World of Warcraft
I’ve been contemplating on getting (back) into World of Warcraft… the last couple of times I played it was 1. the 10 day trial, and then subsequently 2. on private servers, because I balked at the monthly subscription fee. Dear God, Blizzard must be making billions of dollars from the masses.
Turns out the private servers weren’t that great… every single one of them was bugged, and I couldn’t do any of the normal quests because of missing NPCs, or they were missing the quest bosses themselves. Everyone, apparently, was always going for Illidan and screaming on the chat channel why he didn’t respawn quickly enough.
Anyway, I’ve been playing Warcraft III to get myself in the mood (and still wondering if I really should splurge on 6 months’ worth of playtime), and my computer decided to overheat and die on itself in the middle of the game. Twice. I’ve been thinking it’s a dust problem, so I’ll probably dismantle the thing and give it a good wipe-down, but I have no screwdriver. I don’t want to dismantle the thing until absolutely necessary, which means waiting for the 2GB RAM I ordered from Dell the other day. I can kill two birds with one stone then.
ANYWAY, back to WoW. My main beef with it is… well, it’s a MMORPG, and I’ll be bound to encounter idiots, or make myself look like an idiot. I absolutely love the world Blizzard created - in Warcraft III, there were no bad guys, because the game made you sympathize with every single one of them, even the guy who became the main antagonist in the end. If I had friends who were into WoW I’d definitely jump at the chance, but seeing as I have no friends in the first place (at the very most, I can count the number of friends I have with one hand), the idea is kinda moot, really. And WoW is all about player interaction and cooperation, which I pretty much epic!FAIL at in real life.
EXAMS ARE OVER WHEE 5 MORE DAYS TO SINGAPORE!
Mediamonkey
I’m going to pimp out a media player called MediaMonkey. It’s now replaced iTunes on my computer, because it’s just that good.
Of course, it isn’t problem free… Everything looks kinda cluttered (and a bit ugly, even with the iTunes skin), creating playlists is a bit of a hassle, and I had to install the thing about 5 different times to get it to work properly. But this darling plays FLAC files, grabs tracklists from the Internet, tags my untitled songs, AND syncs with my iPod. That’s way, way, waaaay more awesome.
New iPod
I will have you know that when I bought this new iPod, I bought it with regret and anger!!!
But seriously, I’m not happy. I don’t get thrills from buying new things (which is partly the reason why I buy collector’s stuff, not brand new shit), and this isn’t an exception. My first-gen was perfect for me, and Apple decided that that wasn’t enough. I could not find the 2nd-gen that was available immediately, and the refurbished 3rd-gen was only 20 dollars cheaper. I thought that was hardly worth it for an iPod that got stuck in the demo booth being held by a million people.
I’m addicted to my iPod, sad to say. I don’t leave the house without it, and a one-day malfunction was enough to make me extremely agitated without my music. So thank you, Apple, for creating iPods that die within a year and have all of us still scrambling to buy more of your stuff.
I feel really awful for buying something so expensive. Granted, it’s been three years since I bought the last one, and I guess it was time, but still.
ETA: I CHRISTEN YOU BELLE, NEW IPOD.
Oh shit, school starts tomorrow.
RIP Stop screwing with my feelings, iPod Nano
So my first-gen iPod nano decided to die on me last night. I was listening to it in bed and it died in the middle of the song, so I thought it ran out of battery. I plugged it in this morning, and an error popped up saying ‘USB DEVICE IS MALFUNCTIONING’. I’ve restarted the iPod for nearly a hundred times now, and on random (by that I mean, twice in a hundred restarts) it says ‘restore iPod with iTunes’, but the problem is that the iPod hangs right after, so my computer doesn’t recognize it.
Ah well, it’s been a good… three years? A year and a half? Six months? With Apple products dropping dead all the time to make way for a new one, who the hell knows. I swear Apple builds a time-bomb inside their products or something. 4th-gen nano coming out? Okay, first-gen, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO *presses button*.
And dammit, iPod, did you really have to die at a time like this? I was hoping you’d last until the iPhone prices went down. Or no longer under AT&T’s monopoly, whichever came first.
I don’t like the design of the newer generations, and 2GB of space is really more than enough for me. So ILU, iPod nano. You will always be close to my heart.
ETA: FALSE ALARM IT’S BACK YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
ETA 2: Oh shit, it’s down again.
ETA 3: IT’S BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP CELEBRATION OH JOY
ETA 4: OH FUCK YOU.
ETA 5: Please don’t go away! ;_____;
ETA 6: It’s dead. RIP. I’ll never forget all the times we had together! <3333
PS3 and stuff
I received my PS3 today, and I’ve preordered Assassin’s Creed. Suffice to say I probably won’t be around much. I’ve gotten FFX, X-2, XII, God of War I and II, and Kingdom Hearts I and II. I have games to finish, dammit! (I should also mention I was LOLing at God of War. Dude, I’m sure having monsters ruthlessly killing people while they haven’t finished a sentence can be considered cool, but doing that every single time just made me LOL in exasperation).
Senile!Grandma, as I’ve found out today, took an incredibly bad fall during the week. She was on her usual stroll in the neighbourhood when a garage door from one of the residences went up. She took it as a sign that a car was going to pull out, and in her panic to run out of the car’s way, she fell.
She’s broken both her arms, knocked out all her teeth, and now she needs someone to take care of her 24/7. It was kinda lucky that 1. The people who tended to her were cool, 2. The hospital had her records and managed to contact our family before we panicked and realized she was missing.
So… yeah. That was my day.
Happy cat iz happy
I got a pair of winter boots, and a pair of wool slippers I can wear around my apartment. My feet won’t freeze anymore, and this is the first time ever that I’ve gotten more than one pair of shoes at a time. MILESTONE!
My PS3 is on a scheduled delivery date on the 8th of November! YAY!
Have I mentioned how freaking psyched out I am about Assassin’s Creed? The graphics look awesome, and I’m just a huge fan for authenticity (see also: Apocalypto), which the game delivers completely. I haven’t been this psyched out over a game since Thief: Deadly Shadows (and that was a little disappointing. Save for the Cradle level, I don’t really remember anything else of it. I suppose I just suck at stealth and FPS games). I loved Thief for its storytelling, and the final installment of the game just failed to deliver that. It was something about an old hag and the Master Glyph and some impending doom or whatever.
I was doubly psyched when I realized that the people on the Prince of Persia team were working on this. I absolutely loved the Prince of Persia series. Save for the stupid camera angles (which, apparently, has also plagued Assassin’s Creed) the storytelling and realistic animations just drew me in. Didn’t quite like Warrior Within much, because I wound up backtracking to a bunch of places and half the time I got lost, because the map was a piece of shit. But besides that, the series was absolutely wonderful, so I honestly can’t wait for Assassin’s Creed.
November’s looking up to be a good month (and warm feet!). If only that damn Psych 367 TA would just grade my essays the way I want to be graded. There is a reason why I’m scoring A’s on everything else besides this damn course, and it’s not me.
