You Know You Play Too Much FF XI When...

Baelari · Post by **Baelari** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:30 pm

When seeing the lunar eclipse a few months ago, you thought "Oh, it must be firesday... and its a full moon! I'd better go fishing!"

When you type /l and press esc when typing in AIM.

When you handwrite o.O and ><; on tests.

When you say "{Death}{Do you need any help?}" to your friends when they annoy you.

When you replace the word "Dollars" or "Money" with "Gil" on a regular basis. For example: Yeah, I've got the gil for the new Slipknot CD, I think I'll go pick it up.
Or: How much did your CD cost? I got it for 9 gil because it was the release day XD

When you try to take random junk you find on the ground to Wal-Mart and try to sell it to them.

In your pre-dawn trip to the bathroom, you have a brief /panic attack because the Wights might be around.

Kopopo · Post by **Kopopo** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:57 pm

My friends and I have been using "gil" in place of other terms for real money for years now.

"Hey, can I borrow a few gil for gas?"

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:20 pm

Crispleaf wrote:Just last night, I was in a checkout line, buying some groceries when a guy gets into line behind me wearing a red santa hat...

My first thought was that he must have completed the Christmas quest...

Did you ask him for a Ginger Cookie?

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:03 am

Bae: I've done the /p or /l or /s thing on AIM so many times. It's subconscious. I think I'm going to do it now just to make my friends boggle.

-- Sarah

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:35 pm

Kopopo wrote:My friends and I have been using "gil" in place of other terms for real money for years now.

"Hey, can I borrow a few gil for gas?"

Ya.. kinda reminds me when i was big into D&D a few years back... our group often did stuff in Planescape campain series when the GM needed a way to move our adventure around to where he needed us. We got to the point where money was always refered to as "Jink" and we started calling people "Berk" instead of "Punk"

Prrsha · Post by **Prrsha** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:03 am

Oooo! Planescape! I love Planescape. I used to DM that campaign. :3

BTW have you ever played the PC game Planescape: Torment? It's one of the best RPG games of all time IMHO.

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:47 pm

Ya i played the game too, very well crafted.

I role-played my characters to an extreme tho. One died while investigating a trap that he knew was a trap, but wanted to see how much of a trap it was.

My other character lasted for a few years, then the party disbanded IRL and i havent played D&D with pen,dice, and pizza since. Tried a few web boards, but inactivity ends up killing those.

Aony · Post by **Aony** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:34 pm

when you say "lol" in real life.

I was watching my bro play FFXI cuz i had nothing to do...he would laugh like this: "hahalolha..."

me:

Kopopo · Post by **Kopopo** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:10 pm

I'll so so far as to pronounce OMGWTFLOLROFLMAOBBQ.

Sigyn · Post by **Sigyn** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:27 pm

I go to school with several people on my server.

when we use a phrase that is in the auto translator, we hold up our hands in a bracket sign and say the phrase.

so like, we'll hold up our hands in a bracket sign and say Case Book <Do you need it?>" and we'll reply "< Yes Please >"

yeah, we're dorks.

Post by **Nivez** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:53 pm

no sigyn, my friends are worse...

they blatently refuse all social norms about what not to say in pubic...

they chant "We are the faithfull, we are the Facefull, wing wong wing wong!" whereever they go.

thier obsessed with marathon:infiniti and halo2. we have serious problems finding time to sleep.

they constatantly worry about me "summoning the Aubrey fairy"

and they have gotten arrested for possession of bomb making materials, and blowing up a chlorine gas bottle bomb next to a police car at the local park >.>

(oh did i mention they are completly sober when they dothis stuff?)

Prrsha · Post by **Prrsha** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:39 pm

Kahvi wrote:I role-played my characters to an extreme tho. One died while investigating a trap that he knew was a trap, but wanted to see how much of a trap it was.

A kender from the Dragonlance campaign?

Meowmixer · Post by **Meowmixer** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:15 am

oh god yes! hitting /l and /p and /shout while talking on AIM

if any of you were once Half-Life addicts, always hitting y before talking... lol.

ybut why
ybecause

y enters the normal chat in game. lol.

Meowmixer · Post by **Meowmixer** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:15 am

oh god yes! hitting /l and /p and /shout while talking on AIM

if any of you were once Half-Life addicts, always hitting y before talking... lol.

ybut why
ybecause

y enters the normal chat in game. lol.

Meowmixer · Post by **Meowmixer** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:15 am

oh god yes! hitting /l and /p and /shout while talking on AIM

if any of you were once Half-Life addicts, always hitting y before talking... lol.

ybut why
ybecause

y enters the normal chat in game. lol.

Maezen · Post by **Maezen** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:23 pm

...when you cancel out of AIM chat windows with the esc key and lose what someone is saying >< i've done this twice already today.

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:36 am

Warching Return of the King for the umteenth time and your best friend shouts "OMFG, Legolas is Ranger sub Ninja"

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:02 am

Tsybil wrote:Warching Return of the King for the umteenth time and your best friend shouts "OMFG, Legolas is Ranger sub Ninja"

so im not the only one to think that... but id say he's hacked. there are a few instances he did melee with an arrow, and that refire rate is just too fast for any bow i know of...

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:34 am

They were talking about Rank 1 agendas in one of my committees today, and my first thought was, "These people all have to be at least Level 50, and they still haven't done Rank 1 missions?" Then I realized what I was thinking and promptly went back to taking notes.

-- Sarah

Lunaleska · Post by **Lunaleska** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:21 am

when i was driving, I saw some license plate start with D19 2354, all I was thinking is... Damage 19, and Delay 2354, this car sucks.....

Ephi · Post by **Ephi** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:40 pm

all ican think of bout playin too much FFXI is that i get hungry an crave jellyfish... speaking of which... im hungry now...

Ephi · Post by **Ephi** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:45 pm

or when u dream with a text box an no voices. ive done that numerous times (cant remember the dream just the text box)

Kopopo · Post by **Kopopo** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:57 pm

I once had a dream where I was in a full alliance. Managing to carry the thoughts of 17 other people is tough. Especially when they don't all speak English.

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:28 pm

Lunaleska wrote:when i was driving, I saw some license plate start with D19 2354, all I was thinking is... Damage 19, and Delay 2354, this car sucks.....

You know I think I have been behind one of those high delay cars before.

Baketsu · Post by **Baketsu** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:38 pm

You open you web browers with the intent of going to www.google.com and end up at moogle.com

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:18 am

Okay, okay, okay. I just remembered this one. This REALLY happened the other day, and I was laughing SO HARD -- but no one else "got" it.

So I'm at work, and one of the interns sitting next to me is working on this bill that he's been having real trouble with (I work as an intern in the AZ House of Representatives, so by bills, I mean the things that get made into laws). We have the following conversation. Bear in mind that my friend doesn't play FF XI, though he is familiar with it:

Friend: I have no idea how my analyst wants me to summarize this bill.
Me: Yeah, I'm working on a really confusing bill for Approps right now--
Friend: This bill is really just a decent challenge.
Me: *snickers* Are you sure it's not checking to you as tough?
Friend: Well, it would be easy if I didn't have to do all this other stuff.....so, yeah, it's just a decent challenge. I've got another bill coming up that's tough.
Me: ....are you sure it's not checking to you as incredibly tough? You're only a level 13 intern.

He sort of understood it since he used to play MMORPGs. But I just busted a gut laughing my arse off since I couldn't believe what I was saying.

-- Sarah

Ephi · Post by **Ephi** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:53 pm

thats funny

in the game i often recieve tells and other forms of speech in the middle of the spammy battle areas (ie Qufim Kazham etc.) and im in the habit of scrolling back to see what i missed.
the other day some of my friends were playin around an this 1 guy said somethin (i really dont remember) my friend replied (somethin else)...not important... then he says somethin i miss and my 1st instinct is to check back in my text box.

mozyr · Post by **mozyr** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:04 am

This just happened today. So I met a lobbyist at work, and I started talking to him, asking him how he became a lobbyist.

He tells me, "Well, I used to work in an iron mine and mine iron ore when I was younger..."

My first thought was, *I wonder what part of Bastok he's from...*

My second thought was, *I wonder if he has any zinc ore to give me for Norg fame.*

Then I smiled and shook my head, and realized that it was WAY past time for me to go home.

-- Sarah

Anathema · Post by **Anathema** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:33 am

I think I've played too much FFXI when I leave my house to goto work and I see the 'mobs' outside my house and I try to check my inventory to make sure I have enough sleep and bloody bolts to take them!

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:19 am

Prrsha wrote:
Kahvi wrote:I role-played my characters to an extreme tho. One died while investigating a trap that he knew was a trap, but wanted to see how much of a trap it was.
A kender from the Dragonlance campaign?

No actually.... and elf sorc with high intellegence and low wisdom.
a few more points in wisdom, and he would have know to let the trap alone... proof that common sense isnt common

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