I noticed it was on sale for $5 and decided, why not? I’ve only played with it a bit but so far I like it more than I expected. I see this could be interesting, solving situations using only my imagination. I wonder how many Shoggoth’s and Cthulu’s I can flood the game with. 😛
OverlordTomala Experiences Skyrim: Now With Silly Weapons
If you are reading this I need help: This game has taken over my life. Can’t… Focus… Oh look more mods!
Open Thread
So far I’ve just been taking it easy. On my first day I slept in quite a bit which I didn’t want to, but I was more tired than I realized. I’ve had to fix the TF2 servers then test them along with the Gmod ones. Spent a good amount of time on some of them today with Yutram. We destroyed n00bs and then chillax’d in the cinema watching some YouTube.
The next thing I should take care of should be the TF2 MOTD’s so that they point to the group page. Our group has expanded quite a bit since I’ve had the group page appear on each server’s message of the day.
We haven’t started working on the new hardware yet but will soon. We’re waiting for a couple RAID cards for additional storage, once those arrive we’ll be ready to install CentOS 7 and get to work adding all the servers to the new setup. Maybe even some new servers since I have plans for a few more.
The vacationing beginith.
It’s finally happening. I don’t really have many plans other than to start on the new server hardware that came in today, finish my mask, and just relax in general. None of this on and off scheduling that’s been happening lately. Hell they even tried to get me to come in on one of my vacation days for next week for another 4 hour shift. I told them no. And fucking stop with these pussy 4 hour shifts it’s a total waste of time.
So there’s a good chance that I’ll be blogging more, since I don’t want to overwhelm myself on Skyrim for the entire period. :v
Ok I’m awake now
So this blog and I have had one thing in common for the last few days… We’ve both been pretty dead. I took over a freight position for someone who has been on vacation. It’s actually been going rather smoothly, but when I get home I have next to no energy which is in part due to having to work mornings instead of swing shifts. So it feels like all I’ve been doing is working, going home, sleeping, waking up, eat and play a bit, go back to sleep, wake up and get ready for work, go home, sleep, wake up, sleep again etc etc. Hell, last night I was playing Skyrim, went afk to get something and next thing I realize I fell asleep in my chair with my character spinning around in Markarth. O_o I have one more day of it and things will go back to normal.
If the job ever came to be available I’d probably go for it though, freight in electronics isn’t as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I mean I’m not much of a morning person but I could find ways to adjust. In fact I’ve been getting praised and told that I’m better than the actual freight guy.
Metal Gear Birthday Easter Egg
Nice to see that the new Metal Gear game is just as serious as all the others.
Yes I’m hyped, no I’m not pre-ordering.
All has been calm on the western front. I’ve had some people ask me if I was going to preorder MGSV Phantom Pain, FallOut 4, Mad Max etc etc, and to that I say no. Mostly because for one the pre-order bonuses (when offered) aren’t worth it to me, and the amount spent on even one of these games is a bit much for me right now. That and I have a large collection of games to keep me busy, or the way my game habits have been lately I should say Skyrim has been keeping me busy.
I imagine between modding that, server management, playing on said servers and just working in general I’ll be plenty busy by the time they all go on sale alongside all the other games that I want to buy.
So it’ll happen eventually. In the meantime I have no problems making sure I’m not bored. In fact I can’t even remember the last time I was bored. O_o
Guild Wars 2 is now free sorta.
So, now that I’ve found some stuff to read (and time to read it) I found some stuff in my RSS feeds. BTW if you’re using FireFox and want a nice RSS reader I can recommend Bamboo. It’s proven itself worthy of my subscription to the entire internet.
Anyways onto what I was supposed to be writing about that may or may not interest me. Guild Wars 2 is now free… kinda.
The main game is free, however you’ll have to buy the new expansion coming out. Seems like an interesting way to do it.
“We believe that if people love Guild wars 2, they’re gonna buy the expansion pack,” O’Brien says when I ask why ArenaNet is doing this. “The expansion pack is such a great value. There’s so much content, not only in the expansion pack but in all the free updates that will come past that.” While Guild Wars 2 is now free, it won’t receive future content updates—including the newly announced raids. Those are earmarked for Heart of Thorns, which will essentially become the live version of the game.
I guess one of these years I might give it a try. Maybe even give Guild Wars another try. Back when it was given to me I didn’t really have an interest in MMORPG’s, but with my happy fun time adventures in Skyrim I feel like I’ve learned to appreciate another genre. But that might be a ways down the road because… games. There’s lots of them.
The obligatory what I’ve been doing in Skyrim thread
I haven’t really had much to write about but I’ve had plenty to keep busy with. Things like what you don’t ask? How about some Skyplatoon?
I’ve been having fun painting all of Skyrim and killing enemies with blue and orange inks. I even killed a dragon.
I’m currently wandering the land of Wyrmstooth; it isn’t perfect but it’s still loads of fun. If you haven’t played it yet and want new land to explore you should download Wyrmstooth and Falskaar. Both are amazing new world mods with lots of looting and adventuring. I’ll probably wander around in it some more later. I also played some Skyrim during my lunch break the last couple days… I think I need mental help. That’s not really because of Skyrim though, I’ve needed mental help for years. 😛
No such thing as a free lunch, or a set schedule.
My adoring public need me tomorrow at noon. So my weekend gets to be split up. I hate doing splits, they hurt…
Speaking of work I guess I don’t really talk about it that much anymore. Mostly because it’s pretty laid back compared to every other job that I’ve had. Tonight we had a 9pm release for a couple games; Gears of War and Madden 15. I think we only had two people show up. :v
We’ve also been selling a bunch of small TV’s. I wish we earned commissions because the paychecks would look a lot more nice.
I guess if I had to complain about anything tonight it would be this one guy that frequently comes in. He’s the kind of guy that wants you to literally hold his hand through anything. He’ll just look at the device he buys and throw his hands in the air because it confuses him too much.
He wanted to downgrade his laptop from Windows 10 to Windows 8 because Skype isn’t working properly, in fact he brought his laptop in the other day because he wanted us to solve the problem for him. We confirmed that his audio device was working properly and told him that it was something with Skype itself and gave him suggestions on what to do. So he came in tonight and wanted someone to downgrade it for him. My co-worker who was acting as superior tonight decided to start the downgrade about an hour and 45 minutes before the store closed. It took forever… It had a 1.5 GHZ dual core processor and 4 GB of RAM and the drive was mechanical, not an SSD. He left the laptop with us, and I’m pretty sure that’s not allowed considering that as far as I’m aware he didn’t even buy the laptop from us… and I’m not even sure why my co-worker decided to do this. I hope he doesn’t get in trouble. I wouldn’t have even rolled the system back. I would have just told him to go online and search for instructions on how to do a rollback. Oh wait… I did tell him to do that the other day when he brought it in. I guess reading is too hard.
Hopefully the rollback goes ok. I’ve been reading up on Windows 10 and rollbacks and it hasn’t really been going as smoothly as planned. Needless to say I’m going to distance myself from this situation as much as possible. It’s pretty cheap of people to come in and expect us to do computer maintenance for free. If you bought the computer from us that’s one thing. But otherwise it isn’t something we are being paid for, and you’re an idiot if you think you’re special enough to warrant our help. No thank you, we don’t get paid neeeearly enough to put up with that bullshit.