I'm Not Really Sure, Here.

[atolnon]

It's another week; time really can slip through ones fingers. Actually, the overall quality of my time has improved over the last few weeks, which I like. My job is about as unexciting as ever, but compared to my last few gigs, that's an upside. With the fall here, it's something I can really appreciate. I am, as it stands, still moving forward with my next several plans. More information when it becomes available, should this be of interest to you.

I've gotten some additional game playing in. I spend a lot of my time with video games these last few weeks - either Kingdom Hearts 2 (which I haven't finished, since I've taken a break) or Final Fantasy 11. I'm really back into it. Andy's been helping me out with a few quests, and I get to have a good time chatting with him as we do whatever bullshit busywork I need to do to actually advance to some kind of endgame status. Final Fantasy is an incredibly time-intensive game. Things people take for granted on forums are actually pretty difficult to schedule and execute. Traveling to the near east and making myself available to party there was a significant amount of effort. I only really have the stamina to do a few hours at a time, even on long days, so progress is slow, but I have fun.

Playing FFXI makes me really want to play in some other real RP sessions though. I may get a chance tomorrow, and I may not depending on if people are healthy and it's still on. I'd accidentally accepted a proposition to play in a tournament tomorrow without recalling that there's a Friday session. I'd really like to go, but we don't have anything really in place and Brent's ill, so I really have no idea. Magic is, therefore, a backup plan. It's good to have backups. Terrible as it is, though, I kind of want to run my old D&D setting. There's really just no chance at all of this going down. I've got the bug, though.

I can't get over generally being kind of restless. It's not the same as it was before, when I felt like I was trapped and slowly suffocating as if the air I was breathing allowed my lungs to work but, somehow, possessed no oxygen. It's not like that. It's definitely something else.

Comments

[arist-one-eye.livejournal.com]

I liked FFxi when I played it. It was a really pretty, really detailed world that actually ran halfway decently on my ratty old comp. Better than I could say about some games and their expansions (*cough cough* Everquest after Luclin *cough cough*). Couldn't play it now though; it's got more timesinks in it then I could ever justify dealing with again. Loved my little white mage though.

Have you seen MC Chris's take on Kingdom Hearts II? Even if you're a fan, you will crack up at it. Search youtube for MC Chris Kingdom Hearts. You will laugh so hard.

SHOOT EM IN THE HEAD! HIS AXE IS ON FIRE! HE KILLED YOUR PARENTS! SHOOT EM IN THE HEAD!

[atolnon.livejournal.com]

You're absolutely right about those time sinks. Stuff that's totally mundane - even stuff that's a selling point to the game (subclass system, I'm looking directly at you) - requires quests that would be tough to find if you didn't have a lot of people to help you.

And then it'd be hard to do, maybe impossible to do by yourself at a pace that doesn't render the whole business moot. I've been playing for years now, and I don't have a single 75.

I've got to check that MC Chris thing. He's hilarious.