Two, and three.

I was thinking about game design. And how I like maps. And how I like playing games where the game makes maps. Civilization is one of these....when you were wiped out or when you won the game would show you this map of your territory and you could watch it expand and interact with other nations. So my first thought was why not have a game where the entire world was surrounded by 'chaos' and your duty was to spread order. Places where players often gathered would become ever more orderly, safe, and idilic and places players avoided would grow chaotic and full of monsters. The further you went into 'places' unknown the stronger the monsters. And the game would the entire time keep a map that would fill in details as you traveled and slowly erase them as you stopped going places. Newbies would serve a great purpose by patrolling the 'safer' zones making them ever safer. Experianced players could make huge campaigns into the wilds to establish new safe zone...

Here is what I do when I get bored and don't have a game to play. I make fake maps. Green = extremely dense forest, people don't come back. Grey = mountains. Light Grey = roads. Cyan = borders Blue = river Dark blue = ocean Bright red = occupied territories Dark red = battle sites. Black square dots = towns Black lines mark the edges of the 'rift' a geographical feature much like the grand canyon, but slightly bigger. A brief history. The south most battle was won by the defending country(the one with all the towns). It had been recently invaded by the country to the far North West due to a dispute over fishing rights. The defending country has possibly the most advanced navy in their world, and basically picked a fight. The invading country has a HUGE standing army and was in countering little to no resistance as the invasion was really rather unexpected. The defending country expected to be paid off, their lands north of the rift are not very valuable and they...

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/ I like how she has clearly described each step and warned you to behave calmly and professionally. Just linking to it here so I can find it in the future and so that others can use it.

Yesterday was supposed to be me posting. But the new guy in our department spent the day in my cubical and well... its really hard to write stuff while someone is stairing over your shoulder. Especially someone you only know vaguely. Thats my excuse. My mother commented on one of our posts and noted that she and my dad liked BRK's Tech School Stories. I demand! TJ use her powers to get us more of the funnies and less of the poems. I'm sure me saying I demand it is gonna make her just sit up and go do it. Pfft. One of my favorite songs ever is "I like to mooveit mooveit". The movies Madagascar and its up coming sequal use it a lot with the lemurs? who play the roll of the strange and easily startled natives. Anyways I'm butchering this song in my own cheerful way and my daughter does a half-squat and starts wiggling her butt back and forth. It was SOOOOOO CUTE. She stopped when I started laughing though. I love it when she dances. Yesterday we found out ...

Harisan Dax Ess I figured I'd throw in my two cents. We try to work together. No solo pulls, no needless blame, no fleeing when it looks bad. Waiting for the tank to mark the mobs and following directions 85% of grouping is working together. The other 15% is me ;P. Joking. Seriously stop beating me. Yes I know I'm like the worst person on our team, geez, I party with superawesomestarpeople...I need a little ego stroking when I can get it. NO not that ego. We're group specc'ed. Like others have said, we aren't specced for soloing. Green doesn't have an Enh Shaman or a Combat rogue, even if we do have a BM hunter, Shadow Priest, and a feral druid. Its not the gear. I'm still wearing a lot of greens and some Wailing cavern junk. And I use the leftover level 5 potions from the guild vault. Its not the CC. Because green rarely gets to use it because their idiot tank emulates Thrall and face pulls junk before people are ready. He marks ice traps and then...

I had this awesome and great blog post. But then my brain fried out somewhere in the wetlands. I now am level 25. Yay. Only 45 levels to go. Sleep now tlak later. Wulfa might have mercy on you and write something more readble this what I hav ethrown together here. Or mayb eshe'll just tell you to suffer the slacker that is me. who knows.

Thank you, thank you, for that wildly thunderous applause. I really don't deserve it, no I don't. I just have a few people that I would like to thank, without which this event would not be possible. First of all I'd like to thank the little people. Gotta love ya! And then, of course, Blizzard for making an MMORPG that I would play and actually enjoy. My hubby thanks you for that as well. The Sidhe Devils. What would I have done without you? Such a warm, loving, caring lot of NE's , gnomes, draenei's , humans, and dwarves . And there are a few people who I must single out, although all of you played an important part in my success: Dax , who kept me supplied with gear, and who's NE Rysteranch provided much-needed eye candy for Wulfa , at least until Dampanza came on the scene and stole her heart =) Eustace, for being simply the most-awesome person Wulfa has ever partied with, aside from Dammy , of course. Nas , for being my punctuation and gramma...

Trying to think of things to do. At work my job consists of handling 'cases' that come in. I currently have 7 of these. 5 of which are -entirely- waiting on the 'casee' to tell me everything is fixed. 1 of which is mangled up by 'paperwork' and is looking at a resolution of 'death by a thousand cuts'. 1 of which is waiting on the 'casee' to answer the phone so I can say I don't know how to solve it and get it to the right department. All my web comics have been read. All my reader things have been read. Google news has been read. I've already researched cat druid leveling and dps and gear like 5 time but haven't had a chance to play yet so nothing to do on that front. Gmail and work email has been fully read. I've even gone back and read through the sluggy/sheldon archives. I'm hurtin here guys. I don't want to ask for a good old fashioned time killer because the second I get it I will get a ton of new cases and the...

So, I casually mentioned in guild chat once that I liked a certain rather famous cooking/chef personality. Someone who shall remain nameless does not agree with me*. In their opinion, she needs a new fashion consultant (I think her clothes are adorable), she needs to learn how to speak English (I think her colloquialisms are funny), and I can't remember whether or not her voice displeased them-but I think her voice is cool. This other guildie likes another chef, and last night I finally remembered to look him up (because I work in a bookstore and though I had heard of the chef dude I couldn't remember what he looked like). He looks funny! He isn't fat enough to be a chef! So there! Haha! And he wears glasses (not sure why that struck me as funny)! So, fearless guildie, your dude is just as funny as my gal! *just a small note: none of this came even remotely close to annoying me. Just thought it was funny =)

But still funny: "I'm not sure what I need to work on...I keep falling behind on the damage meter" "what damage meter?" "you know...omen"