My brother in law got a sample ballot in today and I took a look at it. You know, with all the utter crap going on on tv you'd think there were only 2 selections for el presidente. But I count 8. Yeah... 8. What's up with that? I haven't even heard about these other people let alone what they stand for. Not that that's much of a surprise, since we barely know anything about the 2 candidates that are getting all the airtime. I'm so sick of uninformed voting, and yet we really aren't given much choice. People are spoon-fed media-tweaked propoganda from stars and such that already decide how we dress and eat (or not eat in the case of females) and what cars we drive. They'll decide how we vote too. Not only that but the back and forth hate ads are just really really old. You have to dig through all this garbage to get to what each candidate actually stands for and at the end of the day, they're all still politicians.
Kind of like mice electing a cat president. They might argue over the black cat, the white cat or the orange cat being better. But they are still cats.
Whatever. Either way this election goes, I'm sure we're in for four years of crap. I wish we could uproot all of congress and start anew. Get all the "cats" out of there. But that's not gonna happen. Cause we're just mice.
Anyways... 9.9
Day 19: Sillabub's chocobo is Red!! I was really expecting a yellow since it already inherited an ability from its dad. I guess it got his color too. I'm pretty happy about that. Now I just gotta figure out why I can't harvest vomp carrots decently and I'll be in chocoheaven. I actually decided to go with the name PureRuby, even after that last blog. It just kinda fits. All my female chocobos have had pure + gem/stone name and the male had pure+abstract name. So maybe if it had been male, PureFire or PureImpulse would have been good. I might mod the red chocobo to have a ribbon on its head. I have to find the DAT number though that coresponds to the actual chocobo head. Could be difficult and I have to wait and see what build she churns out, though I'm expecting small beak + big tail feathers.
Been working CoP on Silla. Even though she's still only 47. We got Riverne Site A01 done last week after much anguish. The problem was I was about the only person leading, and those that weren't helping give direction weren't really listening either. Its the same story with everything I guess. The party I was in got it done in the first try cause they actually listened. It almost went wrong at the end but only cause I died (being kiter) On the last mob who went mage crazy on me when kite-healer was low on mp. But it was alright cause I was only buying time for the fighting team to recover some mp from the 2 mammets already down.
It was the second half of our perma that met with disaster. On 11 occasions. They spent 9 tries trying to do it with the help of a whm from our pt that didn't need the fight and had come to help out. It seems that on their fights their kite was having a hard time. I can't really say without being there, but that's what I gathered from tells. So on the next day we tried 2 more times and I came to help out. We had the same setup as we had with Sillabub's party. I came on whm Kyleet to heal the kite. Now I said the NIN should be the super kite with the PLD tanking for the fight team. But the PLD -insisted- on tank-kiting 2 mammets while NIN tanked for fighting team. I explained why this wouldn't work, but was ignored.
Why won't it work? Cause unless you can take care of yourself straight kiting those 2 mammets, then it won't work. You can't have someone cure you if you have actual claimed hate from mobs cause then the healer gets hate from cures. That's what happened. I died, then the pld died, then the fight team died. He couldn't keep both mammet's attention.
So then we did it my way. Won without a hitch. NIN went in and agrod (not claimed) all the mammets, fighting team pulled one off at a time. I only had to cure the NIN when the mammets went mage type on him, and I never got hate cause he never had claim. Easy as pie. The only hitch was that we had to set the PLD to quartermaster so he could get all the liquids to make the fight team easier.
Now we had one more person from our perma who needs this fight but wasn't able to make it to the makeup fights on sunday. That being said, our NIN needed those spare liquids for the missing member's fight. But the PLD ran off with them, subsequently disbanding then claiming he dropped them. Mysteriously, 7 yellow liquid appeared on the AH soon after, and although his name wasn't on the sold list you just gotta wonder if he had a mule or something. Anyway, that's one guy who won't be let into our fights anymore.
Not unless he wants to pay us a million gil a piece for pain and suffering to deal with him again.
Not much going on with Kyleet. Been saving up GP to get a cooking apron, I have about 30k GP to go, but keep getting stupid items that I can't make due to conquest sucking so hard. It really stinks too. If one person could control conquest, I wouldn't complain so much and go out there and do something, but so many people just don't care about it anymore... :/
Been workin on whm too. Almost got all my AF for it. I suppose I should merit DRG some more but I'm so lazy about that now that I got polearm merits all done. :P 2 more upgrades on Critical Hit to finish that and then move on to abilities. Doesn't seem like much but eh... I just get lazy about it. I kinda wanna make money too so I'm changing some stuff up in order to start fishing for gil again. I had been making yellow curry off of the coeurl meat we gain when we lvl npcs. But that's been such a rare drop lately and to top it off I keep getting smacked by people who speed-level up on it and don't care about profit who sink the price on it so bad it's not even worth the trouble. So after the last time this happened, I said bump it, got rid of most my curry materials, and synthed off my last batch. Gonna use sole sushi to skillup on, only cause I can use it and I can catch the fish and grow the rice. And I might make a profit on it to boot.
We'll see. :3 As long as the fish bots don't piss me off...
Tags: Politic Rabble Chocobo Sillabub Promathia
