Saturday, December 25, 2010

Merry Christmas

Well, Merry Christmas everyone.

Taking a few days off Allods and probably won't be back till around Dec. 30th. I wanted to run GT and get new gear n get more gold for runes lol but it can wait as real life is always more important.

Gonna be making about 150 dumplins today for the family friends I'm staying with. I only made 45 last time but they ate em up so fer christmas Imma make them alot to gorge on.

Anyway Merry Christmas everyone, stay safe and have fun, lastly be thankful.


-LoveGuardian

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Allods....Missed you

So, I picked up Allods again. I found my old pc and saw that my dad completely wiped it and gave it windows 7 (which sucks imo).

After 2 hours of downloading the game and an 45 minutes more of Pearz and Force directing me on how to upgrade my graphics card on the chatbox of the almighty Pearz's Blog. I finally loged on to allods.


I was quickly greeted with a enormous lag...and killed within 5 seconds of logging on.

I have been away for far too long because everyone is lvl 42 while I am stuck at measly 40. Not only that but the warden re-vamp REALLY ... and I mean REALLLY blows.

You can not really be a hybrid anymore, it is one or the other, or suck at both.

Well me and my stupid self decided to go hybrid and the more I played the more I realized that I hate melee on wardens now.

They striped wardens of the armor rubies AND the natural resistance rubies AND our perception + agility rubies. Gone! what's the point of buffing wolf blow to an almost imba state if we can't tank shit?

It's like telling a Jew he won a million bucks and wave a turkey in front of him to eat before he goes to the gas chamber.

So with great power comes great squishyness, meaning literally next to no survivability.

Our Vitae can be stacked in 5s now and are baed on % and not on int which is nice. I recalled Ejac and Muxy loving vitaes I made so I didnt think twice on grabbing lvl 3 vitae and 3 medley rubies for a lovely 44% heal and 26% mana restoration.

Or natural balance cd is reduced even MORE to 1 minute and 30 seconds with all the cd rubies. I grabbed those as well.

Renew....is kinda blech....I still liked the old 15 minute renew over this buff off-heal.

Call of the Wild is 52 fucken epic seconds long with only a 3 minute cooldown now but I feel that the 3 lil stoogies don't do as much damage as they use to.

Our pet seems a lot squishier now as well but does nice damage.

Other then Wolf Blow being buffed nothing really good. I specced myself melee mainly despite being a hybrid but the more I play, the more I realize that the practical build is the caster build.

You can kite with caster and not be in harms way because your squishy as well and back up to be a more supportive role.

There are a lot of vague definitions on caster spells though so I am left quite confused on if I had to option of re-speccing, what build I would pick next.

I missed the free WoD event by a day so....great luck to me.

My favorite spell is the Tornado spell, it looks awesome and is a 4 call lightning in 1 spell haha. Caster seems way more versatile for pvp despite the lack of dmg done (but I'm not caster specced well so maybe if I specc more into caster the dmg would be better).

Melee seems harder to play, because as Pearz said: "we don't have a charge move". So not only do you need to run TO the target, they can run away and kite you. When you FINALLY get in the face of them, if you're facing a warrior or pally you're going to lose cause you don't have the better armor.

Melee Warden may be better at plain DPS for heriocs and stuff but in a pvp aspect, caster seems the upperhand (execept this is pure speculation cuz I haven't tried caster grid yet).

Lastly, Go visit Pearz's blog and read her short stories...they were shorty awesome reads haha.

-LG

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Grade Report!!!!

A- = Public Speaking Class
A =Spanish
A- = Latin American Literature
A = Service Learning
C+ = Global Perspectives


So these are my grades for Fall 2010. I'm not even going to vent about that C+ on my shitty report. I already vented enough about it today. Stupid Stupid Stupid.

Anyway, my gpa this semester is a 3.6 which is great. It beats the 2.9 gpa last semester and the 1.1 gpa the semester before (Thank you Aeria and your Megaten for almost making me a drop-out).

Anyway, with my new uber GPA, I applied to IUB today. It was online and ask very vague questions. Almost made me feel as though if I was just another somebody. Which I am, but I am an individualized somebody lol. But O well, it's expected from a school of over 30,000 students. All I am interested in really is their lacrosse team to be somewhat decent when I join.

Newayz, Jeff and I are approaching our 1 year anniversary soon. We been fighting more recently. He thinks I'm cheating on him. Not really gonna spill it all on this blog but it's more or less me telling him that I want more from him. I actually wanna go out with him and do shit..not cuddle at his house all the time ...which is nice but sometimes I wanna go outside, in public....and do shit...anything...long as it's together. Also tired of this...in the closet shit....It feels like living a double life. I kinda just want everyone to know so that I can publically be seen with him and not give a damn. But I can't cuz he's in the coast guard and might lose his job.

I just really hate the situation we have. Half of me loves him to death but the other half of me sees that this relationship is logically not going to work out in the end. Especially with me going to IU Bloomington next year 4 hours away and him being promoted soon and reassigned elsewhere. It almost feels like these events are telling us it's time.

O well, kinda think it may be time to end it anyway, cuz next semester is going to be my busiest with lacrosse and 21 credits being taken. I'm not even sure if there will be an available time unless I just plain out move off campus and move in with him =P. (oh how that would be awesome).

I might just have to suggest that to him lol.

LoveGuardian

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Christmas Break!!!!

Anyway, didn't work out at the gym a lot this semester. I did get drunk a few times XD.
I cannot wait for Lacrosse season to start. I spent about 120 bucks the other day buying protein powder, multi-vitamins, and vitamin gummy bears <3.>
Anyway, post-end of the yea pic of me. Note that I was at a party and kinda drunk lol. If you look closely you can see my body turned a lil red. Asians get red when they are drunk (faill).


I got 500 bucks from my dad as a pre-chrismas gift. I'm hoping this is to spend on my own and not towards my spring 2011 books. Cuz then it's not really a chrismas present at all XD.

Anyway, Jeff's kinda like my dad...doesn't wanna play the guessing game and wants to know what I want for Christmas. I told him all I want is my two front teeth and him. He said he's getting me something one way or another so I may as well say something I want.

If that's the case I either want this kool ND jacket that's worth like 125 bucks or a weighted outfit. (you know the shorts and vest that have lead wieghts in them that you can wear to get in shape. Would be great to run in to get in shape or wear on a daily basis so that when you do take the weights off, you become fast as fuuuckk).

So, finals are over for me. Christmas Break is in effect. For some reason starcraft is being mean to me XD. I may look at HON to see if it works on MACs. (also have the regular pc next to me, if anyone has any suggestions XD. Someone did suggest LOTRO)

My dad lost my dog during his trip to Taiwan....I went home today and was expecting to see a cute jack russel waiting for me with puppy dog eyes and barking with enthusiasm wanting me to pet it.

Alas I was greeted by no one, and now I have no companion to keep my belly warm at night when it sleeps on me and nothing to wake up to in the morning =[. (and no it's not gay, a sleepy puppys face is the most cutest thing to wake up to).

Monday, December 13, 2010

Starcraft 2 and HON o.O

So its monday approximately 7 a.m. upon posting. I have finals for the next 3 days but afterwards it's a one month long break from school and papers.

This friday I have a birthday to attend for a close friend of mine who is turning 21 (luuckkkyy). After that I have a weekend spent in Chicago with Jeff (strong for 10 months).

There was a chance we could go to New Orleans during break but I kinda don't want to go, and he also wants to ski and teach me how. I think skiing is more romantic =P.

Feels like a month of being busy but, I think I'll find time to try a MMORG or two.

I had a few friends play Starcraft (and it works for MACs) so there is a big chance I may be buying this game and installing it. It looks pretty badass...not much diversity in class but a VAST of your success relies on your own skill and capacity. Especially in PvP version.

Played Fable lll and it was pretty kool. I liked that it wasn't like Fable ll where you had to rely on Melee until your magic was 100. I love the spell weaving with lightning and Ice. I practically destroyed everything with ease with that spell weave and while the lightning stunned them I took my warhammer and charged up a massive hit to 1 hit KO enemies (yay for splash hitting too).

Spellweaving in Fable lll is quite fun to fool around with. I think the most creative combo is using wind with Ice(or lightning). However the best single 1 on 1 combo, in my opinion, to use is the combination of Blades and Lightning. It's spammable and the lightning stuns are great especially when used in conjunctions with melee hitting. Spell, hit, hit, hit, spell, hit hit hit is a nice repeating cycle or just spell, charge, smash, spell, charge, smash. Anyway just a lil tangent.

I watched a few videos of HON and it looked interesting. It was something I kind of wanted to consider to try. I'll have to ask Pearz about her own opinion on it or something, because it doesn't work for MACs and frankly I have grown accustomed to MACs now with their virus-free and stuffies haha, I kinda don't want to trade in my MAC for a regular laptop zzz.

This semester (and possibly this blog site) has taught me to bullshit papers fairly easily now. I remember in Senior Year in High School we had senior papers and took us a whole semester to do a 6-8 page senior paper over some topic.

Here I am sitting in college typing up papers ranging from pages of 3-18 on a daily basis and typing them up with ease.

Anyway, I hope everyone's doing well. As this semester closes, I realize that I only have 1 semester left at Holy Cross College. Then I am transferring to either IU bloomington, or Purdue University.

I keep reflecting on the aspects that I love about Holy Cross College, as well as the aspects I hate about it. A part of me wants to stay here, but the other part of me says I need to leave.

I am a person with great ambition, but I am also a person who is afraid of change. I must force myself to move and explore, even if it is against my will. Because I must live and live with no regrets and live as out-going as possible. I feel obligated to at least explore new colleges and atmospheres and make new friends as well as remember my old friends, and who/where I came from. The old saying, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Holy Cross College is my stepping stone to better things in my eyes. If things turn out that I hate it...then...I can always take 1 step back in order to take 2 steps forward. Holy Cross College can be my home in a way.

Anyway, here I go rambling again as though if this is one of my papers. I should stop haha. I must say, I kind of grew out of games now for some reason. I have small ambitions to play them but I guess most my ambition was drained into real life and wanting to actually well, be somebody. Though I miss the days sometimes. Guess all there is to do right now is remember and move on and learn right? But not forget. Makes me remember the saying my friend said, "If I impacted just one person's life to make a difference, then my life is complete." Which made me reflect about my past experiences. How everyone impacted me, and how I impacted everyone. Kind of a nice way to feel, it makes me want to be somebody important all the more though, because I would want to impact more people's lives.

AHH!! here I go again rambling. Anyway, I'm still alive. Hope everyone is well to. Also, thank you for impacting my life, as I hope that I have positively impacted yours.

-LoveGuardian (Andrew Chin)


Thursday, December 2, 2010

Finals Week

So, semester is almost over. Only 1 more week and then I Finals hit and after that, 1 month vacation.

During this free time I may have some time to play anything just for a short time. If anyone has any suggestions I wouldn't mind.

You may not hear much from me next semester, as lacrosse season starts...and we got a ton of freshmen to teach/bond with as well as I maxed out all my credits (19) so I'll be very busy.