Rambles

the moment I hit 85 on my DK I lost interest in playing him :(

I've been playing the Cata beta for the last week. At first I was kind of ":|" about it until I discovered the wonderful concept of pre-made characters... after that I was ALL OVER THIS SHIT.

I decided to roll Mage since it seems pretty fun, but I can't decide between female human or male worgen... I like worgen, but the women look godawful after Blizzard butchered their models and the males have the goofiest run/casting animations I've ever seen. Running Wild also looks funky when it's at 100% speec. Worgen have fantastic racials, though... choices!

All in all, I like the changes they've made to the game. I think they've 'dumbed' the game down a little bit, but there's still the challenge of leveling on a PvP server and running Heroic raids, so I can't say that the level in 'easiness' is game-breaking. Apparently, the level 80-85 dungeons are much harder than the WotLK dungeons. Parties no longer have the luxury of facerolling through content. Although the days of CC dungeons a la BC were a time of slower instances, I found the complete and utter lack of challenge in the WotLK dungeons to be vastly more boring.

Will I buy Cataclysm? Probably. I have some time to kill over Christmas break. When I return from break I'll have to quit for at least a month for my thesis project, but when I graduate I'll have some free time again. Hurrah.

My other choice dilemma: Which server to roll on, should I decide to buy the game? Although my boyfriend and other in-game friends are on Wyrmrest, I don't know if I want to stay. WRA's community is the nicest I've seen (especially since a particular raiding guild full of asshats A-side broke apart) but I want to be able to join a PuG for a rated BG or raid with competent people. The best raides and PvPers on Wyrmrest are on Horde, and I'll be damned if I main on the red side. Also, I have zero desire to roleplay anymore. I'm done with RP, period. I want to play the goddamn game and raid and PvP, not sit around in a tavern.

Ah well, I'll figure it out. :T Back to playing!

(Also, I'm SUPER EXCITED about rated BGs and how they bring back old PvP titles. Knight titles FTW!)

I don't consider myself a bad artist, but it's really discouraging when I post fan art and I hardly get any recognition for it. :( The handful of "cool!" comments I get are great, but when I see a drawing posted a day later that receives twice as many comments, I can't help but feel inadequate. I suppose that's the price I pay for not being terribly popular on Deviantart or the respective fandoms I contribute to.

Maybe I should write fifty-chapter smut fanfiction instead...

I found Zhao/Mai fanwork.

( My reaction )

My boyfriend bought a new computer today. He got a pretty sweet deal: 500 bucks for a more-than-decently-spec'd HP desktop, monitor, keyboard and mouse. He was so excited and happy, he was practically walking on air as he carried the huge box out the door. It was awesome. <3

It also got me to thinking about the computer I'm going to inevitably buy for myself when I graduate in a couple of months. For a while I had my heart set on an iMac, but the high price tag really has me scared. Is it really worth it? A PC, on the other hand, is much cheaper for the same hardware that's in an iMac, but I've become so accustomed to how... un-clunky OS X is. While I have my complaints about how over-priced Apple products are and how 90% of the Apple fandom consists of hipster assholes, OS X is by far the most streamlined and all-around wonderful operating system I've ever experienced. I hear good things about Windows 7, though... I suppose time will tell. Who knows if 10.7 (Lion) will suck or not.

Pokemon stuff: I haven't been playing much, but I'm two badges away from finishing Johto. When I initially said that Diamond felt harder than HG... I take it back! The big problem I've been having in HG is that the wild Pokemon/trainers DO NOT SCALE WITH THE GYMS. AT ALL. I just fought Jasmine (who has a LEVEL 35 FUCKING STEELIX) and I'm still encountering wild Pokemon in the grass who are in the low 20s. Seriously, how am I supposed to train in this game? Am I supposed to go into every gym hoping for the best with my underleveled pokes? Bluh.

Well, that's about it. Thanks for reading. c:

Some updates:

Beat the Elite 4/Champion on Diamond. Haven't 'finished' the game yet.
Started HeartGold, am already enjoying it far more than Diamond.
Been lazy with school.
Still kind of tempted to go back to WoW for Cataclysm.
My diet has gone straight to hell and I don't care.
Might be involved in a Pokemon RP soon.
Still haven't finished Avatar: TLA. I'll get around to it eventually...

Yep, that's about it.

To curb my awful withdrawal urges for WoW, I started playing Pokemon again.

OH GOD IT'S SO FUCKING FUN WHY DIDN'T I FINISH ANYTHING AFTER BLUE/RED BEFORE FFFFFFF

Right now I have Emerald, LeafGreen and Diamond, all of which I bought a few years ago when I had money and needed games for my DS. I also have Yellow and Silver but I can't play them since they're original GB games and won't play on my DS. I originally started with Emerald but kept dying to the Fighting gym leader so in a fit of frustration I played Diamond instead and haven't looked back since.

Apparently I left off my LeafGreen version right before the Elite 4, but I can't beat them because my team is just a tad too low (mid- to late-40s). Leveling in the original games sucks ass so I haven't had much of an urge to finish it. Once I finish Diamond and obtain the ability to transfer Pokemon from the Advance games to Diamond I'll definitely give it a shot, though.

Also I SHIP CYRUS/DAWN AND I DON'T KNOW WHY BECAUSE IT'S (KINDA) LOLI PAIRED WITH EMOTIONLESS OLDER MAN BUT SOMEHOW I FIND IT HOT AGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ok that's enough of that.

That's pretty much the update on my life. Oh, my senior thesis film at college was approved and I get to write/direct it! I'm very excited about that.

I got my parents to agree on a bicycle for my birthday/Christmas present. I don't want to stress them financially since they're paying for my last year at school so we agreed on a $100-150 price range.

I went to my local bicycle shop and their cheapest model was $300! The guy in the store looked at me like I was insane when I told him that my price range didn't extend beyond 150. I went to Wal-Mart instead and found a nice Huffy hybrid for $150. I figure it probably isn't as sturdy or long-lasting as the Treks sold at the bike shop but it suits my needs and is in my price range. Can't wait to buy it and ride it! I will need to find someone to adjust and tune the bike, though....

I've also been thinking of buying an iMac when I graduate. I'm by no means an Apple fangirl and I think they overprice their models considering their weaker specs, but the damn thing is so beautiful and I'll admit that OS X is far less clunkier and problem-prone than Windows. It's also the best machine for the business I'm getting into (film and graphics). My only worry is financing the damn thing, and I'm afraid it will end up being a huge waste of money one way or another... I have time to think about it, thankfully.

I've been getting into the habit of drinking tea as an alternative to soda and coffee. Right now all I have is a cheap box of Publix brand black tea and some Sugar in the Raw. I want to try more Chinese/herbal teas but they're so expensive that I can't just buy a box for experiment's sake. I've tried green tea in restaurants in the past and found myself underwhelmed, but I think it's an acquired taste like coffee and black tea (both of which I had to drink for a while before I truly enjoyed it). There are some fancy tea shops in Sarasota I can check out when I get some money to spend.

That's about all the rambling I want to do tonight. Wheee. :V

About halfway through the second season. Thoughts:

1.) Zuko is slightly less annoying. Still fucking annoying, but not as bad as season 1.
2.) I've been lovin' Azula and Ty Lee as characters from the get-go but I swear I want to strangle Mai most of the time she's on-screen for two reasons. The first (rational) reason is that she has the personality of a brick beyond crushing on Zuko and being part of Azula's protege. The second (irrational) reason is that I feel like her name is mispronounced. Isn't it supposed to have a long 'a' sound?
3.) Speaking of Mai, if she ends up with Zuko it will be one of the few canon 'ships that I can say I legitimately dislike. Their sex faces are Zuko ">:O!!!" and Mai ":|"
4.) The story's pace has picked up a lot since the start of season 2. I'm glad that a fourth member (Toph) was introduced to the team to add a little more dynamic to the gAang.
5.) Shipping anyone with Aang still weirds me out.
6.) In a weird, fucked-up AU timeline where Azula is legal and Zhao is still alive, I ship them hardcore. They would totally fight for dominance in the sack. Too bad the only smutty Zhao fic I've come across involves Zuko, which kind of squicks me.

That's about it. Hurrah.

Been thinking of migrating my journal back to my original username of jolty, mostly because lindschan is annoyingly weeaboo and I like the simplicity of jolty. I've also had the jolty account since 2001, so I'm kind of attached to its history.

Thoughts? I'd add all of you to my other flist if I decide to make the move, of course.