Last Monday I got the new expansion pack for FFXI, namely Treasures of Aht Urghan. After installing (and going through the tedious update procedure), I’ve done some exploring. Some remarks:
- The missions are either well hidden, or not particularly significant at this point: this in my opinion is a regression from Chains of Promathia, which had an extremely nice storyline;
- The new areas are huge. Yesterday I’ve done some exploring in the Arrapago Reef area with Sechs, Eithin and Mercredi and we took more than two hours to get to our destination (including one death, and several fights inbetween);
- There are new jobs (Corsair and Puppetmaster). Aside everyone taking them now, I’m not interested in either;
- Assault missions can be fun, but require you to get to the staging points around, and that is the longest part (some aren’t really easy to reach);
- Besieged (namely beastmen attacking the town) is fun, but the novelty effect actually impairs it. I mean, last time there were about 400 people while the beastmen horde was around 30. It was so lagged that people didn’t see the monsters, nor they saw them die.
Overall, it’s fun, but not as challenging as Chains of Promathia, so far. I’ll have to see as I continue my exploration.
I really can’t believe some people on the Internet act all rough when all you ask them is to be more polite when certain people are around.
The issue at stake happened in FFXI, when someone went out with a “C****t” curse because of something. Now, Both my brother and me don’t like those kind of things. All my brother did was asking politely to avoid saying such things in public when he was around, and he got flamed by a certain person (who shall remain nameless).
The issue was brought up again at a sackholder’s meeting yesterday (the person was missing) but no one raised particular concerns in being a little respectful when we were around regarding those things (note: anyone could have said anything when people not offended by this hadn’t been around). Then, on the forum discussing the meeting minutes this person raises hell, claiming censorship.
I’m not very fond of a certain North American way of thinking and this person represents it very well: prideful and self-righteous. In any case, there were other and more urgent matters to discuss of rather than bitching (excuse the term) for something that would require 0.01 seconds of thinking. I’m really amazed that a person could get so upset when asked for a little more respect towards the others. Certain Americans should learn they aren’t the only beings on this planet.
The main reason my posts here are so scarce recently it’s because of that. Shortly after the Easter outdoor trip I did, I got fever for the rest of the week (and some kickback yesterday since I was foolish enough to go to work), and it was impossible for me to stay in front of a screen for a long time. Luckily there are more holidays on sight so I think I can recover fast.
Today one of our desktops won’t turn on at all. I didn’t even see the POST lights turning on (this is a Dell computer), so I assume that the PSU is dead. I’d have already called for support but since the box has been bought in the USA (part of a bundle of our GeneChip systems) I had to request a warranty transfer (notice that I don’t even know if there’s still a warranty!). I’ll probably call support tomorrow.
This has the unwanted side effect of slowing down my analysis work, since the workstation that “died” was used by a person who now is using my analysis station (which is not my work computer, by the way).
