Mage Designers

Unless you’re a player like me who really likes to go through RPGs with as little reliance on magic as possible, then you probably play your own Final Fantasy games with a good enjoyment of spell-casting. Preferably, I like to fight; give me a cast of four Black Belts and after one turn, I will have hit the ogres about 72 times for close to a billion HP damage, terminated.

But today, I’m going to talk about the class that I don’t really use – the Mages, and then make a brilliant analogy about how it relates to my career and I.

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Behavioral studies of dorks

Last night’s trivia was a wash, but I’m pleased that I have remembrance of certain obscure knowledge of like what brand of shoes the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult wore when they 86’d themselves, and that Pietro Maximoff, AKA Quicksilver, is the brother of the Scarlet Witch.

But anyway, the story for the day isn’t about trivia and its disturbing regulars that consists of lolitas, but simply a behavioral observation of dorks.

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Geek chicks are overrated

Tonight, I went to trivia with some friends, and had a good time.  Up until the last question, we were a point behind the leader, and lost due to the simple fact that I couldn’t remember the name “Agatha Christie.”  But I was certainly pleased and impressed with the wealth of random knowledge that our team was capable of knowing, and I’m pretty sure that we could win one of these days in the future if this were to become a legitimate reoccurring thing.

But anyway, this trivia was held at none other than a fairly obvious nerd hangout; the same place where I enjoyed a birthday party just days prior, filled with large TVs for people to play console games on, which kind of makes me question the legality, as well as several stations for people to play PC games, but most importantly, an impressive set up of Rockband for people to channel their inner rock stars.  All this in place, and the simple fact that I’m a notorious people-watcher, I’m watching the people come and go, play trivia and drink boozahol.  Naturally, this means I’m checking out the girls in the place, because that is what I do, being the sometimes-ronery, single male that is sort of thinking about the importance and desire to one day settle down.

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Photos: Well, a lot of them

Most recently, it’s a bunch of drunken photos taken from Brad and Stuart’s birthday party, where there was lots of Rockband, Street Fighter, and watching Korean guys propagate stereotypes by doing nothing but playing Tekken and World of Warcraft.

But I’ve been lagging behind, so there are several other photo albums of pictures that most people not me probably wouldn’t care about, meaning baseball, that I’ve caught up with.  But I’ll let those who are possibly interested to check for themselves.

Otherwise, things have been a little below-average, overall.  Repeated visits to the hospital, seeking work, sometimes going to Dykeland, watching the Braves suck, and playing Left 4 Dead.  Haven’t been thinking a whole lot of what to write these days, and I’d like to rectify that.

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One of these days . . .

WOULD YOU EAT THIS FOR FULL HEALTH?  Because nothing says rejuvenation like a steaming plate of chicken found underneath a waste receptacle, not to mention, defying the laws of physics to not be flat as a pancake.

This will go on the growing list of “to-do” projects, such as finishing up my 2009 Nanowrimo story, among other things, but one of these days, I’d love to take a stab at sprite-editing, and hacking up a ROM of Final Fight.

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I have nothing left to prove

As it pertains to Resident Evil 5, I have pretty much done it all now.  Earlier today, I did what I thought was the impossible, and I conquered Desperate Escape on Professional difficulty, and I now have all 60 out of 60 available XBOX achievements.  The S ranking is a little bit of a surprise, considering I figured I would be tanked by the great length of time I took to complete the mission, but apparently, my impeccable accuracy, the fact that I killed everything I could out of necessity and not for fun, and racked up a godly amount of bonus stars was enough for me to round out the 400 times I was killed, and the total 2:30:58 time needed to finish.

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