Strong Defense

Woo, grats to David for his ironclad adamantium-clad successful defense! It’s clear that in the graduate school world, defense wins championships.

And a Freaking Laser

Hahaha, saw this post from ADScion reminding me about the IOU art piece she offered waaaay back when. I don’t even remember what I requested initially… Anyway, the answer to your question is as obvious as obvious can be:

I want Halloween cosplay!!!

Fo’ sho. I was gonna say I want turkey cosplay, but that’s hella tough.

Hit Him Like You Mean It

When I first read this article about Rockstar’s latest game, Bully, I thought, “Wow it is pretty good to be a judge.”

According to Mr. Thompson, the court “ordered production of the game by tomorrow at 3 pm, for [the judge's] full review of the game while it is being played, up to or more than 100 hours.”

Awesome! That almost makes up for having to wear a dress all the time. But then upon reading further, I realized that:

The judge will not actually play the game, although it would be funny if he did. Instead, a Take Two employee will play the game under direction from the judge for the 100 hours.

Damn, talk about fringe benefits! That employee is getting paid to play a video game for 100 hours and doesn’t even have to 1) log bugs, or 2) get a phat haxxor score. I mean, sure the judge could get really annoying, but at least you are getting paid to let that noob watch you pwn schoolkids. You can tell that rather than being deterred by this garbage from Jack Thompson, Rockstar is just milking the attention for free publicity. After hearing about what this game was really about, I realized I wouldn’t even care at all about Bully if not for all the media attention. Nice work Jack. I wonder if Bunky will ever come home from work to tell me about sweet stories like this one:

Not to be outdone, Thompson brought in a giant homemade slingshot to the courtroom, a move which surprised even the judge.

When the defense for Take Two asked for formal paperwork to be provided for this unusual request, the judge said that it would take too long, and shot down the request by shouting “Not a chance in this world!” Clearly, emotions were running high, and reports indicate that some of the defense council were making inappropriate comments during the hearing. For example, when the issue of force feedback in relation to heads being driven over by cars was raised, one of them stood up and shouted “Like a speed bump!”

Anyway, here is the entertaining followup on the court case, and the final conclusion: No injunction, and “There’s nothing in the game that you wouldn’t see on TV every night.” It’s worth reading the actual articles, however, just to hear about all the sweet unprofessional behavior in the courtroom.

Draino

Ahh took yesterday off to wait for the plumber, and it was a very nice day overall. I slept in, watched some anime, grinded a bunch of quests for my rogue and priest, and even cleaned the house a little. Even better, I missed out on a moment of panic at the office, and everything was resolved by the end of the day =).

Sullivan’s Super Service ended up being pretty good. The main office called me when the plumber was on his way, and when he got to the parking lot, he called as well. He was fast, informative, and polite. He even used these footcover things on his shoes to keep the carpet clean. The source of the problem was, of course, Bunky’s hair, and I was not surprised to see a fist sized amount of her hair (mixed with sludge) pulled out from the drain. I don’t know if she needs to wear a collander version of an Elizabethan Collar to shower or what, but these hairballs are pretty gross, and I just know I’ll be the one that has to clean them out in the future. I know there are those drain-hair-catcher things, but Bunky insists they don’t work and doesn’t like to use them for some reason.

Anyway, the plumber ended up only charging me for the service fee for coming out to the apartment, so the whole thing was only $50. I got a lot of good information, and he showed me how to clean the drain out myself. I kinda had an idea of how it worked, but I didn’t really want to muck up new pipes and cause horrible damage.

DING ESQUIRE!

After enduring months upon months of hearing “What will we do if I don’t pass?” and replying, “OMFG, you passed, stop worrying,” the results are in and Bunky has officially become a lawyer. Or rather she passed the test part of the bar exam, and I am assuming she will pass the character/fitness part, too. Now she has to think of something new to worry/complain about.

Time to turn in some of those quest items for some sweet rewards. Woo law grinding!

CTProfiles

I was reading an interesting Paladin blog, and heard about CTProfiles. Too bad there isn’t an automatic way to have your items and abilities displayed (I remember EQ2 had this, but after the trial period, you had to pay extra for it).

Anyways, here’s what Rozamystica’s currently packing. It’s not completely correct, since not all of the enchantments were selectable (so I couldn’t add the +3 Def on my bracers, for instance), and also I cheated and put in several of my 299/300 weapon skills at 300. Guild 2 wasn’t listed, although Guild 1 was.