Never dressed for the occasion

The biggest problem stopping me finding full time employment at the moment isn’t finding work, that’s actually easy. There are stupid amounts of people hiring full time programmers, so I’m not too worried about that. Unfortunately, I can’t go for any of those positions, since I don’t have a suit to be interviewed in… So, when I get paid from by my previous client, I’ll spend that money on a suit.

Well, I’m excited.

I’m also excited about getting to 70. Shamess is currently 53, and I’ve gotten to that “ugh, do I really have to keep leveling you?” part of the game. I guess I’m a little bit bored of WoW for the moment. I’m sure if I have a break, I’ll be up for it again.

Great unexpectations

The exam today didn’t go as well as I expected… I didn’t do horribly, but not as well as I hoped when walking in. They decided to abandon the judicial creativity quest completely, which messed up our revision. We were told, and understandably so, that judicial creativity was a topic that always came up, 100% of the time. And it did since the beginning of this subject. Today though, they decided to miss it out… Instead, I had to do justice, and just make up a tonne of stuff. I’m more curious than worried about if I’ll have the grades to get into university now… I hope I will. If not, I have next year to reapply and maybe retake an A2 unit or something, part time.

In Warcraft news, I really wanted to do Deadmines tonight, with Ratio, but my connection is being so stupid.

I went to the job center today! I felt crappy going in, like I failed at life or something… I know there’s nothing wrong with using the service, but I don’t feel like it fills its purpose since both my dad and mum have been going since… well, ever. I was pleasently surprised though; there are tonnes of jobs all listed on a touch screen computer and you can print off the details and stuff. I even though programming, PHP and HTML jobs. I printed a bunch off and I’ll start working on those Monday. I’ll probably start this weekend, but I doubt I can do anything (like phoning them up and stuff) till Monday.

Apparently, I’m entitled to job seeker’s allowance, but I really don’t feel like I’m entitled to it. I mean, I am seeking, but I’ve not given the government any money at the moment, so I feel like I’d just be 100% selfishly using other people’s tax money to fund my non-productive lifestyle…

Underestimating exams again

It’s hours before an exam and I’m reading World of Warcraft pages… Thank goodness it’s an easy exam. Well, I think so anyway. It’s Law 6, where I just need to ramble about statutory interpretation and precedent, which I did awesome at last year, and I still know fairly well. The second and last question is on the Hart-Devlin debate, which I sort of know already. I just have to remember some cases; I’ll be shocked if I get less than a B on this.

Today has been productive

Don’t be fooled into believe that I love to tell you all what I’m doing every second of the day, I’m actually only here because World Of Warcraft is doing for maintenance. Why do they take off every realm at the same time? I thought I’d play my dwarf (PVP server) whilst my main is down, but that goes down too. Sucks. So now I’m here.

I still have the problems with graphics on both WoW and GW, with no idea what the problem is. I’ve updated drivers and everything. WoW support have told me to do a memory test, which could take hours so I might do it for when I got to bed. A small part of me wants the memory test to find an error, so I can get it fixed. But at the same time, I don’t want Toshiba to take him again…

I’ve actually done a lot of revision today. That makes me even less nervous. I was shocked to see that my first exam is Friday though… it’s a computing resit. I haven’t actually looked at it at all, to be honest… Tomorrow I shall though, and make sure that I understand all the terms in the specification. As all exams, you only need to learn what they want you to learn, even if it’s not relavant.

What else have I done today… Oh, I’ve started reading a C++ book, which my computing teacher lent me. It’s… huge. I got bored at first, where it’s teaching about variable types and stuff, which I already know. I’m reading it though, since I may miss something C++ specific that’ll confuse me later on in the book.

I suppose I’ll go to sleep now. Wake me up at 1100, when the server is back up.

Guild Wars is broken…

What. The. Frack.

What. The. Frack.

Update: Apparently, my .dat file must have gotten corrupt, so I have to download all the images again… Got help from some unnofficial GW forum.

Update: That didn’t fix it. I just downloaded all the images again only to realise that the game works perfectly when not maximised in widescreen… I guess I file a ticket.

Here’s another image, from in game. Lion’s Arch.

Guild Wars not quiet working...

Guild Wars not quiet working...

Here’re my options. These worked before Toshiba took niimo in.

Guild Wars options menu

Guild Wars options menu

Update: WoW is fucked too.

Pfft.

Pfft.

Surrounded by idiots

I’m currently on one of the computers at mum’s which is only slightly better than the ones at college; right click works!

Anyway, DHL came to drop off my laptop Friday, but no one was in the house. Then my sister forgot to bring the form they posted to my mum’s so I have to wait till Monday to even ask them to bring him again. I hope they don’t charge for that, or decide to get rid of him…

On an unrelated note: Ober got me playing World Of Warcraft. That wasn’t a very smart idea. I’ve played it for hours, and miss it already… Ober forbid me to buy it till I finish with my exams.

I has a Blood Elf

I’m not losing my touch, honest.

I’m heading north through Riverside Province, because I never went up their earlier in the game. I’m guessing that’s because there are too many monsters!

It seems I'm always at -60%.

I mean, I’m level 20! I shouldn’t be pwned so much by a mob of level 14s. Granted, there are a lot of them, and those Tengu move sodding fast. And that hex that I keep getting infected with – the one where I lose energy every time I hit – is a bitch and really doesn’t help.

I’ll keep at it.

Oh, so close!

I finally ascended! Yay! Gonna need to do one of the ascension missions again though, since their weren’t enough people around to do the bonus. Also, I tried to steal a dragon egg from Glint, and got pwned. No idea what I’d want with a dragon egg.

I’m so close to getting the Tyrian Explorer title. I decided to take a break though, since I have revision to do.

Guild Wars screenshot showing my equiped skills and titles

Oh, from the feedback I had from the LiveJournal Guild Wars community, I dropped the illusions magic and replaced it with Apply Poison; it’s cheaper for me to use and deals more damage, which is good. It also meant I could allocate all my attribute points to just my archer skills so I’m much stronger now.

I’m saving up for better armour at the moment. I can actually afford to head back to Cantha and get it now, but meh, I have a destiny to full fill first.

AreaNet hates me: play-by-play

I was just doing the Villainy of Galrath quest and, oh, how I hate it. I’m sure it hates me too.

I set out from Lion’s Arch, so I only had a part of six, all level 12 henchmen (except me, who’s level twenty). How was I supposed to  know that you’re supposed to ascend and then you can do the mission much easily from a different outpost with eight in your party. I mean seriously, I’ve been doing that mission for the last three and a half hours.

This is what happened when I was trying to get through the Black Curtain.

Guild Wars screenshot from The Black Curtain

Note my minus 60% moral. Also note my resurection signet, uncharged.

This scene consisted of me yelling at the stupid henchmen for running into the water. Then I saw the mob that was coming to the mountain, towards me and changed my mind. The water was the only way to go really. Made it across though, thankfully.

In fact, I made it all the way through the swam! I was incredibly chuffed after the 50th sodding Fog Nightmare, flanked by Spined Aloe. Then my henchmen were dispatched by the two Forest Minotaurs. Kujo and I survived though!

From then on, I spent the next two hours or so argoing a set of minotaurs and then running away like mad whilst they chased, and killed them off slowly by casting Conjure Phantasm when my 16 energy charged. If I was lucky, they’d get distracted by Kujo and I could fire at them a few times.

My aim was to charge my signet. I knew you could do that by getting a moral boost, but I didn’t realise you had to boost it to a positive figure till I checked the Wiki. Damnit. I had gotten my moral up to -25% as well. Then I tried to kill the tree things and they just pwned me.

With my -40% moral, I decided to just run like made to Galrath. No prizes for guessing how that turned out. So, three hours into the mission, I’ve given up. Maybe when I’ve ascended, eh?