CallmeYahweh

Droppin' by to say that your art is totes adorbs, and I love it. Also droppin' by to say, hey guess what! Another cat wouldn't mind to overwhelm you with another doodle option: This one is his bemasked alterego, "Bondage Batman."

Character name: E'rinha Tia Server: Balmung Time Zone: PST Crafting profession + level: Prof 1. Leatherworking, 40 prof 2 Armorsmithing, 40 Prof 3 Cooking, 37 Prof 4 Weaver, 40 Gathering: Fishing + 0 Level Mining + 35ish level Botany + 35ish level I plan to get all crafts to 50 fairly soon. Plugging away at gathering right now.

Hey there! I'm an officer in Balmung's Finest. I'm sorry that you feel that way, Rahal. Unfortunately, I received no attempts to be contacted, either, and the linkshell as a whole has been largely communicative and supportive. So by and large, keep being awesome guys. My favorite linkshell I've got so far! (I'm not biased, I swear.)

Reader beware.. you're in for a scare! E'rinha rocking what was affectionately dubbed as 'bondage Batman.'

In game and will be for some time! Feel free to hit me up. Name's E'rinha Tia.

Rhylund's Rabble Rousers is hilarious and has my vote without a doubt.

I am most definitely interested in this idea. Sign me up!

That looked an awful lot like we're going to be fighting inside of an airship. Hrrrrrgh. I am so excited!

I had no idea he was here until Thursday last week but fortunately the tickets hadn't sold out, which was surprising considering the place was packed. His talk ended at half eight in the evening but the book signing queue was so long I didn't reach him until about 11:30pm. I'm pretty sure he didn't go home until the early hours of the morning, but he signed all of our books with little drawings and quotes. Such a wonderful guy. Oh man, disappointment is certainly an understatement, a six week workshop with Gaiman would be... wow, basically. I kind of grew up on Pratchett, well, Discworld, weirdly enough I just couldn't get into his kids books as a kid, but Rincewind? Yeah I totally got into that. Good Omens was the first thing I read that had a bit of Neil in it and it's what got me to read Neverwhere, American Gods and Stardust. I love those three books but I'd have to say American Gods is my favourite (despite not being American) followed closely by Neverwhere and Stardust. I'm a pretty big Sherlock Holmes fan (and by extension, a Jeremy Brett fan), although Lovecraft is actually a bit more of a recent read for me. I mean I had always known about Cthulhu and such, because internet, but I'm really impressed by a lot of his other short stories, well the ones that go a bit more in depth than "it was too indescribable to write about". As for Douglas Adams, again I'm also a huge fan, although it was kind of painful to read Mostly Harmless. As for Neuromancer, that's okay, I'm pretty dense too :cactuar: Oh, awesome! Yeah, I've heard that he's a pretty decent human being. Very nice to his fans and whatnot. I admire his style of writing greatly; spent a few years emulating it, as a matter of fact. He's what got me reading fiction again. That's pretty damn sweet that you got something signed by him! I had a lot of pressure from friends/family to read and get into Discworld. Good Omens is probably my favorite of his stuff. It's the right mix of that dry humor, and whimsical narrative with Gaiman's flair for prose. I owe a lot of my love for the noir and detective genre to Sherlock Holmes. He's where that all started for me. I especially love how his legacy has carried on. Lovecraft is a lot like that as well -- though I'd argue that Lovecraft's worlds have only gotten better after his death. Lovecraft was strange guy, and while his writing was pretty boring, the worlds and ideas he left behind were fantastic. I like a lot of his stuff that isn't Cthluhu based. Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath is easily my favorite of his work. Herbert West is also really good. And I'm really sad that we will apparently never get to see Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness. Gibson's stuff takes a herculean effort on my part to get through. I like his writing well enough, and the stories are killer, but what hangs me up is the amount of work you put into reading to make sure you catch everything. His books are huge, and generally take me a readthrough or two to make sure I'm on the page with them. A buddy of mine swears by Cryptonomicon though so I suppose I'll have to settle in for a few months and bite the bullet. It is definitely worth what you put into it.

I'm pretty lame and have no tattoos, only a single piercing (in my ear from a botched home attempt when I was a little over eighteen.), and though I plan to get a tattoo at some point, it has to mean something and will probably be small and unnoticed. That being said, on the subject of interesting tattoos regarding life events: a favorite professor of mine has something written in Sanskrit along his thumb. He won't tell students what it says, or why/when he got it, only that it's very personal to him. Something to keep in mind when thinking about tattoos with meaning, I guess.

I don't know what it is about this game but there's something addictive about the crafting/gathering systems. I know that gathering is largely the same as it is in most MMOs; look for node, reach node, click node, get item, rinse and repeat. Maybe it's the inclusion of those small areas that contain only a specific item that are out of the way, or maybe it's the fact that people aren't competing for the nodes in the first place that does it. I'm not sure what it is, but man, I had this strange urge to collect 99 (or more!) of every item I came across. Malachite? Must have a full stack of it. White scorpions? Must. Have. 99. And crafting! Holy crow! I love, love, love what they did to it. It feels like this great little minigame compared to 1.0, or even other MMOs that just feels much more active. I can't wait to craft my monk a set of endgame armor and spend countless attempts melding materia onto everything.

I, too, ordered the soundtrack. Though less for the mini and more for the music. I don't listen to a lot of videogame music in my off time but the Final Fantasy series is almost always an exception to that. I will also be hungrily devouring all of these minipets as soon as possible. That tiny Dullahan in particular. Or the pudgy puk. They're too adorable to pass up.

Books? Give me a few ideas of what to read please? Been wanting to read a few new series lately. What sort of books do you enjoy reading? I read from a very wide variety of stuff so I'm just as comfortable reading something like Gaiman's Coraline, as I am Ballard's Crash. But if you've got a preference to fantasy/scifi/nonfic/horror/whathaveyou, lemme know and I'll see what I can dig up out of the old library. If you ever read the sight or fell(it's sequal) or even the maximum ride series thoughs are the kinds of books I like. I don't know what genre they fall into.. Maybe fantasy I assume? I'm actually familiar with both series! If you're looking for something similar to these, and you enjoy animals perhaps then, take a look at some of Brian Jacques' Redwall work. They're a little older these days but if you haven't read them, (Salamandastron, and Mattimeo in particular!) they are fantastic stories. And there are a lot of them! Easy reads, quick, and packing substance without getting too weighty. I will always recommend Gaiman's work. Starting perhaps, with Stardust or Neverwhere and ending with one of my all time favorite novels, American Gods. Let me know how those suggestions treat you! I've got a few more in mind but I want to see how you take to these first. Oh man! He was in SanFran just a few weeks ago and I totally missed the visit. I almost got into a six week writing workshop with him a handful of summers back but had to back out due to some problems with funding on my end. Biggest disappointment of my life thus far. I like Pratchett on occasion. I'm not sure I could read him all the time but he's definitely got a lot of really good stuff. (I'm a bit biased towards Douglas Adams though!) Also love ACD and Lovecraft's work. I'm about to break into a few books by GK Chesterton I got a while back, but never got around to reading. Neuromancer though, I'm not sure I want to go near. William Gibson's stuff is so dense it takes me months to get through it all.

I think I RPed with you in the last beta phase... I seem to recall a Rendal. !! I remember this! It's going to be awesome to get more moments like this as the game launches, and people start to bump into each other more and more.

Books? Give me a few ideas of what to read please? Been wanting to read a few new series lately. What sort of books do you enjoy reading? I read from a very wide variety of stuff so I'm just as comfortable reading something like Gaiman's Coraline, as I am Ballard's Crash. But if you've got a preference to fantasy/scifi/nonfic/horror/whathaveyou, lemme know and I'll see what I can dig up out of the old library.

Oh man if we're talkin' books, be very careful. I can talk for hours on books. Game of Thrones is great. I don't get into the massive fantasy epics much these days though. In no particular order may I suggest: Light (M. John Harrison), The Chronicles of Amber (Roger Zelazny), Mythago Wood (Robert Holdstock), anything by Hunter S. Thompson, (though I have a special place in my heart for Better than Sex, and Songs of the Doomed!), Glory Road (Robert Heinlein), etc. The list goes on and on and on.

It's a deceptively long wait between now and early access. I'll be getting some last minute writing/editing in between bouts of Persona 4 Golden (gotta get dat new ending, mang!) and any number of the Steam games collecting dust in my library. Strangely enough I've been thinking about playing FF6 again. Odd.

I didn't take a lot of screenshots in phase 3, or 1.0. I decided to change that starting phase 4. Here are some of my favorites: A final shot: Look at that grin.

I am brewing a metric ton of tea. Black, green, white, red; you name it, I'm making it. Chocolate chai, mint, everything. Experimenting with some iced green. It's a guilty pleasure.

I hear tumblr and I think of a cocktail tumbler. I've always wanted to do a character blog but I've never gotten around to it. Might have to if I plan to stick with FF14 for the long run.

There's some great stuff in here, as expected. Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, Silversun Pickups, Blackmore's Night Guile's Theme, all fantastic. I am a huge turbomega nerd for Tom Waits, so of course this is going right up here: [video=youtube] I am also a gigantic nerd for David Bowie: [video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x5OubSeb-U Hazmat Modine: [video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeUGeNTTD9k And, finally, because I grew up mostly in the 90's I am obligated to throw some grunge in here too: [video=youtube]

This is an especially good point, and one that I am torn on. The best linkshells/guilds I've been in have been the ones that I've been a part of from the ground up. That being said, I am hesitant to commit entirely to a FC right now because the game hasn't launched yet and who knows whether the company will be around in six months to a year from now.

V'hal more than likely smells pretty strongly of dust, first and foremost. Travelworn as he is. When he's presentable and cleaned up he enjoys very strong scents. That probably don't mix well together. The pricier the better.

Yep. Same boat here, too. I love RP, and I love PvE/Endgame stuff. So I'm looking for a linkshell or two for my RP needs, and a FC for endgame activities. I was an officer in a pretty serious endgame guild in WoW (Wyrmrest represent!) and I'm definitely looking to clear content in ARR. Especially after hearing the song to the Good King Moggle Mog fight. (Wish I had stuck around in 1.0 for that!)

I am firmly in the 'tab targeting' camp of MMO players. I'm okay with it being mostly a numbers game; that's what old school roleplaying games were. Generally, I find that the 'twitch reflex' games are better left to FPS and fighting games. When it's put into an MMO, the result is, (I feel!) a shoehorned attempt to stay 'with the times' or whatever. Tera's combat felt lackluster and I quickly got tired of clicking my mouse over and over again. GW2 was a solid mix of tab and action but the game turned into a huge spamfest with very little considerations put into place for the systems. And, my hands got tired pretty quickly while playing. When playing Tera I kept thinking to myself, why don't I just go pop Devil May Cry into my PS3 and do that instead?