My Libsyn account that Looking for Party is hosted on has gone down apparently. My debit card had been put on hold due to some security nonsense on the day my billing usually happens and for whatever reason Libsyn didn’t just auto bill me later. Logged on today and noticed that all the files were down. I was going to re-up my subscription however they were going to charge a $12 late fee on top of my regular charges so I figured screw it. I was going to drop Libsyn and put everything on here this month anyway. Sadly all the images on the blog that were hosted on my Libsyn account are probably gone forever. Oh, I still have most of them but I'm far too lazy to go back and fix all the links at this time anyway.
I'm uploading all the episodes I can find and will go about fixing the links on here sometime hopefully soon. Don't forget to check out my new site/blog at www.chrismishima.com.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Whoops
A few days ago I was checking out the Eorzeapedia formus and they had a thread for posting picture of your PC setup. I figured I might as well post some of my pictures. I decided to upload them to my libsyn account (where the podcast is hosted) but they changed there service a while ago and I wasn't sure on how to just upload pictures. What ended up happening was that the three pictures ended up going out to people who were subcribed even though that wasn't my intention. I noticed the problem the next day and took the pictures off but I just wanted to apologize for that goof. Encase you didn't get the pictures and are curious here they are:
Not exactly the best picture, just a quick shot of my sloppy desk. Nothing too special. The monitor is just a 22" Samsung. They keyboard is a Razor keyboard but it's junk, sometimes it misses button inputs, probably why it was on sale when I bought it...The Neosporin, comb, generic mp3 player, and Xbox controllers are just there because I was too lazy to move then and clean off the desk. However I do play FFXI with a wired 360 controller. I'm in the process of doing a budget upgrade on my PC. Currently I'm using a AMD Phenom II X4 3.4 gig processor (on a cheap motherboard), 4 gigs of DDR3 ram, and my video card, a Geforce GTX 460, should be here in a few days. All and all it set me back $530 dollars so far. Not too bad. Hopefully it'll run Final Fantasy 14 well.
My TV is a 50" generic Samsung plasma. I bought it a couple years back for $1,500 bucks just in time for Metal Gear Solid 4 :). My Xbox 360 and PS3 are also in the shot. The game disk on the counter is Bionic Commando. I bought it last week for $6.00, lol.
My Anime/Video game collection. This isn't a very good shot because it's taken from a far. If you are curious as to what I own I posted a closer up picture of my anime after this paragraph (the photo is super outdated but I wasn't able to find a newer one). My collection hasn't really changed much since the podcast began because a couple of years ago I was out of work and fell way into debt so my game/anime purchasing came to a near halt. I'm just now finally starting to recover so I should be back to wasting money on filling up another DVD rack in a few months.
http://chrismishima.homestead.com/files/setupanime.gif
(the boxes on the bottom that you probably can't read are Saiyuki, Samurai Champloo vol 1, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, Silent Mobius, Serial Experiments Lain, Sonic the Hedghog: The movie, Soul Taker, and Sorcerer Hunters)
Anywho, here are the last two episodes.
Show number 33!
Show number 34!
Not exactly the best picture, just a quick shot of my sloppy desk. Nothing too special. The monitor is just a 22" Samsung. They keyboard is a Razor keyboard but it's junk, sometimes it misses button inputs, probably why it was on sale when I bought it...The Neosporin, comb, generic mp3 player, and Xbox controllers are just there because I was too lazy to move then and clean off the desk. However I do play FFXI with a wired 360 controller. I'm in the process of doing a budget upgrade on my PC. Currently I'm using a AMD Phenom II X4 3.4 gig processor (on a cheap motherboard), 4 gigs of DDR3 ram, and my video card, a Geforce GTX 460, should be here in a few days. All and all it set me back $530 dollars so far. Not too bad. Hopefully it'll run Final Fantasy 14 well.
My Anime/Video game collection. This isn't a very good shot because it's taken from a far. If you are curious as to what I own I posted a closer up picture of my anime after this paragraph (the photo is super outdated but I wasn't able to find a newer one). My collection hasn't really changed much since the podcast began because a couple of years ago I was out of work and fell way into debt so my game/anime purchasing came to a near halt. I'm just now finally starting to recover so I should be back to wasting money on filling up another DVD rack in a few months.
http://chrismishima.homestead.com/files/setupanime.gif
(the boxes on the bottom that you probably can't read are Saiyuki, Samurai Champloo vol 1, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, Silent Mobius, Serial Experiments Lain, Sonic the Hedghog: The movie, Soul Taker, and Sorcerer Hunters)
Anywho, here are the last two episodes.
Show number 33!
Show number 34!
Monday, August 30, 2010
The past 8 episodes
Whoa, been awhile since I updated this eh? Just encase you don't use itunes, here are the past 8 episodes...
Click the link to download.
Show number 25!
Show number 26!
Show number 27!
Show number 28!
Show number 29!
Show number 30!
Show number 31!
Show number 32!
Boy, that wasn't so hard. I haven't logged in for so long that I forgot my login name, lol. It didn't come to me until like 6 hours later. Since episode 32 I managed to get my DRK & SAM to 80. Kinda sucked because in both parties I ended up hitting the cap and having to wait a while for my rep to show. I think I stayed for like 20 minutes after maxing out on DRK and around an hour on SAM. That's a lot of missed XP :(.
Aside for that I picked up the level 80 SAM great katana. I think I'm going to go for the +10 to Tachi:Kasha version. Regardless of what I pick it'll be better then the katana I got from sky and have been using on SAM for years. I finished the first stage and I'm going to get started on the second stage before I go to bed since the game will be down for upgrades when I wake up.
Click the link to download.
Show number 25!
Show number 26!
Show number 27!
Show number 28!
Show number 29!
Show number 30!
Show number 31!
Show number 32!
Boy, that wasn't so hard. I haven't logged in for so long that I forgot my login name, lol. It didn't come to me until like 6 hours later. Since episode 32 I managed to get my DRK & SAM to 80. Kinda sucked because in both parties I ended up hitting the cap and having to wait a while for my rep to show. I think I stayed for like 20 minutes after maxing out on DRK and around an hour on SAM. That's a lot of missed XP :(.
Aside for that I picked up the level 80 SAM great katana. I think I'm going to go for the +10 to Tachi:Kasha version. Regardless of what I pick it'll be better then the katana I got from sky and have been using on SAM for years. I finished the first stage and I'm going to get started on the second stage before I go to bed since the game will be down for upgrades when I wake up.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Final Fantasy 9 Sucks!
Wow, episode 24. I can't believe I've done so many episodes! I think I might have the 3rd highest episode count out of all Final Fantasy XI podcasts! Don't quote me on that. Sure, my show is only 30 minutes long when all the others are 3 hours but they can still suck it. On this episode of Looking for Party I actually get an invite! It's to a duo party but hey I'll take it. Eitheta from Slyph drops by to chat with me. We probably spend more time talking about Mass Effect then we do FFXI but that is just as well because Mass Effect (2) is awesome! Though this episode is titled "Final Fantasy 9 Sucks", I don't actually feel that way, it's just a joke. Mostly. I hope people enjoy the episode and I'm totally down to have more guests if you are interested.
The audio isn't mixed very well I know. I was far too lazy to manually boost the audio in the spots that needed it. There are also a few curse words in this episode (4 I think), not a lot but normally if I have more then one I edit it out but I didn't do that this time. Sorry. The music at the end is from Clash of the Titans (1981) and the voice clip is from God of War 3.
In game I forgot to mention that I capped my Ninja last week. I think that just leaves BRD and RDM. However will I get a party on those two? I've been totally slacking on getting my sub jobs leveled and I'll need to get on that next month. I want to have everything ready to when the update hits. I've also been messing around with BLM some more. It's about 300 xp for 63 right now. I'd like to get it to 75 pronto and be done with it but looking for party on BLM doesn't usually yield results. I'm doing campaign to get it up but I lost my medal so the xp is terrible right now.
I'm also tempted to get back to leveling SMN since I have Odin and Alexander now. My biggest fear however is that by the time I get it to 75 SE will gimp those summons and I'll be all sad. Time will tell.
Click the link to download.
Show number 24!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
The audio isn't mixed very well I know. I was far too lazy to manually boost the audio in the spots that needed it. There are also a few curse words in this episode (4 I think), not a lot but normally if I have more then one I edit it out but I didn't do that this time. Sorry. The music at the end is from Clash of the Titans (1981) and the voice clip is from God of War 3.
In game I forgot to mention that I capped my Ninja last week. I think that just leaves BRD and RDM. However will I get a party on those two? I've been totally slacking on getting my sub jobs leveled and I'll need to get on that next month. I want to have everything ready to when the update hits. I've also been messing around with BLM some more. It's about 300 xp for 63 right now. I'd like to get it to 75 pronto and be done with it but looking for party on BLM doesn't usually yield results. I'm doing campaign to get it up but I lost my medal so the xp is terrible right now.
I'm also tempted to get back to leveling SMN since I have Odin and Alexander now. My biggest fear however is that by the time I get it to 75 SE will gimp those summons and I'll be all sad. Time will tell.
Click the link to download.
Show number 24!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Episode 23. 24 coming soon
Yeah, I probably should have done this post like a 2 and a half weeks ago huh? Anyways, Episodes 23 is here! I talk a bit about tossing my linkpearls and doing the Trials of the Magians stuff. Originally I had wanted to do something special for April Fools day but I was too lazy to actually record it ; ;.
As for episode 24, I actually have a guest! Eitheta of the Sylph server (formally a fairy...err from Fairy). We've already recorded the episode so it should be up soon. Just waiting to receive his audio file and I can start putting the podcast together tonight or Wednesday. No clue when the episode will be up. Just depends on how long it takes to edit. He totally outclasses me for the whole so but that works for me. I was afraid the episode would be 90% dead air. We pretty much go all over the place but it was a learning experience and maybe next time I'll be able to steer it a little better.
I also want to plug my other podcast Serial Experiments Gaiden. I recorded a new episode for it in order to talk about Final Fantasy 13. It spoiler full so listen at your own risk! Anways, here is the link to LFP episode 23.
Click the link to download.
Show number 23!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
As for episode 24, I actually have a guest! Eitheta of the Sylph server (formally a fairy...err from Fairy). We've already recorded the episode so it should be up soon. Just waiting to receive his audio file and I can start putting the podcast together tonight or Wednesday. No clue when the episode will be up. Just depends on how long it takes to edit. He totally outclasses me for the whole so but that works for me. I was afraid the episode would be 90% dead air. We pretty much go all over the place but it was a learning experience and maybe next time I'll be able to steer it a little better.
I also want to plug my other podcast Serial Experiments Gaiden. I recorded a new episode for it in order to talk about Final Fantasy 13. It spoiler full so listen at your own risk! Anways, here is the link to LFP episode 23.
Click the link to download.
Show number 23!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
Monday, April 5, 2010
A fresh start
I've been meaning to do it for months but I've finally got around to doing it today.
Wewantrelic is one I've never used but was given to me some time ago
Been a long time coming
I don't really feel sad or happy about it. Darklords Domain are a good group of guys but I'm not just not feeling it anymore. Been in the shell for almost a year and the relic I joined it to get I'll probably never get (Darn you THF hands!!!!). Not to mention attendance has been pretty poor for awhile. When I joined the shell we were loaded with BLMS and WHMS. Our last Dynamis run had like 2 of each, with me being one of the WHMs... Plus, we are rumored to be switching to 7 days a week for awhile at work so I won't be able to attend anything for awhile anyway if that happens (please shoot me). So, out with the old I guess.
I'm not jumping to another shell, at least not at the moment. I may do a Dynamis run with Wewantrelic this weekend but I won't know until I find out which one they are doing and know if I feel like attending. My hope is that they'd be doing Valkrum or Qufim so I can get one step closer to Tavnazia access.
As for what I've been doing in game it's pretty much been Trials of the Magians. I picked the Dagger, Peeler, and embarked on the Dakini with 34 DMG, 190 Delay, 4 STR, and 12 ATT (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/File:Trial021.png) quest line. I was pretty tempted to go after the evasion version to help with farming but then my primal need to hit harder took over. I also considered the 2x attacking dagger but there is no way I'm camping all the NMs so I'll have to pass on that for now.
The first trial was to kill 100 rabbits (trial 16) in pretty much any kind of weather. I knew the Boyahda tree almost always had water or lightning weather so I went out there. I was pretty surprised when I killed the first mob and the game actually told me how many rabbits I had left. Where the heck has this feature been for the last 8 years!? The kills were pretty slow going until I finally managed to get a party with Sigrid and Streak. Streak left pretty early but Sigrid and I kept killing stuff for awhile and I was able to pick up the last few mobs on my own in the morning.
Sigrid was JP and liked calling me Cat Boss in auto translate
The next trial was for killing 100 crabs in fire, light, lightning, or wind weather. I wasted a good chunk of time trying to find a new zone with one of these weather effects but when I get to then the effect would never take place. So, I ended up just going back to the tree and slowly killing 100 crabs all by myself ; ;. Luckily I finally started playing Final Fantasy XIII again which gave me something to do while waiting for the weather effects to change.
For trials 19-20 I went to Cape Terrigan. Sadly but unsurprisingly the fire weather that I needed never activated so I ended up waiting to firesday to start killing the 100 mobs. Luckily I was able to team up with Yuumin for two firesdays in a row to get my kills pretty quickly. Which leads me to trial 20 which I'm currently on. I need to kill 100 crabs in fire weather or on firesday. I've been able to get zero help on this one so it's been just me and my NPC wacking away at crabs. I currently only have 48 to go. I was hoping to get half of that taken care of this morning and the rest on Tuesday but maintainece has reared its ugly head so that won't be happening.
Guess that's about it. I didn't do any Assaults last week. I did do another Odin run and got the earring with 7 ATT and 3 Store TP (bye bye spike earring). I tried to get another amulet so that I could get the torque but I ended up dying 3 times which pissed me off so I stopped. I'm going to toss the link to episode 22 here at the bottom. I should have put it up a week ago but hey, I'm me.
Show number 22!
I don't really feel sad or happy about it. Darklords Domain are a good group of guys but I'm not just not feeling it anymore. Been in the shell for almost a year and the relic I joined it to get I'll probably never get (Darn you THF hands!!!!). Not to mention attendance has been pretty poor for awhile. When I joined the shell we were loaded with BLMS and WHMS. Our last Dynamis run had like 2 of each, with me being one of the WHMs... Plus, we are rumored to be switching to 7 days a week for awhile at work so I won't be able to attend anything for awhile anyway if that happens (please shoot me). So, out with the old I guess.
I'm not jumping to another shell, at least not at the moment. I may do a Dynamis run with Wewantrelic this weekend but I won't know until I find out which one they are doing and know if I feel like attending. My hope is that they'd be doing Valkrum or Qufim so I can get one step closer to Tavnazia access.
As for what I've been doing in game it's pretty much been Trials of the Magians. I picked the Dagger, Peeler, and embarked on the Dakini with 34 DMG, 190 Delay, 4 STR, and 12 ATT (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/File:Trial021.png) quest line. I was pretty tempted to go after the evasion version to help with farming but then my primal need to hit harder took over. I also considered the 2x attacking dagger but there is no way I'm camping all the NMs so I'll have to pass on that for now.
The first trial was to kill 100 rabbits (trial 16) in pretty much any kind of weather. I knew the Boyahda tree almost always had water or lightning weather so I went out there. I was pretty surprised when I killed the first mob and the game actually told me how many rabbits I had left. Where the heck has this feature been for the last 8 years!? The kills were pretty slow going until I finally managed to get a party with Sigrid and Streak. Streak left pretty early but Sigrid and I kept killing stuff for awhile and I was able to pick up the last few mobs on my own in the morning.
The next trial was for killing 100 crabs in fire, light, lightning, or wind weather. I wasted a good chunk of time trying to find a new zone with one of these weather effects but when I get to then the effect would never take place. So, I ended up just going back to the tree and slowly killing 100 crabs all by myself ; ;. Luckily I finally started playing Final Fantasy XIII again which gave me something to do while waiting for the weather effects to change.
For trials 19-20 I went to Cape Terrigan. Sadly but unsurprisingly the fire weather that I needed never activated so I ended up waiting to firesday to start killing the 100 mobs. Luckily I was able to team up with Yuumin for two firesdays in a row to get my kills pretty quickly. Which leads me to trial 20 which I'm currently on. I need to kill 100 crabs in fire weather or on firesday. I've been able to get zero help on this one so it's been just me and my NPC wacking away at crabs. I currently only have 48 to go. I was hoping to get half of that taken care of this morning and the rest on Tuesday but maintainece has reared its ugly head so that won't be happening.
Guess that's about it. I didn't do any Assaults last week. I did do another Odin run and got the earring with 7 ATT and 3 Store TP (bye bye spike earring). I tried to get another amulet so that I could get the torque but I ended up dying 3 times which pissed me off so I stopped. I'm going to toss the link to episode 22 here at the bottom. I should have put it up a week ago but hey, I'm me.
Show number 22!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
New episode in the morning
Just got through recording another show. I don't have time to edit it before work so I may do it when I get home or after I wake up.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
March update is here kinda
So, the March update of 2010 hit today, well yesterday technically but the game was pretty much down all day. I logged in this morning to check out the new content but of course I see a message saying there will be maintainace in an hour, yay! I figure I might aswell get Castle Zhval(s) and Zhval Keep unlocked. I'm on WHM so I just recall to the past and arbiter warp out to Xarcabard. I don't make it but a few steps before I get imp aggro, so I sleep that, teleport to my home nation, then go back out there and try again. I got a little lost but I ended up finding my way with little difficulty. I had to raise a couple of people, a JP SAM (or atleast he was in askar), and "Nobody messes with" Zahan, who had a nice train of mobs following him up the steps to the castle.
I was pretty worried when I entered cuz' you see a bunch of imps in the sky but they seem to just be decoration (I steered will clear of them to be safe). I tried to run the usual way to get to the keep but the bottom floor is flooded with some red substence, taru blood perhaps? So, I run back down the main path where you spawn Dark Spark and at first I'm terrified cuz' it's full of mobs but then I realize that they all have campaign swords over their heads and just run past. I made it up to the keep with about 13 minutes left before the game went down so I figured I'd run up the throne room before I logged. Sadly a bunch of gargoyles were blocking the way so I paused not knowing if I should try another way or just give up. A minute or so later a BLM runs in and opens the door leading to the mobs and they aggro him, confirming to me that I won't be able to get to the throne room without a party. I was all ready to raise him but he sleep the mob and zoned.
Failing that I figured I might have just enough time to check the Trial of Magains quest thing out. So, I went to Jeuno. I checked out the new NPC that sends you off to fight Abyssea monsters, quickly determined that was wasn't messing with that crap, then headed to the moogle in upper jeuno. I was disappointed in SE right away because they gave the illusion that you'd be able to trade whatever you wanted but in actuality you have to get specific weapons from the moogle (or trade your mythic if you have it) and you can only get specific upgrades predetermined by SE. LAME!!! I didn't have time to check out all the possibilities for the weapons I might upgrade cuz' I ended up getting booted before I had to chance.
Sadly by the time maintainence is over I'll have to head off to work so I won't be able to check anymore stuff out today. I'll probably record a show about this update in a few days. Speaking of shows...here are links to the past few.
Show number 17!
Show number 18!
Show number 19!
Show number 20!
Show number 21!
I was pretty worried when I entered cuz' you see a bunch of imps in the sky but they seem to just be decoration (I steered will clear of them to be safe). I tried to run the usual way to get to the keep but the bottom floor is flooded with some red substence, taru blood perhaps? So, I run back down the main path where you spawn Dark Spark and at first I'm terrified cuz' it's full of mobs but then I realize that they all have campaign swords over their heads and just run past. I made it up to the keep with about 13 minutes left before the game went down so I figured I'd run up the throne room before I logged. Sadly a bunch of gargoyles were blocking the way so I paused not knowing if I should try another way or just give up. A minute or so later a BLM runs in and opens the door leading to the mobs and they aggro him, confirming to me that I won't be able to get to the throne room without a party. I was all ready to raise him but he sleep the mob and zoned.
Failing that I figured I might have just enough time to check the Trial of Magains quest thing out. So, I went to Jeuno. I checked out the new NPC that sends you off to fight Abyssea monsters, quickly determined that was wasn't messing with that crap, then headed to the moogle in upper jeuno. I was disappointed in SE right away because they gave the illusion that you'd be able to trade whatever you wanted but in actuality you have to get specific weapons from the moogle (or trade your mythic if you have it) and you can only get specific upgrades predetermined by SE. LAME!!! I didn't have time to check out all the possibilities for the weapons I might upgrade cuz' I ended up getting booted before I had to chance.
Sadly by the time maintainence is over I'll have to head off to work so I won't be able to check anymore stuff out today. I'll probably record a show about this update in a few days. Speaking of shows...here are links to the past few.
Show number 17!
Show number 18!
Show number 19!
Show number 20!
Show number 21!
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