Njessi’s Picks for Mixing and Matching Fashion

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Full outfits are all fine and good, but sometimes you want to spice things up – or you just HATE some of the parts of an outfit.  Never fear!

The essential problem that I have scientifically identified is doodads.  On many pants, there are “bits of shirt” hanging down on the top, and when paired with a different shirt, those hanging-down-bits look ridiculous. You may recall my space pants odyssey, specifically to find pants devoid of the aforementioned doodads. Or a belt has too many loopie things and clips with butt. Maybe “what the fuck is THAT” is hanging off your boots.  Details can be cool, but too many of them on too many pieces overwhelm an outfit.

The second problem is terrible color-matching.  Some things color match horribly, or not at all.  Some shirts cause perfectly reasonable items to turn hideous colors that, strangely enough, have not much to do with that shirt.

With that, let’s plunge into the wonderful world of fashion:

Invisible Items

Now, you might be tempted to just replace the items giving you trouble with the invisible version (currently we have access to invisible shoes, belts, bracers, and gloves – and of course shirt).  I’d say use this sparingly.  Most outfits do look really swanky with the right belt.  However, if you have an outfit that comes with matching bracers and they’re really cool-looking, invisible gloves are the right call.

Pants

My top picks for pants are ones that don’t have “leftover shit from shirt” hanging on to them.  Makes sense, right?

Spaaaace Pants

Bastila Shan’s Leggings

The Last Handmaiden’s Leggings

Elegant (?) Skirt

Gunslinger Elite

Gloves and Boots

Organa Noble

Consular (force initiate) set (Light, Rep)

Drelliad (Medium, Rep)

Republic Dancer Gloves (Social)

Belt

Beware clipping, especially with skirts!  Loops are a danger.  Also crap that juts out way too far from the belt.  No fanny packs, kthx.

If an outfit never came with a belt, there might be a reason, and it may behoove you to find an invisible belt if nothing works.

Gunslinger Elite (medium, Rep)

Classic Phantom (Does not color match well to light colors)

Bracers

If your gloves don’t hide your bracers, and you don’t have specific SET bracers, then yes, totally get invisible bracers.  Bracers are stupid.

Headgear

You can always hide or show headgear at your option, so it’s not a huge deal.  What I look for in headgear is an item that pushes the hood down without hiding hair.  This allows you to turn a hooded item into a not-hooded item if you really like it and want to wear it “if only it didn’t have that fucking hood”.

Getting Back Into Raiding. I Mean Ops. Totally Ops.

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As y’all know, I’m playing catchup raiding because I switched sides and leveled up a sithie from scratch.  Jumping into raiding behind the curve is definitely a new experience.  Instead of learning one new boss at a time with the first wave, I’m learning multiple new bosses a night.  It’s a little unnerving that everyone else knows the ins and outs of each encounter because they’ve been raiding while I’ve been leveling, and I’m still asking noob questions.  At least I’m pretty up on Terror From Beyond

Skadge: Notice Of Termination

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Skadge:

This letter is to inform you that your employment on this ship has been terminated, effective immediately.  All of your previous infractions have been already documented in your file, and a summary is included below:

  • Several employees have complained about derogatory references, such as “midget.”
  • One employee claimed that you tried to use him as a chair.
  • Several fresher hygiene issues.
  • Several instances of making untidy messes in common areas.
  • Several instances of shooting clients before they can pay for services rendered.

Showing Some Skin Has Officially Gone Too Far

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Sideboob

Low Cut Jeans

I Was Correct To Complain About The Crafting Changes

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Let’s start with the good.  Right?  Good news first.

  • New Dye Kits (some of which are decent!)
  • New Crystals

I’ll spare you the details, because you can look it up on Dulfy.  But yay!  This almost puts me in a good mood until I read some more.

Augments and augment kits.  What the fuck?  Not only is this going to suddenly cost us new materials, but it will also require old materials.  And a shitload of them.  It does no good to trade in all the rank 8 mats for rank 9 since the rank 8 will be very much needed.

  • Augment kits: 11 different mats/items, not counting the mats that go into the component parts.
  • Augments: 8 different mats/items, not counting the mats that go into the component parts.

Eyeballing it, this will more than double the resource cost of making augments and kits.  My idiots better be bringing home some serious hauls of mats with each mission to make up for this.  But they won’t because I don’t have the money to bribe them, or the time, or the urge to use a third-party program to give them tiny gifts while I’m AFK (getting banned, I think not).

It sounded so good when the dev post mentioned it, so kind to grandfather in the old materials.  But the execution leaves much to be desired.  Oh and swearing.  Lots of swearing.

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Chapter-Something: Theron Has a Mohawk

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Am I still on KOTFE/KOTET? It’s uprising, right? Do these even have Chapter Numbers?

Whatever. I patched in and immediately have to go after the traitor Theron who has betrayed my fashion sense with his new mohawk. Ew, dude, ew. No, seriously, I have no idea what he did for the betrayal.1

Did I screenshot anything? Nope, I was too busy swearing at pretty much everything. My abilities that don’t make sense anymore, just all the things. So I ended up running the stupid thing again for YOU, dear readers. You’re fucking welcome.

Who thought of the name Iokini? Rhymes with “bikini” and “ootini!”

  1. Little Jedi knows but she laughs at me every time I ask her “so how do I pull up my companion menu?” It’s not funny, shut up. It’s been three years. ↩

Hall Of Shame Update

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Well I could talk about server merges but seriously, fashion first.

Here are my personal latest screenies of evil and horror.

(And the reader submissions are coming soon!  We won’t talk about how long ago reader submissions have been received and that I’ve been a slacker in failing to put them up.  No really, totally not talking about that.)

 

Must Not Slut Shame The Husband

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Thehusband started a female operative because he’s remembering how to play and wants to start from scratch. Little Jedi insisted on a female toon because… reasons? So he and Kaliyo can be besties.

Soon, on Hutta, he comes to the point where you meet “Dino” who claims to know that you’re not who you say you are and threatens to expose you. Well, if you are female, you have 3 options:

  • (1) Murder
  • (2) Payoff
  • (3) BSOCK

Obviously, LJ chose murder. I agreed with her. There’s no negotiating with sleezes.

Well, the husband chose option 3, and we teased him mercilessly:

Me: Daddy’s a slut!

Him: It’s for the empire! It was the best option at the time.

Me: Dino’s schlong was the best option?

LJ: Snort.

I’m going to hell for saying “schlong” in front of my kind, right?

Coruscant Conference Center

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A place for jedi and senators to talk about jedi and senator stuff, make presentations, have lunch.  Why can’t they just meet in the main senate building around the corner on Coruscant?  I don’t know.  Shut up.

Downstairs

Entry

With utility area

Hall