Lamps: Nemesis of the Retarded

What part of "say / after you hit your lamp" is so god damn hard to understand?

Things that happened in the time it took SE to realize circle abilities were shit

A whale exploded in Taiwan.

CIA admitted there was no imminent threat from WMDs in Iraq.

Bush was elected for a second term.

Tony Blair was hit by a purple flour bomb (I don't fucking know).

North Korea banned cell phones.

Reagan died.

Florida took it up the ass from multiple hurricanes. Seriously there're like 4 in one month.

A fire broke out in a Canadian submarine, many people became aware that Canada has submarines.

Martha Stewart went to jail.

Ubuntu was released.

Massive earthquake caused a tsunami and devastated Indian ocean region.

Ireland finished converting to the metric system.

Youtube came into existence.

France passed a law requiring their teachers to make colonialism sound like a good thing.

Pope guy died.

Hurricane Katrina happened, white American collectively asked "who the fuck is Kanye West?"

And much more. . .

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Why play?

No I'm not going to whine like a DRK about how SE sucks and the game is horrible. That isn't what this is about.

The reality of my time in the game at the moment is that I have about two months left before leaving for university again, and I don't need to jeopardize my grades by playing FFXI. So the question is, knowing that I'll be gone for 8 months (or forever) in a while, what motivation is there to play? Sure, there's some stuff, like I'm leveling SMN because I always wanted to wear the AF. Bigger picture though, why go to dynamis? Well, for that it's because I like the people there (mostly, loldrama and lolidiots), but as a more general thing, knowing that you're going to be leaving, and having a definite date really drives home the point that everything anyone does in FFXI is meaningless.

It's a really strange feeling, and a lot of people I know would benefit from feeling it.