So, i've just woken up on the sofa at my mates house. He went to bed at 5am and me 7 am, meaning I got 2 hours sleep max. Leather sofas are always fun when it's really hot....
I'm bloody hungry, I need some food in me, but i'm in the middle of no where and my mate is still asleep. I feel semi fine with 2 hours sleep, but get the impression it'll not be happy when I wake up at 7am tomorrow to get to work. It's kinda silly that to visit a mate in another part of the country that I go saturday, come back on sunday, then can't spend monday catching up on things like sleep, and cold showers every half hour (it's really hot).
Why am I writing this instead of doing something more constructive or fun? Well, like what? I don't feel like playing any of the games on here, that'd be too much effort. I tried logging into facebook chat and MSN, but there didn't seem to be anyone cool to talk to (no doubt they're all in bed). So now I have to spend god knows how long trying to entertain myself with a growling stomache (I had a big burger after the club last night, why am I starving?).
Do this post have a point? No
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Blogging - First Day
So, hopefully that's a nice number of posts on the first day (or night as it were, or morning... its 1:24am).
I often find myself wanting to write about stuff, so you'll see this blog get filled with random stuff, regardless of whether I think anyone else would find it interesting.
Sometimes I just write what I want in Word, then close without saving. Like writing it down gets it out of my head. I wrote a 4 page document today about Magic the Gathering (which I haven't played in at least 6/7 years).
Anyone reading any of this, cheers for your time :)
I often find myself wanting to write about stuff, so you'll see this blog get filled with random stuff, regardless of whether I think anyone else would find it interesting.
Sometimes I just write what I want in Word, then close without saving. Like writing it down gets it out of my head. I wrote a 4 page document today about Magic the Gathering (which I haven't played in at least 6/7 years).
Anyone reading any of this, cheers for your time :)
Work Shifted
I doubt anyone from Work will read this, and if they do they should only be able to guess it's me, so I guess I can rant about anything and get away with it.
I've been with the company I work for, for over 7 years, since I was 19 infact. 1 Year ago there was some reshuffling of departments, and I ended up in the IT department. While I infact do Data Analysis, alot of it could be IT related I suppose, considering my job is less "analysis" and more "make this report and I'll analise it, but i'll not tell you want i'm looking for".
Anyway, I got shifted into the IT Department, and I didn't like it. They took one look at alot of what I did, and told me I had to do all these extra things, mostly just making things a ball ache. Added on that was the great thing that since I was the "New Boy" in IT, despite working at the company longer than half the team, that the boring easy jobs could be palmed onto me. Infact the only time the IT Manager has told me i've done a brilliant job with something, was me putting up some screens in the room to split it up...
Around 2 years ago I went to the Managing Director at the time (who isn't there now) and suggested that so many people were asking for conflicting reports, that there should be a reporting team, all report requests go through the team, making sure all reports are standardised and show the same information. This could also cut down on IT work, since any new reports needed directly from IT would come specifically from this team, rather than anyone. The Managing Director thought it was a brilliant idea, but aparantly another Director was going to do something like that with someone else (the someone else left over 8 months ago now).
Now i'm being shifted again, this time from the IT team to work under the other Analyist in the company (who is more qualifed than me) and i'm wondering how boring and annoying this is going to be. They talk about being involved with things, but I still get the impression that i'm still gonna be just a random guy who makes reports without a clue whats going on.
I've fallen for the "This job sounds brilliant!" thing at work too many times, and while being in a proper Analyist team sounds brilliant, I'm going to remain skeptical until it happens.
I've been with the company I work for, for over 7 years, since I was 19 infact. 1 Year ago there was some reshuffling of departments, and I ended up in the IT department. While I infact do Data Analysis, alot of it could be IT related I suppose, considering my job is less "analysis" and more "make this report and I'll analise it, but i'll not tell you want i'm looking for".
Anyway, I got shifted into the IT Department, and I didn't like it. They took one look at alot of what I did, and told me I had to do all these extra things, mostly just making things a ball ache. Added on that was the great thing that since I was the "New Boy" in IT, despite working at the company longer than half the team, that the boring easy jobs could be palmed onto me. Infact the only time the IT Manager has told me i've done a brilliant job with something, was me putting up some screens in the room to split it up...
Around 2 years ago I went to the Managing Director at the time (who isn't there now) and suggested that so many people were asking for conflicting reports, that there should be a reporting team, all report requests go through the team, making sure all reports are standardised and show the same information. This could also cut down on IT work, since any new reports needed directly from IT would come specifically from this team, rather than anyone. The Managing Director thought it was a brilliant idea, but aparantly another Director was going to do something like that with someone else (the someone else left over 8 months ago now).
Now i'm being shifted again, this time from the IT team to work under the other Analyist in the company (who is more qualifed than me) and i'm wondering how boring and annoying this is going to be. They talk about being involved with things, but I still get the impression that i'm still gonna be just a random guy who makes reports without a clue whats going on.
I've fallen for the "This job sounds brilliant!" thing at work too many times, and while being in a proper Analyist team sounds brilliant, I'm going to remain skeptical until it happens.
In a Galaxy far far away.
I was never really that excited about World of Warcraft coming out. I never really played the Warcraft games, so didn't know the IP, but it sounded amazing from some friends, bought it and loved it.
Bioware are making an MMO Based on Knights of the Old Republic, and me being a huge fan of Knights of the Old Republic (both of them) really can't wait. Even if the game is a bad Warcraft clone I still think i'll love to play it, but I doubt it will with what Bioware are promising, even if they can only deliver 10% of what they promise, it should be great.
So I threw Knights of the Old Republic on my netbook (gogo netbook running older games!) and played that most of the way through. I forgot a couple of vital things.
1) I have low Dex, high Str (gogo lightsabers) and wear medium armour (since the best armour in the game is medium, not because I can't wear heavy). I picked up the Drain Life force power, and the other one after it. Neither works in armour.
2) Other force powers included Choke (level 3, is it Death?).
3) I wanted to play the game Evil, then switch to good at the end, since the entire Light/Dark side thing was useless in respect to the story since there is a very definate "So, what ending do you want?" point. I forgot that this would put me neutral instead of leaving me in the Dark Side.
So, it comes to fighting against Malak at the end. I can't use some of my force powers due to my armour, the main force power I do use, Malak just resists or is immune, which means I've got to rely 100% on my lightsaber skills to win. My Lightsaber misses half the time, and does low damage, he can kill me in 2 hits...
This isn't helped by the fact that my collection of truely brilliant gear has either "Lightside Only" or "Darkside Only" wrote on it, and being neutral means I can't use either.
Thankfully I did take the Disable Droid force power, making the fight 100 times easier than it would be if I hadn't, but I still can't kill Malak.
I promised myself I'd move onto number 2 after finishing the first game, but I get the feeling I might not finish the first without playing all the way through again...
Bioware are making an MMO Based on Knights of the Old Republic, and me being a huge fan of Knights of the Old Republic (both of them) really can't wait. Even if the game is a bad Warcraft clone I still think i'll love to play it, but I doubt it will with what Bioware are promising, even if they can only deliver 10% of what they promise, it should be great.
So I threw Knights of the Old Republic on my netbook (gogo netbook running older games!) and played that most of the way through. I forgot a couple of vital things.
1) I have low Dex, high Str (gogo lightsabers) and wear medium armour (since the best armour in the game is medium, not because I can't wear heavy). I picked up the Drain Life force power, and the other one after it. Neither works in armour.
2) Other force powers included Choke (level 3, is it Death?).
3) I wanted to play the game Evil, then switch to good at the end, since the entire Light/Dark side thing was useless in respect to the story since there is a very definate "So, what ending do you want?" point. I forgot that this would put me neutral instead of leaving me in the Dark Side.
So, it comes to fighting against Malak at the end. I can't use some of my force powers due to my armour, the main force power I do use, Malak just resists or is immune, which means I've got to rely 100% on my lightsaber skills to win. My Lightsaber misses half the time, and does low damage, he can kill me in 2 hits...
This isn't helped by the fact that my collection of truely brilliant gear has either "Lightside Only" or "Darkside Only" wrote on it, and being neutral means I can't use either.
Thankfully I did take the Disable Droid force power, making the fight 100 times easier than it would be if I hadn't, but I still can't kill Malak.
I promised myself I'd move onto number 2 after finishing the first game, but I get the feeling I might not finish the first without playing all the way through again...
Hunter Blog?
So, I set this up as a hunter blog, then realised I wanted to write alot of other stuff, about other games I play, about life in general sometimes. So I deleted all the posts to start again.
I've been away from World of Warcraft for a couple of months, mostly cos I was getting a bit bored with some stuff, and got pissed off about some other stuff. It wasn't really a decision to stop playing Warcraft, I just ended up playing Team Fortress 2 and Knights of the Old Republic instead, or watching some films and TV series (Battlestar Galactica).
But I reactivated my account, and fully intended to play my Paladin more than my Hunter, it was always alot more interesting. But the other night I went to Ulduar (and won 2 pieces of loot, including the Gun) and loved it. Paladin more interesting, Hunter more fun?
Anyway, no doubt when i've got some Hunter theorycrafting or ranting to do, it'll end up on here. And that can happen fairly often.
Basically, if you're interested in Hunter stuff, then follow the hunter label, that's what they're for. Although this being the first post with a hunter label, it won't show much yet... Watch this Space.
I've been away from World of Warcraft for a couple of months, mostly cos I was getting a bit bored with some stuff, and got pissed off about some other stuff. It wasn't really a decision to stop playing Warcraft, I just ended up playing Team Fortress 2 and Knights of the Old Republic instead, or watching some films and TV series (Battlestar Galactica).
But I reactivated my account, and fully intended to play my Paladin more than my Hunter, it was always alot more interesting. But the other night I went to Ulduar (and won 2 pieces of loot, including the Gun) and loved it. Paladin more interesting, Hunter more fun?
Anyway, no doubt when i've got some Hunter theorycrafting or ranting to do, it'll end up on here. And that can happen fairly often.
Basically, if you're interested in Hunter stuff, then follow the hunter label, that's what they're for. Although this being the first post with a hunter label, it won't show much yet... Watch this Space.
Holy/Protection? Not either, but both.
Lets face it, Dual specs was a great idea. Ever since I made my paladin, I wanted the option of switching from Holy to Protection and visa versa. I didn't do much Holy and was mostly Protection, although due to my slow leveling and it being my second character, I didn't see much Raid tanking, and mostly ended up tanking trash and healing on bosses.
Now with Dual specs I can switch from one to the other quite easily. The main trouble is loot. I've only been to 1 Naxx so far (not geared enough for Ulduar) where I picked up 5 healing Epix (although 2 arn't plate) and 2 tanking epix (including a helm with a meta socket... I have no other sockets in tanking gear) but I lost out on alot of tanking stuff cos I was rolling offspec... I'll have to see how it pans out.
I am tempted to just give Holy a secondary role, try and fit it out as best as I can, and stick with tanking. The trouble being, when you're still 20 Defense from the soft cap in mostly quest reward blues people don't want you tanking Naxx, so I need to do more heroics. I'd love to just be able to jump into raiding as Protection, but have to stick as raiding as Holy, not a big deal but I'd love to be able to be a main tank in 3.2
Now with Dual specs I can switch from one to the other quite easily. The main trouble is loot. I've only been to 1 Naxx so far (not geared enough for Ulduar) where I picked up 5 healing Epix (although 2 arn't plate) and 2 tanking epix (including a helm with a meta socket... I have no other sockets in tanking gear) but I lost out on alot of tanking stuff cos I was rolling offspec... I'll have to see how it pans out.
I am tempted to just give Holy a secondary role, try and fit it out as best as I can, and stick with tanking. The trouble being, when you're still 20 Defense from the soft cap in mostly quest reward blues people don't want you tanking Naxx, so I need to do more heroics. I'd love to just be able to jump into raiding as Protection, but have to stick as raiding as Holy, not a big deal but I'd love to be able to be a main tank in 3.2
Engineer Woes
So, i've been playing a fair bit of Team Fortress 2 lately, and usually end up as an engineer. Now, I usually play Arena, so the highest points for each class isn't great. The highest i've got is 34 on a Pyro on a practically empty payload server where I managed to move the cart all the way in 1 life and kill a few people. But second is the engineer, where i've managed 12 points.
While I'd like to play other classes, I just seem better with the Engineer, I can't think of many situations where I can't cause the most pain to the other team with a different class, but that's maybe cos I know what i'm doing with an engineer the most.
Unfortunately there are a few things that make playing an Engineer really difficult, I know I can do something about them (like not playing an engineer on a certain map) but it doesn't stop me getting a bit annoyed.
1) This map doesn't have easy to get ammo boxes. Like Watchtower, to be any use in early game I need to drop a sentry, which means I can't drop a Dispenser at all, nor can I upgrade the sentry. The major worry is that i'm not as useful on this map as on other maps, especially due to the layout of Watchtower making a good sentry location very tricky.
2) It's nice that you're shooting before the match starts, especially when you're a soilder and we don't have a medic. The game starts and I drop a sentry and go to pick up the box of ammo at the start, but you've already picked it up... This also goes for a bit later when I drop a sentry, pick up ammo, drop a Dispenser, then go to pick up more ammo, and some sniper or other has just picked it up, can people really be struggling for ammo in the first 15 seconds of a game?
3) The opposing team is spy heavy. Fair enough I can protect myself and my stuff from a spy once i'm up an running. While it's annoying having a Sap on my sentry and being backstabbed less than a second later, it can be slightly avoided by not standing next to the gun... kinda hard when i'm trying to upgrade it. The real annoyance though, is when my entire team had run off somewhere, and i'm trying to shotgun 2/3 spys all by myself. Why is it that hardly anyone likes the idea of protecting an Engineer for the first part of a match?
4) Someone else changing to Engineer just before we start. I don't mind switching to another class, but on some maps having two engineers can be a waste of time, there's not enough ammo about. And switching just before I can is annoying. This is also extended to when I accept that the map is good with more than one engineer, and the other guy follows me to my obscure location...
5) Being shot by my own sentry. Fair enough I should probably move more, but when it's a level 3 one i'm trying to repair cos someone is shooting at it, then it swings round and kills me... bah.
While I'd like to play other classes, I just seem better with the Engineer, I can't think of many situations where I can't cause the most pain to the other team with a different class, but that's maybe cos I know what i'm doing with an engineer the most.
Unfortunately there are a few things that make playing an Engineer really difficult, I know I can do something about them (like not playing an engineer on a certain map) but it doesn't stop me getting a bit annoyed.
1) This map doesn't have easy to get ammo boxes. Like Watchtower, to be any use in early game I need to drop a sentry, which means I can't drop a Dispenser at all, nor can I upgrade the sentry. The major worry is that i'm not as useful on this map as on other maps, especially due to the layout of Watchtower making a good sentry location very tricky.
2) It's nice that you're shooting before the match starts, especially when you're a soilder and we don't have a medic. The game starts and I drop a sentry and go to pick up the box of ammo at the start, but you've already picked it up... This also goes for a bit later when I drop a sentry, pick up ammo, drop a Dispenser, then go to pick up more ammo, and some sniper or other has just picked it up, can people really be struggling for ammo in the first 15 seconds of a game?
3) The opposing team is spy heavy. Fair enough I can protect myself and my stuff from a spy once i'm up an running. While it's annoying having a Sap on my sentry and being backstabbed less than a second later, it can be slightly avoided by not standing next to the gun... kinda hard when i'm trying to upgrade it. The real annoyance though, is when my entire team had run off somewhere, and i'm trying to shotgun 2/3 spys all by myself. Why is it that hardly anyone likes the idea of protecting an Engineer for the first part of a match?
4) Someone else changing to Engineer just before we start. I don't mind switching to another class, but on some maps having two engineers can be a waste of time, there's not enough ammo about. And switching just before I can is annoying. This is also extended to when I accept that the map is good with more than one engineer, and the other guy follows me to my obscure location...
5) Being shot by my own sentry. Fair enough I should probably move more, but when it's a level 3 one i'm trying to repair cos someone is shooting at it, then it swings round and kills me... bah.
Deleted all posts and starting again!
Ok, I didn't think anyone had noticed my blog that i've not updated in months (and not posted much in the first place!) but someone had added me as a follower, which was exciting.
But I've decided I want a blog that reflects everything I do, rather than just World of Warcraft. Although I still play Warcraft so some of the posts will be related to that.
I deleted all my old messages and am starting again.
But I've decided I want a blog that reflects everything I do, rather than just World of Warcraft. Although I still play Warcraft so some of the posts will be related to that.
I deleted all my old messages and am starting again.
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