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"Wanna come to my hills?"
Liz + Val + alcohol in their systems = lol.
Oi hey, Liz, that arrow between hills thing - my Darush did that. XD
Was thinking about having a barbeque this week, but the weather forecast looks rotten. =/
In TLR, it could be because I was only at level 20-30, but people sitting in reserves don't seem to gain much stat or skills ever, and even chaining at Aveclyff bugpit didn't seem to have done anything (and I got bored after 250 chains even with turbo on). The annoying thing is I didn't actually write down who has what and then do a before/after commparison. Currently my party is just about to re-enter Nagapur through the aqueducts. Went and did the Vespalia birdthing quest at Royotia - all unions apart from Rush's could be killed with one hit of Grenade Impact. orz I don't remember how strong/weak I was at this BR/at this point in the game the previous times I played so it's hard to compare whether PC version is harder or easier. =/
Quite a few people (including the-housemate-whose-brain-I-broke) have multiple online accounts everywhere these days. I'm not following any of them because I can't keep up. I also don't have other accounts myself, or maybe I do have one or two but I don't use them. (Think I have an IJ somewhere... or is it GJ?) Still remember a year or two ago (or was it more) someone asked me why I don't sign up for Twitter since I used to post so much and so many of the posts were one-liners. Heck, I don't even remember to login to my Facebook and check people's photos more than around every other month. I just can't be bothered, that's what it is. And with other people's accounts, yeah well have fun you guys, it's not like I don't care but I don't know where you are. Even if you posted about it, I'm not always at a place where I can click links to social networking or blogging sites freely (LJ is partially-filtered at work, too). And by the time I remember to look for it I can't find your post. You could try listing them on your LJ profiles instead or something like that? But I'll still forget who's got additional journals/blogs elsewhere and clicking on every profile on my flist = too much to do, still. Sorry, I'm lazy. I can't deal with this social networking and journalling and blogging business more than one thing at a time (this account is 8 years old), I'd rather miss out on whatever fun you're having than getting my head done in**, so I'll just go play by/with myself.
**it's not the same as multitasking, you see, it's also having to remember what I can say where. BECAUSE I'LL DEFINITELY MESS UP AND MAKE INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS AT INAPPROPRIATE PLACES AND RUIN YOUR NEW SHINY ACCOUNT, YOUR ATTEMPT TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS AND YOUR REPUTATION (IF YOU HAVE ANY).
Also, most of the time I don't know what those places you've signed up for/opened an account at are actually about. Because nobody tells me these things, they either assume I already know or keep it amongst exclusive groups of awesome people who laugh at the ignorant, I presume.
..........well done to you if you understood what I said, because I didn't. I think my point is that people who have multiple accounts are more awesome than I# because I can't cope with that and if I try I'll just open-mouth-insert-foot.
Clearly today is the first working day of the week.
#I channelled Dave there.
Oi hey, Liz, that arrow between hills thing - my Darush did that. XD
Was thinking about having a barbeque this week, but the weather forecast looks rotten. =/
In TLR, it could be because I was only at level 20-30, but people sitting in reserves don't seem to gain much stat or skills ever, and even chaining at Aveclyff bugpit didn't seem to have done anything (and I got bored after 250 chains even with turbo on). The annoying thing is I didn't actually write down who has what and then do a before/after commparison. Currently my party is just about to re-enter Nagapur through the aqueducts. Went and did the Vespalia birdthing quest at Royotia - all unions apart from Rush's could be killed with one hit of Grenade Impact. orz I don't remember how strong/weak I was at this BR/at this point in the game the previous times I played so it's hard to compare whether PC version is harder or easier. =/
Quite a few people (including the-housemate-whose-brain-I-broke) have multiple online accounts everywhere these days. I'm not following any of them because I can't keep up. I also don't have other accounts myself, or maybe I do have one or two but I don't use them. (Think I have an IJ somewhere... or is it GJ?) Still remember a year or two ago (or was it more) someone asked me why I don't sign up for Twitter since I used to post so much and so many of the posts were one-liners. Heck, I don't even remember to login to my Facebook and check people's photos more than around every other month. I just can't be bothered, that's what it is. And with other people's accounts, yeah well have fun you guys, it's not like I don't care but I don't know where you are. Even if you posted about it, I'm not always at a place where I can click links to social networking or blogging sites freely (LJ is partially-filtered at work, too). And by the time I remember to look for it I can't find your post. You could try listing them on your LJ profiles instead or something like that? But I'll still forget who's got additional journals/blogs elsewhere and clicking on every profile on my flist = too much to do, still. Sorry, I'm lazy. I can't deal with this social networking and journalling and blogging business more than one thing at a time (this account is 8 years old), I'd rather miss out on whatever fun you're having than getting my head done in**, so I'll just go play by/with myself.
**it's not the same as multitasking, you see, it's also having to remember what I can say where. BECAUSE I'LL DEFINITELY MESS UP AND MAKE INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS AT INAPPROPRIATE PLACES AND RUIN YOUR NEW SHINY ACCOUNT, YOUR ATTEMPT TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS AND YOUR REPUTATION (IF YOU HAVE ANY).
Also, most of the time I don't know what those places you've signed up for/opened an account at are actually about. Because nobody tells me these things, they either assume I already know or keep it amongst exclusive groups of awesome people who laugh at the ignorant, I presume.
..........well done to you if you understood what I said, because I didn't. I think my point is that people who have multiple accounts are more awesome than I# because I can't cope with that and if I try I'll just open-mouth-insert-foot.
Clearly today is the first working day of the week.
#I channelled Dave there.
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And yeah, they all gravitate back to LJ usually.
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Just went to take a look at their site. It seems neat, but I'm a skeptical person. LJ swore up and down about being ad-free too, back in the old days, but sooner or later they all succumb. There will be teething problems that'll last a year or two, and there'll always be problems with copyrighted material, porn, etc etc. Those aren't LJ-created problems but things that every site will have to deal with. And "user based forum", "volunteer based" and "by users for users" only mean "we aren't paying for professional people to help you or spending our own time to help you"...
There have been issues where LJ's response could admittedly have been better, but people forget that LJ is actually run by a relatively small number of people and everything they say immediately get scrutinised. And with all these people using the service everything gets snowballed into "OMG HOW COULD THEY DO THIS!!!!!". orz Within a day everybody screams bloody murder and not even all LJ staff has an idea what the hell is going on yet. If something ain't fixed within three days, those people scream dictatorship and censorship and bloody murder and then stage a revolt and make icons and petitions and polls and basically, just make it a million times worse before anyone has a chance to look at the problem thoroughly and respond properly. orz This is the sort of thing which I don't see would be any different anywhere else. As soon as there are enough people using it, that's how it'll be. Because it's the internet.
Does it? XD
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And yeah, I click on the news posts just to read comments too. XD
But egging is the essence of all revolts!
Repulse Bay. >D It is a lovely area. XD
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SHOW ME THE PORN. I reserve the right to laugh hysterically at it by association though. :DWell, the thing is, I do have other places but I don't actually use them much; they are mostly for reading other people. Dreamwidth (which is a journal site using code modified from the open-source bits of LJ instead of just moving the code straight over as-is) is the only one I consider moving to properly but once the crossposting feature people keep mentioning over there is up I could perfectly easily post the same things on DW and LJ anyway, rather than vanishing here. I don't know. I'm inherently quite lazy too but also too curious for my own good.
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What is actually wrong with LJ's coding, though? DW seem to have changed the word from "friends list" to something else, but at the end of the day (*cough*) it's just a word.
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For people who never flock their posts, this is of course rather moot. :)
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Although, because of the way I use LJ, if I want to read someone's stuff I'd like them to read mine too. That's how I've made friends here! It's a risk that sometimes I take in order to meet people, you know? Otherwise it all becomes so impersonal and "well now you're in the outer circle, I'll see if I wanna let you in the inner l33t circle". I can see why they've done it and it's obviously very useful, but it can also be so high-school.
So that function, on top of the fact that I don't generally flock stuff, isn't particularly shiny to me.
[edit] When I think about it, it's probably also because I don't post really important or deeply personal stuff here. A friend who's now using a different journal service once said that if it's something you can't let the whole of the internet know, then don't post it. And the older I get the more I think it's good advice. So even if I post something under a tight lock, it would be something I simply don't want to be in everybody's faces, rather than think the security is absolute and the rest of the world will never know. Stuff that will make me scream/hide/break down if leaked = stuff I don't post under ANY lock, not even as a private entry.
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I'm seriously considering moving house for Dreamwidth, though. Despite their stupid, unspellable name (I hate hate hate English words with 'dth' in them). I've been on lj since, um, 2002, and it and I have changed since. I'm feeling a desire for a new name* and a new place, while being way too lazy to actually learn much new stuff. Also, I want to keep my friends where I can see them. This makes DW look fairly shiny, and so far they look more sturdy than the straight LJ clones. The major stumbling point for me will be how easy or hard keeping up with the lj flist becomes, over time. We shall see.
I also do not want my journal to crop up in the big search engines, because of my job. Not that I post much job stuff on lj, but it's a comfort thing. After I discovered that a rogue post-collecting and indexing site had disregarded my "do not include in search engines" setup on lj (which I've had up since day one), collected all my public posts in their own archive and made THAT archive indexable by google etc., I've had this annoying itch between my shoulder blades. Silly? Possibly. Annoying? Definitely. ^^
*)No, a rename token is NOT good enough. You can still type in the old name and automatically get rerouted to the new, as far as I've been able to tell.
PS - If you want an invite code, to take a close look at this thing, let me know. The PTBs appears to have granted me with one.
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Here. http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=25
See "How Renames Work" and then "Disconnection & Deletion".
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I've always known it could be done (but didn't look up how) and thought everybody else knew too, but only choose the forwarding option because they still want people to find them. XD; I've only ever had one friend who chose to disconnect.
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As long as it's different purposes I get it. Like when I used to blog about beauty, it was about opinions and product reviews. LJ is a lot more personal for me, I don't see the point of making the same posts in a gazillion different places.
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Facebook is purely for spying on other people's photos. That's how I use mine anyway. XD
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These days I keep separate "people" and "reading" lists because of increased monitoring of personal Internet use at work. I don't want anything awkward popping up if I'm browsing at lunchtime so I separated out most of the fanstuff and read "people" here and "fic" somwhere else, or via feeds (eg during upsurges of cross posting). I did think of streamlining my own posting into a single site but youknowwho insisted on maintaining his own identity.