The Cat Sith

This morning is the first workday morning of summer break, and as a result everything in the world feels completely “off”.  I am very much a slave to routine, which is likely why I have been able to keep posting every morning.  The routine is that my wife gets up first and the noise of her getting ready wakes me up enough to be ready to hop into the shower as soon as she gets out.  But with her being a teacher and now no longer reporting every day due to summer vacation…  the whole world feels wrong.

Is This Working?

The only good thing is that now I no longer have to make two coffees and start her vehicle before heading upstairs.  Not that this was really much of a times saving…  also somehow I managed to take just as long as normal… even though I got about a 15 minute head start.  I blame the fact that I am juggling a herd of angry acts, that are wanting food and water.  My wife is taking one of the cats into the vet this morning, so as a result we had to pull both food and water at midnight last night.  It is hard to reason with a cat as to why their bowl is empty.

So please indulge me in my need for validation, but one of the things I have been wondering is whether or not this morning posting thing is actually providing material that people are interesting in reading.  This morning will be the 32nd of these daily posts, and while I continue to still find material to ramble on about…  I wonder if any of my rambling is actually worth reading.  They have strayed pretty wildly from the initial design of… blog about what happened game wise last night.  Over time they have become more and more personal, and it is this part that I am the most self conscious about.  Do people really care about what is happening to me in real life?

I might just be going through a needlessly introspective spell, but I have wondered if this was a worthy endeavor to undertake each morning.  Maybe it just seems questionable of late since my busy schedule has left me with less and less gaming material to report on.  I keep hoping that life will stabilize a bit, and that I will be able to get back into a routine.  As much as I might have rebelled against raiding on a schedule, I really miss that kind of group based activity.  Right now I feel like I can never commit to doing something, for fear I will be needed elsewhere… or something will interrupt my playtime.

Many Faces of Lux

One of my good friends has over time become completely obsessed with League of Legends.  This may or may not be my fault, because I was the one that showed the game to her.  I totally blame Tam though, because I never would have played this game were it not for his constant nudging.  As a result, ever since this started Rae has been madly sketching Chibi League characters in the corner of her notepad.  I suggested she work up a few of them and post them, because ultimately the folks who do artwork for League started off as fans.

One of Rae’s favorite characters is Lux, and as a result she has been creating various versions of her re-imagined through different skins.  Above are her renditions of “Pep Squad Lux” and “Changeling Lux”, with the later existing because she wanted to try and do a “dark” skin for that character.  I think they both turned out pretty well.  To connect the dots, Rae is also the creator of the wonderful Belghast Chibi that adorns the header of this website.  She has started accumulating some of this material with backstories on her new blog.

The Cat Sith

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I spent a good deal of yesterday relaxing on the sofa playing some SWTOR.  I continued the adventures of my Thundercat Sith… Belgrenth, and at this point am almost through with Dromund Kaas.  I have to give a huge thank you to my friend Del.  He read my footnote in my blog yesterday about potentially only using vibroblades with this character… and in my mailbox was sitting a moddable vibroblade that is usable at level 20.  I am loving this concept of the cat sith that chooses to only use vibroswords.

I really like the Korriban and Dromund Kaas quests, but I am ultimately fearing when I transition into Balmorra.  That planet is what kills almost all of my Sith characters.  For whatever reason I do not mind Taris at all, but Balmorra just feels like a complete drag.  My hope is that since I am enjoying this kitty sith trope so much that I will be able to push through relatively easily.  If not I can always flip over and play my Chiss Scoundrel that I never managed to make it off Coruscant with.

I am by no means done with Rift, or am I ever really done with any game…  but right now this current whim has been rather enjoyable.  There are a lot of things that Star Wars the Old Republic does really well.  The questing and story are superb, and the combat is extremely fun.  Where the game failed me is the whole “things I want to do at level 50” area, but I am so far from hitting that wall that everything feels fresh and new.  I am actually looking forward to getting off Balmorra with some character, because I have never seen anything past there Imperial side.

A Hollow Community

Free to play has been both good and bad for this game.  The huge negative is that public chat channels are worse than the worst barrens chat.  Most nights feel like I am wading through a sea of 13 year olds amped on sugar and caffeine.  Additionally there is another disturbing trend…  the Subscribers treat free to play characters like complete and total crap.  I have seen more haughty elitism than I care to recall in the last few days of playing.  I literally saw someone say “lets all pick on the free to play trash” when finding out a player was restricted from sending tells… and it isn’t that they just said that, but players literally did start to belittle the target player.

The funny thing is, I never saw this in the extreme that I have in SWTOR playing other Free to Play conversions.  Over in Lord of the Rings Online, players generally treat each other pretty equitably it feels.  While I tiptoe back and forth on the concept that if you are not paying for a game you are actively hurting it…  I don’t ever want to single out a player and make them feel bad.  I feel like turning off general chat is the wrong answer to these issues, and I have found myself trying to help the players that are getting picked on and not allowed to “join in any Reindeer Games”.

Wrapping Up

Well I have spent another morning drinking coffee and blogging to you all.  Like I said above I would be interested in knowing how well you guys are enjoying these posts.  I am sure I will have a busy week ahead of me, since starting the week on a Tuesday… tends to just mean you have both Monday and Tuesday compressed into one mega painful day.  I hope you all survive the day and have a good one.  I hope it is not a bad omen that I have not made it to work, and am already looking forward to leaving it for the day.

5 thoughts on “The Cat Sith”

  1. Well… I read when I get tagged… so maybe just tag me in all the things? XD >.>; <.<;

    And your days in the office will be much better once I'm back 😉

    Something something… kitties.

  2. I’ve gotten in the habit of starting the morning here, so yeah, you post whatever, I’ll keep reading.

    Sad to hear the SWtOR chat has gotten so bad. Your right about LotRO, about the worst things get there is the occasional ‘two minutes hate’ if someone mentions WoW, but even that I haven’t noticed much recently. Could have something to do with the server; Landroval was always extra friendly. Could be things are worse on Brandywine.

  3. I pretty much just avoid the social channels all together. I find Balmorra on the imp side to be the equivalent to Taris for the republic. mostly, i just do the class quests and get off the planet asap – the rest of the worlds are much better.

  4. You have at least one loyal reader. Rae is talented. 🙂

    I thought the F2P system of SWTOR itself was bad enough. The player on player taunting is unconscionable.

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