Mod Pack and Raid Pack
I just updated my mod pack and added an raid essentials for people with spells pack.
Man I’m bored.
You guys ever get the, “man… I’m bored” but I have so much crap to do like update my blog and learning new stuff and studying and doing really really long run on sentences?
Instead I’m trolling around message boards and reading stuff that is completely useless.
Meh.
Someone should give me something to work on.
The Zen of not posting to his blog
Meh. I have no idea what that title means either. Anyway… As many of you have noticed, I haven’t been posting very much here. Part of it is that I have less leisure time at work, as I start to learn things and am taking on more responsibility (translation: I can do more now that they taught me stuff). Part of it is WoW. Part of it is that I spend a good chunk of time with the girl now. Not that that is a bad thing. In fact… it’s a very good thing.
However, as a place for my self expression, I haven’t really self expressed very much.
Reyia now has a Benediction
Took me 4 tries… and like 50 gold of stuff… but yes. Reyia has Benediction. For those of you who do not know what Benediction is, it’s the priest epic staff.
Oh yes. And I found my PDA. The people at the apartment complex my girlfriend lives at reported it to me. I <3 nice people in Davis.
Tomorrow, Me and the G/F are going to Picnic day. She’s trying to get me to eat a fried twinkie. I prefer to live.
Apologies for laziness
Haha… you know someone is lazy when someone else posts more in a week than the owner of the blog.
It isn’t that I’ve been all that busy either… I just… well. I got lazy.
As John has posted, I spent most of my last weekend at John’s playing various boardgames. I got to his place around 3:30 to 4 in the afternoon; my rear right tire had sprung a leak and the supposed 1 hour repair on it took two hours. We finally played out Caylus in a marathon 6 hour game, in which I notated the entire game. It’s interesting.. but it’s also very time consuming.
Gaming aside: here’s an update on my life.
- Me and Kate are back together. Who knows what will come, as she is still coming close to graduating and pursuing her own life goals, but we’ve decided to hang tough and try our hardest to make things work as long as we can.
- I can’t find my PDA. I’m really missing not knowing where I need to go for work.
- Paying taxes: Don’t have to. Governement sent me a check for $600 bucks. Me like.
- Setting aside for retirement. I’m now setting aside 15% of my paycheck to when I get old and frail. That way I can play World of Warcraft 3 all day and not have to worry about paying the bills.
- Envious of Christy: Just talked to an old friend, who is almost as insane as I am, and found out she’s in freeking Melbourne studying Art Studio. Let’s just say I’m very jealous.
- Reading a new webcomic. For those of you who are disenfrancised College students, who are disillusioned with the world, check out Something Positive. I’ve read from 2002-2005… which is like 1200 comics or something like that.
- Not lashing out at idiots is tough sometimes. Just going through some of the help requests from email at work today gives me these shining beacons of genius:
- I need my password. I forget what it is. (No identifying info. Return addy is like from poohbear245@hotmail Umm. Yeah. )
- I tried downloading this program, and then when I open it, it doesn’t work. It says I need a signature or something. What can I do to fix it? (What did you download? From where? What Operating system are you using?)
- My email account is broken. I can’t receive emails (sent from the same email that is broken. No other contact info given.)
Anyway. I’ll try to write a bit more random junk a bit later.
Easter Bunny and his friend the Doge visit old France
The Easter Bunny dropped by yesterday and left about 20lbs of goodies. Mmmm.. fun shaped cholocate! Also the Game Posse got together and played some San Marco and Caylus.
San Marco is moderately interesting and pretty fast — it’s what you would call a Solomon choice game. One player divides things into piles, and they the other players get first choice. Piles have good things in bad things, so the game takes some familiarity to make good decisions.
Caylus is as Caylus does. Having played it several times now, and having watched it a bunch, I am starting to think the game doesn’t live up to the hype. The more players you add, the more instability there is the game, reducing the minimal strategy to begin with (but still keeping the huge tactical component). I am going to say the big problem with the game is the setup and bookkeeping — there is way too much going on, and it’s easy to goof something up.
Right now, I think the best way to play Caylus is 2-player, and on BSW online. BSW has a huge negative in that you don’t get to do a takeback, but it has the huge positive of being 100% accurate on the bookkeeping, which lets you concentrate more on the game.
Online Caylus at BSW
BSW is a German website that hosts online board games, including a pretty slick verson of Caylus. (Google BSW to get more info, and the two most important commands are /language en to set the UI to English, and /manager to go to the main page if you get stuck in some weird screen.)
Caylus online is very unforgiving if you make an error with the program (such as accidently clicking on the wrong building). Both Tim and I did this several times each game, and I’ve seen it happen in other games while watching as a spectator.
Speaking of Tim — I crush0rz’d in a dual duel of two-player games. No wait, crush0rz’d is letting him off too easy. I p’wnd him. What the heck, I think I p’wn0rz’d him.
I had spent a couple hours the last week watching games, and I think I am a little ahead of him on the basic strategy of the game — the building favor track. He got more overall favors, but he had to take some of them for Deniers or Cubes to stay up with me. With my favors, I was building like a madman. Not only are buildings gradual VPs over the game, they are crucial in that they give you a place to put your worker for 1 Denier after your opponent passes in dueling (remember, it’s $3 to place after passing in two-player).
Now we need to convince Quyen into playing online, so we can p’wn him!
Games, Round 2
Tim crushed us at Alhambra again. Wall wall wall. Did I say wall?
We finally got in our game of Caylus. Kat and Chris duked it out for first, with Kat winning. Five player is harsh, especially if you are the last to go first round. In a very weird coincidence, we all placed in initial turn order, with about 5-10 points between each player.
We snuck in a game of Titan: the Arena with a new player, Ken, squeaking in a tie-break win (without a secret bet).
Then we busted out Amun-Re, with me sitting out to be game adjutator. It was the first time for the majority of players, and they were getting the basics down. Kat realized being pharoah was good, and slapped everyone around, but, iirc, Chris got in the win based on Temple points.
What is a game day without a quick Apples to Apples game, that Chris was able to get to 5 points first. This had the notable play of Barney beating out Romeo & Juliet in the category Melodramatic… never try to outsmart the mother of a two-year old!
We ended the game with seven player Shadows over Camelot, with good King Brian as our leader. We more or less kicked ass at the start, winning the Grail in record time, and piling on Excalibur for an easy win. Chris decided to reveal himself (through a special card) as the traitor and taunted us mercilessly. We came close to defeat by Seige Engines a couple of times, but were basically able to stem the tide until we had lost enough quests to get 12 swords total on the board for a lose-to-win win.
Reyia’s Mod Pack
By popular… well… I guess not really… request… I have posted the mod pack that I use. It’s mainly for priests, but I also have a warlock alt that I’m messing on… just disable necrosis and you’ll be fine. Here’s a linkage to it.
New Raid Milestone–> Domo dropped
So after a pretty impressive 5.5 h clear of everything up to Domo on Tuesday (now people are saying…whatever.. that’s slow… keep in mind that we only started MC last month.) Domo drops on the the second try today. And he drops, the Eye of Divinity (drool), Sash of Whispered Secrets, and some flaming gloves of something or other.
Rags ate us for lunch though. We got him down to a (impressive… i guess) 69% before his sons ate us. =(.