Eccentric Flower talk:201109/What I Have Come To Realize

Jayran:

The only comment I want to add here (since you got a few from me already on Twitter) is: the next time you're debating whether or not to post, stop debating. Post it.

-- 18:05, 16 September 2011 (BST)

Mel:

Re games: I also signed up for the Diablo III beta, despite the fact that I have never played any Diablo game before and have no idea what I'm letting myself in for. The reason I was hanging about on Blizzard's website was because (as you may already know from Twitter) I've been dabbling in World of Warcraft again. I started out playing around with lowbie characters again, since they're now free to play - then I figured out that there's a 10-day free trial window for Cataclysm, so I've also now gotten my old characters reactivated, for the moment, and am trying things out to see how much they've changed. (So far: small things have changed, yes. Overall, not all that different that I have seen yet.)

I haven't given up on Rift, entirely, but I was ready for something else to dabble in, so apparently WoW is it, for the moment.

-- 19:13, 16 September 2011 (BST)

Columbina:

I haven't talked up Diablo much with you because I'm pretty sure you won't like it. It's pretty much a pure dungeon crawl. Story is minimal.

-- 19:29, 16 September 2011 (BST)

Columbina:

What you can do, to decide if you would like Diablo, is to download/buy Torchlight, which is cheap, good, very Diablo-like, and runs even on modest systems. I still go back and play an hour of two of it every now and then, even though I've finished the main story once with one char and nearly finished it with two others.

http://www.torchlightgame.com/

-- 19:31, 16 September 2011 (BST)

Mel:

I'll have to check that out (but not while I'm at work, darn). I don't have any objection to dungeons in general, necessarily, although I can't see doing nothing but dungeons as a long-term project - or a six-month subscription, probably.

The most interesting new thing I've found in WoW so far is that if you make a new gnome you pop up inside Gnomeregan now. (Didn't you just start the same way the dwarves do, before? Am I remembering that right?) But you don't stay in there long - they send you back outside very quickly. I didn't get far enough to see, but I bet the story intersects back with the one in the dwarf newbie area very shortly.

-- 00:10, 17 September 2011 (BST)

Jette:

Regarding Twitter: I often read your posts but I feel like I have to ration my replies/posts on Twitter during a workday. I still have a few shreds of leftover anxiety about this dating from my previous job, when I finally realized that my boss's nasty comments about "I don't think you're thinking about work in here, I think you're thinking about movies" stemmed from her finding and reading my Twitter feed. I can't imagine my current boss gives two sticks, but it's hard to shake that feeling.

Also, a lot of your posts/observations are hard for me to answer in 140 characters or less.

I have a lot to say about your giving up the attempt to try to pass as female in public, but it probably needs to go in an email. If I can even work up the energy to write it. We are no strangers to the "go home after work and realize we have no energy for anything" syndrome in this house. I swear I am going to start banning any kind of serious talk after 8 pm.

-- 04:33, 18 September 2011 (BST)

Joy:

I was just wondering how your end of the first crunch had gone, and here you are! (The end of my first crunch is still 2-3 weeks away. Just sent out stuff to my outside letter writers, but the paper I'm working on will catch up to it in early October. One nice side effect of having to write short "here is why this paper is important" descriptions is that I start to believe it myself and I get a nice ego boost!)

Do you know that you might be the one reason I finally get a Twitter account?

-- 14:50, 19 September 2011 (BST)

Mrissa:

Is it indicative of how my life is going that I read that bit and went, "Oh, you'll have a month to breathe! That's awesome!"?

Anyway, I hope getting there isn't too painful.

-- 18:17, 20 September 2011 (BST)

Harmony:

I always like reading your posts. I don't comment enough because it keeps making me log in over and over, and I lose more comments that way.

But you did just inspire me to go clean out my Twitter feed so I am only reading stuff I actually care about. I don't check it often enough so I miss huge chunks of conversation. Also, I wish they would chronicle a conversation better, so I could more easily follow what two people are talking about. You and Stacey/Jayran/nonelvis always seem to be having cracking good chatter, but I can't always follow it back through the timeline.

-- 19:28, 21 September 2011 (BST)

Columbina:

The timeline gets nearly impossible to follow when some of the people in it have locked accounts, as both Nonelvis and Jayran do. Even if you're allowed to see their stuff, it won't show a locked post as part of a reply chain (nor will it show you when someone with a locked account retweets something of yours - it will say that they HAVE, but will not say who). It's something that has always annoyed me about Twitter, although I suppose I can see why they do it.

-- 16:57, 22 September 2011 (BST)

Bunny42:

I don't have a Twitter account, either. As Joy has said, if I were tempted at all, it would be to follow your Twitter feed. But I don't understand enough about how it works, nor have I ever really cared much. Pity. I really miss your insights and, most of all, the comments you always seem to elicit here. I've noticed that you get very few actual comments on the Tumblr thing, even when you post something introspective and meaty. I'm sorry to hear it's not providing the forum you had in mind.

-- 11:09, 24 September 2011 (BST)