lost again.

So how do you deal with people who are full of themselves? Or are obnoxious. Or both. They assume that they are right, and infallible. Wrongly so. For one instance, I was opening the door to the lab and he said that the lab was closed (I assume for a club function - a teacher was there, so he was not lying). I didn't hear him. The problem was that he had said it while I was opening an incredibly squeaky door. Normally, one would wait until the recipient of the message was in a position to hear it, instead of jumping the gun and then blaming it on the other person. People do stupid things, and pin the stupidity on you. Then one would have to waste their time in order to explain their actions. Except it makes it harder when they refuse to listen, or interrupt you whenever you try to discuss - no matter how valid ones reasoning is. This way they will never change and will always assume their way is best - which can cause problems to both others and themselves.

I've decided to take up another game... though it doesn't require a large client. It's called Achaea - a MUD. Currently I'm a level 13/14 Atavian Runewarden. Not that levels are supposed to matter. It's okay. The people are nice and friendly. Currently just getting money so that I can buy more clothes. I've got a homespun shift, a jacket, a steel shortsword, suit of steel chain mail, and a Y4C hat. There's not much I can say since I do not know the game very well. Hopefully I'll get to understand some more of it as I continue playing, otherwise... I wouldn't get anywhere useful.

There's not much to say nowadays. Or possibly it is because we were being bombarded with assignments and tests for the past couple of weeks. I need to brush up on my html and php. I've been saying that for quite awhile now that I think of it. Another would have to be my pixel art skills, which are rather rusty and were never good in the first place. I need some place more permanent where I can stick them (aside from my computer, in case it becomes dsyfunctional again). I'll have to look into that.

nostalgia = lost again. It has escaped my notice for oh so long. It just popped out of nowhere, but I was discussing archetypes with my friend, and I happened to mention the word nostalgia. And I looked at it. I took another look. Lo and behold, it was if the very gates of heaven let loose its glorious hosts and an angelic chorus of euphoniums (euphonium > trumpet) broke the very air with their pure melodies. Not so dramatic... but an amazing find nonetheless.

guilded glory.

It is extremely cold outside, or not really. It is only -5 degrees. But still. It's not even winter yet! I suppose it is normal for this time of the year, but it is always a surprise the first time it drops below 0. We'll cope. We're Canadian.

My math teacher was telling us a story in class (he usually has all these interesting stories, be it from his time in the Russian army or as a teacher) about when he was a teacher back in another country. A department head was coming to visit and he wanted his class to look good. This department head also taught math, so he would have to make a good impression. So he told his class before hand to raise their left hand if they had the answer, and the right hand if they didn't. But he was found out by a traitor who reported this. Anyway... I found it funny.

So I was feeling somewhat nostalgic about RO (Ragnarok Online). An MMORPG of all things. But it was a fun game, while it lasted. Or at least while aeRO lasted. My time at aeRO started as a knight, and I levelled to a somewhat high level, and as I was doing so, I bumped into some people from a guild called KoRRupT. Kyree and SCryed, I believe. Anyway... I helped them a bit and they invited me to their guild. It was fun, although Joe-Mama/Baysee was asking me for items in CT. I remember my first WoE. Where I walked in with my level 94 knight with practically no DEX whatsoever and tried hitting people but kept missing. KoRRupT didn't fare too well during that time. I eventually mad a priest and got her to level 69 or so. Also had a Hunter at 77 or so. I think I stopped playing on my knight, but joined JooH's guild on my priest. Good times. But a new server had popped up (Charm/Nocturna) called Development. All was good. I made friends with Nakor, Ikuraga, Kiara, irenicalentity. This was on my assassin, and later I made a hunter (Mordax? 115) and a wizard (Salus 153). This was a 2k/2k/1k server. I stopped levelling Salus because the Area of Effect spells (the higher-end spells for wizards) stopped working, so it was difficult to kill things. I just bummed around in PvP for the majority of the time and got to know people, but that died off. Due to randoming guilds consisting mainly of pinoys (philippines - mostly the rude ones), and me being a wizard, I could not do much. Since they have low defence and their attacks are easily negated by GTB cards, which everybody had.

So I switched back to Charm [30x] and played around in PvP, got to know people (some again). I levelled to 99 and joined KoRRupT around then too. Actually... I think it was JooH's guild. I do believe I participated in some WoEs then. Those were fun. Then came the big change... transcendant classes. That changed the fun level of RO completely. Both up and down. I tested some on aeROBeta and made a High Priest... Meditatio was broken (as in... it worked while you were standing) and Assumptio was broken (in that it did nothing except give a cool glowing thing). So I quickly changed to High Priest and levelled back up to 99. I joined KoRRupT and WoEd more. This was a silver age in my RO experience (the golden age being the summer previous in Dev). We would keep castles as a group, and seperate sometimes. Then we could just talk. We'd also level in Niffleheim (newly released, so the monsters gave a lot of EXP) and Baysee would always be on levelling in his "Baysee Mode" (he got to be the highest level legit character on the server). Everybody would talk while they levelled so it was all fun. We took some Geffen castles and had access to the guild dungeons. Here it was that I levelled to 118. But there was a big wipe and everybody got taken down to 110. (Baysee lost around 40 levels), I didn't leave yet though. KoRRupT had been the top guild for a while at this point, and the oldest surviving guild (probably due to a large number of its members knowing each other IRL). There was a large influx of members, some not so great. KoRRupT grew to such a great height that I knew practically none of the members. But it was (conveniently) around this time that a new server popped up. Primal. 5x rates. I joined as a crusader, and levelled up to 85 iwth pretty good equipment. Arch Angel wings, Fin Helm, Thara Frog, 3x Hydra cards. That stuff. But I got scammed. I thought someone was my guild master when they were not. I was stupid and naive. Whatever. My SAsquatch Card.. took me 4000 (literally... I had the Bear's footskins to prove it) to get a card.

I quit. And it was also around this time that Scryed (my guildmaster - KoRRupT) decided to make a new server... KoRRupTRO. I made an assassin X, got her to 99, but not before Zuuko did. Curse him. Made it through a bunch of wipes and made a guild... Celestial Confluence. I then decided to remake my priest. Hebe. So I got her to level 102 High Priest. I quit sometime around there. But not before my friends joined and I had some more fun. But also not after many rounds of DB roulette and many good items won. +7 Kakashi Head Band, +7 Sleipnirs, full elemental armour. But this was back before god items. So I had to hunt and kill 1700 Stem Worms for 4 cards. This took awhile. I also made a bunch of headgears (same as in aeRO). I could duel both Nando and Cassie at the same time (high level Paladin/Gypsy) and come to a stalemate, since I had Pneuma (for arrow-slinging Gypsies) and Angeling Card (for Holy-Crossing/Grand Crossing Nando) and they could both Heal, so it was problematic.

MMORPGs are only fun if you don't know what you're doing. Or when playing with friends and in endeavours that require teamwork. Go NE Druid in WoW. :p Druids are essential when fighting higher-end bosses who can kill you in one hit. But that died off as the levels available kept going higher and higher. Full Cenarion Set, Baron Rivendare's Steed, Lok'De'Lar, Stave of the Ancients. Couldn't get much better. Only like... the accessories and cape. No matter. It was good while it lasted.

And that is my life story.

gild, guild. Easy one.

my awesome day.

Today I witnessed an incident I found to be incredibly stupid near a small airport (for small 2 person aircraft), which being an aiport had a strong search light aimed upwords and circled around in a consistent pattern as a landmark in the night for aircraft. Near to it was a small machine with four high-powered lights which aimed their beams skyward and gyrated in a seemingly random fashion. This was far more prominent to me than the single light of the airport. It seemed like a malicious attempt by someone trying to mislead small aircraft pilots from the airport. I would not be surprised if they had blue christmas lights strung out across the roof to imititate those found on the runways.

Those who believe themselves to speak in absolute truths and deem themselves infallible tend to fall first and most frequently. I know one person who says everything, no matter how mundane (which is more often than not the case), as if it were profound, worthy of a 9 on the Richter scale. Sure, they may possess an inkling of intelligence, but don't wave it and annoy everyone with your molehill.

Work was incredibly long, though it was only half an hour longer than it was supposed to be. But since my work period lasts for only 2 and a half hours, 20% is a lot. But I spent the first hour correcting and recording as usual. But then my instructor had scheduled 6 new students. So I had to attend to that for practically the rest of the session. Giving them tests, explaining to them what they have to do, keep on reminding them to write the starting time. Marking it and so on. Then during that time I also had to mark the homework of students whose parents are unwilling to mark it. This seems to be the case among parents of new students (and even not so new ones) Some of them go so far as to mark the work, and by mark I mean assume that their child is brilliant and that the ability to make mistakes was eradicated from their bloodline. So they decide to mark all their work as correct, which makes it even worse for us assistants, as we have to assume that everything is unmarked, which negates the work done by the parents who actually correct correctly.

I think it is an unwritten rule in turn-based RPGs that if an enemy is at a hit point well within a reasonable amount of damage you are able to deal, you will always deal 1 less than that. And after that, they will never miss, instead dealing damage on the higher end of their abilities. But missing is the most viable option.

Word of the Day
awe
n.
1. A mixed emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired by authority, genius, great beauty, sublimity, or might: We felt awe when contemplating the works of Bach. The observers were in awe of the destructive power of the new weapon.
2. Archaic.
a. The power to inspire dread.
b. Dread.

tr.v. awed, aw·ing, awes
To inspire with awe.

From awe there came dread. From some it became full. How dreadful.

in need of whiteout

Pride. I've never had any concrete example that I've been able to refer to and to see it work in a negative manner. But even those that seem to work in a positive manner can have their fallouts, like national pride. Though it may seem all good and glorious and drawing people together, it can instill somewhat discriminatory ideas into people, but isn't that the idea? Our country is better than yours. We are better than you. I am better than you?

What I was referring to was something that happened to me the other day. My mom had asked me if I wanted to rake the leaves, and as was my usual case (lazy), I said that I didn't want to do it, and I do believe that she said something about next weekend. But as I went down to prepare myself a snack later on, I noticed that she was outside raking the leaves. I thought that she shouldn't be doing such a thing, and that rather I should be doing it, being nearly a quarter her age. I knew I should have gone out instead of doing whatever I was doing (namely, nothing), but I was unable to do so... because I had already told her no and that suddenly succumbing and raking the leaves would... be seen as a sign of weakness or some such thing. I was too proud to go back on my word, to rescind what I said and do the work.

I'm too lazy to rewrite this so... it'll have to do. :p