Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Yeah, don't click on the thread.

I have to focus on my work.

I am not trying to be a sugar daddy but I think you should get some sleep and come back later to address several posts at once

join the petition to have it put behind an opt-in setting like P+R was.

Sign it by liking this post.

I'd rather it be an opt out. If the harassment allegation are true, I'd like non-account people coming here because they are interested in FFXI Private Server, to get the warning that might help avoid the harassments.

People who are here often and don't want to see it can then opt out.

Use the force.

I csn sense.

Its strong in you, you can do

fair point of view

I am not against that thread. I am okay with that. I do believe it's very easy for women to argue. It just has nothing to do with me.


Hearing world...

1 inch is a lot
Its huge
Massive
Almost unbearably too much

Hate seems to be the name of the game. For a healthy mindset, it’s probably wise to avoid FFXI altogether. I don’t let it bother me when people dislike me.

Will we ever return to people just growing a thicker skin because they had to handle the little things when young, to prepare them for handling the real ***as an adult?

These folk are complaining about not being treated properly on a free service that is maintained and provided for by strangers...what expectations is one truly entitled to in that arrangement? Someone's a belligerent *** on the bus to me, I'm not starting a class action lawsuit against the Metro Transportation Department...I'm putting in my earbuds and ignoring the idiot.

I chat with friends about this all the time - I think folks might be too far gone and we need a hard reset somehow lol. Seems like every discomfort today is a 'trauma' to carried around and used as a way to avoid any personal responsibility. Maybe it's just because I was taught very early on 'life's not fair, so what? figure it out', but I fear for some folks who are walking through life feeling their a victim and crumbling at each bit of discomfort they run into.

(My statement has nothing to do with the PS convo, just an observation on the general state of peoples)

When I first moved here I was starting high school and we got sent home early because the grass had a dusting of snow on it, I was confused then and have never stopped being bewildered by the terror such miniscule specs of snow can cause to the locals.

FFXI is still a PVE MMO so it was supposed to be the care bear world right? Same for FFXIV even though it has its own PVP separately. Doubt? Read this. You can see it literally mentions FFXI.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Care%20Bear

2007!? xD

I just had this convo in a XI Discord, but living in the SE USA and even parts of the NE, it is amazing how people just panic the moment snow shows up in the forecast.

Have you heard of the Atlanta Snowpocalypse? It happened twice when I lived there, but the one most remember is 2014 (IIRC). 2.5 inches of snow fell around rush hour and temps were lower than anticipated - so the roads froze over. There were people sleeping in grocery stores, gas stations, etc because the highways were completely gridlocked. Cars in ditches everywhere, some cars on fire, school buses stranded on the highway - it was a full on emergency for 2 1/2 inches of snow. We had something similar a few years prior, it fell overnight so wasn't as debilitating, but the city basically shut down for over a week over ~2in of snow. There are some 10 year retrospectives from last year about it floating around various news sites but it was chaos both times.

People don't know how to drive in it either. The message they get is "drive slow" so they only pay attention to the speedometer, taking no mind for how fast they get there or what other people are doing. I had several near misses due to people either cutting me off and slamming on their brakes to slow down or whipping out into oncoming traffic quickly then slamming on their brakes to avoid going "too fast for the snow". I just started slowing down way in advance of any waiting cars because I have to assume they are going to do something stupid.

Most recently, we had 3 inches and it was chaos everywhere. Schools were closed for a week, stores closed, panic at the gas station/grocery store, etc. Then this happened near me:



I still don't understand how that happened. There was a car completely flipped upside down along one of our main roads also.

In their defense - somewhat - the problem with the areas that don't see a lot of snow is that people never learned to deal with it, but the region doesn't either. Georgia never puts ***down on the road and NC rarely does it, they also lack equipment to clear the roads properly so a lot of roads still have snow on them a week later. In places further north, they got it down and the roads are passible much faster.

yes 100% the same up here in the north west, they refer to small snow storms as snowmageddon.

When I was a kid in colorado we had a blizzard that dropped multiple feet of snow for weeks on end causing snow drifts off of our houses we had so much snow we didnt have anywhere to plow it to that is "snowmageddon" 2 inches of snow and a bunch of ice because you dont know how to put down de-icer is a skill problem.

(also I realize those who live beyond the wall just live like what I described most of the year but they are mostly bears who learned to type.)

It barely snowed here and it sat for 2 weeks because they can't plow for ***and everywhere ran out of salt.

holy ***, yes

Yeah it's called filters. You can customize everything you see on social media quite easily. Just like you can customize what you see on a forum by not clicking on threads you don't like. Revolutionary.

They are just labeled XI though, so when you click its already too late. I think they should just be hidden too, or just deleted all together so we can ignore their existence lol.

I didn't touch that thread and say Hey come over it's free! lol

I get that it might upset you, but it’s pretty awkward when you see that you’re trying to strip away women’s rights. That’s why I held back. It was interesting to see they thought I was okay with them starting threads and posts.

Your posts are strange sometimes, it comes off like those weird translations from the jrpg PS1 days.. It reminds me of this character Scott in wild arms 2, where every time he would talk its like ok... what does that even mean.

That's because you have known me for a long time including the official forums so my recent posts are quite different. Since English isn't exactly my first language I have had to take my time to make sure I correct everything before I post.

Oh that was going to be my question, so that makes sense what is your first language ?

American Sign language, though, I am bilingual that means I am thinking two languages at the same time. Guess I am a real RDM here? xD

Write a post in sign language pls

I Honestly really like this site, for all the current and former players who play FFXI regardless of different versions. A lot of smart people here where we enjoy sharing if it weren't for FFXI retail and ps. This is still a great site for all the years I have spent on my beloved FFXI. :(

My account is very old and I still visit here a lot even during I played retail. Love ya all! :)