Diablo is just depressing me slightly.
I pay money for a game. I am excited about it. I play and it's lots and lots and all kinds of fun. But like every other time I try to sign in, I can't. I don't even want to complain about being randomly kicked off the server and losing a whole dungeon and then some progress in the process, because I repeated and got over it. I just wish I was able to play! It can't be that hard, really. The game has been on the market for two weeks, and they had a beta phase before and all. And right now, there isn't even any kind of official statement, even though the login servers have been down for hours.
This is ridiculous.
No, I don't want a refund. I haven't had this much fun gaming in a whole while. I really like the game. I just want to be able to play it - or at the very least I want to know that they're seriously working on the problems and that they will get resolved in the near future. I want to know that they 're at least TRYING.
I feel even worse for people who work all day and come home exhausted and just want to play. At least I have a bit more time on my hands. But still. I wanted to play tonight :(
Thursday, 31 May 2012
No longer a mobile hermit
So my phone less week has drawn do an end. I went to the lost&found today and they had my phone. It had run out of battery, so I didn't have to enter the PIN, which is probably good because I can never remember it 100% certainly and might have entered the wrong one. The thing is, I never really shut it off, only turn it to silent, so I never need to enter the pin code.
Instead I had to tell the woman where and when I'd lost it and give a signature (and pay a fee >.> ) and then could go home, yayayay. There don't seem to be any charges that anyone ran up, so all is well. I did get a text from a strange number earlier telling me that the other person wouldn't be able to make it to Taiji today because it was rainy. Well, no idea what that was about. But I don't think that they were replying to anything anyone had sent from my phone. For one, there's nothing in my outbox, and then, why would anyone bother sending a text to someone from a phone they were going to turn in to the lost and found?
It's all right anyway.
So what was not having a phone like... Well, it was hindering in some parts because I can't reach anyone when I'm elsewhere, but not being reachable myself didn't bother me at all. I doubt H liked it much though because he had to take all the calls from my mum - hahah. Ahem. She calls a lot sometimes.
Probably the biggest inconvenience was not having an alarm - well I do have an alarm in my iPod, but it's not very good. I would have overslept today had H not set his alarm earlier than usual. I woke up an hour after my alarm was supposed to have rung and had to run out the door basically.
Not panicking was definitely the right thing to do in the end.
Instead I had to tell the woman where and when I'd lost it and give a signature (and pay a fee >.> ) and then could go home, yayayay. There don't seem to be any charges that anyone ran up, so all is well. I did get a text from a strange number earlier telling me that the other person wouldn't be able to make it to Taiji today because it was rainy. Well, no idea what that was about. But I don't think that they were replying to anything anyone had sent from my phone. For one, there's nothing in my outbox, and then, why would anyone bother sending a text to someone from a phone they were going to turn in to the lost and found?
It's all right anyway.
So what was not having a phone like... Well, it was hindering in some parts because I can't reach anyone when I'm elsewhere, but not being reachable myself didn't bother me at all. I doubt H liked it much though because he had to take all the calls from my mum - hahah. Ahem. She calls a lot sometimes.
Probably the biggest inconvenience was not having an alarm - well I do have an alarm in my iPod, but it's not very good. I would have overslept today had H not set his alarm earlier than usual. I woke up an hour after my alarm was supposed to have rung and had to run out the door basically.
Not panicking was definitely the right thing to do in the end.
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
TV Shows
I just realised that this Sunday will bring the S2 finale for Game of Thrones. It just didn't register with me before that the end was so nigh. Most of the time I still only watch the show because the people talk in such wonderful ways and it looks pretty, and because I still think a lot of the plotlines are ridiculous and I love to get all worked up over their ridiculousness.
But I really did enjoy the last two episodes. I mean there's just nothing bad you can say about Bronn, and especially the Bronn/Tyrion bromance. I do love a scoundrel, and Bronn totally personifies all those characteristics. He's amoral, rugged, clever, and a tad egoistic. But at the same time you can see that he cares about Tyrion, and their dialogues are the best of the entire show.
And then the latest episode was entirely focussed on King's Landing, which made such a nice change from all the jumping around. The main reason why I stopped reading the books at the second one and moved on to just reading characters' stories on wikis etc. online is that I couldn't stand the multitude of POVs and the constant jumping from one person to the next. It just doesn't work for me. The books are neither character-driven nor plot-driven, they're world-driven. Also I constantly got the feeling that GRRM thinks himself very superior to all his readers, and that just bugged me a lot :P
All that said, I'm looking forward to the finale this Sunday. I wonder how they're going to plan on wrapping everything up, but then this is GoT/ASoIaF, so probably things just won't get wrapped up.
I honestly thought it would run a bit further into the summer though. I don't know what I'll do over the next months! These are the shows whose return I'll be waiting for:
* Castle
* Hart of Dixie
* How I Met Your Mother
* Doctor Who (even if I don't quite like the 'new' style with Moffatt, but whatever)
* Game of Thrones
Stuff I'm not enthusiastic about but will watch anyway:
* Glee
* Gossip Girl (or the mindfuck it has become)
In the meantime, I'll rewatch my Firefly and Quantum Leap DVDs perhaps, or get into some movies or whatever. If I do the latter, expect me to post about them here. Or not, who knows.
I've also been told to get into Sherlock, Big Bang Theory, and Mad Men, but I never seem to be getting around to doing that.
I also created a MASSIVE to-read-list on Goodreads.com. Seriously, it's like forty books long or something. I'll have to see how many of them I can get for my kindle, and maybe that'll be my summer.
Oh and let's not forget uni.
But I really did enjoy the last two episodes. I mean there's just nothing bad you can say about Bronn, and especially the Bronn/Tyrion bromance. I do love a scoundrel, and Bronn totally personifies all those characteristics. He's amoral, rugged, clever, and a tad egoistic. But at the same time you can see that he cares about Tyrion, and their dialogues are the best of the entire show.
And then the latest episode was entirely focussed on King's Landing, which made such a nice change from all the jumping around. The main reason why I stopped reading the books at the second one and moved on to just reading characters' stories on wikis etc. online is that I couldn't stand the multitude of POVs and the constant jumping from one person to the next. It just doesn't work for me. The books are neither character-driven nor plot-driven, they're world-driven. Also I constantly got the feeling that GRRM thinks himself very superior to all his readers, and that just bugged me a lot :P
All that said, I'm looking forward to the finale this Sunday. I wonder how they're going to plan on wrapping everything up, but then this is GoT/ASoIaF, so probably things just won't get wrapped up.
I honestly thought it would run a bit further into the summer though. I don't know what I'll do over the next months! These are the shows whose return I'll be waiting for:
* Castle
* Hart of Dixie
* How I Met Your Mother
* Doctor Who (even if I don't quite like the 'new' style with Moffatt, but whatever)
* Game of Thrones
Stuff I'm not enthusiastic about but will watch anyway:
* Glee
* Gossip Girl (or the mindfuck it has become)
In the meantime, I'll rewatch my Firefly and Quantum Leap DVDs perhaps, or get into some movies or whatever. If I do the latter, expect me to post about them here. Or not, who knows.
I've also been told to get into Sherlock, Big Bang Theory, and Mad Men, but I never seem to be getting around to doing that.
I also created a MASSIVE to-read-list on Goodreads.com. Seriously, it's like forty books long or something. I'll have to see how many of them I can get for my kindle, and maybe that'll be my summer.
Oh and let's not forget uni.
What a Nightmare
In Diablo 3, the Skeleton King on Normal difficulty was so easy that I barely remember the fight. I know I did it once with friends, and then once on my own (because the quest hadn't been counted and I wanted the achievement, since I'm such a points whore and all that), but it didn't took a quarter of the time that it took me now. It wasn't a very hard fight, just... really long. I think this is the first time that I've noticed an actual difference between the Normal and Nightmare difficulties other than the obscene amounts of gold dropping. Bring on the Butcher.
The weather is totally bipolar today. Very hot and humid earlier, but blue skies, then suddenly they turn dark and it just starts pouring down, and I haven't heard thunder this loud in a while. Probably not since we moved out of the valley, where there was a terrifying echo whenever there was thunder. It did thunder last Wednesday too, and I remember being trapped in a building at uni because it was raining so heavily. Makes me wonder if the weather has a problem with the days of the week. Thursdays are usually much calmer at the moment.
The weather is totally bipolar today. Very hot and humid earlier, but blue skies, then suddenly they turn dark and it just starts pouring down, and I haven't heard thunder this loud in a while. Probably not since we moved out of the valley, where there was a terrifying echo whenever there was thunder. It did thunder last Wednesday too, and I remember being trapped in a building at uni because it was raining so heavily. Makes me wonder if the weather has a problem with the days of the week. Thursdays are usually much calmer at the moment.
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Summer Is Coming
It's still warm outside. Why is it so warm? Actually it probably feels worse because I had anticipated a drop in temperatures (that apparently isn't coming until Thursday - must have misread the forecast) and then woke up to the sun glaring down at me. Of course I love the sun. I just don't really deal well with heat unless I'm perpetually half submerged in cool water. What I wouldn't give for a rooftop pool right now - even a kiddie pool would suffice...
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