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This would be considered a “prequel” of my latest blog post. It was on a Monday (the 29th). I’ve been meaning to do this for a long while, and decided to finally do it.

Yep, that’s right, I’ve resigned from the MRT Server. The main reason is I was bored with Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program really had my interest. But that’s not the only reason.
The secondary reason was me, and me VS the community. Allow me to explain the “me VS the community” part.
When I showed up on Day 1, I was so happy to meet Frumple in person. I wanted to be as helpful for the community as possible. I never wanted to be a moderator. But I got the job. I do admit I was a tiny bit jealous over BioHazard_Stuff getting it before me, but he was more helpful than me on Day 1.
The only reason I got it, I was traveling up the Green Line when I noticed parts of track missing, due to someone placing ice.

And as they say, with great power comes.. well, you know the rest. It wasn’t the fact I couldn’t handle the responsibility of a Moderator, hell no. I was tough, firm, and ready to jump in your shit if you start something. Yes, I was a bit too.. over-protective of the server. But that’s how I am when I care for something a lot.

But one thing that drove me over the edge, was WorldEdit requests. The requests, that never seem to stop coming. And the requests of people who are all “I’m so sorry, but what are you talking about? What points am I supposed to place?”. Even talking about them make me rage a bit inside. I can’t stand utter stupidy.

But this is just one of the many secondary reasons why I left. The other major one, the way I am of what is a threat, and what is just a harmless joke. I am supposed to fucking know this, as a Moderator (who also was seen as a possible Admin).
Oh yes, I forgot to mention that. They saw me as a possible Admin. Being a mod was really all I cared for. An Admin, you have more responsibilities. I tried to tell everyone that wanted me to be one, this. One day I fucked up any chance of being one.
It had to do with NEI. There were features that were only accessible if the server owner would install them.
I begged and pleaded to Frumple to consider installing it. Never happened. Plus this was also during everyone being on and hearing me. Embarrassment level – high. That killed any chance of being an Admin.

Another thing is when ActualFacts, my best friend on the server was banned due to some kind of “identity crisis”. I needed time off, but was never told how long I could take off. I had said I would be back in a week and played WoW. But when that day came near, I felt like I was being ‘forced’ to come back. That’s when I started to get bitter and had a hatred of anyone that asked for WorldEdits. I felt it was becoming a chore, and the fun of helping others died out. I dislike having to do things for other people, and prefer to just be left alone (and used WorldEdit for my own personal game).
In other words, I was somewhat abusing my mod powers. When reality finally hit like a brick to the face, is when I started thinking of just quitting.

Moving back to the whole “what is/isn’t a threat” thing, it hurt who I was trying to represent of my… *facepalm* RPing. It felt shameful to call myself one when I kept screwing up like this, and I was constantly seen with a ‘bag of shame’ over my head; literally, I had a paper bag over my skin’s head.

Not to mention I tend to overreact to certain situations, and that’s part of the ‘tip of the iceburg’. One night, I was notified that a member had an Airport in their city, even though airports are banned.
I talked with said guy who had the airport. He claims, this Admin allowed him to build it.
Do you know what I did? … What I shouldn’t had done (and I wish I could undo it). :/ I overracted, and chewed the Admin out by saying that he wasn’t doing his job enforcing the rules that they wrote.
Let’s just say the response wasn’t pretty. I wasn’t nearly demodded for it (though I should had in my opinion).
I was told by him after deeply apologizing about the whole ordeal, that the Admins, they don’t want to come on because of me. Yes. This is true. I was in tears, after I read that.
It’s because.. well, this has to do with something else: DasNexus’ roads. I’ve always thought of him as a threat, and especially so one day, when I saw him changing one of my old roads! But due to the new road rule, I didn’t have a leg to stand on. Please don’t remind me of the old road rule, or I will have to hurt you.
This isn’t what really caused it (and sorry for not getting to the point. I will, I promise!). The main thing is seeing Das’ elevated roads, piller’less. The new road rule states the Admins were going to check if roads are realistic, and not floating. Again, they weren’t doing their jobs. They weren’t doing what they said they would; what I eventually agreed with. The only reason why I agreed to the new Road Rule, was hearing the Admins would do something about unrealistic roads. And they aren’t doing shit!

The kicker to this, is no one but me, was complaining about them. Not a single person. Every fucking time it’s about roads, I’m the one that whines! Do you know how shitty this makes a person feel?

Hands down, let’s just say of the secondary reasons, I’ve made a lot of bad decisions that I’m not proud of. 🙁 Decisions I wondered I should just quit. Finally the guesswork of that nagging question is dead.

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And that, my dear readers, are the main reasons why I resigned. Do I regret it, even a tiny bit? I do. The visions of my island, and that awesome treehouse that Yoshi made for me during one of the staff meetings (that I don’t have to attend anymore! WOOT!), keep bugging me.
But those are the only things I’ll miss. The rest… the rest can burn in hell for all I care. I am done. I wasn’t even there for the Anniversary. I could had quit then, but I felt it would be even worse than now.

To say the community cared for me, is BS. All they “cared about”, I was so gullible of doing WorldEdits for everyone.
A handful of people do actually care for me, and that handful I’m still talking to in Skype.
I’m not against the server in anyway. All of this crap had to do with me, not being able to handle being ‘told what to do’ (aka WorldEdit requests) and how I react to people in certain situations. This is why I usually play Single Player whenever I can.
Unfortunately, the server doesn’t seem to want to let me go quietly. I swear somewhere on it, they got some kind of memorial dedicated to me. What I mean is Episode 50 of the Snapshot. Around 4:50 in the video, Chief mentions about “some sad news”. Then I hear my name and I facepalm so hard.

Ontop of that, Frumple’s email of my departure (read it a day after this blog post)… well, it had a few sentences I’d never seen him say anything like this since Day 1. One of them is “I couldn’t had done this without you Benie”.
I doubt I was the glue holding that server together, after all the drama I caused on it. Maybe on the first week, but still… no reason to treat me like a celebrity.

Yeah, I’m still here. I’ve been playing Kerbal Space Program off and on for at least a month. Also for a month, no BSODs. This is because I’ve been only playing KSP, and I’m getting sick of the game. I wish I can play something else. But until I come up with $3-400, I’m stuck with the same game for months!
I know I should be grateful that not my entire motherboard getting fried, and I definitely am. I just want to be able to do more.

Anyway, let’s talk KSP and why it makes me rage.
It isn’t the fact it keeps trying to “force” me to play legit, but the editor in the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) and SPH (Spaceplane Hanger).

– Camera angles. UGH! I HATE force fixed camera angles! It makes it so hard to work on specific parts, up close and personal.

– Connection nodes. Where should I start with this? So parts have these nodes on them, telling you where you can connect them to. Well, this is good of building things perfectly symmetrical in a tube shape (aka, rockets). But this is the only good reason for them.
Want to build something horizontal on a vertical service? FUCK YOU! No connection nodes there! These limits ruin my creativity, and also serious weight/testing for some missions.

There’s also the “delightful” feeling of watching something you spent hours trying to bugfix, go all wrong right infront of you.

Fortunately, KSP has one hell of a community behind it. And they’re pretty nice too, of trying to help you out. As long as you don’t do anything stupid by saying like “wow, thanks SQUAD for caring for us”, then next thing you’re saying “you know what? They suck! Why didn’t they warn us about this?!”.. I’ll explain that a bit later on.

So. The 0.21 patch has finally come. The Space Center is redesigned and looks great, and Kerbin’s mountains got a facelift, and also look great. The Mun also got a facelift; lots more craters and even more challenging to land on.
I haven’t tried the update, due to waiting for the modders to update what I use. But that’s not the only thing that was keeping me away. Something much worse loomed over the horizon.

And soon it showed its ugly head… “ASAS is gone!!!”, the community cried. It’s been replaced by what are called: “reaction wheels”. These realistic reaction wheels are used even in IRLs rockets and crafts, like the Hubble Space Telescope.
But if I wanted realism, I would go to NASA and train to be an astronaut… not from a game, that I got used to using ASAS to hold the heading of dozens of my flights since I got the version. Now we’re forced to use these reaction wheels; more parts. More weight to throw off my already perfectly-balanced landers… 😛
This is just how I see it, going by what I’m hearing. As I said, I haven’t tried the update. But this caused a major firestorm, between people that say “why did they DO THIS?! RAGE!!!”, and “wow, you whine too much! It works for me!”. There’s also the “I did what you said and it still isn’t working right! This has to be bugged.” people.
Me? I was the “This is their game. We’re stuck with it.” person, thinking the devs didn’t care. These reaction wheels, I thought were possibly want the devs wanted in the first place instead of a ‘cheaty’ version of it (aka the old ASAS).

But the devs actually do care, which surprised me more than the lead dev posting two replies after mine, asking for people to fill in bug reports. The next afternoon, 0.21.1 was released; the first ever patch of KSP.

This is where I was all “Wow, ok, I was wrong about the devs not caring!”. Then someone posted “I wish they just had done nothing and kept the old ASAS”. That’s when rage took over, knowing we were fucking stuck with these damn things. And that’s when I just had to open my mouth and say: “The devs tricked us! They didn’t warn us about these hidden, unwanted changes!”. Of course this caused people (and I don’t blame them at all) to be confused and say “You praised them, now you’re pissed? Are you ever happy? I think you’re a troll.”

Since then, I “banned” myself from the General Discussion section of the forum. Too much embarrassment. But I’m also still pissed at them. In the videos I saw, they made it look like “Remember back then when ASAS kept shaking your ship or station apart? No more! We fixed it! Now you can turn and ASAS will remember what you did! Fly SSTOs even better!!”. Never did they mention ASAS would be downgraded.

I mean, I’m pissed off enough of the editor. I don’t need my game experience to be all “Awww… you didn’t put enough Reaction Wheels (or) didn’t put them where they’re supposed to go! Hopes and Dreams ruiner engage!!. Already I rage and get depressed when my craft are “not fucking good enough for this game”. This would make it even worse!

But the fact I never tried this game and just basing everything off of what I’m hearing, I never have experienced these problems (being on 0.20 still). Maybe the Reaction Wheels don’t weigh as much as I’m thinking. And there are ASAS-like reaction wheels you can use.
But the fear that it’ll be worse, keeps me away. I mean, I suck with this game already. These reaction wheels may, then again may not ruin everything I try to fly, even simple rockets. How can you possibly write a bug report for “User sucks at this game”?
Especially hearing that if you use a manned rocket and kill a Kerbal, it’s a permadeath. There is a way to bring them back, but it’s inconvenient.

I just… I don’t know if I want to risk it. It’s the saying of “moving out of your comfort zone”. I like staying in it. Yes, “it’s just a game”. But you know me, I don’t think of it like that.

First off, I haven’t paid the $60. I’ve been watching a playthough of the game, on Youtube on my phone (tiny screen FTW).
I liked what I saw, but some parts keep me from saying to Steam: “Shut up and take my money!“. Not to mention my computer still having issues. But that’s for another post (hopefully I can type this without a BSOD / lockup).

The game is very beautiful, but like Dead Space 3, peel away the shiny coat of paint and you’ll see where the game developers didn’t do so good.
– There’s only one type of enemy that uses Vigor; the “Fireman”.
– RPG’s and Sniper Rifles in 1912? Seems legit. (not)
– Having to go to the same place you’ve been to before, multiple times.
– You can’t really interact with people, except in cutscenes.
– Though I’m not complaining but others will, no “good/bad ending”.

Now I’m not saying this is a bad game. Not only is it beautiful, the story is really good and voice acting is also really good. Combat can get boring, but using the Sky-Lines gives a new level of gameplay.

So overall;
Graphics: 10! (beautiful. Simply beautiful)
Story: 8.5 (Since I never played it, I can’t really give this part a rating)
Combat: 7.5 (gets repetitive at times. Sometimes it’s pretty tense)
Weapon Choices: 6.5 (wish you could have more than two weapons at a time. Also having an RPG in 1912 is unrealistic)
Immersion Level: 8.5 (I’d give it a 9 if you could talk to people)
TOTAL: 8.5 (get it!)

Now, I’d really like to talk about the ultimate mindfuck ending ever in a game I would or have played. Even though this game I haven’t played, spoilers don’t bug me much. Since they will others, just click the “Read More >>” button to see this entire post, plus the endgame spoilers.
Continue reading →

no I’m not playing half-life 2. I am typing this blog post with my phone. my computer is at the shop due to serious issues. Issues like BSOD’s, lockups, programs crashing for no reason, and the like.

I won’t know what happened to it until Saturday or Monday. One possible reason is a virus did something to my hardware. I’m hoping that my hardware has just.reached.that age where it’s time to replace it.
I’ve been using an app called Minechat, which enables me to be on the Mrt Server, but I cannot see myself on it. I can only chat. My attempt to join the Mumble server has failed, and the two amps for Android ” mumble for Android lite” and “Plumble”, refused to work.

Before I start this blog post, I wanted to address issues that I’ve heard of trying to find the answers to where the serpents came from. Most of them are on the lines of “why do you care so much? There’s more important things than worrying about where they came from.”
From a Raider’s point of view, I agree with this. But from the point of view of rollplayers, and people who want to be immersed in WoW’s rich lore, care because we want to learn.
And from a dragon standpoint, dragons want to learn everything they see, to share with lesser dragons once they become Elder.

So if you’re a rollplayer/just want to learn about WoW’s lore, click the “Read More >>” button. Raiders and the rest, don’t waste your time. Continue reading →

Something has really bugged me about Yu’lon, since starting to do rep for The August Celestials. Why does it seem that she hides in her temple when the scary Sha show up, yet none of the other celestials hide?

Xuen, the White Tiger, the Celestial of Strength and Honorable Combat (aka, the Horde’s celestial) of the North temple, is the only one that has no problem with bad guys attacking. The point is, you can speak to him once during leveling, and again during the dailies if he calls for you.

Chi-Ji, the Red Crane, the Celestial of Hope and Pride of the South temple. You can talk to him twice as well. Again, once during leveling, but also during a Scenario involving his temple. You can still see him and he doesn’t hide.

Niuzao, the Black Ox, the Celestial of Fortitude and Protection (the Tank celestial) of the West temple. He doesn’t really say anything, but you see him and can “talk” to him multiple times by clicking on him, if he’s not busy being a battering ram against the Mantid.

And finally, there’s Yu’lon, the Jade Serpent, the Celestial of Wisdom and Intelligence of the east temple. During leveling, she speaks to you twice (before and after the Jade Serpent statue falls), and before the Vale opens, she shows up. But those are the ONLY times you ever see her (besides doing the dungeon). You never get to directly talk to her, except in her Pandarian Cub form (Fei) which is during leveling.
This is why I think she’s a coward. For once, I want to see what she says by just right clicking her. She has her guards to protect her scaly behind and temple from the Sha. Perhaps she’s still pissed off at you for what happened to the statue. Yet why did she offer to help open the Vale?
Another possible reason, is because the temple is locked inside a dungeon. And this is true. The North, West, and South temples aren’t dungeons. The only others I know of, is the Scenario for the South temple, and the Heroic dungeon for the West temple.
You can fly into the Jade Serpent temple, but there will be no one there. In other words, it’s phased.
But for Yu’lon to not show when her temple is attacked by the Sha (again, phased), makes her a coward.

If you wish to discuss what I mentioned, feel free to leave a comment. I’ll be making another one of trying to figure out the mystery behind the serpents’ existence.

Since the 14th of this month, there’s been quite a heated debate on and off the MRT Server over who can build roads, how they should look, what is the threshold of “too many” roads.. etc.
The problem, new members want to express their creativity and cannot, because of bureaucracy.

Me? For months, I’ve been heavily defending my precious roads from anyone even threatening to cough on them. I treat everything I build that I enjoyed making it, as my “baby”.
Too much, you say? Perhaps. But I couldn’t help it.
My friends were defending me. Some of them still do, saying that they can’t take away my right to own what I made. Others feel the Admins aren’t letting their voices be heard over this.

Last Sunday (the 28th), Frumple posted a link to a Google Doc of six proposals laid down by the Admins, and asked us moderators to weigh in with our opinions. I of course was the first (and the only) one to. He also posted something else, that I will go over later on. To make things simple, here’s a short version of the proposals, and my opinion on them.

Proposal #1(the one we talked about in the Staff Meeting): “Restrict road-building to Trusted members only.”
Trusted would be the only ones to build roads, and Members would have to ask them. Immediately after the meeting, outrage over that proposal was in full force. Mostly of how I shouldn’t be forced to give up control of my roads.

Proposal #2: “Allow all members to build roads.”
Immediately, I was 100% against this idea, and still am. I picture total chaos of roads criss-crossing the server. But Chief says that this won’t happen, as they can issue warnings for people that do build roads all over the server.
But then, what would be classified as “too many” roads? This also means, no one will have control over their roads. They will pretty much belong to the community.

Proposal #3: “Ban creation of highways, but allow smaller roads.”
Making it where the Admins would plan out highways (intermaps), but do so in a less grand scale. Not for this. Banning is not favored for me.

Proposal #4: “Ban new cross-map highways, transfer ownership to towns, and only allow two towns to be connected by roads”
This is a “slightly reworded” version of Proposal 3, from Thomas, but I pretty much skimmed through the description and still don’t get what he’s trying to say.

Proposal #5: “Establish a Roads Committee”
This is the only one I was 100% for. It was an idea Frumple gave me, when we were doing another staff meeting, months ago. But this version has been altered to make it more fair. Instead of me being in charge, one Admin, two Mods (one being me), and a few hand-picked people would be on the committee.
There would also be elections for new committee members. Unfortunately, most of the Admins are against this. Once again, bureaucracy would be a problem. And it would lead to fights.

Proposal #6: “Roads become semi-private builds”
This one is pretty much the one Frumple kind of wants me to agree with. It allows me to control my roads (as in, where they go), but… I would have to allow others to build off of it, without having to ask for permission. It also states, the Admins would be the decision-makers of what classifies as an “ugly road”.
All and all, this will allow people to build roads and connect them to mine, without permission. But being able to say “I’m sorry, but I’m planning to build mine this way” would be more fair to us Road Owners.
We built these roads out of our blood, sweat, and tears. We should be the ones calling the shots on where they go, not other people.

One last thing. The Admins have mentioned that these very proposals, will be shown to the community in a few weeks. I’m guessing the reason behind “a few weeks” instead of now, is the Admins want the Moderators to weigh their opinions first, then allow the Members to. That would make sense.

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And here’s the section of what else I received in that email. After I said my opinion of all the above-mentioned proposals, Frumple sent all staffers an email that he sent to the Admins, explaining what he was going to do before telling us.
As I kept reading, it was clear to me that I’m being blamed for this, instead of DasNexus and Yeamanator wanting to build roads all over the server. He states that he has no objection over seeing roads everywhere, then puts the blame solely on me for keeping Members from expressing their creativity; “and I’m not convinced that Benie realizes this yet”.

This made me want to break down crying. I had no idea that my overly-obsessed desire to protect my roads (and everything I build that I like) was pissing Members off. I had thought that Frumple just didn’t care about my roads. Of course I had to do the right thing!, but with the cost of me possibly leaving the server (because I wouldn’t be able to stand it). I decided that I would lose full control of my roads.
Frumple’s response, he was shocked to see mine, and said that he hoped to “come to a mutual agreement” of just allowing others to build on them, and I would still own them. In other words, he favors Proposal 6 (it seems, going by his words).
Yet, Chief and Thomas favor Proposal 2. I just don’t know what is the Admins’ true stand on this. Perhaps they don’t even know. Nothing’s for certain, as of now.

This also makes me wonder if I should just come back to the server; be on it after I do my dailies in WoW. The Admins haven’t made anything official yet (roads wise), meaning the old rule is still in place. So why shouldn’t I just come back and pretend we never had that damn Staff Meeting?
Because I feel if I get too “comfortable”, this thing will “sneak up” on me and smack me like a wrecking ball. That’s why I’m not sure. I fear the Admins will just say; “You know what? Screw it! We’re deciding! If you don’t like it, leave!!”
I try to tell myself that the Admins would never do something so stupid (as it would just doom the server), but my bad side continues to think that.

Due to “matters beyond my control” (aka, Road Ownership on the MRT Server in question), I’m taking an extended break from the MRT.
Seems a lot has happened since I last played. Infact Patch 5.2 “The Thunder King” is out. These patches are basically for raiders. I’ll get to more of that later on. But they also have made other notable changes, listed below;

#1. The farm, Sunsong Ranch, can be owned by you. Also, you can set your hearth to it! And the house can be used as an Inn, allowing you to log off but hop on another char, without the 20 second delay screen.
Now if only it would allow you to invite someone to your farm as a Group, for them to see what you see in your phased version, but not touch the crops. Make it happen, Blizzard. Please. Then my WoW life will be complete, knowing I can just bring my Alliance chars into it, and not have anyone walk into our conversation. I don’t care how much I have to pay or what I have to do (as long as it’s soloable) to have this feature.

#2. “Work Orders” are now available once you take over the farm. Completing these gives you bonus rep with that faction. Known factions requiring ‘your services’ are The Klaxxi, Golden Lotus, Shado-Pan, The August Celestials, and Operation: Shieldwall (the 5.1 faction).
Basically, these require you to grow 8 of a certain crop, and it’s every time. Also, you can still do Work Orders for factions you’ve got Exalted with, just for cash and VP.

#3. Every now and then, an Ex-Mage from Dalaran comes to the Halfhill Market. You can buy Unstable Portal Shards from him for 3g each. Once grown and harvested, give you a one-way portal to a major city. Note, that these will only work for your own faction. I personally love these things, as this gives me an easy way to get to the AH and sell my crap (without having to fly North and use the portals there), then hearth back to the farm. I’m sure that what I’m using them for, is their intended purpose.

#3. There’s mini-factions of Golden Lotus and Shado-Pan, called “Offensive”. Getting rep with them, gives you better Valor Gear choices.

#4. Sunwell Plateau is now soloable! The first boss encounter can now be solo’d. Unfortunately, you need high-level gear (Valor and up) to survive (and for DPS). One of my friends told me that Black Temple is also soloable, but has been that way since Cata. It’s unknown if The Eye is also fully soloable.

#5. A new island has risen, north of Kun-Li Summit, called the “Isle of Giants”. It’s like Jurassic Park in WoW. There’s two types of dinosaurs on this island; Primal Direhorn(Stegosaurus), and Primal Devilsaur(T-Rex). To get there, just fly to the island. But be sure to head for the Flight Path guy because your flying mount will disappear (since dragons weren’t around back then).
All of these enemies are heavily armored, hostile, and Elite, requiring Valor gear just to survive navigating the island. Killing yields dino bones. These can be turned in for a few small things. Getting 9,999 bones will give you a new mount. They will very rarely drop an egg, similar to the egg from The Oracles back in WoTLK which has a three RL day timer, and has a 0.01% chance of getting a baby Devilsaur with interesting names such as “Toenibbler”.
If you’re good enough at taming, you can tame one of these guys as a pet. They’re immune to Freezing Trap, so be careful. To tame, you have to acquire a special book (doesn’t require you to have Exotic Beasts taming skill).

#6. Doing Random Scenarios and Random Heroics, there’s an option that you will get bonus rep of a selected faction of your choice.

Now as I mentioned before, the majority of these “5.#” patches, revolves around Wrathalon, the last of the Black Dragons (and Deathwing’s son). As much hatred as you feel for him, he wants nothing but peace to prove that not all Black Dragons are evil (and to redeem for what his father did). He also wants the fighting between the Horde and Alliance to stop.

But you have to prove to him that you got what it takes to help him on his quest. And that involves, killing the Thunder King. Which of course is a Raid.
As much as I wouldn’t mind helping out a fellow dragon, that’s too much for me. I’m a soloer. Yet I have that same feeling I did, when I didn’t care much about defeating Deathwing. The feeling of “you do nothing, Azeroth is doomed (again)”. I thought we were fucking DONE with the whole “Mega Boss spells doom for Azeroth” thing after Cata.
If what this dragon prince says is true, then how come Alexstrasza and the other aspects didn’t feel this was coming, instead of “bug out”, never to be seen again (in our current era)? Maybe they’ll pop back up as mortals in a future patch?

One thing’s for sure, everyone wants Hellscream dead, including Wrathalon. The douche, bombs Theramore for no reason, and he’s always been a reason I don’t like being on the Horde side. He hates the Alliance so much, even more so than Thrall did. But with Thrall, I always knew there was some good in that Orc.

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Anyway, moving on to what I’ve been doing in WoW. I’m now Exalted with The Tillers and The Klaxxi, working on getting Valor points for pieces. Also working on getting rep with the Golden Lotus, knowing when I hit Revered with them, I’ll unlock Shado-Pan and The August Celestials dailies.
I’m debating if I should keep doing the dailies of these two factions, even though I’m Exalted. The reason, they still give 5 VP per daily.
But I’ve also been doing Random Scenarios. They give you 25 VP per completion, which is the equivalent of doing 5 dailies. Random Heroic Dungeons give you 80 VP per completion, which is the equivalent of doing 16 dailies (not possible with one faction on one certain day, until you hit Honored or up).

Now getting Valor faster is always nice, but its down side is;
1. Having to depend on others.
2. (the major one) “wow, this guy is 90 and he has low dps” “hunter you cant dps for shit!” *You were removed from the group.* Self-esteem killer moments. :/
3. Risk of wiping on a boss.
4. Me never being to a particular dungeon before, and everyone in the group expects me to know what to do.
5. The feeling of not really contributing to the group because of my shitty DPS. Having them “hold my hand” to get Valor faster, feels wrong.

Visreal games has released a continuation of Dead Space 3, dubbed “Awakening”, showing what happened to Issac after defeating the final boss (if he died or not). A question I wanted answered since completing it.
Going by screenshots, Issac is NOT dead! Not even barely. Thank god for that. That would be really crappy to end the series like that.

It seems the threat isn’t over. Infact, it just got 5 times worse. According to the description (and screenshots), you head back to Outer Space (yay!) and reboard the ship, the Terra Nova (the one that had the regenerating assholes). Unitagologists have boarded. And about “the darkest episode of Dead Space is coming”.

It’s $10 on Origin. But I’m not sure if it’s worth it. The fact it’s $10 for a continuation, raises a red flag. It means it’s going to be short. An hour long at the most, maybe two. However, I decided to get it since I’m curious as hell of what happened to Issac after defeating the final boss. I didn’t want to be spoiled by watching a playthrough.
I will not have spoilers in this. I’ve “completed” it, yet… well, yeah. It’s best that you just play this instead of me telling you.

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Playing it for a half an hour, there was a part where I just said… “this is too fucked up even for me. Especially at this time of night.”, and save quitted. Now I’m trying to think of ice cream and puppy dogs while curled up into a ball, instead of WTF I just went through.
An enemy I can’t kill. Enemies suddenly appearing in rooms then disappearing again. Am I truly going insane? Issac’s dementia might just do him in, in this EP.
Seriously…, Amnesia? This EP makes that game look like a kid’s game. When you feel the same level of ‘this is so FUCKED UP!!’ as Issac is, then you know you’re into this game. And I’m playing on a trainer here.

Rule of thumb; never play horror games like this one at night (especially with the lights off), if you get nightmares of creatures popping up infront of you, then disappearing before you can pull the trigger.

In the game, you keep hearing a strange repeating message: “They are hungry, they are coming”. Who’s coming, you wonder. As you play this expansion, you get your answer, and what “they” are after.

And so that’s it. Just play this if you’ve played the original game. I doubt you’ll be disappointed.