Well, this is kinda cool.
Guess you still gotta wait till yer twenty to get rid of the easter-egg purple and yellow newbie tights and stuff though.
But that's supposed to build character and glue a big sweaty glob of hair to yer chest and all that good stuff or whatever y'know heh.
Here's all them other dev blogs thingies, they got all the stuff they're adding in the Chapter 12 Update that's supposed to be making a landing soon.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Taking the Hobbits to Isengard
So Ex-B started playing Lord of the Rings Online with me this week, finally.
And we got this kickass little Minstrel-Guardian Hobbit Dungeon Bulldozing Team that managed to defeat the Most Evil Tree at the Blackened Heart of the Old Forest on the third day he was playing.
Just me and him.
And it was a totally awesome fight that went on for like four days and nights where my little Armored Hobbit got sent sailing into the treetops whenever the Most Evil Tree got really pissed off at me and gave me the Hulkamaniac Hobbit Punt heh.But I forgot to take pictures of that.
Well, y'know, I was a little preoccupied, what with all the laughing and screaming battle cries on voicecom and bouncing off the treetops and trying to get my stumpy little legs to get me back into the fight before the damn thing turned on Ex-B ahaha.
Just like I forgot to take pictures of the Mummra Nazgul Looking Thingie we fought, in the Battle of Whatsisnuts, y'know, the one with all the Fog Effects and Killer Rats and the Human Ranger Guy that we had to keep alive.
And that's just like I forgot to take pictures of the half-hour long Benny Hill Chase Scene that started when we had to retreat from a Goblin Army and we actually ended up retreating deeper into the Goblin Army insteada out of it and leading a merry chase and a Classic Epic-Sized Train of like twenty or thirty critters around and around the battlefield with dogs biting us on the ass and goblins throwing spears and nets at us, including one part where we stopped running for a couple seconds because we were sure Ex-B had died, even though he was still alive, before we finally got away ahaha.
Yah man, I really suck at taking pictures, or even remembering to take pictures.
Plus pictures just ain't as cool as seeing it as a movie anyways.
But I did finally remember to take a couple pictures when we got to the top of Weathertop, y'know, where Frodo got stabbed with that Morgul Knife and Aragorn fought off those Nazgul Guys in the movies.
So anyways that's what I been doing lately.
Well, besides watching the Third Season of Stargate: Atlantis, which is pretty frickin' awesome.
And tonight I gotta go to my little brother's Oldest Sons birthday party, so no LOTRO fer me.
And I dunno if you got any siblings (I know some of ya do) but when you are one of two brothers, when yer little, y'know how one of you is always "the Bad One" that's "in the Doghouse" with all the women in your family, and the other one is "the Golden Child That Can Do No Wrong?"
Because you know how Adults always gotta turn everything into some kinda oversimplified Soap Opera by stereotyping you?
Just 'cause they love drama and watching movies about sick kids and stuff?
Just 'cause they love drama and watching movies about sick kids and stuff?
Well that's whats going on with this poor kid, the Birthday Boy is the one in the doghouse this season, and his momma don't even wanna talk about his birthday party (but that shit switches back and forth, y'know, it'll be his little Super Genius Golden Child brother's turn to be in the doghouse soon enough heh).
So whatever, I gotta go over there and show him some support, being a guy that pretty much spent his entire youth In the Doghouse as "the Bad Brother" ahaha.
And tomorrow I gotta go with my P's to see their new Log Cabin project in the Middle of Nowhere, Michigan (or mebbe its Middle of Nowhere, Indiana, I aint exactly sure).
And everybody is sick with the flu and bronchitis and who-knows-what over here and its all snowy and freezing (which makes me wanna hibernate like a bear) and we're all eating old-fashioned Tamales to keep warm and waiting for the magical healing effects of mom's Chicken Soup to kick in heh.
And that's that.
Anyways, you guys should come play Lord of the Rings with us, y'know?
Insteada Saving the World or whatever yer doing over there in the corner with all that fancy frankenstein equipment ahaha.
And that's that.
Anyways, you guys should come play Lord of the Rings with us, y'know?
Insteada Saving the World or whatever yer doing over there in the corner with all that fancy frankenstein equipment ahaha.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Things That Are Great About LOTRO
I keep doing nasty stuff about LOTRO and its not really fair.
'Cause I like the game, y'know?
I mean, I know I like the game, there's all these little things I notice that I go "oh man this is great," but then I forget all about it.
And its just hard for me to say nice things about stuff, 'cause I got a million billion ways to say something sucks but I only know two words to use when something is good, and that's "kickass" and "awesome."
And those two words aren't even all that great heh.
First off, I know I blabbered about how great it woulda been to have the music from the movies, but the music in the game is actually pretty awesome.
Especially the music in the Trollshaws, there's parts of that that makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck, its really kinda scary-good.
And there's lots of different music all over the place, every place has its own stuff that's pretty good, can't really think of anything in there that is totally annoying like that crappy unga-bunga drum orc junk was from WoW (although that Night Elf Woods Music they had in there was really awesome too).
But you won't get to hear that until yer like level 30 or something so its sorta going to waste if you get bored and frustrated before you get far enough to make the run to Rivendell heh.
Second, I crab about the lore but actually the world-building guys and the dudes who do all the quests really couldn't be any better than they are.
And the Evendim expansion (thassa new "land" fulla stuff to do that was added for free, sorta Classic Asheron's Call Style) was totally top-notch and deep-lore awesome too.
Only thing that really ruins Evendim is the way all the monsters are so damn close together that you either need to fight for like six hours to get anywhere ('cause all the roads are clogged with monsters too) or you gotta hobble around from place to place all crippled while pretending all the snares and diseases and the twenty monsters chasing after you and biting away at yer ass ain't happening (which is what everybody does heh).
Its funny how a little thing like "monster density" can really ruin something that's otherwise terrific.
Oh, having to swim around in the lake a lot really bites 'cause it takes forever to get anywhere, I mean, you can hardly tell that you are moving when yer in the middle of an ocean for like ten minutes of swimming, that's another thing that ain't so good, I file those type of things under "player pathing" but almost nobody understands that kinda "player pathing" stuff except for some old EQ-type dudes (and the guys who made some of the areas for WoW, you know a guy gets "player pathing" when a game has lots of cool "hunting areas" that work sorta like a mini-strategy game with their own specific clockwork mechanisms and stuff that you can figure out the trick to and get "good at" insteada just tons of "yards" full of random "monster spawns" every so many feet).
What stinks is that LOTRO has such awesome terrain and so much detail and love and energy and intelligence put into it and then somebody just randomly sprinkled all this stupid yard trash monster crap on top that clutters up the place and goes around making all this stupid "gobble-gobble-gobble" endless loop sound effect racket garbage that ruins the mood of the music and shit heh.
Okay, okay, I'm starting to go negative again.
Man, I just can't seem to help it ahaha.
Last time I played I was reading the books while I was playing and like, every single sentence from the books was in the game, I shit you not, the place Frodo and Sam meet the Elves in the Shire, the Big Hill in the Middle of Old Forest, the guy that Samwise argues with at the Green Dragon, I mean, every damn little thing is in there.
And the stuff they made up (like where you help 'em reforge Aragorn's sword) is really all deep and awesome (if you bother to read the stuff) and you can tell whoever is doing it totally reveres the lore and junk too.
Plus the quests are all inventive as hell and stuff too, with tons of moving parts and puppetry.
Only bad thing is the ones you gotta skip or get frustrated with 'cause you need a group to do 'em (in another one of these Brad McQuaid Style "monster fighting football team" games) and that can kinda ruin some otherwise awesome shit.
See how there's like this superficial level of sucky game mechanics layered on an otherwise super deep and totally awesome game?
I dunno why they just didn't make everything important soloable up 'till max level, y'know, like WoW does it, where they got some hardcore elite stuff for the treasure-whores sprinkled around but not the awesome junk that's supposed to be delivering the plot that you gotta run through at a million miles an hour with some pickup group of hardcore players 'cause they're the only ones that can do it and they don't even CARE about the plot heh.
Its the same thing that was messed up with DDO man, and that just drives me nuts, they had such awesome and cleverly designed dungeon/quest thingies in that game but it just got brutalized by the nature of the only people that would put up with those kinda game mechanics long enough (I can do it either way, y'know).
Oh, another thing that really bugs me is the way they only give you five character slots, y'know, I thought we were done with that stupid junk already, I mean, do you wanna make a cult or do you wanna get and retain some customers, you gotta make up yer mind there, "character slots" are how many lives your game has for a lot of people heh.
Plus they got all these game mechanics (like group-only level-dependent content and lower level crafting) that totally don't work if everybody on the server has their five 50th level guys and there ain't no newbs running around, its just totally self-defeating and especially newb-defeating, y'know, I just don't get it.
Mebbe my friend takes too long to get the game and now I don't have no room left to make a guy to hang out with him, yeh?
I mean, I'm guilty of this, I have a really hard time pricing the stuff I wanna sell for real newbs, I feel like I'm getting ripped off, y'know, I don't wanna have to go out and gather ore and shit, I'm gonna make you pay hard if I gotta do that heh.
And all they'd need to do is give people more slots.
You can't even try every class in the game on one server (where all your friends and hard-earned twinking money are) without deleting characters like we got trained to do in SWG, that is just ghetto-bad game design ahaha.
Oops, here I go again, crabbing insteada talking about how great stuff is.
Okay, hmm, let's see, uh, man, Hunters are a really great class, they're the kings of dps and killing stuff quickly in a game where you get powerful for killing stuff, they can teleport instantly pretty much everywhere you'd ever wanna teleport to in a game that otherwise makes you slog through millions of miles of annoying terrain, and even when they do feel like hoofing it, they're the class with the speed buff so they can always run super fast, and if they pick the harvesting tradeskill, which goes great with being able to run faster than everybody else and teleport back and forth to town, they can make their own armor for free and make mad phat money on the side selling extra boiled hides (which you get from killing stuff faster than everybody else) and all the ore and wood you bothered to collect that you don't actually need for anything.
I always thought crafting should be kinda like a quest to build your own junk pioneer style like it was in UO but this is one of those "hardcore auction house" crafting games and not one of those kinda things heh.
They got houses and stuff but it aint all awesome like EQ2 was with that junk, people really oughta pay more attention to that part of EQ2, that's really the only thing that was super strong in that game that holds it all together imho, the fighting monsters was crap and all clunky and stuff and the classes were boring as hell, but the crafting system and the way you could make your house into a shop and stuff was genius (oh the graphics were good, though, but that sorta goes hand-in-hand with everything).
Gawd, how long have I been blabbering, I hope this ain't super huge already.
That monster fighting football team junk is getting really old, I wish people would steal some more bits from UO, where it was "more the merrier" and you could bring Newbs with on the Big Dragon Hunt and let them take their own shwacks at the thing with their Newbie Swords, but I know that "skill increase from use" thing is kinda sucky in its own way unless you do it better than they did it in UO where everybody just ended up macroing their characters aganst polar bears trapped in their houses by a pile of boxes and stuff, that was shit as far as the "fun is in the journey" crapola ahaha.
Where's my These Are the Days of High Adventure, baby?
Hmm hmm hmm lessee.
Okay that's about it, I guess.
I did manage to say a couple good stuffs in there, I uh, think.
Hey man I dunno what's wrong with me I really do like the game I just can't help myself.
Don't even make me get into the way they try to "manipulate" the "populations" of players who woulda wanted to be an Elf by Making Elves Suck Worse Than Humans so that the player will decide to pick to be something they don't really wanna be (its not just limited to that, though, they do the same things with classes) just like Raph Did It, I CANNOT BELIEVE that nobody but me thinks that "Jedi Should Be Rare Shit" isn't TOTALLY FUCKED man ahaha.
Are you trying to entertain people for money or are you working for some crazy ass Higher Purpose where you think that all your players wanna have you try to manipulate 'em like that for their own benefit or something?
DO YOU THINK YOU ARE A GOD OF A TINY LITTLE UNIVERSE LIKE THAT ROCKETSHIP DUDE THAT WENT NUTS IN THAT OLD TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE WITH THE LITTLE ALIENS?
Sheesh give that shit UP already, man, you guys must REALLY be some SERIOUS NERDS with MASSIVE issues from high school to be doing control freak junk like that, y'know, I mean, yer worse than the dudes that became COPS fer the love of mike man ahaha.
Okay, okay, whew, gotta quit going down all these negative paths, gotta get back to the good stuff, right, deep breaths, ahhhh.
My uncle was a cop and he was a totally cool guy I don't got anything against good cops (especially the awesome Family Guy cops we got in Chicago) but the good cops know exactly who I'm talking about let's face it heh.
Ugh now I'm picking on the police holy shit this is a train wreck of Epic Proportions my shit is on fire and sliding sideways off the rails into a poisonous swamp full of snakes and exploding helicopters ahaha.
Ah well, I tried, y'know, I really did.
Hey at least I din't crab about how purple fruke almost all the frickin' clothes and armor in the game are this time.
Er, sorta.
I'm telling you man, this whole "trying to say nice things" shit sucks some serious ass ahaha.
'Cause I like the game, y'know?
I mean, I know I like the game, there's all these little things I notice that I go "oh man this is great," but then I forget all about it.
And its just hard for me to say nice things about stuff, 'cause I got a million billion ways to say something sucks but I only know two words to use when something is good, and that's "kickass" and "awesome."
And those two words aren't even all that great heh.
First off, I know I blabbered about how great it woulda been to have the music from the movies, but the music in the game is actually pretty awesome.
Especially the music in the Trollshaws, there's parts of that that makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck, its really kinda scary-good.
And there's lots of different music all over the place, every place has its own stuff that's pretty good, can't really think of anything in there that is totally annoying like that crappy unga-bunga drum orc junk was from WoW (although that Night Elf Woods Music they had in there was really awesome too).
But you won't get to hear that until yer like level 30 or something so its sorta going to waste if you get bored and frustrated before you get far enough to make the run to Rivendell heh.
Second, I crab about the lore but actually the world-building guys and the dudes who do all the quests really couldn't be any better than they are.
And the Evendim expansion (thassa new "land" fulla stuff to do that was added for free, sorta Classic Asheron's Call Style) was totally top-notch and deep-lore awesome too.
Only thing that really ruins Evendim is the way all the monsters are so damn close together that you either need to fight for like six hours to get anywhere ('cause all the roads are clogged with monsters too) or you gotta hobble around from place to place all crippled while pretending all the snares and diseases and the twenty monsters chasing after you and biting away at yer ass ain't happening (which is what everybody does heh).
Its funny how a little thing like "monster density" can really ruin something that's otherwise terrific.
Oh, having to swim around in the lake a lot really bites 'cause it takes forever to get anywhere, I mean, you can hardly tell that you are moving when yer in the middle of an ocean for like ten minutes of swimming, that's another thing that ain't so good, I file those type of things under "player pathing" but almost nobody understands that kinda "player pathing" stuff except for some old EQ-type dudes (and the guys who made some of the areas for WoW, you know a guy gets "player pathing" when a game has lots of cool "hunting areas" that work sorta like a mini-strategy game with their own specific clockwork mechanisms and stuff that you can figure out the trick to and get "good at" insteada just tons of "yards" full of random "monster spawns" every so many feet).
What stinks is that LOTRO has such awesome terrain and so much detail and love and energy and intelligence put into it and then somebody just randomly sprinkled all this stupid yard trash monster crap on top that clutters up the place and goes around making all this stupid "gobble-gobble-gobble" endless loop sound effect racket garbage that ruins the mood of the music and shit heh.
Okay, okay, I'm starting to go negative again.
Man, I just can't seem to help it ahaha.
Last time I played I was reading the books while I was playing and like, every single sentence from the books was in the game, I shit you not, the place Frodo and Sam meet the Elves in the Shire, the Big Hill in the Middle of Old Forest, the guy that Samwise argues with at the Green Dragon, I mean, every damn little thing is in there.
And the stuff they made up (like where you help 'em reforge Aragorn's sword) is really all deep and awesome (if you bother to read the stuff) and you can tell whoever is doing it totally reveres the lore and junk too.
Plus the quests are all inventive as hell and stuff too, with tons of moving parts and puppetry.
Only bad thing is the ones you gotta skip or get frustrated with 'cause you need a group to do 'em (in another one of these Brad McQuaid Style "monster fighting football team" games) and that can kinda ruin some otherwise awesome shit.
See how there's like this superficial level of sucky game mechanics layered on an otherwise super deep and totally awesome game?
I dunno why they just didn't make everything important soloable up 'till max level, y'know, like WoW does it, where they got some hardcore elite stuff for the treasure-whores sprinkled around but not the awesome junk that's supposed to be delivering the plot that you gotta run through at a million miles an hour with some pickup group of hardcore players 'cause they're the only ones that can do it and they don't even CARE about the plot heh.
Its the same thing that was messed up with DDO man, and that just drives me nuts, they had such awesome and cleverly designed dungeon/quest thingies in that game but it just got brutalized by the nature of the only people that would put up with those kinda game mechanics long enough (I can do it either way, y'know).
Oh, another thing that really bugs me is the way they only give you five character slots, y'know, I thought we were done with that stupid junk already, I mean, do you wanna make a cult or do you wanna get and retain some customers, you gotta make up yer mind there, "character slots" are how many lives your game has for a lot of people heh.
Plus they got all these game mechanics (like group-only level-dependent content and lower level crafting) that totally don't work if everybody on the server has their five 50th level guys and there ain't no newbs running around, its just totally self-defeating and especially newb-defeating, y'know, I just don't get it.
Mebbe my friend takes too long to get the game and now I don't have no room left to make a guy to hang out with him, yeh?
I mean, I'm guilty of this, I have a really hard time pricing the stuff I wanna sell for real newbs, I feel like I'm getting ripped off, y'know, I don't wanna have to go out and gather ore and shit, I'm gonna make you pay hard if I gotta do that heh.
And all they'd need to do is give people more slots.
You can't even try every class in the game on one server (where all your friends and hard-earned twinking money are) without deleting characters like we got trained to do in SWG, that is just ghetto-bad game design ahaha.
Oops, here I go again, crabbing insteada talking about how great stuff is.
Okay, hmm, let's see, uh, man, Hunters are a really great class, they're the kings of dps and killing stuff quickly in a game where you get powerful for killing stuff, they can teleport instantly pretty much everywhere you'd ever wanna teleport to in a game that otherwise makes you slog through millions of miles of annoying terrain, and even when they do feel like hoofing it, they're the class with the speed buff so they can always run super fast, and if they pick the harvesting tradeskill, which goes great with being able to run faster than everybody else and teleport back and forth to town, they can make their own armor for free and make mad phat money on the side selling extra boiled hides (which you get from killing stuff faster than everybody else) and all the ore and wood you bothered to collect that you don't actually need for anything.
I always thought crafting should be kinda like a quest to build your own junk pioneer style like it was in UO but this is one of those "hardcore auction house" crafting games and not one of those kinda things heh.
They got houses and stuff but it aint all awesome like EQ2 was with that junk, people really oughta pay more attention to that part of EQ2, that's really the only thing that was super strong in that game that holds it all together imho, the fighting monsters was crap and all clunky and stuff and the classes were boring as hell, but the crafting system and the way you could make your house into a shop and stuff was genius (oh the graphics were good, though, but that sorta goes hand-in-hand with everything).
Gawd, how long have I been blabbering, I hope this ain't super huge already.
That monster fighting football team junk is getting really old, I wish people would steal some more bits from UO, where it was "more the merrier" and you could bring Newbs with on the Big Dragon Hunt and let them take their own shwacks at the thing with their Newbie Swords, but I know that "skill increase from use" thing is kinda sucky in its own way unless you do it better than they did it in UO where everybody just ended up macroing their characters aganst polar bears trapped in their houses by a pile of boxes and stuff, that was shit as far as the "fun is in the journey" crapola ahaha.
Where's my These Are the Days of High Adventure, baby?
Hmm hmm hmm lessee.
Okay that's about it, I guess.
I did manage to say a couple good stuffs in there, I uh, think.
Hey man I dunno what's wrong with me I really do like the game I just can't help myself.
Don't even make me get into the way they try to "manipulate" the "populations" of players who woulda wanted to be an Elf by Making Elves Suck Worse Than Humans so that the player will decide to pick to be something they don't really wanna be (its not just limited to that, though, they do the same things with classes) just like Raph Did It, I CANNOT BELIEVE that nobody but me thinks that "Jedi Should Be Rare Shit" isn't TOTALLY FUCKED man ahaha.
Are you trying to entertain people for money or are you working for some crazy ass Higher Purpose where you think that all your players wanna have you try to manipulate 'em like that for their own benefit or something?
DO YOU THINK YOU ARE A GOD OF A TINY LITTLE UNIVERSE LIKE THAT ROCKETSHIP DUDE THAT WENT NUTS IN THAT OLD TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE WITH THE LITTLE ALIENS?
Sheesh give that shit UP already, man, you guys must REALLY be some SERIOUS NERDS with MASSIVE issues from high school to be doing control freak junk like that, y'know, I mean, yer worse than the dudes that became COPS fer the love of mike man ahaha.
Okay, okay, whew, gotta quit going down all these negative paths, gotta get back to the good stuff, right, deep breaths, ahhhh.
My uncle was a cop and he was a totally cool guy I don't got anything against good cops (especially the awesome Family Guy cops we got in Chicago) but the good cops know exactly who I'm talking about let's face it heh.
Ugh now I'm picking on the police holy shit this is a train wreck of Epic Proportions my shit is on fire and sliding sideways off the rails into a poisonous swamp full of snakes and exploding helicopters ahaha.
Ah well, I tried, y'know, I really did.
Hey at least I din't crab about how purple fruke almost all the frickin' clothes and armor in the game are this time.
Er, sorta.
I'm telling you man, this whole "trying to say nice things" shit sucks some serious ass ahaha.
Urban Blight of the Elves
Not a lot of room for the animals to run around with all these damn Elven Suburbs everywhere heh.
Y'know, its something I never really understood about Elves, they're like, totally fancy-pants and high-faluting, but they're supposed to be nature-hippy people, at like, the same time, I guess.
They seem more like english professors who love to read books about nature than actual nature people, y'know?
The Elf Rules
So I'm an elf, right?
And this dwarf is all like, hey elf, go get a bucket of water and help us put this fire out!
And I'm all like, screw you, dwarf, I'm an elf, and I don't "fetch buckets" of nothing for nobody.
And I 'specially don't "fetch buckets" for no damn dirty dwarf.
I don't care what's on fire.
You fetch the goddam buckets.
Yer closer to the ground, all the "ground work" like "fetching buckets" and stuff is your bag, see?
I'll keep an eye out for enemies, that's my kinda thing, 'cause I got the altitude for it.
Or we can just stand here forever and watch this shit burn, and then we can just keep standing here forever and ever, staring at each other, waiting for a Valar Intervention or something, at least until you get old and die.
And then hopefully I'll be able to find some dwarves left in the world to let 'em know that they need to dig you a hole and bury you proper, 'cause I ain't digging no goddam holes either.
Or you can quit pretending you can out-stubborn an immortal and fetch the goddam bucket already and put this shit out.
And then we can get on with the business of saving this totally f'd up "world of the humans" and whatever-else-we're-supposed-to-be-shooting-with-my-bow.
Dude seriously if the orcs weren't actually "corrupted elves" I wouldn't even be here but I don't think its cool to just leave all the stupid humans fighting "bad elves" while I go for a sailboat ride and start lounging around in my underpants at the Big Resort and all that.
Don't you go looking at me like that or I'll tell the humans how you guys reproduce.
That's right, fetch that bucket of water, ya bushy little beyotch.
And this dwarf is all like, hey elf, go get a bucket of water and help us put this fire out!
And I'm all like, screw you, dwarf, I'm an elf, and I don't "fetch buckets" of nothing for nobody.
And I 'specially don't "fetch buckets" for no damn dirty dwarf.
I don't care what's on fire.
You fetch the goddam buckets.
Yer closer to the ground, all the "ground work" like "fetching buckets" and stuff is your bag, see?
I'll keep an eye out for enemies, that's my kinda thing, 'cause I got the altitude for it.
Or we can just stand here forever and watch this shit burn, and then we can just keep standing here forever and ever, staring at each other, waiting for a Valar Intervention or something, at least until you get old and die.
And then hopefully I'll be able to find some dwarves left in the world to let 'em know that they need to dig you a hole and bury you proper, 'cause I ain't digging no goddam holes either.
Or you can quit pretending you can out-stubborn an immortal and fetch the goddam bucket already and put this shit out.
And then we can get on with the business of saving this totally f'd up "world of the humans" and whatever-else-we're-supposed-to-be-shooting-with-my-bow.
Dude seriously if the orcs weren't actually "corrupted elves" I wouldn't even be here but I don't think its cool to just leave all the stupid humans fighting "bad elves" while I go for a sailboat ride and start lounging around in my underpants at the Big Resort and all that.
Don't you go looking at me like that or I'll tell the humans how you guys reproduce.
That's right, fetch that bucket of water, ya bushy little beyotch.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Rainy Day Stuff
Man I dunno how it is by you guys but we went from being covered in like one foot of freezing bitter cold ice where the high for some of these days was Negative Two to a sudden watery tropical storm heatwave over here where I'm letting the hail and stormwind and thunder blow through through my apartment and I'm almost tempted to turn on the air conditioning.
Its pretty weird man, I'm getting like Spring Fever or something way the hell early and they're issuing tornado warnings totally out of season.
Anyways I been playing a lot of LOTRO and listening to Charlie Rose interviews on Youtube (and some of This American Life stuff, thanks to Janey, although you gotta be able to handle the whole New Yorker jive to do that, and some of 'em are kinda depressing) while I solo so I been in a sort of "consumer" mode funk lately where I don't feel like going to battle with entropy or anything over here.
That always happens when I get into playing a game, y'know, if I don't got the energy left over to do the whole improv thing in a continuous blast while swtiching hats one after another to prove that I'm coming up with it off the top of my head it just doesn't seem as cool to me.
Oh, Robin Williams is always a good Charlie Rose interview, especially if you wanna see the real Charlie Rose laughing his ass off and cracking jokes, but there's Hunter S. Thompson and all sorts of other awesome stuff, you can pretty much type in anybody's name and "Charlie Rose" on the search and come up with something interesting, y'know, that's just how Charlie Rose is, he's like the Old Guy from Turner Classics Movies that's the Wizard of All Movie Knowledge or something heh.
Almost all of 'em have messed up video sync but I don't care about that 'cause I'm just listening while I'm running around in a game.
And the second half of this American Life thing is totally cool if yer a time travel nut (not that the first half isn't kinda awesome too heh).
Its pretty weird man, I'm getting like Spring Fever or something way the hell early and they're issuing tornado warnings totally out of season.
Anyways I been playing a lot of LOTRO and listening to Charlie Rose interviews on Youtube (and some of This American Life stuff, thanks to Janey, although you gotta be able to handle the whole New Yorker jive to do that, and some of 'em are kinda depressing) while I solo so I been in a sort of "consumer" mode funk lately where I don't feel like going to battle with entropy or anything over here.
That always happens when I get into playing a game, y'know, if I don't got the energy left over to do the whole improv thing in a continuous blast while swtiching hats one after another to prove that I'm coming up with it off the top of my head it just doesn't seem as cool to me.
Oh, Robin Williams is always a good Charlie Rose interview, especially if you wanna see the real Charlie Rose laughing his ass off and cracking jokes, but there's Hunter S. Thompson and all sorts of other awesome stuff, you can pretty much type in anybody's name and "Charlie Rose" on the search and come up with something interesting, y'know, that's just how Charlie Rose is, he's like the Old Guy from Turner Classics Movies that's the Wizard of All Movie Knowledge or something heh.
Almost all of 'em have messed up video sync but I don't care about that 'cause I'm just listening while I'm running around in a game.
And the second half of this American Life thing is totally cool if yer a time travel nut (not that the first half isn't kinda awesome too heh).
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