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Tardar — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:59 GMT

REMEMBER WHEN I SAID I NEEDED TO PAD MY GPA BECAUSE OF MACROECONOMICS????

YEAH.

probs barely going to get a B in that class. plus side is that i get the unit that i needed to take the class for (international economics) best, so i think i'll be okay.

and also going abroad will help my gpa because most of my classes should be a bit easier (holla for taking stats 101 and a film class).

This is water

Ying — Sun, 12 May 2013 04:48:08 GMT

How do I add pictures to the monsters template?

AwesomeTrinket — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:37:11 GMT

:py18: Whoops, sorry, I have a touch of stomach flu, but anyways, I made the Valkryie template, and I posted his/her picture, so I wanna know how to add th picture to the template.

don't hug me i'm scared

kuyaBaka — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:28:37 GMT

green is not a creative color

lady M

xdgr — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:32:17 GMT

Stars and Butterflies

Vith — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:09:33 GMT

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Esper — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:17:37 GMT

filler

xdgr — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:22:23 GMT

Hi!

Janna — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:16:05 GMT

So I'm going to try to make an effort to use this blog more. After all, we do need more activity in the blogs section here, right...?

So my laptop seems to be on its death bed. Last night it shut off by itself and when I tried to turn it back on, it was stuck on the loading Windows screen. Had to turn it off and on three times before it finally (and very slowly) decided to turn on.

Guess it's overheating but the screws got stuck when I cleaned it a few months ago and now I can't open it up anymore. Going to be placing an order for a Macbook Pro with Retina today or tomorrow, so there's that to look forward to! Will need Parallel Desktop to get Windows on it though.. can't miss out on all those MMOs, especially La Tale season 2 since that should be coming out this month. ;~;

On another note, I wanted to try Kanna in Maplestory yesterday with my boyfriend but my freaking game kept freezing and lagging. Shows how badly I need a new computer. xD;

So

Andreskun — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:42 GMT

I'm doing a Duke on cTO <:

TO memories : Act II - Their "Society"

Credo — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:36:42 GMT

Brethren
I am not sure how I have met Sakura~* exactly. Perhaps I'll have to edit here when I remember, that information really get's out of my memory. But with time, we had became good friends. With all the aid she provided (sure, back on that time she was infinitely stronger then me) made me really grateful, seeing her almost as a mother. Noticing that I wasn't inside any guild, she had invited me to enter in the BR guild " LastSong ". I remeber the name wasn't exactly like that, there was some weird characters around, but you can get the idea. On those years, there was three powerful known BR guilds - LastSong itself, plus Mirage (curios is that Mirage guild came before Mirage island patch,if i'm not mistaken). It was a pleasure being part of the first. The secound would hunt me to death - on other topic I'll explain why... and the latter, I did not had quite the contact.

Last Song was the 2nd guild I had been part of. The first one had a weird name which I don't remember. Quitted it becaused everyone saw it as a scammer guild. Piotrek was planning to introduce me and Milambee at InMemoryOf , but since we were low levels he made pressure for us to grind. But we didn't had the patience to do so. Also for me, without decent equips when hitting 60, the only way was keep at eletric snails till 90, the whole plan was to get the rockin' set. Worked, but was a waste of money - rendered me resistence enough to train at bugbears and jokers at path to snow hills, however - Piotrek had plans for me: Getting a sharon sword when achieving the necessary level for it and focusing on water skills. He had helped me with refining materials, also with some repair powders and it became my sword. Only changed it when I had hit 200.

DeepHatred
Offending people without any reason is something natural for us BRs. Should'nt be, but just like the character Wrex said on Mass Effect 1 about the krogan - Today I look in a similar way. That's just who we are. I can't change that. No one can. But the DeepFear guild always made drama around to me, perhaps because my "propaganda" had took many of theirs numbers to L.S. , including Marina, which had a relationship with someone from there. Even in TO's last days, old members of DeepFear found me and made drama/trolling around. On other hand, it's part of the whole show...

Fall
There are many versions about how did "LastSong" fallen. The official story was that one scammer had made the whole guild get a bad fame. At least the name - but only a fool believes on the official story. There were many dark stories releated to Fleury. A dude, which in his respect I will call just "Mr. F" , was her "BF" inside TO. Then he had junked enough money and traveled to Fleury's city. Mr. F arrived at the door ; she opened it ; met him and.... Rejected him. Just said "bye". All efforts into waste - I didn't knew if I rolled on the floor laughing or get revolted with her. They had tried to reestablish Last Song as Last dream, if I am not mistaken, but she deleted it again. Some of my friends just vanished, others founded a new guild thenselves including Sakura~*, lead by Renata , iDante and Fael - I had joined then. The name was Laingod, if I am not mistaken... Not sure. Will add this information, in case of getting new data.

If Sakura~* was like a mother to me, iDante, was the father. With the departure of Piotrek, there was nobody to give me advices. So he assumed that position. I tried to inplement into the guild the Team Speak, so we could actually talk, but only a few guys aproved the idea: iDante himself and Biah. Most were too busy to buy a microphone. Pff...

Drilling with Renata, or just "Re" , was funny. On the first time she was expecting me to log into another character, but I just took some recycled DA equipment and came to her, like " I am right behind you ! ". Never had the patience to level up a new character. Never. That's why Credo was special to me. Like a

I had lost contact with the other section of ex-lastsong members after having a discussion against Lya on orkut (times before FB got popular between BRs). I don't like rough people who see it funny bashing people around because of stupid reasons, not before, not even now, years after.

Eyes on the future
The secound time I had got MS, I did invested for the future. I had purchased stuff that iDante had recommended, but however, if was for 180+ , and I was barely around 115. Had made something like that again, when groom mireru and bride venus had came on gacha. Same deal, and I was worth it. Also, something to make me want to grind. I was spending more time on TO at Paradise, just observing the people talking in english. But not saying a single word. Also, my friends had gifted me all the 3rd job fashion set I wished to have. The idea was - the more black colors, the better. Since I was at 2nd job with just black hair.

With all that MS talking, some people were already wondering about how better was the time before Revolution. Unfortunally, I never saw how the beta was.

Mistakes
Being a 13-years-old kid there had rendered me some mistakes. Being envolved on those tiny "romances" on TO was really stupid. And seeking them, even more. So did creating the drama... Now that is NOT part of the show.

Time Elapsed on that post
Oct07 ~ Fev08

Random Rambling~

Inspiration — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:22:35 GMT

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" -William Shakespeare

Browsing the forum early last night, a single five letter word was enough to cause a feeling like a blunt blow to the chest. How is it that something so tiny and insignificant in the grand scheme of the world, could have caused such a feeling? It seems, and probably is, foolish, and yet, je me souviens. Those days on the beach, out by the wharf, under the cherry blossoms... "Being here feels like we have gone back in time, to the time when you and I would spend the halcyon days of our youth with each other.
At that time, I believed that nothing would ever end or ever change." (Truth-Filled Letter) Foolish, as the world is ever-changing, and yet that childlike belief is beautiful in its own way.

Names are what we recognize people, places, and things by, some evoking images of joy and ebullience, others of sadness and regret. Some names even manage to produce both bliss and regret at the same time. Sometimes, people leave such a powerful impression on us that even after their presence has long since faded away, their memory remains, clear as the day of the first meeting. Even after all this time, je t'adore, je t'aime, toujours.

-Inspi

Where I'm at

Harlequin — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:01:55 GMT

"Goodness knows what the end will be, oh I don't know where I'm at!~"

George Gershwin's "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" was playing when I started writing this post, that one line specifically. A little too appropriate, considering what I'm gonna talk about.

Anyway, to those of you who might frequent the blogs here at ggFTW, I just wanted to let you guys know where I'm at with my life right now.

I've been working at Toys"R"Us since August of last year. They brought me in as a BoH (Back of House) team member, but I cross-trained early on and have been getting shifts at any location in the store at any given time. It's kind of nice, except I never really know where I'm gonna be at. All that being said, Toys"R"Us is one of the most frustrating places to work at. Not because of the coworkers or anything, but rather the customer-base.

They expect quite a lot from the team at Toys"R"Us, which is okay. However, it's never okay for you to lose your temper, especially not with someone who's working for minimum wage and no benefits. This is a regular occurrence though, although not really for me personally. My fellow team members have a hard time dealing with angry people it seems, but when I sense someone getting angry at me I tend to just hustle them along and make sure to not draw attention to the survey at the top of the receipts. Also, depending on how the person tries to talk to me, I occasionally bite back. Meaning, if they use obscenities directed at me in the store, I make sure to fire back something like this (paraphrasing of course): "Hey, you better get outta here with that shit, they don't pay me enough to deal with it."

Seems effective most of the time. Like... They seem to realize after you bite back at them that you're a person too. Or maybe they also work for shitty pay at some other store and they've come to the realization that they're being that guy. Whatever the reason, I have a much easier time with angry people than my coworkers (who are really just too sweet and nice for their own good, I guess LOL).

Aside from that, I graduated from Florida State University in August 2012, with my bachelor's in studio art. Since then, I have literally worked on nothing. It's not even because I don't want to. It's because the stores that sell steel in town close by 4 PM, while I'm normally working every day until at least 6. So, no more sculpting until I get a different job, but that's okay. I'll get back into my screenprinting soon too, I've still gotta get that custom clothing business up and running.

I'm still dating the same girl that I've been dating since October 2011. Some days we're going stronger than others, but that's really just how life is. She pisses me off with her being on her cellphone all the time, I piss her off by being blunt with her and her friends. But even so, I love her and I sure as hell hope she loves me. She's set to graduate from nursing school this May.

I picked up a writing gig at oprainfall (also known as Operation Rainfall, depends how you're trying to brand it). You can tell which person is me because the only shit I ever write about is MMOs, much like at ggFTW, duhuhu. It's a pretty nice gig and although it doesn't pay I'm building my resume while doing something that I actually enjoy doing.

This reminds me that I haven't actually written anything for the ggFTW website for a while. Well, that's a different story. That used to be a paying job, so when it stopped being so (around April of last year), I stopped being particularly excited about it. I'll still write something every now and then, but it's actually pretty exhausting. Also add on the fact that the games database here hasn't been updated and the frontpage writing system is directly attached to the database... Makes it a bit tough. I can't write about the stuff that isn't databased. Or rather, I'm not supposed to. By all technicalities I guess I could write whatever the hell I want, but it's a lot more complicated to do so.

Anyway believe me, none of this is a sob story. Life isn't that hard, I'm really enjoying myself.

FIrst blog entry

HayateStorm — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:36:47 GMT

Well its been a good 2 months since playing tw n kr sdgo. With tw i feel more comfortable, maybe because it was more of a gain to me than anything. I love playing competitive games like this and these few months on tw have been really good to me. I finally got some worthwhile units to keep in my hangars, and my first true prize was a ss X-1 which is freakin epic. the ars drop like flies to me and ive never seen such things b4 coming to taiwan. NA has been such a buzz kill i dare not go back, but i still intend to because my clannies are there and we have the most random moments im glad to be a Oldtype XD. I finally got my first SR ranks and dear god this thing is monstrous. X-2 Custom is like a godsend to me, because i was really looking forward to rolling the brave commander type, but that didnt go at all like i planned. Kept giving me susanowos and it was pissing me off to the fullest. Overall i think i got 7 susanowos and kept 2 for shits n giggles to make a susanowo ship lol. im currently leveling up my X-2 kai and its a level of epic ive never seen and hope to see more of.

TO memories : Act I - Unexpected Addiction

Credo — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:55:43 GMT

Just a new game around
Here we are, back to 2007's. Me and Milambee, IRL friends were faithful Tibia players, but the game itself was becoming boring, also, with the defeats and deaths by PKs - and friends quitting the game. But Milambee had an uncommon friendship with a polish player - His name, Piotrek, and he invited us to give TO a try. Moments after, the call was made to all our IRL friends, which played Tibia together with us too...

The rejection between other IRL friends of mine was massive, some made their character and played some hours... Others, did not even wanted to try. Just because of the game's graphs. Most of then said it was... gay, so did I, but I've got used to play, and simply... Ignored that factor. So did Milambee, and he had chosen to create a lion. On TO Piotrek was already a lv200+ buffalo, since I had chosen to create a buffalo (I picked that character because he looked more manly) he guided me through. So, unlike most of the begginers, I didn't had to create another character, since he was already yelling at me to put all the points on AP, and all skills I had to ask him twice before spending my TM points on. Only when I had achieved 3rd job I've became more independent on that way. Curiously, he had quitted weeks after the 3rd job patch launch.

Grinding all the way up, I never did any episode quest back on that time. Not even Ep. 0 !

The first steps made alone
When I have started to play TO, I had only few words in my english vocabulary. " HI " ; " TRADE " ; " OFFER " ; " OK " ; " BYE " And Milambee was always there when Piotrek had something to say to me, so he did the translating job - But since my only IRL friend was Milambee, and I could not find any fellow BR along, it was necessary to handle myself in some situations, with the dictionary's help. Also, to argue about the royal or special parties, since they were extremelly valuable, pretty much the only way to level up, since I could not understand a word the NPCs said, after all, I didn't had quite the curiosity to check it out what was about.

Boss hunts did not had unique weapons and stuff like the actual years, but somehow, it was fun doing so. On those hunts to Capt. Skull in Oops Wharf, I've met Abbey with her cat "oOblueberrieOo", my very first no-brazillian friend, with the exception of Piotrek, since that one was from Tibia. We didn't had quite the communication, but in the future our roads would really follow together. But that's for another Act section.

Another face that I have met was someone with the character "BabyCherii" . It was clear that was a fake, however, speaking with he/she/it granted me a good experience on writing in english.

Time Elapsed on that post
Jun07 ~ Set07