Eccentric Flower talk:200910/A Note

Mrissa:

I suspect that there is a distinction here between "notice" as in "feel that there must be some unusual, possibly distressing explanation required" and "notice" as in "take note of."

I would have said to myself, "Huh, Columbine's quiet," but I don't know that I would have assumed it wanted external attribution and therefore written you in a panic. Possibly I should write you in a panic more often so that you know I notice things.

-- 20:18, 9 October 2009 (BST)

Thomas:

"Things cannot be TOO bad with Columbine if Nonelvis is still posting pictures of sleeping Inu on Flickr."

This is the kind of reasoning that helps against panic. But even so one wonders: "Is it a really bad head cold or just a new computer game? Or what if it is another round of downsizing at the job? I wish I knew!"

-- 20:45, 9 October 2009 (BST)

Bunny42:

I was... concerned. You've mentioned your moods before, and I was hoping you were just being apathetic, and not in the throes of a major downer.

Three weeks! At least you're not sequestered for the whole thing. Thanks for the note. There really are some of us out here who actually do notice.

-- 22:26, 9 October 2009 (BST)

Xeney:

I am with Thomas, as long as nonelvis is posting things in her LiveJournal that do not make reference to spousal killing sprees, etc., I just assume you needed some quiet time.

-- 22:41, 9 October 2009 (BST)

Harmony:

Me three. I had noticed you were quiet. But I am a little distracted myself these days, so I might not be the best judge of such matters.

3 weeks of trial, too. That is... a lot.

-- 00:23, 10 October 2009 (BST)

Nonelvis:

What makes you people think I haven't killed Columbine in his sleep and posted here to throw you off the scent?

-- 01:08, 10 October 2009 (BST)

Patrick:

And bringing in his time in a courthouse would be delicious irony? That would be diabolical!

-- 01:19, 10 October 2009 (BST)

Nonelvis:

MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

-- 01:25, 10 October 2009 (BST)

Joy:

Another couple of days and I might have sent you an email. But, uh, mostly I was just sorry there wasn't something new and interesting to read!

-- 01:40, 10 October 2009 (BST)

Thomas:

To Nonelvis: Sounds like you have also been reading "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem" by Peter Ackroyd lately?!

-- 05:50, 10 October 2009 (BST)

Nonelvis:

Thomas, I haven't read that, but it sounds right up my alley! Thanks for mentioning it.

-- 00:07, 11 October 2009 (BST)

Ysabel:

So when you have time to read a web thing, go read this: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/experienced-points/6632-Give-Me-Dessert-First

I know it won't convince you of anything but it amuses me to continue the thread of conversation.

-- 18:41, 12 October 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

Pft. You'll have to do better than Seamus Young. I remember him of old and I have always been unimpressed with him.

Which is not to say that he's COMPLETELY on Mars, but when he says

he fails to see that, for some of us, the levelling progression IS the cool new stuff. As long as the game opens up a new zone or new quests for me, I feel like I am seeing cool new stuff. (Or at least I feel that way my first time through. I admit it loses replayability when starting a second or third or eighth character.) Contrary to the popular WoW opinion that the game begins at 80, for me the game ENDS at 80 - because that's when the quests and exploration run out. That's when I hang it up and find another game.

In short, everyone has a different idea of the content they're dying to see, and he makes it clear that late-game content was what he was dying to see - so no WONDER the early levels felt like a grind to him; to him they were just an obstacle to get past.

That's fine if that's his mindset, and he can go play one of the games that gives you uberness right off the bat. Personally, I prefer a game that doesn't show all its shiny toys immediately and keeps some in reserve.

You're never going to get me to play a superhero game. It just doesn't work for me and maybe it's partly because of that mindset. I don't want to start with super powers. I want to start the game as the schlub who has trouble killing a rat. That way when I eventually do get super powers later, it will feel like I have made some progress.

-- 20:44, 12 October 2009 (BST)