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I lost my mind and decided to plunk down 12,500 gold to get a Mechano-hog made.

But check out the badassness I bought with it! In the cut, because there are four images.

Yes, the license plate does indeed say "PWN".

( Get the motor running... )

Chapter 66 is now up! Chapter 67 has been sent to beta, so that should be up in a week or two.

And now I've got one!



This is my hunter (I switched mains from my priest to the hunter).

So the secretary for the board who decides who wins the Nobel Prize in literature said American writers are too insular to compete.

Dem's fightin' words.

Click on Who's Sebastian, then, for extra fun, click on the Where's Sebastian with your sample links.

Chapter 65 is up after 2 years.

I'm thinking of getting a Bamboo drawing tablet (it's the new Wacom line of consumer-priced tablets that're phasing out their Graphire line). My old Graphire 3 went to that great junk heap in the sky when the cable went wonky. The good thing about the Bamboo is that it'll have its own detachable USB cable, so that even if it crapped out, I could conceivably get a new one.

That 70 buck price tag (about 76 after taxes or so if I buy it locally) looks mighty fine, as well.

It was the year of fire...
it was the year of destruction...
the year we took back what was ours.

It was the year of rebirth...
the year of great sadness...
the year of pain...
and the year of joy.

It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.

The series intro for the fourth season of Babylon 5, my favorite out of all five seasons, each line narrated by a different major character in the series. The theme song was also my favorite.

Seems Dark Horse Comics published a one-shot called the Knights of the Old Republic Handbook that had profiles of all the main characters in the Knights of the Old Republic comic, which had Malak (when he had hair! and wasn't called Malak!), Revan (they kept the identity hidden, a nice nod to the various versions of Revan out there), Carth, and Saul Karath. All this is information about their lives before the K1 game. Interesting, Karath aged a lot in the time of the game, he was blond in the comics.

Anyway, here are the scans:

Alek (Malak)

Carth

Revan

Saul Karath (Sorry, Pris, looks like you were right when you first said he was blond.)

So I got Mass Effect for PC. Everything's cool, installation runs smoothly -- except it tells me my video driver is too old. I think nothing of it, happily pressing the PLAY button....

It doesn't freaking load.

It hangs. Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch.

I trusted Bioware to release a product that would at least load, even if maybe the graphics are chunking, but damn...

Wasted my 40 bucks.

Just ordered the PC version from Amazon.com (free shipping 39.99). Can't wait to see if it measures up to the rest of the other Bioware games. I've been careful to avoid reading spoilers or synopses, so I hope I'll be blown away from the awesomeness.

Just bought all five seasons of Babylon 5 on DVD for 125 bucks. Man I loved this show, and I never saw it again after Sci-Fi picked up season 5.

Some thoughts after finishing as a goody-twoshoes.

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The game is gorgeous, except for the movies, which I suspect looked great on TV resolution but not so great on computer resolution.

I suck at the combat, though; I had to crank the difficulty down to "Student". I'm too used to WoW combat.

Ordered it from Gamestop for 19.99 (25 bucks with shipping and taxes).

Let's see if it's as awesome as everyone says it is.

This will only make sense if you play World of Warcraft; the rest of you, move along.

( And so it begins... )

Patch day sucks.

Actually patch week is going to suck.

I just hope we can raid at all; the lag last patch was so bad everything in Blackwing Lair owned us.

I hate doing backgrounds. I may chicken out and get a screenshot.

Note to self: Do Not Click On Links That Contain The Words 'Dueling' and 'Challenge'.

P. S. Figure out how to set up a spotlight scene in real life. Lamp + Camera?

So, the current World of Warcraft guild I'm in is apparently falling apart. Now, I'd thought about leaving before, because we're simply not doing stuff anymore, not even the most simple of five-man groups, but I didn't, because snarky and midnight_hawk and aza have characters that aren't 60 yet, and most, if not all, of the serious raiding guilds (like Sanity, Powerlamers, and The Velvet Hammer) only accept players with 60th-level characters.

Now, Pris has decided to take her level 60 druid to The Velvet Hammer, because they asked her to join. I think I have a low chance of joining them, simply because they have truckloads of warriors and priests (the only classes I have at level 60), and they're not recruiting those anymore. I could join Sanity, or possibly Powerlamers, as I have connections there, and I've raided with Sanity once. However, this leaves snarky, aza and midnight out in the cold, since they don't have level 60 characters yet.

So, I think Pris's idea of an in-game KFM channel is good for keeping in touch, but if we're raiding with different guilds, we won't have time to play with you guys. I'll have Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays free, because that's when Feza has time to play in the evenings, if Sanity lets me into their raids (they might not). I could also leave Slander and stay guildless, so a guild won't impose obligations on me that'd cut into playing time with you guys, and help snarky at least level up her hunter to 60. I haven't decided what to do yet.

I'm flexible. We could all join a guild together, or not. I'll help you guys out if you need it, and I'm currently undecided as yet about what to do.

Good news: I got a new hard drive.

Bad news: I got a new hard drive.

My faithful Western Digital Caviar went wonky after four years, but went through a bit of a lingering death, enough for me to burn the really important stuff to CD before it went kaput (my fanfic, website, and Carth pr0n).

I got a new HD (Seagate Barracuda 200 gig) which I'm now reinstalling every damn thing on now. Then I have to find my World of Warcraft CDs and reinstall that, but Yahoo Messenger is reinstalled, Firefox, and hopefully I'll get my stuff back to normal.