| I'm pretty sure I'm stealing this from someone, but... |
[Wednesday, 18th November 2009, 05:25PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  crappy | ] |
Work 1.0 is kicking my ass this week, and it's going to get worse next week. This may pose a problem, as I am feeling I have come to pass my limit. Now, the more effort I put into work, the less results I get, save for every muscle in my body hurting when I get home. And that's not because I do a muscle job. I pretty much sit around all day and crunch numbers. But at least the numbers I crunch are useful for something, i.e. not financials, who could waste their time and my money better by jumping off high towers. Also managers.
Work frustrations aside, I've figured out, the more I sleep, the more tired I am the next day. This makes sense to me, as I have a period where I can't sleep at all and am well rested, then there's an apex somewhere, and after that I'm better off sleeping less if I wish to be awake the next day. This last bit inavertably leads to a break-down somewhere down the road, and I damn sure intend to avoid that this time around.
Started my third character on Mass Effect. Being Regegade is more fun than anticipated, though being Infiltrator is hard on Hardcore mode. XP |
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| Haha! Yeah... |
[Sunday, 15th November 2009, 11:03PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| | crappy | ] |
OK, I really gotta stop working out my stomach until I'm about ready to vomit. Feels wrong. Also, my arms are apparently growing weaker, Powerball wise. I'm still reaching decent PSI30's (Physical Strength Index over 30 seconds) of 4700/4300 right/left respectively, but my max RPM's are topped off at around 11.5 k, where my maximum is a neat 12.384. I just can't seem to keep it in control at those speeds anymore, though looking at the PSI, I should be able to reach that, more or less. A PSI is the average RPM's multiplied by the amount of minutes you test it.
So I did half my dishes, and my room is actually pretty clean, but I still spent about 8 hours playing Mass Effect, and planned out my next character. Where my first character was a neutral male soldier, my current a Paragon male Sentinel. I'm planning on making a Renegade female Infiltrator, which is a sniping, sabotaging person with no regards for morality. It'll take some getting used to, as I'm not used to leveling two weapon types (pistols + sniper rifles), and I won't be able to use SMG's as much (no skill). I'm either inclined to still take SMG's as a bonus feat, or go for throw, a biotic feat, which tosses your enemy away from you, crashing it into the wall behind, while I can set up my sniper rifle and land the killing blow.I'm also anxious to know what the effect will be of intimidating NPC's all the time... Will they still talk to me afterwards? XD
Oh goddess, I feel like such a nerd talking like this. I'm still totally hooked, I guess. XD |
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| I have to be honest here |
[Saturday, 14th November 2009, 10:20PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  disgusted (though amused) | ] |
| [ | Playin' |
| | Music downs my performance right now | ] |
I'm addicted. And not just the usual level, like Audition. I'm in over my head. I've got a dirty desk that needs cleaning, I've got two sinks full of dishes and I barely got around to shopping for my evening meal. The fact that I could tear myself away from Mass Effect for half an hour to watch a disappointing special on 'geeks', which turned out to be a spectacular explosion of mainstreaming (which I hate, btw), is amazing.
As it so turns out, some achievements in Mass Effect give rewards that stimulate new character creations. The biggest example I have right now, is that I like Biotics and Techies, but both of them are not allowed submachine guns. Apparently, since my favored weapon on the soldier, with whom I've finished the game, was the aforementioned submachinegun, I get to select it as a bonus perk in a new character. I now have a Sentinel (which is a Techie-Biotic, having a bit of both powers, so no big things and no soldier perks, so no weapons above pistols) with an additional SMG perk, which makes him really awesome. Any enemy that I can't take down before my gun overheats (you don't have magazine's, instead you get to fire until it overheats), I can either just throw into the far ends of a room with my Biotics or make the gun in his hand explode with my Tech. It's... sorta cool.
That said, my computer still can't handle it, and I'm seriously considering purchasing a new rig with Windows XP on it. Mostly just for this game. That's how bad I have it right now. XD |
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| Mass Effect |
[Saturday, 14th November 2009, 01:27AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  tired | ] |
So I got this game off Steam. Heard it was a pretty good game, from 2007. Praise, praise, praise. All I heard from it. I figured, for €7,50, what could I lose, right? This is not some indie game, it's an actual joint venture by the king of RPG's, Bioware and the very reputable EA Games. I have mixed feelings.
First off, the graphics are amazing, but a true gamer will look through that. A shiny turd is still a turd. The concept of the game, a third-person shooter RPG, is original and the storyline is excellent.
But the game is far from perfect.
For example, after watching a very glitchy and choppy intro scene, I looked up on the interwebs why a 2008 rig - with a reputable ASUS motherboard, powered by 2 gigs of RAM (though in Vista, so about 1 gig was left, and since Steam was running, another considerable amount less...), a decent Intel dual core processor and ATi's 2008 flagship graphics card, the esteemed HD3870 - was having trouble running this game. Once again I bought a game that has trouble running in Vista, but the big problem is that this game has severe problems with the RealTek AC97 on board sound system. And this PC just happens to run Vista with an AC97 sound system. Happy day.
So, my slightly aged gaming PC had a very hard time running this game on minimal detail settings in 800x600 resolution.
Even though it gets very predictable after a while (A colony has been raided, who could it be? Most certainly not the Geth, right?), the sidequests are monotonous and the minigame is annoying as crap... The game itself has a high replayability, and as soon as I figure out how to get this game running decently, I'ma gonna try with another class. My Adept failed full-time, as I kept on forgetting to use my adept powers, but I think a half-techie-half-soldier might be interesting.
All in all, it was worth the 7,50 I think, but when it first came out, people actually paid 40 euro's for it, which amuses the crap out of me.
Ah, this game, and two others (i.e. Super Collapse 3 and Audition) have been wearing me down this week, and I've been awake for far too long now. Time for sleepy. Also, I shaved my head to complete baldness last tuesday, I didn't like it per se, found it too much trouble and I'm not doing it again. Perhaps one more time if I am actually going to cosplay Alex Louis Armstrong. |
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| Tag, I'm it. |
[Sunday, 8th November 2009, 09:05PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  accomplished | ] |
FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do that like a pansy.
( 20 Questions? )
I refuse to tag 8 people, and I do it like a man! |
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| (no subject) |
[Friday, 30th October 2009, 04:46PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  amused | ] |
1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.
1. Ranma 1/2 (Let's get this over with.) . ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) puddingtreat
2. Final Fantasy VII - Rude. puddingtreat (After enough guesswork ; P)
3. Final Fantasy VIII - Selphie Tilmitt. puddingtreat
4. Bleach - Neliel Tu Oderschvank. puddingtreat
5. Devil May Cry - Dante. puddingtreat
6. Samurai Pizza Cats - Speedy Service. puddingtreat
7. Gintama
8. Shuffle!
9. Chi's Sweet Home - Chi. puddingtreat
10. Harry Potter (Keeping that one in ^_~) - Nymphadora Tonks. puddingtreat
11. Scrubs
12. Doctor Who
13. Ah~ Megami-Sama
14. One Piece - Roronoa Zoro. puddingtreat
15. Full Metal Alchemist (Brotherhood) - Alex Louis Armstrong. puddingtreat
16. Aladdin - Genie. puddingtreat (Also guesswork XD)
17. Finding Nemo - Dory. puddingtreat
18. ST:VOY (I'd be surprised if anyone knew this one)
19. ST:TNG
20. ST:DS9 (or this one, but guessing might get you there)
Well, since just two people are going to take a shot at this... Fire at will.
I'm having a hard time, carreer wise. Might update on it this weekend. |
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| Writer's Block: Seeing stars |
[Wednesday, 28th October 2009, 05:41PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| | amused | ] |
Very very, very, very... VERY obvious answer: Shampoo. Because she's cute and nice and adorable and totally needs to know not everyone on this rotten planet thinks of her as a bimbo who fails to master the Japanese/English language! I'd like to see any of you learn a language in two-three weeks! I believe in you, Shampoo! >_<*
Also, since my answer was about as predictable as the HS2 crashin' after a week (inside joke), I wanted to mention someone else, but all the female charaters from shows I know of are so bland and characterised or totally uninteresting, I wouldn't want a date with them. Now I wouldn't want a date, per se, but a nice dinner with the Doctor (it could be a date if he'd regenerate into a female body, but it'd still be awkward XD). Mostly because he's just very fascinating.
Hmm, maybe Deanna Troi might be an option, but not in her daily attire. I'd probably go all man on her (thought-wise), she'd read my emotions and slap me silly. XD
Two days Audition-free. Pretty sure I'm gonna play some tomorrow, but for now, I'm into Metal Drift, which is sort of a combination of Hi-Octane (a super-awesome game) and Hyperblade (a bloody and super-awesome game). It also has a player-skill based leveling system, like Audition, amusingly enough. It's pretty... super-awesome. *_* |
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| I can feel it |
[Saturday, 24th October 2009, 09:58PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| | morose | ] |
| [ | Playin' |
| | Elizabethtown (Movie) | ] |
( Emotional Jibber-Jabber no-one should read. )
Geez, I've been writing this entry for an hour and a half and got like, 60, 70 lines done, that's less than a line a second. I'm just gonna stop now. I've embarassed myself enough, I think. The movie's over anyway. Feeling better getting this off my chest though. |
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| Audicted |
[Saturday, 24th October 2009, 11:13AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| | addicted | ] |
Oh, not again...
Well, Audition Online's been re-hosted, and from the moment I decided to try it, I've been completely addicted again. The reason I quit playing it anyway was because the songs totally sucked at the time. They've put in some new songs that considerably suck less, and in one week I'm already level 7 again. Though the bags underneath my eyes have reached epic proportions and the reason why lifts quite the amount of eyebrows at work. >_>
MeMe time! Yoinked from Sam~
The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.
Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.
inb4 what is it that you like about Shampoo. |
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| Writer's Block: Take the pain away |
[Saturday, 24th October 2009, 10:26AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  nostalgic | ] |
I'd have to ask her whether it really was her own choice, as I have trouble believing that. I'd tell her I'd want to be friends again, visit her without any deeper intentions this time. Alas, I'm a giant coward, and do not want to hear that, should it be the case, it was her own decision. But I couldn't ask her even if I wanted to, nor could I tell her the latter, since we hardly ever talk anymore, and if we do, it's on MSN, and never for more than a couple of minutes, not giving me time to talk towards my bold statement.
Given the choice, I think she'd rather break all contact with me altogether. But that thought, too, hurts...
The term nostalgia describes a longing for the past, often in idealized form.[1] The word is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος, nóstos, "returning home", a Homeric word, and άλγος, álgos, "pain" or "ache". |
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