Frogster has just emailed me 10 Closed Beta keys that are pretty pointless. Here's why:
Open Beta, which doesn't require any keys, begins on the 12th of this month. On the 28th, the game will be officially released, but not before a wipe just before the 26th.
Even though there is no wipe between Open and Closed Beta, it still feels rather pointless to play now, unless you want to try out the different characters, which is what I'm doing now.
The Bloodletter summoner is so easy. I tried this before the last wipe and it was basically Easy Mode. All I had to do was summon the army and then I just walked around to pick up loot dropped by dead monsters.
Currently I'm trying the Pyromancer summoner, which I had expected to be just as easy.
On the contrary, it's actually pretty hard despite having a really big and strong-looking lava golem-thing. That thing may be tough but unlike the Bloodletter's summons I can only have one of it. When a Bloodletter's minion dies, there are several others to hold the monsters back (I had an army of 6, 3 tanks and 3 ranged). That gave me plenty of time to summon a replacement.
A Pyromancer doesn't have this luxury. He is limited to one golem and multiple wisps, but wisps are extremely fragile and even have a time limit. To make it worse, the golem attacks very slowly and yet doesn't do a whole lot more damage than the Bloodletters' minions.
In short, it sucks as a summoner.
I'm probably going to try the Gadgeteer next.
Anyway here are the 10 keys in case anyone chances upon this blog and wants to try it immediately. Not sure why though, since I won't be publishing this till Sunday night/Monday morning and the 12th is the coming Tuesday. This has to be one of the most useless things ever posted on my blog, but hey, the space doesn't cost me money here.
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Now that I've found a way to get stuff from stores that don't ship to Singapore, I can spend my PTZ in Lockerz.
Except my 14k PTZ aren't worth shit anymore. The best I can get is a t-shirt for over $5, which I can easily get from the 6dollarshirts.com though Lockerz can ship for free.
But spending all the PTZ to get a few dollars off isn't worth it.
So the smell in the local wet markets that I've always thought to be the smell of dried animal blood or something turned out to be... the smell of all the coffee beans from the coffee bean stall.
Been there this morning to buy some beans. There was no queue so I just went ahead and asked. The stall was run by an old couple and the guy was the one who talked to me. He was surprised by my question and asked me if I was a local. I said I was, but I've been drinking instant coffee all my life, which was almost completely true.
Both their reactions were the same, "哦, 那就很大不同了！"
The man then went on to tell me about 2 of the 16 types, saying one was South American and one was Indonesian, and both were Arabica. The South American beans were going at S$18/kg while the Indonesian ones were priced at S$14/kg.
I'm still pretty much a noob so it didn't matter if he didn't tell me about all 16 types and it's too much to ask for anyway.
Bought 300g of the latter. I learnt my lesson the first time. Can't buy too much. Even though I poured the grounded beans in a larger bag, tied the bag tightly and used a clip to seal it even more tightly before placing the bag in a cheap air-tight container originally used to store dried tea leaves by my mum, the flavour of my coffee changed this week.
I estimate there's still a quarter or a fifth of it left.
According to my blog I bought this on the 12th of March. It's now the 9th of April, not a full month yet. I guess I should stick with 300g or buy again every 3 weeks, whichever is earlier.
This stall is even better than the last because they sealed the bag with one of those machines that melts the plastic in a line.
The strange thing is that this is more expensive than the other store I bought the first bag from. That store was selling the 100% Arabica at $12/kg while this one is $14. Why would a stall that specialise in coffee sell it at a higher price than a small grocery store?
Unless there's something better about these beans? Maybe the guy at the first store lied to me and those beans I bought actually also contained filler.
Nevertheless this is still better than instant coffee.
Currently experimenting with sealing the supposedly sealed bag in a small plastic bag inside a ziplock bag, but I can smell it even though the bag is inside my cupboard!
What this shows me is that the airtight container is seriously airtight, even tighter than a ziplock bag.
Sunday
Decided to open the new bag of coffee to make today's cup of coffee. The aroma that was released from the opening made me realize I had forgotten the smell of freshly ground Arabica, and made the old bag of coffee grounds smell dull.
The coffee was great, much better than yesterday's cup.
This is making me consider the possibility of buying a new bag every fortnight instead of 3 weeks.
Showed my boss the pic of a jacket that was recommended (in a way) by some guy in an online forum. Since no one had any complaints in his thread, I wondered why that guy liked it even though it was worth over S$220 during a sale when we're selling better ones at below S$200 normal price.
For various reasons, I cannot show the image nor state the brand and store.
Anyway it's branded stuff, bought overseas, which could explain why that guy was so happy with such jacket at such a price.
The first thing I noticed was that the pockets' opening were not placed at a comfortable position. Upon further digging, I realized many of the jackets of that brand were designed just like that.
How does a good brand sell such a poor design and still maintain its reputation?
Is that the norm? Is the same happening with Nike and Reebok and all that?
Only people in the shoe industry would know.
Pockets like that have been proven to be unpopular among locals because another wholesaler has tried importing jackets of such designs as if the owner of that business really liked it.
It didn't end well.
I have no idea what is so appealing with pockets that look as if the wearer has to bend his wrists to slit his hands in. Personally I prefer diagonal pockets with slanted openings that fit the angle of a forearm with a bent elbow, and that's what we're selling.
As for that particular jacket I showed her, it was using fleece for both inside and out, which prevents it from being waterproof. Yet it's so expensive because double-sided fleece requires more work.
Now she thinks I'm interested in making that, even though the truth was that I was merely curious about why they could sell that jacket at such a high price while we are selling ours at much lower prices despite that pocket height. I wanted to know if she saw anything special in its design.
In the end, she did - the brand name. That's the first thing she pointed at when I asked, and the only positive thing she mentioned.
I have yet to find any jacket design I really want, probably because I don't have strong preferences, and that in turn is because I don't wear jackets at all. Even at Genting Highlands, the coldest place I've been to in recent years, my jacket was mainly a decorative item for my arm and a filler for my bag.
I believe I've just found the source of all the traffic from Facebook! Apparently a long time ago someone linked one of the images I got from 4chan on Facebook together with a link to that particular rant despite the fact that it had nothing to do with the image (that was the norm for me then).
Nothing big, this was only something I was curious about.
Watched the Silent Hill movie the other day. I think I can understand the bad ratings. They tried to incorporate too many Silent Hill elements into a single movie, then made it worse by having a plot that does not make a good film.
So it's scary, yes, and gross too. What I didn't like is how the plot was full of crap that pisses me off, like why there's that one nurse that moves even when the light isn't on and how the girl wouldn't just clear the way for the protagonist if all she wanted was for her to see the truth and help defeat the religious fanatics.
Installed Garena Messenger, League of Legends and Heroes of Newerth on this PC some days ago but never got around to playing them.
Played League of Legends tutorial yesterday and a real game today. It's... less harsh, which translates into "more casual" in gaming terms, compared to DotA and HoN. That game has plenty of life-saving abilities usable by all players regardless of their choice of heroes like Revive, which revives you instantly but has a 9-min cooldown, and a Heal spell that heals you and all allies close to you.
I'm not saying it's not fun, in fact it makes me feel more powerful just having 2 extra spells, but it feels somewhat like I'm playing on Easy Mode.
But it is more complex because the enemy players have their own 2 spells too. More factors = greater complexity.
I guess this means it's got a gentler learning curve, and not that the game is easier or simpler.
Anyway both LoL and HoN are free of charge on Garena in Southeast Asia. Probably one of the best things about gaming in Asia, I guess.
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