Tamtu says...

…or rather, something I wanted to highlight since it’s on one of the last pages of the Census.

You probably know by now that here at HS/SS as a Community Site, we don’t really post about the various news and topic-items that are on the Playonline website, simply because every other site and their mom has it up. Chances are you see it at FFXIclopedia, Limit Break Radio or Pet Food Alpha anyway!

But check out this part about the Online Community Relations team! It’s got something to do with the player events we discussed on the Podcast Tour episode early last month with Matt Hilton and Opal Flame.

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Since everyone’s covering the news and trailer and website and what not, Sooraya and I are going to share our responses the way they were as we were watching the Sony E3 Keynote last night, instead.

TamTu: O_O
TamTu: ONLINE?!
TamTu: jhfsklga,fdhgas
Sooraya: HOLY SH*T
TamTu: AUS:HFSLDHGF;sdjhgv
Sooraya: Gawkdfskfs
Sooraya: dfkdlf;lpasdf
TamTu: USHFDSKhflhfskldhg;ask.ldhgas;oew
Sooraya: OMG
Sooraya: sadklfjsdf
Sooraya: omgomgomgomg
TamTu: sdjhbflhgs,k\ksd
TamTu: CALL [RETSUJO]
TamTu: [S]HE’D BETTER BE WATCHING
Sooraya:omgomgomgomgomg.
Sooraya:I don’t want to call [her]. >D;;;
Sooraya: sdkjfsdlkfsd fs OMG
Sooraya:I knew that was a Galka
TamTu: ………the eye-toy dudes are so underwhelming

What’s this going to mean for HS/SS? Well. The game won’t be out until 2010, and Sooraya and I still have a lot of stuff we want to do in FFXI. No worries about HS/SS quitting or switching to Eorzea there

I also apologize for the delayed release of episode 12. It’s been hectic, but I finally got my K-1 Visa~ and Sooraya’s visit next week has been keeping me busy and prepped, too.

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know that we’ve only got 11 days left until May 31st and the fanart contest closes! We’ve received a number of wonderful submissions already, but I want more! Yes, I’m being selfish here, but I want this first HS/SS contest to be slammin’! Remember to send in your entries to the address below:

As mentioned in the last episode, “Bastok Brawlin’!”, the winner will receive a regular t-shirt of their choice, AND a t-shirt with their winning submission!

On an unrelated note: the number of visit has doubled since the SE Podcast Tour show! We’d like to thank and welcome all new listeners to the show and we hope you not only enjoy it, but also find the time to send us some letters occasionally!

I have to be honest, I haven’t explored this too much but I wanted to write about this, especially since it’s such a big theme in not just the end-game community, the overall playerbase and a running gag on the show as well.

But let’s face it; it’s not a gag when it’s making Sooraya lose interest in the game I don’t want to have to change the domain to asktamandnaj.com. (Although I wouldn’t mind Najelith hosting the show with me sometime >.>!)

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Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that there’s a little under a week left to submit your emails and suggestions! Check the topic below for the details!

The e-mail address is:

Have you looked into Pet Food Alpha and Limit Break Radio’s topics yet? Check it out! We’re all very excited to get this show on the road!

Hey everyone! Are you having fun with the new Add-on? I’ve been busy farming my new amazing White Mage spells with my Hyozan homies and manage to get them all! Orcs in Jugner Forest are also very stingy and it took me forever to get a Seedspall Lux, but I’m ready to go on with the rest of the content of “A CRYSTALLINE PROPHECY”.

We’re working hard on the next episode (really) and still eagerly awaiting your entries for our art contest. But we have something very exciting to announce! Our upcoming .5 episode is scheduled to feature two very special guests to cover the topic of the upcoming and all current in-game seasonal events.

Having covered several of the seasonal events in FFXI like the Starlight Celebration and Valetione’s Day, HS/SS will be having a round-the-table discussion about the various in-game events! And this is where you, the listener, come in.

I want you to start brainstorming about new in-game events, feedback on existing events or in true HS/SS fashion, your personal stories relating to any event. It doesn’t have to be in-character this time, so if that was holding you back from sending us emails before, this is your chance!

Feel free to start e-mailing us now, but the more elaborate and carefully constructed your idea and feedback is, the bigger chance you may have! There will be some incentive for this, I promise! More on this on April 20th.

You can send the e-mails to our special show email:

Thank you for support as always!

So a few days ago, I bumped my head against the edge of the company van’s roof. Ended up with three stitches and a tetanus-shot in my shoulder. My head’s fine and I’m getting the stitches out on monday morning. My shoulder’s pretty sore and stiff, but it’s nothing I can’t handle! But I would imagine a Regen and Cure or so would be a lot nicer. Is there anything from FFXI you wish you had in real life? Discuss this topic in the forums!

Speaking of the forums, I’ve assigned our good friend and loyal writer Silent Lucidity to help Sooraya and myself moderate the forums and bring down the derailing to a minimum. Granted, I participated in far too many tangents myself, but it’s been fun enough. You CAN make new topics, you know

We’re hopefully going to release a new episode this weekend, the last one spent in Windurst before Tamtu and Sooraya travel on to….. Bastok.

…………../ma “Deodorize”

Turns out I mislabeled *one* e-mail from the show. My bad :3

This one’s a sweet poem that Scuro (WHAT?..SWEET?) wrote for someone dear to him. (again…WHAT?)

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Hey everyone,

Just giving you a heads up that tomorrow is the last day to send in e-mails for the Valentione’s Special! We have a few long emails, but if you wish to send out that quick shoutout or poem or even proposals, special@asktamandsoo.com is the address! Keep them coming!

Yes, PFA had stolen our thunder a while back when it was actually listed, but I wanted to wait until episode 8 was released; We’re a community site!

We're a community site!

As mentioned in the most recent episode, HS/SS has been accepted as a Community Site by PlayOnline! But while I do have access to the latest POL News, I choose not to post it because the information is covered on Petfoodalpha and Limit Break Radio and having it on our updates may seem a bit redundant. Although I supposed I could blog about the updates and link to the source on LBR or PFA? We shall see.

For now, I’m glad we’re acknowledged like that And with that said; one of the first things I made sure would work was the Itunes feed for He Says, She Says. So if you’re an Itunes user, you can also subscribe to the podcast there! Just look for He Says, She Says and you should find it soon enough. I’ll post a button link when I get around to do so. In the meantime, leave some reviews!

Thanks for your ongoing support!

EDIT: Also, I’ve moved the frontpage from /site to the actual domain. I’m still refreshing the Itunes feed for this, but if you’ve subscribed to the old feed, please re-subscribe by clicking on the RSS button on the top right for the new URL. Sorry for any inconvenience!

So we were asked about HS/SS’s official stance on the JAN22 bans.

Easy enough: Don’t cheat.

Elaborating on that some more, though… Sooraya and I have no direct relation or friendships with players who have Salvage gear or relics or any other endgame rewards (Apart from Dynamis stuff). For me and Soo, this is a perfect example of not being able to care enough because it hasn’t hit that close to home. We understand and acknowledge the bitterness, disappointment as well as the heartbreak of the many broken linkshells in the game, but you must realize that SE had been going through a year worth of logs after they patched it and really must’ve done their homework.

That doesn’t take away that I personally feel that it couldn’t hurt at all for SE to be more elaborate on their banning-process, just to clarify the bannings. I hear stories from all over the community where they say that they’ve seen people still in-game of which they know have taken advantage of the exploit. That SE hasn’t given everyone a “fair” treatment.

Soo and I actually had a discussion about this. Would people respond the same way if the banned people were faceless RMT? We don’t think so at all. They would probably be the first people to cry out that SE should ban them immediately. But for a lot of players, this has hit really close to home and no matter how objective they claim to be, they all let their hearts speak.

While I do understand yourself or your friends being upset over losing your character after pouring your time and effort, your heart and soul into it, shouldn’t you be more disappointed with yourself for knowingly doing something wrong? You’re coming off easy here with no immediate real-life impact, seeing as it’s just a game. Granted, a game with probably the best online community I’ve ever been in before, but the psychological rewards, the bonds you have with the real people beyond the avatar, those should weigh a lot heavier than your personal gain.

As a linkshell leader, I cannot imagine wanting to do anything that could potentially be the end of your circle of friends. FFXI is a group game. You do things together. Everyone has their own goals, I know. I do too. But that’s no reason to risk another player’s experience from something they enjoy. I think I feel the worst for the players who got punished, who had no idea what the alliance/party leaders were upto. In the case of a permaban, they absolutely did not deserve it. But those who chose to take advantage of such a bug should know better. I’d imagine that after spending so much time in the game and accomplishing so much, you really WOULD know better than to risk that.

Soo and I are all about community. This show proves it. We love FFXI because of the friends we’ve made, the things we can do with them. Even supposedly insignificant events like Garrison end up being a lot of fun for a lot of our LS members, especially the ones who recently joined and said that they had never done anything like this at all. It almost makes me hesitant to do endgame events at all, which makes me sad because I really want to try everything in this game.

Bottomline: This huge drama actually stems from the fact we’re a community and we’re being torn apart at some levels. We understand that. Square-Enix did the right thing in my opinion, but it definitely wouldn’t hurt to have more elaboration. I’m sure after this PR nightmare (only because you made it so, though), things will be cleared up. But remember: FFXI is an adventure, and we’re in it together. Don’t ruin it for others for your personal, selfish gains.

With that said, I found this to be a kinda funny jab at the whole thing.

Discuss at the forums..

WHM 59 + Trainee’s Axe + /WAR = SturmWIN.

Bored at work, figured I’d post write up a list for my 2009 goals!

-Get White Mage to 75.
-Do more events with Hyozan (TheHyozanLegacy is just a formal name, because the original LS leader Kiken retired.)
-Get married in game.
-Keep HS/SS going strong.
-Pick a craft and stick with it.
-Get MNK to 30 for PUP (Maybe DNC too)
-Get WAR to 37 during off time. I know I want PLD only up to 60, but I might as well take it to 66 or 70 to attempt its Maat fight later?
-BLM, SMN and SCH to 37

I have work to do! /psych

Update: Whoa. We got a looooooooot. Due to real life scheduling, I’m closing the mailbox, but we’ll cover any missed emails in episode 8! Thank you so much for sending these in! Expect the episode out soon!

Just giving you a heads up that we will stop accepting emails for the Starlight Special on Tuesday 23 Dec. at 3pm EST/ 12pm PST! The responses so far have been great so we want more! If you thought the episode 6 mailbag was hefty, do not worry! It’s the Starlight Celebration! It has to be huge!

Don’t let us down. Sooraya will be sad otherwise.

You don’t want Sooraya to be sad now, do you? You may end up on the couch, like me.

Chances are that if you play FFXI, you’ve run into Fred Perry’s FFXI webcomic called Level Up, which follows the adventures of his mithra character Calcula (the biggest goofball in existance, which is why I love her). Saskiot, our hang-out buddy at Fanfest is in Fred’s linkshell and plugs the webcomic like crazy. I made sure he would let Fred know that I was a huge fan and in return, we were featured in his second Fanfest themed strip!

And surprisingly…I’m not the one on the couch.

Check out “Level Up!” at http://lvlup.tsunami-art.com!

The reason why episode 4 was out only a week after the Slug Shot Show was that instead of waiting for another two weeks, I figured we’d get back on track. This means that we’ll hopefully have the next episode out in two weekends! So keep those e-mails coming!

So while episode 5 will be released accordingly to our bi-weekly schedule, episode 6’s date falls on the Fanfest weekend! Chances are that we’ll be skipping that show and moving it a weekend. Maybe we’ll do some on-site reporting, but I’m not making any promises.

Thanks for your support!

And for the record: There are no hard feelings whatsoever regarding the Brenner matches. Sooraya and I had a lot of fun testing out eachother (although her delay IS pretty awful). Although all the comments on Najelith WILL keep me on the couch. By force AND by choice. Hah.

Not talking about Sooraya’s high great-axe deal (totally couching for that), but the release of the next show. We had to re-do some bits of the show due to technical difficulties, but I’m as good as done! I just need to wrap up the skit and it’ll be out before you know it!

Thanks for your patience, and keep sending those emails! Your support is amazing!

Yesterday (or the the day before yesterday, rather), Sooraya and I got started on our 24-hour level-fest in support of Extra Life. I’m happy to announce that the collaborative effort of all participating teams have collected a whopping $102,991! This is an amazing amount! Thanks to everyone who sponsored, and a special thank you to the ones who sponsored Sooraya, who had a initially set a goal of $192, and surpassed it! Cancer had reared its ugly head in her family in the past, so your support means a lot to her.

She went in with the quote “Let’s make cancer feel foolish!” (Bonus mention to the first person to tell us what that quote is from), and so we headed over to Qufim Island to fight worms.

Two words: Screw. You.

I’m talking to the party that was snagging up all the land worms when they were capable enough to fight Snippers. They could’ve at least SHARED the land worms. Screw you. Screw you sideways. With a Land Worm. They ran away when the Banshees started spawning, giving us a few worms to fight against, but as soon as they depopped, bam. They were back.

We were there first! {/sigh} Beastmasters all over Vana’diel, I feel your pain.

After we moved camps to Korroloka Tunnel, we were joined by our good friend Sigmund. He came as a Black Mage, so we were able to kill leeches fast and furious. When they grew weaker, we moved onto Rolanberry Fields, where we were actually curious if we could take on monsters in the past.

Baaaaaaaaaad idea. One simple Death Wasp was too much to handle and after we managed to sleep it, Retsujo teleported us back to the present.

After Sigmund was raised first. So back to Rolanberry fields for the Quadav hunt which was fun while it lasted. We travelled to Yuhtunga Jungle to clear out Goblins. We did this for a good few hours until all of us reached level 30. We thanked Sigmund for his company and he logged out. We happily traded the jungles for the comfort of our homes and filled out the remaining hours of the marathon with some socializing with LS friends and people from the various FFXI podcast communities, dying in Garlaige Citadel and getting Sooraya’s Coffer Key for the Old Gauntlets for the quest of her Fighter’s Mufflers.

I also won a thong, but that’s a story for another time.

We’ve been getting a lot of feedback already from the first episode as well as emails. Thank you, everyone, for your initial support. We’re planning on recording the next episode soon so I hope to release episode 2 soon!

Thanks again! Please be sure to visit our forums, as well as our LBR Network friends at www.limitbreakradio.com!