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Schedules and schedules

Schedules and schedules

Autumn hues

Reading now: Trudi Canavan’s The Magician Guild – loving it so far, but I wish she would just get on with it already LOL i want to know what Sonea can do!

What I am glad about: After a few days of pain, I am finally seeing some results. instead of 3 seconds, I can hold my arm above my head for 10 seconds without feeling it. :D 10 more seconds to go :)

What I am busy with:
Tomorrow and Friday: Physiotherapy
Friday morning: Dentist
Thursday morning: possible vet visits
Daily: some exercise regime for my arm
Work Details: Doing activities while my arm is recovering. slightly more brain work since I don’t normally do that oops.

Food shopping for this week: Aldi’s having this huge discount on chicken. maybe I will take this time to chicken it all :D

Thoughts for the week past:

I think, on hindsight, I was truly glad. At one stage, I will tell you I broke down. I have never felt this useless before, watching other people work and being completely unable to hold my own and give a hand. I mean, it was quite humiliating – being unable to even cut my own breakfast’s croissant. I teared because I felt like shit and really just wanted to be able to do something.

the truth is, I didn’t even have the strength to sometimes, or if I did, I really paid for it in terms of pain later on.

To know what the problem was, eventually, was truly a wonderous thing. Not that it made matters any better, because it really didn’t, but at least I know I can recover and I know what to target. Knowledge can lead to all kinds of things and it really did set me free.

On the other hand, it was also a good week in realising the amount of support I get from my peers. from watching out and ensuring I don’t forget and do something stupid with my right hand, to just doing things for me… it’s really nice. so thank you, you smuts, I’ll be doing twice the amount of work when I can HAH!

p.s I AM NOT THE BROKEN ONE OR THE CRIPPLED YOU @!$#$#^%^

I bought Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery from this ebay seller who promised next day delivery but took more like 4 days. Never mind that, I honestly didn’t care as long as it arrived. It was cheap, I knew, but the current price of it in store wasn’t too far different. it was 15 (including shipping on ebay) and $22 in store. What completely cheesed me off was that it was definitely pirated ware.

it was 1) a lousy printed sleeve, 2) lousily printed instruction manual, 3) flimsy “wrap” on the case it self and 3) obviously poorer quality cartridge all in all. a quick view at most of his auctions claimed that these are “American” imported and thus might look different on local wares. Also stated that they wouldn’t work on DSi. whether it’s true or not, that wasn’t the point of contention. Let’s just say, I have bought enough pirated wares in my life to know what is pirated or not.

Now, I have been hunting down original wares for various reasons. I am not buying them en masse, just my favourite titles here and there. So, while I know nothing good is cheap and all, I would have rather he mentioned it wasn’t original. I could have downloaded the title myself, thank you very much.

Looking at his feedback though, he seems like one of those keyboard warriors, calling people idiots and asking them to remove the feedback. not to mention, how he claims one of the cartridges is DOA. so, I guess I am stuck with it, otherwise he won’t refund me because it’s “doa”. lol… ~.~ waste of $15….

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Aion Fangirl-ism – general outlook!

Aion Fangirl-ism – general outlook!

Firstly, I must say I am quite taken by Aion. After 2 years-ish of WoW, going back to such an aesthetically pleasing graphics just soothes my soul. I am no longer the angry little priest running around hahaha…

Ok Aion… As everyone already knows, I tend to only create the healing class. This is something I am firmly established and used to being, and this is where I will most definitely stay. The idea of dying to incomprehensible idiocy just don’t fly very well with me. I NEED to know that if I do die it’s coz I fucked it up ^_^ So whatever I do know and experience is quite from a healer’s viewpoint.

also, comparison will be drawn between Lineage 2 and WoW since those are the 2 games I have any longevity with. AoC is a useless game and should not be used as any comparison, and I didn’t play long enough in Warhammer to justify anything.

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Aion’s lore mentioned a race divided into two by conflict. not so much evil versus good, just different ideals with a common enemy. due to the conflict, it rendered the race into 2 and the world into half, with one that remained in the light and beautiful, while the other had fur down their backs all the way down south….!

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The game itself has so far been awesome in many ways:

1) The UI is beautiful. it has taken hints of what works from WoW, the various mods that people have created for wow as well as from L2. While you can’t mod the UI, you can change the locations of the various things so it’s almost the same anyways.

That said, I do have 1 gripe. While in L2 it was easy to lodge a report to the GMs, and WoW does have it’s lengthy process, I can’t seem to find a /GM key anywhere.

2) Again, graphics are so beautiful, yet not the resource hog that Age of Conan was (which blew anyways). Like someone said, I don’t need to see every single strand of hair whispering to the wind. It works if my character’s beautiful and realistically so. The environment itself is gorgeous too, especially the Sanctum, which is the hometown for all of those on the Elyos side. Pandaemonium is the main city of the Asmodians, the distant relatives of Elyos.

The first thing that drew me to the game though, wasn’t the beautiful graphics or the environment. It was something I expected from NCSoft, the creators of Lineage II. however, what drew me was the fact that characters can sprout wings and take flight. Fights are also fought in the air too!

While not quite the resource hog that AoC was, do be forewarned that it can still chug when there’s alot of characters within the same viewing field. Therefore, like in Lineage 2, graphics would need to be tone down during pvp, especially if multitudes are expected.

3) Character customisation has exceeded that of both Lineage 2 and WoW. Of course, anything can easily exceed Lineage 2′s customisation nowadays. However, this… you can literally create something that looks like YOU.

I will stick to underage girls.

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some people might dispute this, but I am enjoying the gameplay. WoW has spoilt alot of gamers and casual gamers since it’s inception, with easy quests that rewards you leaps and bounds. Lineage 2 was a heavy time hog that, if you don’t have the time, you will flounder badly in the game. There’s few quests to aid your levelling on top of that too.

Aion is a nice niche in between. It’s not so hard that it’s a time hog and you can’t solo anything. It’s not so easy that you get max level in the week either. Therefore, you are really getting a grip of the lore, if you are into that, making the necessary acquaintance along the way with some grouping and yet there’s the ability to somewhat solo (i say somewhat because apparently that kind of tapers off after the 30s).

the game isn’t perfect, but no game out there is. The few things I have noticed that irks me is:

- how I can’t find a gm easily (as above)
- the multitudes of currency sellers in the game already, right from day 1! and the ceaseless whispering they do!
- The lack of flexibility to make your character’s skills much different from the enemy’s. everyone gets the same skills within the same class.
-The poor layout of their official website… half the links are broken!

People whine about the queues on to the servers as well as lack of communication when servers went down in the first few days. However, seasonsed players should already know this. Launch week is never without bugs, much less queue times. It is good that they have started out with few servers because, like AoC, the player base might be big now but it might taper off sharply too. so, instead of embarassing themselves and forcing players to adjust to new playmates, it’s better that we start with just a small number of servers.

will talk more about the game play… tomorrow!

here’s the answers as to why Mandrill and Lemurs reminds me of the game!:

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A sick panda

A sick panda

Was going to write a post about Aion and how much i love it to death enough to be a no-lifer again. but at this point in time, i am too sick and too tired from being sick to write a proper post. I will leave these 2 pictures here for everyone to ponder as to how they are related to Aion and why I would love to keep a lemur for a pet.

for those who already know, BAHAHA shut up!! :D

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