oneko 天下無双 maru

where is neko

2006-11-03T10:51:00.000-08:00

sorry i haven't been around.

i'm in a new relationship which is taking up a lot of time.

i don't think i'll be back to ffxi for a while.

i may consider it later...

anyways thanks to everyone. if i decided to quit for sure i'll start sending my stuff out.

Engrish, the International Language

2006-09-23T13:21:00.000-07:00

One of my LS friends was complainging about her JP party's inability to speak English, saying, "English is the international language, everyone should know it."

I've heard others say that everyone should learn Chinese, as it is the most widely spoken language with an estimated 1.3 billion speakers between all dialects.

However, in my experience, neither of these are the international language. The international language is Engrish.

I went on a tour of Eastern Europe a few years ago, starting at St. Petersburg. I took a Russian airliner from Seoul to save a few bucks, and on the flight I asked the flight attendent, "Can I get a cup of water?"

Of course, in English, phonetically this sounds like, "Canna gedda cuppa wadder?"

She didn't understand me, and pointed at a package of potato chips. My friend, who was born/raised in Korea, and was horrible at English, but great at Engrish, said,

"Wattaaah preeezuh."

The attendent bobbed her head and said, "Ohh, yesh. Waatttaaah."

Wadder is English.
Wattaaah is Engrish.

No one understands English.
Everyone understands Engrish. Engrish is the true international language.

Wyred - remember this when you go to Japan! Those crazy Japanese are masters of Engrish.

For tips on how to speak Engrish, there is a great learning resource here.

Momma needs some new shoes

2006-09-13T14:22:00.000-07:00

The Wish List

whm:
hedgehog bomb
serket ring
healing staff
herald gaiters

rng:
dusk trousers
eurytos' bow

nin:
brutal earring

bomb queen ring
dusk gloves
boxer's mantle

blm:
all HQ staves
snow rings
AF2 hat
yigit crackows

mnk:
brutal earring
shura haidate

There is not a lot left for me to do to monk, I guess the big ones are getting brutal earring and shura haidate. Shura Haidate would be used for WS only, but hopefully the strength would help me catch up to elvaan and galka monks. (Elvaan monk has +8 str over mithra, without merits)

I don't use ranger much, so it is a lower priority.

I'm satisfied with my white mage setup. Because cures cannot be resisted, there is little incentive to spend money on white mage beyond the two big cure potency items.

Ninja takes a long time to perfect, and I don't have the motivation/time. I would like to concentrate on the defensive/tanking aspects of ninja, and not really bother on an attack ninja build. I figure, if I would go as monk. Better to concentrate on one aspect, rather than be "jack of all trades, master of none."

That leaves my black mage, which is.... gimp. I actually am needed as black mage quite a bit, and right now I'm in dire need of at least Jupiter and Aquilos staves. I chose Yigit Crawkcows over Rostrum Pumps because I would rather stay away from hp > mp equip on black mage, it ruins my sorcerer's ring macro.

As far as my current merits go, I have:

3 hp
2 mp
2 str
8 hand-to-hand
4 evasion
4 enmity
4 critical
4 elemental magic skill
5 kick attacks

My planned merits for the future are:
cap elemental magic skill
cap thunder potency
cap hp
cap mp
cap strength
cap focus recast

The only one of these merits which is non-standard is focus recast -- most monks do kick attacks and counter. However, I never solo on monk, I'm always nin/whm to solo harder things, so counter doesn't do much good there. Also, in merit parties, I'm always mnk/nin. Finally, I want my monk to be purely offensive, and counter is in some aspects a defensive merit, while focus is offensive. For defense, I have ninja, for offensive, monk; and I don't want overlap.

生きのいい手作りのソーセージのように歯応えがあって…

2006-09-11T09:45:00.000-07:00

P - yesterday i got a phone call, and
P - he told my parents that he probably is going to have a kid w
Me - wow
Me - congrats~
P - it's good but,
P - several things were moving so fast so.... w
ne - what are they going to name the kid? "onekomaru" is a great name! www
P - i'll be sure to tell my sister w

↑
Do Not Eat. Take Care.
空ＬＳのイベントで
やっと伝説のタル組に入れるようになった

タル組は
役に立って
とても頼もしくて…
逞しくて…
いい臭いして…
ジューシーで…
生きのいい手作りたてのソーセージのように歯応えがあって…
Ψ(｀∀´)Ψ
いあ　ごめん
閑話休題
During my sky run
I was finally able to team up with the legendary taru team.
The taru team is
Very helpful
And totally reliable
And sturdy
And they smell good
And juicy...
And, like a freshly hand-crafted sausage they have a firm, chewy consistency....

Ψ(｀∀´)Ψ

non-hispanic white middle class suburban protestant linkshell looking for members

2006-09-06T17:25:00.000-07:00

In Vanadiel

These days my posts have been dealing less and less with FFXI and more on anime, culture, etc.
Does this mean my interest in the game is waning?

Probably...

However, at this moment, I have no immediate plans to quit, but I keep wondering if I did quit, who I would leave my stuff with...

Right now, I am basically using FFXI as a chat service, with which I keep contact with a handful of close friends. I figure $15 a month is a reasonable price to talk with friends.
ヽ(゜ー゜;)ノ

The Battle of Kimchi versus the Hamburger

A few days ago, I was chatting in one of my social linkshells when the topic of interest-group linkshells came up. One member wanted to start a black LS. Another mentioned that there was a hispanic LS. One of the members, presumably white, posed the question why there were no white linkshells...

Good question.
(゜Д゜≡゜Д゜)?

Kenji Yoshino, who wrote the book "Covering" about race, minorities, and civil rights, is a professor of law at Yale University. He is also a gay Japanese-American, making him a minority amongst minorities. (Seriously, there are probably more dyslexic Jewish Marxist Native-Americans than there are gay Japanese-Americans)

In "Covering," Kenji relates how there is a "concensus to penalize minorities who refuse to downplay their differences." Racial minorities are pressured to "act white," and adopt white names, women in the workforce are encouraged to "play like men," and homosexuals told to act straight. Civil rights are accorded to those who cover their differences, their indentity, and conform.

A special-interest group offers haven from these pressures. When I was a board member for the Korean Student Association at a private college in California, I was in an environment where I felt kinship. In this group, Korean was the norm, the status quo. I could eat kimchi without roommates complaining about the smell. (Noone complains about fragrant hamburgers) There is a certain camaraderie in these groups that I think white Americans would have trouble understanding. In this setting, the minority becomes the majority, and you can be yourself. This is what drives minorities together, into neighborhoods, into groups, into linkshells.

So in the end, when my LS member asked why there are no white linkshells, and why minorities form their own LS's, I could have explained that it gives them a place to express their identity, without reproof. Or I could have explained,

"No one complains about hamburgers, but people complain about kimchi. A Korean linkshell would create a home for kimchi."

Kimchi, a traditional Korean dish. It consists of fermented Chinese cabbage with a spicy chili sauce. It emits a strong smell.

Miscellanious

There is a postmodernist faction that believes race and ethnicity are social constructs, that these are not based on looks.

Vanadiel is evidence.

Even in an electronic realm where an asian mithra and a white mithra look alike, characters still ten to congregate on the basis of ethnicity.

"Covering" by Kenji Yoshino is a great book and I recommend that everyone read it.

More Hachikuro

2006-08-30T18:49:00.000-07:00

Honey and Clover released two extra episodes with season one.

It is hilarious...
ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

In Vanadiel...

He's a big one...

Clover

2006-08-23T15:36:00.000-07:00

The "Clover" part in Honey and Clover comes from Suga Shikao's album, named Clover.

Apparently, the character design for Mayama was based of off Suga, and, they kind of look alike

Suga Shikao

Takumi Mayama

Season II Episode 8 is out~

Somehow, I don't think Suga is a stalker like Mayama is though.
Σ(゜ー゜;)

If Miwako's voice sounds familiar, it is because...
Miwako's seiyuu also did:

Riza Hawkeye

don't judge a book by its cover

2006-08-19T22:25:00.000-07:00

ハチミツとクローバー最高！
万歳！
(≧∇≦)b

I downloaded an episode of Honey and Clover a while back, and was not impressed by character artwork so I didn't watch it.

A while later, so many people recommended it to me, so I decided to give it a try, and it has been the best, most moving anime I have seen.

I recommend it to people, even if they don't like anime.

There's no robots, no pokemon, no ninja alien schoolgirls, it's just a normal drama from relatively normal lives of college students.

The depth of human emotion and the accuracy of people's motives are amazing, and there are many times that I see myself in the characters.

The dialogue is poetic and Anbu-Solar did a wonderful job translating it. Some of the narration is reminiscent of author Natsume Souseki 夏目漱石, another of my favorites. (In episode 18 they make a brief allusion to one of Souseki's short stories in 夢十夜 - ten nights of dreams)

download first season here:
http://animesuki.com/series.php/609.html

more information on the greatest series in the past 5 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_and_Clover

Honey and Clover

2006-08-16T11:37:00.000-07:00

ハチクロって
面白いさ

…

終わり

Honey and Clover is the best anime I've seen in a long, long time.

Also, I knew Mayama's voice sounded familiar...

the seiyuu, Tomokazu Sugita, also did Kyon in Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi and Rin Tsuchimi in Shuffle

Tuuflessちゃん　さよなら～

2006-08-15T10:30:00.000-07:00

Tuufless will be leaving Vanadiel.

montage by tuufie:

In a game like this, when you quit, what you're left with is just memories -- there are no tangible rewards. Because memories are important, I try to take a lot of screenshots, but whenever someone quits, it never feels like enough...

various tuufie-pics:

i had taken a 2 month break for finals, when i got back, i was sure to /grin at tuufie

dragged along for a random ENM

help with moldy earring

sitting in ru'lude gardens

subligarconnection + truerune joint failure at ouryu

synthing a republic circlet (which i've sold since then orz)

trying to duo an enm

scene shortly after our deaths

I am boycotting bread

2006-08-11T16:39:00.000-07:00

I just spent 15mins making a cheese and tomato melt, with cheddar, tomatoes, basil, sliced peppers, and sauce. I was totally looking forward to eating it. It smelled amazing.

After I took my first bite....

THE BREAD HAD MOLD!

凸(｀◇´ﾒ)
it
(≧ヘ≦　)
smelled
(((￣へ￣井)
so
凸(-_-ﾒ)
good

I just bought it a few days ago too....

Arg so pissed.

I threw the sandwich in the backyard and stomped on it a bunch of times, until it was a succulent, aromatic, cheesy, tomatoey pulp, with little bits of sea-green tinged bread.

It looked like a mashed rainbow.

ヴァナ・ディール引篭もり協会にようこそ(VHKにようこそ)

2006-08-03T09:26:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Vanadiel Hikikomori Society.

Recently I've been watching an anime called NHKにようこそ　or Welcome to the NHK. It is about a young man who is struggling with hikikomori.

「ひきこもり」とは、厚生労働省の定義によれば、「６ヶ月以上自宅にひきこもって、会社や学校に行かず、家族以外との親密な対人関係がない状態」のことをさします。
(http://www.nhk.or.jp/fnet/hikikomori/hikitoha)

According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Hikikomori is defined as a condition in which a person, without going to work or school, and without having relations with anyone outside his/her family, stays in his/her room for 6 months or more.
source: http://www.nhk.or.jp/fnet/hikikomori/hikitoha

Hikikomori goes far beyond being socially withdrawn -- it is the total absence of normal human contact with anyone. Hikikomori will shut themselves in their rooms or apartments without work, friends, or any contact, sleeping at dawn and waking at noon. They normally spend their time on the internet, with anime, or playing games, like FFXI www. To be hikikomori, you have to do this for at least 6months, but many hikikomori live as a recluse for decades or more. Normally hikikomori only leave their house for absolute necessities, which are bought at the convenience store during late hours, when human interaction is not necessary.

Hikikomori-related words:
ニート NEET Not in Education, Employment, or Training. (aka free-loader, same stigma as welfare recipient) This word is used on Oden sitabara often.
廃人 Haijin Literally means cripple. This word is used to describe people who sit at their computer all day, like a cripple.

Interesting facts about hikikomori:
They have a bad image in the media:
A Hikikomori abducted 9yr.old Fusako Sano 房子佐野　and held her in captivity for nearly a decade. (source is mainichi shinbun 毎日新聞　on this one, which is kind of iffy...)
An 11-year old hikikomori dubbed Nevada-tan (because she wore a Nevada hoodie) killed another 12-year old classmate.
In reality, most hikikomori have too much anxiety and are too afraid of the public to be violent.

There is a secondary market dedicated to solving hikikomori:
Hikikomori is a widespread problem, with estimates ranging from 100,000 to 1 million sufferers in Japan, with rising numbers in other high-pressure homogenous societies, like Taiwan and Korea.
There are programs with names like "New Start" where lively young attractive women are hired to try to draw hikikomori (usually male) out of seclusion. They are called "rental sisters" and their services cost around 1 million yen. (~$9000 US)
The character in ＮＨＫにようこそ (Welcome to the NHK) named Misaki seems to be modeled after these "rental sisters."

Having a hikikomori in the family is a huge embarassment:
A hikikomori in the family will hurt his/her siblings' chances of marriage - pre-marital background checks are common across East Asia.

So, what causes hikikomori?
I decided to go around Vanadiel and ask:

Onekomaru - Hey~
Wyred - 【ただいま】
Onekomaru - These days I've been watching "Welcome to NHK"
Mr.G - 【おかえり】
Mr.Z - 顔文字 JP face
Onekomaru - I was wondering, are there a lot of hikikomori amongst JP population?
Mr.G - There's like whole bunches of them, aren't there?w
Mr.C - It's a serious problem www
Onekomaru - icic w
Ms.O - So hikikomori huh?
Wyred - Translate, translate
Ms.O - They're mostly NEET right?
Mr.G - Ah, NEET.
Mr.G - Yup that's it.
Onekomaru - But, without a stable career, and without doing part-time work,
Onekomaru - I wonder how they make their money www
Ms.O - Getting their parent's money
Mr.G - Parent's handouts 【見つけました】【全力で攻撃だ！】
Ms.O - That's what you call a NEET
Mr.C - Part-time job for Chief Dad www
Onekomaru - I see www
Onekomaru - fufu. This is what you call a mom's "Motherly Love" right?w
Mr.C - Speaking of which
Mr.G - Well, NEET will go with it either way
Ms.O - Yeah, either way is fine
Mr.C - I think a lot of it has to do with difficulties with finding stable employment...
Mr.G - Yeah, that's definately a part of it
Ms.O - Well, dependance is natural for them, and providing for kids is natural for parents...
Mr.G - But, going without a single bit of work...
Mr.G - It's unbelievable
Mr.G - Take a part-time job or something! w
Ms.O - Well, NEET only have the motivation to do part-time jobs...

Onekomaru - 【なるほど】
Ms.O - If the parents die...
Ms.O - they probably think that one way or another, by inheiritance
Ms.O - they'll make do w
Onekomaru - Jeez^^;
Onekomaru - The majority are male, right?
Ms.O - Yup
Mr.G - For now, helping out with metalworking is also considered NEET
Mr.G - Metalworking?w
Ms.O - For household w
Ms.O - If you think of people who help out with household work as
Ms.O - NEET also, then
Mr.G - (Cannot read 2nd kanji here)
Ms.O - I also am considered NEET w
Mr.G - When they are gathering statistics
Mr.G - I think they count household helpers that way (ed. As NEET)
Mr.C - So that's how it is...www
Mr.G - Yeah, on the news,
Mr.G - It seems that they were counting it that way and stuff
Ms.O - Well, since it looks like helping out with parents' business is seen as household work, I guess I count as NEET also w

Mr.G - Helping out with a self-owned business is
Mr.G - probably different, I think w
Ms.O - Okay, so I'm barely safe then? (Ed. From being classified as NEET)

While Mr.C mentioned employment difficulties as part of the reason, and Ms.O mentioned that parents naturally want to support their children, there are other reasons also. Japan's educational system is based on what is literally called an "escalator." (The Japanese actually use the English term for escalator in this description) Those who can keep up with the rigid, one-dimensional testing requirements keep moving up, while the rest stay put. It is a one-track road to success. Escalators aren't known for freedom of movement <.< Those who can't keep up with the escalator can lose faith and interest in society, as there is little hope for the "salaryman life of success."

So, why don't Western societies produce hikikomori?
The Western emphasis is on independence, as opposed to Eastern homogenuity, thus there is a great social stigma against those who rely on their parents for too long. (Aka living-in-parents-basement-complex)
People who don't follow traditional path to success have other options; blue-collar jobs are enough to provide basic necessities.
People who don't fit in hvae other out-groups to join - potheads, goths, etc. Outgroup kids can always go emo /wrists and hang out with other emo kids on the emo kid support network.

Edit: I found more sources on Fusako Sano story other than Mainichi Shinbun. It appears to be a true story.

We Fly to Mars

2006-07-30T20:34:00.000-07:00

When I was a kid, I used to play a game called telephone.
It is played in a circle, and a phrase is whispered from ear to ear.
By the time the last person hears the phrase, it usually differs greatly from the original.
"Where is my car" becomes "We fly to Mars" and everyone laughs.

Watching NA and JP communicate through auto-translator is just like watching two people play telephone....
Except that the person speaking is deaf and blind, and the person listening is not really a person, but a fish.

Yes, it's that bad.

Ψ(￣∇￣)Ψ

Greatest Misunderstandings of all Time:

【Ninja Tools】【Lowing】HP【I'm Back!】BRB
While the meaning of this might be evident to NA players, it is still a little strange.
Lowing? Weird choice of words, especially when you examine it closer...
low·ing - To utter the sound made by cattle; moo. (dictionary.com)
So this NA gentleman thought it was important to let the JP's know that his ninja tools were bleating and he used Mijin Gakure and warped.
Hey, if my ninja tools went "mooo" I would contemplate suicide also.
The bovine shihei confused JP and NA alike, so the PT disbanded after the NIN used mijin gakure.

This also highlights a common problem in Vanadiel, where NA players can't really speak English, and are attempting to communicate with Japanese. To speak with foreigners, it is a good idea to be bilingual, or at least monolingual. Speaking 70% of your mother tongue would make you... semilingual?

There was another good misunderstanding, but I forgot about it -_-;

Anyways, in Vanadiel:

Walrus decided to quit the game, and move on to other things.
Bye Walrus~

Bye~ Wish you luck in real life!

I've been playing with JP windower and cel-shader plugin.
Sireen + COR AF = cute!

A Low Down Dirty Shame

2006-07-09T11:10:00.000-07:00

Alternate Titles:
Clime and Punishment
Honorable Mention

Wyred once said, "There is no justice in Vanadiel," after being harassed by an obnoxious gilbuying NA player. Is there really no justice in Vanadiel? What will keep players in line?

The problem is that NA have no systematic unilateral way of punishing obnoxious players. The JP do, and it is called Oden sabotsuushinbou or Odin sitabara.

おでん鯖通信簿

Odin sitabara is basically a messageboard dedicated to anonymously talking trash about players and linkshells. Because it is all anonymous, the accused have no recourse. RMT, stealing, MPK -- all these things are voiced here, in topics bearing the offender's name. The number of responses is kind of a guide -- the more posts about a player, the worse his or her reputation is.

It is hard to convey the impact of public anonymous shaming boards. Once your name shows up, everyone treats you differently.

Once sitabara exposed Difference as Neron, he had trouble finding help with anything, and was rejected from Dynamis Linkshells, including Explorer II.

When I helped get Yukivocal into BBQ, he was unexpectedly grateful, thanking me again and again. I didn't realize it at the time, but it was probably because he had a high post-count on sitabara and would have had trouble getting into other linkshells. He thanked me again after getting e.body and sent me a small gift.

Some NA forums occasionally have player warning threads, but these don't seem to have the same impact.

Why would reliance on shame work better for the East?

Confucius believed that everyone was inherently good, and that everyone had an innate conscience, and that public disapproval and shame were enough to keep people in line. Being accused is much more serious in the East, the affront to one's honor is more serious, and the Eastern devotion to honor is very, very strong.

Half of Japan spent three centuries trying to regain the honor lost at the battle of Sekigahara, (関ヶ原の戦い) while the West advanced in science and technology, and took over half of the world.

Koreans dream of regaining the honor lost almost a century ago during Japanese occupation, and until recently had economic sanctions against Japan. (Until recently I could not buy a Playstation or games in Seoul, except at Yongsan 용산 blackmarket)

Even now, the two countries are fighting a culinary war, where Korea is trying to protect the sanctity of the honorable Korean Kimchi against shameful Japanese imitations.

Shame and Honor - serious business in the Orient.

For enthusiasts of Kung Fu movies, I'm sure you've heard the line, "You bling shame on my famiry. Plepare to daiiii!"

Kung Fu movies are such an accurate representation of the Orient, so obviously shame and honor are serious business. Serious enough to keep JP players civilized. Serious enough to cause acrobatic Asian martial artists to punch and kick each other for brief but exciting five minute intervals.

君に決めたーっ！ｗ

2006-07-06T16:18:00.000-07:00

End-game normally requires dedication, time, flexible sleep habits, liberal use of the /blist function, and an ability to resist stupidity.

However, every now and then, end-game can be very, very exciting.

My HNMLS managed to claim Fafnir, which is great.

It is not so great when your entire alliance consists of:
1 PLD
1 NIN
2 THF
1 BST
6 BLM

That's it...

This setup would not even make a functional exp party, let alone fight Fafnir.

Now, Fafnir can be taken down with 10people. However, it would require a very specific setup, with RDM, BRD, PLD, SMN, and BLM. After we pulled, we immediately debated whether we should escape, it was pretty clear that we were doomed. So doomed, in fact, that one BLM warped out.

However, claiming Fafnir is a rare opportunity, so we decided to fight it.

With the remaining 5 BLM, we started an Elemental Sleep order. The recast is 10mins, which leaves 2mins of sleep per BLM, which wasn't enough.

We had to rotate sleeping Fafnir, and desperately trying to stay alive.

After about 10mins of sleeping Fafnir, some people were coming to help, but we were worried about damaging him, so we decided to handle Fafnir the way BLM parties handle mobs...

Sleep -> Nuke -> Sleep.

Our first round of nukes was around 15mins into fight, and we all used tier-IV spells once Faffy woke up.

Unfortunately, it was thunder weather, and mine went unresisted >_<
Remaining BLM now is 4 www

Anyways, we were able to manage staying alive, and slowly dealing damage, and a few more people came to help, so we finished the fight with plenty of time before rage mode.

Random Pics from this week:

Gotta catch them all?

父さんに打たれたことないのにｗ

チェ１００タキー

札幌って町だって？ビアだけじゃなくて？ｗ

2006-07-01T13:11:00.000-07:00

Title: Sapporo is a city? It's not just a beer?w

o(≧◇≦*)oo(*≧◇≦)o

最近最終兵器彼女ってアニメ見てるだけど
札幌人の日本語可笑しいな
「行くぞ」とか「やるぜ」と言わなくて
「行くべぃ」というばっかり
やっぱ可笑しいな

今週の大冒険写真集開始

Alky取れたけど

残念だわ
(；ω；)

こいつも取れたけどシューズ出なかった

めりぽｐｔやってて

黒白狩モあるのに敵対心に最後のめりぽを入れてしまったｗｗｗ

和訳：
neko:何日前さ　うちの子犬はルームランナーでウンコ残ったよ
neko:間中で
enron:lol
neko:全然関係ないけど韓国人は犬肉食べるらしい
enron:知ってるおｗ
enron:君韓国人だっけ？ｗ
neko:全然関係ないけど子犬は不思議にいなくなった
wyred:子犬は腹の中にいるような気がする？
enron:lol
wyred:ははは

実在する！

2006-06-28T13:51:00.000-07:00

Title: They Exist

A few days back, Wyred asked for my help with his PLD AF3. Normally this is a tougher fight, and requires a bit of help. It is a battle against 2NM Orcs, but only one has to be defeated to clear the quest.

However, we had a strategy that would allow us to duo it.

Wyred would utilize his special "cowardly running away from enemies in fear skill," and I would use my special "valiantly solo'ing incredible NM skill" to make this work.

Basically, Wyred would spawn the 2NM, and run like crazy to the nearest zone. He would be chased by a hoarde of angry orcs. Once he was near the zone, I would pick out the NM necessary for the quest and start fighting it, while Wyred would join me later.

Wyred's Path is blue. My position in red.

On the way to Davoi

Me vs NM

何日前さ
ヴァナで初めて宇宙語を聞いたｗ
本当に存在するお！

宇宙語【分かりません】

別に関係ないけどいい写真じゃない？って思ってて

Wyrm Hunting

2006-06-25T18:06:00.000-07:00

LS Pic

Another

What is the best way to deal with Vrtra's summons?
When in doubt, add more BLM

Stealing MP from Charmed Player

ヴァナディルで行動主義心理による現代外人の比較分類

2006-06-23T12:13:00.000-07:00

Title: The Classification of the Modern Gaijin in Vanadiel by Accordance of Behavioral Psychology

kazu - hi~
me - hi~
kazu - could i ask a favor and get you to translate something for me?
me - okie
kazu - what is this thing called "noooob?"
me - it means "new player"
kazu - thank you
me - crappy new player (it's not a good word to use)
kazu - as i was coming back from party, i didn't notice an EP mob and i died.
kazu - after this some guy came and laughed at me and poked me.
kazu - i said to him "GM call ok?" and he said OK.
me - uhaa ^^;
kazu - i don't understand the logic behind gaijin players w
me - ^^;
me - even if you're fluent in english, they are incomprehensible w
kazu - ... just as i suspected w

Poor Bigkazu was a victim of "incomprehensible gaijin behavior complex."
What could explain this anomaly?

Internet culture researchers Gabe and Tycho at Penny Arcade have a rather popular theorum on internet behavior.

It can be described as:

NP + An + Au = FW
or
Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = F*ckwad

What about this formula makes gaijin act this way?

I believe it is the punitive nature of the American judicial system.
America has one of the highest proportions of its own population imprisoned.
In 2002 the total prison population surpassed 2 million.

American justice places heavy emphasis on retribution, not rehabilitation.
If you do wrong, you'll be punished.
Wrongdoings must be avoided because you'll pay for them.

It is a self-centered approach to justice.
The consequences on the victim, those related to the victim, and others in society are not emphasized.
Instead, the perpetrator only worries about being caught and punished.

However, when you introduce someone to an anonymous environment, you remove the threat of punitive action.
To a gaijin, who is used to being shackled by threats of punishment, an anonymous medium feels like freedom.
Everyone likes freedom.
Therefore, a normal person becomes a f*cktard.

Strawberrie mentioned in one of her comments on Wyred's blog:
"Just because the person you're talking to cannot punch you in the face does not mean you can treat them like sh*t."
The punishment (being punched in the face) is removed, and this does not suggest that the crime (treating people like sh*t) is okay.

So how does this fit in a classification system?

Basically, there are two types of gaijin.
1) Those who believe that bad actions should be avoided, because they'll be punished.
2) Those who believe that bad actions should be avoided, because bad actions are inherently wrong.

Type 1 is the "normal person" who becomes a "f*cktard" when anonymous.

Meanwhile, this week:

Went to help Riddaraan try to get a Blau Dach.

We were successful, but didn't get drop.

My LS got Nidhogg this week, after another few LS's wiped.

Bad drops^^;

Yukivocal, a long-time friend in my HNMLS, recently got a Ridill.
With this setup, I'm curious how quickly he gets 100tp^^;

Information for this post comes from:
prison population statistics - about.com
confucius analects - classics.mit.edu
penny arcade - penny-arcade.com
the title is parody of genshiken (anime)

天下無双＝Unrivaled Under the Heavens

2006-06-15T01:02:00.000-07:00

I changed the title of my page (again)

I really like the phrase 天下無双　which is a combination of
天 - heavens
下 - under
無 - none
双 - equal

So figuratively, "unrivaled under the heavens"

Some other phrases which have been alluring these days:

爆発の猫券
Cat-fist of explosion

狐に化かされた
I was fooled by the fox
(I tell Starfox this one)

失敗は成功の元
Every success started with a mistake
(Keep on truckin')

楽あれば苦有り
With pleasure comes pain

軽い気持ちで
Not doing something hardcore

English phrases that I like to use these days:

Jack-of-all-trades, master of none.

Yay for noob.

Industrial-strength failure.

Fortune favors the brave.

And I very interest in Singlish lah, the Singaporean pidgin language hohr.

The phrase I like is most is:

kena whack!

業者と楽しく喋りましょう～ｗｗｗ

2006-06-11T21:00:00.000-07:00

Chinese and Japanese use a similar character set, called kanji.
With enough knowledge of both kanji and basic chinese grammar, I was able to communicate with a nice RMT gentleman.

英訳
a - I am Korean.
b - Do you understand?
c - Republic of Korea banzai!
d - China is America enemy cat (typo)
e - China is America's cat
f - If you are RMT, you are America's dog also? Yes?

和訳
猫：私は韓国人です
猫：分かりますか？
業者さん：【練習相手になりません】
猫：(；ω；)
業者さん：君の国なんて嫌い
猫：(；ω；)
業者さん：世界の皆知ってるぞ
業者さん：君の国はアメリカの犬であることを
猫：中国はアメリカの猫にゃ
業者さん：違う
業者さん：君の国はアメリカの犬だってば
業者さん：皆知ってるんだ
業者さん：【許してください】
業者さん：君の国なんて嫌だ
猫：君は業者ならば、君の方は「アメリカの犬」ではないか

ガルカ野郎ーｗｗ　
嫌な顔してるんだねー

やっと終わったｗ
次はクリ＋っかな
黒白狩モあるのに敵対心アップに興味がｗ

日本語の文法について

2006-05-31T10:51:00.000-07:00

In English, there is a flexibility to grammar that can be exploited for stylistics purposes. For example:

"I cannot forgive MPK and RMT."

This is written in standard form. I(subject) cannot forgive(verb) MPK and RMT(compound object) It follows the conventions of English syntactical structure -- subject, verb, object.

In order to add emphasis, you can add an intensifier.

"I totally cannot forgive MPK and RMT."

This is a stronger statement, but intensifiers are weak style. Instead, you can add emphasis through restructuring the sentence, which is stronger than adding intensifiers.

"MPK and RMT are what I cannot forgive."

The structure is totally different. In this case it is object, subject, verb, and this adds emphasis without resorting to intensifiers, which are vague. (Why are they vague? If you look at other adverbs, like 'quickly' they mean something. An adverb like 'totally' means nothing without the word it modifies)

This same pattern extends to Japanese. While English is subject, verb, object, Japanese (and Korean for that matter) are subject, object, verb.

私はRMTとMPKを許せない
(standard structure - subject, object, verb)

私はRMTとMPKを絶対許せない
(standard structure, usage of intensifier)

However, by changing the structure to subject, verb, object, you can add emphasis without resorting to intensifiers. (Intensifiers are weak in every language, or at least the ones I've learned)

私がゆるせないのはMPKとRMTだ。
(periodic structure - subject, verb, object)

This restructuring is much stronger stylistically than the first two examples. It is also the structure that the hero in manga is going to use -- 私が許せないのはおめぇーだけだってばよ！ seems like something Naruto would say.

Patterns are all the same in every language, you just have to learn how to spot them. This is an example of periodic sentence structure in Japanese.

Why I choose JP PT over NA PT, continued

2006-05-31T10:25:00.000-07:00

Why?

The Japanese are sheep. There is tremendous social and cultural pressure for assimilation and homogenuity.

The Japanese are rewarded for playing by the rules, no matter how dumb the rules may be. Their educational system emphasizes teamwork, homogenuity, and adherence to a ridiculous curiculum. I have seen the admission test for Tokyo University (東京大学入学試験), and success on this test requires an immense devotion to studying useless information.

You play by the rules, you fit in the group. It is passivity and teamwork pushed to the extreme. It is no wonder that Japanese higher education is so weak -- Japanese students are not taught to think for themselves. In Asiaweek Magazine's top 50 Asian graduate schools list, only 2 of the top 50 schools were in Japan, and despite Japanese students scoring amongst the top in high school testing, the majority of scientific, medical, and technological breakthroughs happen in Western research facilities.

It is disgusting in one sense. If you don't fit in with everyone else, you face becoming gaibu(外部), sangokujin(三国人), and are seen as meiwaku(迷惑) and face ijime(いじめ) or nakama hazure (仲間外れ). Koreans and Chinese face horrible racism. Asahi Shinbun朝日新聞 and Mainichi Shinbun毎日新聞　feature many sensational articles on teens who are excluded and commit suicide.

This is horrible for a society, but absolutely great for a FFXI party. Meleeing RDM, SMN/BLM, people who don't bring oil/powder, NIN that don't buy Utsusemi: Ni -- they don't exist amongst Japanese players. A few days ago, I had a level 19-20 Japanese party, and all 6 members brought powder/oil! At that level! I was moved...

Free-thought, individuality, experimentation, free-expression, and open-mindedness are great for higher education and society in general, but it is bad for parties.

I love the American spirit. The pioneer, gung-ho attitude is encouraged. Individuality is celebrated. "Different but equal" is a great concept. This being said, American pioneer spirit does not belong in my parties.

I don't want any pioneers exploring fascinating new ground in SMN/BLM tactics. If an NA player decides to play as MNK/RDM, he's just being American. If a JP player decides to play as MNK/RDM then he loses all respect, friends, and his name gets posted on おでん鯖通信簿 where everyone makes fun of him anonymously.

It's probably not the best way to do things, but it gets exp faster...

Information for this post comes from:
Reading manga/watching anime
Tutoring exchange students
"GO" -- A great movie about a Korean growing up in Japan and facing racism.
"Dogs and Demons" by Alex Kerr
"Confucius Lives Next Door" by T.R. Reid

ただの人間入りｐｔ不可

2006-05-20T02:48:00.000-07:00

眠いから日記は後で
とりあえず写真集をｗ

ミスラ子可愛いさ

錬金術でミスラ＋ガルカ＋タルタル＋カーバンクルを錬製しかけてみたけど失敗しちゃってなんてことにｗ

仕方なくて倒してしまった

って言われてもただの人間のPTに誘われちゃった
Alien PT◎ Time Traveler PT◎ Person from alternate universe PT◎ Esper PT◎ Regular Human PTＸ

I wish I knew how to quit you...

2006-05-05T00:59:00.000-07:00

Blue mage is one of the new jobs that was introduced with Treasure of Art Urghan.

It is a very unique and interesting job, because unlike previous mage jobs,
you don't have to use scrolls to learn spells.

Instead, BLU learn spells by having mobs use the spells against them.
It is the only way to learn spells....

Unless you're Rhyis!

yay

2006-04-27T10:02:00.000-07:00

black belt blues

2006-04-23T20:57:00.000-07:00

海下無双

2006-04-13T02:21:00.000-07:00

なんかたまに他人に私は韓国人である事を説明する時には
信じられなくて「まじで？！」という。
そんなに不思議なことなのかしら

最近アメリカで住んでる韓国人多いよ
英語で「Asian Population Explosion」アジアン人口爆発って言われたこともある

すると

日本語は韓国人にとって楽勝で本気で勉強したら
１年間にペラペラになれるんじゃないかと
な感じ

が

アメリカ人ならば到底１年間に習えそうにはみえないんだな
問題は１つ：漢字だ。
韓国の高生は８００字以上分かっているはずだけど
普通のアメリカン人は１字も読めなくて大変かも
発音も外人にとって難しい。
理解できないほど可笑しい発音で喋る外人も当然いる。
英語と全然違うからさ
特にR（る、ら、り、る、など）とU（う、く、ふ、など）の発音は。。。
面白いっていうかｗ

ヴァナで

うちのHNMLSは、ティア戦で盾役を私に任せた
結構楽しかった
最初で自信なくて
「間違えなく死ぬよ」
「死ぬとも、他の忍に任せてみたら？」
って言ってたけど
大丈夫だったｗｗｗ

よかったね

In Vanadiel...

This week, my HNMLS left me the responsibility of tanking Tiamat
It was pretty fun
At the beginning, I didn't have any self-confidence, and
"Without a doubt, I will die"
"I will definately, absolutely die after all. Why don't we leave it to another nin?"
I was saying this kind of stuff, but,
it turned out okay www

写真集開始

LSの友達と写真

こわｗｗｗ

今度の戦利品いいね

でかい奴だ

忍術使ってばっかりいるって感じｗ

猫は腕組をして小さな声で「もう死にますとも」という
The Neko crosses arms, and in a small, quiet voice says, "I will definately die."
(I've been reading too much Natsume Souseki)

タブキー語をマスターしました！Lost in Translation?

2006-04-10T19:00:00.000-07:00

Using the Onekomaru Method, you too can become a master of the tab-key!

【５月】【蜂】は英語で【May】【Bee】になるから「Maybe]「多分」って意味。「５月に蜂が沸きます」って意味じゃないわよｗｗｗ

【トゥルーストライク】は英語で【True Strike】になるから「賛成」って意味

【Fragmentation】 turns into 【分解】 which means "desynthesis," so these words are interchangable.

【Back】 turns into 【背中】　which means back, but not "I'm back." It is referring to the anatomical part, where your spine is located. Also this does not refer to "behind you."

【Reward】　turns into 【いたわる】 which is the BST ability. It means "to feel sorry for." Apparently, when NA players need a teleport, they really feel sorry for a player named 1kgil.

【Hill】【Picture】【Blade:Rin】 turns into 【丘】【絵】【臨】 which is pronounced oka e rin. This is similar to okaeri which means "welcome back." Contrary to popular belief, the Japanese are not asking to take a picture of you attacking a hill every time you come back from the AFK.

【Blade:Ten】【Country】turns into 【天】【国】 "tengoku" which means "heaven."

If you want someone to conserve their MP, unfortunately 【Conserve MP】 will not work. It shows up as 【コンサーブMP】　or "konsa-bu MP." Konsa-bu is an imitation of the pronunciation "Conserve."

【コンサーブMP】は英語で【Conserve MP】になるから「MPを溜めて」って意味なんだ

If you want someone to retreat, 【Retreat】 does not work. This is 【神獣の退避】 which means "the retreat of the avatar."

【Sub】 is not "Subjob." It is 【サブウェポン】 or "sub-weapon." Same goes for 【Main】.

I really like when people string so many tab-key phrases together, that the meaning is lost in both Japanese and English.

その他：
Other:

FTWはFor the Winってことで必勝という意味なんだ
反意語はFTW「For the Lose」

ｍｊｄ is abbreviation of まじで　Ma Ji De which means "For Reals?"

やっと黒７３～！

2006-03-29T14:20:00.000-08:00

When I first started playing FFXI...

Scorpion harness was 1mil.
Less than 5 NA groups were capable of beating the mandragora BCNM40.
Leaping boots were 80,000gil, and this was an extravagant amount.

Under a year later, many NA players were starting to get 75.
Eventually there were enough to try some of the more challenging fights, like Divine Might.

Older Generation NA Divine Might

One thing that hasn't changed since then...

death still looks the same
o(≧◇≦*)oo(*≧◇≦)o

Death still looks the same

↑の写真
LSで神威戦やりに行って
成功した
作戦その一：２Hアビなしで練習しにBC入って全滅した
With my JP LS I went to do Divine Might again, and we were successful.
The first run we did as a practice run and we died, but the second run went well.

２回目は成功

More Tiamat

何ヶ月前のV.up前に狩で２０００ダメ超えたことがあるけど
モ、忍、白ｗｗで超えられなくて
Before the ranger update, I had broken 2000 damage as rng, but...
with mnk, nin, and whm www I couldn't break 2k

So when this happened:
これを見た時には：

びっくりしたじゃん
I was a bit surprised

黒魔法師は楽しいなー

Blm is fun~

おまけ：
最近夏目漱石の本、「夢十夜」読んでるんだけど
なかなか難しいなー
瓜実顔「うりざねがお」といろんな漢字があって大変
↑
「実」はなんで「ざね」っていうの？
「じつ」じゃない？
ミステリーだねぇー

omake:
These days I've been reading Natsume Soseki's Novels
(Japanese Literature)
But it's pretty tough...
There are a lot of weird kanji like "urizanegao"

Why is 実 pronounced "zane"?
Shouldn't it be "jitsu"?
It's a mystery....

Chasing Aspi

2006-03-15T04:00:00.000-08:00

I was fortunate enough to tank Aspi for the first time.
I didn't know what to expect, so at the beginning it was rough.

I expected his accuracy to be high, so I brought a VIT/DEF build for nin, but his accuracy was not as high as I expected.
I borrowed Ravyn's scorpion harness and things went much more smoothly.

In retrospect, it would have been much better to have brought melody earrings - I left them in storage.

From watching other ninjas, I knew that I should use sword, so fortunately I remembered that much.
I did not remember his earthen breath being so strong though...
The first time I had him pointed at mages
-_-;

BLM team behind me I'm sorry >_<

The drops were horrible though...

However I finally got egg
^^

The Aspi battle has made me realize I still have a lot of upgrades to do for NIN, even though I thought maybe a general set of equips would be comfortable for most occassions. Jack of all trades, master of none. An evasion, physical resist, and attack setup would probably be the minimum.

future upgrades:
byakko haidate
bomb queen ring
scorpion harness
arhat's gi
cassie earring

If I had to tank Aspi again, I would do much better. My LS has tons of nin, most of who have better equips than me, so I am usually more needed as whm.

Nidhogg + Vrtra

2006-03-12T12:17:00.000-08:00

Proof that Nidhogg hates us: 4 N.legs in the last 3 Nidhoggs
No M.Body, no A.Body

Went to do Vrtra

Pretty Big

After 2 hours and 2 deaths in whole alliance

We won^^

Congrats BBQ

I'm being lazy on this post, will update later

本当みたいな嘘の話ｗ

2006-03-06T09:38:00.000-08:00

ゲンブを倒して

海霊の手キター

わいー

解呪しに行って
さくらなんかきれいなーって思って写真取ったｗ

解呪中

昨日Ｔｉａｍａｔも倒したけど
クアルで忙しくて写真取るのを忘れちゃったｗ

アメリカで「ヒナ祭り」っていうことがないから
英語でＤｏｌｌ　Ｆｅｓｔｉｖａｌ（人形の祭り）っていうの

日本に行ったことなくてヒナ祭りはどんな感じか全然わかんないけどねｗ
ヒナ祭りで少女に人形を上げるはずだっけ？ｗ
訳わかんないなーｗ

Recently

2006-02-22T13:59:00.000-08:00

I thought maybe I should give blm another shot
また黒レベル上げようかと思ってて

だが問題は一つ：
but there's a slight problem

許してねｗ
please forgive me >_<

비밀이다

2006-02-17T16:49:00.000-08:00

There are several secret tricks you can use to pull more effectively during high-competition NM's.
It just took me a while to figure them out.
These tricks do not involve .dat or any third party programs, or breaking Terms of Service.
They are working well for me.

ヽ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

So what are they?
Basically it involves making your graphics look as ugly as possible.
Other then that, the rest is:
【ｓecret】
秘密だっぴょん

Flash→Behemoth

No tongue　舌なかなか出ないな
((￣＿￣*)(*￣＿￣))

Old pic of me and Topo

4-person LS EXP party

Nidhogg Success　頭でかいー

Two N.Legs for the thieves, and a wyrm beard for me!
鱗タキー

鱗beard ◎
舌tongue Ｘ
卵egg Ｘ

I need a new belt...

2006-02-12T23:13:00.000-08:00

黒帯欲しくて最近土NMで頑張ってる
クエストの為にNidhoggかFafnirのウィルムの逆鱗、BehemothかKing Behemothのベヒーモスの舌、AdamantoiseかAspidocheloneのアダマンタスの卵が必要で土NMで頑張らないと。。。
LSで黒帯要る人は私だけでその内に手に入れるかも
多分ｗ

今日のベヒ戦：

ベヒーモスの舌欲しいな（ドロップは槍のみ）

今日もねぐらで１１０人以上がいったけど頑張って釣り勝負を勝った！ｗ

３

２

１

成功！ｗ

だがすぐ死んじゃったorz

taking a break from monk for a while until i get new belt.
i'll be on paladin or blm until then, i think...

팬티의힘

2006-02-10T21:48:00.000-08:00

"So this is the power of the subligar?!"

최근

2006-02-01T02:11:00.000-08:00

Recently:

I've been doing brown belt quest.
Brown belt is STR+5, Haste+8%.
Haste+8% is quite a bit, and people underestimate the value of haste a lot.
8% Haste is you attacking 8% more often. That is +8% damage.
There are very few items that can increase your damage by 8%.
When you add 5 STR to the mix, it is a very, very fearsome belt.

Unfortunately, the quest has been causing me trouble.
Morlborger was giving me trouble.
I was at 0/16 on Nue.
But finally:

Got drop on Nue. Thanks to Bluetaru and Wyred for their help~

Another item required for the belt was Morlborger Vine.
Normally, this drops from a 24HR spawn NM.
I camped him 3-4 times, and two of those times I fell asleep.
Fortunately, when I asked for ToD on Odin forums, Alahel told me of his summoner group, who does a BC which drops vine.
We went to fight Oscar and:

4x Garuda 【Fear】 + Got Vine.

We also did Double Dragonian and:

New Destroyers and New Brown Belt!
Unfortunately, they're not equippable by NIN, but they are by RNG.
I don't understand why.... But this means if I want to unlock in advance, I'll have to do it with RNG...
My plan is to be RNG/MNK, wear very ambiguous armor (maybe Genbu's Kabuto + Osode + Subligar)
I'll go /anonymous, and then
I'll offer to help people with quests, and pretend I'm a very low-damage monk.
<(ﾟーﾟ;)>

Finally I can resume monk exp. I'll have to take a break at 70 for black belt though^^;

Thanks to:
Alahel
Supergirl
Katten
Kaiya
Speedgirl
for all their help with the BC.

Currently I do sky with 2 different LS. One is a larger LS that does HNM also, and one is a sky-only LS. I have a few friends in the sky-only LS so it's fun to have weekend events with them. It's a very small LS, and one thing I've been impressed by is their ability to do big things with small numbers.

One such "big thing" was Kirin with 18people for the entire fight (no outside anything - no outside curing, no whm outside, not even another LS waiting in the room)
I mentioned this to some friends, but I don't think they believed me.
Anyways, with only 1 alliance vs. Kirin, you don't even have to call for help!

Exp from summoned Suzaku. Chain 1 also hehe. I think Byakko's perfect dodge broke our exp chain though.

The fight lasted a little over 1hour, and we managed to pull through with only a few deaths.
I luckily managed hate, and pulled through with no death. With the exp from the 4 summons, and Kirin himself, I got:

A merit off of Kirin hehe. One more and I'll get 4th upgrade for Hand-to-Hand.

Also finally got Crimson hands with BBQ~ Much thanks.

RNG gear is complete for now. I don't use it enough to warrant dusk trousers or a triumph earring. I may update one earring to cassie in the future once I'm 73mnk and can sell harness + buy cursed haidate. It would be for use on NIN mostly, but having 60MP has ranger is a bit annoying too.

Action pic with new gloves

고양이스러운단어

2006-01-30T10:33:00.000-08:00

Important colloquial phrases, involving cats:

猫被り！
Covert-Cat!
Meaning: Wolf in sheep's clothing, deceptive.

猫に小判！
Giving a cat gold coins!
Meaning: Wasting something. "Casting pearls before swine."

猫騙し！
Cat-slap attack!
Meaning: This is the move in sumo where one opponent slaps the other guy in the face. (Not permitted in amateur sumo)

山猫戦術！
Wild-cat battle tactics!
Meaning: An aggressive battle strategy.

고양이고양이천국

2006-01-28T10:25:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, I went all the way to sky, woke up at 3am for the sky run, and ended up falling asleep 1/3 of the way through... what a waste, no points for me T_T

I should have just slept in....

Rainbow~ Saw this on my way to Ordelle's for Morlborger

Geronot made me new shoes^^ Wulong shoes have hidden effect: kick attacks+27. With the shoes, my kicks do more than my punches, and roughly double my punch damage while bare-handed.
I now have a Geronot Nobles and Geronot Wulong, and can actually wear them together (WHM can wear Wulong)

Also went to do Early Bird Catches the Wyrm with my HNMLS this week.

It's an incredibly fun fight, it's been a while since I've done Fafnir/Tiamat, and this guy is like both combined into one^^

I was only able to stay for 3battles, which we won all three.

Haven't been to an event in a while, seems to be a lot more Osodes, Dalmaticas and Koenigs out there^^

Preparing for the battle

He's a big one. I wish they gave him a unique color or something though. White would look really nice.

Wyrm's last breath. You can see the Treasure Chest has popped up already^^

And the drops. Not bad^^ Out of 3 runs, I think we got a couple of Unshos, Shruriken, Guespiers, Deirzaks, a few logs, etc.

Also, my Nue losing streak continues... I'm currently at 0/9 or 0/10.

About monk:

Monk is an equipment-based job. There's not a lot to punching, but that doesn't mean it's a low skill job. The skill in monk comes from preparing your macros, and knowing what equipment is good in what situations.

I recently partied with another monk who was JP. His gear was similar to mine, the differences were that he uses Cross-counters, I use Feral Fangs. He uses brown belt and I use life belt. Also, he used Fuma Kyahan while I use Gero-boots. He used Temple Crown and I used Voyager's sallet.

Halfway through the party, he informed me that he was parsing our damage. Eventually he told us that his damage was less than half of mine, and by 2 hours there was a 9000 damage difference.

Similar gear, same level, huge damage difference - how come? I think there were a few issues: the first one was that he ate sushi. If I remember, he was at over +35 accuracy. At +35 on normal IT mobs, curry or another attack food is a much better choice. If you have to eat sushi with +35 accuracy, you're probably 1-2 levels too low for the current camp.

Monk's weapon's base damage is high. Their innate strength is also high. What really makes monk damage shine is attack. And curry adds tons of it.

Another few small considerations can really push your performance as a monk, like utilizing AF properly. Macroing in Temple Crown for focus is an additional +10 accuracy - this is like a free optical hat. Temple gloves for boost before WS also makes a big difference. To get the boost effect from AF, and still be able to get attack+20 from Ochiudo's, a simple lag-proof macro works:

for boost
/equip hands "Temple gloves"
/ja boost
/wait 1
/equip hands "Ochiudo's kote"

for ws
/equip hands "Ochiudo's kote"
/ws "Name of WS"

The switch to Ochiudo's kote before WS may seem reduntant, but this ensures that you don't have to wait 1 second for AF to switch back to kote before WS. It may seem like a hassle - but if you think about it, an AF-boost could easily add +20 or more attack to your WS, which is basically the same as kote. If people are willing to pay 9million for 20attack, it seems natural that you would want this extra boost attack before WS also.

치킨수러운생활

2006-01-23T02:03:00.000-08:00

やっとボイジャーサリットをゲット！
Finally Got Voyager Sallet!
ヽ(´ー`)ﾉ

Me-SMN, Ashira-SMN, Nakira-SMN, Rhyis-BLM, Omsagro-RDM, Ivone-NIN, Ninjafox-THF, Jynxed-THF

A lot of people don't like the look, but I really like the way it looks.
ほほ～見た目いいな～♪

景観いいな～
Great scenery in Riverne A01

Nue doesn't want to drop his fang.
牙なかなか出ないなー

원숭이도나무에서떠러진다

2006-01-19T09:54:00.000-08:00

drawdistance is great. with it on, you don't have to talk to NPC to know how long until you arrive at jeuno, you can just look off the deck and see.
そろそろジュノ駅、ジュノ駅で到着します。降りると手足気をつけてくださいませ。

blm party
flare + quake + tornado + burst + freeze = death
i used to be jealous of blm parties when i was other jobs, but now i'm not.
a well organized tradition party can do just as well, and blm parties are incredibly boring.

グラフィックディスプレーのレベルアップ

2006-01-16T16:21:00.000-08:00

These days I've been partying with Coejus and Omegacross a lot:
最近OmegaちゃんとCoejus君とよく組むね

雪きれいなー

こいつとよく組む/slap

I've had a few people ask me in-game about the graphics so here's a basic guide to make FF look better:
んでゲームでグラフィックスのことよく聞かせたからこれでFAQを明かす

Drawdistance is a plugin which allows you to see much further than normal.
It must be used in conjunction with Azrael's Windower.
The windower can be found here:
http://ffxi.archbell.com/index.php?page=projects&project=windower

Drawdistanceは遠く離れていても景観を見える為のPluginなんのよ
AzraelのWindowerと一緒に使うはず
ダウンロードサイトはこっち：
http://ffxi.archbell.com/index.php?page=projects&project=windower

Once you download the windower, you can download the drawdistance plugin:
http://ffxi.archbell.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1639

WindowerをダウンしてPluginもダウンロード
http://ffxi.archbell.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1639

Once you download it, put it in the Windower 3.nn Folder, in the folder labeled "Plugins"
Once you start FFXI, you can push the ~ button, and type:
load drawdistance
.drawdistance set N
N can be a value from 1 (default) to 10. The higher you set this number, the further you will be able to see.

ダウンしてからWindower　3.nn のPluginフォルダーにファイルを入れる
FFXIを開始して「～」キー入力して
load drawdistance
.drawdistance set N
を入力
Nは数で１の方は近く、１０の方は遠く見える

Examples:

drawdistance set at 7 (my usual)

drawdistance set at 10

drawdistance set at 3

drawdistance set at 1 (same as normal FF)

Some notes:
Unless you have a pretty new and fast (expensive) computer, I wouldn't recommend setting drawdistance at the higher end.

Also, there is a nice program that makes your video card faster, something called "over-clocking." Guru3D makes a program called RivaTuner which is good for this. Their site can be found here:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/

There is a very easy to follow guide that explains it all here:
http://www.sysopt.com/features/graphics/article.php/3549986

에네르기팟!!

2006-01-12T02:34:00.000-08:00

１－サポ戦レベル上げてよ！
Ａ－You know the saying, "An exposed nail gets hammered down?" (Meaning: Don't stand out, fit in with the group)
Ｂ－The exposed nail is you!
Ｃ－No, I'm the fox.
Ｄ－で、何で戦士レベル上げなきゃならないのか教えてｗ
Ｅ－The fox that stands out gets shot. (This is funny because "shot" and "hammered down" are pronounced the same. Also "exposed" and "comes out" are the same)
Ｆ－狐殺生禁断！
^^; Probably funnier in Japanese. Actually might not even be funny in Japanese. In English I can normally tell if people are laughing at me, or with me. Not so much the case here^^;

遊覧飛行わーい
飛行船からデム見える

ルセンチ手に入れたー

Thanks Rhyis!!
┗(￣▽￣)┓

今週オセを倒して

アサルトタキー
けどロット負け；；

Japanese dogs say "Wan"
Japanese cats say "Nya"
Apparently Fenrir is bilingual though, he says both woof and wan.
フェンちゃん「わーん」も「Ｗｏｏｆ］も知ってるから２ヶ国語犬ってことかしらｗ

ソフトウェア差別？ｗ

2006-01-09T19:33:00.000-08:00

英訳：
Anonymous: Umm... Excuse me. By any chance might this warrior gentleman be using a version of FF other than the Japanese version?

Me: Yes^^;

Me: But, I can translate.

Anonymous: Ah, I'm sorry. I make it a policy not to party with anyone who doesn't use the Japanese version of FF. Please invite another person.

(-o-;)
Huh?
ソフト差別じゃん！
It's Software Discrimination!

乱の写真集

2006-01-02T16:17:00.000-08:00

なんか身体から赤いの出てるんのよ
まさか。。。血なのか？
some red substance is coming out of my body
... could it be blood?

竜ｖｓ猫
（今度だけは竜の勝ち）
cat vs dragon
i let the dragon win this time

白魔法猫
white mage-cat

猫狩の攻撃
cat ranger's attack

飛べーっ
fly~

猫ｖｓ犬
cat vs dog

할수없지뭐

2005-12-28T04:31:00.000-08:00

最近日本ネットラジオよく聞いてる
日本音楽も好きからね
んだけど何日前で
変な歌聞いちゃった
歌手の名とか知らないけど
男性だ
「君は四十歳」
「俺は十七歳」
「恋をしようよ～♪」
(￣□￣;;;;)
何やって
可笑しいなーこれ
エロジジって聞いたことあるけど
エロばぁちゃんって聞いたことないのよ
エロばぁちゃん！十七歳の男子と恋しないでよ！

these days i listen to a lot of japanese net radio
since i also enjoy JP music
but a few days ago
i heard a weird song
i don't know the name of the artist but...
it was a male singer
"you are 40-years old"
"i am 17 years old"
"let's make babies~♪”
(￣□￣;;;;)
huhhh?!!
this is a weird one
i've heard of erojiji "perverted old man"
but i've never heard of erobachan "perverted old woman"
erobachan! please refrain from making babies with 17 year old boys!

Only Jynx

ベルトクエ中

wait a sec... neko your SJ is blm.. uhiiii please forgive me. to tell you the truth, i can only sub BLM. i'm sorry, it was a lie. ehhh for real?

この世。。。
サンドの手に入れた
首の時代になりそうー
the world...
has fallen into sandoria's hands
the dynasty of the Neck has come

ほんまかいな？ｗ

2005-12-21T02:03:00.000-08:00

ほんまかいな＝　Fo shizzle?

最近忙しくて
過労死orz

recent happenings

2005-12-06T15:49:00.000-08:00

Sacrarium
Aable's Joyuse
Centurio, which never drops Intruder Earring

猫の夢か人間の夢か

2005-11-29T10:16:00.000-08:00

私猫の夢見ている人間なのか
人間の夢見ている猫なのか

今日の関西弁練習：
「この世ん中で色んな人間がおるもんやわ～」
「いません」は関西弁で「おらへん」だっけ？＾＾；
「誰もおらへんや」←正しいかな？
「ちがう」と「じゃない」は「ちゃう」になるよね
「よろしゅう頼みまんがなー」

Ouryu Victory

2005-11-21T09:09:00.000-08:00

SubligarConnection Success!

The Setup:
NIN/WAR - Myoko
THF/WAR - Jynxed
BLM/WHM - Me
BLM/WHM - Angulis
RDM/BLM - Rhyis
SMN/WHM - Nakira

The Preparation:

12! Mistmelts.
2 Icarus Wings, one for NIN, one for THF.
Blink Band for THF/WAR to be backup tank.
Yagudo Drinks for mages.
Hi-Ethers for mages.
3 Reraise earrings, shared between 6 people.

The Strategy:

From 100% to 75%, we just endured. No sleep was used. SMN/WHM would heal, BLM's would assist healing also.
Ouryu was kited by NIN/WAR.
BLM's used Aero I and Aero II only.
RDM/BLM would dispel, heal, gravity.
BLM/WHM kept Barstronra on everyone.
Everyone used drinks for refresh (RDM was busy enough)
We were doing fine - Ouryu used an AoE once, which took most of us into red, but we recovered easily with Curaga and Cure II's.
Once Ouryu got down to ~75%, I told NIN (Myoko) to stop kiting.
Then I called a Vanadiel time to start freeze x2. (5:15 in our example)
Once Freeze casting was at 19%, I signaled for start of skillchain.
NIN and THF then used icarus wing, and performed Blade:Chi -> Viper Bite (No SATA) Distortion skillchain.
After the nice green distortion animation ended, the two freeze spells landed, perfectly.
2000 damage!
The distortion skillchain and double MB was amazing - it went perfectly and prevented any chances of resist - Freeze damage and the skillchain timing was so crucial I didn't want to risk having it resisted, we even praticed on Dragons beforehand.
At this point, Rhyis(RDM), Angy(BLM), and me(BLM) used sleep II immediately after MB.
Rhyis's Sleep II was with elemental seal, me and Angy saved our ES for the 2nd round of freeze.
At this point Ouryu was sleeping, and Nakira woke him up with Astral Flow: Aerial Blast.
When I planned this out, I was hoping Aerial Blast would make Garuda the tank, allowing me and Angy to recover for 2nd round of freeze, so Nakira kept Garuda out to tank, while using items to regain MP.
As me and Angy used Manafront to prepare for the second round of freeze, Nakira was able to Aerial Blast again, which ended the battle!
We didn't even have to use a second round of freeze

This is SubligarConnection ready to go!

This is us enduring the first 20~25%.

The skillchain + MB

Afterwards, we went to Sacrarium to hunt keys and subligar, and I picked up one of these:

Recent Happenings

2005-11-11T10:14:00.000-08:00

今日は訳やる気なしｗ

A few days ago, I decided to join in on KS99: The Early Bird Catches the Wyrm
It's an interesting battle: the mob, called Wyrm, seems to be a cross between Tiamat and Fafnir.
神印９９の竜戦やってみたってことetc
While on the ground, his behavior is almost indentical to Fafnir: he uses Hurricane Wing, breath attacks, Spike Flail, Absolute Terror, and the other standard Fafnir moves.
こいつファフちゃんとティアちゃんの様に色々な竜タイプ攻撃できるってこと
However, at a certain point Wyrm decides to fly, and things get interesting:
He shoots down fireballs from the sky, which did about 200 damage to me as whm/smn.
He uses an Area of Effect attack called Inferno Blast which does ~500 damage to all players...
Wyrmは空飛んですごいダメージ喰っちゃた

AoE 500 damage
範囲攻撃で５００ダメージ！

(－◇ー;)!!

Anyways, strategy is secret so I'll post some pictures:

He's a big one.

Up to this point it's about the same as a Fafnir Fight.

Also, I'm trying to save up for HQ staves for my blm. The staves run from about 1mil to 2.4mil, so for the complete set, I'm looking at around 10mil^^;
NQ are doing okay so far, but I'd like to eventually have all HQ.
I have various other upcoming expenses also: Penitent's Rope (2mil) and Elemental Torque (2mil)...

HQスタフ欲しくて金策しなきゃetc.

Anyways, I grabbed a thief from my social LS and we headed down to Kuftal for a money-making expedition.
Kuftal is a decent place to make money: Angel Skin (10% drop rate off Devil Manta) is about 1mil, Phantom Talthum (15-20% drop rate off Phantom Worm) is about 300k.

LSのシと一緒にクフで金策しに行ってPhantom　WormとDevil Mantaやってみた

Phantom Worm Excitement

Devil Manta Excitement

Also managed to round up enough experience to get...

LEVEL 56
レベル５６
( ノ￣∇￣)ノタキー！

I personally like the Shaman's Cloak and AF Pants look

Neko BLM Style

Random Pic of the Day

Onekomaruは、麒麟大袖を手に入れた

2005-11-07T09:12:00.000-08:00

This time written in JP first then translated to English, so English is a bit funny.

土曜日の夜：
忍者HNM装備で最大的対心＋１９ぐらい？だったけど
Backで敵対心装備がなくて
フェンリルケープ（日中:防+10夜間:敵対心+3）欲しいなーって思ってて
（無料だしｗ）
同時にシャウト見た！
「フェン戦メンバー募集中～」って
いいタイミングじゃん！ｗ

Saturday Night:
For my HNM Nin setup, I only have enmity +19? or so.
Since I didn't have any enmity in back equips, I thought
【Hmm.】I kind of want Fenrir's Cape.
(Since free is a good price w)
At the same moment, I saw a shout!
"Fenrir Battle Recruiting Members"
Hey, this is great timing!w

が、問題は一つ…
９時予定って
日本９時はここの４時AM！
時間的にきついぃー

but... there was a problem.
They said "Planned for 9 o'clock."
Japan's 9 o'clock is 4am here!
In regards to time that is tough...

まぁ日曜日でクラスかバイトなくてなんとかなるって思って
４時でフェンBCをやってみた

Well, since I don't have class or part-time job on Sunday I thought somehow it'll somehow work out, and,
at 4 o'clock I went to do the BC.

作戦その壱！：全滅ｗ
本当にぎりぎりで５％ぐらいで死んだ
赤さんうまくてフロウをスタンできたのに
あたしヘイト取り過ぎて
サポート盾がタゲ取れなかった

Mission 1!: Total Failure
It was really barely a loss @5%, and we died.
Despite the fact that the rdm was able to skillfully stun Flow
I kept too much hate,
and the support tanks couldn't get hate from me.

作戦その弐！：全滅（またか？ｗｗ）
フロウを喰らってすぐ死んだｗ
フロウまですごくいいペースだったのに

Mission 2!: Total Failure (Again?ww)
We ate Flow, and died.
Until Flow we had a nice pace going

作戦その三！：成功～
朝６：３０時で開始ｗ
凄く眠かったけど
頑張るしかないって
今度はチームワークがよくて
成功だった
【やったー！】

Mission 3!: Success~
6:30am start w
I was super sleepy but
We have no choice to do our best.
This time the teamwork was good, and
we succeeded.
【All Right!】

侍盾うひぃｗ　(Sam Tank uhiii w)

フェンちゃんの命中別に高いなんてないけど
ロアはきつい
Fen-chan doesn't really have high accuracy or anything but,
Roar is tough

フェン戦朝朝７時で終了
空LSで８時で麒麟戦もあったから
寝なくて麒麟戦迎えに行った（なんてこったｗ）
後９０分ぐらいで勝利
「Kirinは、麒麟大袖持っていた！」
まじ？ｗｗ
「Onekomaruは、麒麟大袖を手に入れた」
やっとゲット！！！

Fenrir battle ended at 7am
Since I had a Kirin Battle at 8am with my Sky LS,
I didn't sleep and headed towards Kirin (nantekotta w)
After 90minutes or so we won.
"You find a Kirin's Osode on Kirin."
For reals?w
"Onekomaru obtains a Kirin's Osode."
Finally got it!!!

忍の見た目
Nin's Look

狩の見た目
Rng's Look

狩でメリポPT【エキサイト】！
Merit PT 【Excitement】 as rng!

Pictures

2005-11-04T19:50:00.000-08:00

Wide View of Lower Jeuno

文法エキサイト

2005-11-02T11:30:00.000-08:00

Um... random japanese tips for all the people out there learning.

Basic JP

Using -i Adjectives

In japanese, many of the adjectives end with -i, and they have their own unique usage.
I will stick with an example that most people know, "kawaii 可愛い"

For the positive form, you don't change the adjective:
The cat is 可愛い(kawaii)
Meaning: The cat is cute

For the negative form, you change the ending -i into -ku and add "nai"
The cat is 可愛くない(kawaikunai)
kawaii → change -i into ku
kawaiku → add nai
kawaikunai
Meaning: The cat is not cute.

Other examples:
優しい(Yasashii)
Meaning: Kind
優しくない(Yasashikunai)
Meaning: Unkind

Intermediate JP

How to have second clause of sentence against the first:

In English you can use "although" "but" "despite" to communicate that the second half of a sentence is going to be contrary to the first.

In japanese there's several ways to do this, immediately following the first verb:
ーけど kedo
ーが ga
ーのに noni

Example:
I ate pizza けど(kedo)　I am still hungry.
Pizza食べたけどまだ腹減ってる
Meaning: I ate pizza but I am still hungry.

You could also say:
I ate pizza のに(noni) I am still hungry.
Pizza食べたのにまだ腹減ってる
Meaning: I ate pizza but I am still hungry.

So what's the difference between -ga -kedo and -noni?

ーけど-kedo means "but"
It is used when first clause and second clause have a greater difference.

ーが-ga also means "but"
It is more flexible than "kedo", can be used when second part is not very contrary to the first part.

ーのに-noni
This has a meaning of "although"... Usually used in situations where the 2nd clause of the sentence is vastly contrary to expectations.
Example:
I give [name] 10000000gil.
[Name] slaps me.
In this situation I could say
I gave [name] money のに (noni) he slapped me.
In this case, it's not simply "I gave [name] money but he slapped me."
It is more like "Despite the fact that I gave [name] money, he slapped me, it was contrary to my expectation."

Advanced JP

In English, there is an active and passive voice.
Active: I ate the pizza.
Passive: The pizza was eaten by me.

In both instances, the overall meaning is the same; what differs is the emphasis. In active voice, the emphasis is on the subject, who is doing the action. In passive voice, the emphasis is on the object, who is receiving the action.

Active: Emphasis is on "I"
Passive: Emphasis is on "pizza"

Japanese also has an active and passive voice.
For example:
NidhoggはOnekomaruを倒した
(Nidhogg ha Onekomaru wo taosita)
Nidhogg defeats Onekomaru.

However, for those of you who play on JP client, you know that the log doesn't say this, it would say:
Onekomaruは、Nidhoggに倒された
(Onekomaru ha Nidhogg ni taosareta)
Onekomaru was defeated by Nidhogg.

This is natural, since Onekomaru, the object, should get the emphasis.

As far as I know, I don't see a recognizable pattern to changing active verb voice into passive, it's something you just have to learn from experience.

Here are some others:

誘う→誘われる
sasou →　sasowareru
Example:
Active: 黒さんを誘いました～ kuro-san wo sasoimasita~
I invited a black mage.

Passive: orz 黒さん外人PTに誘われた
orz The black mage was invited into a foreigner PT.

You could also say:
外人PTは黒さんを誘いました
The foreigner PT invited the black mage.
In this case, passive would be better, since the emphasis is on the black mage, not the foreigner PT.

倒す→倒される
taosu →　taosareru

する→される
suru→sareru

言う→言われる
iu → iwareru

やる→やられる
yaru → yarareru

Maybe there's a pattern?

Side Note:
関西弁練習中

最近焼きたてジャパンっていうアニメをダウンして見てるやけど「河内恭介」っていうキャラのせいで（のおかげで？）開催弁に興味が。。。
開催弁って面白いやが全然分からへんや
やけどなんか格好いいやｗ

河内恭介

Recently

2005-11-01T07:44:00.000-08:00

Tuufie makes me a Republic Circlet

Get Centurio X-I, but no Shaman's Cloak

No Drop

Decide to solo Aquarius as nin/whm

Took quite a while

People came to watch

3 Vanadiel days later...

Aquarius finally goes down

ＮＭハンターの写真集

2005-10-27T18:06:00.000-07:00

今週ＮＭ釣りに頑張ってた
This week I worked pretty hard on getting NM's.

今週Ｆａｆｎｉｒ３回成功

リディルタキー！ｗ

楽しみ！ｗ

モルダバイトタキー！ｗ

なんか気持ち悪いなｗ

釣り勝負勝ったー！ｗ

イアリング希望。３回倒したなのに出なかった

フレを手伝い中

むーまたかよーｗ

ブログタイトル変わったｗ

2005-10-27T11:21:00.000-07:00

猫猫天国やん～
Changed Title for Blog^^
Cat Cat Blade:Ten Country is a little autotranslator joke
Blade:Ten Country is 天国
aka Ten (Sky) + Country
SkyCountry is same word for heaven.

失敗！

2005-10-22T15:18:00.000-07:00

御袖→大袖

（；Д；）

漢字苦手

御袖幸猫

2005-10-21T14:09:00.000-07:00

Kanji is a semi-pictorial representation of an idea. It is used in the system of writing for several countries, including Korea, Japan, and China.

Kanji is different than the English alphabet: in English, several sounds make up a word. For example, "cat." The letters, C, A, T have no meaning on their own, they're just sounds.

However, each Kanji has a unique meaning, a unique spelling, a unique etymology, and in order to be fully literate you need to memorize at least 2000 characters for Japanese, 800 for Korean. So you could say the Japanese alphabet has 2000+ letters.

This leads to a flexibility in language that is missing from English. One nice thing about Kanji is the 4kanji phrases, which have some kind of deeper meaning:

弱肉強食
weak meat strong meal
The weak are eaten, the strong are the eaters.

寸善尺魔
inch virtue, foot evil
There is more evil than good in the world.

千人千色
thousand people thousand colors
Each person is unique.

春宵一刻
spring evening one moment
A spring evening is as valuable as it is fleeting.

悪木盗泉
bad tree rob spring
A virtuous person does not stray from his values.
(A tree that robs a spring of water is straying from its values)

英雄好色
heroic man loves sensuality
Behind every hero is a women he lusts for.

美人薄命
beauty person weak life
The life of a beautiful woman is short.

御袖幸猫
osode happy cat
If cat gets osode, there will be world peace, unparalleled hapiness, the end of starvation, and it will foster in an unprecedented era of success.

200ポイント超えたaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
現在２０１ｗ

The bilingual, it is groovy

2005-10-20T11:43:00.000-07:00

Yay for babelfish auto-translation service, this is yesterday's post:

With HNMLS the point accumulating at long haul, the already you insert in the sleeve hand gradually! It is, as for rule as for the person who the lot would like to do 200 points or more as for necessary me presently in the sleeve about 192p? 200p as for the person whom it exceeds being little, 200p the sleeve necessary person is not with the member whom it exceeds

(. ω. ) ъ

The at the place at no day ago as for skill lifting in the www giraffe game which in the giraffe game becomes the bow technique cap bad

However just I am weaker than other hunting, don't you think? It probably is with something. When you insert in the sleeve hand, it becomes the origin strong. . . Perhaps

In Japan recently the orange range - there is popularity, it seems? Other than was song lover of song rice field Hikaru before the kana no year where something is good, but it is, that getting married, who already the singer it stopped, we would like to see?

Regrettable

Japanese music it is we like also M-Flo among them, because is don't you think? - the bilingual it is groovy, don't you think? don't you think?

the bugle Verbal of w M-Flo seems Korean also Japanese also English also flimsy, but me similarly it is w BoA 3 power national language expectation what, the pronunciation funny - www what speaking just, the you do not understand at all

interesting notes on babelfish:

Kirin is called "Kirin," which can also mean giraffe hehe. "To get" is 手に入れる, to insert into hand, which founds funny when translated literally -_-;

"Osode" is being translated as "sleeve hand" >.> So when I said "If I get Osode I wonder if I'll become more strong" turns into: "When you insert into sleeve hand, it becomes the origin strong."

I see where origin comes from too >.> もと　＝　元　or もと, one means origin, one means more...

"Rapper" was translated as bugle? www
The bilingual... it is groovy hehe.

I must defeat giraffes! To insert my sleeves in my hands! I must get the strength of origin! Then maybe I too will achieve maximum groovyness!

I dunno, babelfish is probably funnier if you understand why it comes out that way hehe.
The words are actually translated correctly, but this just shows for communciation, you need to know more than just the words...

御袖楽しみにしてます！

2005-10-19T10:58:00.000-07:00

HNMLSで長時間でポイントをたまっててさー

もうそろそろ御袖手に入れる！わぁぁぁーいー
ルールは御袖にロットしたい人は２００ポイント以上必要
私は現在１９２ｐぐらい？
２００ｐ超えた人は少なくて、２００ｐ超えたメンバーで御袖必要な人がいないー
【やったー！】
　　（　。　ω　。　）ъ　

あ、ところで何日前でさー
麒麟戦で弓術キャップになったｗｗｗ
麒麟戦でスキル上げるのは悪くて【許してください】
他の狩より私だけは弱いけどね＾＾；
なんででしょう
（－＿－；）
御袖手に入れたらもと強くなる。。。
多分
（　゜▽゜；）

日本でさ
最近オレンジレンジーが人気があるらしい？
以外は何がいいかな
何年前で歌田ヒカルの歌好きだったんだけど
ヒッキちゃん誰かと結婚してもう歌手やめたみたい？
残念

日本音楽ん中でM-Floも好きなのねー
バイリンガルって格好いいからねｗ
M-FloのラッパVerbalさんは韓国語も日本語も英語もペラペラらしいね
私と同じくじゃんｗ
BoAも３力国語はずなんだけど
英語発音可笑しいぃーｗｗｗ
一体何言ってるの全然分からない

うひぃーＶｅｒｂａｌさんのブログ見つけたｗ
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/beatspacenine

I guess I'll put last part in English too...
In Japan,
I heard Orange Range has been popular these days?
Other than that I wonder what's good
A few years back I really liked Utada Hikaru, but
I heard Hikki-chan got married and quit being a singer?
【That's too bad.】
For JP music, I also like M-Flo~
Since bilingual-ness is so cool w
I heard M-Flo's rapper Verbal speaks Korean, Japanese, and English.
He's like me! w
BoA also acts like she knows KR JP EN, but...
Her pronunciation is funny www
I can't understand a word she's saying

Meditation

2005-10-12T01:06:00.000-07:00

Am I a human dreaming that I am a cat?
Am I a cat dreaming that I am human?

Friend Profile: Topochocolate

2005-10-10T14:21:00.000-07:00

Topochocolate:

Nicknames: Topo, Poot, Love Muffin, Butt Princess 出っ尻女王　
( ゜∀゜；)
Main: Rdm Pld
How We Met: Through Genesys, Topo helped me out with genkai papyrus^^;
Random Memories: Random promathia missions, leveling paladin and white mage together, lots of chatting^^. Helping with papyrus, and basically anything I've needed help on >.>
Special Skills: Exercising in women's underwear on a treadmill. Downloading massive amounts of adult oriented material. Flirting with anything that moves, and some things that don't >.> エッチ大王。女のパンツ着ながら運動したり（リアルでｗ）、無料でＡＶをダウンしたり色々なことは彼の特別なスキル( ゜∀゜；；；；)

JP PT ONLY

2005-10-09T16:16:00.000-07:00

NA友達ガタガタ言ってたから今度は英訳もｗ

Yesterday, got invited to 2JP 3NA party.
As soon as I arrive, NA falls asleep.
15min wait.
昨日ねー外人３人日本人２人ＰＴに誘われた。
着いてから外人一人が寝落ちｗ
１５分待ち
(Onekomaru's Resist English Skill raises 0.2)

Leader searches for a replacement, but this time another NA gets connection lost.
(This time the leader)
15min wait.
お変わりの人を募集してたけど、もう一人の外人が落ちた（今度はリーダｗ
１５分待ち
ふむふむ：
(Onekomaru's Resist English skill raise to 150!)

So another 2 people are invited, but this time another NA gets connection lost.
We pull slowly as we wait for 30 minutes.
(/huh?!)
でさーお変わりの二人を誘ったけど、もう一人が落ちたｗ
少しずつ釣りながら３０分待ち
なんってことだーっｗ
(Onekomaru has learned "JP PT ONLY" effect!)

I had arrived one hour earlier, but so far have gotten around 800 exp.
The new leader has no choice but to disband.
～１時間前でキャンプ着いたのに～８００稼ぎ
新リーダ仕方なくてＰＴ解散したｗ
(Onekomaru learns "Expel the foreign barbarians!" effect)

日本人の二人「サチコメでＪＰ　ＰＴ　ＯＮＬＹって書いた方がいいかと」って言って
私も同感ｗ
The 2 JP say "Maybe it's better to write JP PT ONLY in our serach comments."
I have no choice but to agree hehe.

バイトに行く気なし

2005-10-05T12:32:00.000-07:00

朝から３時までクラス
４時から夜までバイト
家に帰ってから宿題。。。
あたしは「仕事したくないネコーーー！！」
(≧∇≦)b

忍７２になりたい～

2005-10-05T09:12:00.000-07:00

今日は日本語のみ
鬼畜米兵お断り！ｗ（ごめん冗談

何日前でセレーネの弓取りに行ってみた～

ウルグランドでBlack　Coneyっていう兎が落とすね。
赤さん→スリップル発動
黒さん→火IV、氷IV発動
忍さん→挑発のみ
モさん→気孔弾のみ
４人で行ってみてNMを３回倒して２回出た～【やったー！】

LSに感謝～ありがとー

忍で７１なったよね～
なんか７２になりた～７２で色々な新装備持ってるからねー

千手院力王Ｄ25 隔227 潜在能力:Ｄ38
クリティカルヒット+6%
風魔の脛当防21 HP+12 AGI+3 ヘイスト+3%
パンサーマスク防28 CHR+5 リザードキラー効果アップ
レジストパライズ効果アップヘイスト+2%
素破の耳 AGI+2 二刀流効果アップ片手剣スキル+5
羅刹手甲防24 攻+2 回避+10 潜在能力:カウンター+1

楽しみしてるね＾＾

素破の耳ってさー人の耳なのね？
（゜∇゜；）？？？（；゜∇゜）
素破ってどういう事かな？ｗ
あたしの耳はちょっと大きいけどね＾＾；
人の耳ならなんか気持ち悪い！！
Ewww I don't want to wear suppanomimi, it's someone's ear!! >.>

日本PTのマナー Manners for JP PT

2005-10-04T09:27:00.000-07:00

I get a large amount of mixed JP-EN parties. Many times, particularly the NA members have a poor understanding of basic manners.

マナー
１）自慢話やめましょう
２）集合して一緒に移動しましょう（皆さんにお待ちを
３）PTメンバーをチェックするのはだめですね
４）釣る前に連携と不意だまと色々戦法決めましょう
５）抜けるつもりなら３０分前で言ってくださいね
６）代わりの人を誘う前に他のPTメンバー時間あるかどうか確認しましょう
７）レベル差高いなら誘う前にOKかどうか確認しましょう（２レベル差以上は高いね
８）前衛３人後衛３人のメンバー集めるように頑張ってくださいね
９）長い時間で離籍する前にOKかどうか確認しましょう
１０）チョコ場でチョコ乗る前に「たげおｋ]って言ってくださいね
１１）移動する前に/seaで釣り場空いてるかどう確認しましょう
１２）PTリーダだったらサチコメで獲物と＜POS＞書いてくださいね
１３）組む前にヤマビコとオイルとパウダーの準備しましょう

Manners:
1) Let's stop bragging about ourselves
2) Let's gather together in one location, and move to camp together
3) Let's refrain from checking our members
4) Before pulling, let's decide on skillchain, SATA, and various battle plans
5) If we plan on disbanding, let's try to inform our party 30minutes ahead of time
6) Before inviting a replacement member, let's make sure everyone in the PT is ok on time, and inform the replacement member on the duration of party
7) Before inviting a member to a party with a large level difference, let's make sure everyone in the party is ok with it
8) Let's try our best to make parties with 3 mage, 3 melee
9) Before going AFK for a long time, let's make sure it's ok with our party
10) Before riding on Chocobo, let's say "Target OK" to make sure everyone has targetted the chocobo NPC
11) Let's make sure that the camp is not full before moving by using the /search function
12) If you're the PT leader, let's write down the prey, and pos that we're fighting at, in our search comment
13) Before party, let's prepare ourselves by bringing oil, powder, and echo drops if necessary.

Random

2005-10-03T11:55:00.000-07:00

I need an Osode >.>
御袖欲しいぃーなーｗ

Galoot＝御袖持ち(Has Osode)
Neko＝AFのみ(AF Only)

Galoot vs Kirin = ~40-130 dmg as rng/war　（狩／戦で４０～１３０ダメージ）
Neko vs Kirin = ~17-60 dmg as rng/nin　（狩／忍で１７－６０ダメージ）
Galoot vs Kirin = ~300-700 slug shot（～３００－７００スラグ）
Neko vs Kirin = miss miss miss miss miss（外ればっかり）

Probably didn't help that I was trying to skill up on Kirin >.>
麒麟でスキル上げてたから外れたのかなｗ
But I picked up a Selene's Bow the other day (Thanks to Icarus, Rhyis, and Sano) so I guess I'll cap archery skill, use points on Osode, and be a better ranger.
がセレーネボウが手に入れたから弓術スキルキャップまであげた方がいいかもね

新猫竜登場！ｗ

2005-09-30T13:14:00.000-07:00

The Birth of a New Dragoon

Finally got around to doing the Dragoon quest. Its a rather time-consuming quest, but well worth it. I now have a purple flying friend named Wuffi.

Did some leveling in Ronfaure, and now I'm level 8. ^^

Dragoon is such a powerful job, solo'ing at low levels. I've leveled every job to at least 10 (other than drg), and dragoon is by far the strongest. Melee damage is comparible to other DD - I hit the same as sam, drk, war, or mnk. You also get a pet which doesn't take your exp^^ I would put pet's level as Decent Challenge in comparison to my own. So solo'ing is like having a drg8, pet5 duo versus another mob.^^

Tiamat成功＃２

2005-09-29T09:21:00.000-07:00

Tiamat　成功やった～

Jan.26, 2005. We try Tiamat with 28 members, and have trouble getting Tiamat past 95%, even after four hours.

１月２６日２００５年。２８人でティアやってみて、４時間で頑張ったのに９５％で全滅。

Sept. 29, 2005. Tiamat with 42 members, and an easy victory (again) in less than two hours. It feels like we have gotten stronger as a linkshell.
９月２９日２００５年。４２人でティアやって２時間ぐらいで楽勝。LSの全体が強くなったような気がする。

Friend Profile: Jynxed

2005-09-28T12:48:00.000-07:00

Jynxed：

Nicknames: Jynx, Jinkipoo
Main: Thf　シーフ
How We Met: Jynx joined SubligarConnection while I was taking a break for finals.
Random Memories: While in an exp party, Jynx used the wrong ninjutsu, on the wrong mob. The wrong ninjutsu he used was hyoton:ichi, instead of utsusemi:ichi. The wrong mob was a Darter, who happened to be in the middle of 4 other darters. Immediately 10+ Darters link, we start a huge train, and the entire party dies, except Jynx. ^^ Fun times hehe. Also random memories doing various CoP, and manta fishing.　レベル上げPTで間違えにトンボに氷遁を使って１０匹以上大リンク。Jynx以外全滅だったｗ。大爆笑ｗ。なんか楽しかったｗ
Special Skills: MPK own party, being AFK long periods of time, doing CoP missions as thf.自分のPTをMPKしたり超時間で離籍したりシーフでPMしたりするのはJynxの特別なスキル

Friend Profile: Genesys

2005-09-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

Genesys:

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Nicknames: Gene, Geniepoo
Main: Drk
How We Met: When I first started playing, I received my first LS pearl from Knivess as a level 12 monk, with no subjob. The pearl was to an LS named elPalaciodelosNubes. At the time, the highest level in our shell was Eleene (lvl 58 whm, 2nd highest NA at the time), and we had various other members. Genesys was an "uber lvl 28 rdm", and we talked a bit. Later we would both move to the LS bandofthewhitehawk, and became friends.^^
Random Memories: Most of the early NA community turned lvl 50 around the same time, and huge groups would go to Eldieme Necropolis to get their papyrus. Drop rates were horrible, many would get frustrated, and you would hear horrible, horrible shouts in the Necropolis. People would curse their fate at having to undertake the quest. Many NA players would quit, frustrated with the quest. When it was time for my papyrus, it took so long, that Genesys would take shifts with her sister helping me. Because genkai 1 and AF quests were so hard, and required so much help from others, during this time I made many strong friendships which have lasted me until now. Also, when we were both level 60 drk and whm, we decided to become rich. Gene needed her Haubergon, and needed my Vermillion Tunic. (Haub was 1.2mil, Vermillion was 1.8mil) We would farm Beaudeux, hoping for NM's and farming beastmen for gil. To pass the time we would play "Name that Movie," where we switch off naming a movie that starts with A,B,C, etc. If we couldn't think of one, we would remove one piece of visible armor^^; I cheated by sending /tells to Topochocolate, so I was soon camping NM's with a very naked Gene. ^^;
Special Skills: Dying a lot, quitting FF (>_<), helping others selflessly.

ごめんね。言葉難しくて今日のスレ和訳不可能。

Friend Profile: Tuufless

2005-09-28T12:05:00.000-07:00

I decided to start a friend's profile for various people, since I have lots of 1-2hour breaks between classes^^;

Tuufless:

Nicknames: Tuuf, Tuufie, Various mispellings (Tuffless)
Main: BLM, and various mid-life crisis jobs
How We Met: I don't know if she remembers, but we first met in Ifrit's Cauldron, while mining Adaman Ore. Tuufie was ~50ish WHM at the time. The party was me, Genesys, and some other people, and we ended up all dying, but we got one Adaman Ore^^; After that she sent a /tell complimenting on my Japanese, apparently she read a post I made on FFXI Bilingual Forums. I learned that she also spoke some Japanese, and we've been friends since. 彼女覚えてないかもしれないけどイフの釜でアダマン取りに行って初めて会ったのね。彼女も少し日本語分かるって言ってさーその時から色々なことしゃべてずっと友達～
Random Memories: Doing Fenrir together; our party wiped horribly the first time. Getting help on Hakutaku. Random ENM with Bebelly. Good times^^フェンリルで１回全滅。ハクタクを手伝い。TuufieちゃんとBebellyさんでENM。色々ないい思い出
Special Skills: Translation, Goldsmithing, stunning Fenrir's Astral Flow, and changing jobs every 2 levels.

Failure

2005-09-27T09:52:00.000-07:00

Phantom Worm

Phantom Worm is a worm (/surpise) type NM, which is spawned by trading a Darksteel Ore (20k gil) to a ??? in the lower levels of Kuftal Tunnel. It is currently heavily camped by RMT, but these days I've been able to find the ??? every now and then. He's level 70, which made him Even Match to my nin, so I decided to give him a try. ^^; Big mistake. He has an extremely high regen rate; so high that I can actually see his HP bar move up and down. Anyways my attempts went like this:

1st Try:
RMT Duo tries and dies. I take over and solo it down to ~30% and die.
-2400 Experience Points

2nd Try:
Spawned by trading ore. This time I'm more prepared as /whm. Solo to 50%, run out of mp, and die.
-2400 Experience Points
-20,000 Gil.

3rd Try:
Spawned by trading ore. This time I'm more prepared as /whm, and I have juice this time. Solo to ~30%, get silenced, and die.
-2400 Experience Points
-20,000 Gil
-1 Juice.

4th Try:
Spawned by trading ore. This time I'm more prepared as /whm, juice, and I have echo drops this time. Solo to ~60% and start losing connection. Currently dead (most likely) and getting POL-1160 error.
-2400 Experience Points (most likely)
-20,000 Gil
-3 Juice
-1 Echo Drop.

Grand Total:
-9600 Experience Points
-60,000 Gil
-4 Juice
-1 Echo Drop

Half of me wants revenge, half of me wants to stop playing FFXI.

ごめんねー今日のスレ長いから訳やる気なしｗ

Devil　Manta　＆　金策

2005-09-26T15:35:00.000-07:00

Devil Manta Fishing
Devil Manta釣

Since classes started again, and I have a part-time job on top of class, I don't feel like I'll have enough time to do experience points parties. Finding the right jobs, gathering together, finding a good camp, and finally fighting requires a good 4-5 hours, which I don't think I'll have the time for.
夏休みが終わって秋学期が始まってクラスとバイトで忙しくてレベル上げPTは無理かなって思ってる。メンバー募集したりキャンプを探したりするの結構時間掛かるので４－５時間がなければならないのね。うん～やっぱ無理

（；д；）

So I was wondering what I should do when I have free time to play, but not enough to start a party. Some options were crafting, maybe ENM, or hunting NM.
だから暇ならどうしようかな～って思っててENMとかNM釣りとかしようかなと思ったんだけど

So I thought, "Let's become rich" hehe
じゃー暇なら金持ちになろう～ってｗ

Well, in the depths of Kuftal Tunnel, there is an area where you can fish up Devil Mantra, which drop Angel Skin. The good side is that they are one million gil each; the bad side is that the drop rate is not great, and they take a while to fish up.
クフタルでDevil　Mantraっていうタコがある。釣れればエンザルスキンが時々落とす。エンゼルスキン１個百万ギルだけど（わ～い）ちょっと釣りにくいよね。

But, I think it's not a bad thing to do if I have some extra time.
が頑張るしかない～ｗ

PS Added my old entries in. The huge blank space from Feb. to July was my extended study break^^;
Looking back makes me realize how much my Japanese has improved since 9 months ago. I didn't study or take any classes during that time, so the improvement must have come from playing FF hehe.

New Post^^;

2005-09-13T10:42:00.000-07:00

Stuff I've Been Doing Recently:
最近なにやってたのかな～ふむふむ

Mithra ENM 楽しみっっっｗ
1 勝Win 1 負Loss
黒さん寝てるよ；；早く起きなさいよ！ｗ
助けて～死ぬううぅぅよ；；
Ｏｎｅｋｏｍａｒｕは、Ｔａｒｕｔａｒｕ奴のフレアーに倒された
（；Д；）
Wake up ashi~ we're going to dieeee
Wake upppp
Onekomaru was defeated by the Bastaru's Flare

Ｄｉａｂｏｌｏｓ楽しみっっっｗ（前）
1 勝Win 0 負Loss
白赤赤シ忍暗でFull Attack!
剣＋刀でスタン成功～
Katana + Sword Stun Success
王竜を楽しみにしてるねー
Looking forward to Ouryuu~
Fear the Subligarrrr!

Ｄｉａｂｏｌｏｓ楽しみっっっｗ（後）
ぎりぎりでしょう？ｗ
Jynxed defeats Diabolos.

Ｊｏｒｍｕｇａｎｄ楽しみっっっｗ
1 勝Win Impossible to Gauge Loss 負不明ｗ
２時間ぐらい掛かったんだ（結構早いね）
Ｊｏｒｍｉｅに３回やられた（レイズ３わーい）
2hr Battle
3x death
Spike Flail @17%

何それ？
分かんないなーｗ
What the heck is this?＾＾；
Ｄｈａｍｅｌって肉ないの？
Dhamel have no internal organs?!
/panic

忍の見た目
格好いいでしょう？ｗ
My nin^^

now nin^^;

2005-08-08T12:30:00.000-07:00

詩１９で諦めてナ２４で諦めてシも５８で諦めて今日から忍だｗ
quit brd at 19, pld at 24, thf at 58, so i'm back to nin now^^;

why did i quit? good question... brd, pld got boring, and thf took forever to get invites T_T so i quit. nin, however, gets really quick invites - nearly as fast as whm.

top to bottom: nin, pld, thf

In other news, I joined a new social LS today^^ Its called... silver KRT something... I forgot the name ^^;　新ＬＳに入りましたが、ＬＳの名忘れてしまったＯｒｚ　It's an all JP LS, and Hrcsvelgr-san is the leader^^ 全日本人ＬＳでリーダはＨｒｃｓｖｅｌｇｒさんだ。I met him a long time ago as a blm, he was a paladin at the time. Apparently, we have a lot of friends in common, like Ronel, Yukivocal, Eikan, etc. ずっと前トヨで黒でＨｒｃｓｖｅｌｇｒさんと組んだ。ユキたんやロネルさんやエイカンさんと知り合いみたいだねーうちのＨＮＭＬＳメンバーなんだ。

BC40 Under Observation + Fafnir

2005-08-01T21:44:00.000-07:00

With my LS we took down fafnir recently. Fafnir is definately a fun fight, even as whm. I was whm/smn, and my duty was to cure pld occasionally, and spam Aerial Armor. Fafnir has a ton of HP, so it's crucial to do good skillchains with magic bursts, it's the only thing that will noticably dent his HP.
I also went to do BCNM 40, with the hecteyes, which drops peacock charm. I really want a peacock charm for my thief. I teamed up with Xzander from my social LS, and Lordlotuskiller, whom I partied with frequently as ranger. Our setup was nin/war (me), nin/whm (lordlotus), and rdm/whm (Xzander) The BCNM is challenging because the hecteyes use paralyze a lot. And if you've ever experienced hecteyes paralyze... it last a long time, and is very very very strong.

However, the strategy I came up with neutralized the hecteye's paralyze problem, while still leaving room for melee damage. With this strategy we won with ease; sometimes the nins would take 0 damage while taking out the compound eyes. (For info check killingifrit.com -> odin forums)

ＮＭ釣り大変

2005-07-27T19:46:00.000-07:00

Ｖ。Ｕｐで新シーウルフカジェル欲しくて船で白７２とセットでＮＭ釣りに行ったんだけど、骨ＮＭ　Ｂｌａｃｋｂｅａｒｄは思いより強くてＨＰ＠１０％ぐらい全滅；；

I was hoping for the new club for whm, the seawolf cudgel, and i teamed up with a lvl 72 whm/blm and hunted in on the ship, but the bone NM blackbeard was harder than i thought and we wiped at 10% T_T

hmm

2005-07-13T22:04:00.000-07:00

Went on KS99 run this morning, the King Behemoth one. It was lots of fun^^ Like the God version, Behe Jr. uses meteor, which has a nice looking animation to it, but does tons of damage. By tons I mean 2000+ sometimes.

今日の朝神９９BCをやりに行ってみた。べへのｗ楽しかった＾＾元のべへと同じくメテオを使って発動アニメシャンはすてきだけど、ダメージ高い。時々２０００超えるｗ

The key to this fight is for the person with hate to run away, so meteor doesn't get cast. However, we had some problems with people having hate and not kiting well, so we barely made the time. The 3rd run was a loss T_T

メテオから逃げたらメテオ発動が止めるけど、LSメンバーマラソン仕方苦手でぎりぎり間に合った。作戦その３負けたけど；；

well here's some pictures 写真集どうぞ

廃人Ｘ暇人◎過労死Ｘ

2005-02-24T17:58:00.000-08:00

by popular demand, today's post is bilingual
日本語下手のでお許しをｗ

むむー最近忙しくてつかれた；；私過労死で死体になる感じがｗ
mumu- these days i've been so busy i'm tired T_T. i feel like i'm going turn into a corpse from [death from overwork syndrome]w (hard to translate)

冬学期でクラス３つしか取ってなくて暇人だったけどさぁー（暇人わーいｗ）
winter semester i only had 3 classes so i was a himajin (person with a lot of free time) but... (yay himajin w)

今学期はクラス６つ取ってるからゲームする暇がなくてなってきた；；
this time around i'm taking 6 classes so i don't have the free time to play as much T_T

今モンクは３８だけど、なんとか４０になりたい～ｌｖ４０でスナイパと柔術ギ使えるからな＾＾
right now my monk is at 38, and somehow i want to get 40~ since at 40 i can use snipers and jujitsu gi^^

が、最近テストと作文があって無理ｗ　大学生の生活はつらい
but, these days i have tests and essays so its impossible... the life of a college student is so hard

日本の大学も大変なのかな？韓国の高校生は大学入学試験勉強で大変らしいけど入学できれば、大学で宿題とか少なくて楽らしい。日本も同じいかな？
i wonder if japanese colleges are also hard? in korea the high school life is tough with all the studying etc, but if you're able to get accepted into college you dont have as much work and it's easy. i wonder if japan is the same?

アメリカは全然違うｗ　高校は楽～大学はまずいｗ
in the states it's different. high school is easy, college is bad.w

まぁねー頑張るしかない
maaa ne i guess i have no choice but to do my best

モンクってさぁー命中の為に今までずっとお寿司を食べてたんだけどkillingifrit.comモンク情報スレの皆さんによるとお肉の方が良いって…私お肉を食べると全然当たらないけど＾＾；どうしよう？ｗ
speaking of monks, until now i've always been eating sushi for accuracy, but according to everyone on the killingifrit.com monk information threads they said i should eat meat... when i eat meat though i can't hit at all^^; what should i do?w

猫のハッピハッピな文化情報タイム～
neko's happy happy culture information time~

note on today's title:
it says haijin [no thanks] himajin [yes please] death from overwork syndrome [no thanks]

haijin 廃人 literally means wasted person, a gimp, a cripple. this term is used to describe people who play way too much, and their lives in real life are very negatively affected by the game, very seldomly moving from the computer and becoming in essence a cripple. i think it's something we should all look out for as players, not to become too infatuated with the game and become haijin. i recently had a good jpn friend quit because he felt like he was a haijin, and he wanted to take his life back. i respect him for his decision^^

himajin 暇人 is someone who has a lot of free time, and doesn't have the negative connotation of haijin. the term is slang, an combination of hima (to be free, available) and jin (person). hima is not derogatory, for example you could use hima in a pickup-line, saying, "if you're free(hima) want to go get tea somewhere?" but anyways, i like the himajin lifestyle, with extra time and less responsibility.

karousi 過労死 means "death from overwork syndrome" this is an actual term which is used when japanese businessmen work too much and die, normally of heart failure or something similar. the three characters are 過- too much 労- labor, toil 死- death. in the high-pressure business world this is something that you see a lot. for examples see MasaMania. anyways, i feel like i'm on this end of the spectrum right now, thus my extended absence from the game

New Beginnings (Again)

2005-02-04T17:54:00.000-08:00

I quit war, starting mnk, now level 24^^;
戦士諦めて今日からはモンクｗ（現在２４）

Anyways, a few days ago, a whm from my social LS (starhole) needed to do genkai 2, and he mentioned how it was hard to get an alliance together. I thought maybe we could duo it so I made my preparations and got ready to go. I sent a /tell to Tuufless wondering if whm/nin 75 and whm/smn 55 could duo the mobs, Tuufless said probably not, and of course, this made me want to try even more^^

何日前さぁうちのLS友達が「くそー限界２手伝いさん集めるのは難しいぞ」って言ってさぁ二人でいけるかなって思ってtuuflessちゃん聞いてみた。tuuflessちゃんに「５５白７５白で限界２のNMいけると思うの？」ってテルして「多分無理なのよ」って答えがきた。tuuflessちゃん無理だと言ってたからもとやりたくなってきちゃったｗ。

Anyways, later on Rhyis ends up joining, so it ended up being a trio. Looking back, I think I might have been able to solo them, but it would have taken a long time. Well, the mobs like to use ancient magic so I got hit with flare, burst, and freeze.

でRhyisさんも組んだから３人になった。なんとか一人でもいけると思うけど、けっこ時間かかるかも。ところで、NMは強い魔法使うのが好きから私はフレア、バースト、フリーズ何回喰ってしまったｗ

burst バースト

flare フレアー

Forgot to get screenshot of freeze^^;
フリーズ写真取らなかった＾＾；

Also, this weekend I saw a shout for the tauros ENM in jeuno, so I joined in^^ It was an all jp group, and everyone was pretty well off, with god gear, kirin's osodes etc. The ENM was pretty easy, done in 10 minutes or so.
週末でタウロスENM募集シャウトがあったから一緒に組んでみた。全員日本PTで全員金持ちｗ。ENM戦は楽勝で１０分ぐらいで買った＾＾

us ready to go 準備完了

me saying: he's huge hehe こいつでかいｗ

me winning lot on raise III レイズロット勝ち

Our drops were Eltoro Leather and Raise III, I won the lot on Raise III ^^. Unfortunately, there are 15!! scrolls of Raise III up right now. I'm going to have to cut the price if I ever want it to sell. I'm hoping the scroll plus whatever money I have now will be enough to buy Ochiodo's Kote for monk.

Tiamat, and New Beginnings

2005-01-26T17:47:00.000-08:00

Well, a while back BBQgold went and tried Tiamat with around 25 people. We got him to 95% than wiped, we need more mages, and hate control was a problem.

ちょっと前さーBBQGOLDLSと２５人でTIAMATをやってみたんだｗ９５％で全滅ｗ前衛さん少なくてヘイトは大変だったOTL

whm pt spamming cure III and V　白PTクアルIIIとV頑張ってる

delevel no.1　レベルダウン

delevel no.2 レベルダウン

delevel no. 3　レベルダウン

tiamat is really big　でかいじゃんｗ

His regen rate is extremely high, so you have to constantly put high damage on him or he'll start to heal. It was our first attempt so we weren't too organized, I can see our LS beating him but I think it'll take more planning and more people.
こいつの自己リジェネスピードが早すぎて攻撃力が弱いなら回復する。初なんだから協力はまずかったんだけど計画を立ったらいけると思うよ

Anyways, I decided to start a new job! Was going to be paladin, so I leveled pld and than war as a subjob. However, I started having so much fun as war I decided to make it my new job^^ The reason I picked pld is that I wanted to give tanking a try, and I was hoping to make my money last as long as possible. I heard pld is a cheap job. However, once I tried war it was really fun, and I realized that I shouldnt worry about money. I can make money as I need to as the time comes, I shouldnt let my budget decide which job I should play. Anyways, I made some macros for war using greek and russian input which I'm proud of:
今日から新ジョブ登場ｗナやってみようと思ってサポの為に戦士のレベル上がり始めたんだーが、戦士は楽しくて戦士に決めちゃったｗナイトに決める理由は：お金掛からないジョブで私は貧乏ｗナイトは安いらしいｗだけどなー戦士やってみてなんか楽しいじゃんｗって思って後で金策できるなーって気づいたんだ。とにかく、新マクロの写真どうぞｗ

my war macros　戦士マクロ

random picture, me and catra are twins again^^　友達と双子スタイルｗ

Anyways, I have about a million left over from my last gil farming run, I'll see how far that gets war, and if I have to I'll go out and make some more money again hehe.
残り百万ギルぐらいで全部使ちゃったらまた金策しようと思うよねｗ

RNG 75 WHM 75

2005-01-08T17:41:00.000-08:00

In the morning, between classes I saw a poor guy offering 50k for genkai 1 help so I decided to help him out (for free). Changed to whm/nin and we ran into Eldieme Necropolis and killed lich for an hour and a half, so I told the guy:
朝クラス前で５万ギルで限界１手伝いさん探しシャウトを見て無料で手伝おうかなって思ったんだ。白サポ忍で古墳に行って一時間半でLICHをやってそれを言ったんだ：

translation: 英語訳
I say - I'm really sorry but it's about time for me to go, so is it ok if the next two are last?
I'm really sorry.
He says - That's ok, I'm just happy to be able to fight some. (lit. pull some)
I say - Drop!!! Drop!!
I wonder if you get the kill it will drop?
Finally, I say, ok, sorry but this is the absolute last one for me.
Than oooooooo congratulations^^

Papyrus dropped on the last lich for us^^ Lucky for him.
最後のLICHで出たｗ　運が強い人？ラッキな奴ｗ

Anyways, later on I exp'd rng and got... 75!! Hehe I've been rng 74 for a good 2+ months now, it feels good to finally get 75.
後で狩レベル上げて…７５になちゃった！！！うひぃぃぃぃｗ二ヶ月以上で７４だったけどそろそろ７５になちまったｗ

first time ever turning 75　７５になったことないｗ初だ

After that party ran to the bookstore to buy new books and came back to an invite for whm. We went to Ulegaurand Range and:
大学の教科書買ってきて誰から誘いが来たの＾＾一緒にウルガランに行って…

this is the result　うひぃー白で７５になったｗ

^^ 75 with whm and 75 with rng in the same day. Whm has been 74 for at least 5 months, and rng has been 74 for a long time too, feels good to get that last level. Also, reraise 3 is pretty important for whm, since I die a lot^^; I now have every single white magic spell availble^^ Not a huge accomplishment but it's still a nice feeling.
同じ日で白と狩７５ｗ白は５ヶ月以上で７４で狩も７４指しぶりだ。７５になれるなんて気持ちいいｗ　白でよく死ぬからリレイズも大事のよｗ

Anyways 8am class tommorrow gonna end here
明日８時午後クラスあるから今日はここまで～じゃねー

Kirin Excitement

2005-01-03T17:25:00.000-08:00

Woke up early today to do Sky Attack! Today was Kirin x3, and Kirin was kind to us^^

Off of 3 Kirins we got: 1 Osode, various abjurations, one for hecacomb harness, and... a shining cloth! Having saved up points from over the past few weeks I was able to bid on the cloth. ^^ Technically, my trial period isn't over until tomorrow, but everyone was nice and let me bid.

Our first Kirin was a little bit sloppy, I can understand since it was early in the morning. Overall, I think it took about 45 minutes for the first one, which not up to normal BBQ standards. However, the second and third runs went much more smoothly.

The 2nd Kirin dropped the cloth, and I went afk to go to the bathroom, and when I got back the ls was saying "Congratulations on cloth^^" Darkwind got the Osode so I'm sure he's happy too. Funny thing was, our normal TH3 Thief Sakurato was not on, so we stuck in a level 51 thf Grim for this Treasure Hunter II. He was wearing his level 20 Red Mage gear on thf. ^^; He died a bunch of times.

Anyways, after sky run was over I sent a tell to Geronot, a close friend from my social LS, and a high clothcrafter. He told me he's over the cap for Noble's Tunic, so I run to Jeuno to buy the materials, and meet him in the Windy Weaver's Guild.

I know that even over the cap, there's a chance at critical failure, which would lose the cloth, and I would be out 9 million gil, but for some reason I wasn't that worried. I held my breath as Geronot synthed it and success! I have a new signed Noble's Tunic.

Past few days have been a lot of excitement: Zenith Pants, ENM Fun, sky runs, Kirin, all kinds of stuff, but I think I'll go ahead and get WHM and RNG to 75, then spend some time helping my social LS, maybe recruit some new members. The LS is getting kind of small^^;

Well anyways thanks so much to everyone in BBQ^^Darkfact Dancing with Imilda and Vespertine near Kirin spawn. Rich man popular with the ladies^^;

WHM Party doing our best to keep everyone alive.
The face of the Kirin nice enough to drop my cloth All the materials ready to go Me in my new tunic

oneko 天下無双 maru

where is neko

Engrish, the International Language

Momma needs some new shoes

生きのいい手作りのソーセージのように歯応えがあって…

non-hispanic white middle class suburban protestant linkshell looking for members

More Hachikuro

Clover

don't judge a book by its cover

Honey and Clover

Tuuflessちゃん さよなら～

I am boycotting bread

ヴァナ・ディール引篭もり協会にようこそ(VHKにようこそ)

We Fly to Mars

A Low Down Dirty Shame

君に決めたーっ！ｗ

札幌って町だって？ビアだけじゃなくて？ｗ

実在する！

Wyrm Hunting

ヴァナディルで行動主義心理による現代外人の比較分類

天下無双＝Unrivaled Under the Heavens

業者と楽しく喋りましょう～ｗｗｗ

日本語の文法について

Why I choose JP PT over NA PT, continued

ただの人間入りｐｔ不可

I wish I knew how to quit you...

yay

black belt blues

海下無双

タブキー語をマスターしました！Lost in Translation?

やっと黒７３～！

Chasing Aspi

Nidhogg + Vrtra

本当みたいな嘘の話ｗ

Recently

비밀이다

I need a new belt...

팬티의힘

최근

고양이스러운단어

고양이고양이천국

치킨수러운생활

원숭이도나무에서떠러진다

グラフィックディスプレーのレベルアップ

에네르기팟!!

ソフトウェア差別？ｗ

乱の写真集

할수없지뭐

ほんまかいな？ｗ

recent happenings

猫の夢か人間の夢か

Ouryu Victory

Recent Happenings

Onekomaruは、麒麟大袖を手に入れた

Pictures

文法エキサイト

Recently

ＮＭハンターの写真集

ブログタイトル変わったｗ

失敗！

御袖幸猫

The bilingual, it is groovy

御袖楽しみにしてます！

Meditation

Friend Profile: Topochocolate

JP PT ONLY

バイトに行く気なし

忍７２になりたい～

日本PTのマナー Manners for JP PT

Random

新猫竜登場！ｗ

Tiamat成功＃２

Friend Profile: Jynxed

Friend Profile: Genesys

Friend Profile: Tuufless

Failure

Devil Manta ＆ 金策

New Post^^;

now nin^^;

BC40 Under Observation + Fafnir

Tuuflessちゃん　さよなら～

Devil　Manta　＆　金策