I hope you all had a spectacular Holiday.

I haven't logged into FFXI in about 2 months I think. Maybe slightly longer? I wasn't really planning on quitting, but... I don't know. Life. I'm back into quite a few of my old hobbies, oh how I've missed them, though I don't have as much time as I'd like to put into those either.

I know, vague post is vague. Well, here are some of my kitties celebrating the holidays and just being all around cute!

Candi and her droopy antlers. Look at her eyes. I believe she was planning to murder me in my sleep.


Haha... she walks like I've stacked a dozen bricks on her back when I put this thing on her. And she walks backwards.


The great Ninja!


My brother named this one Tigger, even though I already have a Tigger! So I call this kitty Trouble, cuz that's what he is; Trouble Incarnate.


Awwwwww! Candi and (the original) Tigger!


How unladylike.


Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!


Ta-Ta! ^^

With 2010 now upon us thought I'd just say I hope everyone's year is starting better than mine.

So after a few more hours of gameplay my mother and me finally beat New SMB Wii, while the game was good I do consider the last boss fights kind of mild compared to the koopa kid fights because you don't actually FIGHT bowser, you just need to dodge him and hit the ! switch to win both rounds.

Either way the special world (World 9) is quite a challenge, it's made up of 8 stages and to unlock one stage you need to collect all 3 large coins for each level on each world. So far we get all the coins in World 1 and have tried 9-1 with little to no sucess. Mostly because of the part with all the rotating blocks and Piranha Plants shooting fireballs at you.

Any way I learned that ice blocks from the ice flower are a good way to kill someone as well today on pure accident. Surprised my mom hasn't cursed her head off at me yeat for how many times I accidently got her killed.

Super Mario Bros. Wii is without a doubt one of the best games on the Wii and one of the best games in the Mario library to me. It's nice to see a Mario game that goes back to the 8/16 bit era games that's also co-op. However, co-op can have it's downfalls.

Ever see the commerical to this game? Where that person sayd "Will we work compete or cooperate?" You can't get anymore accurate with this game than that sentence.

In multiplayer you can interact with other players to either help them out or make their life a living nightmare. One of the best examples is how you can pick up a player and carry them where you want by holding 1 and shaking the wii remote by them, releasing the 1 button will throw them, but not that far. While this is a good tactic to help a novice player out on some of the tricky jumps, you can also piss someone off if you want. Since if you jump near a ledge and there's an enemy above you it'll hurt/kill the character that's being picked up, so you could pretty much kill a character just doing that. Or of course pick them up by a ledge then throw them off to their death.

Another thing you can do is jump off another player like an enemy, while it won't hurt the player being jumped on you can get a nice boost in the air to help you on difficult jumps/ledges for coins, while I haven't found a way to kill anyone that way, it can get annoying having someone constantly jumping on your head.

And last but not least, the bubble. One of the best parts about multiplayer is how you don't need to wait for others to die to get back in the game. After you die you'll respawn in a bubble assuming there's at least one more player alive and you didn't waste your last life (If it is your last life you need to wait for everyone to die or complete the state before you can play again) you'll respawn in a bubble. While in a bubble you can't do anything until another player pops you out of your bubble, thankfully if you shake the wii remote you can move the bubble closer to another player to burst it, however a projectile can work also, which can bring you to the MPKing. As in any of the 8/16 bit side scrolling mario games getting damaged will give you a temporary invincible effect, however that doesn't mean crap for you if you fall into a lava pit or off a ledge, which is where you can really piss someone off if you have Fire/Ice/Penguin power. Since all you got to do is throw a fire/ice ball at their bubble while it's over a pit/lava to pop it and if they can't get to a safe ledge before they land you kill them again.

So in conclusion... who you play with will either be an ally or an enemy for you, either way this game kicks total ass and was worth every penny in my book.

Another reason why people shouldn't be allowed to post whatever they want on YouTube...

I don't know if I want to kick this guy's ass for a weak assed rant that's probably fake, or because of how he's dressed and with that smug look on his face.

This holiday season hasn’t been my finest by a long shot, it seems like it’s been nothing but a series of misfortune after misfortune.

First off was Christmas week, my family wasn’t able to spend it together due to a blizzard that started around very late Wednesday or every early Thursday and didn‘t let up until around Saturday night, which kept my mom from spending the holidays with us do to work and having no way to get home since most major roads were closed off. Which resulted me spending Christmas with only my dad and both of us being bored out of my mind while we were at it due to there being nothing to do.

Now to make matters worse when my dad woke up around 5 AM and very sick, shortness of breath and was throwing up so my mother had to take him to the hospital, while I didn’t care much since people get sick around this time what I learned later when I woke up has had me worried for awhile, apparently he had pneumonia bad enough where they have to keep him at the hospital and don’t think he’ll be home until after New Years, so I'm both worried about his health as well as mine since I have been stuck inside a house with him for nearly a week and I also don't have health insurance so I'll be paying out my ass if I need to be in the hospital as well.

So yeah, the holidays can go screw themselves this year.... At least 2009 is nearly over.

Banned for 2 weeks on BG because I pissed off Rangs or w/e his name is on Neko, which also got be banned on neko for a week.




Seriously, the ignore function was implied on both sites so people don't bitch at a mod everytime they get offended, now if they'd learn to actually USE it instead of crying to a mod. You didn't see me begging a mod to ban Derf the retard when his dumbass came up on BG.

And on another related note, got a PSP and Dissidia game, too bad I can't progress much in it since I forgot to pick up a memory card.... woop woop wooooooop.

Seriously though, people weren't kidding about how long the tutorials are, it took me around an hour just to do both, and I'm not too fond of the thought of having to go through them all again just to progress unless I can find a way to skip them.

Oh well, will be worth it when I can blow shit up as Kefka.

EDIT: Oh and for something for the lulz:

I've decided that it's time to move on and quit FFXI, I've lost my drive ever since I got my Maat's cap due to the lack of anything to do solo. I tried joining a shell, but sadly I didn't get in mostly due to them needed members in the early AM when I'm alseep... go figure.

Linkshells on Carbuncle are pure shit most of the time. That's a fact, and I don't feel like joining some scrub shell that can't get past sky/limbus/dynamis most of the time. I know server transfer is an option but paying 20 dollars to transfer to another server that's basicly the same thing as Failbuncle just doesn't seem like it's worth it.

As for what I'm going to do in my spare time, I guess I can bury myself in some Visual Studio 2008 books for a bit, always wanted to try my hand at a game, so guess this will be as good as a time as ever.

I can't say much more I guess, so goodbye to those that still play and hope to see you in XIV when it rolls out.

OMG

I'll let this pic say everything:





Love ya CJ!! Thanks for the Gug spam to make this happen!!! And to Arcanes for giving me a few as well. :)

Merry Christmas to all of you dorks as well! :D


P.S.: If you've noticed, I've tweaked the registry for FFXI, for a more epic screen resolution~