Return of Prime Evil

Well, I am pretty sure almost everyone knows that Diablo III was released earlier this week, with so many reports even in mainstream media such as The Straits Times newspapers and whatnot. Many people have waited for it for a rather long period of time, but of course there are also new players picking up this series for the first time. I’m also part of the (immensely large) group playing the game right now, though I still make sure I get enough rest and sleep so I won’t become a zombie at work or otherwise. After all, one should enjoy the game in his/her own way and mine certainly does not include being a zombie while trying to clear the game as much as possible.

Lucky for me, the collection process was very, very smooth as compared to what I see for most other people who purchased physical copies from local retail outlets. Whoever didn’t want to join me for the party pack initially and ended up queueing for a long, long time is just too bad for you. Should have listened to me. Lol. Despite me having a huge advantage in terms of collection readiness, I still didn’t manage to be the first guy collecting as someone from the neighbouring office clearly beat everyone else to it. Lol, I guess we’re just using the same geographical advantage and he was a probably (literally) a few steps ahead. Haha. Either way I am glad I did not have to face massive queues – waiting for the staff to unpackage the huge boxes of D3 copies was a much better tradeoff. =P

Yeah well so the game saw a few hiccups in its opening days and it’s slowly becoming more stabilised. For such a huge base of users and the high demand for connectivity, I would say overall they are doing a fairly good job though users will inevitably feel frustrated when they can’t get basic things and operations their way. I haven’t progressed all that far since I didn’t take any leave in the opening days so having reached act2 in nightmare mode is fairly quick I think, thanks to partying with dps cannons and tanky heroes which speeds up over solo-ing where I have to take more precautions to clear the game. Has been pretty fun so far, or at least I am enjoying the game thus far. The only ‘downside’ is that I have stopped clearing my shows other than the YouTube updates so I might have to take note of that. Will probably go back towards ‘normal’ routine within a month’s time I predict. Heh, we shall see. And meanwhile I will still try to maintain my little blog as well as turning up for any gatherings my closer social circles have. Must try not to let a single game ‘destroy’ my real world life. Lol…

Notice I haven’t been talking about my work this whole entry? That’s because I think it’s not worth talking about when comparing to the D3. Haha. Anyway, I will probably jump right back into the game soon enough, after I go on and schedule the entries for the coming week. Not much changes on these aspects just yet. Guess the biggest change would be the lack of clearing my shows as well as chatting on msn perhaps. Oh well, just let me indulge in this for the time being. I will return back to ‘normal’ eventually. See you next week! =)

Energy Draining

You may have noticed that this week’s wall of text entry has arrived a later day than usual. Well, the reason is rather simple actually – I have been pretty busy the past 2 days. I’ll talk more about it shortly, though I’m pretty sure being a day later or not wouldn’t change things around here too much. It did, however, affect my counting contribution in one of my ‘favourite threads’. Never mind, at least I think I did some meaningful things this weekend.

Let’s start with the past work week. Nothing particularly eventful, though there was supposed to be a hot fix release. It didn’t seem to me that it was too pressing despite having to patch crucial issues, or apparently labelled so. Well, I should not be complaining too much when the going isn’t too tough. Yup, should enjoy while I still can. When things go out of hand or when I make a wrong move then it will be too late.

Since there’s nothing too much to talk about at work, I guess we can just skip to the main ‘event’ of this week’s update. Let’s see, Saturday was mainly spent on building a new PC for Jon and securing the last piece of item to complete WK’s rig in preparation of the release of Diablo 3. Yeah well, assembling the PC took quite a while since queueing at the actual shop will take too long. That just provides an opportunity for me to assemble even more parts (well, now I’m just lacking a couple of parts which I haven’t ‘played’ with before. I would still rather have them fix it up for me if the waiting time is reasonable), without a true veteran by my side as a ‘safety net’.

Thankfully, things worked out fine and it is up and running so it should be considered a success on my side. WK’s one was not so smooth but it eventually got sorted out on Sunday, and why the ‘solution’ is as such. I’m really glad I didn’t make any blunders, though I can’t say my decision making is at its best. I guess I should improve my efficiency the next time round, but I don’t suppose that will be happening any time soon (unless it’s me. Lol)? By that time perhaps I have ‘forgotten’ some of the crucial things I should look out for to prevent making the same kinds of imperfect decisions again.

I also watched The Avengers in theatres, so you can expect an entry on it coming soon. It has been a long while since I have contributed to the box office directly, and thankfully it has been a pretty decent experience this time. At least there’s no super annoying nonsensical people though little kids can still be a threat if not put under proper ‘control’. And it looks like there are a few pretty good looking movies (at least from the trailers I saw) coming soon, though I am not sure if there will be people interested in asking me out for an outing or two. I will surely not watch any on my own in a big theatre and if I want to get people on it I will have to ‘book’ way in advance and I’m kind of lazy to do that. Lol.

Again, this week is a little quiet on the fighting game videos side again so apart from the Avengers movie and a couple of video entries (one already published lol), it looks like I have to dig from my little reserve again to fill up the filler. I also saw that there are more people following this blog (or so WordPress informed me), and that there are finally new (non-spam) comments. I wonder if that’s a sign of a little ‘revival’ of my small little blog. Oh well, we shall see how it goes for the time being. I wouldn’t mind more traffic though it’s not like I am earning anything off more traffic or things like that. Hopefully, you will be able to see me the end of the coming weekend due to you-know-what releasing. I’m sure I will see noticeable changes in my contact list’s activities…

Time Flies

Another week has passed, and this was a somewhat ‘important’ week. Not only a certain deadline just passed, it also marks more than 6 months since I have started my first full time job. Not bad, I actually lasted through despite my multiple complaints. I guess it ‘helps’ that the job market here isn’t exactly so welcoming for people like me in this time and age and also some of the ‘indirect’ benefits that I think most other companies will not possess. Oh well, it’s a conflict of preference against pragmatism. Lol, I wonder where I will head towards in the future…

Anyhow, again, the overtime session was once again rather meaningless. I mean, if overtime is doing real work that actually changes (improves) the result of the product submitted, at least it is still considered somewhat purposeful. Oh well, at least I did my own things while waiting around for things to happen, though it really is horrible staying in a place without air-con and fan for hours. At least it was only a few hours and allowed to go back, and not some epic late like the worst scenario I’ve had so far. For now, I shall see if things will indeed become better like a certain person claimed and plans to.

Well, in other news, I have finally placed preorders for Diablo 3, so hopefully it will turn out fine on the release day in terms of stock availability. What’s left is to wait for that day to come and begin spending lots of hours on it to hopefully one day complete it for real, which I did not manage to achieve in the previous game. Then again, it’s hyped to be much harder this time with the 4 difficulty mode so it might once again get it my way =P Maybe I will get lucky with the help of my competent friends. We’ll see. =D

In more random news, I have decided to (finally) open a project for the leftover combos that I have recorded a number of years back. While I am not certain if I will ever go back to the combo maker status, I thought I should really do some justice to the time I have put into but never gotten a chance to be published, even though my skill level isn’t that high and by now most of those combos are probably old stuff and nothing fresh to be looked at it. Consider it a personal goal then, and I shall commence on it when the any of the conditions is first met:
- 500 YouTube subscribers (it tells me 462 now)
- 1 million YouTube views (it tells me 643K+ now)
- 250 YouTube uploads (on 232 now)
However, I’m not sure how long it’ll take me to complete the project given that there will be many other distractions =P And to the one who says I don’t share what my new project will be: here it is. Not sure if you will be reading this though.

There are some big events (along with some big names) in the fighting game arena these few days and hope to be able to see some of the archived matches later on since I am a tad too lazy to watch it on the live stream (I think there are streams available). If I happen to come across some nice matches, I’ll put them up in my entries. =P After all, there aren’t many videos to put into recently so you can expect more of my ‘awesomely’ written reviews later on. Meanwhile, I should have as much fun as possible while not working =D

p.s. this is my 3rd entry titled Time Flies. Lol… my time must be flying pretty often, or my lack of entry titles is simply…