Ah, Loverboy. My theme of a Friday afternoon at work, I’ll just start singing it as I’m cleaning. Okay, granted it’s been half term the past week and I wasn’t at work on Friday, but still!
I realise that I may be a little obsessive compulsive. A while ago, I started working on a method to choosing what to bring with me for the Omega Sektor NC Soft Minicon. Next April. Yeah, getting a good headstart on me there. I realise that last year I brought a lot of redundancies and such, and I did similar when I went to Bristol Comic Expo 2008. I brought boots, shoes, a nice skirt and a top to possibly wear on the Saturday evening out with my friend, but slummed it in Jeans and a tank top in the end. Y’know, the chic geek casual look.
Not for OS 2009 though! Or as I like to call it, OSMiCon. I just couldn’t fit NC Soft into the title either… though NC-OSMiCon is just a few numbers and a C short of being a Federation starship registration.
What’s the plan, I hear you ask? Well, firstly I shall be taking -3- bags. Yes, that’s a lot, but! These aren’t big old bags like I had with me last time. Bag Number 1 is my laptop bag. This will be used for carrying a few changes of tops… and that’s pretty much it. The rest of the space in there will be for phat lewt. Bag Number 2 is the Red NC Soft bag I got as a goodie from the last NCOSMiCon, which will contain essentials such as feminine things. Bag 3 would be my trusty handbag, carrying money, mobile, medication and train tickets. No huge green holdall to wander about with! If I can get a ASUS Eee PC before then, that’d probably be among my possessions along with the charger. Oh, DIgicam too. And MP3 player.
Note to self, pick up Blue bag next year if they do them.
Still, as you can tell, I’m looking forwards to it already. The last NCOSMiCon I was at was a great laugh, despite me breaking one of the Cardinal Rules of Meatspace, having a panic attack in front of NC Soft Sidekick Wild_Red, incidents of gender confusion, sleep deprivation (my own fault), and generally making an idiot of myself at times. I’m still a newbie at meatspace interaction, honest. The staff at Omega Sektor were all great, as were the people I met too. Of course I have a somewhat vested interest in attending the next one, and hoping someone else may also be able to attend. And that’s all I’ll say on that matter.
Onwards with MMO, geek and other such stuff!
City of Heroes: Pain is Psychic Clockwork Defeat All Missions on big layered outdoor maps. We’ve been trying to put together some of the Guardians of Destiny to do the Imperious TF, but it’s a case of getting access to the Midnighter Club first for a lot of members, and as they don’t count as Zone or Mini Story Arcs, that means having to clear other arcs first for players.
My Psychic blaster is level 11 now, but not had time to level him much more, and I did some… gasp, Pick Up Grouping on Umbral Pulsar, my ‘Redeemed Division’ Warshade, that involved chats about non-travel powered heroes, vehicles, and other such stuff. One thing of amusement was this:
Teammate: Damn train doors are bugged, relogged 3 or 4 times and they’re stuck open with the train there, not clickable.
Me: … Just out of curiosity, are you in the -right- part of the station? The not-exit part?
Teammate: Well…. I wasn’t, no. Damn. ><
Those doors delay more heroes than leaves on the line, I tell thee.
Guild Wars: I. Hate. Pick Up Groups.
I had my first PuG today. It was awful. It all started off well, except for the Me/N’s odd ability to take a ton of damage and yet not have Ether Feast in their skill bar to heal up, even when her health was redlining. She then went afk around the time of the first Devourer boss, and then logged soon after. Down to three. The team leader of the party, a R/Wr insisted we didn’t do the bonus mission as ‘takes 2 much time lol’. How eloquent. He then disconnects right near the end of the mission, and the last member, a Em/Mo, went down in the opening volley of char attacks, leaving me to deal with 5 wave of enemies by myself.
I came, I saw, and I kicked ass. Now, I’m a Mesmer/Elementalist, but honestly? I don’t really use my Elementalist powers that much. At all. I removed Lesser Glyph of Energy and the one that heals when you use spells simply because… I didn’t need it! And it showed as I taught those filthy pyromaniac Tauren wanabees who was the boss.
I had to run the mission again afterwards so I could complete the bonus mission, but score, one of the mobs dropped Vial of Dye [Black]. That’s 6 Platinum (or 6,000 Gold) in the bank. Score. Next up: Nolani Academy.
World of Warcraft: I’ve not actually done much in WoW lately. I did log on to do some RP, but I just wasn’t in the mood for the irrepressible rogue, Zack Tanner. Need to gb2/Outland/ soon, but firstly I think I may run some more low level instances for loot, crafting materials and disenchanting stuff.
Exteel: Level 8! Always fun to log on and blast some mechs to kill some time, I’d really recommend people trying it at least. Come on, the game is free and the client is under a gig in size! You can spare a gig for some mechanaught shooting action, right?
Lineage 2: Though I can’t spare time for this. More on it later, but me and the game just do not like each other. It just wasn’t fated to work. I’m sorry Lineage 2, you’re just… too…. disagreeable with me.
Phantasy Star Universe: Cutscene, please. How many more cutscenes are you going to unleash on me, with your terrible voice acting, repeated emotes that usually have no reference to what’s going on and look ridiculous, and cliched storyline. C’mon Sega, Phantasy Star 2 and Phantasy Star 4 were great! And this is what you do to us? If it wasn’t for cool photon swords, I wouldn’t know why I bothered.
Oh, I miss your old control scheme and spell system. Photon recharge for individual weapons kills meseta. Fast.
3690 Webcomic pages read in the past 2 weeks. Go me. :>
More tomorrow, I need sleep now.
