Keyan Farlander Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Saw Rambo tonight. Not much story, but plenty of action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 the leveling system is a little strange compared to morrowind. every creature in the game levels with you. using skills you don't use too much as your majors will kind of slow down your levelling. (though you can choose when you want level) frequently used skills as your majors will help you advance through the levels pretty fast, using minor skills doesn't help levelling at all. to level up, all you do is go to bed once your leveling bar is maxed out. Each time you level up, you are brought to a screen and given points to assign to different Attributes, which govern your skills (for instance, strength governs how much damage your blade does, willpower governs resistance and strength of your magick), if you've held off on levelling, but have levelled your skills alot, you can rest level up 1, assign points, rest again, level up 1, and can continue doing that until you are below a max level. (hope that makes sense) You will probably feel like levelling every chance you get, however if you do this, the enemies become much more difficult, as they level with you, and then you'll realise that you should've raised a skill a few levels (the more you use a particular skill like using a sword will increase your skill with the 'blade', using destructive magick will increase your 'destruction' skill, using bow will increase marksman skill, jumping off ledges will increase acrobatics, going into sneak mode and having nobody see you while you're walking around will increase 'sneak', and the more you level your major skills, the more 'points' you get for levelling your character) though they drop better equipment for you to use, and you can specialise your character in certain areas. You'll probably spend around 30 minutes to an hour setting your character up. I think that's how long i spent...an hour. Then the game begins and it's pretty easy to get into, and it can be as challenging as you want it to be. Just make sure you get specific skills levelled up a good bit before you advance in levels, this way you don't end up getting screwed when you encounter a random bandit who has some nice looking armor, but his blade skill is higher than yours, and your armor skill (depending what armor skill you take there's heavy and light armor i dont remember there being a medium armor in this) isn't the best. that could be a tough fight. There are several guilds to join, i recommend joining them all and doing quests as you go from one side of the map to the other, you'll be able to train your skills for a price too instead of doing them over and over. it's alot of fun and once you get into it....damn addicting. oh, btw...i got home at 3:00am last night....4.5 hours of sleep FTW!!! i can sleep another 45, but why? i'm up NOW! think i'll shower, eat, play some oblivion then head over to walllllllllllllmart! lol cracken, if you have anymore questions about oblivion, ask me! it's very fun game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Yeah... I need to spend more time with it myself one of these days. Work was fun yesterday. The new speaker system is now tweaked as close to perfection as it is possible to get. You know you are hearing a kickass set of transducers when you put in a CD of a track that you have listened to thousands of times, and end up standing there blinking in disbelief because you are hearing details in the music that you have NEVER heard before. Wow. Got home, ate, and went straight to bed. Might attempt to put a group of people together this weekend to go see Cloverfield. The girl who asked me to see it with her last weekend is sick with the flu or something... and besides, she's already seen it now. But now I kinda want to see it, and a couple of co-workers also expressed interest... so maybe I'll attempt to arrange a group expedition. Organizing events like this is hardly my forte... but I guess it's worth a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 !! i didn't realize you picked it up already, cracken! when i get home from work i'll be on it so feel free to private chat if you got any questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I just walked across the lake. the destination I was going to was 1.6 miles away as the crow flies, one way. it was 25 degrees out and overcast with a 5mph wind towards my starting point. I had more of a problem keeping COOL because of wearing my work freezer suit. I went out and back and the last half mile was the worse. The snow was about 4-6 inches thick on top of the ice and I was tiring out real quick. Took me about 2 1/2 hours to do the whole trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 *(Appears in a sparkling pop of probability.)* Is this the universe I started in? Really. No messing around, like those clowns in the last universe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Holy f***. Ummm... hi? You've busted out of the cage again, have you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Is that a Zoom Rabbit?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 By all appearances, yes... Hmmm... strange days, indeed. In other news: The rest of the day kinda sucked. Did catch up on some sleep,.. and finally got through that battle in Mass Effect that was giving me so much trouble the other day. But beyond that, nothing of any real interest to report. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Might try to catch that movie. Also, I need a haircut. Always a party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 *(Appears in a sparkling pop of probability.)* Is this the universe I started in? Really. No messing around, like those clowns in the last universe... THERE HE IS! GET EM!! :smash: *Nails Zoom Rabbit to the floor* :smash: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Yes, strange days these are. Just yesterday I sat on the balcony and thought by myself "gee, I sense a disturbance, something is going on within this universe". No, really. Because today I was ought to help a friend moving to a new flat together with his girl. TWO DAYS AGO, this girl told him she didn't think it would work and now he has to leave his flat until January 31th but has nowhere to go anymore. And now this. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Huh. Synchronicity... (Hmmm... Time to go listen to the Police, methinks. ) Cancelled movie trip, due to unexpectedly heavy snow. It may not amount to much... but it's really not worth taking the chance. Guess I'll stay in all day and play XBox... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Finished Call of Duty 4 yesterday. Awesome game, really pulled out good stuff. I'm MUCH better at Multiplayer. Hardcore mode online gives me some problems, but normal mode I'm awesome at. Ph34r. Got my butter bars in CoD4 too (2nd Lt. Ranking) so I'm pleased. work continues to kinda suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I need to tackle more Call Of Duty soon... Well the snow turned out to be a dud. Got about 3 inches in an hour... then it stopped, and never came back, despite the nastiness on the radar. Could have made the movie, no problem. Ah, well... live and learn (?) Played some head-to-head Ace Combat with my buddy from work, instead. That was a blast. Been a while since I've been in a dogfight with a real live person. It was a challenge,.. but I think I did pretty good. Them we teamed up and tried the timed co-op missions. Didn't do as good there... though we got really close a couple of times, we kept running the clock out. We've found our respective roles, though: I'm the air superiority dogfighter, and he chooses a heavy attack plane to work down the capital ships. Works out nice. And once I wipe out the defensive fighters, I can move over to help him. Ah... work in the moning. Oh joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 i worked a 12-9...finished off monthly maintenance of the printer...ordered a memory stick drive for the kodak picture kiosk...people REALLY don't like to read and keep forcing their cards into the wrong drives. I work a 10-7 tomorrow...gonna play Oblivion for a few hours i think. I love going into the towns and doing the little side-quests. Trying to earn enough gold to buy a house in Skingrad. it costs 15,000...quite a bit. I could always try and reclaim a castle though...that wouldn't cost me anything, but i'd have to get rid of the people that overran it. call of duty 4...taking a break...that freakn ferris wheel part has me pinned down. i'm playing through the whole game on Veteran difficulty. it's pretty damn challenging. Cracken, once you are familiar with the maps on regular team deathmatch, i highly recommend going over to hardcore mode. it's way better, not as many freakin grenades all over the place. (and then try going from hardcore to ground war...you'll see how much you miss hardcore then lol) we'll have to do 'team tactical' sometime, get ed, you, and myself in and take on 3 other people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Finally finished a semi-long text that i've been working on. Check the myspace or the facebookz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Played some head-to-head Ace Combat with my buddy from work, instead. That was a blast. Been a while since I've been in a dogfight with a real live person. It was a challenge,.. but I think I did pretty good. I took on a friend of mine recently in the Space Hoth level of Battlefront 2. I might be old and rusty...but it's still MY SKY. Lock-on as soon as you leave the hangar, son--have some missiles! Hours of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 He is back! The interwebs rejoice! So what have you been up to my long eared friend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 What game machines have you now, Rabbit? Other than my positively geriatric PC, I have my sleek, svelte, sexah XBox 360; and my aging (yet still phun,) Gamecube. Last I remember, you had gotten a first gen XBox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Huh. Synchronicity... It's all good, though. Better this way, than another, or when he moved in with her (it's sad for him still but -- *shrug* he says). Fortunately he also has got a new and better flat at hand already, and even moar better, it's the flat next door. XD There's still some things to do there, but when it's done it'll rock. I'll interpret it like this: Zoom's appearance made it all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 yeah so i was supposed to work 10-7 today...get there and there's already 2 people in, one scheduled 8-5, the other 9-6...and me 10-7, so that left only 1 closer, so i asked if i could take a 3 hour lunch and come back and help close. lol makes the day go by faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildstar Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 http://10thboard.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/getting-it-together Just thought I'd share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Sheesh, you can tell you are into it when you start laying down the lingo real thick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 This from the curling geek? Work was slow. Good. 'Cuz it's the last day for a couple of weeks that will probably hold true. Long days and late nights again, for the rest of the week. Hooray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I wish my scores were that good...I can break 100, but that's about it..unless i'm drunk, then i can bowl really good. went back to work......it was so dead there! glad i took that 3 hour break though, it made the time go by fast. gonna be on oblivion tonight. tomorrow i'm planning on going to h&r block and getting my taxes done. this way, i can get $$$ fast to pay all my bills and get outta the hole. It's looking like Turok is going to have to wait, as my sis quit her job, and the job she was told that she had the idiot changed his mind, and she already burned her bridges. at least she'll not be working under a mother ****er anymore. now it's just up to me to pay the bills. i wonder if i can handle it...huh, amazing. i can handle ALL the bills myself...though this will leave me with hardly anything for food and gas. maybe if my sis does end up movin out on me...i'm not as in over my head as i thought i would be. though...it will suck not having the $$$...i guess that's what profit sharing checks are for. ^_^ i think i'll be ok! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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