Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Catching up yet again

Once again, another valiant effort shot to hell by my laziness.  I am, of course, writing of my resolution to write for fifteen minutes a day - something I obviously haven't been able to keep up with.  I don't really have an excuse other than being distracted by other stuff: I've been playing a free trial of City of Heroes (and enjoying it immensely) as well as dabbling in a couple of classic RPGs on my GBA (Final Fantasy I & Zelda 3) and spending the usual amount of time bullshitting with Michelle or doing half-a-hundred other things.  I could have all the excuses in the world but the simple fact is that if I don't continue writing I'll never get myself to the point to where I try doing this shit professionally.  So I guess the easy conclusion is that I need to write more often.  FUCKING GENIUS!
 
City of Heroes is a blast, even if it is a little one-dimensional.  For those readers who haven't heard of it (no-one since I have no readers) CoH is an MMORPG based around...well, being a hero.  A superhero to be more exact, with a large variety of power types and customizations to make your character as unique as possible.  Depending on your point of view, the best or worst part about the game is that there's really nothing to do but fight - there's no crafting system, there's no loot or items at all, there's not even any money (although "influence" is a pretty close substitute).  You just beat stuff up, usually to great satisfaction whether you're running around defending helpless pedestrians from purse-snatching muggers or teaming up with other superheroes to take down an evil villian and his henchmen.  Beyond the gameplay, the part that I have tons of fun with is the character creator - I've already created several heroes with widely varied looks and powersets.  In fact, I've been planning on writing a detailed origin from the point of view of my main character "StinkPalm" here for a while - I'll have to get around to that sooner or later for no other reason that it'll be fun.  My only problem is that my three week trial is almost up and I'm really debating on buying/subscribing to it despite my money situation.  I'll have to get back to that one.
 
By the way, Blogger finally answered my tech support request about my entry regarding my trip to New York:  basically, I'm boned.  I'll have to delete it when I get to a computer with real actual Internet access (I'm writing this entry from work).  I'm not too upset about it as I wasn't necessarily all that happy with it to begin with; I just hated losing all the work that I put into it.  At least this will give me even more of an impetus to actually sit down and write more.
 
Okay, back to pretending to work.

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