Japan is so messed up, even the Final Fantasy is broken.

K · Post by K » Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:17 am

So FFXI is down for at least a week because there are going to be rolling black-outs in Japan and they can't afford the electricity. They are refunding the entire month to all the players.

This is insignificant when you consider the nuclear reactors melting down and maybe 10K dead and thousands more without food and water, but I thought it was an eye-catching way to get people's attention.

It's a good time to donate to the Red Cross.

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:57 am

Indeed I agree. I do hope that as many lives as possible are saved.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:47 am

Final Fantasy is down? Shit, Japan, get it together.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:48 am

Probably, they'll use the week downtime to move the servers. But my heart seriously goes out to Japan.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:07 pm

I'm just glad it hit Japan and not Korea.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:19 pm

Kaelik wrote:I'm just glad it hit Japan and not Korea.

What do you mean?

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:29 pm

RobbyPants wrote:
Kaelik wrote:I'm just glad it hit Japan and not Korea.

What do you mean?

Blizzard is in Korea.

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:39 am

A couple interesting links filtered from my dad's daily newsfeed...

http://mitnse.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-n ... -reactors/
[Link about japan nuclear reactors]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011 ... mi.html?hp
[before and after pics, flash html5?]

An aside... Posting from an iPod is shitty as hell. Every time I go back and forth between pages like from copypasting links the fucking thing refreshes and loses all that I did. If there is a way to turn off the OCD autorefresh on iPods then I would happily learn it. Autorefresh also fucks me when I want to view an already loaded page when offline.

So, my workaround for posting will to just post and go back and edit each additiinal link. Ugh.

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:04 am

You can donate to the Red Cross' Japanese relief efforts here.