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So this post is about various online relationship stuff, so if that’s of no interest to you, then, well, feel free to skip it.

Back when I joined LJM with Brer, I met a girl named fayne. Basically, she’s just flat out awesome. Soft. Make-me-shiver flirty at times. The sort of person who I feel like I can just talk about myself to, and she’ll be genuinely interested. On a little MUCK thing based around sex, all we’ve really done is snuggle and talk. And it’s just… it’s great. I freely admit I have a crush, or whatever you want to call it, on her.
And that’s the problem, I guess. Because I really like her, I find myself, each time I see her, being more and more worried that I’m not doing the right thing. I want her to like me. I want her to like me so we can spend more time together. And I mean, she does like me. But I just worry and worry, and I get stuck and I can’t make things go anywhere and then I worry more about that… ugh, it’s frustrating.

I can blame a little bit on internal power confusion that I feel in our relationship. fayne calls it hierarchy, and that’s a good word for it, but I feel it’s more instinctual. Basically, when I interact with people, I just get a feeling where our power is in relationship to each other. If I’m below them, then it’s no problem, I’m just submissive. If I’m above, I’m my own little flavor of dominant. With people I know really well, we can easily and sort of instinctually negotiate fluctuation in this to get things done.
The problem comes when I feel like I’m really even with someone and I have to interact with them. Suddenly I don’t know if I should take the lead, or hold back, and I worry that if I take the lead I’ll do something wrong, or if I don’t take the lead that’s doing something wrong. I feel like I’m on that level with fayne. We’re kindred spirits, or so I like to think. I never know how much power to apply, even though we’re in a MUCK where it’s kinda clear that I’m supposed to do such things.
But I can’t just do anything I want, because I care very much about what she thinks. I mean, anyone I play with in a dom/sub scenario, I care about them having fun. But in most, it’s just… before we get started, I make damn sure that anything I say is fine to say. They can always tell me no if they don’t want it, but the rules are very clear that I am right to want any ridiculous thing I want, you know? I don’t feel like that with fayne. So I worry. And worry.

I don’t know, I feel like I should be over this bullshit by now. I feel like, at some point, I got over all of my social awkwardness by being confident in who I am. Sure, I worry, but I’ve decided that, as long as I’m confident I’m doing the right thing, nobody is going to hate me for it. I can just be myself, I can be open and honest, and if people don’t like it, well, I’ll still be polite to them, but they’re probably not the kind of person I want to deal with anyway. I really, seriously do have so much more confidence around people, especially online. I shouldn’t have these problems. I should just say “Fine, I’ll just do this.” And do it. And by doing something, be better off.
But somehow she takes all that away from me. Well, not takes. I don’t for one second believe any of this awkwardness is her fault. It’s all internal inside of me. She is having an affect on me, but it’s how i”m processing it that is making me feel like this.

I should be better than that.

Maybe it’s her signals. Maybe it’s the way we can be doing something, and she’ll do something to make me shiver, affect me in that way, and then go back to what we were doing. Maybe it’s the way I’m always caught off guard and delighted by that. How I want more of that, but I get the feeling that’s all she wants from it. Yet I’m supposed to be in power, so I should have it, but I’m too worried she doesn’t want it. Gah, I don’t know.

I really should be better than this bullshit worrying and frustration, though. No matter what, I believe we’re building a solid friendship here, one that we both want. I really shouldn’t be worrying about it. I should just be enjoying myself.

I should just be enjoying myself.

Before you even finish reading anything else on my blog, which I hope you do read at some point maybe, seriously, go over and read Problem Sleuth over at MS Paint Adventures. I. Laughed. So. Hard. You have to read it. I’m serious. Dead serious.

No, seriously, go read it now.

No, seriously. Or I’ll have to show you some Sleuth Diplomacy.

You know, I had the idea that, if I ever want to make a “Real blog” (Which means, I guess that this ISN’T a real blog, which is completely wrong. I mean, it’s a Blogtastic Blogfest, right?) where I actually write things people would want to read, I could make a gaming news site, wait for it, that only deals with browser-based games. So I could keep everyone up to date on news with all these browser games I play, and give me an excuse to play so many more of them. Except, you know, I don’t even have time to play what I play now. So… I guess that’s a flaw in the plan. Still, there’s only going to be more and more of these things, and it’s something niche enough that it might get an audience? I dunno. It’s probably a stupid idea.
In any case, though, it’s a new month, and I’ve kind of gotten into the habit of saying what I think about the month’s IoTMs, so I think I’ll do that, and I want to ramble about the latest Forumwarz Ep. 2 announcement as well, so I’ll do that too. But first, IoTMs.

Both of the IoTMs are kind of boring this month? But I picked up both anyway. I’ll start with Twilight Heroes, where the thing on tap is the Letter Shirt. This is a really straightforward piece of equipment, just giving decent bonuses, but that turn length reduction is the main selling point, I think, since it offers a bigger reduction at higher levels than the intensely powerful Xentrium Breastplate. That’s the main reason I got it. So basically, it’s one of those IoTMs that I talk about not normally getting, where it’s just power and no interesting stuff? But it was sort of too powerful to pass up, given that I want to help the game and that my current goal is farming. Just like Wolley’s Index, this is helpful for farming. So I got it.
The thing that really pointlessly excites me about the letter shirt, though, is the “personalized flair.” I mean, it’s really kind of simple and stupid. I can basically put any letter or a question mark on the picture of the letter shirt. People, when they look at my equipment, can see my chosen letter. It’s really simple stuff. Yet, I find it really fun. I like the idea of being able to personalize things, and fiddle with them to entertain me. This being the month after the perfect-for-that Zorromir’s Double Tower Shield, I wasn’t expecting something to throw a little bone to players who like that kind of thing (such as me) any time soon. It just makes me happy that I can pick a letter and come up with some stupid reason why my shirt says that that day. Ryme, if you give a shit about my opinion? More stuff like this, please. It’s just more fun with no gameplay impact, and that’s just fine by me. Still, more than a letter would be nice, though. Heh.

Over in KoL, we have the Disembodied Hand. This is described as the “Mad Hatrack for Weapons” and while it does equip your equipment like the Mad Hatrack, this is a completely different beast. The Mad Hatrack is kind of, in a lot of ways, the ultimate familiar. It becomes just about anything you can ever need ever, and has many great options for various effects that don’t require it to be at full weight. The Disembodied Hand is basically a pumped up attack familiar. It doesn’t do a whole lot more damage, from what I’ve seen, than a normal attack familiar. However, it does give you the effects of any enchantments on the weapon you give it. That’s the real benefit there, not being a really good familiar. Even that is kind of a situational benefit, though. There aren’t a lot of weapon enchantments worth giving up your familiar for. Still, if you were wanting extra damage, this is probably your best bet right now. And there are some neat things you can do with, say, giving it a Witty Rapier at the beginning of a run, since the hand can equip any weapon regardless of stat requirement. Or maybe something like the Club of the Five Seasons or an Immense Cyborg Hand to really crazily increase your damage at the early levels to make battles even more easy peasy and let you run more +Monster Level? Or you could, say, give it a Haiku Katana or a Bottle Rocket Crossbow if you have a ton of extra money or IoTMs on hand to get extra uses for those skills every battle? I mean, there are uses. I don’t know if there are any game-breaking uses? But it’s not useless, and it’s going to be a fun time when I do my 100% run. Still, I mean, I couldn’t recommend this to like… everyone? It’s not a perfect familiar. But it’s nice.

Okay, so, now that those IoTMs are out of the way, let’s talk Forumwarz. I got two things to say. Thing one is that I wish this poster was something I could use. I mean, I don’t feel like I have use for a poster? But I think that’s pretty completely in every way great. But that’s not really game-related. Just wanted to say it.
The Trout that is Evil posted an update on their little dev blog about the last unannounced feature in Forumwarz Episode 2. That feature is, basically, adding loot drops. I mentioned earlier how it was sort of a disadvantage to the game that they don’t have any loot in a more “active in the game” sense in previous stupid blog post. (I’m even going to link it, like you care to go back and check) This really seems to be a great and potentially hilarious vector for that sort of thing. Having to collect the equivalent of those stupid broken-into-chunks .rar files is a great idea, and the whole “oppressive DRM” concept for explaining why you can’t make infinite copies of them is also a relevant and functional narrative justification. Plus, you know, they’re a vector for serious internet humor. I fully trust these guys to write hilarious shit, find and make awesome image macros, disturbing videos, and sound clips, and who knows what to find. Plus, since you can equip them, I am hoping that they affect your attack messages in combat, making that whole “none of the items really do entertaining things in combat” complaint I had in that last blog post disappear.
Anyway, I already pre-ordered Episode 2 (How can I pass up free lengthening of my E-Peen for something I know I’m going to buy anyway?) and I really can’t wait for it to hit. All of these tweaks to the formula just seem like exactly what they needed to make an even more well-rounded experience out of what was already a pretty damn good experience. I really can’t wait.
I just hope I come up with the time to actually play through it. Damn.

When I play an RPG or game that has the almost becoming cliché little slider of good to evil, I am almost always a complete goodie two shoes or whatever the current term for that might be. I try to answer as I would actually answer, and that normally involves being, well, as nice as possible to those I’m trying to get help from and those who are watching my back in battle. It’s almost a rule for me to do so in these games.
I’ve made my first exception to that rule, and that exception is Sonic Chronicles. The dialog is, you know… it’s like talking with Sonic’s million and a half friends. I mean, I freely admit I am a furry, but “furry” and “Sonic fan” does not have to overlap, and I am not a Sonic fan. I don’t really care about all of these characters besides, I dunno, wanting to pick the ones I think look cute or whatever. I am not the person the Codex (!!) in the game was made for, a encyclopedia of Sonic lore like in Mass Effect. (No, seriously, the fact that this exists still blows. my. mind.) I don’t give a shit about these characters.
That’s why it’s so great that the game does what it does. Any time I am talking to the character, you have basically four options. Two are the ones I would use most often in any other RPG. You can be supportive and helpful, or you can ask for more information. The other two are one of the reasons why this game is really quite great, even if you aren’t a Sonic fangirl or boy. There is always a “Yeah, yeah, let’s just do it” option to end conversations as quickly as possible, if you don’t want to deal with them at all. Then, finally, there’s the “Sonic is a narcissistic asshole” option, in which you can basically insult every character you come across in the game. Don’t like Amy Rose? Constantly taunt her about the latest lame thing she says. Don’t like Knuckles? Constantly point out how useless he is at his job. Now, I’m early on in the game, so don’t quote me on this, but it really seems like these decisions don’t affect the game much at all. You can mostly just pick them to make yourself happy and have fun. And it’s really great. It was a damn great decision for people who might pick this game up out of loyalty to Bioware and not because they have any sort of affinity or love for it.

The gameplay itself is fairly solid too. It’s a bit Mario RPG mixed with Osu! Tatake! Ouendan! style mini-challenges to hit special moves and dodge enemy attacks. You really have to pay attention. There is also an element of, get this, Skies of Arcadia in it. Your party has very small amounts of PP to use special attacks, and you can’t get by some enemies without using them. You defend to regenerate these points for more attacks, much like how you would charge over and over and then spam attacks in Skies of Arcadia. Well, when I played it, anyway. The overworld exploration is… okay? I wish I could use the D-pad to move as well as the stylus. It doesn’t work as well as, say, Phantom Hourglass. But it works. It’s also kind of odd how… weirdly janky the graphics can look at times, but I’m not one to hold that against a game when it’s not horrible enough to make your eyes bleed. There’s just some out of place pixelation at times.

Anyway, those are my first impressions. Aren’t you impressed?

So, last night, after some moody confrontation on my part, I retired to bed where I proceeded to talk with Brer for a long time on the phone. It was pretty awesome, actually. He opened up a lot more than he normally does, and I felt really close to him. It cheered me up. It served a purpose. Hopefully I helped him out too. Maybe.
Anyway, it was just kind of nice of him to admit his issues to me. At least, you know, part of them. I do kind of worry about how often I’m… whatever. Open towards him and how little he is towards me. I’m used to it, and that makes me worry sometimes that I’m not taking it seriously enough. At the same time, I want to trust him that if there was something important, he would tell me, you know? I dunno. Just as long as he knows I want the best for him and I do want to be there for him, I suppose that’s enough.

However, the conversation also made it dawn on me how much my life has improved my adopting a stance of “Who cares?” to a lot of things.
Everyone is going to have things they are really passionate about and really care about. Friends, family, projects, there’s always going to be some things. Those should be taken seriously, of course. But there are just so many things in life that society or your friends or your parents or whatever makes you feel are important, but really aren’t in the least. What kind of shape you’re in, what kind of clothing you enjoy wearing, what your opinion is on this and that… sure, some people probably put a lot of stock in these things, and if you’re one of them, more power to you. Be sure to do it in a way that brings you happiness and not sadness. But if you aren’t, who the fuck cares about them? Worrying and trying to change something that you are not actually concerned enough about to work hard on is an exercise in making yourself feel like shit for no reason. I don’t dress to the best of my ability. Who the fuck cares? I enjoy what I wear. I’m not in the best of shape. Who the fuck cares? I’m not HORRIBLE and it’s never been important enough to me to worry about, so I don’t. I enjoy acting weird at times. Who the fuck cares? As long as I keep up that happy confidence, everyone can laugh with me and move on. I’m a great person either way.
I used to worry a whole lot more about all that shit, and, honestly, I probably still do subconsciously, since when I really break down, it’s a lot of that stuff that comes out. But how much I enjoy life has increased so, so damn much since I adopted this attitude. Confidence and paying enough attention to know when you’re being an ass or pushing it will overcome basically all potential barriers such things can create.
You just have to go for it, go out, and enjoy being yourself, dammit. You do.

I’m blogging from the computer lab at Grauel. Oh, how my free time has been diminished, to force me into this. So damn sad, it is. But hey, let me take this pre-class time to do a little bit of rambling, eh?

I guess I could write a list of things that my busy-ness is keeping me from. So here it is, eh?

• Playing more of either of our two Dungeons and Dragons Campaigns.
• Finishing up Dragon Quest IV before the next game I need comes out.
• Playing all my turns in KoL and Twilight Heroes on a daily basis.
• Sleeping.
• Getting anywhere in Mega Man 9.
• Blogging.
• Spending time with online friends.
• Keeping my moodiness under control.

Yeah, so that’s nice. I guess this is a complaining post, sorry about that.
I’ve just been really stressed out lately, you know? The last few nights, I get finally to the point where I can relax and I spend all of it all stressed and moody and bothering Brer about it. It’s been pretty ridiculous. But eh, let’s see, what are some positive things to counteract it…

• I’ve been getting all my work done early and turning everything in and attending every single one of my classes.
• I’ve got some really great games to enjoy when I do have free time.
• I have a wonderful boyfriend who understands and doesn’t get frustrated when I come to him moody.

Yeah, that’s all I got I guess. I mean, those are good things. But dammit, I am already tired of this semester so bad, and there are 10 weeks left to go. Bleh.

I’ll tell you what, blog. I’ll try to write some nice stuff soonish, eh? Perhaps some rambling about Mega Man 9, or at the very least stuff about the new IoTMs next week. Or this or that or something or other. Soon. Maybe.

Anyway, what else do I have to talk about… well, Jonathan continues to try to pull me into this 3.5 edition DnD campaign that someone he kinda knows but not really wants to put together. I’m very, very wary of someone who would be unwilling to try the 4th edition rules, because they’re so much fun and cut away a lot of the stupid crap, and you can still use all the lore stuff from the older editions that they cut out, if lore gives you a big hard on, you know? So I’m wary of this campaign, and keep trying to hint at Jonathan to do it without me, but he’s bound and determined, and I would MIND, perse. I’m just not excited.
He keeps asking me what class I want to be and stuff, and I’m not all that excited about it. Anyone have any really fun builds? What I want is to be something I enjoy, even if it’s completely useless. My idea is to be a werefox with a fox familiar who is a dedicated healer, but that’s not actually possible I think. I really want the familiar, though. Anyone have any ideas who knows 3.5 edition for a build?

Eh, in the end, I probably don’t really care. It’s not like I have any time to set aside for the campaign I WANT to play, much less this one I don’t.
Ha ha!
Ha.

I’m too damn busy.

So apparently, when you get busy, you don’t really blog much. Huh.

No, seriously, I feel like I’ve been so fucking busy… I’m handling it alright. I will continue to handle it alright. But bleh. The last thing I feel like doing is so many things that I feel like I should be doing. It’s enough to keep up with homework and whatnot.

Anyway, let’s catch up, shall we?

Rock Band 2: It’s more Rock Band. The end.
Well, okay, I can write more, but that’s basically it. All the little tweaks were very welcome. I’m all for the lowering of the vocal difficulty, because I can now always play expert without it being completely un-fun. The Rock Band 2 track list also has some great stuff, as well as some horrible stuff. It’s much more hit and miss than the first one? But the hits are so great, I don’t care too much. Anyway, it’s still completely fucking fun times. Seriously.
I’m also glad I got off my ass and got a replacement drum set on the way again. The blue pad is completely broken on mine, and apparently they’re ending their super nice and actually useful customer support at the end of the month, so… best get fresh stuff while I can, eh?

Dragon Quest IV: It’s really good Dragon Quest.
Maybe it’s just that I never really gave a more “modern” Dragon Quest a try (the most I ever did was try to play the GBC remake of III and found that the game thought I was lonely) but I am finding the game completely fantastic. Yes, it’s kind of simplistic, but it’s really more… minimalist. It gives you the bare minimum of everything you need to get the story, to figure out what you’re supposed to do… I haven’t yet really felt lost. If I don’t know what to do, I just talk to everyone, and they’ll tell me a place I should go look at, and I’ll go look at it, or whatever. Anyway, it’s really neat. You should play it. It’s what I’m going to do after I’m done writing this update.

Let’s see, what other games… well, I beat Strongbadia: The Free, the second Strong Bad Cool Game For Attractive Parsons episode. It was even better than the first. Funny, with some interesting little fun puzzles… I was completely entertained. It made great use of the entire cast, as well, which didn’t happen quite as well in the first. The next one is going to be band-themed, apparently. I can’t wait. It’ll be sweet.

Other than that, it’s just been fucking constant busy-ness, you know? I’ve been doing more interesting things in my internship at least… she started giving me computer editing, layout, etc type tasks, and asked if I liked those, and I’m like “hell yes, I’ve been doing this stuff forever, I’m good at it, and I like it.” So hopefully I’ll get to keep doing similar stuff. And my classes are… classes… the most exciting thing that’s happened in them is that I’ve worked ahead on my creative stuff, and wrote a short story and a fairly solid prose poem, both of which I think are pretty decent and I can’t wait to get workshopped. So that’s good. It’s always good to be doing creative things.

But yeah, life is busy and boring. And boring. And busy. Bleh.

So the Rei who Beats All (listen to him on the latest Retronauts! He’s the guy you don’t know.) slipped me a free code for Fable II Pub Games, since, you know, he was giving them out and I’m like, well, okay, sure I’ll try it.
I’m having so much fun with it.
It makes me question what’s wrong with me.

I mean, okay, I understand that gambling is exciting. I mean, just think of how much money casinos must make in a day. It’s mind-boggling. I get that people like gambling. I never expected me to like gambling so much. I mean, I don’t know… I don’t like Poker or anything like that… Blackjack is interesting for like… 5 minutes… and yet this game, which consists of a slot machine, a press-your-luck card game, and a weird combination of roulette and craps, is completely enthralling me. I keep poking at it, trying to figure out how to play well. I’ve learned enough to have actually gained gold above the initial stake the game gives you.
But I mean, I played a Slot Machine tournament, for fuck’s sake. A game that literally consists of me pressing A 100 times, and then it tells me if I won or not. And it was entertaining. I won a unique Fable 2 item! It was an Apple Pie. I can now eat an Apple Pie, apparently.
I think the game must be hitting a sweet spot with me. I would never spend my actual money gambling.  It’s very easy to talk myself out of it by looking at my money and saying “You can buy a game with that” or whatever. I never play gambling minigames in video games, either, because it makes me worry I’ll have to go grind for more money, and I don’t want to do that. This hits a sweet spot. I don’t have to grind for money. Hell, I don’t have any money to risk, really. At the same time, there is something to gain by playing in a game I will probably end up buying. The rewards are obvious, and the risk non-existent… and I can play.
My favorite game, by far, is Keystone, the Roulette/Craps variant. “But wait!” you say, “Fortune’s Tower involves cards!” I know! It’s weird to me, too. But Keystone is just so much fun. Fuck if I know why. I just place random 1:1 bets every throw and see what happens. But I really enjoy it.

Gah, seriously. I just feels so wrong to be having so much fun with it. I don’t get it. I don’t!

In other news, fuck but my right foot and knee hurt.

So, uh… does anyone know what time it is?
Gods, I love my job.

Anyway, I’ve been feeling like shit! Yaaaaay! But I’ve been getting my stuff done. So that’s good. Also, it’s new IoTM time, I suppose. Let’s take a look at them…

In Twilight Heroes, we have a three-piece equipment set! I have the whole set, but I’ll be honest, the only piece that really thrills me is Zorromir’s Double Tower Shield, since the Battlecry ability is just plain fun. Basically, I get to make up any battlecry I want for my character to shout when I charge into battle. Right now, my battlecry is “I’m in a murderous rage, apparently!” The overall set bonus might be worth it, too, if I was actually fighting hard enemies, but I dunno. I’m not the kind of person who knows such things. I’m pretty happy with the battlecry, though. I’ll probably pick up another shield for later resale, to earn more stars and spread the battlecry love, but not the rest of the set.

In Kingdom of Loathing fronts, we have the Haiku Katana. This thing is pretty sweet. I mean, I don’t guess it’s bleeding edge? But if there’s one thing I prioritize, it’s healing, and thus I love the Spring Raindrop Attack. Haiku State of Mind is also just a complete and utter lot of fun. Since I buy things for fun more than for utility, this was kind of an instant no-brainer, thanks to that. The thing I wasn’t expecting was how good the just base enchantments on it are. I’m in a Pastamancer run right now, but since I’ve picked this thing up, I’ve basically be able to run as a muscle class, with its bonus combined with my stainless steel skullcap. I don’t know if it’ll keep up to the higher levels, but if nothing else I’m sure I’ll pull and use this sword whenever I’m grinding for stuff, to create MP for buffs and shit, and I’ll probably be dual wielding this and the origami riding crop during low-levels of a muscle class run. I kinda wish that would make sleazy haiku, though. Heh.

Anyway, I’m tired. I need this semester to be over. Wait, what? What’s that you say? It’s the second week? Ah hah hah hah hah!

So, hey, remember that game I used to play? Forumwarz? Well, I stopped playing it because I hit a point where it was a needless grind for no real benefit… like, when I grind in Twilight Heroes, I’m at least earning Silver Stars for cool shit… but I had kinda gotten all the cool shit from Forumwarz, and so I stopped, only to stop in and play the new custom forums I’d missed every once and awhile.
This doesn’t mean I no longer like the game. Far from it. I think it’s a really damn good game, and you should go play it if you haven’t yet. However, endgame competition holds very little appeal for me, and once again, this was a community I was too shy to try to get into… so there was nothing there for me. So I was biding my time and every so often checking the devblog, waiting for when Episode 2 hit.

Today, they posted this. They’re going to charge money for the next episode! Now, I’m sure like many internet people, I immediately had a kneejerk reaction against it when I read the title… but moments after, I realized I was going to drop the 10 bucks to play it without any hesitation. If they deliver on giving as much content as Episode 1 with new, awesome features, it is completely worth that money. I drop 10 dollars on IoTMs in KoL and Twilight Heroes basically every month, and get much less content in return. I also buy 60 dollar games with similar lengths of gameplay, and I honestly enjoy these sorts of browser RPGs close to if not as much. Add all that to the fact that people making things so awesome deserve to get paid for it, and it’s a no-brainer to drop 10 bucks on more content.

I donate for KoL and TH IoTMs for two reasons. 1, often the items are fun and, you know, I like fun. That fun also helps to keep my interest in the game, for often, by the time I feel like I’ve completely wrung the fun out of what a particular IoTM has to offer me, there’s a new one ready for me to pick up and try. Reason 2, though, is that I think Ryme and Jick’s team deserve to get paid for making something that gives me so much enjoyment every month. I love free as much as the next person, but they deserve it. So I give it to them. At least for as long as I’m not budget-crunched enough for it to be an issue.

Forumwarz is not designed well for that sort of content, the sort of small monthly, fun perk content that you could get a constant stream of donations for. I really think that might have hurt them. I honestly don’t know what they would put out that would seem worth it, especially with all the custom forums, but if they, I dunno, could come up with a custom quest with a cool reward every month, I very well might add them to the list of monthly donations as well. But again, that seems hard. Forumwarz has items, but they’re not… they’re not impressive. They affect the game. They’re important. But they’re not publicly visible, they don’t change how combat looks in any way… they don’t currently do the kind of cool things that, say, one of my KoL items does. I think it would be hard to design monthly paid-unlock quests into cool rewards within the current system that would be worth it. I’m not surprised they haven’t done it.
They have their vision, and I’m glad they have the guts to stick to it and stick with it and keep making an amazing game the way they want to. I’m also proud of them for making the hard decision to put this next episode up for pay. I want them to be successful. I will be picking it up the moment I notice it out, and I will probably be buying a second character to try out another character class all the way through around then as well. I’m thinking Camwhore… I mean, they’re coming out with the new Hacker class, but I dunno. I have no doubt they’ll make it great, but Camwhore just seems more entertaining. Heh.

Anyway, I thought that a really interesting decision, and even though I commented on their blog, I wanted to let myself ramble about it fuller here, because, well, the blog is for getting shit out of my head, and also because the main writing guy of forumwarz, the, um, thematically named Jalapeno Bootyhole, has commented here not once but twice. Which kinda blows my mind. Cause I continue to think this blog offers little to anyone but myself. But in case he comes back, just, you know, wanted him to see my opinion. And to say hi.
Hi Jalapeno Bootyhole!
You have a good game.
Hi.