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[ I liiiiiiive ] [ 12:18 pm :: Fri 10th Aug 2007 ]

	though living may not be appropriate for DJ. >_> Oh well. Anyway. HAI. been way too long since I've logged in here. ...also, I'm still cranky at isabeau being taken. D: (and the contact information's out of date.) I should probably rename, because ending in an underscore = bad, but I can't think of what to rename to.		[ 1 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ no subject ] [ 11:02 am :: Thu 27th Jan 2005 ]

	rambling on the two open requests (the unknown mode ones), which I'm doing here because I'm lazy: ( Read more... ) It can't be a global problem with the browser not sending hidden form information, because (a) there wouldn't be a mode, so it would get assigned modify or loginform, and (b) it would error out on not having a username anyway. So the editinfo form is somehow returning a mode that is neither "loginform", "modify", or "domodify". (The last being the expected value.) I don't think it can be an encoding thing though. It might be a browser b0rkage thing. Maybe they should use another browser? shrug		[ 11 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ Ph33r my 1337ness... ] [ 10:05 pm :: Tue 25th Jan 2005 ]

	...for I have created an S2 style. Um. Well, technically, I haven't done the various calendar views (year, month, or day). But! I have a recent entries page, and a friends page, AND an entry page! I rock. ...kind of.		Speak Listen Learn

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[ no subject ] [ 09:21 pm :: Fri 14th Jan 2005 ]

	twitch		Speak Listen Learn

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[ no subject ] [ 08:36 am :: Fri 10th Sep 2004 ]

	I'm alive. No, really.		[ 1 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ no subject ] [ 09:03 am :: Sun 27th Jun 2004 ]

	Oh, suuuuure, close without credit, why don't you. Hmph. :) In unrelated news: I have too many invite codes. (22 unused plus however many are generatable since the last time I generated). I am experiencing YAUIC syndrome. Hence, isadom. Which, er, doesn't really have anything yet, but I want to keep a record of adom characters I play (including starting stats, ending stats, and where/when/how they die). I want to see how far I can get without cheating, and if there are any patterns to it. In even more unrelated news: Happy birthday, pthalo. :)		[ 13 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ more ADOM stuff ] [ 10:16 pm :: Fri 25th Jun 2004 ]

	Oh, kick /ass/. I had two "You are truly excited" messages, going down through the CoC. (Three, actually -- greater vaults, all of them -- but the first of the three was guarded by karmics. (Lizards, baby dragons, dragons. Probably ancient dragons too, if I tried getting in there. The other two were ogre lords + ettins + fire giants + stone giants, so they were managable. Granted, I went up about 4 levels, between the two...) Read a blessed scroll of identify, afterwards. Am now in possession of the following: fine leather armor "Nature's Companion" dwarven pick axe "Hammerhead" rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance" rune-covered sling "Whirlwind" (in addition to Vanquisher, which I got as a crowning gift, and Serpent's Bite, which I got off an assassin in the graveyard level) 2 helms of water breathing helm of teleportation blue dragon scale mail leather armor of life tower eternium shield Shiny. I also have some (non-artifact) kick-ass weapons. Vanquisher, which I've been using since I got it, is (+3, 6d5+3). (It's more useful than a standard weapon with those stats, but that's not the point. I have an eternium two-handed sword (+11, 6d5+18) and an adamantium two-handed sword of hunting (+12, 3d5+12). I'm also keeping a mithril warhammer (+3, 2d3+5) since I have clubs/hammers at 10. (two-handed weapons is at 12, but doesn't allow me a shield, so.) This is the first time that I've managed to get through the elemental altars (well, three of the four, so far) without using missiles. Brute force. Whee. (I am, for the record, L27. Strength's at 41, though 7 of that's 'cause I have a red marble equipped. Speed is 174. Weapon stat (with Vanquisher) is +125 bonus to hit, 6d5+67 damage. This is /fun/.		Speak Listen Learn

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[ ADOM squee ] [ 09:55 pm :: Thu 24th Jun 2004 ]

	So. Playing an orc barbarian. L18; I did the through-the-UD-to-the-CoC thing. Though, uh, I did venture out long enough to go to the pyramid. And I will, for obvious reasons, venture out to go to the flamey tower place, though I haven't yet made it to the drippy level. And this will make sense to few people other than Pthalo, I think, but: N=, and crowned. (shock + Vanquisher.) Surge of power as I entered the graveyard level. (Serpent's Bite. Which doesn't do as much good as it might since I didn't have daggers trained up, but then again, I didn't have two-handed swords trained up either.) Survived the graveyard level, mainly by dodging the stupid-ass stat-draining vampires. Fire/poison/cold/acid resistant with invisibility intrinsic. Oh, and FS+Lucky. Weapon levels at 10 for clubs and polearms (and I have a stone club and a stone spear, which I was dual-wielding before I got Vanquisher), 7 for two-handed weapons, 6 for thrown rocks. Right hand +42 bonus to hit, 6d5+25 damage. Am in possession -- well, not /on/ me; it's stored in the ogre level until I need it -- of a ring and crown of mental stability (useful for red Z guy), red dragon scale mail armor, and a water breathing helmet thingie. Kick /ass/. ETA: L20, and I'm in the flamey tower place. (This is the first character where I got through the drippy level on brute force alone -- berserk tactics + Vanquisher -- usually I fling rocks and run around the temple in circles.) I had a nasty run-in with a living wall, though, on my way up from the red Z guy, which brought me to St 4 (from St 22), which meant I had to kill a lot of time working the strength back up to something reasonable. Meh. At least I didn't die. Yet. :)		Speak Listen Learn

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[ no subject ] [ 09:13 pm :: Sat 12th Jun 2004 ]

	I'm too lazy to actually post to the appropriate place (and I don't even remember where the appropriate place is facepalm) and don't have time to write something up until I'm done with these stupid-ass essays, but-- FAQ 111 needs serious rewriting, IMO. and if someone pokes me after tuesday, I can write something up.		[ 4 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ <insert subject> ] [ 04:30 pm :: Sat 5th Jun 2004 ]

	<insert witty and slightly self-deprecating apology for periodic silences> <insert profound and meaningful, but nevertheless witty and entertaining, commentary> <insert babbling about latest HP movie> <insert meaningless promises not to vanish again>		[ 1 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ Yes, I'm alive. ] [ 10:11 am :: Wed 28th Apr 2004 ]

	...I know I haven't been around much. ^_^ I'm not abandoning DJ! Really. So, okay. Semi-random update: I am now clients admin on LJ. (Hence the previous [FO] post.) It's a little freaky. ...okay, a /lot/ freaky. And cool. And, eeeeee. Now I'm the baby admin! I just need to, uh, figure out what the hell I'm doing. quiet snicker I'm not planning on ditching DJ; I'll just be quieter than normal, for a while. Er. Not that quiet isn't normal for me, but, uh, yeah. Also, eeeee. Also, mongoose.		[ 4 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ no subject ] [ 10:16 am :: Wed 10th Mar 2004 ]

	I'm such a fucking /loser/. Yes, I know I don't really do anything in LJ support any more. I know that the reason I don't have privs any more is my own fault[1], and I would have them all back by now if I just were good enough. I know I'm not. I know that's not anyone's fault but my own. But. Every time there are stats posted, and they include the three most active volunteers by category, I'm never listed. And it hurts. Because I /open/ five times that many requests, I just don't do anything with them, so it /feels/ like I'm a fuck of a lot more active than I actually am. And now rah's doing this random-love thread in supportlounge over there, and I'm only mentioned /once/ (for something I don't really deserve, because I didn't really /do/ anything aside from an email saying "Hi, I'm your mentor" a long time back) and nowhere else, and fuck, I know I don't deserve it, I don't deserve anything there, I don't /do/ anything, but it still hurts. I still want to be noticed. Fucking childish, but so's everything else about me. For the record, I'm doing this here rather than on LJ because I don't want to have it seem like I'm guilting anyone into anything, like throwing in a mention on the random-love thread. I'm not. pthalo, and whoever else of LJ support is reading this, please don't feel obligated. I'm whining, not guilt-tripping, and I know damn well that I really really really don't deserve any acknowledgment in any way, shape, or form. I don't know which I'm crying more about: the fact that I'm being (subjectively speaking) ignored, or the fact that I'm so fucking upset about it. _{[1]: I did this nice little meltdown thing, in Dec/Jan, that cumulated with me voluntarily having my privs temporarily removed. came back to I2 in all categories so that I could priv-play to work out some of the Issues I was having. but it's slow and it's frustrating and, I think, worse from the knowledge that if I'd just kept my fucking mouth shut I could still have supporthelp in all categories but instead I only have it back in two, and I'm never going to get it back in the others. particularly comms (which used to be the only cat where I was comfortable with having supporthelp, and the admins were all "oh, it shouldn't be hard to have 12 or so priv play comments in a week or two" and I have like two in the last month because I suck, and now I'm losing all my enthusiasm for the category) and web (where I never really deserved supporthelp in the first place, and only got it because there was a crisis at the time that needed whompers in web, and I don't have /any/ priv play things in there, dont' have any activity at all aside from moving stuff in, and I can't talk to rah about it because she's probably sick of me whining about stuff). I really should shut the fuck up and go away.} I hate myself.		[ 4 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ Whee! ] [ 02:36 pm :: Sun 7th Mar 2004 ]

	( Yes, it /is/ possible to win the game ) Go me. Or, y'know, something. Um. Did I mention the part were I cheated horribly, and made backups of saves as I did them? Otherwise I'd've died a long time before now. Also the part where I read spoilers so I'd know what was coming and how to deal with it. Next time I play, I want to see how many times I can get pre/post/crowned... (by the time I got to the right piety level in this game, there were too many artifacts for me to be crowned with.) I also want to see how far I can get without restoring from old saves, just to see what happens.		[ 4 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ YAAP ] [ 03:46 pm :: Sat 6th Mar 2004 ]

	[YAAP = yet another ADOM post. snicker] Taking a quick break from grading essays (ARGH UNDERGRADUATES CAN NOT FRELLING WRITE!!!111eleven) and playing with my currently most-advanced character. And, well. This is, I think, the first time that killing a single monster has advanced me /two/ levels. o.O so I kill this guy, and I get the "congratulations!" message, and so I select the areas to improve and yadda, and when that's done I get /another/ one. Like, dude. THat's pretty freakin' impressive. (On the down side, I can't use wands right now, and I've run out of scrolls/potions of chaos resistance. Dangit.) ETA: cracks up The layout of the quickling tree? Spells 'ZOOM'. This...amuses me /far/ too much. Okay. Back to grading essays now. Really.		Speak Listen Learn

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[ GIP! ] [ 02:32 pm :: Thu 4th Mar 2004 ]

	...my response to all those pesky people who whine in support... ;)		[ 1 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ More on ADOM ] [ 10:58 am :: Tue 2nd Mar 2004 ]

	...this is highly spoilery-- if you play ADOM, and haven't ventured into (a) a very hot place, or (b) a level removed from the rest of the world, and if you don't want to be spoiled for future events, you may not want to look farther. However, that does mean that a lot of the (nonexistent) readership for this post will be non-ADOM people, so ( Really quick catch-up summary ) ( Fire ) ( Cats ) Yes, I'm a dork. :) Ignore me.		[ 6 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ no subject ] [ 09:35 pm :: Sun 29th Feb 2004 ]

	There are times when I love ADOM. I'm currently doing a L21 hurthling ranger, crowned champion of order, with intrinsic invisibility and immunity to fire. Right now I'm spending most of my time dual-wielding two weapons-- a dagger of devastation (+3, 5d4+3) and a dagger of penetration (+1, 1d4+1), and while I'm not entirely positive what the stats mean, it's pretty damn /good/. And I'm pretty good with thrown rocks, which makes killing some monsters nice and easy, 'cause I don't need to get anywhere near them. There are-- of course-- some monsters which are out of my depth still. But there are also a lot of monsters where I'm like "neener, I'm stronger and faster and better than you thpbt". Also? The level I was just on generated with a lesser vault of golems (mainly flesh, with some clay and a few stone) /and/ a tension room full of ogres. None of which were a problem. Wheeee. Okay, apparently, this has turned into my support-plus-ADOM journal, rather than just a support journal. grin Maybe I should make meself an ADOM icon...		[ 1 ] Speak Listen Learn

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[ more ADOM amusements ] [ 09:24 pm :: Thu 26th Feb 2004 ]

	so I'm taking a stress break and playing with my (L17 crowned hurthling ranger; it's really /fun/ when the game generates an altar on a high-monster-generation level!), and I'm surrounded by bad guys-- who are, I might add, sensitive to heat; so I zap one of my handy-dandy fireball wands. Now, usually, the messages I get are on the order of: "The foo is badly injured by the searing flames" This time, I also got: "The wight does not seem to be amused." Heeee.		Speak Listen Learn

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[ more ADOM amusements ] [ 10:49 pm :: Sat 21st Feb 2004 ]

	I'm wandering around in the infinite dungeon trying to build up weapon levels-- there's a nice two-handed sword I'm using, but I didn't want to use it against Really Nasty Monsters when it had a skill level of one. (I've got it up to 6 now, but the other three classes of weapon I've used-- daggers, swords, and axes-- are all at 11, so I want roughly that. Also, I want to get another skill level for myself, because the next place in terms of plot-progress involves me going to a Very Nasty Place with lots of Extremely Nasty Monsters, and so having experience as high as possible is a good thing.) So anyway, I come into this room, and there's a blue baby dragon. (Why it's 'blue baby dragon' and not 'baby blue dragon', I don't know, but that's another issue.) And I give it a good whack. And I get the following message: 'You splatter the blue baby dragon and critically wound it. The blue baby dragon decides to fight to the death in a blind rage! The blue baby dragon attacks the blue baby dragon. The blue baby dragon is killed!' Mind you, the one blue baby dragon was the /only creature in the room/. Which means that when I hit it, it (a) went berserk (which the monsters do occasionally), and (b) killed itself. is vastly amused		Speak Listen Learn

	[ Mood : amused. duh. ]

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[ GIP ] [ 10:19 pm :: Wed 18th Feb 2004 ]

	Two, actually. Well, technically, four, but two of them-- kick the elf and the animated carol-- aren't particularly new. I just had to delete them to make room for badgers and Witch-kings. Now I can add them back! smooches pne But ( these two )**are new.		[ 2 ] Speak Listen Learn

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