Anxiously Awaiting

If any of you have seen the movie Serenity (if not then I strongly encourage you to do so) then you absolutely *must* watch the series that inspired the movie. I recently bought the whole series for about 30 bucks at Frys and I am completely hooked on this show. I was chilling at home this weekend with Josh at his new house and we watched the first DVD. I promptly went home and burned through the second one until 2:30 in the morning.

If you haven’t seen the show or the movie, think wild west except in a sci-fi scene (kinda like Cowboy Bebop). The whole thing has been cazy good so far, and I will probably wear the DVD’s out until I can quote every episode start to finish. Its *THAT* good =). Buy it, or borrow it from me. It’s worth it.

So I finally decided on a character to play through Oblivion with. Like when playing Morrowind, it took me a while to decide on the right skill set so that I could power level and still get x5 multipliers on every attribute I wanted every level. I choose a stealth character because, well, I like jacking stuff. It’s quite possibly the most fun part of the game. Here’s the spread:

As I stated before, my sole quest in Oblivion is to get as rich as possible (must be the rich white guy syndrom) by jacking other peoples stuff. This character is good at that. Being a wood elf, all his skills for theivery and shooting stuff from far away (*crucial*) are already pretty decent.

For the most part, the particular skillset I chose allows me to jack the attributes I need with x5 multipliers every level by training minor skills in that particular attribute. The only one I have problems with is Agility. Why? Because I don’t have any minor skills in agility (duh). I suppose I could have dropped sneak or security and went with another skill like alteration, but I wanted my character to be decently powerful low level, and all that magic stuff makes you gain levels faster.

The buzz around the forums is that the higher levels of Oblivion get kinda tough for thief like characters. I will post about my char whenever I get time to play him. Currently he is level 2 and I have gotten x5 multipliers for strength, endurance, and speed on my first level. I have the max strength multiplier for my next level, and I’m currently working on endurance. I haven’t decided on my third attribute for this level yet. Probably intelligence since agility is out of the question. Spamming bind dagger with a 10 conjuration will give me the x5 I need in under 5 minutes.

My friend IM’s me:

“I was convinced that the new race in WoW was Wisps. Then I realized it was April Fools.”

Own3d1!

April fools is the one day on our calendar where all bets are off. Being the mischievous person I am I cannot turn down a free excuse to poke fun at someone else. But what really makes April Fools day effective? As deduced from the above AIM quote it’s the element of surprise. I too had forgotten that it was April Fools until I surfed to my Google home to find ALL CAPS posts in intarweb sp34k on the slashdot RSS feed part of the site. After navigating to see what the heck was up I was graced with a hot pink theme and OMG PONIES!1 scrawled across the banner of the site. Needless to say I was own3d until my brain registered that I had been cleverly tricked by the month of April.

Nevertheless, April Fools is a fun day. I didn’t get a chance to make any crank calls, or practice my sun stare, but the spirit of the day was with me. Maybe next year I will remember this gloriously forgotten demi-holiday, and thusly be ready for the tomfoolery that shall ensue.