Long time, no see. (on MMO participations, Xmas, and other random bullshit)
Cut because I don't want to spam friends pages.
My job continues to schedule me erratically. One week, I'm coming in at a decent 8:45. The next, I'm in at 9:15. Such is flex scheduling, I suppose.
Been getting pretty deep into CoH lately. I was going to try to play WoW at the same time but I don't know if I can keep up both games at the same time, the way things have been going. I always like CoH and the main reason I'd abandoned it was a lack of anybody around my level/willing to play near my level to work with. Something always happens where you can't get on for a bit and suddenly, everybody's level awesome (read: way out of your range) and you're still down somewhere. And then I feel bad trying to ask someone to do it because I know they earned it and they have every right to go off on Epic Adventure Raid Quest, but on the other hand it kills my desire to play the game, causing the gap to widen more and more. This is about when I end up dropping a game. I haven't given up on WoW, and frankly, I'm sorry to those on that end that I might or might not be letting down. But I got the game to play with people, and it isn't happening.
This past month? Frequent teaming. I have never had it this good on an MMO. Ever. End of story. So it's only natural I'm going to be gravitating toward that and spending most of the time otherwise spent MMO-ing in that direction. I always loved CoH in the first place, but originally lack of people playing it around my level killed it. The same thing happened in WoW before and is happening again. I'm going to ride the CoH rocket for as long as it lasts, even if I'm sure it's going to be falling in Dr. Strangelove style.
For Christmas? I got three items of power. One! Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings(DS). Fun game, kind of easy though. I like it better than HoM because unlike that game, characters are far more likely to actually go where you are sending them, in a sensible direction. They do not tangent off in a direction 45 degrees clockwise from where you actually sent them, when no obstacles are present.
Two! A Best Buy gift card from my grandma. More on that later.
Three: a car safety kit for (what else) my car. First aid kit, jumper cables, etc., all nice things to have in your car in an emergency.
I helped pay the lion's share in getting my brother a new 8GB iPod Nano. It worked well enough for all of two hours. Then it promptly died on us. Luckily, I bought it from Best Buy and we still had the reciept. And just as well, as both of us had gift cards to burn. My brother had $70 in gift cards and I had $50. He got a new iPod that works great and he loves it. I used it toward a new DVD+/-RW that turned out...to be a little too advanced for poor ol' StrikeComp II. It had only a SATA cable port on it, as opposed to the IDE that my computer can support. So a friend of mine is going to trade me an IDE drive for this one. Works for me, though I'm bummed this isn't going to work.
Jumping back to Christmas. We forewent the normal visit to my grandmother's house for a hastily-prepared visit from relatives on my dad's side. It was loud and crazy, but I enjoyed myself.
Also, this storyline is quite possibly the dumbest thing i've read of in awhile. I can understand cutting out some of the more potentially dubious ideas generated during the last few years, but to handwave it out entirely this way? I knew this shit was coming and it disgusts me. At least they made a concession or two. I don't know if I can read any 616 spidey-books for awhile. I'm pretty aggravated. Joe Q got a bit greedy and I think it's going to hurt Spidey in the long run.
check on the rep--yep--second to none
My job continues to schedule me erratically. One week, I'm coming in at a decent 8:45. The next, I'm in at 9:15. Such is flex scheduling, I suppose.
Been getting pretty deep into CoH lately. I was going to try to play WoW at the same time but I don't know if I can keep up both games at the same time, the way things have been going. I always like CoH and the main reason I'd abandoned it was a lack of anybody around my level/willing to play near my level to work with. Something always happens where you can't get on for a bit and suddenly, everybody's level awesome (read: way out of your range) and you're still down somewhere. And then I feel bad trying to ask someone to do it because I know they earned it and they have every right to go off on Epic Adventure Raid Quest, but on the other hand it kills my desire to play the game, causing the gap to widen more and more. This is about when I end up dropping a game. I haven't given up on WoW, and frankly, I'm sorry to those on that end that I might or might not be letting down. But I got the game to play with people, and it isn't happening.
This past month? Frequent teaming. I have never had it this good on an MMO. Ever. End of story. So it's only natural I'm going to be gravitating toward that and spending most of the time otherwise spent MMO-ing in that direction. I always loved CoH in the first place, but originally lack of people playing it around my level killed it. The same thing happened in WoW before and is happening again. I'm going to ride the CoH rocket for as long as it lasts, even if I'm sure it's going to be falling in Dr. Strangelove style.
For Christmas? I got three items of power. One! Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings(DS). Fun game, kind of easy though. I like it better than HoM because unlike that game, characters are far more likely to actually go where you are sending them, in a sensible direction. They do not tangent off in a direction 45 degrees clockwise from where you actually sent them, when no obstacles are present.
Two! A Best Buy gift card from my grandma. More on that later.
Three: a car safety kit for (what else) my car. First aid kit, jumper cables, etc., all nice things to have in your car in an emergency.
I helped pay the lion's share in getting my brother a new 8GB iPod Nano. It worked well enough for all of two hours. Then it promptly died on us. Luckily, I bought it from Best Buy and we still had the reciept. And just as well, as both of us had gift cards to burn. My brother had $70 in gift cards and I had $50. He got a new iPod that works great and he loves it. I used it toward a new DVD+/-RW that turned out...to be a little too advanced for poor ol' StrikeComp II. It had only a SATA cable port on it, as opposed to the IDE that my computer can support. So a friend of mine is going to trade me an IDE drive for this one. Works for me, though I'm bummed this isn't going to work.
Jumping back to Christmas. We forewent the normal visit to my grandmother's house for a hastily-prepared visit from relatives on my dad's side. It was loud and crazy, but I enjoyed myself.
Also, this storyline is quite possibly the dumbest thing i've read of in awhile. I can understand cutting out some of the more potentially dubious ideas generated during the last few years, but to handwave it out entirely this way? I knew this shit was coming and it disgusts me. At least they made a concession or two. I don't know if I can read any 616 spidey-books for awhile. I'm pretty aggravated. Joe Q got a bit greedy and I think it's going to hurt Spidey in the long run.
check on the rep--yep--second to none