The Five Word Review VIII
Alone in the Dark: Uwe Bolle sucks donkey dong.
Alone in the Dark: Uwe Bolle sucks donkey dong.
It’s an MMO. Blizzard has taken the usual abbreviation for World of Warcraft and changed to ATM officially today, according to a press release:
How do the Loot cards work?Loot cards are special versions of cards in booster packs, starter decks and raid decks that have a unique code. When you enter this code into the website, you will get a unique in-game item for the World of Warcraft MMORPG.
The rewards for these cards will guarantee that for at least this year, the WoW TCG will match Magic: The Gathering as a game system. This is insane, Blizzard may have well gotten a license from the Federal Mint to print their own cash. Hell, I’m even tempted even if just for the turtle mount… Or maybe the Hippogryph… See?
So. Tired of lag. Tired of not being on with other people. No recognizable progression. Another waste of time. A longer grind that continues after you log off. Desire to be good enough, not the best. No interest really.
WTF am I doing?
Well, it looks like I am just like every other schlub who fell into the MMO addiction cycle and can’t go anywhere else. What with the current ennui in WoW (can’t raid, all faction rewards are worthless after tBC, etc.), I downloaded the EVE client the other day. It’s pretty cool, even though I kind of wish that I gotten into it way back in the day when I first saw it on the EBgames rack in Ohio.
The free 14 day trial is nifty too, it lets me get a little taste of a different life before going back to my beloved Warcrack. (The heroin is nice, but it’s crack by preference!) Needless to say, my min-maxing tendencies are brought out nicely by EVE as I’ve already learned the optimal skill learning tree and found the fastest race (Caldari Achura) to level. I’ve also figured out that when the scanner says “Threat level: High” book out before you get that bright and shiny Condor (spent 2 hours getting all the parts for it) blow out from under you. Fortunately, it was an NPC that whacked me so no pod-killing for this boy.
Will this continue? I dunno, particularly as Otter said “choose one, WoW or EVE.” I like that I can set skills to learn and then run off to play WoW, and it’s ideal for my dual boxing setup where I’m really to lazy to use both to the full effectiveness but can do semi-AFK mining while kicking ass in the Outlands. So, mark it up in the Fun-but-not-Crack area and we’ll revisit.
People never fail to surprise me. Our Armed Forces members are always held up as bright and shining examples of well-behaved young men and women. Well, except the Army. Given that we’re deployed, it is no surprise that the primary restroom facilities are porta-johns. What is surprising though is the sheer number of homosexual ads that show up in the ones in the Army encampment. Once a month, each portajohn’s walls are painted over and within a week they are solid covered with ads and MM drawings. The Air Force ones are slightly better, we apparently confine ourselves to talking shit about other units and promoting our own.
All the crappy background out of the way, one item that has been our local portajohn for a while is the following bit of information:
The Air Force is for pussies.
It took me five months, but I finally came up with a comeback:
We are what we eat, you stupid Army dicks.
Thanks ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be here for another three.
It rained today. The last two weeks have been odd since there were actual clouds in the sky, but something dropped today. I say something because it’s not rain as I know it back home. It’s mud, dropping straight from the sky onto my vehicle.
Another thing that you don’t really notice around here after a bit is the dust. On highly trafficed areas, the dust is simply not as thick and so it looks clean. When the rain comes down though it turns into the slipperiest crap you have ever walked on. Taking a shower doesn’t do much good when you slip and fall on your ass afterwards…