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Oh, last month I left a pack of cheap cigars on the seat of my car, and left my windows down over night. A local Raccoon decided to flip my shit because they were Cherry flavored cheap cigars. He tore up my seat a little bit, opened up the pack of cigars, pulled one out, did not unwrap it. Pulled my coffee thermos out of my drivers side map pocket, pulled out a chamis from its container to look at it, found nothing that it really wanted, and then decided to fuck right off.

I killed one with a Mag Lite once. I also fucked up my car when I hit a huge one at around 100 mph one night while fucking around on some back roads near my parents house. Left a nice 20lb raccoon shaped dent in my plastic bumper and took out a fog light. :(

I've been forcing myself to play Final Fantasy XIV recently, because a fair few of the people I hang around online are playing it and I want to get in on that. Unfortunately they're all max level and unfortunately the leveling process of this game is the worst I've ever experienced in any MMO and I've played quite a few. I very much belong to the more casual side of the MMO audience, in the sense that I got my first taste of the genre with World of Warcraft and never got to experience the much more unforgiving games of the past. Since World of Warcraft, I have tangled with a multitude of different MMO's for various periods of time. Aion, Warhammer Online, Guild Wars 1 & 2, RIFT, The Old Republic, Tera and Wildstar. Out of all of those, I've never been as frustrated leveling my character as I have been in FFXIV. It seems that in a bid to force variety upon the player, the developers of FFXIV decided to just not put enough quests into the game to actually reach max level. On top of that, the "Main Scenario Quest", which is a long-running quest that moves the story of the game and your character along, is level-gated, meaning that you could be going through it and then suddenly hit a brick wall because you're not a high enough level to accept the next part of the MSQ. So what are the alternatives? A pitiful amount of sidequests that past level 35 won't even be enough experience to push you through the MSQ. A world-quest type system called "Fates" which spawn on the map for a set period of time that unfortunately suffer from being very inefficient to do, because half of them are painfully slow to complete without other players actively helping you out. Dungeons, which will give you a very nice bonus experience ONCE per 24-hours and otherwise are alright for experience gain, but are very boring to spam continuously. Finally you have a unique leveling system called "Palace of the Dead", which is extremely powerful for experience gain theoretically, but unfortunately you have to clear it in 10-floor increments at a time and if your party wipes at any point, all progress is lost and 0 experience is gained. On paper, I realize that it might not sound so bad, but once you hit level 45+ it starts to become truly fucking tedious and my enjoyment of the game has been very rapidly declining, to the point where I am technically only a few steps away from being able to move into the next part of the game, but I am demotivated to log on to my character, because I know that the only way forward is by subjecting myself to extreme boredom.

I hit a raccoon once. It ran out into the road and barely missed my car before suddenly deciding to change direction and charge towards my front wheel. I couldn't react in time. I think I ran over its head. Still makes me sad.

I'm jarateed