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felis_ultharus) wrote2006-11-10 10:02 pm
felis_ultharus) wrote2006-11-10 10:02 pm
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Update
So I've mostly bounced back from Tuesday's news. Things are returning to quasi-normal.
In a crisis, I explode. Then I put the pieces back together very quickly. I've mentally reorganized the next half-year, and quietly gone back to writing and working, which seems to be my life.
I've gotten ten pages written on the not-novel, and thinking about how I'll revise novel #1 when the second copy returns my way.
Tonight, I'm happy. I read A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Shakespeare's most fun comedy. And the anime we're watching would probably make anyone feel better about their own life.
I got a lot of writing done. I'm feeling appreciated at work. And -- and this will only make sense to 7 people on my friends-list -- I've learned a trick to dodging lightning. Sadly, this trick requires me to have my eyes open, which is more than I can manage tonight, so I shall have to save it for tomorrow. I can't seem to get past 60 bolts in my sonambulant state.
There shall be no game this weekend because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
montrealais will be at an NDP conference helping to hammer out the gay socialist agenda ^_^
If my erstwhile players are interested, I could go for another round of that game we played last time.
In a crisis, I explode. Then I put the pieces back together very quickly. I've mentally reorganized the next half-year, and quietly gone back to writing and working, which seems to be my life.
I've gotten ten pages written on the not-novel, and thinking about how I'll revise novel #1 when the second copy returns my way.
Tonight, I'm happy. I read A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Shakespeare's most fun comedy. And the anime we're watching would probably make anyone feel better about their own life.
I got a lot of writing done. I'm feeling appreciated at work. And -- and this will only make sense to 7 people on my friends-list -- I've learned a trick to dodging lightning. Sadly, this trick requires me to have my eyes open, which is more than I can manage tonight, so I shall have to save it for tomorrow. I can't seem to get past 60 bolts in my sonambulant state.
There shall be no game this weekend because
montrealais will be at an NDP conference helping to hammer out the gay socialist agenda ^_^ If my erstwhile players are interested, I could go for another round of that game we played last time.
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I've considered playing FFXI online, but I don't know anything about online games.
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Oh god, don't. I'm not fond of MMORPGs to begin with, but FFXI has developed a reputation as "My First MMO". Not only is it your usual wretched hive of scum and villainy (MMOs are notorious for haboring scams, glitches and just plain jackasses that are more than capable of wrecking your gaming experience, not to mention the usual litany of bugs in the updates) but it's populated with a lot of people who, as Cat says, "don't know what the fuck". Because it's a Final Fantasy, and because it comes in a console version, there are lots of n00bs, and lots of jerks, and not enough supervision.
Besides all that, FFXI requires a hard drive. If you just bought a new PS2, it'll be a mini-PSTwo, and those lack the expansion ports that the HDD needs. You would need the PC version, which I'm told has some moderately hefty system requirements.
The online games I run are basically tabletop-in-a-chat-channel. The main reason I hang out on UnderNet is that most of IRC bans all automated response 'bots, but UnderNet allows friendly ones, such as for example, an automated dice roller. ^_^ Some people have trouble keeping up with a game on IRC, but as I type absurdly fast I find it pretty easy to ride herd on the usual bunch of obstinate cats. I usually cap it off at 6-7 players; any more than that, and the out-of-character chatter starts to swamp the in-character dialogue.