The Duelist's Saga

Blarg bored so I will post an entry.

Yeah I have been keeping track of the announcements relating to FFXI.  First the level cap….. this was really out of left field.  I always thought if they did raise the cap (which I didn’t think they would do unless some serious balance issues are made with JA/spells) would be 80 maybe.  Level 99….. wow that was not expected.  Some more NMs will be soloable by rdms now unless the mobs powers are raised some.  Even kirin might be trioable or something with 3 99s lol idk. I hope some armor isn’t made obsolete because of the increased cap (salvage gear, sky gear) but some alternatives would be nice (as good but in a different way).

The new magician system that will modify weapons sounds really neat.  Since relic and mythic weapons are able to be subjected to this I bet joyeuse would be too and if I still played I would love to modify it.

The new expansions sound really neat too.  We have AF…… then relic….. whats the new stuff going to be called?  Maybe Mystic armor?

With all this announced I will admit it does tempt me to come back and I might return (chance increased with these announcements) but currently I have no plans to return.

Well beta invites were supposed to be sent out on march 1st.  People are saying if they got accepted but I am not sure if that is actually against the NDA (non disclosure agreement) or not….. I sent a message to SE asking about this hopefully they give me an actual reply and don’t dance around the issue again.  If it is against the NDA or isn’t is kinda debated in the community.

Thank you Kalder and Maguile for actually emailing me now, just need the rest of the gang to email me…. you know who you are! lol

Well guess I will close for now.

Well guess its time to post again.

Well even though I do not play FFXI I am still excited about vanafest because of the FFXIV “event” or whatever.  I hope its either a lot of new info on the game or beta start or date.

Still playing some Left 4 Dead 2.  Made some pretty cool friends though it.  Last night I played with some people I recently became friends with (found out about them though their youtube videos, funny l4d1 and 2 videos).  We got together and we were at a full group on both sides so we started.  Once in the game the other team started kicking a few other people.  My friends said it was a reverse pubstomp.  A pubstomp is when you get friend against random people in a attempt to completely crush them.  Reverse pubstomp I never understood what it was till last night.  Apparently you join a random game and then drag a bunch of friends in to stomp the other team thinking they are random people.  Well my friends are very good players.  We were playing on our friend’s server (its modded but he doesn’t cheat with unfair mods or such which I really respect, I hear many horror stories about abusive server admins and its good to see some don’t abuse their power.  Well in the 1st 2 lvls we were crushing them.  They kept taunting us saying “you are going down” and such.  At the start of the 3rd map my friend agreed to restart the game (at the same map we were on).  Well we still crushed them on the last two maps (on the finale they got to the car but got 0/13 gas tanks to fill it up) our team got all 13 on our turn.  Was fun to play a game with them they are fun people.

I am still not hearing from any of my other friends from FFXI except prinsess.  I WANT YOU TO EMAIL ME OR SOMETHING.  I really want to talk to all my friends as much as possible, Kalder, Maguile,Rirae, and all the rest of the gang.  Come on email me!

Well I am getting the urge to start drawing more again.  This is good I want to get better but its hard to keep going when I don’t notice any improvement over a bit of time.  Maybe if I improve a little and figure out how I might post some pictures here.

Well that’s about all for now time to close.

Guess its time for and update.

Yes rianon I do keep plan on blogging in answer to your comment on my last post.  I GOT STUFF TO SAY………..sometimes.  lol

SE sure is keeping a tight lip on and new FFXIV news.  They mention at vanafest that there is some 14 news or something.  I am hoping either they release a lot of info or they announce the beta date or something.  I WANT IN ON THAT BETA!!

Been playing Left 4 Dead 2 a lot lately (fixed my copy of the 1st game so I could play it for the 1st if I want (still haven’t played it yet)).  Was gonna play it with friends but there was a problem and wasn’t able to get it to work for a few days.  Had a Vs match couple of days ago with 1 friend on my side.  Joined the lobby and 4 people (which were friends, found that out later) were already teamed up.  Looks like that MIGHT have been trying to pubstomp (friends or such teaming up against random people).  Well we did good and stopped they before the safe room on the 1st map and we made it to the safe room on our turn.  On the second map shortly before the safe room the other team started a vote to change the map (since they were loseing).  Our team voted no and they voted yes (yes has to outnumber the no’s so it failed).  Sure np, but then after if failed they kept spamming the vote to change map or return to lobby.  We kept voting no and they voted yes.  At the start of the 3rd map one or 2 I think, started messing around saying stuff like “I am going to be you pet” and such (aka wanting to goof around).  I wasn’t interested because I suspected they wanted to get our guard down the strike.  Maybe that is the case maybe not.  They continued to call a vote spam.  Eventually some how the vote passed (even though my team was still voting no, only thing I can think of was one might have been a admin or something and forced the vote to return to lobby.  Once in the lobby I say in the chat…. “Well that’s mature >.>”  about 5 secs later I was kicked from the lobby.  Was I mad not really, a little annoyed but in some ways laughing.  Its funny how being anonymous on the net turns people into jerks lol.

Also excited about the new DLC coming out for l4d2 in late march (new gun M60 heavy machine gun, new melee weapon (golf club), new uncommon infected (fallen survivor who could drop items) but runs away when he notices you unlike normal infected, new 3 map campaign, and I hear rumors or a new game mode.

Nothing really interesting is happening over here in RL really.  Just going to work and playing games.

Well I will close for now.

Bah thought I had posted something earlier than this… ah well.

Well as of last thursday I canceled my content ID for FFXI.  NOTE:  I did not delete my character in case I do return I can get my character back atleast. lol

I got my new computer monitor on tuesday.  This thing is big, takes up half the length of my computer desk.  It is awesome I am happy with the resolution and the brightness and such.

I really want my Friends to Email me or look me up on steam or PSN, I want to keep in contact with you all as you are good friends of mine. ^^ (check about 2 posts below this for contact info to lazy to retype it and yes I am aware this is really long and it probably be faster to just retype it but I DON”T WANT TO!! lol)

Picked up White Knight Chronicles on wed.  Its a fairly good game even though some places are giving it a medium review.  It has its problems but it is overall a fun game so far.  (The combat and such had a LOT more potential and it feels like making combo moves for each character will be a little tedious after a while but chaining attacks was a great idea.

Demon souls is still really hard I am slowly making progress but farming souls to buy increases to my stats (they get expensive fast)

Well that is about all for now.

Well very few people are sending me emails or friend’s requests on PSN or steam I am sad….. j/k lol.

Ah its been a little while lets see….. still been doing my job and enjoying it for the most part.  Killing zombies on l4d2 occasionally.  Played some vs and scavenger mode a little and enjoying them.  Me and my friends George and Chris managed to get online together in Borderlands, (I had to forward some ports on my router since the game company stupidly used Gamespy servers for online play.  Since I am the only one of the 3 of us who is directly connected to the router I have to host the games. lol

I picked up demon souls this weekend…….I will say this game is HARD….. but like many people have said most of my deaths have not been cheap (one shot you across the room) lots of fall deaths and several burn deaths (dang dragons).  If you do not watch out and play defensivly even the starting enemies will beat the crap out of you.

Oh yeah I don’t think I knew this on my last post….. but the school district of the school that I am in for the YMCA afterschool program is pulling out.  The school is going to be taking over (they want more money) because they are in debt or something I don’t know.  So that means after this school year is over I will not have a job unless the YMCA pulls out a miracle and gets me moved or I find another job.

And I hate to say it but its looking like its very likely I will be canceling my FFXI account. (may or may not come back).  Again nothing set in stone yet just saying what is likely to happen.

Well that’s about all for now.

Well my christmas break is over and I am working.

Overall I like this job not the best job in the world but its still a good job.

Still haven’t logged into FFXI in several weeks.  I really just don’t feel like playing.  I hate to say it but there is a chance I could be quitting soon (nothing for sure yet do I don’t know yet).  Even if I do quit I still plan on updating this blog as often as I can and if anyone wants to talk to me I am on PSN as Kuyon and Steam as Kuyon.  (I know I have so many different names lol).  Heck even email (not putting that in normal email format on this blog since recently the spam bots targeted my blog (was getting atleast 5+ spams messages a day, think I managed to stop them though).            kuyon    159         at             att.net

I really wonder when they are going to start sending XIV beta invites.  Hope its soon (SE account seems to be linked to my email right but one thing that worries me is that I signed up for FFXIV site newsletter and some people have gotten a XIV newsletter yet I have not (site says my email is already registered) so I don’t know yet.

Well thats about all for now.

Well Christmas has passed.  I hope everyone had a good holiday. ^^

Actually I haven’t logged in to FFXI in about 1-2 weeks.  Just don’t have the motivation to play it atm.  Well the SDK tools for Left 4 dead 2 were released right before Christmas so people have been working on making custom maps for the game.  Couple of maps on one site I am looking forward to and can’t wait till we get a nice varity of custom maps to make things more fun.

I hope we hear some news on the XIV beta soon (atleast hear when it starts) lol.

Not a whole lot has been going on in RL.  Watching some anime occasionally and playing some games mostly.  I am considering buying boarderlands for the PC.  Two of my friends have it and it would be fun to play online together. ^^  There are a LOT of games coming out between jan-mar of 2010.  I know of atleast 5-6+ that I am interested in.  Sakura Wars, Last Rebellion, FFXIII, Mass Effect 2 are a few of them.  There is supposed to be some DLC coming out for l4d2 in the spring which will cause the 2 casts from 1 and 2 to meet.  I wonder how that will work?  The content will also add a new gun, new melee, new uncommon infected.  I am curious about what these new weapons will be (atm I am guessing shovel for new melee lol idk).  Well I guess thats about all for now.

Well I guess I am overdue for an update if anyone is still out there reading this lol.

This job is not bad I am getting better and better at it.  Some of the kids really seem to like me and some don’t seem to like me as much (haha guess I can only do so much).  Been playing Left 4 Dead 2 a lot lately and I am really enjoying the game I really hope they release the authoring tools really soon so more custom maps will start to pop up.

Still working on learning Japanese it is slowly coming along but still VERY far to go lol.

Well FFXIV beta sign ups have finally been released and I applied the day I found out (thanks to rianon for bringing it to my attention THANKS (HUGGLES).  I really hope I get picked for the beta.  If I do though I will not be able to report in my blog about anything due to the non discloser agreement since I am not allowed to publish and such and info about gameplay and the stuff in it.   I think it would be really neat to beta test an online game for the 1st time.

ありがとう

(thats thank you in japanese (only had to check for the last character because of the oo rule) lol

Well still pretty boring around here lately.

Immort had our monthy payout and my cut was slightly over 1mil.  This puts me at just a hair from being able to but the last 3 ingots.  At the moment I am not going to buy them unless I find a really good deal since I am still 0/3 on the armor parts.

Still been using the Japanese coach game.  I have finished the lessons and have covered all the characters so far in hiriganna and starting katakana.  I have not memorized them all yet but I am slowly getting there.  I was looking for a program to let me type in japanese on my comp and after trying several virtual keyboards and have problems with them all I stumbled across some info that by changing some setting and such I can type on japanese and english (just need to change imput mode) on my comp. (english comp/keyboard).

あ　い　う　え　お

That is (in order) A, I, U, E, O. lol

Still playing left 4 dead 2 (snaged left 4 dead (the 1st) for a cheap price).

I am really loving the anime Gintama, its really funny.

Not much else has been going on.  Oh we did have some snow (yes I know its shocking since we do not get snow here) on friday.  Was really neat when I got to work (we were techically cancled on friday but someone had to watch the kids).  Me Linda and 2 custodians went outside when it was comming down really good and we took some pics and such lol.  Not a whole lot of it really stuck to the ground but it was still really neat.

That’s about it now.

Bleh not a whole lot going on in game other than the usual stuff.  We haven’t done salvage in the last week because we were missing some people.  (close to holidays so its not to weird).

Well as my christmas my parents bought me a surround sound system (i have it now since i needed to test it and such).  Its not a top of the line model but its a really nice one still.  Its a sony DAVHDX285 (model number).  I am pretty happy with it still getting use to shows with the sound coming out of 4 speakers lol.

Well I been playing some left 4 dead 2 lately with my friends online…its not as scary as I thought it would be (not freaking me out or anything lol).

Still working on that DS game My Japanese coach to learn japanese.  Its progressing I still got a LONG way to go but its covered lots of things (so far up to about 30 of hirragana characters, kanji is later on) lol.  I am wondering where I can find a program or something that would let me type in japanese characters on my computer for practice and such. lol

Well thats about all for now (I know posts have been rather boring lately but nothing super interesting has happened lately lol)