Don't even get me started on instrumental pieces.

Music is a funny thing. There are a couple songs that always make me tear up.

The second song from this clip is one of them. It's the final song (with vocals, ohmigosh) from the Chains of Promathia expansion set for FFXI. (I haven't even finished those missions, so who knows? Maybe it'll stop getting to me after I beat them. I kind of doubt it though.) (The first is part of the opening video.)

(I selected that video because it's completely spoiler-free, since it's, you know. A concert, and the clips they show on the screen are from the opening video or completely out of context and without words at the bottom.)

It can be a bit hard to understand, but it's supposed to sound like that, as it's sung in Esperanto, not English. (Or so Wikipedia claims...)

( Lyrics+ )

It's a pretty song, and I don't think you'd need to be familiar with FFXI to enjoy it, though I'm not sure. Maybe it'd lose something, or maybe I'm just a nostalgia freak.

... Okay, I know I'm a nostalgia freak. QUIET.

(In other news, I also appear to have The Kingdom of San d'Oria uploaded, with no recollection of where that entry would be. SO HERE IT IS AGAIN? Edit: I found it! But I'm leaving the link, here, too, anyway.)

"I lost again!"

I'm getting worse and they are getting better! Or maybe just one or the other, but I think it is both.

( Yes, more racing. )

( Pain-inducing! )

I'm at 77% now, by the way. I figured that your percentage is the same as the number of races you've run, though I'm not sure if that was intentional or not. Either way: there are 25 races each cup (if the two qualifiers and the three rounds of the Grand Prix count as individual races) and there are four cups. So less than 25 races left. Barely.