![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Wraith For The Cure
I'm all sleep-shifted again, which sucks. I even slept straight through my alarm clock this morning. I got to work a little after noon. I'd feel worse about it if not for the fact that I was surprisingly productive today -- finally officially "finished" and released the error progression graph generator, and managed to rattle off a script relatively quickly to do a report checker -- I feel awful lately if I say "I'll have a solution by the end of the day" and then just can't quite figure out how to make it work, so it was good to get that done. Also, I am wandering into the realm of "on call" -- I was supposed to apparently have the pager last week but it went to Phil, who gave it to me today. Jack and I made sure I have access to the appropriate places if necessary, and... and now I carry the pager for the next six days and pray that it doesn't go off, because I'm pretty sure I can't solve 95% of the problems that it'd be going off for. Has it really been seven months since I started working at IDX (err, GE)? I've learned so much, and yet so little.
Last night I didn't write an entry because there wasn't much to say. I got home from work pretty late, had a sandwich, played a little Puzzle Pirates since I'd been out most of the evenings and hadn't seen people on lately. Then I banged my head against my baseball box score logic problem and actually came up with a solution. It makes me feel all smart'n'stuff. Unfortunately, it sent my brain into overload, which is probably part of why I couldn't fall asleep and so overslept.
Today after work I went to Cory and Heidi's house for board games. Well, er, board game. Josh, Justin, Jarrett, Cory and I played the World of Warcraft board game again. Unfortunately, there's really no good way to do unbalanced teams, and so Josh and Cory were the Horde and Jarrett, Justin and I were the Alliance. Cory and Josh had to play three characters between the two of them -- as a joke, I suggested they name their NPC player "Mike", after Cory's brother Mike, who used to be in our D&D group and hung out and played board games with us all the time, until he graduated from college and got a serious girlfriend and got a serious job and stopped hanging out with us. (Jarrett actually replaced him in our D&D group and in the social circle, pretty much.) Anyway, back before Mike officially dropped out of our D&D group, we'd make his character do stupid things we didn't want to, like opening doors and running into combat and whatnot -- so it was pretty freaking hilarious to me to have the Warcraft NPC be named Mike. "Okay, well, how bout we go take on those gnolls, and uh, Mike will go solo that naga?" "Oh man! Look at how lousy Mike was rolling! He sucks!"
Anyway, I played an elven warrior, and thanks to choosing a pretty good path of ass-kicking and getting lucky enough to pick up a badass bow and two badass swords and dual wielding talent, as well as the super defense stance and armor and shield wall, by turn 30 when we were doing our gigantic PvP battle, I was entirely and totally maxed out and rolling all the dice the game came with. It was pretty funny. The only unfortunate thing was that Jarrett's character kept having to rest to regain magic energy, so Justin and I sort of shot ahead of him on the XP table. With two turns left in the game, we noticed that we couldn't get the whole party to level 5, but we could work it out so Justin and I got to level 5 and Jarrett would pretty much suicide against a Doomguard, and on the very slim chance he survived, he'd also be level 5. Whoosh. So in the final Horde vs. Alliance PvP, Justin and I were both level 5 and he had the Ice Barrier, one of the most broken powers in the game and amplified by Arcane Focus. He was actually putting more armor chips up than I was even with my Shield Wall and Shield Discipline and Defense Stance. At any rate, the net result is that we SMOKED them. Ironically, Cory and Josh's characters finished at level 4, but "Mike" finished at level 5, heh. Still, the second round of the PvP combat, I think we did 26 damage to them, with like 15 points of armor on our side, and they didn't even chip our armor and had like 4 armor points themselves. Ouch.
So, both games of the WoW boardgame I've played so far, I've kicked butt. Last time I was a priest, this time I was a warrior. Next time maybe I'll try being a mage or something, who knows. Oh, also surprisingly, I actually like the game. I'm still not playing the bloody online version, though. I might get into D&D Online for a bit if I can figure out a way to play only with my local friends, though; we'll see.
Got home around 2am; it's 4am now; gotta be on the East Side tomorrow afternoon for Twilight Imperium. I'm sure after this weekend I won't be in the mood to play any more 6-hour wargames for a while...
Last night I didn't write an entry because there wasn't much to say. I got home from work pretty late, had a sandwich, played a little Puzzle Pirates since I'd been out most of the evenings and hadn't seen people on lately. Then I banged my head against my baseball box score logic problem and actually came up with a solution. It makes me feel all smart'n'stuff. Unfortunately, it sent my brain into overload, which is probably part of why I couldn't fall asleep and so overslept.
Today after work I went to Cory and Heidi's house for board games. Well, er, board game. Josh, Justin, Jarrett, Cory and I played the World of Warcraft board game again. Unfortunately, there's really no good way to do unbalanced teams, and so Josh and Cory were the Horde and Jarrett, Justin and I were the Alliance. Cory and Josh had to play three characters between the two of them -- as a joke, I suggested they name their NPC player "Mike", after Cory's brother Mike, who used to be in our D&D group and hung out and played board games with us all the time, until he graduated from college and got a serious girlfriend and got a serious job and stopped hanging out with us. (Jarrett actually replaced him in our D&D group and in the social circle, pretty much.) Anyway, back before Mike officially dropped out of our D&D group, we'd make his character do stupid things we didn't want to, like opening doors and running into combat and whatnot -- so it was pretty freaking hilarious to me to have the Warcraft NPC be named Mike. "Okay, well, how bout we go take on those gnolls, and uh, Mike will go solo that naga?" "Oh man! Look at how lousy Mike was rolling! He sucks!"
Anyway, I played an elven warrior, and thanks to choosing a pretty good path of ass-kicking and getting lucky enough to pick up a badass bow and two badass swords and dual wielding talent, as well as the super defense stance and armor and shield wall, by turn 30 when we were doing our gigantic PvP battle, I was entirely and totally maxed out and rolling all the dice the game came with. It was pretty funny. The only unfortunate thing was that Jarrett's character kept having to rest to regain magic energy, so Justin and I sort of shot ahead of him on the XP table. With two turns left in the game, we noticed that we couldn't get the whole party to level 5, but we could work it out so Justin and I got to level 5 and Jarrett would pretty much suicide against a Doomguard, and on the very slim chance he survived, he'd also be level 5. Whoosh. So in the final Horde vs. Alliance PvP, Justin and I were both level 5 and he had the Ice Barrier, one of the most broken powers in the game and amplified by Arcane Focus. He was actually putting more armor chips up than I was even with my Shield Wall and Shield Discipline and Defense Stance. At any rate, the net result is that we SMOKED them. Ironically, Cory and Josh's characters finished at level 4, but "Mike" finished at level 5, heh. Still, the second round of the PvP combat, I think we did 26 damage to them, with like 15 points of armor on our side, and they didn't even chip our armor and had like 4 armor points themselves. Ouch.
So, both games of the WoW boardgame I've played so far, I've kicked butt. Last time I was a priest, this time I was a warrior. Next time maybe I'll try being a mage or something, who knows. Oh, also surprisingly, I actually like the game. I'm still not playing the bloody online version, though. I might get into D&D Online for a bit if I can figure out a way to play only with my local friends, though; we'll see.
Got home around 2am; it's 4am now; gotta be on the East Side tomorrow afternoon for Twilight Imperium. I'm sure after this weekend I won't be in the mood to play any more 6-hour wargames for a while...
no subject
So at the end of the game, we were like:
"Wow, that wasn't remotely fair."
"Goddamn, we're nerds."
"Alright, let's play something else."
I didn't even know there *was* a WoW boardgame.
no subject
no subject
no subject