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Mar. 29th, 2005 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whitereflectionDad's in the hospital still, went to visit him after work last night. So far, he's still at the 'doesn't need surgery -yet-' but they're reserving it as an option. As I left, the surgeon that's been keeping tabs on him came in to discuss the CAT scan Dad'd had that afternoon, so maybe there'll be more news today. Or not. Gonna be a bit before they send him home, at least.
Car is very sick. Sounds like it's 'the engine' (noduhreally), though with much aggrevated prodding for more info, the person I talked to at the shop finally understood what clarification I was needing and said the engine block part of what's under the hood (to me engine means everything, you know). So, they have to remove the engine block and disassemble it to determine more specifically what's wrong. Which'll cost a good 200-400 right there (on top of tow charges and the rental car). Then...maybe they'll find what's wrong and be able to fix it, or maybe the engine will have to be rebuilt. Dunno what that'd cost. But if they have to *replace* the engine...Saturn engines are pricey. There's a chance it could be a few thousand dollars. This car's still not paid off yet, so we can't just dump it for a new one--will have to see what the shop finds out before knowing how to proceed.
Mood is...off, of late. I'm really on-edge, thin skinned, and lacking in my usual humor. Typical stressiness, I suppose. Am just really prone to taking everything seriously and personally. So. *shrugs*
Got the two tshirts I ordered from Blizzard, so today I'm wearing the Hoarde one, tomorrow I'm wearing the Alliance one. Because I'm bifactional. One of the few, the proud. Or something. Other WoW news, still listening to the soundtrack obsessively. Went back to Maraudon last night, but it was not the best group--bad dynamic because of one individual who didn't seem to be able to think past himself and think as a 'team' (because you know that's why you group, to act like you're playing solo, or to give you people to order around and act like a dick to). So it wasn't super-fun. Didn't get anything out of it except exp.
But exp is ok. Sasuke is now level 50. At least in some small unimportant way, I'm kicking ass. Kind of.
I think I'm going to clear out old character alts, and delete ones I know I won't play anymore. Especially any on PVP servers. I'm not going back to PVP servers, at all. I don't do well at it, even when on an equal footing--and I extremely much can *not* abide with the griefing, ganking, and corpse camping I've been hearing about. I believe very strongly that one person's right to fun ends where another begins--and if a lvl 60's only fun is to make some person with a level in the single digits miserable and keep them from playing for extended periods of time, then I don't have to be around that sort of bullshit, even if it's not happening to me. Was reading a long thread on the general forums about this yesterday, and it just made me angry and upset. We've all paid for the game, are all paying for the subscription, for some people to fuck with another person's ability to play is just ass-stupid. Where's the challenge, the honor, the respect for screwing with someone 30, 40, 50 levels below you? Oh, right, there is none. It's just players fucking with players, rather than characters fighting characters. I've never been able to stand the "I'm roleplaying" attitude that is just a convenient excuse to fuck with someone and get away with it.
People are fucking stupid. Reading those forums always reminds me of that. The sheer amount of self-centeredness and meanness people are capable of should quit surprising me, after all this time. You'd think I'd learn.
Car is very sick. Sounds like it's 'the engine' (noduhreally), though with much aggrevated prodding for more info, the person I talked to at the shop finally understood what clarification I was needing and said the engine block part of what's under the hood (to me engine means everything, you know). So, they have to remove the engine block and disassemble it to determine more specifically what's wrong. Which'll cost a good 200-400 right there (on top of tow charges and the rental car). Then...maybe they'll find what's wrong and be able to fix it, or maybe the engine will have to be rebuilt. Dunno what that'd cost. But if they have to *replace* the engine...Saturn engines are pricey. There's a chance it could be a few thousand dollars. This car's still not paid off yet, so we can't just dump it for a new one--will have to see what the shop finds out before knowing how to proceed.
Mood is...off, of late. I'm really on-edge, thin skinned, and lacking in my usual humor. Typical stressiness, I suppose. Am just really prone to taking everything seriously and personally. So. *shrugs*
Got the two tshirts I ordered from Blizzard, so today I'm wearing the Hoarde one, tomorrow I'm wearing the Alliance one. Because I'm bifactional. One of the few, the proud. Or something. Other WoW news, still listening to the soundtrack obsessively. Went back to Maraudon last night, but it was not the best group--bad dynamic because of one individual who didn't seem to be able to think past himself and think as a 'team' (because you know that's why you group, to act like you're playing solo, or to give you people to order around and act like a dick to). So it wasn't super-fun. Didn't get anything out of it except exp.
But exp is ok. Sasuke is now level 50. At least in some small unimportant way, I'm kicking ass. Kind of.
I think I'm going to clear out old character alts, and delete ones I know I won't play anymore. Especially any on PVP servers. I'm not going back to PVP servers, at all. I don't do well at it, even when on an equal footing--and I extremely much can *not* abide with the griefing, ganking, and corpse camping I've been hearing about. I believe very strongly that one person's right to fun ends where another begins--and if a lvl 60's only fun is to make some person with a level in the single digits miserable and keep them from playing for extended periods of time, then I don't have to be around that sort of bullshit, even if it's not happening to me. Was reading a long thread on the general forums about this yesterday, and it just made me angry and upset. We've all paid for the game, are all paying for the subscription, for some people to fuck with another person's ability to play is just ass-stupid. Where's the challenge, the honor, the respect for screwing with someone 30, 40, 50 levels below you? Oh, right, there is none. It's just players fucking with players, rather than characters fighting characters. I've never been able to stand the "I'm roleplaying" attitude that is just a convenient excuse to fuck with someone and get away with it.
People are fucking stupid. Reading those forums always reminds me of that. The sheer amount of self-centeredness and meanness people are capable of should quit surprising me, after all this time. You'd think I'd learn.
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Date: 2005-03-29 04:15 pm (UTC)As for the car...er...well hope that turns out okay too but cars are much lamer than people. XD;
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Date: 2005-04-01 04:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-29 04:20 pm (UTC)*laughs* No, I actually think it's more like "I was ganked so many fucking times when I was their level, now it's my turn for revenge! Sure, these aren't the guys that ganked me, but they're still Alliance!"
What really confuses me, however, is that you're so blasted stressed over the morals of players on PvP servers. You don't play on one, so why do you care? If people can't take what goes on over there, then they can go to a PvE server, plain and simple. The things that happen in game are part of the game, simple. The whining brats who can't handle people being higher than them don't concern you.
Last night, a gnome mage repeatedly stalked and killed me, so you know what I did? I got people to help me get him. So he got people to help him. And then we had a big war of the factions! It was great! Horde ended up losing because they were working as a team and we weren't. (See? I don't blame it on them outnumbering us. I can admit that they were very skilled and that we would have probably lose even if it wasn't outnumbered) Afterwards, I went back to hunting Witherbark Trolls. No big deal. We all had fun.
Just like how I told you I was ganking in Duskwood. I kept hunting lowbies, they zerged me, I died, a lv. 60 Paladin ran in and stood at my corpse with some rogues. I came back, ran, died, repeat. It was all in good fun. The rogues were running around my corpse, creating some kind of light show so I know they had fun too.
It's the idiots on PvP servers that complain about being ganked instead of trying to have fun with it that get you upset, so just ignore it for Kaidoh's ass's sake.
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Date: 2005-03-29 04:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-29 04:24 pm (UTC)I demand you give me your shirts. >_> *pokes you with a stick* Now.
*pops confetti to celebrate the big Five-Oh* I'll catch up with you soon! >D
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Date: 2005-04-01 04:24 pm (UTC)And you can pry my shirts from my cold dead hands, yesh >.> *bitey* But we do need to get you that 'rogues do it from behind' shirt from Penny Arcade *heh*.
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Date: 2005-03-29 09:00 pm (UTC)