...but I've officially been sucked into City of Heroes, and it didn't even take very long. I mentioned to Brett at dinner on Friday that I'd been considering it, and that night, we went out to a Game Spot that's connected to a Barnes and Noble (because we knew it'd be open late), and poof, I was the owner of a shiny new copy.
I very quickly found that my poor computer is extremely low on RAM--it meets the minimum requirement, but good GOD, it can be so slow. I find it amusing, too--is this the reason I've never been able to run Neverwinter Nights since my old computer crashed and I got the Dell? My magic blaster (fire/energy) got up a few levels on Friday night, thanks to Brett, and it really is rather entertaining. Better than Everquest, in my opinion. Slicker, more user friendly, and the whole costume customization thing is amazing. I don't know the number of combinations, but it's entirely possible that you'll never run across anyone who looks exactly the same way you do, which is not the case in EQ. The skillset is fun--yay for ranged and area of effect attacks, plus a nasty punch if someone gets too close. Fun. :)
After a night of dealing with the slow computer, I figured that it'd be nice to get a memory upgrade, so I dutifully went to the Dell website to figure out what kind of memory I could use in my PC. Well, long story short, as it turns out, we can't use a 1 GB DIMM, which is what we both bought. Doh. So today, there'll be a return trip to Fry's to exchange the 1 GB for two 512 MB (for me, only one for Brett).
Naturally, though, I wasn't happy with just finding memory, I also ended up buying a new desk, which meant that I had to clean up the quarter of the room where my desk is at, and my god, I have a lot of shit. I mean, seriously. Just a lot of shit. Right now, there are several neat (and several not so neat) stacks around the room that I'll need to clean up. Maybe this would be a good time to get rid of some of this crap. The only bad thing about the new desk is that I don't have cubbies anymore--it's a glass corner desk very similar to what Brett has, but a little smaller--which turns out to be a good thing. The bigger one might not have fit so well in here.
So yeah. Sucked in by City of Heroes. I'm going to have to start allocating time to both MUSH and to game, not to mention school....oh yeah. Did I mention that I was starting classes at DeAnza again, this time on September 20th? It means I'll be on the 5am to 2pm shift, but hey, it improves my options, as far as class availability goes, and that's a good thing. Public speaking will be my first class--hopefully, next quarter, I'll be able to take the history class that I've really been wanting.
And that's about it. What's new with all of you?
Posted by Liz at September 12, 2004 12:05 PM