Day One!!!

Day one of Guild Wars 2 is here. Bought the game, got it installed, got the account made, all went without a hitch.

I created a Norn Necromancer, female... reason to a female choise? The males didn't have good beards :P
I know its silly to not create a male just becouse of that, but considering how the Norn look, like giant vikings on steroids, I want them to have awesome beards. Like full beards with braides and shit. But nope, just some minor beards with said braids.

Anyway, I got to around lvl 6ish, I think, and then the game told me they were going to restart the game for a minor update.. so I thought, great, I'll take that time to go get my package from the post office that contained more RAM's, which is now installed, so I now have 8gb of ram instead of the low 4.

But after that... it sucked.

Seemed as thou they have some issues with the loggin on the european servers... so no more gaming for a bit. Gonna try again every 15 minutes or so.

One last thing... the game is fun. But I have virtually no idea what I am doing :P

Cya

The Plague and A Day

It would seem as thou I have contracted... THE PLAGUE!!!

Yea yea, I know, its not the plague, its just fever and a cold. But when we guys get sick, its the plague. Deal with it.
Woke up at 4 in the morning with a nightmare, and I only have nightmares when I have fever. So it took my exactly 4 seconds for me to realize, after I opened my eyes to escape the wierd darkness I was trapped in in my dream on my way home from work, that I had fever... it took another 4-5 seconds to actually feel the fever. It sometimes takes awhile before the body, after waking up from deep sleep, to figure out something is wrong... for me.. about 10 seconds.

I took a painkiller that also helps to fight fever, then went back to sleeping. Woke up about an hour and a half before the alarm, and thats when I realized, quite quicker I assure you, that I couldn't breath trough my nose.
The cold part of this dreaded plague had hit.

This evening I started freezing again, so the fever got new life I suppose, and it hurt like hell to hold a frozen pizza in my fingers.

I do hope I'm better by tomorrow... becouse...

Tomorrow I will be, sick or not, taking my bike to buy Guild Wars 2. Official launch is here (tomorrow that is, tuesday the 28th), and I am longing to start installing it and creating my account. Granted, I will probebly not be playing all that much seeing as I will still be sick, minor we hope, but still.
Hell, even if I turn out to be well, that the Nordic Plague of Doom, has stopped killing me softly, I will still be smart and take it easy, and be in bed early, aswell as taking naps and stuff after meals.
Rest, drink and some nutritions and I should be fine by the time I need to be back at work.. aswell as the 50 year party on saturday in Sthlm.

Cross your fingers (or hold your thumbs) that the plague will die.. and not me :P

Cya

6 Premium Trains!

I called the people that gave me the premium, the 5 grand I was talking about in the previous blog entry, and asked if I could use it for rent... no.
So I guess I'm gonna have them change my floor in the kitchen instead. Right now it yellow... but its not yellow-yellow... it "10 year old yellow that has seen better days" -yellow. Depending what it costs, I might get new kitchen cabinets while I'm at it.. they are yellow too... and it has always bugged me.. yellow like that is NOT good looking.

But I'll go see em next week, tomorrow is work, as usual, but what is not, is my trip to Gothenburg the day after. By train. Yea, I'm gonna spend the weekend in Gothenburg, sleep at dad's place, and make the town on saturday. Home sunday afternoon.

6 days remaining until Guild Wars 2 is in my hands too... or in my computer more like it, atleast if we are going to be exact, not like I'm gonna have it in my hand at 1 in the freakin morning, by then, its gonna be installed and the disc with box is gonna be stowed away among the rest of the game boxes, WoW, WAR, SW ToR, DoW.. lot of abbreviations there, if you know em all, YOU can try and win the GRAND PRIZE!!! A blue air guitarr in optional colour! Runner up wins a dead ant! Hurry and play, you might win!!!

Anyway, thats it for now.

Cya

Sleepless VIP

Tried to get some sleep just now.. but for some wierd reason, my heart wont let me. It started beating like I was on speed and in a marathon race on the final stretch. Wierd I tell ya... realy wierd.

I got laundry tomorrow too... so I need my sleep if I'm gonna be up in time.

Oh well...

Opened my rent letter today, or so I thought... it wasn't rent. It was my housing company that wanted to congratulate me for living in this shitty apartment for 10 years. 10 freakin years!!!
When I moved in, I was aiming for maybe 3-4 years. Not 10. But now they want to give me 5000 bucks for it, as a premium, that I can then use for stuff like new wallpapers, new floors or what ever.
Now in swedish money, thats gonna cost more then 5000, any of those basicly.. maybe not the floor in the kitchen thou (if you've been here, you know what I'm talking about), so I'm gonna call em on monday and ask em if I can instead use this premium to be rent free for a month instead, thats just 3355 bucks, not even close to 5000, and I wont (probebly cant) ask for the difference either. Just thought it might be cool to be able to have that extra 3355 one month, to do something extra with.. like buy a new motherboard, or a new cool mouse, or update my wardrobe, or new shoes that wont break after 2 months, and perhaps a newer jacket (the one I have is way over 15 years old.. but hey, its real leather).
This I will ask them... and I am going to insist that they dont answer right away, but look into it first. I'll pay for the new floors and the new wallpapers when I move out, no worries, just let me get a new jacket please *begging*

We'll see what happens. *crossing finger*

---

In other news. Had an old friend over tonight, watched a movie, drank some booze and had some laughs...

I wonder if the booze has made me sleepless...

Or just the amount of candy I've stuffed down my throat...

Or maybe... fuck if I know.

Cya

Cheating Wait time with Max

Even thou I am cheating in Borderlands... I am having the time of my life with it. Its quick action (and I still play like I can die even thou I cant.. for some reason), its fun missions, awesome weapons, funny npc's and insane mobs.
Last night I was going to play an hour or so then relax with some classic male "entertainment"... I was going to jerk off in other words... and after about an hour of play I got the idea of visiting one of the DLC places in the game that was then perfect for my level, and all of the sudden it was 5:30 in the morning.

Where the hell did the time go???

So yea.. fun game that makes you forget about time. We like that.

At first I thought it would just be another action game that would be over after 6-7 hours of gameplay.. but holy hell, I'm no where near the end, and I've been playing for 4 days now. Loving it!

Still waiting for Guild Wars 2 thou... just a weekand a half now, 11 days to be more precise. And I do hope it meets everyone expectations.. or atleast mine, what the fuck do I care about the rest of the world? :P

So all I do now, is wait, kill mobs and drink Pepsi Max :P

Lets see what else is in store for me this weekend :)

Cya

Ideas Come Wrong

Yea you read the title right... Ideas Come Wrong.. as in I had an idea just now... for a build in Minecraft. I know, its silly to get even the slightest idea about doing anything in a game like minecraft.. but I tell ya.. play the game and you'll get silly ideas too.
The problem thou is that the idea is something that will take a long time.. so why the hell do I get that idea at 2 in the fuckin morning??
At 2 in the morning its not good to get ideas that takes hours upon hours to complete... I got a job damn it!!!

Speaking of jobs.. might get another one of those soon. Meet a guy today for a short talk, and he basicly hired me after just 10-15 minutes of mindless "shootin the breeze". Sure, I have to sign some papers, give my info, and get a heads up on what to do.. but still, another job... yey for me!

Now I just have to try and get 3-4 shifts at this new place.. and I'll be up to and even beyond the 100% (right now I work at about 48-50% of "usual" work hours).

Well I'll keep my fingers crossed...

Cya

T minus 16 days.

So its 16 days left until Guild Wars 2 becomes avalible. Good thing I have a job or I would be bored out of my fuckin ass.
Got a new game yesterday (new as in I haven't played it before), called Borderlands.
In a way, its very similar to Fallout, yet its far from anything like fallout. But i did get kind of a Fallout-y feeling when playing it for some reason, perhaps thats why.

Insane idiot that keeps attacking me. He dies each time.

You start as one of four different characters, and you arrive in Fyretown, or something like that, and are greated by a very funny little robot on one wheel. Then your job is to find a mytical vault containing ancient alien tech and what not.

First things first thou... this game is so hard that after a specific boss fight, I cheated. Now let me first tell you about this boss.
He's big, but that usually doesn't mean shit anyway. No his size is just a means of telling me he's strong and going to hurt, so stay the fuck away from him. Sure I thought, lets do that. I'll dodge, I'll jump around and I'll run alot... should be fine. I mean, its just a lvl 15 boss, I am lvl 15 with lvl appropriate weapons.
So I jump into the arena like area and start blasting him with my machine gun, shotgun and even my revolver, I do crap damage and it seemed this boss is so strong that if I get hit once from his hands, I go down to around 50ish HP... down from 250+ with my shields down from 103 to 0. His grenades that he sometimes throw around, has insane blast radius and take all my shields, and all my hp in a singe hit... and then there is his minions, small insane dudes with blades and their own grenades that they dont throw away, but kill themselves with close to me...
After about 10 minutes of this, realizing there was just no way to survive this... I cheated. Fuck it. I became a God... went into a text document, and changed demigod=false.. to demigod=true.
I had played the game for less then 6 hours, and had to cheat... its probebly atleast another 6-12 hours of play left, and I had to cheat to be able to do so... first I thought perhaps there is a difficult lvl in the game, and I was unknowingly on "Nightmare" or "Hell" or just "Very Hard"... but no... no difficult levels could be found.
That boss fight pre-cheat took anywhere from 5-15 seconds for me to die and inflict less then 5% damage on the boss. After cheating, it still took around 5 minutes to kill the fucker.

Well its not like I've never cheated in a game before, few games have gone without me cheating, MMO's ofc, and then games like Tetris have never been cheated in... :P

Anyway, its monday... /sigh

Cya

The Wolves of Chaos

Had a thought on my way home from work today... thought I'd share it.

First thing, yes I do belive this.

Second, I dont care what you think of this theory. Period.

I read once that an old indian, or native american if you like, was speaking with a youngster. He told the young one that every man is born with a light wolf and a dark wolf inside them, the light wolf is the good in man, and the dark wolf is the evil in man, and they are constantly in battle with eachother. The young one asked the old man which one wins, to which the old man answered:
- The one you feed.

I belive that I have these wolves inside me. The light wolf and the dark wolf. Not in a litteral sence ofcourse, but still.
I how ever, feed both.
It might sound wierd, but I think that the light and the dark is needed in every person. You need a bad side even thou you want to be good. For balance.
Someone asked me once, dont remember who, why I belive that darkness and evil needs to exist, according to me. The following is what I told him.

I belive that all sides are needed, the dark and the light, hate and love, sorrow and happiness. We all want peace in the world, we all want friendship and love. But I belive that if there is no evil, no darkness, then these things that we want, has no meaning.
Imagen a world where the inhabitans know no fear, no hate, no anger, no war. Sounds great right? Wrong. Its not great.
I think that without war, hate and all the other "dark emotions", we as a race would die... and fast too. We have shit happening all over the world right now. Somewhere someone is killing people just becouse they belive in some other god, someone somewhere is right now making sure they earn a shitload of money and dont give two shits about the people that work for him, there are poor and sick and hungry people all over the world, there is so much food and water in the world that we could easily feed every person in the world.
The darkness in us all keeps the emotions that we class as bad... and I do belive we need em.

And here's why.

Lets go back to the world without fear, anger, war and hate. The inhabitants are free and happy and never worry about anything. But they will die. Not from war, they dont have any. Not from hatred from a jelous neighbour, there is no such thing.
They will die becouse the emotions we want to exist alone, love, friendship, kindness will loose meaning.
Ask yourself, if there were no war, ever, on our blue and green planet, no hate, no anger, do you honestly belive, that a friendly smile and handshake from a stranger would matter. That a hug from your loved one when you come home from work, or the hunt, or the foraging would matter?
Without the dark, the light and its good feelings and emotions, wouldn't matter, becouse they wouldn't mean anything. We need love, but we need hate to understand what it is. We need war (not always ofc), to understand what peace is. We need anger to understand what kindness is.

Without the darkness... we wouldn't even know what the light is.

The inhabitants on the peaceful planet would die from apathy. They would soon stop eating, couse they wouldn't know why it would matter, they wouldn't drink couse they would see no point in it.
We eat and drink to live, we live to be able to help (or destroy) our friends, to love and protect our loved ones. Without the need to do these things, protect our loved ones, help our friends... we would have no reason to live.

We need the darkness... we need the light... so I feed my wolves equally, for balance.

And balance for me, is Chaos, equal amount of hate and love, kindness and malice, war and peace.

We need our Wolves of Chaos.

Cya

T minus 22 days.

The headline for this is refering to the time until a game I'm currently waiting for called Guild Wars 2 is released. Its much like a game like World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online and Star Wars the Old Republic, as its a game you play with thousands of other random people across the planet (or in most cases, across europe/america/asia).

But beyond that, I do belive its going to be vasty different from most other MMO games. Gonna make a list to mention a few of the reasons, they might not all be correct to 100%, but the gist of it is there.

One of the ways its different from the other large MMO games is that its basicly free. I say basicly becouse its not entirly free... it will still cost you a bit of cash (or credit) to buy to start with, just like every other game in history... no I'm not "also" talking about android games, couse they generally suck anyway. So you pay, what? 40-60 euro. And the game is yours. But where it goes free, is everything after that, you dont pay every month to play like in the others. The only time you actually pay for shit, is in the "micro transactions". These "micro transactions" doesn't give you anything of real value as to help you with your combat in either PvE or PvP, but can, for example, give you a boost to experience, or possibly some aesthetic changes, such as perhaps a new look to your character... haven't dug into this so dont quote me on it.
But beyond that, you will never have to pay for anything but the game itself to be able to enjoy all the content of the game.

This game has crafting just like ever other game. But it gives you experience for every little thing you make. So if you want, you can create a character that doesn't get to do anything but craft things for your main character, and it still gets to gain to highest level. So just collect the stuff needed with your main, and give it to your "alt", and before you know it, that alt is level 80. Very cool thing.

Asura

The last thing I wanted to take up, is the skills. Now there is a shitload to talk about with the skills, but I'm gonna take the 2 things that matter most to me.
First thing; In all other MMO's I've played, I've always had the same problem. In any combat situation, be it PvE or PvP, I've always had to deal with 20 to 60 freakin buttons to keep track of, and an eaqual amount of skills and trix to remember where they are. The most importaint ones are always connected to the number 1 to 6 keys on my keyboard, the second most importaint have been locked to Shift+1 to Shift+5. The rest I've had to click with my mouse... and the mouse is usually, atleast in PvP, occupied with paning the camera around and help my character strafe in a semi cirlce... very annoying, and very frustrating.
But in GW2, you have 5 skills.. thats it. Well you have 10, but the last 5 can very well be done with just the mouse, as I've understood it. But its 5 skills... skills you cant unbound, that you are forced to use... UNLESS... unless you change weapons. Now you can only change between 2 different sets of weapons, unless you open your inventory and manually change the weapons, otherwise just hit the TAB button, or what ever button they placed that on, and go to town with your back ups.
Now this might seem like a "What the hell are you talking about Daniel, go to bed!!" And I will.. soon. But hear me out. Lets say you are a Necromancer, my first choise, and you are in a PvP situation with a staff in you hands, then your 5 skills will give you alot of AoE (Area of Effect) skills for long ranged combat, but then you swith to your axe and warhorn, the axe goes in your main hand and makes you a medium ranged spell caster that will do some serious damage to a single enemy and the warhorn a swarm of locusts that will weaken or slow down your enemy, if you change the warhorn to a dagger, then the last 2 skills out of the 5 will change and you weaken the enemy and also transfer things like bleed effects or conditions to him/her/it.
So depending on your choise of weapons and combinations of weapons, you get different skills and spells you cant use with other weapons, and you dont have to remember more then perhaps; this weapon gives AoE, these give me more CC (Crowd Control), these makes me go up close, and these makes me stand at a distance.
In my oppinion, thats just loads of better for not going insane.

The Classes, from left to right, awesome x 8

Beyond that, do some research on your own and see what its all about.

Cya

Late Night Entry

... or early morning entry? What ever the case, its almost 3:30 in the morning, which means I'm about to go to bed. Listening to old comedy on mp3 and just killed a bunch of jackasses in Saints Row the Third.

Had a bit of dinner at the Pedro residence, good food and a good movie after, The Hunger Games, better then expected, and I do hope they actually make the second one now.
Anyway, the thing about the Pedro-dinner, is the conversation we had when he taged along for a bit on my way home. We spoke, at lenght, about our pooping rutines... I know.. wierd huh? Guess we are getting old.

The weekend is so far rather good even without Isabelle here. Been busy every day. Visit to an old friend last night with a few beers and a rather brutal movie on the friday, and this day, dinner and another rather brutal, but a bit slow and teenagey movie, with some wierd discution topics as priviously mentioned.

Speaking of Weird :P

We'll see what happens tomorrow. Did laundry earlier today, so I guess I should start clearing out the bedroom so I can start cleaning that place too. Got to check the cleaning products I need to clean with aswell.. something tells me their containers could be empty, gone or they never existed :P

Cya