to quest for Steel Cyclone. And while breaking the trial Great Axe, I got a parry skillup. 
March 2nd, 2008
Rilian, Myranda, Pururunnyan, and I started doing swift belt runs. NIN, BST, WHM, THF was able to kill not only the Hume, but the Mithra swift belt monsters. It took us about a week (we could only do runs when we were all online), but we all got our swift belts finally.
March 16th, 2008
Obtained the highest Campaign rank that’s currently available.
March 28th, 2008
Put another 3 meirts into Elemental Magic.
March 29th, 2008
Nyzul static finally got our first body drop off floor 80. Askar for me.
April 1st, 2008
I turned 19. Yes, April 1st is my birthday.
A lot more stuff happened than what I’ve posted, but all the screenshots are on my laptop (since I play on my laptop at college), so I’ll probably make another post later with more stuff. Also, I’ll try to update more frequently.
I have gone through and changed the encoding on all the tables in the database so that my blog (and all the blogs hosted on blogs.fungusamungusls.com) now support Japanese and other languages!
にょろ～ん！
It took forever to figure out, but I finally found what the cause was. :3
In other news, I was looking at my only High School post I saved when I changed blogs, and it got me to thinking… I haven’t seen/spoken to anyone from High School (except on once) since I graduated. That one time was when one of my old friends dropped by my house while he was on the way to somewhere (can’t remember where). I wonder if it’s normal to not keep in touch with anyone from high school once you graduate.
My only theory is that I never truly liked any of my friends they were really just people I could… not connect with, but tolerate? Not sure what good non-negative word would be there. I don’t really miss anyone from high school, and I don’t feel bad about not keeping in touch with anyone really. Maybe not having any relationships with anyone makes it easy.
Oh well, just a thought… ┐(゜～゜)┌
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Now playing: Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
via FoxyTunes
So it’s been over a month since I last updated on FFXI. >_>
A lot more has happened than I thought did. And being in college, half of my stuff (screenshots) are on my desktop at home, and the other half is here on my laptop (from where I am writing this).
Lets see… Well, on 11/12 I got my first subligar piece (THF), and traded it in for a new harness!
And, on 11/20 (8 days later), I bought a new grip (as the old one I had wasn’t good enough for me :p).
I had an image of it, but for some reason Photoshop decided to save the photo but not put anything into it (0 KB file). Strange. Anyway, the Pole Strap gives +2% Double Attack rate.
That’s it for new gear (that I can remember), the only big thing I was up to this month was leveling. I got Thief up to level 69 (party rate plummeted, so I’ve stopped for awhile), and have now taken up Scholar, which is level 20.
Scholar is a lot like RDM. At these low levels, I do a lot of main healing, and some nuking on the side. It’s not very exiting at the moment (probably because I’ve been having nothing but bad luck with leveling), but hopefully it’ll get cooler later on. Having more stratagems will be nice, I’m 5 levels away from the -50% cast time one. For those who don’t know, Stratagems are abilities that Scholar uses to enhance the next magic spell they cast. At level 10, you get one that will halve the MP cost of the next spell, at level 25 you get one that will decrease cast time by 50%, and there are two more after that.
Scholar will be a neat subjob in some ways. Using it as a subjob for BLM will be nice, as it will increase my Elemental, Dark and Enfeebling magic at the same time, decrease MP of spells, and decrease casting time as well. However, with /SCH, I will lose my ability to buff (no blink, stoneskin, etc). Using it as a subjob for RDM would also be cool, but I lose WHM specific spells (such as erase), so I’m not sure if I’ll be using SCH as a subjob for anything.
As for College, it’s gotten pretty hectic. Teachers are trying to cram what they haven’t taught us yet into class, and assigning a lot more homework than what was previously given. If only College got easier as time went on, not harder. 
There’s now only two more weeks remaining in the semester. Next week is the last academic week, and the week after that is final exams (except for the Monday of that week, for some weird reason that has to do with the way classes were scheduled). My exam times are nice, two on Wednesday and one on Thursday. Uhoh, looking at this, it seems I have two final exams on Thursday at the same time. >_> Guess I’ll have to go speak to my advisor telling him how I can’t be at my Math and Freshman orientation at the same time. Baw!
One last thing, FoxyTunes (a plugin for Firefox that lets me control my music player while I browse) put a little button in the WYSIWYG editor (what I use to make this post), which allows me to insert what I’m listening to while I’m writing it. Pretty cool. :3
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Now playing: Muse - Take a Bow
via FoxyTunes
So I got Guitar Hero III (for the PS3) on Friday, and I’ve been playing it all weekend. As of right now, I’ve completed Medium and Hard modes.
I started on Hard, and got all the way to the last battle with Lou, and I couldn’t beat him after multiple attempts, so I gave up for the time and went to play Medium.
I then proceeded to get 5 stars on every song in Medium just by playing them once. I also beat Lou on my second try on Medium. So I obtained two guitars (one for completing Medium and one for getting 5 stars on every song in Medium) and Through the Fire and the Flames in one song.
Then, annoyed how easy it was to beat Lou on Medium, I went back to Hard and kicked his ass! Took me only 3 times to beat him this time around.
The makers of Guitar Hero set up an interesting site, that can link data from the game to the website, as to rank people, much like what Score Hero did, only Score Hero required people to upload screenshots.
My Account at Guitar Hero can be found here. I’m not sure why it doesn’t show that I’ve beaten Medium and Hard, maybe it just takes time for it update. Oh well.
Also, something I found funny, is in the opening video in Guitar Hero III, you see that all the amps go up to 11. They got that from Spinal Tap, which is a great movie (link leads to a short YouTube video clip).
All I have to say to you Aravil is:
I want to start writing more in my blog, but there’s not really anything for me to write about. My college classes are going really well, even English, which has been my worst subject since forever. It has drastically cut the time in which I can play FFXI, which leaves me with really nothing to write about.
What I have been doing in FFXI when I play is merit. I figure getting a party at 75 is fast, and I really need to catch up on my merit points. Having all these level 75 jobs with no merits is lame. I decided I would first finish HP/MP, then move onto Warrior, Bard, and Red Mage merits. Possibly Summoner and Black Mage too. White Mage is retired so meriting that is pointless, and I never use Dragoon anymore since I have Warrior (and I lent out my Polearm to one of my friends).
What I have done so far is get 7/8 MP merits, and right now I’m only two merits away from my 8th upgrade. As it stands, I also have 1 HP merit, which means I’ll have to do my first downgrade to max out MP. Oh well…
As for Warrior, I finished Double Attack rate (5/5) a long time ago, and just recently I put merits into Berserk and Aggressor. Right now both have 2 upgrades (giving -20 second recast time on each), and I think after I get MP finished I’ll put another upgrade into Berserk, which would make Warrior category 1 merits 10/10. Then I’ll either move onto category 2 merits or go merit Bard and Red Mage (probably the latter).
I may also put merits into Magic Skills, still not decided how I want to work them out. Right now the only Magic Skill I have merited is Summoning Magic Skill, and it’s finished at 1/1. I only needed it to break the 300 skill mark on Summoner. My template I have on Google Docs says I’m going to upgrade Elemental Magic 8 times and Enfeebling Magic 7 times, but I’ve been thinking I may want to do Singing/Wind skill also, especially since I never use Black Mage anymore really.
It seems that I have joined a sky linkshell that only does a scheduled run on Sunday, and random runs other times. I’ll probably end up going on just Sundays and see how they are, then decide if I want to go with them on other runs (which will mean I’ll have to actually BE in the linkshell most of the time). It may be fun, although I’ll have to relearn how to get to the gods and demigods in sky, which will be a drag.
As for my limbus shell, it seems that it has disbanded. Ptl (one of the members of it) made a shell and absorbed all the members into it. I guess he did it since Yaha stopped coming to runs and open admitted to rather doing limbus with his HNM linkshell than with us. Sadly, I was not invited to the linkshell, and they do limbus at times which I cannot attend, so even if I was I wouldn’t be able to attend. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, too bad all my points were useless. I was close to getting the Nashira hands too.
In closing, I took a picture that looks really bad. :p lolme
I hate my college. This has happened a good 5 times now:
Followed by:
Small update for right now, my class list has been changed around a little, and I’ve uploaded a new copy of it.
Edit: Buh? Speed to Japan’s servers is now faster than what I have at home?!
No more FFXI for me. I average anywhere from 300 to 800 kb/s to servers in Japan. That is probably worse, if not the same, than 56k. The game is now impossible to play, so I won’t be on anymore really.
Oh well, I needed a break. I’ll post the speed test of my home computer next weekend, just to compare.
