Scimons Random Thought Table

As I said yesterday I need to post more, I like writing and my blog has for a number of years been a creative outlet for me. But recently I’ve found it hard to write anything. This being in large part to my ongoing failure to connect with the world. This year I need to get myself back on track, work out what I want to be doing and actually get it done. Rather than just coast along doing stuff that I find simple.

I have found that I’m losing my temper more often than I used, not seriously in a shouty rage kind of way but more in a generally despairing at the world and the intelligence of those in it. I need to calm down on that one and remember I’m as much of an idiot as all the Audi drivers out there. In my mind the driving of an Audi pretty much puts you into the moron category… It’s terrible I know.

Meanwhile my kitten, he’s my kitten when he’s being bad, is still a crazy ass mofo and is causing Amelie severe levels of stress. Mostly because she can’t seem to grasp the concept of hitting him really hard on the head. But it’s getting to the point where we’re probably going to have to get rid of him. Which is a shame since between his bouts of manic attack kitty energy he’s a cute little fur ball. Sometimes I think it’s because we don’t play with him enough, our other cats all had each other to play with but that’s not working out as well in this case. It’s all rather sad.

Work on ‘I Can Has XP’ has stalled, again, mainly because I can’t get the enthusiasm to write any and partly because I haven’t got a regular gaming group going. Plus I think there’s an echo in my head, or I’m suffering from deja vu.

Meanwhile the country gears up for a general election on a wave of apathy. Everyone tries to work out which of two piles of venal idiots to vote into power whilst arguing that no one else can be taken seriously. I really shouldn’t think too hard about such things, they just depress me.

I got Dragon Age for [winter gift giving holiday] which is really cool, but as it’s on the PS3 I don’t get to play it as much as I’d like (I.E. all the time I’m at home) as other people want to watch TV. Still my PC wouldn’t actually be able to run it so I’ll take what I can get.

GUGS starts again next week (apparently, feel free to tell me I’m wrong) so I shall see if I can get an adventure of XP written somehow… Hmmmm.

Anyway, that’s enough random thoughts, perhaps tomorrow I’ll have a plan. Oh yes, side note, I’m reading Game Night again. It’s still a very funny book, which if you haven’t read and don’t want to buy (shame) can also be found serialised on EN World.

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It’s Monday, it’s 2010, maybe I should blog something?

I’m not making any resolutions for this year in order to not add to my levels of disappointment. I will do my best to get excited about a project and see it through to finishing. Though to quote The Rock “Losers always whine about their best, winners get to go home and f**k the prom queen”. Much more pithy than Yoda if you ask me.

After the whole exploding appendix episode I’m feeling a lot more perky and am looking forward to trying to get a regular gaming/social life type thing going. It’d be fun.

I’m also going to write more here. Honest.

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A lot has happened in the last few months, including my appendix deciding it couldn’t take it any more and trying to take me with it. Leading to a rather large hole being cut in my stomach and a spell in hospital. Fun, fun, fun. I’m mostly healed now, still getting twinges from the wound and I’m rather tired but I’m getting there. So I figured I should post something.

I’m hoping to do more here next years than i have for a while, I may move from Wordpress to something more roll your own (we shall see). And I have a plan for a theme to next years blog, more on that if I get round to it. but I’m mostly posting because I’ve just listened to Tim Mincin’s White Wine In The sun and it made me cry. I may very buy it and possibly some Rage Against the Machine too as I think either would be funny as Xmas number one. If you’ve not heard it yet here is be.

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Cat in a Box

Originally uploaded by scimon

Look more kitten pictures! Also me testing I’ve got whole Flickr to Blog to Social Mediaverse thang going down.

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Just a quick post to say that I’m in France until next Saturday. I probably won’t be that easy to contact but I will check my emails… occasionally.
Expect any emails from me to possibly be a bit weird, a bit like this french keyboard.

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Oh yeah. Did I mention that I’m currently playing the Open Beta of Champions Online? Well Ok, not currently, I’m at work right now. And if I was playing then I wouldn’t be writing a blog post about it, I’d be Twittering (yes you can Twitter in game…. pointless but fun).

For those of you who have been hiding under a rock Champions Online is what Cryptic did with the Marvel MMORPG they were writing after they sold City of Heroes. (Those boys do love their super persons). Some of you may be wondering if there’s a link between Champion Online and Champions the RPG. These being the ones who’ve been under the rock who have also not been following the links and poking around. Why yes, I shall say unto them, it is, Cryptic liked the setting so much the bought the company. Honest. Which is good because the only copy of Champions I currently own is New Millennium and well, the less said about that the better.

Anyway I’ve been playing Champions Online since the Closed Beta, something I may have let slip to a few people. So I can tell you some stuff about it. Please note, I’ve not been much into MMORPG’s, I’ve only really played this and City of Heroes and I only played that because I liked the CCG. anyway, I’ve had a lot of fun, there have been a few snafu’s (like the servers not coping with the load on the first day of the Open Beta) but I think it’s something I may end up playing for a while.

A few things that I think may be a bit different to what you may be used to. No classes, (it does have levels though, oh well) you can pick any power you like. Powers come in three tiers, as an example here is the Single Blade Powerset. If you stay within a powerset you get access to the Tier 3 stuff earlier, but you can mix and match to your hearts content. Also if you check out Dual Blades you’ll see each has it’s theme, but there are overlaps for things like Momentum. Add onto this advantages that let you increase the power of attack or add abilities to them. My current character has Lightning blasts that I’ve upgraded to jump to secondary targets a lot, lots of fun when you’re surrounded by mutant baddies.

Other stuff, costume creation like City of Heroes (as in be prepared to waste a few hours). Super travel powers when you leave the tutorial mission, which is actually quite fun to play through… well the first 3-4 times. Apparently there is a plan to make it optional. So you get to zip around the maps nice and fast, oh and LOTS of different ways to fly.

What else? The combat feels like a slightly slowed down button masher. In fact just randomly hitting your power buttons can be a legitimate tactic. But learning your combos (Charged Dragon Bite -> Scything Blade -> Reapers Embrace for instance) really makes a difference. PVP is fun, I wasn’t very good with my last character as I couldn’t fly, but I was good at throwing trucks at people. Did I mention that a lot of scenery is destructible and can also be picked up by super strong character to be used as a weapon? Generally it’s a good technique to get peoples attention, and knock a few out of course.

So anyway, I’ve been having fun. But I’m not getting the game when it comes out on the 4th of September (in Europe)

I’ll be in France on holiday. The week After it comes out though. That’s a different story.

Side note chorlte.

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