The FML Thread (Cid's Idea)

[Squiggs]

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Engage Brooder, fight for a few seconds, then the baby wakes up screaming. Check the monitor. Cool, she seems to have found her paci, back to sleep. Oh no, she lost it. Screaming, screaming, I can't leave I'll die, and maybe my buddy too (solo it wouldn't have been a big deal). My bedroom door opens and my wife comes out (not happy), FMLuck, (not life in this case) my night is done.

[Neverslip]

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In game FML.

I'm attempting to CWburn in Aby-Kon... long day of work.. still a bit jacked from a 14hr drive from Sacramento.. had to be at work at 7am cuz someone had the week off.. needless to say I'm not firing with all cylinders. I got out there... kill a Treant and realize I'm not /Rdm.. so I leave and come back /Rdm. I'm gathering lights.. drinking a little mead..gathering lights.. I cap amber. I start getting Dark Rings and whatnot. Neat. I then go for pearl... I realize after getting the 30min warning.. "Sh!t !! I should have gone for Azure first.. DOH!!!" I run out to kill Imps for azure. Kill a few but it's not gonna work.. I figure "Fine... pretty profitable first run... I'll do one burning of Tonberries just to say I've done it.. lesson learned" I run over to the Tonberries willy-nilly. I realize I hadn't switched my to my CWburn spells. I switch my spells... gotta be like 10 min remaining when I start my pull. It's going all fine and dandy until I notice that I attracted the attention of Tonberry Lieje... my HP starts plummetting. I die. Only good thing really was that I died before the 5min mark and was able to get back in w/ my LS.

Lesson learned.

*Check subjob.
*Azure and then Amber or Pearl.
*Choose BLU spells for CW burn.
*Watch the fuck out for the Tonberry with the crown.

... least I got nearly 100k gil of stuff outta the deal.

[DieselBoy09]

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Just got out of college, two degrees, BS in Bio, BA in Psych, minor in chem, graduated Summa cum laude. Applied to med school a month too late last year and didn't get in. I'm a shoe in this year since I applied early, but I got a job for the next year. I'm working for a cosmetic company as a microbiologist, they're paying me $13 an hour despite that we agreed to a minimum of $16... I had a series of interview for a research firm, pays 35k starting, made it to last one, said they wanted me, but needed another interview. Current job has me working like 8a-7p, so its hard to make interviews while covering myself for medical school interviews. Find out today that they went with someone else while they were scheduling my last interview. And to add insult to injury, my mother this weekend wrecked my car. fml.

[Gobo]

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I was looking at the graduate application requirements for schools where I might want to pursue my Ph.D. Was looking at Illinois requirement page. They require the chemistry GRE's for application, along with the regular GREs. I look at the breakdown of the chemistry GREs...30% is Physical Chemistry. NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL. FML.

(Analytical, the field I want to go into, is a messily 15%)

[Yygdrasil]

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Logged in today from work... like I do. Found out the the ISP here that usually hiccups the internetz every hour on the hour isn't actually doing it anymore. So yay to that!

On a related note.... it now seems to be sporatic... FML

[Neverslip]

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Latest I can think of and it's not FFxi related but still in the realm of vid-games:

I got about 5'ish hours into AssCreed II. I had the hideout completely decked out (aside from all art) and a bunch of chests and 'whatnot' found and then I went to continue... and I had a corrupt save file. No retrieval possible. I had start over... I still haven't gotten the courage to restart from scratch and it's got to have been over 6months by now... FML

Biggest FML that I remember having to do with vid-games had a possitive aspect in my life. I was a achievement whore. I was replaying Mass Effect I so that I could get the 'Distingquished Service Medal' achievement for completing it on the hardest setting. The achievement states that you can't switch difficulties during gameplay and there is a option in the opening menus for switching the settings. So, I switched it in the menu. I played all the way through and didn't get the achievement. Long f'n game, yeah? Well, seems the option in the menu system doesn't work and you had to switch it during gameplay during the opening fight "before landing on Eden Prime" ... it killed any need I felt for those useless pts. FML

[Malacite]

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My life in general? :/


But yeah.... "Pre-ordered" Heroes of Might & Magic VI off ubisoft's store, but had to pay in full. Also spent eight hours yesterday waiting for a single Lumbering Lambert pop.

FML.

[DakAttack]

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Bought Dead Island on Steam. FML.

[Yygdrasil]

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Of all the times I've had on this game... one of the few that sticks out the most to me is the day that happened to me. I had managed to find my way without a map all the way to that last fire wall... and as I sat there waiting for my moment to make a mad dash... the damn dragon had apparently aggrod me... and I was forced into a battle I knew I wouldn't win... I just hoped I could hold it off long enough for the wall to come down... and for me to haul ass out of there. I damn near made it. Unfortunately... without RR on, I sat there and waited for the possibility of someone kind enough to raise me in that obscure section of the zone. After about 20 minutes, I got a /tell from the leader of my LS.... a guy named Swisha... who said "you need any help in there?". Long story short, he trekked all the way through the jungle, through the volcano and finally to me with only 10 minutes left on my timer, all to make sure that my efforts were not fruitless. It's probably the single nicest thing anyone has done for me in the game. It took him damn near 40 minutes to get to me just so that I could get the last headstone.

[Squiggs]

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It beats getting almost all the way to the zone line for the last headstone you need for the pilgrimage... and getting shanked by the ass dragon with no form of RR on.

That's what I was worried about most when I finally got to the right place. Had that happened, I would have had a different FML entry...

[Cotners]

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Mental image won't go away. FML.

1. Ass dragon When one gives themself an everclear enema and then squirt it out while lighting it on fire. "That guy can do a totally rad ass dragon.".

[Murphie]

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It beats getting almost all the way to the zone line for the last headstone you need for the pilgrimage... and getting shanked by the ass dragon with no form of RR on.

Mental image won't go away. FML.

[Yygdrasil]

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It beats getting almost all the way to the zone line for the last headstone you need for the pilgrimage... and getting shanked by the ass dragon with no form of RR on.

[Squiggs]

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Where's your sense of adventure?! *smack*

Lol. I tried to adventure through there. But after 45 minutes I decided I should look up the way. I was way off.

[Nandito]

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I decided to wander around Ifrit's Cauldron without a map, thinking I knew where I was going...FML

Where's your sense of adventure?! *smack*

To this day, I still suffer from FFXI Withdrawal Syndrome... FML.