Ah, the joys of being me.
I woke up this morning with a sinus headache to end all sinus headaches. It felt like they were going to rip out of my forehead and do a tapdance on the kitchen counter, probably while singing "Hello My Baby, Hello My Darlin'" or something. You know the song the Warner Brothers frog used to sing in all of the WB commercials before it became cool to watch their shitty shows. Half a box of tissues, several napkins, and three advil later I think it's starting to go away. Either that or my body has decided to accept the agony and direct its attention to other things. Like waiting for Jack to wake up and cruising LJ.
Honestly, I haven't cruised too much yet. I checked Allassein's blog to see if he was up hellishly late again last night. Yes, I try to estimate when he'll wake up before I decide when I want to shower and take care of the list my sister left me. It's a short list, but I still want to get the vacuuming and dishwasher things done before I get too wrapped up in anything else. She included "call mom and see if you can stay another night" on the list, which slightly worries me because I only brought one extra t-shirt and one spair pair of boxers. Also, I have laundry to do and things that need cooked at home, not to mention mom's incredibly ambiguous list to take care of. When she gets home I'll just tell her I don't want to stay, I think, unless she has a good reason for me to. Actually wanting to go home sounds crazy to me, but I have things I need to do.
I'm sure I'll be kicking myself tomorrow night as I listen to my mother's latest rendition of "ode to emphyzema" or whatever it is she has. She's sick and not really in a condition fit for human interaction, but since I didn't bring everything I need with me... We'll see. I have all day to think about it. And think and think and think.
You know, it's funny to think that this time last year I was starting in on my first research job at school and trying to semi-powergame my way through ten levels to catch up with Jack. That was before I convinced my mom to get a broadband connection at home, and I was making daily trips to the library just to get on AIM for a few hours. When I got back to school, Jack was ten levels ahead of me, our clan had somehow grown to include people I didn't know, and I was standing there going "buh?" It pissed me off to no end when I first found out, but I got over it. I think. Now it's just funny to think how worked up I got that first night because omg my best friend had outleveled me and I was utterly useless. He had Malroth for his wizard and Cly for his healer and I was just this level eighteen baby mage with bad gear.
Everything worked out for the best in the end, I think. Or at least for the better. After about a month I caught up to just about everyone including Jack thanks to some rather uncool whining and the approach of level 40's class change quests and new gear needs. And hey...those months were /amazing/ for roleplay. Hell. Jack and I /still/ roleplay Sov and Tald on a daily basis, and eventually we'll get back to writing their story proper. Right now I think we're waiting to see what sort of schedule the two of us end up with when jobs happen. Or in my case, if jobs happen. It's starting to look bleak.
I mention this because once again Jack and I are slobbering at an MMO, only this one hasn't even gone into beta yet. Since the E3 reports came out, Jack's been getting his fanboy on over Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. And I've been all too happily joining in the droolfest. It really does look like a sexy game, and parts of it smack of things we've talked about including in the MMO we'll never get a dev team for. One of the devs released a list of class titles- just titles, no scrips or anything- on the forum, and since then Jack and I have been doing some fun speculating about roles and what we might like to play.
It looks like we're going to be at least trying another Sov and Tald, which would be lovely. Those two are just...fun to play together. And we're both pretty damn good at the roles we dug into with those characters. He was a heavy tank- Dark Avenger for those of you that have played L2. I was a nuker/CC class- Sorc in case anyone happens to give a damn. By the time we quit we were good. Damn good. Duoing in zones several levels above us with average downtime good. Duoing in same-level areas with no downtime. We duoed bosses with herds of linked mobs two levels over us without any major mishaps. With some heavy downtime we duoed some very scary lizards (Harits) in our low forties.
Good times. Amazing memories. Lots of bad memories too, but I'll block those out and just keep the nice ones, I think. *snuggles the boys* Never underestimate the power of a tank/nuker duo, especially if the nuker has low-cost heals from when he was a noob. (Yes, I use masculine pronouns for myself when it comes to Tald...because Tald is a boy even though he doesn't look like it and when you crossdress in an MMO it's really hard to figure out proper pronouns.) We were just...a very tight, efficient duo that made healers mad because things never got exciting. We kept a tidy camp with few ohshits. Healers expected to be needed for chain healing or something, I think. I dunno.
Aaaaaanyway! It's just nice to have that fluffy duo feeling again. Being part of a smoothly functioning team with goals is something I miss a lot. And I didn't really get that feeling in WoW. But anyway. I'm purring at an MMO that's not out yet and which I'm sure will force me to get a new computer.
*twitch* Two shiny new gaming rigs that we'll omg have to have when this game comes out. My checkbook fears.
I need a job.
What the hell was this entry supposed to be about, anyway? Hell if I remember...
Vanguard! Sex! Want, but not right now cos I can't play until I'm out of school. Or at least not until I'm back from Japan.
Honestly, I haven't cruised too much yet. I checked Allassein's blog to see if he was up hellishly late again last night. Yes, I try to estimate when he'll wake up before I decide when I want to shower and take care of the list my sister left me. It's a short list, but I still want to get the vacuuming and dishwasher things done before I get too wrapped up in anything else. She included "call mom and see if you can stay another night" on the list, which slightly worries me because I only brought one extra t-shirt and one spair pair of boxers. Also, I have laundry to do and things that need cooked at home, not to mention mom's incredibly ambiguous list to take care of. When she gets home I'll just tell her I don't want to stay, I think, unless she has a good reason for me to. Actually wanting to go home sounds crazy to me, but I have things I need to do.
I'm sure I'll be kicking myself tomorrow night as I listen to my mother's latest rendition of "ode to emphyzema" or whatever it is she has. She's sick and not really in a condition fit for human interaction, but since I didn't bring everything I need with me... We'll see. I have all day to think about it. And think and think and think.
You know, it's funny to think that this time last year I was starting in on my first research job at school and trying to semi-powergame my way through ten levels to catch up with Jack. That was before I convinced my mom to get a broadband connection at home, and I was making daily trips to the library just to get on AIM for a few hours. When I got back to school, Jack was ten levels ahead of me, our clan had somehow grown to include people I didn't know, and I was standing there going "buh?" It pissed me off to no end when I first found out, but I got over it. I think. Now it's just funny to think how worked up I got that first night because omg my best friend had outleveled me and I was utterly useless. He had Malroth for his wizard and Cly for his healer and I was just this level eighteen baby mage with bad gear.
Everything worked out for the best in the end, I think. Or at least for the better. After about a month I caught up to just about everyone including Jack thanks to some rather uncool whining and the approach of level 40's class change quests and new gear needs. And hey...those months were /amazing/ for roleplay. Hell. Jack and I /still/ roleplay Sov and Tald on a daily basis, and eventually we'll get back to writing their story proper. Right now I think we're waiting to see what sort of schedule the two of us end up with when jobs happen. Or in my case, if jobs happen. It's starting to look bleak.
I mention this because once again Jack and I are slobbering at an MMO, only this one hasn't even gone into beta yet. Since the E3 reports came out, Jack's been getting his fanboy on over Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. And I've been all too happily joining in the droolfest. It really does look like a sexy game, and parts of it smack of things we've talked about including in the MMO we'll never get a dev team for. One of the devs released a list of class titles- just titles, no scrips or anything- on the forum, and since then Jack and I have been doing some fun speculating about roles and what we might like to play.
It looks like we're going to be at least trying another Sov and Tald, which would be lovely. Those two are just...fun to play together. And we're both pretty damn good at the roles we dug into with those characters. He was a heavy tank- Dark Avenger for those of you that have played L2. I was a nuker/CC class- Sorc in case anyone happens to give a damn. By the time we quit we were good. Damn good. Duoing in zones several levels above us with average downtime good. Duoing in same-level areas with no downtime. We duoed bosses with herds of linked mobs two levels over us without any major mishaps. With some heavy downtime we duoed some very scary lizards (Harits) in our low forties.
Good times. Amazing memories. Lots of bad memories too, but I'll block those out and just keep the nice ones, I think. *snuggles the boys* Never underestimate the power of a tank/nuker duo, especially if the nuker has low-cost heals from when he was a noob. (Yes, I use masculine pronouns for myself when it comes to Tald...because Tald is a boy even though he doesn't look like it and when you crossdress in an MMO it's really hard to figure out proper pronouns.) We were just...a very tight, efficient duo that made healers mad because things never got exciting. We kept a tidy camp with few ohshits. Healers expected to be needed for chain healing or something, I think. I dunno.
Aaaaaanyway! It's just nice to have that fluffy duo feeling again. Being part of a smoothly functioning team with goals is something I miss a lot. And I didn't really get that feeling in WoW. But anyway. I'm purring at an MMO that's not out yet and which I'm sure will force me to get a new computer.
*twitch* Two shiny new gaming rigs that we'll omg have to have when this game comes out. My checkbook fears.
I need a job.
What the hell was this entry supposed to be about, anyway? Hell if I remember...
Vanguard! Sex! Want, but not right now cos I can't play until I'm out of school. Or at least not until I'm back from Japan.