Furious slacking
I accomplished very little this weekend, which I think my body and soul needed badly; this morning I went into work quite bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, clearing a lot of tickets over the course of the day. Actually, I slacked a bit too much, as it was my turn to do dishes, dinner, and laundry this weekend, and I only managed 1.5 out of three. Have to do better on that.
I did have a social obligation Saturday, which was nice – got to see some old friends – but the weather had gifted this little cookout with 90-degree temperatures and 90-percent humidity. I was still chugging glasses of water all day Sunday trying to rehydrate myself.
Don’t know if it was related, but I had a weird dream Sunday morning. Someone had physically wrenched the display screen completely off a laptop, and it was my job to fix it with nothing more than a roll of Scotch tape. The dream ended long before I found out how best to approach this little issue.
Mirandala dinged 61 Sunday night, with shrewlet‘s invaluable assistance. Soloing quests in Outland is less practical than in Azeroth, though simply grinding wandering monsters can be good for XP. My last level was in February: at 5 months per, I should hit the level 70 cap around the time they’ve raised it to 90 🙂 Hardcore, yep, that’s me. (Okay, I’d move quicker if I played alts less often. What’s your point?)
Speaking of such – WoW fans are agitating for personal housing in the game. Can the FFXI and SWG players chime in here and tell me what’s so interesting about that? What can you do in your house? Can you watch the magic bard-in-a-box for extra resting credit, or cook special meals for +25 Health bonuses. or throw a party for your friends to get Diplomacy XP? Or is it just fluff? (I like fluff fine, mind you.)
Tags: food, friends, gaming, parties, work, world of warcraft
My experience of housing from Dark Age of Camelot:
A place to keep Guild Storage other than a mule or guild treasurer, allowing people to drop things off and pick things up with ruthless abandon. This is less of a big deal with WoW because of things binding to you.
A place to hang out with guildmates that is less virtual and less crowded with other annoying people.
OMG do I hope they don’t do personal housing in WoW. There’s no NEED for it and it’s ridiculous…I just…I can’t even describe why the idea is contrary to everything I would enjoy. I don’t even know WHY but it rubs me the wrong way from start to finish, and normally I love stuff like that.
In FFXI a house is, as George Carlin says, where you keep your stuff. Currently, after completing all inventory quests, the maximum you can carry on you is 60 items (or stacks of items, if the items stack) but you can store in your house a maximum of 228 more items (although that combination is somewhat unusual, 150-180 being most people’s max).
You can also furnish your house and how you set up your furnishings can give you small advantages during gameplay. One of the crafts, Gardening, is done exclusively in houses.
If I recall from SWG, a house was pretty much a place to put things, although you could get a few machines to make things in a more central place than in the cities, I think….I never really got it…:laughing: but then, I mostly wandered around by myself…:>