Itelletas

I just did the WoW Impossible

2009-02-15T05:48:00Z

Tonight, I successfully ran a PUG through Magtheridon's Lair to claim my Champion of the Naaru title after patch 3.0.2.

That is all.

Hell of a VD present to myself, that's for damn sure. :D

Planewalking

2009-01-18T15:25:30Z

Since I won't be home until rather shortly before the game is to commence, I'm going to put this here in hopes that anyone with a question comes to read it.

At the moment, I'm planning to use IRC if someone can point me toward a proper server, as I've had difficulty with AIM chats in the past, and MSN messenger sometimes fights with me as well. If you don't have a client, please download one, there are lots out there for free trial. (I prefer mIRC, myself.)

Since I haven't received any character sheets yet, the first bit of the game may (most likely will) be split up for individual interactions while I prelude you all to a meeting point. I find it fundamentally unlikely that I will be able to use the same prelude for everyone, so it'll take some time, but hopefully not too much. In any case, please have something with which to occupy downtime, as it is inevitable during this first session.

I'm off to work for now, so hopefully I'll see you when I get home. :)

Game!

2008-12-23T02:40:14Z

Okay, so... I wish to DM. My game. I need for this some players. Based upon the reliable time I have free, that would be Sundays starting at 6PM. The rules are D&D 3.5 with a houserule document that is in continual progress, available upon request. The setting is Planescape. If you are reading this entry, you have an open invitation to join. As soon as I get three or more players, some planning will occur, and the game will commence, but others can always join in later.

The chargen rules once again are 25-point buy. Any race/class are permitted pending my approval and if I have a source reliably available to reference. Players unfamiliar with the setting are recommended to create primes (characters native to the Prime Material Plane), but this is not an actual restriction, due to the fact that it's a big multiverse out there, and even a lanned cutter can miss a few things now and then.

Questions and comments are welcomed, and I will offer whatever info I can. Please reply at your leisure.

Retail mayhem

2008-10-05T22:01:35Z

So yes, I haven't posted in over a year. Them's just how it goes. Prepare for a'ranting.

If you are one of the myriad people who think it's fun to come into a store at ten minutes until closing time, FUCK YOU. No, really. Very seldom do I speak for more than myself. It would give me truly horrible sensations in the pit of my gut to speak for a group without knowing full well that we were of like minds. But in this sole instance, I think I speak for all of retaildom when we say that you are an asshole. We have been working x amount of time that day. We want to go home. The last thing we want to do is put up with you when there are closing procedures to be done. So fuck off. If you don't know exactly what you want and immediately ask someone where to find it, then go die in a hole. Don't come into my store. And when I ring something up at the wrong price while trying to get done with MY JOB at the time it's supposed to end that day, do not deign to call my store after closing time and give me shit for it. Yes, everyone rushed you out. Yes, everyone was very rude. Do you know why? Because maybe you won't come back. You are a fucking drop in the bucket. If you never come back again, we won't even notice on a financial level. We might notice that there's one less fuckmonkey to deal with though, and that's appreciated. Service drops at the end of the day because while you've obviously been done with work long enough to find your dumbass self in our store, we haven't. Closing time is not a point that you can enter until. Apparently, a lot of people have this misconception. Closing time is the point that I want everyone out. of. the. fucking. store. I have shit to do after those doors close. I still don't get to go home yet, so don't make my day any longer. The handful of minutes added to my paycheck is not going to make up for the fact that at the end of the day, I want one thing: I want to leave, and YOU are standing in my way. Don't be that person.

A Tome Opened Again

2007-08-21T15:19:32Z

So, since I'm back and have had a few days to reconnoiter, the game shall commence once again. I know that Stephen is not currently able to get reliable internet, so I'll grab ahold of his character and separate it from the active ones until he's able to participate again. Everyone else that I am aware has interest in playing again (that'd be milton, jess, and vance), please post a comment here with your name saying that you're ready to go and I'll work out scheduling from there. Thanks for your attention and interest. :)

illusionare @ 2007-08-15T16:52:00

2007-08-15T20:57:02Z

I have returned.

A bookmark placed

2007-06-13T02:24:23Z

Since Stephen has to work tomorrow night and is busy the next, it appears that Planewalking has reached the time that it must be put on hold until my return from camp in mid-August. Not sure what I'll be doing when I get back, so the resumption of the game will most likely be touch and go for a little while. I do hope that it gets back off the ground then, and that your interest in your characters hasn't waned. Thank you guys for playing with me.

Next Session

2007-06-09T13:00:08Z

Shall be either Monday or Tuesday night, depending upon whether I have plans Monday or not. So for now, assume Tuesday June 12th, at 7:00 PM EST to accommodate milton.

And then... there were three

2007-06-06T22:21:00Z

So Ozy has lost interest in the game. Therefore, we have Jess, Milton, and Stephen. If one of you could find someone else to join, that'd be cool, but we can start with just three with no problems. It's entirely up to you guys, and we'll still be starting on Thursday night.

Just a heads up.

Gearing up for the Campaign

2007-06-05T18:13:20Z

Okay, so Stephen got a charsheet file to Ozy, which means that as soon as I get his sheet and bio, we'll be starting. I have everything from Stephen and Milty, I still need an equipment list from Jess, and if Ozy could send me one with his sheet, that'd be awesome. All relevant materials please email to me, as it's harder for me to lose one of those than an IM. I believe you all have my address now.

I'd like to begin on Thursday, that would be the 7th, around 10 PM EST. Please get back to me sometime in the next day or so and let me know if that works for you.

Starting wealth for game

2007-06-04T12:56:29Z

As I told Milton, starting gear and such is played by ear. Come up with a list of things that you think your character would reasonably have. I'll look it over and approve of what I feel is appropriate. Keeping in mind that this is Planescape: Anything -could- be anywhere, but there are just as many places where a +1 sword is worth more than a whole kingdom's gold. Stick to your concept when considering, first and foremost.

State of the game

2007-06-04T03:43:01Z

Okay, so Ice is out. Milton is bringing in Krysthalion, so we'll have Stephen, Jess, Ozy, Milty, and Krys altogether. I have a character sheet from Milton and Stephen, Stephen is working on Jess's, so I'm just waiting on Ozy and Krys. The sooner you get them to me, the sooner we can begin. :)

prods the livejournal

2007-05-29T14:16:33Z

Seems like it still works...

Okay, so rather than attempt to build a new website to hold my game info, the people who are taking part in my D&D Planescape game can refer to this livejournal for updates, relevant infos, stuff I need to grab people for but haven't found you on messengers, etc.

You've had a few days, so I'd like your character sheets + bio to me by Thursday, the 31st. Please send them to the email address I'm giving you (far be it for me to post it here and have even more spam than I already do). and Let the Games Begin! Whee!

A half-way around the year

2006-12-05T03:14:10Z

Greetings from December. The last post I made talked about beginning work at Keystone. I was there until September first, at which point I floated along a bit. Searching here, looking there, not really enthused about much of anything. Then I started searching the Post-Gazette website... and found management positions open. "I can do this," methinks. So I stopped into a place I had never so much as set foot in before: Altmeyer's in Miracle Mile, a shopping center in Monroeville. A "bed, bath, and home store" so it purports to be. At that time, I never knew I could possibly know so much about draperies. And yet... this works for me, for the time being. I've been at Altmeyer's since October 10th, making it the second-longest job I've ever had. I like my coworkers, and while the scheduling tends to be chaotic and hard to schedule social events around, actual management experience isn't a bad thing to add to the resume. So I'll be there until I pay off my student loans, I think. Unless something else comes along my way and changes things. Which, given the world we live in, is a distinct possibility.

Kuroneko42's nudge result

2006-07-13T04:59:21Z

So then, since the last post I have been merrily drudging away at job-locating and/or -finding. After numberous unresponsive apps turned in, and one false start at a company where I would've sooner bite faces off employees than work another moment there, I have found a lovely place called Keystone Tire. As recommended by Chuck, it's like being paid to work out. It's awesome. My only complaint is that with my current night-shift of 4PM-12:30AM, I really only have mornings and a bit to have a life in. But then again, most people I know are (or should be) up this late anyway.

This was your prescribed nudging for this time period.

*bows*

Degrees, Endings, and the Way Things Are

2006-06-14T05:26:26Z

Since I received my degree in the mail a couple of days ago, I figured I'd update this thing, considering the last post I made here in the ol' livejournal was the schedule at the beginning of my final semester of college. Yes, I'm official. According to the Biology department of IUP, I am sufficiently knowing of stuff to have my Bachelor of Arts degree.

What I'm going to do with it, I don't know. In the broad expanse that has been my 22 years, I really never thought about what came after college. I always assumed it would work itself out in the meantime. Well, the meantime has come and gone, and I'm about to fall face-down into teh Real World (tm) without an inkling as to what I really want to be doing. Well, I know what I *really want* to be doing, but it's unrealistic roundabout now and it doesn't make me money. It makes me happy.

Sara leaves for camp on the 15th. I'm going to miss her so. I'm trying not to think about it too much.

Where does that leave me for the summer? Trying to get a job to occupy the time. When August rolls around, I'd like to have some funds to sit on while I figure all this out, talk, and deal with what does or does not come my way. The very idea of "career" puts a bad taste in my mouth at the moment, as I don't know where I'll want to be or even start looking, and I'm pretty sure that I don't want to settle on just one thing yet. I need to find out what I want to do that I can capitalize on.

I got my hair cut. It's shorter now than it's been since high school. I'll try to get a new picture up here sometime.

They say that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Red queen, and all that.

We'll see.

traditional schedule listing

2006-01-18T21:14:54Z

Monday:
Biochem 8-9 AM
Mayas 9:15-10:15 AM
Java II 1-2 PM

Tuesday:
World Archaeology 11:30-1:00

Wednesday:
same as Monday

Thursday:
Biochem 8-9 AM
World Archaeology 11:30-1:00

Friday:
same as Monday

My wang.. err, I mean, wand.

2005-12-18T13:48:44Z

You know, normally I wouldn't post the results of such a quiz, but the fact that I got 100% elementality amuses me, and the fact that I have a dragon scale in my wand is going to bug the hell out of Vance. ;)
and it's made of Yew! Yew is grand!

12" Yew & Dragon
You scored 100% Elementality, 80% Magic Knowledge, and 45% Goodness!

Your wand is 12" and rather flexible, made of yew with a dragon scale
core. The yew is associated with death and resurrection,
transformation, and divination. This wand will be especially useful in
spells concerning those issues. Dragons are symbolic of primal energy,
strength, and protection of the weak and the dragon scales in your wand
will bring those elements to the party. They are also associated with
danger, so use caution. This is a very powerful and potentially
dangerous combination but, based upon your magical knowledge score, I
am not worried about your ability to use it. Or maybe I should be...

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 98% on Elementality
You scored higher than 47% on Magic Knowledge
You scored higher than 8% on Goodness

Link: The Right Wand for YOU Test written by BarefootBegonia on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

don't

2005-12-07T02:15:57Z

A lot has been said about how to prevent rape. Women should learn self-defense. Women should lock themselves in their houses after dark. Women shouldn't have long hair and women shouldn't wear short skirts. Women shouldn't leave drinks unattended. Fuck, they shouldn't dare to get drunk at all.

Instead of that bullshit, how about:

If a woman is drunk, don't rape her.
If a woman is walking alone at night, don't rape her.
If a women is drugged and unconscious, don't rape her.
If a woman is wearing a short skirt, don't rape her.
If a woman is jogging in a park at 5 am, don't rape her.
If a woman looks like your ex-girlfriend you're still hung up on, don't rape her.
If a woman is asleep in her bed, don't rape her.
If a woman is asleep in your bed, don't rape her.
If a woman is doing her laundry, don't rape her.
If a woman is in a coma, don't rape her.
If a woman changes her mind in the middle of or about a particular activity, don't rape her.
If a woman has repeatedly refused a certain activity, don't rape her.

If a woman is not yet a woman, but a child, don't rape her.
If your girlfriend or wife is not in the mood, don't rape her.
If your step-daughter is watching tv, don't rape her. (Prowler's addendum: For that matter, any other activity as well.)
If you break into a house and find a woman there, don't rape her. (Prowler's addendum: And while we're at it, stop breaking into houses.)
If your friend thinks it's okay to rape someone, tell him it's not, and that he's not your friend.

If your "friend" tells you he raped someone, report him to the police.
If your frat-brother or another guy at the party tells you there's an unconscious woman upstairs and it's your turn, don't rape her, call the police and tell the guy he's a rapist.

Tell your sons, god-sons, nephews, grandsons, sons of friends it's not okay to rape someone.

Don't tell your women friends how to be safe and avoid rape.
Don't imply that she could have avoided it if she'd only done/not done x.
Don't imply that it's in any way her fault.
Don't let silence imply agreement when someone tells you he "got some" with the drunk girl.
Don't perpetuate a culture that tells you that you have no control over or responsibility for your actions. You can, too, help yourself.

If you agree, repost it. It's that important. [inserted by Illusionare: and actually read this before you repost it, fuckers. It's worthless if it's just mindlessly reposted by legions of lj-lemmings.]

*thanks Sweet_Stillness for a post that needs to be passed on*

tagged by ladyd

2005-11-30T07:48:01Z

List ten things that make you happy in no particular order and then tag five friends...

One. Sara
Two. having a whole weekend to do whatever I want with it
Three. finishing the last homework assignment I have for a good while
Four. finding out that I get 4 more credits for free
Five. cream soda
Six. validation: being wanted by the people who I want to want me
Seven. real meditation, the kind where your thoughts no longer have to make sense in the real world, but take on an identity of their own
Eight. having a nearly-indestructible immune system (only get sick once a year) due to liberal use of the 5-and-a-half-minute-rule
Nine. Quest
Ten. being, at times, stupidly optimistic

tagging:

vileabstraction
smittenkitten10
soless
giliam
kuroneko42

(I can't be bothered to put the lj user hyperlinks in... come on, you can copypaste, I believe in you)

Adventures in German III

2005-10-07T14:28:04Z

So today, my professor handed out verb cards. A stack was passed back through each row. When the stack reached me, I selected "trinken," which means "to drink." We were to make a pair of sentences with the verb, using the simple past and past perfect tenses. My sentences?

Ich trank Wodka.
Ich hatte genug fur alle getrunken.

Sometimes, it's fun to be me.

Advent Children... an hour and a half that I want back

2005-09-19T04:24:03Z

the Matrix... and Dragonball Z... had an analbaby. That analbaby... was Advent Children.

I think it all really came together for me toward the end, when Kaduj turned into sperm.

I have four words for the people that enjoyed this movie: What. The. Fuck. Ri-goddamn-diculous.

Three seconds of plot. Five minutes of pretty fight scene. Three more seconds of actual plot, which had absolutely no coherent bearing on the previous three seconds. Six minutes of pretty fight scene. Three minutes of Original Cast Montage (in which people keep flying higher and higher into the air with little to no regard for momentum, height, or atmospheric pressure... Cloud really should've started suffocating and/or exploded once he reached the height to have Bahamut catch his sword in its fucking teeth). Eight more minutes of fight scene (three seconds of actual plot here would've split up the last three things, but the three minutes of OCM mitigated that requirement). Fight scene, pretty airship, fight scene, fight scene, I've seen action movies with more depth than this, airship banter, airship flies away. Kaduj applies Jenova's leftover boob to his chest and goes Super-Saiyan Sephiroth... I'd ask how the sword elongated, but I'd probably just get a penis metaphor. I'd ask where the armor and suit alterations came from, but I really, really don't think I want to know. Proceed to lack all sense of physics (as if it hadn't been happening the entire movie) as Cloud and NewSephiroth gratuitously and shamelessly re-enact the last fifteen minutes of The Matrix Revolutions, but with SWORDS, so it's all fresh and new and awesome. SWORDS THAT HAVE GEARS AND ARE MECHANICAL OMG. There was no coherent plot. Things are introduced and never fleshed out or expanded upon beyond the "oh, you're a new person, *fight scene*." The movie finished without my having any more clue as to what was going on aside from every single Japanese Movie Cliche I've ever seen, along with a strained baptismal metaphor at the end where the kid is dunked in Mako, which magically heals the mysterious disease that is never adequately explained what it does, is, and came from. Go Cloud the baptist. I think I see Jesus in line waiting for his turn. Oh wait, no, equally inexplicably, that's Zack. Sprinkle Aeris appearances liberally throughout the above paragraph as often as you want, because that's clearly what the "writers" of this pile did.

This was more of a "look what I can do with fun-fun CGI" than Jurassic Park III was. If they'd spent half as much time programming the visual, then they'd have actually improved on the plot that the *game* had.

You people fucking scare me.

*BLUE MEMORY VORTEX*

I'm taking that archipelago and sinking it beneath the waves in order to raise Atlantis. Simply because nothing Atlantis ever produced could ever be so bizarre as the shit that comes out of Nippon's Q queue.

It wasn't deep. I didn't understand it because it didn't make sense. End of Story. Shut the fuck up. I hate you all. teehee! :)

The Semi-Annual Class Schedule Posting! (tm)

2005-09-01T23:48:12Z

I can't believe I forgot about this until today.

Monday:...........Tuesday:
German III........Crime and Justice Systems
9:15-10:15........9:45-11:15
ECB 209...........STOUF AUD

COBOL.............COBOL
11:45 - 12:45.....11:45-12:45
STRGT 331.........STRGT 331

JAVA..............O-chem Lab
2:15-3:15.........1:00-5:00 (kill me...)
STRGT 331.........WEYDT 103

..................O-chem
..................6:00-7:30 (kill me a lot...)
..................WEYDT 107

(the dots are present due to LJ's tendency to chop multiple spaces down to one, ruining my lovely arrangement)

Wednesday and Friday are the same as Monday, except Java is in 220 Stright instead of 331.
Thursday is the same as Tuesday, but without COBOL and the O-chem Lab. Needless to say, I have a lot of free time on Thursday.

Ta!

movies

2005-07-11T00:11:11Z

So I went to see Batman Begins. It was well done, as most people I've heard say. Though I'm not sure I agree with the people who say that it leads into the standing series. Personally, I'd like to see a new series in this same style, if only because the ones that have already been done were so, well, not great.

Are you the cashier?

2005-06-14T03:05:19Z

"-WE'd like to purchase two ties.
-Do you have them on?
-..._____________________[insert incredulous question]"