Posted on: May 13th, 2008 Uhhhhhhh…
I found out that I have “hardcore readers” bahahaha!
Sooooo, I guess it’s been a few minutes/hours/days/a week or three (when did I last post a real thing?) since I wrote any kind of thing-a-ma-bob.
I had started typing some shit up about video games or something, but then I got distracted by actually playing the video games I was typing about so I stopped and scrapped the post.
As there are no video games available for playing at this very moment that I’d like to be playing, I will attempt to post now.
To your left you will see my current state of affairs. I’m downloading the early access hoo-ha client for Age of Conan: Hyborian adventures! Wahoo!!!!
Originally slated to start on the 14th (that’s right kids, tomorrow!), the folks at Funcom decided to start the downloader up a little bit earlier; which was probably a really good fucking idea. Considering the base client alone is 14+ gb in size, and there is still patching to be downloaded and applied starting tomorrow (they haven’t said how big that motherfucker is going to be yet)… so they started letting us download on the 12th instead, which is when I started downloading it.
Unfortunately (though really it doesn’t matter since I can’t play yet anyway) my download is going slower than old people fuck (which I imagine is pretty slow). I’m sure it’s because I use DSL, and as everyone knows the fucking Slowsky’s love it because it’s fucking slow.
(Side note, Firefox acknowledges Slowsky’s as a real word)
So, I’m pretty excited for the game. I played in the open beta for a few days (after another lengthy download), and it was fucking fantastic.
I tried out 4 of the games 12 job classes, Herald of Xotli, Assassin, Demonologist and Conqueror. Of the 4 I’m going to have to say I enjoyed Conqueror the most.
That’s a video of a character that isn’t mine, from a beta event I didn’t participate in, wahoo!
They did have a free for all PvP event at the end of the REALLY open beta (not just the fucking fileplanet subscriber “open” beta), which was pretty fucking insane. There was a lot of dying at ye olde spawn point due to ye olde griefers.
Thus I am presented with a potential problem: when playing video games that contain any PvP elements that I don’t have to volunteer for them to occur… I tend to have a less than positive reaction. It’s usually caused by some asshole high level character that has nothing better to do than camp me @ level 20 while I’m trying to grind up so I can be that asshole that camps some other level 20 that’s trying to grind up so he can be … you get the idea.
So! Do I carebear it up and get on a PvE server? My wife wants me to, she doesn’t want to hear me whining (which I will be doing) because some dumb motherfucker keeps killing me.
Decapitations, naked boobies, intense and actually INVOLVED combat system (what no auto-attack?!), crazy fucking changeable defense shield what-have-yous… you know… FUN.
Did you make it through all that nonsense?
Far out!
I went to a party! Yeah you heard me! Not only did I go to a party, but there was more than one other person there, and it WASN’T at my place!
I’ll give you a moment to recover.
My wife has these crazy things called “friends” and sometimes apparently these “friends” go 
away, and the “friends” of those “friends” throw going away parties for them.
So, Friday evening we drop the boy off at “the sitter” and make our way DOWNTOWN (I hate downtown by the way) . We’re still pretty early, and food is in order anyway, so we stop off at the R. Thomas. I got some zany fucking free range chicken wings (I wasn’t at all hungry) and 2 x PBR tallboys, my wife had a portabella sammich that looked pretty good.
2 beers and me in rapid succession = decently buzzed, we head to the bar where the party is located. By the time we get there I’ve gotta piss like a crazy person that has to piss real bad so I race to the bathroom and take care of business.
Having done that, my wife and I find the “party spot” and discover we’re still pretty early. We get a pitcher of MAGIC HAT #9!
Turns out that it’s quite good and of course being that it’s quite good you can’t get it here in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area, well… not outside of bars. SELECT BARS.
(back to the party)
The beer is an ale with a subtle (according to the bartender) hint of apricot, in reality land it tastes A LOT like apricots. It’s odd to me that I like it, but I do, and that’s ok.
So I had a lot of them beers, I’m not sure how many exactly but we ended up getting 3 pitchers between my wife and I, and she was sober when we left. Good times.
I met my wife’s friend Rikki and her boyfriend Dustin, good people. I spent the majority of the party chatting loudly (so as to drown out the myspace talk and odd abbreviations of words that don’t require abbreviating) with Dustin about various video games from FFXI to AoC… I don’t recall the topics exactly, as I said… I had had many beverages, but I do remember that he seemed to be a good dude.
This shit is long enough for 2, so I’ve made up for the lack of posts. Buh.
