Weekend of 8th of Forelithe 2014

Weekend of 8th of Forelithe 2014

Last time I'll be on the Hobbit calender this year.  June will be coming.  May was just as horrible as May tends to be.  I do not like seeing those around me have so much pain going on in their lives, and I know bad things happen all year long, and its a little off to focus on how bad May is... but... I just hate May.  Luckily one very large tragedy was averted and someone I have always looked up to, who early on taught me the joy of knowing how to cook, was spared and given more life.  Not everyone I've shared a smile and a joke with made it through this May, but I am thankful for the ones that did.

Attack on Titan is pretty amazing.  I try to limit myself to 4 episodes a day, but its pretty hard, especially when I didn't watch any on Friday and I'm all "oh I get to watch 8 episodes today".  I do not want it to end so quickly, so I stick to 4 a day.  It has given me several ideas when it comes to creative stuff for me to do.  It really is very epic, if you can get by the sense of hopelessness and sadness.  There are characters that have lasted for 10+ episodes now, and I will be really sad to see them come to a bad end... which means they probably will come to a bad end.

Thanks to my girlfriend's generous nature, I was able to secure my character's name on most of the Wildstar servers.  I am intentionally not playing very much to keep myself from getting too depressed about not having a computer that can run it right now.  A new computer is my primary material motivation to getting stuff done lately.  The game's UI is REALLY clean compared to a lot of games these days.  I logged into Lord of the Rings Online a little earlier this year to keep tabs on things, and holy crap do they front load your screen with a billion things now.  It doesn't help that a lot of that is cash shop bullshit.  I'm trying to put Lord of the Rings Online behind me(actually has been many years since I played it), but I had so much fun with it that it is hard to stay away.  The easiest game to leave that I played for over a year was World of Warcraft, for some reason I never had the urge to get back into it.  Everquest was hard.

I never told my guildmates(who worked hard to help me out), but what kept me from going back was that I deleted anything that was bound to my character so I would not go back.  Which includes my "epics".  They were such a symbol of brotherhood among people that are still on my Facebook friends list that I felt guilty for doing it, even as I played along side them in World of Warcraft.... Everquest's difficulty messed people up lol including me.  The final thing that keeps me from going back to older games is knowing that time passes.  What kept me in those games are no longer in those games, and I have to say goodbye and let my time there be good memories, and leave them at that.  Just as EQ-Skypp's time culminated with dying while fighting the God of War there, LOTRO-Skypp's destiny was to conquer the secrets of Moria, but much like Boromir he was not to pass the Anduin and return to the East.  He runs a Hunting Lodge near the Shire.  After the One Ring was destroyed, and Saurman was purged from the Shire, a few of the Rangers that used to patrol the Brandywine made it a common stop when they were revisiting their old grounds.  Frodo even stopped in once, right before it was time to leave this world, one last beer with an old hunter he once met while staying in Rivendell.

I also watched a little comedy film called Today's Special.  The movie itself was nothing special.  It was a sappy semi-romantic comedy with tropes you pretty much see in all of them.  Asshole makes a fool of himself, but has just enough heart to be responsible when someone is in trouble and learns to love by the end kind of thing.  This one is set in an Indian restaurant.  Anyway, there was one very good standout in the film.  Naseeruddin Shah is one of the most popular actors in Indian cinema, and in this movie he plays the role of "most interesting man in the world", and is easily the best part about this movie.  You'll also see people from Wes Anderson movies and even Office Space make appearances as minor characters, but Naseeruddin is by far the best.  In the end I found the movie enjoyable if you're looking for something that won't make you think very much, and has a couple of touching scenes, but don't go in expecting your life to change.

Blogs to come this week?  I have no idea, I kinda had planned to be doing something else with my time by now and so I don't really have any posts planned.  I guess I"ll have to see what comes up.