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Post by OwlSensei on Aug 27, 2017 14:02:01 GMT
I play FFXIV myself and use it as a way to socialise and feel comfortable in the presence of others even if it is only an online MMO game situation...
I used to stick to my partner like glue and never want to do a duty/dungeon unless it was with them, but now I'm relaxed enough to do any duty with the duty finder that matches you to a random party of people, I play on JP-Servers and have my own set of game puns for the Party Chat at the start when you introduce yourself to the party 
Here's a screenshot of me! If you play this game too, post a screen shot of your character just for fun.
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Post by OwlSensei on Sept 15, 2017 17:34:58 GMT
Thought the sky was pretty...  |
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Post by OwlSensei on Sept 17, 2017 17:17:05 GMT
I got a new staff in a LV69 dungeon as a Dragoon, it's for a Black Mage and as it has a bird on it I glamoured my Black Mage's staff to look like it as I like birds   |
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Post by OwlSensei on Oct 3, 2017 18:08:24 GMT
Here's an update from me, I might be spending a little too much time on this game but I've been really tired at work recently and I want some kind of socialising...   I also updated my Healer outfit... I look professional and mature as you can clearly see with this photographic evidence...  |
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Post by OwlSensei on Feb 24, 2018 6:02:54 GMT
My partner stopped playing so I made a new character on a new server and started fresh.
It was a nice fresh start and I'm really enjoying it. I got Bard to level 30 so I could unlock 'performance' as I am a fan of rhythm games, and I've learned and made a bunch of music on there and play it in main cities and areas and socialise with random strangers due to it.
I was never by myself and I hid behind my partner because, well... Hikikomori and the whole terrified of human interaction and socialising and low self esteem...
I like the new character though as I threw myself in the deep end a bit with it and I'm actually making friends with both the English speakers and Japanese speakers on the server. I also got to buy a house which is really fun w I like the house I got in the Shirogane housing area...
So using my rhythm game "skills" and trying to be more social in the more populated parts of the world and trying hard to keep conversation is going pretty ok at the moment. I have screwed up a bit but I do have introvert on my character info status thing, and I have said I'm socially inept and socially anxious a few times but that I'm trying to improve over time and things so... it'll be ok eventually. At least I'm not hiding behind other people and I'm actively trying to not hide in the most isolated places to avoid being spotted by anyone w
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Post by OwlSensei on May 7, 2018 9:54:58 GMT
I haven't been too well recently and I've ended up substituting health with playing FFXIV as a coping mechanism. Not to say I'm neglecting myself to play video games, it's more that I'm too exhausted after work to be able to really do anything and most of my medication cause you to feel fatigued and weak which isn't really helping my physical ability to do anything after work. Slowly losing the ability to use my hands like a normal person and this game has been a big help with my general depression over that as my character is healthy and able to travel across the world and fight monsters and help people, he can also socialise with literal people which is mildly impossible where I am and where I work ww/lol I plan on attempting to force some strength training into my daily real life, and I'm going to attempt to build stamina, as I avoid going to the store after work unless I really need to as the extra ten minutes of walking home and carrying a shopping bag has been exhausting for me, which isn't exactly healthy or positive... I'll still be playing my game and socialising and exploring on it though, I'm really into the fisher job at the moment and I guess because it's relaxing and you get to visit a lot of beautiful areas to fish in. So I've got a few screen shots I'll post here of my newest character, who I made a Lalafel as I'm tiny in real life and always played the largest characters possible to pretend I'm not a tiny, weak, loser? So I'm playing as a Lalafel to own my perceived flaws of being small and weak, and I'm starting to like who I am as person due to it too, as it fells more like the real me and not pretending to be some huge and buff man as smaller people can be strong and confident too/etc... So... fishing!  Playing Triple Triad with the NPCs ww/lol  And some dungeon/duty screen shots from a couple matches/games   Including Eureka, the new island zone where you have to party with strangers to do Fates and different monsters and things for fun, I'm level 9 or 10 out of 20 on that one now I think.  I'll possibly make a thread/journal for real life health plans, as I do really need to build some stamina, it's not good  |
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feeling a bit exhausted this week, hope you're all doing well 
I have finally finished my course work for this year, I only have exams left, all of them will be online and from home! I think that will be interesting 
so I am preparing for them in my freetime.
