Blightmare

Getting ready for school. Gonna be a bad day. Insomnia hit super hard and I got no sleep. Although I did manage to get a ton of recreational reading done which I very much enjoyed despite everything else. Silver lining.

Dear Earthlink CEO, When I die, I will die happy knowing you and your garbage company are going to burn in hell like dry grass in a firestorm. I can't believe your company actually expects me to believe that the 2 inches of rain we got 3 weeks ago is the reason my connection can't break 2 digit kb speeds. If you're going to vomit lies into my ears at least devote half of an ass to making it believable. But then again, I guess it's the perfect metaphor for your business practice: Lazy and full of shit. Sincerely, Go fuck yourself.

Dragon's Dogma. In about a week I'll get to play it. Internet so slow they may as well be mailing me the download.

I'd believe the DLC will be DPing us instead. XD Before we do that you may want to get back to where we fought those brain things that frenzied us and farm them for some Cursed gems. Takes some time but you'll see your damage effectively double with those. OT: Continuing homework. Writing. Yay...

There I go again, saying things I don't remember saying. I should get that checked out. Nah, it was really fun. Especially the elevator moment. You know the one. XD OT: going to bed early. All my energy just drained out of me about 10 minutes ago and I keep drifting off in my seat.

Playing Bloodborne with some asshole. Edit: Internet decided I was done with that. Going to go work on homework now.

Watching youtube. Kind of a slow day for me.

Trimming and uploading some silly Bloodborne clips I encountered. vUjG9-suoOA For example.

I think Psychological horror is a perfect tag for it. Because this is horrifying on an intellectual level.

Well I WAS gonna all nighter but Bloodborne left my room and took the PS4 with it, so... chocolate then sleep. I realize I play that game too much but whatever.

I'm about 127.3% down for that. But you're gonna have to send me your PSN. I haven't actually seen mine in so long I may or my not have forgotten what it is. Together we shall destroy all the boss. OT: Bloodborne. I did a test of how fast I could get through NG+++ if I just ignored all enemies and went straight for the bosses. 41 minutes. as Impressive as that felt the realization that I basically just did an entire playthrough and got nothing out of it is doing wonders in preventing me from doing it again.

I love you guys. XD OT: about to reseach the A* algorithm after an epiphany I just had.

My greatest shame of 2016 so far is killing Sif. How could a game make me do this?!

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I've been trying to tell people this for years but I always just get brushed off.

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Currently I'm oddly bothered by something ultimately trivial and frankly quite stupid. Oh well. So, soft caps and hard caps, right? In video games? Pretty easy to understand. When a stat gains significantly less benefits from increasing compared to how much benefits you got from it before, you hit the soft cap. When You no longer get any benefits at all, you've hit the hard cap and increasing beyond that is ultimately pointless. it's pretty much like this for every game that implements this system. So why on earth can't the Bloodborne players get it into their head that 50 on an attribute is NOT the hard cap? You still get benefits up until 99 after 50. It's just severely reduced. "Oh but 50 is the hard cap because the stats are almost useless. 25 is the soft cap." Well, yes and no. 25 IS a soft cap because it's the first appearance of diminishing returns. 50 is ALSO soft cap because stat benefits drop off again. 50 is NOT a hard cap. Just because the benefits it does give are useless doesn't make it a hard cap. The hard cap is the benefit ceiling. for example. (and these numbers are not meant to be accurate, just an example) Hit rating in WoW. Let's say in this case that the hard cap is 500. Once you hit 500. you've hit the max benefit you can get. you can increase it past that to 1000 but you'll be doing no better than when it was still at 500. Hard cap. And to those who think there can be only 1 soft cap... no... no, there can be more. And that concludes the stupidest, most irrelevant rant I've ever had. I'm gonna go make some coffee and proceed to regret making coffee because future me's problem.

Doing some troubleshooting on my PC once again. In an odd stroke of luck, one of the people in my class this new semester is a huge tech junkie and we ended up having a long conversation about the problems I was having with my card and discussing this with someone in purpose really helped with ruling out some potential problems and giving me things to check before ultimately deciding what I need to replace. He also offered to lend me some of his spare equipment for the sake of troubleshooting which is gonna be incredibly helpful.

Bloodborne. Currently trudging through the worst dungeon ever mad in the history of bloodborne dungeons: Lower Pthumerian. Mechanical instant kills (always a 1 hit kill regardless of health/level/defense etc) are a bad mechanic and of course the second boss has one of these he uses very often. He's out of the way thanks to being an arcane build and spamming lighting but ffs this boss was a mistake.

!!! iYYRH4apXDo dLYafk0Lui0 HSH--SJKVQQ pl3vxEudif8 Incredible musician who will be missed greatly. RIP David Bowie, you were fucking amazing.

Dark Souls. Just beat Smough & Co. you know when I read all the notes saying "Amazing Chest" after the boss fight, I legitimately was expecting a good item. I didn't get a good item though. I got two good items. "Amazing Chest" Think about it.

So like, when youtube first changed it's comment layout to the way it is now, I didn't mind it all that much. I tend to avoid forming instant opinions before I've had time to properly acclimate to change. But now, I hate; just absolutely loathe; this layout for one simple reason: This layout empowers the vocal minority with nothing nice to say about anything, because the top comments are not just factored by number of likes, but reply activity as well. Meaning if someone says something that outrages a bunch of people, they get flooded with replies. This moves it towards the top, attracting the attention of like-minded toxic individuals, and that of opposing viewpoints, further cementing it's position at the top of the page. Because of this particular design flaw, and human nature's tendency to challenge everything we disagree with, hatred and ignorance have now been given a shiny pedestal with speakers and a broadcasting antenna. And frankly, I'm so sickened by what I read in these comments sections that I had to resort to addons(see: Herp Derp for youtube) to block them so not only would I not be tempted to read this filth, but avoid ever even accidentally stumbling into the comments section. There's my vent. May seem petty in comparison to what's going on with everyone else, but just the thought that in this day and age of progressive thinking that there's still so many people out there with such narrow, selfish, and ignorant outlooks on life is deeply upsetting to me.

Watching I Hate Everything videos. I was half expecting annoying, frustrating to watch and despicable content but I'm genuinely entertained by this guy. Worrying.

I had an incident with 3 bottles of sake, a mac mic, and TF2. That was the day I learned that hangovers exist. That was also the day that I discovered that I don't forget anything when drunk.

^ pretty much for me too.