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Name: aDiLLa
Country: United States
Birthday: 11/29/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: games. games. books. survival horror. wildlife. fantasy. RPGs. football/soccer. shopping. anime. manga. tigers. greek mythology. paper + pencil art. gamelan. david hayter's voice. climbing things.
Expertise: wasting time. wasting time even when exams are imminent. looking like i have time to waste. enumerating things that i can do to waste time. turning beds into bookshelves.
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Member Since:
4/28/2004
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| So we discovered this board game place in DJ called The Mage Cafe, which was a perfect place to hold our tabletop D&D session this weekend since none of us were able to volunteer his or her house. I was pleased with the discovery, because:
1) it's in DJ, right next to Atria ... and I went to school there for 9 years so I'm very fond of DJ ... makes me feel happy, comfy and nostalgic to hang around in that area
2) it's a board game cafe that houses a multitude of boardgames - mostly leaning towards the hardcore, strategic, adult, specialized and rare types (in other words, more geeky)
3) I'm a geek, so it makes me happy to be in a geeky place and unleash my geekiness to the max around people who understand XD
4) there's a cat :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ... a white cat who's very, very, very adorable and playful. Nyeeeeeee~! XD
5) the place has good food with a lot of selection ... and a clean, comfy interior
This is also where we discovered what might be something that I would own soon: a board game called Betrayal at House on the Hill. This board game is by the guys over at Wizards of the Coast (same people responsible for D&D), so it's guaranteed a quality product. And there are many reasons why I think this is the next it board game for the peeps in Davis (and why I want to buy it):
1) A gameplay that is simple enough for newbies to understand, yet complex enough to be challenging and interesting
2) Different characters with different stats and differential influence on gameplay
2) Randomized exploration - so each experience would generate a new map
3) 50 different scenarios that each yields a different storyline, adds new aspects of gameplay and changes roles of players
All of these formulate into endless possibilities! No two game sessions would be the same for anyone. This board game has a high replay value XD and would last pretty long (compared to something like Taboo, which no one in Davis could play anymore). Yeay!
D&D campaign update
(to those who care, which could very well be only me ... but it's my blog and I want to record this so I don't forget, so whatever haha)
- We got to fight rats again ... and more rats... and more rats ... and a Dire Rat. And a troll :D... our spellcasters had enough fire and acid between them to snuff it out forever
- We got our hands on some magical items. Yay, right? Except the DM gave me leather boots that force me to roll at every single turn ... if I fail the roll, the boots make me dance and lose my turn =_=. Oh, and I can't take them off cos they're magically stuck on my feet. Goddammit.
- The story is getting more interesting because we're discovering bloody altars, torture chambers, mutated skeletons and evidence pointing to illegal mutation experiments and involvement of drow and duergar. *gasp!*
- I got to cartograph our journey through the dungeon, yeay! We got to visualize much better.
- Funny dialogues:
Situation 1
Koross's character has received a lot of damage ...
Fonzy: I poke my staff on his back to heal him.
Nick (DM): Ok, you've healed him.
Koross: Instead of pain from the poke, I feel a funny sensation ...
Nick (DM): You've made him horny.
Koross: ... so I turn my head back at him, and say "Oooooohh ...."
Nick: "I didn't know you swing that way!"
Situation 2
We see a skeleton with four arms and two legs on the floor of a cell ...
Me: I roll a Nature check to identify what kind of skeleton it is.
Nick (DM): You see that it is an Eladrin skeleton.
Kal: What's an Eladrin?
Everyone: Thereeee Fonzy la!
Kal: Then Fonzy has four arms la. Where are the other two?
Fonzy: I take my invisible two arms and slap you in the face.
AHAHahahah ... ohhh, so fun. Too bad I have to go to BTN this weekend, so I will be missing the next session :(((((. Bleh.
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| AHAHAHAHAHA.
Sorry, as I was posting the last blog entry, I heard something strange coming from the TV behind me.
I heard the Metal Gear Solid Theme song from MGS2. Confused, I walked over to the TV and stared at the screen, only to be confunded even further by the images of livestock, paddy fields, agriculture and spinning graphical letters that later formed the title Agro Jurnal.
AHAHAHAHAHA some agriculture journal show on TV1 used the MGS2 theme as a background song for its opening sequence AHAHAHAHAHA. It was so amusing that when I walked away, I doubled back just to laugh at the tv screen again.
Ahahahahhahahaha oh my God this is hilarious. What the hell. I wish I could turn back time, record that thing and show it to my friends. It's just so tacky for a cheap agricultural TV show on a cheap TV channel to be using a song from a video game. It's so damn random.
*heard something on TV again*
OH MY GOD it's using the tinkly-tinkly part of the song XD. The TV's playing commercials now, so I bet they played the tinkly part for the "We'll be right back after these messages" graphic XD XD.
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| Yesss, my antibodies are getting rid of the flu baddies inside my body. This is what I imagine they would say, after battling since Saturday:
Virus strain identified.
Phagocytosis system online. Lymph node terminals all clear.
Termination process engaged.
Wahahaha.
It sucks, okay, because for the past several days I haven't been able to enjoy all the wonderful Malaysian food being showered all over me because of my blocked nose.
Usually my colds go away wayyy faster than this. I think my antibodies aren't used to the strains of flu virus over here anymore since I've been away for a long time.
Anyway...
Who the hell does the translation subtitles for Astro? I've always been pissed at the below-par quality of the subs. This is what I saw today:
Example 1
TV show: "...has made Adam go wild."
Translation: ...telah membuat Adam menjadi keliru.
Example 2
TV show: "...Midwest..."
Translation: ...Timur Barat...
Come on. I'm not even being a language snob here. This is failure at the most basic level.
Wild = keliru ??
And where in the word "Midwest" do you see Timur? Huh? Huh? And wtf, the word Timur Barat doesn't even make sense; it's not even a direction, nor something pointing to a region.
And many times I also see subtitles conveying something completely opposite from the spoken sentence. For example the person says he doesn't believe Mr. A but the subs say he believes Mr. A. What the-.
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| Yay today I did something that I've always wanted to do: play tabletop RPG! It was a bunch of us from CO plus a couple of Mag's friends gathered at Alfonso and Elayne's house. There was a lot of laughter mixed with confusion amid dice rolls and furious flipping through pages of the handbook.
We were playing 4th ed. D&D, so the first timers weren't much worse off than the tabletop veterans since the rules are new to everyone (hence, the confusion). Fortunately, having played NWN games, I was already familiar with the D&D system, although I still had to get used to the whole "realistic imagination" thing. Okay, that phrase doesn't make sense, but allow me to illustrate...
Say... in a NWN game, you can create a character with 8 Charisma and for the rest of the game, just deal with failing charisma-driven actions like Bluff, Persuasion and Intimidate. In our game, though, when I created an elven ranger with 8 Charisma, Nick the GM said a Charisma of 10 is like a regular person, so I must be a butt-ugly elf XD. I said I was a really pretty elf (elves can't be ugly anyway :P) but I had low charisma because I was bitchy. Then they said I was a butt-ugly elf who thought she was pretty XD.
Anyhoo, Nick/Xeos was our GM. The adventuring party was an interesting mix; I was an Elven Ranger (duh) who was out to explore the world and see other animal species, and my Elven Ranger brother Sam tagged along to protect me. Alfonso/Robin and Elayne were Eladrin companions, both spellcasters - a Wizard and a Warlock. There was also Shaharun/Koross as a Tiefling Warlord who wanted to go on raping sprees XD. Mag the Tiefling Rogue, who only thought about pickpocketing and looting, was accompanied by Inqy the Dragonborn Fighter who pillaged villages and towns for a living.
Funny moments:
- I got a 1 on my first ever d20 roll. The GM refused to let me roll again, so I only had 10g and couldn't buy anything lol. Fortunately my "brother" was charitable enough to buy me a longbow and leather armor XD.
- I refused a drinking duel with some dwarves, spilled ale on them and made them angry. Sam took the drink for me, passed out and missed out on a chunk of the prologue XD. He saw flying pink elephants and walking mushrooms in his dreams.
- I rolled what I thought was a d10 with gusto, and suddenly I got a 12 and we were all like "EH?" (it was a d12 lol)
- Mag rolled only 1, 2 or 3 on his d20 rolls. Elayne said he was a liability to the group
- Ingy the Dragonborn took a piss on a wet dungeon floor, so his piss spread around the area
- Mag and Inqy the cheapskates refused to pay 1g for a room and tried to bargain for a cheaper price. They ended up picking a fight and the barkeep summoned 11 guards.
- Mag and Sam ran away and climbed a rope to get away from 2 rat swarms.
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| I finally watched The Incredible Hulk, after wanting to go see it for several weeks.
And I liked it a lot! Much, much better than the first one, which drove me to sleep. And Edward Norton, although less Bruce Banner-y in looks than Eric Bana, pulls off a much less boring Bruce Banner who actually has personality. He showed the character's loneliness and desperation in exile without being emo. Awesome. And he's nice to look at, too. Yay.
Jennifer Connelly looks emo, too, and thus, contributed some to the emo-ness of the 2003 Hulk movie. So, Liv Tyler is a welcome change. Yay x2!
And, of course, Robert Downey Jr.'s cameo appearance. Yay x1000! Although I wish I didn't squeal and giggle so much and make Whitney laugh, because I didn't really hear Tony Stark's first lines. Dammit. But wooooot, The Avengers!
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I watched the first two episodes of the old and awesome 1980's Transformers cartoon. It's really interesting to re-watch whatever you'd seen as a kid, because as an adult, you understand the dialogues - and the story - more.
So it's only now that I realize that Transformers actually had quite funny lines! I shall quote some of them:
Jazz: Where are you hurting?
Bumblebee: Urgh... I think it's my rear axle.
Unknown Autobot: *gets shot on the shoulder and starts to "bleed"* I'm leaking lubricant!
Megatron: What in the universe are you doing, Starscream?!
Megatron: (to Starscream) It only proves your defective intelligence!
Hound: (after saving Spike, the human, from drowning) You almost flooded your engine there!
LOL I'm so amused by the lines that I had to write this blog post straightaway! XD XD Now I think the robots are absolutely adorable, just because of what they say! XD XD
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