The Way Things Work: Memory

I wrote a very long and bitchy post, and I really didn't need to. So I deleted it.

I guess what I figured out through all that ranting is that you have to accept that no matter how much time has past, no matter who you're with now, and no matter the previous circumstances, some people you will always care about. There will always be circumstances where you'll hear about their travails, and your first instinct will be to want to teleport over state lines and give them a big hug.

I feel very weird about this, mostly because of my current relationship. That being said, empathy is not cheating, and I should feel good about maintaining these friendships with people from home.

On a note that's much more honest to myself: (Damn hormones. Fucking sex drive. Grrrr. Fucking thinking with the lower brain...damn can't keep a single fucking thought in my head clean anymore)

Italics make everything better, seriously.

INFANTRY

Back towards the end of middle school, I found this cool online game called Infantry. It was free to play, involved a lot of shooting people, tons of weapons and persistent character buildup as well. When I got back to it in high school, it was sadly switched to a pay model. Well, I found out that Sony, the owners of Infantry, have made it free to play once again. I installed the game, logged on, and was overjoyed to find a CTF server with over 100 people on it. So cool, I recommend you all play it. It's free, not bandwidth intensive (I played it in 7th grade on 56k), and really damn fun.

Post 300!

This is madness!
Madness? THIS...IS...BLOGSPOT!!!

Yeah, 300 posts. Woo.

So, I still have been having major RP ADD with regards to settings. I've had a bunch of ideas, but am still rapidly flitting from one idea to another with little regard for compatibility or continuity. After seeing the previews for GURPS High-Tech, I'm quite aware that a lot of fodder exists for a modern setting. I kind of want to do a modern setting with some fantasy or horror elements, but overall something pretty gritty. I've been able to narrow a bit onto my next bit of GMing, which will be an espionage PbP. That being said, I've been having a lot of ideas that I want to work into something new. I think for my next game, depending on what I want to do, I may limit it to four or five players, just choosing the first four/five that submit to me a character with the right depth of field that fits into the concept. Hopefully, no one will take it personally if I tell them a concept doesn't fit...and that wouldn't preclude them from participating, necessarily. Anyways, I'll probably get another journal and use it exclusively for fiction and RPG stuff. They sell quadrille journals, so that may be awesome. I can also use it to write down ideas during other games. Dan's game will start soon, and though my character concept isn't completely tacked down, I think the game will be pretty cool. Anyway, I'm going to go get that journal now, since I thought about it.

IT'S ALIVE!

Yes, my computer is up and running again, now with a 120GB hard drive and a lot less crap on it. I'm in the process of running a data recovery on my old HD (using a nifty USB-t0-pATA converter), and should get back all of my important files. This ordeal has taught me much on the value of backups. Though, for better or worse, all of my files that were actually important (resume, school files, etc.) were already backed up on school or email servers. Now, I can back up all of my unimportant files too. Woo!

The Unthinkable

Today, the unthinkable happened. Yeah, my computer died. It sucks. I ordered a new hard drive from Newegg, as well as a nifty adapter thingy to get all the data off of my old drive. Hopefully, I'll be up and running by the middle of next week. Until then, I'm confined to the clusters. In the meanwhile, I can practice living without a computer. It'll probably be pretty eye-opening, considering how much of a hermit I can be at times.

What rhymes with procrastinate?

Yeah, I have work to do...later.
In the meanwhile, I'll update this thing for the sake of not doing said work.
Wednesday is the point in the week where everything compresses. Either, I get wicked stressed and all my homework piles up, or it all winds out as I've done all my work and don't have enough assignments left to fill in my free time.
Everything's been going slowly so far.
And I'm a little afraid I'm backpedaling, which is stupid.
I guess the more time you have to think about things, the further you get away from your rational core.
I need time to write for the campaign. I'm not feeling this one yet, which kind of sucks. Maybe it'll get better...I just built it up way too much. Maybe I need a break, or just something that gets my juices flowing. I don't know why this isn't.

"It's Complicated"

I blame Facebook for giving me any incentive to care about others' relationship drama.

In other news, this roleplaying forum has given me a new place to vomit all of my cool ideas on. I want to see how this wiki thing works, though I'm a bit scared about what will happen. In all honesty, the fun of it is seeing where it goes. It's not going to be as totally off the wall as Ghyll, but since we don't have as many people, it wouldn't be efficient to start from random points. If I ever knew 100 interested people, though...
I'm probably going to make the process a little different, now that I've had some time to think about it. For one, there will most likely be an upper bound on the number of pages one can write in a round, to prevent any one person from being more prolific than anyone else. Also, there may be a stage called 'gameplay' instead of or after the last round, where aspects of the wiki are updated and changed as things happen ingame, or to account for possible additions to the world dynamic in the form of backstory or revealed history.
All in all though, I think my set of rules will work well. Seeing how everything emerges, we can decide exactly how kooky and/or cool this will be.

NERD! NERD!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4521/DD-v3-5-Character-Sheet-All-Class-Compatible-Color-Coded

Click on "Listen to a recording of this document".
Pure Gold.

Triple Shot of Oy

Long relationships ended in the house within the past month: 3

Jeez, I hope it isn't contagious.

I figured out what my favorite type of music is

My favorite type of music is live music.
I mean, I'll listen to anything, but a good concert is almost always more enjoyable.
Live jazz? Sweet. Live Hip-hop? Saw Atmosphere, that was pretty sick. Live Reggae? Matisyahu. And so on...
Saw these bands tonight, Marking Twain and We The Living. Both on the indie side, only moderately within my typical circle of interests, but live, they both had great stage presence, and put on a good show, so the type of music wasn't a big deal.

Tomorrow, we finally meet to start the space campaign. I am so fucking stoked.