Thanksgiving 2004. I was eating dinner with all my relatives. And I ate real fast and got up early and said "I got something I have to go do," and they were like, "yea? what?" And I was like, "I'm meeting some people.." "..online." Then I left and got online for some event, who the hell knows what it was, I don't. These are the same relatives I am relying on to put me through college. I hope they don't remember that!

How about you guys?

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RIP Shiloh - I'll never forget ya

yea... Thats what really hit me hard.. The drama didn't help but when i realized i actually did that. The guilt became too much to bare.

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Job 10: 20
The mikey's have a plan. Djay isn't all powerful.

turning down a vacation at my friends house in vegas cuz it was my last month of ffxi.
but yea guilt got the best of me and i went on the trip anyway

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75war/nin&thf-retired||54blm/30whm-retired again

I made it a point to not neglect family and friends. This is why I only have one lv.75 job and it took me until last August to finish WHM, haha.

I can't think of a defining moment except on the occasion I bother to look at /playtime.

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Retired 8/21/06
Don't click this link.

Whenever I said "I rove you" to some girl on AIM.. roflcakes.

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[In Yarr we trust.]

Thats something that i had to learn the hard way.

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Job 10: 20
The mikey's have a plan. Djay isn't all powerful.

i dont remember a specific event, but i do remember turning down friends for ffxi, i didnt get out much when i played.

i turned down eating dinner with the family too.

yeah cad, ive been playing since NA release, have 1 75 job, and hit it exactly last august too lol, i dont have much play time in the summer because of work, etc

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Figuring out how to get your wifey/live in girlfriend in the mood early enough in the night to have sex, cuddle and get back on the game to get a good late night group.

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Warlock's are not OP, maybe if you stopped running around like frightened little girls you'd be able to beat me...

The first time I realized that FFXI was controlling my life was when I was letting a forty three year old bouncer feel me up in a bathroom in exchange for one more hit.


Oh wait, that was my chocolate addiction.

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NA release and one 75 job (tons of merits though). 156 days and 11hours playtime total. I still catch shit from my family about playing too much... I would have gotten better grades in some classes and cared more about the jobs I had if I was not playing FFXI though.

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Eternus Ifrit Server Atariii LS member
75 BRD with a bunch of subjobs

When I killed a man in cold blood for merely LOOKING like an elvaan.

Well I hate turning down friends to do something in FFXI.... but my friends always have something going on. There's never a time when they don't wanna go out and do something. So I hang out with them most of the time... and then I'll make up excuses like "I'm tired" or "I'm gonna do homework." Lets face it, I never do homework.

But I can only take so much of IRL before I wanna spend some time by myself, IRL wears me out, so I go in phases. I haven't really touched FFXI for a little more than 2 weeks now and I don't plan to until maybe next week if I have time. It's real weird..... sometimes ffxi controls my life and sometimes I couldn't care less about it.

In 2003, when my dreams started to revolve around FF >..>

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Graduate student/clinical psychology
"The World breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places." Hemingway

I would get into shouting matches with Tal over stuff in game. lol pretty stupid.

Also cutting family dinner down short was a big deal or not wanting to go out sometimes.

Thank god that didnt last long.

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COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh

You could just have a group, and when its finished, go rape sometime.

Yelling at my mom to STOP BOTHERING ME while trying to count my boosts as mnk/whm in a Kirin battle. lol very difficult.

I was registered for a PF Changs Rock and Roll Marathon, which started pretty early in the morning on a Sunday (Jan 2005). I was so excited for it and trained for it a lot. I planned on getting a full nights sleep so I could do well.

The night before it, I got invited to a group doing several Bastok rank Missions (got the invite at like midnight...I should have been asleep already). I accepted b/c I wanted rank 10 bad. We didn't finish till 5AM my time. I just pulled an all nighter playing FFXI, then drove downtown and did the marathon on no sleep. As a result I did horrible. Felt like I was coming down from drugs or something right at the start. I met my Mom and my Sister there and they said I looked horrible. I was too embarassed to tell them what I did, so I just said I couldn't sleep well b/c I was excited.

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lmao klu.... yeah I've done stuff like that too. blegh

LoL one of the whiney three amigos decided to make a funny...

have you even had sex before for you to even be getting pissed about that 16kb graphic?

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Warlock's are not OP, maybe if you stopped running around like frightened little girls you'd be able to beat me...

In addition...getting Kluya to 75 killed me irl. I had many days where I went into work on like 3 hours of sleep feeling like a zombie all day (FFXI hangover ftl), I bailed on many happy hour invites, missed friends house parties, passed on other random bar and vacation invites from friends. I really missed out on a lot irl with what i've put into this game. I got a lot of shit from friends too. Ephit was an rl friend that started with me but he quit at level 71 b/c he was having the same problems (and I took over).

I've been able to balance the game better since I've been playing Ephit...but I don't have CoP finished, don't much gil, and don't have multiple 75 jobs. I'm just playing casually now for fun. I take a lot of long breaks and back out of FFXI events to go out irl (haven't done dynamis since like October lol). It was really hard for me to learn balance with this game and took a long time.

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i'm still in denial

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Dae, why are you starting shit? I mean, you are not one that should speak.

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If only you all had a large Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy machine like I do.

I dropped out of college, lol. It wasn't entirely FFXI's fault, but the game sure as hell had a part in it.

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lol go fuck off cham, your little bitchass friend was the one that started it, I'm just continuing it, read your own quote goth girl

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Warlock's are not OP, maybe if you stopped running around like frightened little girls you'd be able to beat me...