Wednesday 7 May 2003

Pic of the day: A group of armored adventurers in Darkness Falls, the Stygian underworld of Dark Age of Camelot. Do I look like I want to talk about it?

3 bubbles a day

I came home from work, switched to downloading a new anime. Watched Narue no Sekai episode 5. The series is growing steadily more decent and girl-oriented. Not that I am complaining, but wouldn't it have made more sense to have it like that from the very first episode, instead of having the wind and short skirt reveal her underpants for several seconds? I suppose it may have been necessary to establish the romantic attraction between the two main characters as early as possible. But is that really what you want to tell 14-year-old girls: In order to make a boy fall in love with you, let him see your panties? (Not saying it won't work, just that it seems a bit out of touch with the later episodes.)

While downloading the next anime, I played some DAoC. Eventually joined a group fighting Naburite Drinkers in Darkness Falls, and stayed there till almost midnight. It was great fun at first, although a bit slow. OK, abnormally slow. But later, after various group members had come and gone, I asked to disband. We had on average one death for every pull. Even as a paladin, there is only so much I can do in a group of 8 people. I can set Protect on one group member, meaning that I accumulate the aggression that he causes in monsters. (Usually this will be the group healer.) I can at the same time set Guard on one person, meaning that I will automatically block any attacks against him, if I am close enough. But this time, it was not enough. So I convinced the healers to quit, and then left myself. After all, I am not just any puller. I am a paladin, and I don't accept that people die on my watch.

As for my own character, I got around 3 bubbles (tenths of a level). Not impressive, about the same I could get from chain killing monster my own level elsewhere in the dungeon. At level 42, 3 bubbles a day is respectable, unless you are a student or something who can play all day and all night.

Afterwards I watced E's Otherwise episode 6, and enjoyed it greatly. The use of psionic superpowers is still very limited, one instance of force shield this time. I suspect it will heat up later in the series. Plenty of drama anyway, and character interaction. If I could choose between watching either the second X-men movie or a similar length of E's Otherwise, I would definitely go for the Japanese animation. Well, unless there's a cute girl who wants to see X2 with me. ^_^

Finally I started to play The Sims to get a screenshot for yesterday's entry. But almost at once I fell asleep, and the day ended.