Proof of my noobness! I've only got a 66.67% win rate!Woohoo! A new wireless adapter! This is the Rangeplus Wireless Network USB Adapter that supports the relatively new Wireless-N technology. My bro also bought a new router, again it's Linksys and supports Wireless-N. Now he's eagerly asking me to install it.
Too lazy. I'm not even that enthusiastic about it since I'm not having problems with the present router. Plus I don't need the extra speed since I haven't been downloading much.
I've come to the conclusion that today's singers can't sing for shit. Modern successful singers do not need to sing well to make money.
Welcome to the digital age. Sound can and has been manipulated by Man for a very long time, but now we can make noise into music and vice versa with the latest audio technologies.
Not only that, the human ability to adapt isn't always to our advantage. Throw us enough crap, and even cocoa-coated elephant sphincters would smell like food. We adapt to the complete absence of talent, and suddenly when we're offered something that even resembles the slightest trace of music-making ability, we go crazy over it.
Just listen to The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning by The Smashing Pumpkins, a Youtube video in one of my previous rants. That isn't singing; that's just speaking at the correct notes. They probably didn't even use their abdomens throughout.
But it's music, and an award-winning piece at that.
Or maybe it's that we no longer like the sound of a perfectly controlled human voice. Digitally edited voices have proven to be just as popular. Who cares about Frank Sinatra? Now we have Daft Punk, DJ Tiesto and other musicians who can mix different crappy music tracks into epic masterpieces.
Maybe it's that our tastes are changing, evolving, instead of degrading.
The Watchmen is a pretty good movie. R-rated because the blue guy is naked most of the time and there is some female nudity here and there.
This film is about a group of people named the Watchmen, who are really just normal civilian vigilantes wearing outlandish costumes that do not look the least bit helpful in what they do (except for the Night Owl II who has that really cool goggles). In one of the flashbacks at the beginning it was shown that one of them did die because his cape got caught by the door.
The only thing special about them is that they're all exceptionally fit, and that Rorschach is also incredibly intelligent at the same time.
Ok, not all of them. Dr Manhattan, the blue guy, is the only one who has superpowers. He's practically god-like, being omnipotent and omnipresent if he wants to, but not omniscient. He can see through time but only for himself. He can even manipulate time and space, teleporting his friends and himself to anywhere he wills.
In the story, all of them have retired after a law was passed that outlawed all costume vigilantes. Some went to work for the government but Rorschach, a somewhat insane guy who thinks his mask is his true identity and the identity he was born with is a disguise, continued and is considered a criminal despite putting numerous criminals in jail.
But one day, the Comedian was murdered. Rorschach learnt of it and began to investigate, thus starting the story.
Most of them actually did live up to their names.
Rorschach's name is derived from his mask, which changes continuously into different Rorschach inkblots that display his emotions. Note that the continuously changing mask is impossible to create in real life. I've searched, mainly because it looked really cool.
The Night Owl II is the successor of his idol, the first Night Owl. He has this ship that's shaped like the head of an owl and a pair of special goggles that can see in the dark and identify people. Kinda like Batman, but more out of shape.
Dr Manhattan has relatively little to do with his name since he's not radioactive or anything, except he can control atoms and molecules, among other things.
Ozymandias is actually another name for Ramesses the Great, who is often seen as the greatest of Egyptian Pharaohs. In the story he is also believed to be the smartest man on Earth, building a great corporation after his retirement from fighting crime.
The Comedian is truly a comedian, though his joke(s) is/are not obvious.
The Silk Spectre II is the only one who doesn't have much to do with her name, except maybe by looking pretty like silk. Or maybe she has silky smooth hair. I don't know. Anyway she's the successor of her mother, the first Silk Spectre.
One interesting thing about this film is that the villain is someone you would never guess till they reveal this secret, and even when you think you know it, you probably still don't.
This movie followed the original comic really closely. I think the only thing they changed was the catastrophe, from a fake alien attack to something else. Quite different from all other movies that were created from games/comics/novels.
I think I'm going to add this comic to my cart and skip the last book I was waiting for. Leave that for next time.
The best part is at about 1:06 when he impersonates that movie trailer voice guy. XD
Alright, took a long look at Dungeons and Dragons Online this time, since RoM got too boring and Elements... just doesn't require much of my attention.
I probably didn't turn up the graphics to the max the last time, so now it looks much better. Plus, since I was a beta tester for the free version of the game, they gave me 250 Turbine Points for free, the currency that can be bought with real money like Diamonds in RoM.
It seems in DDO, higher level quests have to be bought. Or at least quests sets are on sale for Turbine Points.
DDO has a very different system compared to World of Warcraft and Runes of Magic. Actually it has little in common with most MMORPGs I've ever played. I know this isn't saying a lot since I haven't much experience in this field.
One huge difference is in its levelling system. Apparently, judging from the max level cap which is set at lv20, raising each level is a very big deal. I'm not sure how it actually works, but it looks like I'm in for a very long time as a newbie lv1 Paladin.
Dungeons are also very different. In RoM and WoW there are monsters outside every town and there are a few dungeons, aka instances, in each zone.
Instances are called instances instead of just dungeons because they have multiple copies of themselves so that each group of players can fight monsters in their own copy. It's like a karaoke lounge where they have many rooms that are exactly the same with the same songs available in the same TV sets, and each group of customers get to have one room for themselves.
Anyway in DDO, there are no monsters outside of instances. Quests can be found outside of instances, but not monsters. Each instance also offers up to 4 levels of difficulties so each dungeon is actually much more interesting to replay even at higher levels. Groups can also pick their own difficulties depending on how confident they are in each other.
Perhaps the greatest difference between RoM and DDO is the community. Even at pre-dawn hours in the US there are still many players online in DDO, presumably Europeans and American insomniacs. When servers die at night in RoM, they die. Only at a few zones would you ever see any signs of life even in the most populated server.
The players also seem to be friendlier and few noob questions go unanswered during my stay.
Right now I'm still not sure if I should switch, but I'm certain I can use DDO as my Plan B if I ever run out of games.
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