Yeah, so...
I didn't feel like posting anything, but now I do. So I am.
-I have a job now, as you all know already. I work at H&R Block. Thus far, that has entailed practicing with the 2011 version of the tax software and making calls to prior clients to see if they'd like to come back(on the behalf of one of my co-workers, of course.) If you're reading this and would like me to do your taxes, please feel free to come by and ask for me. I'm new, but I've gone through a whole lot of training to get to where I am.
-I've been doing a lot of reflecting on political matters. Not so much what happens day-to-day, but the macro trends. It defines my generation, more than anything, and it's changed Cerrinus as well. I'm now thinking that Cerrinus will be a collapsing empire. You'll hear great things about it, but what you see will be abuse and decay. The story will be one of survival, and a search for a way forward, a way out of the darkness into a new era of hope. I am still undecided as to what the outcome will be, but I suppose I will be supplied with the appropriate one in time. What I do know is that Lynne will represent something even darker. People who revel in ruin and destruction because they have learned how to manipulate it to serve their own selfish ends.
-This line came to me today: "Her skin shone with the pallid sheen of a corpse, and her eyes flickered like guttering flames." I like it...
-I had a love-hate relationship with Neverwinter Nights 2. Then I re-rolled a new character and now it's awesome. I was foolish, so foolish, to roll a rogue. Because playing a rogue sucks. Rogues are not focused around combat, but D&D sure as hell is. D&D is all about combat, and, in order to enjoy that, you need to be all about combat. Neeshka can worry about looting shit for me. I'll be up front with Khelgar and Casavir, keeping the enemies away from Qara so she can cast the spells that make the people fall down. And never get up again. And usually burn.
Aside from that, it's quite an enjoyable game, though I feel as though the Influence system is mostly useless. It basically tracks your party member's attitudes towards you, but I've only encountered two instances where this actually matters. The first instance is that you can help one of your party member's fulfill his dream of becoming a monk. The second instance is that one of your party members will abandon you if she doesn't trust you. Oh, and a minor one with the bard where he'll sing a bard-song for you to buff you before a duel. It also has an interesting mechanic where you become lord of a keep and must manage it. You need to rebuild it, build your own little army and find people to manage all of this stuff.
Oh, and being Evil involves going above and beyond being selfish and into being a massive dick and screwing yourself out of quests because you're such a dick that not even a sweet reward can motivate you to look for some one's lost kid.
-Oh, and Mass Effect 2 is the best game.
-I have a job now, as you all know already. I work at H&R Block. Thus far, that has entailed practicing with the 2011 version of the tax software and making calls to prior clients to see if they'd like to come back(on the behalf of one of my co-workers, of course.) If you're reading this and would like me to do your taxes, please feel free to come by and ask for me. I'm new, but I've gone through a whole lot of training to get to where I am.
-I've been doing a lot of reflecting on political matters. Not so much what happens day-to-day, but the macro trends. It defines my generation, more than anything, and it's changed Cerrinus as well. I'm now thinking that Cerrinus will be a collapsing empire. You'll hear great things about it, but what you see will be abuse and decay. The story will be one of survival, and a search for a way forward, a way out of the darkness into a new era of hope. I am still undecided as to what the outcome will be, but I suppose I will be supplied with the appropriate one in time. What I do know is that Lynne will represent something even darker. People who revel in ruin and destruction because they have learned how to manipulate it to serve their own selfish ends.
-This line came to me today: "Her skin shone with the pallid sheen of a corpse, and her eyes flickered like guttering flames." I like it...
-I had a love-hate relationship with Neverwinter Nights 2. Then I re-rolled a new character and now it's awesome. I was foolish, so foolish, to roll a rogue. Because playing a rogue sucks. Rogues are not focused around combat, but D&D sure as hell is. D&D is all about combat, and, in order to enjoy that, you need to be all about combat. Neeshka can worry about looting shit for me. I'll be up front with Khelgar and Casavir, keeping the enemies away from Qara so she can cast the spells that make the people fall down. And never get up again. And usually burn.
Aside from that, it's quite an enjoyable game, though I feel as though the Influence system is mostly useless. It basically tracks your party member's attitudes towards you, but I've only encountered two instances where this actually matters. The first instance is that you can help one of your party member's fulfill his dream of becoming a monk. The second instance is that one of your party members will abandon you if she doesn't trust you. Oh, and a minor one with the bard where he'll sing a bard-song for you to buff you before a duel. It also has an interesting mechanic where you become lord of a keep and must manage it. You need to rebuild it, build your own little army and find people to manage all of this stuff.
Oh, and being Evil involves going above and beyond being selfish and into being a massive dick and screwing yourself out of quests because you're such a dick that not even a sweet reward can motivate you to look for some one's lost kid.
-Oh, and Mass Effect 2 is the best game.