Posted in FFXI on Aug 25th, 2009
I was discussing some things on the FF Wiki forums today and the discussion about the Crags came up.
Some people were saying that they have always had the shattered telepoint and the portal, or nothing was there before.
I disagreed, but had nothing to back up this claim. So I went searching.
Sadly, when CoP was [...]
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Posted in FFXI on Aug 21st, 2009
In our last lesson, we talked about what file format to work with and why, as well as some other general items of interest.
Today, we’re going to talk about cropping and screen aspect ratios.
If you have an older style monitor, you want to stick with the default of 4:3.
Somewhere around 2004-2005, monitor makers realized that [...]
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Posted in FFXI on Aug 20th, 2009
Hello class, today we will talk about how to take better screenshots for posting on your blog.
Now, I come at this as a photographer, so in theory, I know a little bit about taking pictures.
The first thing to understand is this – different file types are designed for different things.
It is true, not all image [...]
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Posted in FFXI, Random Thoughts on Aug 11th, 2009
Last night, a friend and I were discussing which city best represents each server.
It started when discussing Quetz and my friend described it as the “Alabama of servers”. I, being the smartass I am, asked “so what would be the Mississippi of servers?”, and without hesitation, he replied “Fairy”.
Which started a small discussion of which [...]
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Posted in FFXI on Aug 9th, 2009
Something mysterious flying around Jeuno. A mysterious and powerful kid who talks as “???”. Possibly the end of the world as we know it.
CoP was great wasn’t it.
So great, we get to play parts of the story again. Sort of.
Having been away from the game, then on vacation, I’m only getting started on this [...]
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