For weeks I spent almost every weekday morning flying around Storm Peaks. I picked that time because that’s when there’s the least amount of people online. However, it looked like every hunter and their mother were also looking for Skoll. Then…I got lucky.
I started muttering “Ohmygodohmygodohmygod” over and over again as I landed close to him. For a minute Niqo dashed back and forth, looking for the best place to start the tame. I was so nervous that I forgot to lay down a freezing trap before starting the tame. And then suddenly…he was mine, in all his blue lightning goodness. I named him Selamiut, despite the fact that I already named Loque that. It just seemed appropriate somehow.
Selamiut [SEE-lah-me-oot] is an Inuktitut word (used by the Inuit) meaning “The Sky Dwellers,” and refers to the manifestation of departed souls, experienced amid the stunning beauty of the Aurora Borealis.
It’s a good day to be a hunter.
I mentioned in my last post that I would be getting a new computer. I wasn’t lying. Sometimes I think that I still dreaming. Finally…after 6 year of my non-gaming laptop (it’s still a solid laptop but for pete sakes, the thing had an integrated graphics card and was maxed out at 1 GB of RAM), after 2 years of playing WoW and other games on other people’s computers…
I. Am. Free.
The computer.
The monitor.
A quick summary for those who don’t want to follow the links: 23″ monitor of uber-shininess, quad core 2.33 GHz processor, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, 1 TB of disk space, and an ATI Radeon HD4650 with 1 GB of dedicated memory.
This baby purrs, or at least it would if it made any noise at all. It’s not bleeding edge but I’ll be damned if it’s not a solid machine. In WoW, I have the graphics setting on High and I’m getting 30-60 fps. In Aion and Guild Wars, I completely maxed out the graphics and I’m getting about 30 fps and 60 fps respectively. Finally I can run Firefox, Filezilla, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator all at once without my computer freaking out.
It’s… *sniff* it’s just so beautiful. Excuse me. *blows her nose*
This is my early Christmas/birthday present from my parents…well, half of it is. The other half I’ll be paying back to them over the next 4 years or so. But it’s all right, because I am one happy happy little hunter. /dances
P.S. The title is a tribute to the crazy paladin called Velinix AKA Soo-dryskin. And I would like to thank Mysthowl for offering me his old computer for free before my parents agreed to help buy this for me.
[Edit: I couldn’t find my camera to take a picture so you’re getting a screenie of my desktop instead.]
The post title pretty much describes how I’ve been feeling for the past little while. Wow, has it really been almost a month since I’ve posted? Yeesh.
So let’s just say that Real Life has been critting me big time lately (ha, I made a WoW analogy even if it is a lame one). As a result, I haven’t been my cheery self and I’ve seen it creep into my gaming. Things that normally never bother me, like people out-gearing Niqo in a single night and guildies’ alts out-leveling mine have made me irritated and upset. It’s really petty and selfish and I know that so it makes me feel even worse.
RL problems aside, I think part of the problem is I’ve gotten to used to playing with others. As strange as that sounds, remember that I’ve been playing this game for years largely by my lonesome. And I was cool with it. I need to get back into that in order to stay sane. It hit me one night, the realization that it’s never really changed from that. That may sound kind of sad but I’m the sort of person who can spend hours by myself and not feel lonely. Does that make any sense? >.>
Anyways, some of the RL stuff has been resolved and things are in an upswing now. Heck, I’m even getting a sweet new computer tonight that I’ve been wanting for oh…5 years or so? FINALLY I won’t have to play WoW on someone else’s computer. It will be so sweet.
Things are looking up, getting better. I just have to keep reminding myself about it. >.>
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