Looking at Things

So, I am back. What kept me away? Good question. I was like, super busy, but it was worth it. I got into a wonderful relationship, kinda tough managing it alongside work, but hey, no effort no gain. I could say work is alright, constantly having all sorts of trouble, but my job is to fix'em all.

I started wearing a watch again. The same one that broke my elbow, when I jumped out of the train. Yes, it was the watch's fault, I did a perfect somersault, but the damn thing slid my wrist the other direction, thus making my elbow crack. Old fun story, good to tell at campfires and such.

I got back playing DotA again, and yet, it seem to stop now, because all of my mates started playing Heroes of Newerth, which is a total copy of DotA. Except all that flashy graphics and stuff. I heard its only 30 bucks, so I guess it isn't that bad. I hope my machine will be able to run it.

That reminds me, I couldn't finish STALKER, because at one point, the game crashes due to my weak pc configuration. Curses.

Anyways, I will be back from now on.

Requiem for a Dream

I was listening to this while thinking what should I write about on this fine day. I strongly oppose to rant about classical music, because of the lack in my knowledge in it. I do like listening to Rachmaninov and Mozart, but then people who are actually knows music history starts asking about their life and such. Or what is far worse, they start to analyze it like "What was he thinking when he composed this?". Who cares? Sorry for my rage against all kinds of history or the similar studies, but the past is something you shouldn't take seriously in case you weren't there. Believe me when I opened a 20 year old history book and compared to mine in elementary school, I was shocked. Seems like history changes over time, especially in education, at least thats what I found out. So, what I mean is there is no reliable source of information about the past( except google, of course). History, religion music of the past are made to harvest profit from the people. With this I mean no offense, it's fair business, sell what you can and make a good living.

Well, I kinda went off there, history pulls my triggers hard. Back to music then. I don't really categorize music by genre, since I see there are thousands of genres and me being a perfectionist, I'd hate to make a mistake by categorizing a song wrongly. So I just say, this one is good, this one is all-time favourite and this one sucks. I listen to a song at least once, to determine it is worth my praise or not.

Still on topic, I think I mentioned I own an electric guitar. A cheap but awesome one, I heard bad reviews about this Cruiser by Crafter guitar. I wonder why, is it because it's not a Fender or Les Paul? It sounds awesome, it's kinda heavy(heavier than most guitars I tried) and I have yet to find a flaw in it. It's black with a white protector. I actually have the whole set on picture here. It's as you can see a Stratocaster clone, so it must receive lots of love. I plan to purchase an effect box(I think it's a Zoom-something), but thats for later.

As for gaming these days, I'm getting back to DotA. I play pretty bad, I haven't played it for 4 months, but I'm getting better again. It's nice to meet the old dudes who you played with for years and not to mention getting new ones, who will be with you for ages too. DotA is such a nice community game with lots of competition and rivalry. The new versions are still a but buggy, but hell, it's free, it's made by people you play with and they actually listen to your ideas and suggestions to make the game more balanced and bug free. Oh yes, the Hungarian version sucks by the way. Hehe..

For last but not least, here is this creepy video. It's not really creepy, it might be just me who feels a bit.. umm... disturbed by the awesomeness of this video. The cat is a real pro horror actor, so be careful if you have weak heart. How the heck that guy trained the cat to do this???

?uoy era woH

I'm sad today. Well, since the afternoon. My boss yelled at me and I totally deserved it. I'm supposed to file a report at the second I receive a request by a customer, which is plain impossible, because I try to prevent problems all the time, so when a request comes in it's always something high priority where I don't have the time to sit down and start writing that crappy report. I hate this.. I hate writing that thing so much, but it's important, because if I don't do it I don't have proof that I'm working. I have this bad habit, that I just make a note to myself what did I do this month and when the payday gets near I sit to it and write all the reports in one day. It wouldn't be much of a problem, but today my boss needed my reports for something and when he found my file empty he got real mad. I mean, he knows that I have tendency leave the reporting when I have better things to do, but today it backfired. I feel crap now. I'm filled with negative thoughts again. Like, I'm working for nothing, I'm solving peoples problems all day, even out of work and because of that my brain is like totally exhausted. I haven't taken a break for almost a year now.

Anyways, I felt like letting all this out, I'm already feeling better. I'll persevere. As long as I'm able to sit down in my comfortable chair in front of my crappy computer and enjoy a bag of Lay's chips while watching anime or chatting with friends over MSN, I won't falter. I'm stuffing my face with this Chilli & Lime flavoured chips even now. I didn't mean to write something depressing, I think exhaustion takes its tolls every now and then. I'll shape up and will do lots of works to make up with my boss. I'll probably lack sleeping for a week thanks to this blunder. Well, lesson well learnt. (Wow, firefox's spell checker underlines the word "learnt" it doesn't know what it is, haha. Stupid fox)

Well, lets look at the happy side. My child grew up in Rune Factory 2 and I'm now controlling my daughter because Dad(me) disappeared to finish some important quest. He said something about my daughter involved in it. So she decided to look up all the dungeons and find Daddy. I couldn't play Stalker for a time now. I watched a video and I saw the last few maps from the game, there was so many effects in it I worry my computer will crash under them and I won't be able to finish the game. Duh...

Also, don't try this at home.

Love Yue

Yes, today I can show you the marriage I promised. It's in pretty bad quality, it is really hard to keep the DS still while recording it. Anyways it took a while, but I succeeded. Isn't Yue so cute? I wonder though if I can still buy things from her after the wedding. I'll see it tonight when I continue.

Here it is.

I could play some STALKER too. They sent me against some newbies in the arena. They were so easy to drop.. I climbed onto the boxes and jumped onto their necks from above with my knife. Rambo style. After collecting the arena money I continued towards the core of the zone. I was happily walking amongst the ruins when a few snipers started firing at me. Of course, my AK was totally busted by that time. I think the rain ruined it, it always got jammed after shooting a few bullets. I wasted a few ammo to shut them up, so I could craw out from my cover and look at their drops when I heard their radio saying that they're want to send a chopper against me. I was like why not.. In the ruins I have the advantage, since everything excluding my enemies are invulnerable. I confirmed it by shooting a few shells on a lamp, trying to blind my enemies, but the thing just deflected my bullets.
So I looted the snipers and ran out of the building from cover to cover, but the chopper never came.. Eh.. I continued my way to a strange train station, it was full of that electric anomaly, I can resist fire pretty good, but I didn't feel like walking through those.. When I was about to turn back to find another route I heard a distress call from a scientist not far away. He was cornered by mercs and asked me to stop them getting some seriously secret information. I guess it wasn't that big of a secret if the stupid mercs found about it. Anyway, I shot them into a pile, they weren't worth stabbing, because they always run away and while I chased one, the other five kept filling me with lead. When I finished I decided I loot them first before I talk to that scientist. I was packing away some ammo when I heard a gunshot and my PDA told me that I failed the mission. The damn merc respawned near the scientist... Oh how I love this game. Well, it was enough to loot the flash drive from the guy and bring to the barkeep. He didn't pay a thing for it, oh well.. Things happens in the zone. Oh, by the way there was a guy with a funny name. I shot him in the leg so I could stab him when I got to the roof, thats when I saw his name. Here the screenshot.


As for this weekend, it was hoooot.. I wanted to sleep a lot and get revitalized for the next week work, because it will be hell. I just couldn't stay in bed in this heat. Not to mention people coming over to watch anime and movies. My little sister came back from her friend's place. I haven't seen her for like a month, but she already attacked my chips and popcorn supplies. Ah.

Fantasy Grounds... O M G.. Friday was hilarious. We played 6 hours and we're still in the same city as before. Same day, about a hour later since we last played. Our brave adventurers decided to have some drink while waiting for Melissa who got lost in the city again. They were about to drink themselves to the ground when a few hooligans raided the place. Trying to enslave the cute waitress girl and probably to rob the place. Our brave heroes finished them in a very interesting way. The wizard joined their leader saying "Let's have fun with the girl in the backroom. You don't mind do you?", the positive decision was helped by a Charm Person spell, so the hooligan leader befriended the wizard very quickly, friendly enough to think about sharing the joys that girl could provide, but for his disappointment he got a Color Spray in the face and got tied up with rope. The other two were disarmed by the warrior, accidentally he swung too hard on one and he cut off a thumb, but hey, thats normal. The two drunk hero agreed on interrogating the hooligan leader, but since they couldn't understand much, the wizard decided to headbutt the guy. He successfully broke his nose and even put himself unconscious upon impact. The warrior and the bandit laughed at him and when they were finished the warrior crashed the hooligans head into the table and then they went to rest for the day. Can you believe it we roleplayed all this in six hours? We're hardcore.

Here I am, infected by the blogosphere. I read blogs and write posts in my own. I hope I won't get too addicted.

City of No Smiles

Have you ever noticed? If you walk around in the city when something nice happened to you earlier, you're smiling, minding your own business and thinking about that nice stuff. You stop at the bus station and look around. The people around you staring you like you're some weirdo or some drug addict or whatever. What forbid people to smile on the streets? Whenever I use public transportation, everybody looks like they just ate the sourest lemon of the world. There are exceptions though, when somebody is with a friend or family member, they chat happily, but if you wait a little until they run out of funny stories, they turn to the closest window with a frown again. I'm not really sure where to put this.

For the last few days I was really busy, I could only check the internet from work. At least our performance is progressing, my muscles are developing, which is amusing I'm starting to look human-like again from afar. The girls are still complaining about my facial hair proliferation. I promised I'll shave it off for the performance, but then they took the idea that they want to cut from my hair too. I'm concerned about my worth as a human in their eyes, they probably think I'm some sort of hairy doll.

It's tough to be a system administrator. People say we spend half of our work hours on the internet, playing and all. In my opinion, thats better than seeing me actually working, because if I work it means something doesn't work properly and I'm about to fix it. So, they pressure us poor little admins. The bosses, the employers, the clients are on our tail saying "We'd like to see some work." and the only thing I can do is to show them that I already set up the computer to do the work for the rest of the day, I mean.. Thats what scheduling is for.. If I start the maintenance while the traders are working, they start complaining about the slow computers.. Plus, the dear customers have this ability to generate supercomplex problems. Like this one I'm working now, I had install a security card for one computer to be able to access a safe site, and it works on every computer I tried, except on the one it was supposed to be used...

I guess there will be no youtube for this post since I haven't had the time nor the mood to amuse myself with silliness found only there.

As for the games, I still couldn't take a picture of my wife in Rune Factory 2, so I'm stuck there until I can, no progress.. I hope I can play some Stalker later today, or maybe tomorrow, maybe we can play some DnD tonight as well. I'm looking around to find that old game I wanted to play again. It's called Europe 1400 The Guild. I kinda liked owning a pub. I haven't found a good bag yet and the old one is really about to explode into tiny little scraps of whatever material it was made from.

I started to think about staring another page for this blog, that would only include this novel I've been dreaming with lately. Probably because I haven't wrote or roleplayed a thing for a while. I feel the urge to write.

Nonpositive

I don't really have anything positive abou the last few days. I feel slightly agitated, so I'll just write about them.

First, my dad had an accident with his bike this afternoon. Some jerk didn't notice him and turned before him, and dad didn't have time to completely stop. He is alright, thankfully he is always prepared and well equipped, not to mention well armored. He had that biker-guise that I call only call exoskeleton. The bike is dead though. Dad always drives safely, fearing his driver's license and all, so when my aunt said they're going to fetch my dad, because he had an accident I knew he was alright, but they didn't let me go with them, fearing I might butcher that car's driver. I heard it was a woman. I'm pretty sexist, but I know a lot of good female drivers, so I wouldn't say it was because of her sex. Well, it pisses me off.

I couldn't play much this week. I tested the mission system in Dead Frontier, looks good, but its still boring to walk about in the city, looting dead bodies or... from the parts of dead bodies. Also, I could try this game called Tales Runner, seems fun, using Joy2Key I could play it with my joypad, which is way better than playing it on the keyboard because they messed up the controlling, no wait.. Not only the controlling the whole game with that annoying bug. If you don't have your keyboard set to American English, you can't control the game, or more precisely, you wouldn't be able to control the game if you even could log into it. It simply didn't react to my hungarian keyboard.

I couldn't really work out, since my right wrist suddenly started to ache real bad. I don't even know why. Speaking of my right wrist, the Sakuracon wrist band came off today, mine lasted the longest of our group, but it still didn't make it until the summer Animecon, which is like 3 weeks away from today.

I added a comment section to the blog, though It seems premature doing it, only having like seven regular visitors. I'll be removing the labels section as well, it proved useless and probably will be in the far future.

Youtube of the post I will showing you Youtube's most known guitarist Mr. funtwo. I'll be training hard to be able to play Canon too, just to show him my respect for his talent.

New wave

• I think this new design isn't that bad. I'm gonna edit the top picture to something else later. The twitter widget doesn't seem to function properly for me, but oh well, it's just a twitter.
• We played Fantasy Grounds again. Melissa got out of the dungeon unharmed and Yscar got his hands on some new and shiny ruby powder. He wants to look like some powerful wizard and he needed the ruby powder to imbue his wizard staff with continual flame. Sounds cool to me. Odassyan is still using Melissa's spear as a leg support, he didn't take a hint that he shouldn't walk around injured or it will get worse. I'll have to do something about that.
• I proposed to Yue yesterday. I'm gonna take photos of her wedding dress soon. We'll be living together happily from now on.
• We had a practice yesterday for the cosplay performance. I'm kinda, uhh, well, play a supporting role. Not that I mind, but I'll need more instructions how to at when the others are in the spotlight, since I'm the tallest in the group, I'll be the most visible on the stage.
• My 12year old schoolbag is going to tear itself apart soon. I'll have to buy a new one, I will be needing suggestions, since I don't really want an ordinary backpack, more like some sort of messenger bag, but a durable one, that I can fill with tons of my tools and CDs, computer parts adn stuff. Since bags counts as clothing in my book, I don't really know much about them, healp!
• The Youtube video for the day will be this one. Yntaream showed it to us. It doesn't make much sense in the first half, so I suggest watching it from the start until the end to make sense. It's worth it.

Afterstorm

That was a huge one. A giant storm swept through the country on Saturday. I live on a side of a hill, so I'm pretty much saved from it's full power, but I worry about my friends who hasn't contacted me yet. I'm sure they're alright, they probably have a blackout or just aren't home. I'd call them, if I knew their number. I wish them luck and good health.

Stalker, odd word, it has that evil meaning, the one girls don't like much. I wonder why they choose this title. Anyway, I found the documents in the lab alright, but I got locked into that room with an odd anomaly thingie. It took me a long while to get out of there, not to mention all that running from those flamethrower traps. I got so pissed I went and stabbed the anomaly with my knife and right after that I fell asleep... What. The. Hell? I had a dream about rats and odd figure wasting ammo on the hundreds of those critters. I woke up on the floor of the lab, thanking god I wasn't raped by the military or mutants while asleep. I decided to leave the place. It wasn't that easy though, stuck between bandits and the army, they decided to raid the bandits just when I was here, funny.. I decided to avoid the battle, making the long way short, I jumped off the roof behind the complex. I thanks for the bushes and the soft radioactive soil I didn't break a thing. I walked back to the trader. He wanted me to get a box from the military base clsoe by, plus the mercs raided our camp as well. Duh.. They keep me real busy, I stabbed the whole bunch of those mercs and sold all their loots, at least the trader was close now.

The box in the military base was an other thing. Trader wanted me sneak in and steal it without them noticing. Hell no... They will notice it missing anyway, why leave witnesses? Finishing the slaughter quickly, I looted a vagon rifle ammo and nades, it was worth my time. After that I decided to hang out with the guys at the military post up north, listening to their gibberish and guitar soloes. Sometimes a bandit or soldier spawned there I quickly stabbed them and gave the weapons to the dudes. I'm such a nice guy sometimes.

We could continue the DnD session yesterday. It was crap, I made tons of mistakes. I left the module I was working on the whole week at my workplace. I was totally tired, I didn't really talked properly. At least I have real decent players I can count on pointing out my mistakes. Bleh... I messed up real bad.. I need to get back on drinking coffee.

I started playing Rune Factory 2 again. The first try was a shock for me. When my save got deleted, I was seriously hurt. Now I felt ready to try it again, but now Yue captured my heart. She is such a smart and cute girl. She already confessed her love to me, but I'm still hesitating to ask her hand for marriage. What if she dies like Dorothy? I couldn't stand losing my wife and child again.

Youtube for the day is this mix of Mary Poppins music. It's awww...


LL out.

It doesn't work

The knife, that is, but let's not jump to the end of the story. I continued busting up the underground laboratory in STALKER, there were a lot of those fire anomalies. I don't really mind walking through them, they posed harmless to my tank-like health. It was a surprise though when I was still burning someone bit me in the butt. It was a mutant with a gas mask, so I was wondering how did he bite me, anyways I found his invasive actions bothering so I decided to stab him in the eye. He calmed down instantly.

After that I was walking through the fire happily when I found a big hall. The PDA indicated the secret documents are in this place so I stepped in. I heard a earth-shocking howling, but since I couldn't see the source I continued to search for the documents. The howling still continued and it was starting to get really annoying. I was about to reach the other end of the hall when I experienced something I'd call AOE Stun. I got pissed so I drew my knife out and started looking for the mutant, thinking it's some sort of mage class again like earlier. But then, that monstrosity started running up to me, it was like a big balloon head with two limbs attached to it. I was like "Oh, crap" and tried to run until I figured out it was way faster than me, not to mention I was already overpacked with loot, so I ran out of breath in a matter of seconds. So the only thing I could come up in this situation is walking up to the beast and stabbing it in the face. It usually works.

Counting the seventh stab in the face I noticed it still chomps on my guts with the same vigor, thankfully I was instructed how to bind the medkits to a hotkey. It was weird.. I was using the alternate attack of the knife, which should kill like anything with one hit, with the penalty of the shortest hitting distance and long cooldown if I actually miss. The monster still eating me happily after the seventh, I felt wronged, what could have went wrong? Is it my knife that went dull? Or my berserker spirit? I felt tainted and guilty when I took out my Avtomat Kalashnikova. I shot the first bullet into it's head and it collapsed, leaving me wondering, why didn't I kept stabbing that beast? I calmed myself with a shrug and scooped up some data from the corpse lying around in the corner. He had some odd rifle too, I couldn't attach my scope onto it, but I figured out it had one built in already. I didn't have much ammo for it, so I dumped it into my already ton-weight bag and continued my search.

Well, the next Animecon is a month away now, if I'm guessing right. I haven't finished gathering my costume pieces for the performance either. Meh.. Anyways, I think I haven't shared this picture about me and my sister yet, it was drawn at the previous Animecon. Lynxx And Dori

Today's Youtube video will be a japanese craziness. I think it's an Ad to some sort of spice, I really can't figure it out, but oh well.


LL out.

Karoushi

That sums up all I've been through these days. I hope I'll be able to get some decent sleep at the weekend.

We were able to finish the background music and the screen picture for the cosplay performance in August. I wonder if anyone will like it in the crowd. Ludwig Kakumei isn't the most known manga there. Whatever, we will have fun, thats for sure.

I couldn't play much, but I was able to get through the point I was stuck before on my old PC. That invisible monster was impossible to defeat in that lag, but now I easily stabbed it in the face. After that I fought an annoying spiral of stairs fully loaded with soldiers. Though there was one hearty guy who was pointing his gun at the wall so intensely I couldn't help myself and stabbed it from behind. I felt a little guilty about it, but what the heck, sometimes they just spawn behind me, so I think it was only far to backstab them every once in a while.

After the soldiers I got into a tunnel and when I was checking a box for loots a really irritating mutant attacked me really far away. He was casting some magic that made the screen zoom onto his ugly face and disabling me from shooting for several seconds. Just when I could be able to shoot again he finished casting it again, making it impossible to shoot at him, even in cover. On the right side of the screen the indicator told me that my brain will be toasted if I don't do something quickly, so I walked up to the mutant and stabbed it in the face. Do you know that weird feeling when you're a bit disappointed over a complicated thing that was solved this easy. That mutant didn't show any resistance against me closing on him with that blade of mine. Sad, sad and sad.

Ok, today's youtube video will be this thing. This is a Literal Music Video, literally. It's fun alright.


LL out.

Mind Blogging

That title.. Most unique.. Anyways, I think I finally succeed fixing my Gef5700, so I can play normal games again. I can't wait to hit the balls in ShotOnline again and meet the old guildies, if I'm not kicked out yet though.

For the sake of testing I installed S.T.A.L.K.E.R., which runs slightly better than my older pc, I'm about to get to the point where I was stuck previously. The AI is still hilarious, I think all games should include this into the AI script:
IF LYNXX.WEAPON.EQUIPPED:=KNIFE THEN
RANDOM.CHOICE(RUN,PRAY,GIVE MONEY FOR MERCY,CRY);

There is no way escaping me if I hold a knife. Thankfully I can operate the inventory really fast, so I can heal myself up if I get shot in the face with a shotgun.

As for Neverwinter Nights, I was wondering what will it be like if I remodel my PnP Melissa into NWN Melissa. Well... Barbarians are freaks, if you hit them they just become angrier and stronger. She is a brutal tank.

Yesterday, when I was walking home after work, a car was coming towards me on the street. It was far in front of me, then it suddenly stopped moving, thats why I noticed it. Why would anyone stop in the center of a road? Then it started moving again very slowly, making very obvious maneuver to avoid me. As we passed each other I was staring into the car seeing four men staring back at me. After we passed each other they sped up and dissapeared behind me. It was really odd. Maybe the wrapper of the pastry I ate a few minutes ago, that I held in my hand crumpled into a ball looked like a stone that I might throw at them?

This morning I was lucky, when I was about to dress up for work I noticed my guitar had my handprints on it, so I decided to take a minute to wipe it off with a rag. I was happily cleaning my guitar when I though why not pluck it for a minute. Yeah, why not? Well that minute took like, twenty minutes, making me totally late. I was hurrying to the bus station when a car stopepd next to me, with my boss in it! Now that was lucky, he took me to the city and I wasn't late.

I think I should stop drinking this crappy coffee at work. I always blend a little cocoa in it so it wouldn't be that bleh. Well at least I could solve the Card Reader problem at work. It was tough.

Today's youtube video I suggest would be this craziness I find very amusing. Oddly.


LL out.

First Post

I've managed to print out an awesome poster a few days ago. The sad thing was I forgot I didn't have any tacks at home. Meh. Yesterday I remembered maybe my lil' sister has some, so I asked. She had them indeed. Here's the poster.

Let's see, yesterday I was too lazy to go to the gym, I didn't want to go alone anyways, since Tomee cousin felt sick and ditched the plan.

We played Fantasy Grounds II again later. We were like zombies at 11pm, but we still insisted playing. We at least today we didn't spend that three hours only to sell three damned gems. We finally managed to get on with the story. Melissa revealed a little from her past. There was a very short bar-brawl. Yeah, it's cliché, but it helped to bring our adventurers out the city. Yscar hasn't been healed yet and constantly arguing with Odassyan about his plan about attacking that mysterious palace we never seen yet. We had a good time. We went to sleep around 2am.

Youtube. I found this awesome guy. He played Für Elise from Beethoven on his guitar and I suddenly felt the need to hug my Cruiser and try to play it. I failed miserably, but at least I had a good time trying. That guy had another awesome video, which I'm posting here.



LL out.