I haven’t posted anything in a month or so. Quite a long time, considering I used to write at least once per week. The reasons are mainly two: first of all, my work schedule has taken a turn for the worse, which means I have to do my job a lot harder than before; secondly, there wasn’t much interesting stuff to report. Let’s resume from the hiatus by writing about my latest Final Fantasy XI session.

Despite the utter lack of content in Wings of the Goddess my brother has managed to create a movie clip (inspired by the opening of Wild ARMs The Vth Vanguard). You can view it below (streaming) or obtain a higher quality version. [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8316261647217076877[/googlevideo] (apologies for the lack of updates. I’ve been quite busy. I will probably post more in during the Christmas holidays)

While I’m waiting for KDE 4.0 to compile, I just wanted to share a small clip of my brother’s character doing the Drain Samba animation. A bit of background: he has leveled Dancer up to level 7, and now he stopped because there is no artifact armor available yet (probably out in February) and because he’s also leveling another job, monk. Given how people rushed to get Dancer to 75 in less than a week (comments are left to the reader) it is a nice change.

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Finally my copy of Wings of the Goddess has arrived. It was just a matter of putting the DVD in the drive and let install the measly 350+ Mb of update (rather low for a DVD). As usual, Square Enix’s installation program is greedy with regards to information. Once it was installed, I enabled the expansion in PlayOnline and was good to go (save a 20,000+ file check).

With the new version update, these strange portals have been appearing throughout Vana’diel. They’re supposedly the gateways to the past, but since I don’t have Wings of the Goddess yet I can’t really see what will they do. Nevertheless, I was curious and went to take a look at them. They’re **huge. **I estimate at least twice the height of my character. For those curious, here are two photos (one is of my brother’s character, the other is mine):

And so I’m reading that the FFXI Fan Festival has kicked off yesterday (I wish I could have been there). Naturally, reports have been flowing. The FFXI Encyclopedia has a good report of what has been said so far. 1up, the online branch of EGM, has also covered the event, but the article is only focusing on the new jobs (talk about explaining something no one else will ask… not to mention the attitude of that “journalist”).