Azeroth vs. Vana'diel

I recently decided to begin playing Final Fantasy XI online for the first time. I've grown up playing the Final Fantasy series, and have become a huge fan. However, I had never experienced the world of Vana'diel. Final Fantasy as a MMORPG? I had my doubts at first. MMORPG was great for Warcraft, and I fell in love with Azeroth, and miss it dearly to this day. I loved it's gorgeous canyons and dark, mysterious forests; it's deep sweeping ocean with all of her secrets. I miss the magical way of transforming into animals to fast travel across vast area's, and I even miss the weird little people who following you around begging for gold.

However, I believe it is only fair to my favorite series of all time to give it a shot as an MMORPG. I look forward to exploring Vana'diel and all of her secrets, as I'm sure she is full of. I'm excited to begin my quest as a low level adventurer and slowly move into my status as a God among men in the game. My only concern is that I may be disappointed in Vana'diel after comparing it to Azeroth. WoW stole my heart with Azeroth and her beauty, and it will be hard for me to look at another MMORPG the same without it taking place in Azeroth.

My PlayOnline ID is Punktatum, as is my name in FFXI. Add me and we shall explore Vana'diel and her secrets together. Together, we can end my debate forever, and I can decide for myself which world I will be a part of, Azeroth or Vana'diel. Where do your loyalties lie?

Modern Warfare 2 & Pizza

Anger.

Finished playing Modern Warfare today for the time being. That game seems to be all that I'm good at lately. Had a couple good games, a few bad ones, and then the average of only a +1 or +2 kill to death ratio. One game, on Terminal, went 22 and 2. Killstreak of 15. Best game ever. Only problem, we lost the match. How does that happen? How can I have a +20 and my team lose a match?

I'll tell you how. My teammates. But first, let me explain how the teams are set up. 12 players in a room, 6 on each team, and it's randomly decided who is on who's team. So, myself, lead killer for both teams with a +20, next person on my team went 11 and 15. Not bad, only a negative 4, I more than made up for his game. The next four however went 4 and 17, 3 and 17, 3 and 16, and 1 and 8. Adds up to 44 to 75, even with my +20. WTF?

In cases like this, it makes me wish there was a more concrete way of deciding who you could play with without having to have 12 friends online at the same time for a fun match. I love playing random people, especially when I have games like the previous one, although it would be nice if my teammates could keep. I wish Modern Warfare 2 would implement a way to group people based on skill level, it would make a lot of people a lot happier. Then there wouldn't be these games like I previously described.

Taking a break from the Xbox for a while. Cooking some frozen pizza's for lunch, then calling Jeff Harding in Spruce Pine about a job. Wish me luck..

"The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbour; the angry man hath not himself."

Life, Movies and Video Games

This is my first blog, so I'm not sure really how to start.

My life has absolutly no direction right now. It's the first time since pre-school that I haven't had something to do every single day, and it scares me in a way. I'm stuck in a dead end job with no true hopes of finding a better one. I've officially dropped out of school, and don't know for sure if I plan on ever finishing or not. I need a new car before mine blows up, and I want to move out of my parents house sometime before the end of the summer.

But for now, I'll sit in my room, work my sucky 20 hours a week at Burger King, play Modern Warfare 2, and pray about what I'm going to do. Watching Star Wars tomorrow, all six episodes from start to finish. Should be a pretty intense day.

Decided that I'm gonna end every blog with some kind of quote. Here's one for you to ponder on...see if you can guess who said it.

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."