Monthly Archives: June 2005

Hot and Cold

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I run hot and cold on this Guild Wars game. Some days I’m like a schoolgirl … I LOVE this game lol, it’s everything I thought an online world could be! lol! Other days, the game can suck me off two times.

So if someone were to ask me if it’s a go, I’d have to ask, which way is the wind blowing?

Is that good? Is that an improvement in gaming? Hell if I know. It is different, I can tell you that.

Examples of different:

1. The Community. I spent the larger part of the race to level 20 (max) with the general chat turned off. It’s a noisy din like I’ve never heard before, and I’m including the East Commons tunnel (pre-Bazaar days in EverQuest) and Ironforge (World of Warcraft) on a Sunday afternoon in that assessment. It’s migraine-inducing chatter.

The problem in living without general chat is, as far as I’ve witnessed, there is no community. In GW, whack out a few quests and you’ve moved on to the next town, and, the idiots you ran into before are long gone … either left in the dust or they popped up in another clone of the Next Town.

That part is good, but I should be more vigilant with adding the good players, the reliable dudes, to my friends list … because there are quests/missions where a real live person is vastly superior to a hired NPC — even a not-terribly-attentive real live person.

There comes a point where the hired NPCs have a death wish and they’re taking the entire group with them.

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You Don’t Have to Put on that Red Light

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(You don’t care if it’s wrong or if it is right.)

Well.

What can I say.

If AFK Gamer had been around almost 10 years ago, I’d have said the same thing … I’m speechless. I am without speech.

Thank you, California jury, for once again putting me in the position of national apologist.

Not my style to lose focus here on AFK Gamer, but I am an American and a human (despite the reports to the contrary) and this will be all I have to say about that:

diafirl.

That reminds me of a story. There’s a friend of mine, my first boss out of college. (God no, he’s not a perverted fuck.) Anyways, he’s got to be in his 50s now, but at the time, in his 40s. Dedicated smoker. Marlboros. Red box. (Ya, he’s hardcore.)

The one time I asked him, “Do you ever think about quitting?” As he explained it to me, “Takes a real man to face cancer.” heh, hope it never comes to that, man.

(That’s not a stab at Michael, that’s just a metaphor.)

Hey Everyone! Tomorrow, it’s back on duty. I have a few things to report about Guild Wars, PLUS there’s much more!

Planned, but this is the beauty of not getting paid … may not actually materialize: Worst Case Scenarios in Gaming, You Wanna Hear a Story about Fan Faires? (subtitled: A Rival Player is Banned from the Hilton Franchise) and, Krones and I Agree to Disagree on the FoHror “Situation”.