| Feb. 25th, 2008 @ 04:14 pm I return! I think. Maybe I don't. |
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I've made so many posts titled "I return! (Witty follow-up)" in so many places over the years, and then, all too suddenly, I disappear again.
*sigh*
So yes. After an almost eight-month long hiatus, I am back at LiveJournal. (For the moment.)
What else do I have to say for myself? Well, lots of things, most of them not very current any more.
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I went and got GH3:Legends of Rock for my Wii almost as soon as it came out - quite a bit later here in Australia, compared to the US. It is awesome. However, this is mainly due to it being a Guitar Hero game with a rocking song list. The thing that makes it uniquely Guitar Hero 3 is Boss Battle Mode, which is really bloody irritating when you play it against the CPU.
Which is a bit unfair because the song list is *also* what makes a Guitar Hero game.
So, yes. Boss Battle mode - a brave attempt by Neversoft to make the game different to its forebears, and an interesting idea, that is horribly flawed in execution.
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I went and signed up at Deviantart almost eight months ago. (I am user Sukugaru.) This month I actually uploaded some pictures. They're ancient pictures - the most recent is four years old - but at least I'm finally uploading stuff! I'll be uploading new pictures any season now!
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I have been reading Stephen Lawhead's take on Robin Hood. It started with Hood in 2006 and continued with Scarlet in 2007. If you haven't seen it, it's an interesting take on the story. It's set about two hundred years earlier than usual. A generation ago, the Normans came and took over England. During the time of the story, the Normas are now taking over Wales. 'Robin Hood' is not actually called Robin, but Rhi Bran y Hud, a Welsh king kicked out of his estate and now an outlaw.
Similarly, there are otAlong the way, he has picked up a large man called Iwan (Little John). And other familiar characters, with mostly unfamiliar names that I can't remember. Friar Tuck, for example, is something like Aelforth.
Anyway, I am currently reading through Scarlet, which focuses more on William Scatlocke / Will Scarlett.
I remember reading a piece by Tom Shippey (a noted Tolkien historian) that the history in the Hood, Scarlet series is messy and all over the place. As a work of fiction though it's fun enough.
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I still have a terrible addiction to World of Warcraft. The addiction is slightly less terrible than it used to be, seeing as all my characters but one have retired, and my main character now has very little to do. Yet, I still manage to play it a lot. I just like running around the world (of Warcraft) as a night elf druid (who can do everything!) too much.
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Around the same time I got Guitar Hero 3, I picked up Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Metroid is, at first, devlishly difficult to control and get used to. Then once you get used to it it's amazing.
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I'm having a bizarre and strange problem with my Internet connection at home. See what happens is that the connection is there and stable and I can access the internet fine for a while. Then after consistent usage the connection between my PC and the ADSL modem gets flakier and flakier until my PC isn't talking to the modem at all. The wireless devices in the house (that is, the Wii) have no problems connecting to the internet through the modem at this point, so it's not the connection to the Internet that's the problem, but the connection between PC and modem.
Once I give it a bit of time, the flaky connection comes back to relative stability again.
It's all very bizarre, and will likely require a replacement of either the modem (which is annoying) or the PC (which is also annoying, despite the PC being really old and needing replacing).
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Once upon a time I said that reading the official Dungeons and Dragons boards/forums was not the wisest or most intelligent thing someone could do. There were all sorts of silly things there, I said, with too much rules-lawyering and an unhealthily intense focus on the plight a Paladin's Code puts him/her in.
It ain't *nothing* on the World of Warcraft forums. The DnD forums have, at least, thoughtful and mature people who are capable of holding civil conversations with each other, despite how silly and/or stupid things are getting.
Anyway, this is a long-winded introduction to this thread
that I started.
And with that, I really have to stop reading the WoW forums. They're filled with immense amounts of silliness.
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...I went and reread this and thought "meh this seems boring" and was all set to delete it. Which is part of how I went for eight months without updating my LJ. So I will not delete it and will in fact post it and inflict it upon you all. MwahaHA. |
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