Random Fail FWP Thread 2: Something, Something, Your Mother's a Whore.

[Starby]

Sitting at Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto and it was just announced that Newark Airport in NJ(where we're landing) is shut down. Checking the weather reveals that there's absolutely no reason for it. Should have a status update in 30 minutes

[Zetanio]

Huge weather coming up from the south right now. Should be startlingly obvious from a radar map.

EDIT: Looks like it's gonna whip south of the airport. Weird.

[Zetanio]

Also, you flying direct from there?

[Starby]

Yeah Toronto to Newark, then take njt back to the city.

Edit: boarding the plane now, only 20 minutes delayed so not bad at all.

[Tokitoki]

Good corn tortillas are ok. I'm not the biggest fan. I am white and thus love flour tortillas a huge amount. Fry those fuckers in a little pork fat or oil? Mhmmm, puffy goodness.

Yeah same just was on sale and wanted to try something new. I mean they tasted all right and would be fine for things I'm not trying to fry them but flour just works great for that light and fluffy crisp. I usually fry in butter to get that nice golden brown yum crisp but I'll have to try pork fat that sounds pretty delicious though tried bacon grease once since it's great for a lot of things and it was terrible lol.

Flour tortillas for burritos, quesadillas, etc. Corn tortillas for tacos. Homemade corn tortillas are usually infinitely better, but making them yourself or finding a place that makes them and sells them is difficult. There used to be a bodega on Bruckner Blvd in the BX that sold them. Little old lady in the back made them along with lunch stuff every day. It's since been bought out by an auto body shop or something.

[Kalmado]

This is a super fail. Every Monday for the last 15 months during our Monday morning meeting we are asked what we're going to do for the week (production, goals, etc). Every meeting my coworker says borderline the same thing and every week she never accomplishes anything she says she will and nothing is done about it. And I still get irritated by it knowing nothing will happen. Fucking fail my dude.

[dasva]

Flour tortillas for burritos, quesadillas, etc. Corn tortillas for tacos.

Yeah about the conclusion I came with after using them. Oh well live and learn.

Haven't been playing much lately since it's really been a constant rat race for years and lately even more so with constant monthly updates with some new grind to do and haven't had more than 3-4 people on my friends list online and most not even on server and socialish ls just stopped showing up after they all moved to using some voice chat service instead. And been doing a lot more irl and well ffbe keeps a bit of the game bug going. But keep doing log ins and weekly/monthly stuff out of habit and hope someone might come back just to talk to (actually someone I hadn't seen since like 2005 did a few months ago lol) and been seriously thinking of just completely quitting since don't feel like really doing anything in game and feels like I'm just wasting time and money.

Well woke up this fine Monday morning at around 3 am with a giant blow the gut of nostalgia/guilt for ffxi. Like remembering all the good times with friends and guilt that maybe I missed someone in my lack of play or being logged in. So couldn't stop thinking about it so log in to see if anyone is on since one person from the ls with the fondest memories and longer lasting ones had said she had restarted a few months back though different server but nope. Check for her on fb turns out in last couple of months she's deactivated/deleted her account though don't remember seeing anything about her wanting to do that. Kind of sad because was my last link to that ls since I was one of the few outsiders (all but a couple were either related or had been in or were in a LTR with the main sibling group)... old website is long gone and/or can't find it. One other guy seems that I kept in touch with for awhile (and had kept playing after most the rest just up and quit at the same time with no word) kind of disappeared from everyone including his own family a few years back and had never really got to talk to the rest outside the game. Even a lot of my old screenshots that were on my computer are gone since first comp got retired long ago and last time I tried to boot up it didn't work and more recent ones harddrive had to get reformatted at some point and lost them though might try booting up to see if I can find any. Ended up looking up old screenshots I had archived long ago for the feels. Left with a feeling of wishing I could go back and that I had wasted my life at the same time lol. And still undecided about quitting for now especially since I had to resub to log in this morning anyways and well one of the accounts I'm kind of keeping on going in memory of a friend who made the account. But dammit I just want some records of my memories back and old friends.

[Kalmado]

I thought about if it was a huge waste of my life and I'm on the yes but no side. It actually helped me come out of my shell a bit. I tried running a LS and while we were never bigly successful it was fun. I signed back up last year and played for a few months but it just felt empty. I don't have it in me to run to X, Y, and X before I can do A.

[dasva]

Damn so been looking into sinemia (another movie subscription service) but had some questions first... they weren't responding to their in site contact form/email. So eventually start talking to them on twitter (ironically only have an account to poke jabs at moviepass). Anyways it takes awhile but finally got things clarified... and now the summer sale is over and fall sale is on... except now the main ones I'm looking at have gone up $3 and 5$ a month respectively /sigh. Which makes the plans that include 3D and imax probably worse than just the regular showings unless you are watching one of those at least once a month and still plan on doing so even with the plan that doesn't include it

[Zetanio]

It's almost like that business model doesn't work.

[Kalmado]

Forgot about my fail from yesterday. Almost got thru 1/2 of the VICE doc on the dude who knows our world is ran by lizard people. I tried but I couldn't finish watching it.

[Anoat]

Yeah about the conclusion I came with after using them. Oh well live and learn.

Haven't been playing much lately since it's really been a constant rat race for years and lately even more so with constant monthly updates with some new grind to do and haven't had more than 3-4 people on my friends list online and most not even on server and socialish ls just stopped showing up after they all moved to using some voice chat service instead. And been doing a lot more irl and well ffbe keeps a bit of the game bug going. But keep doing log ins and weekly/monthly stuff out of habit and hope someone might come back just to talk to (actually someone I hadn't seen since like 2005 did a few months ago lol) and been seriously thinking of just completely quitting since don't feel like really doing anything in game and feels like I'm just wasting time and money.

Well woke up this fine Monday morning at around 3 am with a giant blow the gut of nostalgia/guilt for ffxi. Like remembering all the good times with friends and guilt that maybe I missed someone in my lack of play or being logged in. So couldn't stop thinking about it so log in to see if anyone is on since one person from the ls with the fondest memories and longer lasting ones had said she had restarted a few months back though different server but nope. Check for her on fb turns out in last couple of months she's deactivated/deleted her account though don't remember seeing anything about her wanting to do that. Kind of sad because was my last link to that ls since I was one of the few outsiders (all but a couple were either related or had been in or were in a LTR with the main sibling group)... old website is long gone and/or can't find it. One other guy seems that I kept in touch with for awhile (and had kept playing after most the rest just up and quit at the same time with no word) kind of disappeared from everyone including his own family a few years back and had never really got to talk to the rest outside the game. Even a lot of my old screenshots that were on my computer are gone since first comp got retired long ago and last time I tried to boot up it didn't work and more recent ones harddrive had to get reformatted at some point and lost them though might try booting up to see if I can find any. Ended up looking up old screenshots I had archived long ago for the feels. Left with a feeling of wishing I could go back and that I had wasted my life at the same time lol. And still undecided about quitting for now especially since I had to resub to log in this morning anyways and well one of the accounts I'm kind of keeping on going in memory of a friend who made the account. But dammit I just want some records of my memories back and old friends.

I kinda go through this in the FFXI Nostalgia thread every once in a while. The fact is that dragon you are chasing is doing fun things with those people and not necessarily the game. The game has a big part in it, to be sure, but you’re really just trying to recapture a specific time in your life when you and friends could dick around on video games and perhaps not where you are in life now with other things taking up more time (work, family, school etc.)

You can login and run around for a bit, and as you discovered, the game feels empty compared to how it used to be. Once you get past the initial quality of life improvements shock they’ve made and how powerful you feel because now you can solo stuff that used to take alliances to kill, the charm wears off fast.

[dasva]

It's almost like that business model doesn't work.

What subscriptions in general or moviepasses 30 for 1 deal? Cause nobody comes close to doing the latter not even moviepass anymore lol. They just seem to rotate various deals and such like before summer it was higher but they included $25 restaurant.com coupon a month with it. Honestly given people wont fully use stuff I could see them making some money based on prices

I kinda go through this in the FFXI Nostalgia thread every once in a while. The fact is that dragon you are chasing is doing fun things with those people and not necessarily the game. The game has a big part in it, to be sure, but you’re really just trying to recapture a specific time in your life when you and friends could dick around on video games and perhaps not where you are in life now with other things taking up more time (work, family, school etc.)

You can login and run around for a bit, and as you discovered, the game feels empty compared to how it used to be. Once you get past the initial quality of life improvements shock they’ve made and how powerful you feel because now you can solo stuff that used to take alliances to kill, the charm wears off fast.

Oh I know it's all about the people which is what a lot of the sad is about since pretty much all are gone and can't find again. Oddly for most of it I had less time per se but less worries as it was just go in and come back and just relax on the game with friends.

Oh I've never stopped logging in completely but actually doing stuff has fallen flat of late. Especially with the increasingly stupid grinds they give us while also making old rare stuff gotten in dumbest of ways (there is now basically a monthly roulette via boxes that may or may not be mimics or awesome loot that contain gear very few have ever seen since lol .5-1% omen droprates)

[Zetanio]

MoviePass. Sinemia seems headed in the same direction.

[dasva]

Well they did just start offering 30 movies a month for $30 so maybe... kind of surprised since most the other deals were almost setup where if you miss 1 or 2 a month you might be breaking even while that is well the same kind of shit that got moviepass in trouble lol

[Yuri-G]

say pan: "pan"
say gaea: "gai-uh"
say Pangea: "pan-jee-uh"


GOD DAMNIT

[Zetanio]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia

Gaia and Gaea are pronounced differently fam.

[Yuri-G]

maybe, but who the fuck says "jee-uh"? no one, that's who!

[Zetanio]

People who spell it Gaea do.

[Yuri-G]

you go on believing that