34. Centipede
Requirements-
Alert Phases: under 75
Kills: Under 250
Continues: over 25
12:38
Finished installing Act 1.
Watching 7th Circle. I don't like this one but I've watched it the least. I know the answer to it now, even if I didn't know what letters they are. It's Piervue Armement.
12:42
Act 1 Splash Screen
I hate this part so much, can't use any god damned gadgets its pure sneak
12:47
Meet with Mk.II
*pause*
Life Complete.
THE BOSS EXTREME
Total Play Time 3:53:51
Continues: 0
Alert phases: 0
Total kills: 0
LIFE Recovery Items: 0
Weapon Types Acquired: 67
Flashbacks Viewed: 140
Special Items: Not Used
CQC Uses: 33
Headshots: 52
Knife Kills/Knockouts: 0
Wall Press Time: 00:01:01
Sideways Rolls: 0
Forward Rolls: 33
Crawling Time: 00:31:02
Crouch Walking Time: 00:42:00
Time in Carboard Box/Drum: 00:01:39
Combat Highs: 0
Weapons/Items Acquired: 96
Total Drebin Points from Sales: 772172
Current Drebin Points: 2569530
Hello, my name is Gordon and I've recently bought Grand Theft Auto 4 for the 360. I am utterly amazed at everything this game has to offer - it's one of the deepest and biggest games I've played in quite some time now. Everything has been expertly crafted, even down to the achievements. Things you might have missed in the game are highlighted, such as doing as wheelie, stealing 20 cars through text messages, or even topping the leaderboards in QUB3D.
Oh QUB3D...
I know this is a game inside of a game so it is most likely nowhere near the top of the list of important things to consider for tweaking or fixing via a patch or update but please hear me out. I really like QUB3D. After a long day of doing missions, races, and bank heists - I like to stop in at the local pool hall or wherever I can find this machine and play - always attempting to get that achievement, to get first place.
But herein lies my dilemma - I am colorblind.
I can see color, yes. I can make it through 99% of life no problems, but the 1% of those problems I happen to run into really stop my life and remind me this is literally impossible. I started to play QUB3D and found the puzzle game quite interesting and quirky. I progressed through the levels and somewhere around either level 5 or 6 (hard to tell as you'll figure out), I noticed the "green" blocks no longer disappear after you match up a group of 4. This quickly lead to my failure in the game and I was left wondering what was wrong.
Piece after piece, block after block, I toiled away at this machine - my highest score still 3 thousand away from where I needed to get. "Why do they make these blocks impossible to break, except by random chance?" I would ask myself. I called my roommate in to have a look, perhaps both of us could figure this out. As I got to that magical level again I showed him the "green" pieces no longer match.
The look he gave me told more than any words could - a look of humor, and a sort of sad pity.
"Well those ones," he walks up and points at the screen, "are yellow. THESE ones are green."
I stare dumbfounded at the screen, there is no way I could have forgotten I was colorblind - there was no way this game would fall into that niche of puzzle games I have categorized in my mind. The niche of games that, while very fun, are close to impossible for me to play because of my less than stellar color acuity.
So I write to you today not so much for tech support (I apologize for wasting your time but this is the most relevant email address I could find) but to ask if you could possibly just forward this to someone who is open for suggestions or bug fixes. Many puzzle games put a little icon or symbol on the pieces for just this reason. I really do want to beat this game, I want to get 100% in it - I want to scour every part of Liberty City myself, down to the very gristle on the bone.
But for now the meat I can eat off that bone looks a bit too similar in color to the meat that is inedible.
Thank you for your time.
Hungrily Blind,
Gordon R.
The first rule of Rock Night is - you do not talk about Rock Night. The second rule of Rock Night is - you DO NOT talk about Rock Night. Third rule of Rock Night, someone yells Fuck This Song!, gives up, fails out three times, the fight is over. Fourth rule, only four rockers to a band. Fifth rule, one song at a time, fellas. Sixth rule, no sweatbands, no mullets. Seventh rule, songs will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Rock Night, you have to sing.
Recently I've been playing with the TF2 SDK and I got to thinking how cool it would be to create a decent map.
I've been sketching today so this is what I have so far.
In case you haven't gotten the Orange Box yet - go do it. Not only is Portal one of the most unique games you'll play in a very long time, Team Fortress 2 is quite possibly the most solid multiplayer game that has come out in just as long a time. That and everything is just so silly it's hard not to have fun.
Once you do go get TF2/Orange Box, then you can join my server.
tf2.agnph.com
is the IP, and if there isn't any room, send me a message on steam - I'll kick to make room.
In other news I had to get my car's registration renewed - and I was up for an emissions test (again). So I go there, and ended up failing my test for the SAME thing I failed it for last time. The thing that cost me $800 :|
I go to a mechanic and get some bullshit repaired, another $800, but they said my check engine light would stay off. Guess what - it did! (for about 30 minutes). I'm going to see if I can pass the test again, if not I have a waiver so I don't have to pass it. Then I'm going back to the mechanic and asking what they did that costs $800 and still doesn't turn off a check engine light. It's really starting to annoy me. This has kind of bankrupted me this month for anything I was planning on doing. That and I'm leaving for California on the 19th means I have even less money from the week of work I'll be missing :/
Balls.
(I hope when I update this I don't spam my RSS with like a million updates again - I'm not sure why it does that)
It's been half a month - what's been new and exciting? Well a while ago, weeks now, Liz (co-worker) threw a party / get-together at her house to kind of "christen" it. She was really cool and swung by to pick up my roommate and boyfriend so they could at least hang out and be a little social - it's hard for them figuring one keeps to himself and the other works at home. By the time I got there (work stopping me from showing up before everyone was at drunk level omega) they were already ready to leave. Kinda sucked because I wanted to hang out but Bryan was about to walk home (drunk + energy). I wasn't about to let my drunk boyfriend and defenseless roommate walk home around 1am so I ducked out early to drive them back home. As I left I thought it was a cool idea to have everyone over like this so I said I'll have everyone over my place next week.
The more I thought about it the more I was really getting into it - I've NEVER had people over at my place, it's always just been my little private batcave full of faggotry and secret passages down into awesomeness. I decided I'd make my jell-o shots again, and this time have some REAL witnesses so it's just not me doing a lot of work to get a buzz.
Cleaning up the place was such a fucking chore - it was trashed. Not for any real reason either, just general negligence on our behalf because we're three guys living in one apartment. All cleaned up and ready to party however people did come over and they did have an awesome fun time. We started with some Guitar Hero 2, which was pretty well received. However once we broke the Wii out everyone started to get in on it. Liz was playing tennis, Lance was tearing it up at golf, etc etc.
This was also the second time I've been drunk. Details aren't needed but it's one of the few times I didn't have to be the DD so I got to drink as much as I wanted. As I drank I realized every other word I spout becomes a curse word and I just generally have a much more relaxed time with my jokes - most of them failing on exit. Around 3am or so everyone started to taper off, which was perfect for me, I didn't need a noise complaint - let alone several.
The next morning was pretty good given how much I drank. I don't get hangovers as I've realized. I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm not drinking that much? (Not as if this is an achievement to get). I drink a lot of water before I end up falling asleep and I know that helps but I thought it would only help up to a certain point. I've also never had any moments that I cannot remember. This is very cool because I think that would be a scary experience to say the least.
The only "downside" that came from the party was the fact that when everyone went outsided to smoke I never cleaned up the tons of cigarette butts they ended up leaving. Some guy cleaned them up and gave me a little "talking to" about not leaving my butts around - even though I told him nobody in this apartment smokes (which is true!).
TEAM.
FORTRESS.
TWO.
If you've never heard of this game - be glad, you still have a chance to escape. Whatever anyone tells you - do not play this game. If you value any bit of "free time" you may have then stay far away. If you wish to not experience the most insane fun team based multiplayer action you'll ever find, then stop reading and run. Run fast and run far.
Team Fortress 2 is part of Valve's Orange Box. It's a collection of the hottest games to come out this decade and if you pre-order the beast of a deal ($50 for 5 games, hard to fucking resist that) you get to play in the Team Fortress 2 beta right now.
Now let me put Team Fortress into perspective for you.
Deathmatch : Quake DM :: Team Fortress 2 : Class based team action
What helps make this game so epic is a few things.
1. Style.
In a game - style is everything. Either you try to go for realism or you go for your own style. TF2 takes this mantra and runs toward the style end as if it has rabid wolverines chasing after it. The game DRIPS style, as if Pixar had created a game. Each character is fleshed out with their own traits and quirks; and they are all mad in their own ways.
Each character has their own set of taunts, animations, unique weapons, skills, and life. You need a good mix on a team to kick total ass - then again a good player can really show the newer ones how to best a class in any tactic.
Each map is big and colorful and the game LOOKS amazing. You'd be surprised how detailed and awesome a game so simple looking can be. This is Valve's best looking game to date and if you're lucky enough to have a beefy computer - that will show instantly.
2. Teamwork
This game is all about teamwork. But it's not like a Counter-Strike teamwork where you have to work together but nobody does. This game encourages and rewards teamwork. Engineers can upgrade eachother's sentry guns, medics get rewarded for healing by charging up their "Ubercharge" meter; once full they get 10 seconds of invulnerability for themselves and their target.
It even encourages people across teams to have fun together. After someone kills you it zooms in on the enemy and shows you the face of death itself. This can sometimes lead to some very silly pictures. If someone happens to kill you multiple times without you getting your revenge then they become your "nemesis". When you're near them a cute icon appears over their head letting you know this is the person you want dead - now.
3. Fun
It's fun, plain and simple. While some games get you frustrated if you lose - death and being mocked by the enemies' characters is funny. Being clubbed to death with a giant wrench then having the guy do a little hoedown on your corpse is enough to make anyone smile.
So if you do end up getting it, just know that I have a server set up for the friends I've made over the internet. You can find the server information over at the site, or connect directly to it. It's a 24 man server located in Dallas that is up with all the maps all the time.
Server Information: http://agnphtf2.nuclearfallout.net
Collect Your Items!
Step 1: Download Magic Workstation.
Step 2: Download something to uhh... "register" the program.
Step 3: Download the WoW TCG Patch
Start the installing!
Step 4: Install the workstation (mws094f.exe)
Step 5: Patch the workstation (Magic.Workstation.v.0.94f.exe)
Step 6: Install the Patch (Run the .exe inside of TopTierGamingMWSWoW_V3.zip) in the same directory as the workstation (which you installed in step 4)
Configure this bitch!
Step 7: Go to the workstation folder (X:\Program Files\Magic Workstation). Open the program up. Ignore all boring error messages and dialog boxes.
Step 8: File > Assign Default Master Base > WoW.mwbase. The program will shut down.
Step 9: Go to the themes folder - open it up. Delete "Default.mwTheme" and rename the other one in there (TTGWOW.mwTheme) into "Default.mwTheme"
Step 10: Open the program again, hit F10 to get into the options. Go to interface then switch the layout to "Default" and hit ohkiedokie.
All is done!
To make your deck
Press Ctrl-F2 to get into the deck creator. Make sure to put your hero into your SIDEDECK (green arrow), so you'll have 60 cards in the main and 11 in the sidedeck.
I have a Wacom Intuos2 with Grip Pen and I pulled it back out recently to start doodling in flash a bit. I noticed the cursor however was freaking out, and I'm not sure why.
I can draw straight lines along the x an y perfectly, but whenever I do any kind of diagonal lines it does some weird wave... curve thing. I've googled for hours and found like 2 people with this same problem.
I get a bunch of bs like "intereference" from CRTs and speakers but that isn't my problem because it sometimes goes away. I also read one thread where the guy said replacing the pen did the trick. I was about to do that but with the pens costing about $60 I don't want to be out that much money and still have a fucked up tablet.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the problem?
What I've Tried:
1. Reinstalling Drivers (also it's a fresh install of windows if that helps)
2. Moving away from "interference"
3. Different programs (it happens even in windows when I drag around)
4. Crying quietly to myself.
Example: I used a straight edge to draw the vertical and horizontal lines, the other ones were drawn with the same straight edge, but this came out.
(Not booze this time!)
I pre-ordered a box of boosters from the new WoW TCG set "Fires of Outlands". It's not shipping until Aug. 27th or something, but I wanted to get a cheap pre-order in before they were all sold out.
On eBay sniffing around I also found some guy who was selling his rares and epics for really cheap - as well as awesome shipping prices. I ended up buying about 30 or so cards and only had to pay like $25.
Now the real test is to see if they actually send me the cards :D
(You can see the cards in the extended entry - don't want to spam my front page with pictures of nerd shit)
Last night I tried to update my iTunes. Not for any reason - I was just getting tired of it asking me to update. So I download and tear into the installer only to find out that the "Windows Installer Service" wasn't working - which is odd.
Also for the past few weeks 2 windows updates would fail every time - and I'm still not even sure why. So after getting home last night around 2am I decided I'll just spend a quick hour or two working out the problem so the next day won't be plagued by any craptastic errors.
2 hours pass quickly and I'm NO closer to figuring out what the hell went wrong. Retiring to bed I awake the next morning (today) and try to fix it. I find many errors and ways to fix it, each one leaving me no answers and nothing happening. So I decide I'll just reinstall windows. I do this every few months - and I have my important stuff split off onto my other drives just for this occasion.
I get the installer going and head off to play some Xbox 360, Guilty Gear XX #Reload was recently updated to play on the 360 - meaning I can FINALLY play it on my big screen in all it's pretty glory. I get into the game and the first attack I throw gets countered, making this cool explosion which seems to freeze the game up and mess up my TV.
Then a second passes and I realize it's not the game - my Xbox is borked. I get up and restart the thing, watching the little circle around the power button - I like it's power on dance.
But instead of the fun little circle of green I'm met with something much worse. After calling up tech support and giving them my info and whatnot they agree to send me the shipping box to send it back in.
Upside: New Xbox. Free month of live. No cost to me.
Downside: Fucking broken Xbox.
So up until about 30 minutes ago when Windows FINALLY finished installing I was just sitting around watching the installer screen tick by, and staring at my dead xbox. I tried playing a few emulated games on the old xbox, but nothing was doing it for me.
I guess it's back to Fallout.
If you're reading this then I have successfully moved over to our new server, running at the speed of fucking light.
Also: comments are back because they won't crash this one.
The worst part about having to move is that little blip we don't have internet.
And while I don't think I have an internet addiction, I believe I do have a heavy dependency on it for ALL my entertainment. This kind of sucks because I don't have much else to fall back on. I have consoles and stuff to play games on but they require me to be online for multi-player and all that fun kind of stuff.
We aren't moving far away this time - just 5 or so miles down the road. Costs a bit more but the complex is much much nicer, and this time we have a year long lease so they won't be putting us out onto condos any time soon.
So that card I was selling on ebay actually did sell, for about $53, which is pretty nice for one measly card. I then got out a checklist of my current cards and started to check off what I do and do not have.
I found out that I am missing about 109 or so cards (all rares and epics) as well as a few oversized cards. So with a good pocket of ebay cashes in my paypal I started to go on a rare and epic buying "spree". It was cut short however at about 20 or so cards, but it's a good start.
Chibimon was over with Kupok this past week and we played a lot of cards, I seemed to have gotten Chibimon hooked on the game, which is nice because it would give me someone other than my roomies to play with.
Eventually I'd love to go to some kind of contest or weekly play or something - just ANYTHING to meet new people and get out of the house. Sadly though I am too scared to go talk to people I've never talked to before so I haven't gone to any of them.
I don't think anyone cares but the list of cards I have left to buy are listed somewhere within this underlined mystery link!
I know there is a new set out "Through the Dark Portal", but I'll wait for it to be out as long as the first set before I try to collect them all.
Cards I bought after the break so as not to spam my front page.
So the new Xbox Elite was released, and it looks really cool. The only downside is the hard drive is like 180 bucks, and that's way more than anyone should ever pay for 120 gigs, unless it's running at like 10k+ speeds.
I still want that sexy matte black however, so I got a mod and cracked open my controller. I now present exhibit A through C, my ghetto 360 elite.
I told you I beat this level, just did it again for the second time.
I seemed to pull this one off a bit better than last time - felt more confident. I can't wait until it comes out on the 360 on April the 3rd, 7 days before my birthday.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=225934&cid=18295166
Look, let me explain something about group dynamics in general and geek psychology in particular. Every group develops little markers that let members know if someone is a part of the group. Particular ways of speaking, writing, or acting, little jokes, that sort of thing.Many geeks grew up as outsiders. We were smarter, but lacked social skills. Dumber but more popular people felt threatened by our brains and put us down, picked on us, and so forth. One characteristic that groups of those dumber people adopted as their group marker was a disdain for all things intellectual. One thing many geeks have adopted is just the opposite, a respect for all things intellectual, to distinguish ourselves from them.
Do you see where this is going?
You come on a geek message board spouting anti-intellectualism, "Oh, you dorks, proper spelling and grammar don't matter. Get over yourselves." You have just identified yourself as "one of them," an outsider, probably anti-intellectual, most likely of the same sort that picked on many of us as kids.
Proper spelling and grammar are one of our shibboleths, along with Natalie Portman, hot grits, and Beowulf clusters. It isn't primarily about communication, although that is a factor. It is about identity. We are geeks. Geeks are smart. Smart people spell words correctly and use proper grammar. That is who we are.
When people here correct your spelling or grammar, they are really just trying to carry on our culture, and help you fit in. You don't have to, but if you don't, you will be seen as an outsider by many here. That's just how it is with people. You know the old saying, "When in Rome..."
This seemed like a very... well GOOD description of the nerds who point out the spelling. For some reason it made me really happy to read this.
I completed the Old Spice challenge! And on top of that I only need 1200 points to get to level 3, that allows me to get some cool rewards for the next challenges.
Also Lego Star Wars II is fun :D
Checked the mail today and I got something from Microsoft.
My very own diamond card. This is pretty cool figuring it has my XBL name on it (even thought it's not related to my first pick Doc/DrGamez - still don't know why I can't move my original xbox account over to the 360 one. Oh well.
I'm still not sure WHAT this card can do because on the website it says I'm not signed up - even though I have my card right in front of me. I'll give it a few more days before I call them up and ask what's going on.
I got a card from my parents on the 14th, they always send a cheesy little valentine's card and whatnot. This one however had a picture of my brother. On the back it says: "your brother loves you and looks up to you!"
I cried a little.
Let me catch everyone up.
I called my parents about a week ago to see what was up. See I have this mini SD card I sent my brother and nobody had called me back saying they recieved it. So to make sure it got there I was calling. I asked if he got it because he hasn't been picking up his phone. That's when I got the news.
Anthony no longer has a phone. In fact, Anthony no longer was living at my house.
He was back in juvi.
Apparently he robbed one of our neighbors and attacked him when he came back home and flipped out (for good damn reason). He was then on the run for a few weeks before being picked up. So they sent him back to jail. He has already fucked up. A lot. He's been in juvi more than three times now and has gone (and put US thorugh) about a year and a half of group therapy and bullshit counseling.
And and soon as he was out he pulled this. I found out my parents have been lying to me. They said he was doing good in school and was staying clean when they knew exactly the opposite was the true. He had failed out of his classes hard and was back to doing drugs and his old habits.
He's facing a strike. California has a very harsh penalty regarding strikes. You get three. On your third strike you are locked up in prison for life without parole. Doesn't matter what your third strike is, stealing a pack of gum can be a strike if you have a history of it - that could put you away forever. To get a strike before you're 18 is just scary. The fact that he has gone to a group therapy home and completed the program makes his felonies even more intense, it's like he was laughing in the court's faces.
I know every child lies to their parents to some degree, they have to - it's a part of growing up. Anthony never really lied to me. He hid stuff from me because he knew I wouldn't approve but he wouldn't ever lie because I wouldn't ever go out of my way to hang him.
What hurts is he lied to me. After all the tears and shit he put us all through in the past year he lied to us again and went out and said fuck the world and fuck this family. I don't understand why. We don't come from a broken home, hell we've been spoiled if anything - look at this fucking television I have.
So when he says things like he looks up to me it makes me sad. Not to put myself on a pedastool or anything but we are so different, I've never even drank in my life and he's doing cocaine while in jail. I don't know what to do, my parents are hiring a lawyer to try and reduce the sentance on him but it doesn't look good.
My worst fear is I won't have a brother when I'm in my 40s. I'm afraid he'll be killed on an OD, or mixed up in some gang stuff. I'm afraid he'll be on the run and I'll never hear from him again. I don't want to have to write letters to Cell Block C to talk to my brother. I love him too much to push him out of my life but at the same time I hate him more than anything right now - how could he do this to not only himself but to the family?
So yeah, I cried a little when I saw his picture. I don't want to lose my brother.
I AM AWESOME
FINALLY
So yeah, I'm working on a new blog design, it will *hopefully* be up soon. So in the meantime we have a webcam up of our apartment. It will be very boring but yeah, I like webcams.
Lando lives with us now. I really should update this journal but I'm busy trying to design it :(
Woo!
What the fuck is going wrong with my desktop? First my D: drive destroys itself and now my windows installation is crap. Right now I'm reformatting and installing Windows 2k because the XP cds don't want to work. :(
FLARGAFSKDFLWE
So what am I supposed to do with an LCD on my keyboard? WHAT CAN'T I DO.
Got my G-15 today :D
Becuase the mobo I want doesn't support regular DDR I have to get something different. So why not go 64bit?
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ AMD Athlon 64 X2 3700+ $295.00 $214.24 (Supports dual channel ram)
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe $209.99 (By recomendation of Mango-types)
GeForce 7800 GT $279.69
(Still going for the same video card)
So this will be around $800 without the case, which I already ordered.
D:
So after a little research this is what I'm looking at:
$130.00 for the Antec P180 Case
$349.99 for the Asus P5ND2-SLI Motherboard and Intel Pentium 4 541 3.2Ghz CPU
$279.69 for the GeForce 7800 GT video card
So total without tax and stuff comes to around $757.00
So with shipping it should be around $800, tax and all.
Should be nice. I'll make a step up to PCI-E and SLi. Also have a spiffy new case to quiet it all down.
This also allows me to get a second 7800 GT for SLi once I get a little bit more money.
I'm beginning to think my computer isn't as cool as I thought it once was. I'm thinking my 9800XT is finally starting to show it's age. I got less than 2k on my 3DMark score.
That's pathetic.
Is there anyone outthere willing to help me upgrade my computer?
Tetris Online?: Another reason for Eevee to get a DS.
So I got some component cables so I can play my GT4 in high-def now :D :D :D
This is the normal before HD shot. 1:1 sizing (no stretching)
This is the shot with 1080i enabled
(so many pixels)
Here is my monitor, kind of hard to make out but it fills the entire thing.
I was taking these shots with my camera, so they came out seven kinds of fucked up.
Also, Logitech Driving Force Pro makes this game so much fun:
It's really hard to get a crisp shot, especially with moving images. :(
1. I have to retag all my entries it looks like.
2. I will post a full summar of what's happened with my blog up until now.
3. I don't have the cool numbers for the posts, it's all split up by month and date now.
4. I will re-instate my commenting soon enough, right now you have to use TypeKey.
I don't even know if this is going to work.
So because I never deleted the default user from MT my index was changed for a short time. Nothing to see here, move along.
:D
I'm smrat.
Racing on the left, pokemon porn on the right.
Click for the full comic.
Click for the full comic.
So after Mango's LAN I decided I should probably expand my gaming empire past that of World of Warcraft. Two days later I bought FEAR and Quake 4, just installed them last night.
Now I haven't played FEAR yet but I have played Quake 4 and I am very pleased with it. It uses the Doom 3 engine better than I thought could be used and it keeps you on your toes without being stupid. In Doom 3 the point of the game was to scare you it seemed, and not much deeper than that. In Quake 4 you get scared but it fits in perfectly. And to make it all better, it's a sequal to Quake 2 (which is included in the DVD version :O)!
I have yet to tried the Q4 multiplayer, but from the look of singleplayer it will hold very true to Q3's multiplayer, which was the BEST deathmatch experience I've ever had since.... Q2 DM.
The people at id know their shit.
Also Lost Coast was released yesterday and it looks pretty as hell, I mean... really pretty. Like "Slow down my computer" kind of pretty, which was odd to see finally happen :(
So I'm back home from it, had much much fun. Got to play Armagedtron advanced against like 6 other people, played some Serious Sam 2 (not that fun), and... one round of starcraft. Mostly it was hanging out and stuff.
I got to show off my big monitor, which felt awesome. I think of it as a justification of sepending so much money on it, even if it is a silly justification.
And I got to snuggle with DarkRage finally #n..n# That was nice, hehe.
I got a couple (like 3) random pictures I'll put up in one second)
Well on the left is Mango.
The hand is Felkitty.
I forget what was going on but it was probably hot.
Also, Strife snores a little. (1.37mb WMV)
So I don't update nearly as often or change around my designs or anything now it seems. I'm too busy trying to farm and collect more honor in World of Warcraft. I have hit 60 and I'm still pretty shittily dressed up but PvP is still a fucking blast.
I just hit First Sergent with a standing of 31 (woot) and I have bought my epic mount, which has left me very hurting for cash. I could also go and talk for hours about WoW and my character and all the cool fun things but I wont.
Something more relevant to what you'd care about reading however is my move. So after talking to my parents and whatnot I am going to wait until Janurary to move. Mostly to get past the holiday season and to let Bryan hold his job longer than 90 days, just to continue feeling things out.
This really blows because we had a place all lined up, a very nice place at that. But because Bryan had just got his job and both sets of parents were a bit worried about it we decided to push it back... again. This time however I'm going to take an active step in making sure we leave this next date. I am going to put in my notice at work, letting them know December 20th will be my last day here, so after that we will have to really work on getting out of here cause I won't have a job. My DM (District Manager) has been floating around all week at my job so I'm going to talk to him about my transfer again, ask him if I can just call him up before I go, so I have a few weeks to get my move and everything together and packed up.
So yeah, that kind of blows.
But that's how it goes :/
*personal props for my title*
(I'm slowly slowly slowly working on a new design. I don't know what the devs at SixApart were thinking when they designed the templates for the new MT, but they really changed a LOT of shit. Makes me want to go back to my old templates cause I understood how to use those. I'm not even sure how I want it to look right now, I'm just trying to get these things to behave and float around like I want.
Well no, I have SOME idea, I saw this cool website and and I want to do what they did (read: copy) and adapt it to my own style.
You may have noticed I have all but dissapeared from the internet and whatnot. Or I'll be there and not saying anything. I blame this partly on my new monitor. It's so fucking sexy. Playing games in widescreen is cooler than I'd ever think. Recently I reformatted and have new drivers and so everything is running like I'd want it to run, 100% awesome to the MAXX.
The only downiside to this is I don't really do much else but play World of Warcraft now. I just hit 60 and so I'm having fun with all these end-game instances and whatnot, trying to build up my gear and PvP the shit out of Azeroth.
My mouse finally died on me about two days ago so I had to go out and buy a new mouse. But I couldn't just get ANY mouse, oh no. I had to get the Logitech MX1000 Laser Wireless. I never thought a MOUSE could be this sexy, but it is. I also bought a new mousepad because... well, mine was a piece of shit. Some pos thick fabric squish pad from the 90s. I "upgraded" to a gaming pad, which is very slick and slightly textured so the optical/lasers pick up easier. My precision has increased two-fold easily.
And now onto GOD.
So I have been going to group therapy every week for a while now (Tuesdays) in order to get the chance to see my brother. It really sucks and I have to listen to some heavy stuff but hey, if it works then all is good: I want the best for my brother. There is this one kid there however that is... off. All the kids there are weird but he is really really weird. Today and the week before however we found out more about him. He was raised in a house with 13 kids/people. Lots of shit has happened to him... lots of shit. I will respect his confidentiality and not list them but if you heard his story you would just wonder why he is still alive and how he could smile.
But what amazes me most is his constant talk of God. God was there for him, and is there for all of us. This kid knows his religion. He knows his religion damn well. Nothing gets by him, he has an answer to it all and it's working for him. I have never seen someone so... devoted to their faith. And I use devoted as a good term this time. He isn't stupid catholic or crazy mormon. He doesn't care if you believe, he believes in his faith and it has kept him alive. That's some powerful stuff. It also changed my view on things. I still don't believe in a higher power/god/dao/diety, etc, etc: I need proof. Science IS the final word on all things.
What changed however was my general view of religion. If people were like this kid here, it wouldn't bother me. They wouldn't be protesting outside of abortion clinics or reminding homosexuals they are going to hell. They wouldn't be starting holy wars, violating constitutional rights, silencing those with different moral views; they'd just chill with their faith and be cool with it.
Religion in doses like this is not only fine, it is encouraged. If you have some kind of higher power in your life that stops you from doing dumb things or just makes you a better person for christs' sake (lol), follow it. Just follow it until you... get wherever you're going.
Just stop reminding the gayfolk they're going to hell, it's kind of old now.
Another thing of notice, one of FelKitty's entries about harrasment has put me on a slightly odd pedastool here. I dislike harassment, a lot. It's almost as bad as pointless trolling, and very harmful to egos and whatnot. But I also see the other side of things. People who make their blog friends only, or pre-approve every single thing they will ever read is a bit much.
It's the internet. The grandest creation in modern electronics EVER. This magical connection and network of computers allows me to converse my topic to anyone and everyone in the world at once. That's fucking powerful. Just think about that one. Somewhere across the town, country, ocean; somebody is reading this. And out of all those people, one person might be a dick. But you know what: it doesn't matter, let them waste their time away harassing you. It's a bit attention whorish of me to see it this way but if THEY are comign to harass YOU then apparently you are worth the time and effort.
It's not like you're reading their every single post waiting for a way to strike back at them.
Also: Annonymous comments are kind of cute. It's the fucking internet and if you can't fess up to what you said then that's just sad. Even if you give telephone, address and e-mail what are they going to do? Come over to your house and sucker punch you for calling them a dumbass?
Ps: I miss your feedback. I don't write this for you but it's nice to know I'm being heard.
So I just reinstalled Windows on my desktop here, and everything is running SO much faster <3
Also: I will have a new design soon, I hate using default templates.
So I wake up this morning to a sound of a knocking. "Who should be waking me before noon?"
Meandering out of bed in a shirt and trying to put on pants I open the door and its the UPS man.
"Hark! What do though bring me today?"
Then I remembered my monitor was shipping today.
Old Monitor
(17inch flatscreen Gateway POS, sell for $75 online now)
BOX
(this box is like an xbox amirite)
Size Comparison
(On the left is my old shitty monitor, and on the right is the Dell 2405FPW, 24 inches of LCD goodness)
Set Up
(I need a new wallpaper, please find me one 1920x1200 thanks)
Boomerang kill when getting jumped > almost dinging 60.
Also: I ordered my monitor, should be here early october :D
So in Un'Goro I find this raft. I find this raft around... 9pm?
Well I finally finished the quest chain it spawns. It basically is a HUGE and LONG chain dedicated to The Legend of Zelda. The main quest giver is a green cloth-clad gnome named Linken. You have to feed a beast that goes "Grumble Grumble", there is an easternmost penisula that holds a secret, etc etc etc.
But it's a LONG quest. So what are the rewards?
[Linken's Sword of Mastery]
[Linken's Boomerang]
And yes, they look and are very very very awesome.
And here is a video of the boomerang in action. (boomerang.avi 3mb avi)
Because I have now gotten my openID server to work, I can comment on other blogs and stuff and use my installation as a refrence point for authentification. This is cool because I won't have to sign up for any weird accounts or use TypeKey (honestly SixApart, this wont kick off like you hope) just to leave a comment.
But I have realized that when you come to my blog, you have no idea who I am if you don't read all the entires. This is why I have now created a profile page. Gives you a very quick rundown of how to contact me and what I am about. I also linked it up in the sidebar, just in case you are ever dying to see my picture.
Alright, other than the theme everything shoudl be back to the way I had it. I had a little problem getting the openID to work again, but now that its resolved things are good to go.
I love when I get to do geeky things like this, god this was so much fun :P
Oh god this is so awesome looking.
At least on my side. Your side wont change.
So I have just gotten the biggest paycheck I have ever recieved from Black Angus ($315 for two weeks). Also I have been looking into monitors, because I wanna buy a new one. After looking around for a bit I decided I will go with LCD flatpanel, as the ones Dell, Apple, and some others seem to be very kind to the gaming community.
I was originaly going to get the 19" Ultrasharp, but then I saw the 2005FPW, a 20.1" widescreen monitor. That just sounds sexy.
Right now I'm watching sale and deal sites, waiting for the monitor to go back on sale, earlier they have had it drop down below $400. While not very probable again, getting it around the $450 mark is something I'd shoot for because it comes out to about $600 with shipping and all.
Even though I do have enough money to cover that... easily. Yeah.
Also, Nimbus has an appointment today for another interview and he also has one tomorrow for another resturaunt. Hopefully once he gets a job and we see how much money he makes then we'll get the move going back again. I really hope coon is a waitering kind of person - because it does make you good money for not a lot of work.
And I want to design another look for this blog blah blah broken record and shit.
Because of so many people leaving work, they have me working like 30 hours a week. This is ok I guess but this means I don't have much time or days OFF work - it's like a fulltime thing. I don't go to school right now, so I guess that's reasonable, I shouldnt' be sitting around home all day. So usualy I have Thursdays off of work, by request, so I can go to the furmeets and coffee and whatnot. I think I will have to change that to Tuesdays off, because then I go and see my brother over at the group home therapy doodad whatchamacallit. And I only get to see him once a week so that takes precedence over friends, even if the therapy session part of it is very boring.
Not a whole lot else seems to be going on. I played EQ2 for the free week they gave me again, it didn't pull me back in, seemed too much the same. Also at the same time I'm getting bored of WoW again. This happened once before so I'm sure I'll get back into it, but I'm just stuck at level 56 with no real idea of where to go. And because I work so much I hate doing instances when I know I have to work or be somewhere later that day, because I don't know how long the instances usualy take and I don't want to be that guy who leaves 4 hours into something after he's got his quests and kickass gear out of the way. Same goes for Alterac Valley, I can't do it if I have work, feels like a waste of my time.
My dad for some reason bought a mountain bike. A... $2,000 mountain bike. I'm not sure why, other than he wanted one, but I better understand my own impulse buy proceedures. It's hard to talk us down from something once we get our mind and wallet set on it. I guess it's good in the end, because we have a lot of cool stuff we've wanted, but then again... money would be nice to have as well.
So yes. Today I dropped off my car to get repainted and undinged so for two days I do not have a vehicle.
Also. I need a bigger hard drive, I'm starting to look through and delete crap I don't use anymore.
Before I emptied my trash bin:
And after:
I use my trash bin as another folder most days.
If you look under my "Recent Entries" you will now see you can read my blog according to categories.
Why?
Hell I don't know, I was bored.
So I've started to go through every single one of my posts, read it, and categorize it for later purposes.
But this is taking a long ass time. In little over an hour I knocked out 110 entries.
I have 750+
:(
Ok, so I'm all angst'd out and now I feel better?
Why?
Because I was nerdy. Very very nerdy.
I have linked up with OpenID and because of that I can now allow LiveJournal users to LOGINwith ther LIVEJOURNAL ID and POST COMMENTS.
This is fucking awesome. I don't know if you realize HOW awesome.
Go ahead.
Try it.
I dare you.
edit:
THIS WAS HARD AS FUCK TO DO YOU BASTARDS >:|
Thank you for your hospitality at the LAN. Giving me the bandaid and just coming out with me as I walked around trying to talk to the cops about my car meant a lot. You're a really sweet guy.
And because of that, I re-wired my case, just for you.
Look! Airflow and no random globs of uneccesary cables!!!
$240 to get it out.
Now I owe my parents money.
The LAN was fun though.
I woke up at 9am, got there around 11am.
gamedgamedgamedgamedgamedgamed
Around darktime I stopped to get two slices of pizza
Then around 8am I fell asleep, Mango and I were the only ones still awake. Sorta.
Slept for about 4 hours, then had my parents escort me to the tow-yard to get my car.
So I want to redesign this site, but I want to really change it around.
Ideas.
I saw three hondas pull up next to eachother, and wondered why they didn't blast off for a second.
>:|
Making your shit fun and making me buy it and I'm am saying and a lot.
So I finally got around to enjoying a new design.
Summer Sun (Click or use the drop down box on the side to select this style)
So there I was enjoying my soloing of WC for greens and shit to sell for easy gold and then this weird thing attacks my screen like a madman.
What could this be?! I exclaimed, quickly flipping on the magic light on my soul-stealing device.
Why hello there moth.
Yes I know, you want the gold too *petpet*
I'm not scared of moths like I am of crane flies, so it's still on my screen. Right now it's flipping out because of the white background, it acts calmer when I'm in WC or on genmay, because it's darker.
<3
Also: There is a birdnest near me. I took pictures, hard to get a good angle. Baby birds are cute n..n
Tweet tweet.
Now I got my second kodo. No more chasing those fucking hunters. Time to MOW THEM DOWN.
I also drank a lot last night, hard to see when it's blurry and when you walk it sways a lot :P
When I awoke, I was dressed in a ripped loincloth. I can't remember much, but my Kodo seems oddly happy.
I like photoshop.
This is the only reason hunters are cool. But she's an engineer, so that might be why it looks so bitchin'
Cow Pyramid with Nimbus.
These next two shots are very nice, I love this one from the shimmering flats.
Growth potions rock.
Onos zerg rush.
Kodo butt.
I was jumped by 3 alliance, and I managed to take out one of their druids (while he was in pussy bear form). After getting the kill I noticed my new rank. :O
Quickly I rushed over to get my pointless tabard.
It rocks.
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 1: $21.87
Fuck yes :D
I loved this show and now I get to re-watch it in all it's 90's humor!
For anyone who remembers the Phantom from Infinum Labs, I really want to get this shirt.
It should make you chuckle.
Also what else has been up with my life? Not a whole lot. I've been getting back into WoW, just hit 34 wit
