Whoops, this post (which has been sitting in my temp stack for two months like well all of my posts) turned into a mish mash rant of sorts. So a history first: A close elementary school friend actually introduced the Final Fantasy to me while we were in day care or something. I had received Final Fantasy I as a birthday or a Christmas gift that year or something and it was the most awesome thing evar. I actually fell in love with the series in high school/early college. That is when I more or less ultra binged on 6 through 8. I have Final Fantasy VIII wall scrolls, posters and action figures burried somewhere. My dorm room was like a shrine...

You will either love or hate Final Fantasy XIII; It's just one of those divisive games, granted most opinions seem to lean towards the hate side. There's a fine art to tutorial balancing that Square Enix obviously does not understand. At all. I mean, a 15 hour long tutorial, really?

I have been working on the Shadowmourne quest line on my paladin. (Hmm, I say paladin as if I have another high level alt that could use it lol). I completed the turn-in and I completed the 1000 soul collection, but we aren't quite at the point in our 25-man group where I would be able to complete the next 3 parts.

I am somewhat tempted to just pay a progression guild off to run me through the instance. The problem being: First, I would be saved to the instance that week, meaning that I would miss out on the guild 25-man raid (meh random people). Second, the guilds willing to run people through the quest bosses are charging a buttload of gold. Like, 40k. So not worth paying even close to that amount with Cataclysm looming on the horizon. Especially considering that isn't even the last step.

Oh, ruminating over swapping this site over from Drupal to Wordpress. I love Drupal, but I feel that it no longer suits the needs of this site which is, always has been and most likely always will be a single user blog and little else (but for a massive community based site, Drupal all the way). Oh, doing so would mean having to manually editing quirks out of about 200 posts.

BlizzCon 2010 tickets go up on the 2nd and the 5th of June. Crossing my fingers. MUST GET TICKETS.

Three years is a record. Three years without spilling on, trashing or utterly destroying yet another keyboard; All to be ruined by one morning cup off coffee. But I digress, the Gods laugh and Keiya gets an excuse to purchase yet another toy.

The Logitech G110 is exactly the same as the Logitech G19 minus the color LCD. The keyboard that I ruined was the old school G15 (the older one with more buttons and adjustable screen). I used to use the LCD to monitor system stats while I gamed. But since switching over the Windows 7, I prefer to use the desktop widgets docked on my secondary monitor, which are a lot better anyways particularly since there are widgets specifically for Riva Tuner, NVIDIA, etc. The only real use that I have for the LCD nowadays is to see who is speaking on Ventrilo, which isn't worth an extra $100.

Hey! It's the guy who voiced XT002-Deconstructor. Apparently the boss is voiced by a dude by the name of Kevin Delaney who had no idea his voice over had become a small WoW pop culture phenomenon. I've kind of always wondered who voices certain characters. So there you have it.

Sorry, totally not related to anything but, some dude is totally recreating a Sims 3 version of Vice City (as in the city from GTA) using the Create a World tool and that is just pure awesome in my books. Said world needs to include the strip joints somehow.

Speaking of the Create a World tool, I keep meaning to play with it a little more for the sake of creating a custom neighborhood so that my little people have somewhere fun and original to run around. Actually, I kind of want a custom neighborhood to start yet another legacy challenge. If you look hard enough, a couple of really bad half-assed legacy blogs are still buried in the bowels of this site.

The tool itself really isn't all that difficult to use. I am fairly surprised at that given my experience with world editing tools. They are usually just so...obtuse when it comes to the interface and what not. But then again, I've never been willing to soak in enough time to properly learn how to use any of them. I can't think of anything cool to model a neighborhood after. Maybe I will just create an island with a giant mountain in the center or something? Wait no: I will create "Pen Island" except that, it won't be shaped like a pen at all and only a small portion, the tip of the peninsula, will be visible on the in game town map (so that it doesn't get banned off of the exchange :P). The base of the island will contain a massive forrest.

Random WoW bits:

• The paladin class changes were bumped up by two days. As in, they are tomorrow. I smell all around nerfs and a few shiny new spells. 
• Did this happen to anyone else? I updated Pitbull 4 recently, logged in and all of my settings had been reset to the default. I tried restoring the lua file from a UI backup, but that didn't work? Do you know how long it takes to redo all of the UI bar settings? Pain in the ass.
• I wonder if I should go *gasp* holy in Cataclysm? Actually, most of my main spec changes have revolved around guild need. I enjoy playing any of the three specs really, though facerolling has been pretty damned fun. I think I may have found my true calling as a paladin :P
• FINALLY WON Bryntroll, the Bone Arbiter. It's not that it doesn't drop; Oh it's dropped around 5 times. I've just consistently rolled shittely.
• Also picked up the tier-10 pants and a few other things. Ugly skirt is ugly.

FYI: I have a Twitter feed, if anyone cares about that sort of thing. It pretty much mirrors anything posted on my Facebook wall +/- a few things. Okay well, it's little more than a well of boredom as well as a dump for random iPhone pictures.