Torchlight

I’m sorry for only writing in Swedish lately but I’ve been too busy to concentrate on any other language due to too much of the game Torchlight.

In the spirit of Diablo and Titan Quest (the only two PC games I’ve bothered to develop some love for and buy) you, the Adventurer, enter the troubled mining city of Torchlight and are immediately tasked with finding valuable yet dangerous stones, generally saving people from evil creatures and seeking treasure together with your loyal pet (a dog or lynx).

The game is simple - if you don’t mess up completely you’re somewhat invincible and immortal given that even boss fights leave you reasonably unscathed if not totally unharmed. After playing for a while I sense the greatest weakness of the game – the missions. There’s a bard, a geologist, an adventurer, two treasure hunters and a convertedmonster girl who all task you with different quest based on their profession/situation. You defeat great evils that the bard will then write about and/or recieve rewards, you find valuable stones for the geologist, you save the adventurer’s ass and you find the treasure hunters' treasure for them and then recieve fame and experience points. After 28 levels I’ve started to get bored with the constant repetition.

I smell the sweet rancid air of the first Diablo game from far away (which is a good thing) but then, I haven’t finished Torchlight yet. I’ll give you the details when I have.

NB! And do not for second think that I’ll go through a post mentioning Diablo without bitching about the tosspots at Blizzard and their lateness surrounding the release of Diablo III. Bastards! All of them! I’ve been reading “It's too early to estimate Diablo III's release date” for the last two years and as a fan I’m getting very tired with waiting. Nothing can be perfect, just release the game already and then if something’s missing or you just get another bright idea – give us an expansion pack. Blizzard's usually very good at expensive expansions.

DO IT.

En ledig lördag

Gärdhem – detta fenomen i Dalsjöfors utkant. En secondhand som under 4 timmar varje lördag blir den mest befolkade delen av hela orten. Och om inte den infon stämmer så känns det i vilket fall som det när man står där i mitten av ett rum som man fysiskt omöjligen kan ta sig ifrån om inte någon i rummets utkant bestämmer sig för att gå därifrån. Klaustrofobiskt så det förslår.
Jag har köpt mer ulltyg och en handväska. Och böcker såklart. Man går inte därifrån utan att befria Gärdhem ifrån en sådär 10 böcker varje gång man är där – skönlitteratur och annat. Nästa gång kanske man skulle satsa på en bokhylla istället.

Jag började få dåligt om plats i hyllorna både för filmer och böcker för ungefär… sen jag fick mina nuvarande hyllor.

Tore Zetterberg och Jane Austen trängs med Stephen King, Anne Rice och Dean Koontz, Joanne Harris med Thomas Harris, Robert A. Heinlein, Truman Capote och Vladimir Nabokov finner sig i sällskap med Robin Hobb, J.R.R. Tolkien och J.K. Rowling. Jag har inga samvetskval över att säga att jag har 1-32 av Margit Sandemos Sagan om Isfolket. De är underhållande.

DVDerna står trångt igen också nu trots att jag har arkiverat så många redan i brist på plats. Alltså behöver jag fler lådor till magasinering av filmer också.

I need more space for all my junk - någon som är sugen på att hyra en 2a eller 3a med mig?

Mmm... shopping!

Idag var det meningen att jag nu när det är rea skulle införskaffa alla de där grejerna jag behöver till nästa svinkalla vinter (om jag inte kommer på ett sätt som gör att jag faktiskt kan gå i ide mellan mitten av november till mars). Ny vinterjacka och nya vinterskor stod på listan. Att det slutade med ett par vinterskor, ett par grymt snygga högklackat, en liten svart glammig klänning, en spetsjacka till den och nya smycken är en helt annan sida av myntet. Så nu har jag ännu en hot-hot-hot uppsättning till en fest.
För jag festar ju så mycket.
Hm. Felslut.

CSN

Då var första betalningen till CSN ordnad med. Det värmer fortfarande lite i mitt lilla hjärta att jag har en del av släkten som totalt skämt bort mig genom att förbereda till den dag då jag antingen skulle betala tillbaka ett mindre lån eller skaffa en egen bostad, alternativt både och. Det bästa med situationen är hur jag i skrift sett hur i alla fall tre av mina älskade före detta klasskamrater svär över återbetalningskrav. Jag har mitt på det torra efter en massiv lön för december. Den hade å andra sidan kunnat vara större om jag hade haft ett jobb som faktiskt betalar sig men jobbar man inom vården så gör man. Nu gäller det bara att se till att alla pengar jag måste betala tillbaka har gett resultat. Eeeh, uppsatsen alltså. Måste blåsa bort dammet från alla mina skolanteckningar nu.
Lite jobb idag och sen en stund i Borås för kaffe och pepp med Sanna. Prima säger jag bara.
Imorgon blir det till att göra av med lönen innan den försvinner.

Everyday life

I really wish I had something better to write than that I’m bored, tired and more than a little asocial as it is. My life consists of work (still in nursing – still on auto pilot), sleeping (poorly), eating (too much), watching movies (preferrably while raiding the internetz), drinking tea (by the bucket load) and if I’m lucky I’ll put some energy aside for studying in between (too little compared to... everything else). I have an essay due last year lying around haunting me like my very own Jacob Marley ghost. It’s either him or I can morbidly choose from one of the past month’s 6 ladies and gentlemen that have died at the nursing home, and area surrounding it, that I work.
As if my situation wasn’t bad enough it seems like I’ll soon have to start paying back the money I’ve loaned for my three years of university studies that have amounted to nothing yet. You can’t hear it, but I’m sighing in frustration over here.
On the good side is that I’ve recently crossed the 300-mark of “1001 Movie You Must See Before You Die”. I’ve now seen 302 of the 1001 movies in the 2004 edition (last one being The Hills Have Eyes from 1977) and 343 out of 1079 of the total amount of movies that has been included in all the “1001 Movies…” series. It’s quite a useless accomplishment since the only person I’ll impress with that information is myself but an accomplishment nontheless.
Pay day the day after tomorrow. Much looked forward to money I’ll tell you. I’m so poor I think I can actually hear an echo emanating from my wallet every time I open it up. It's a sad, sad thing.

Big time tv

Moo-Ma and Moo-Pa came home with a 47" tv today. I would have settled for anything that's not broken (and therefore shows everything through a pink filter) but I think I'm fine with this as well.
But 47"? That's 15" wider than our broken one from back when Leo DiCaprio and Titanic was all the rage. We should all be thankful that it's only Dicaprio that has risen from the ashes.

Mars vs. Venus

I'm sorry but I'm going to state a fact - Dr. John Gray's Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is not only utterly sexistic but also complete drivel.
According to Gray, women are weak, have to be constantly validated to stay calm instead of hysteric and can't exist without men (in fact, women need men) and men are... grunting cave-dwellers who all has to be needed to feel good with themselves.
Happy I'm done with it.
Also happy that human kind can't be generalized.

DTB

It wasn’t that long ago that I discovered that there was a second season AND a short OVA series to Darker Than Black (which just happens to be one of my absolute favourite anime series) and not only that but also that one of my favourite Japanese girl rock bands Stereopony had made the OP (short for opening theme) for the second season! I started liking Stereopony after their song Hitohira no Hanabira had been made the (17th) ending theme for Bleach (another famous anime) and recently I pillaged an internet village to find their second album Over The Border which features Tsukiakari no Michishirube.



Anyhow, after having watched all episodes I’ve missed out on, in two days, I conclude – Darker Than Black is still on my Top Five Best Anime Series.

Hehe

Dagens skratt riktas åt att Discshop rear ut filmen Eragon (2-disc) för 39 kr just i skrivande stund för att göra plats åt bra filmer.
Eragon dödade uppsvingen för fantasyn inom film precis som Twilight mördade vampyr-genren både inom film och litteratur. Yes, I just said that.

George makes PJ's

"I wanna tear your skin off to make pyjamas put of 'em and wear 'em to bed."

Georgia "George" Lass in Dead Like Me knows how to describe them good-looking men at the office. Am I strange for getting what she means without thinking it's morbid?

Sooo tired

I really don't like being this tired. Really. And tomorrow I'm back there for 11 hours of work. Sunday is another 8 hours. Crap. I hate waking up by the alarm clock. Even though it's playing "Tavern at the End of the World" from the The Witcher RPG computer game.

Why do I do this now again? Oh, right - money. I need an ordinary weekday job.

Allt utom det

Jag jobbar fortfarande på den där c-uppsatsen. Tack Jessica för att du också pratar om att jobba mer seriöst med den. Snart.
För att slippa jobba med uppsatsen nu när jag inte haft så mycket jobb så har jag:

• Lagat min underkjol som gick sönder i mars förra året. Söndertrampad i Göteborg. Värt det.
• Dammsugat hela huset och våttorkat köksgolvet (alla 6 husdjurens hemvist).
• Rensat garderoben. Så här organiserad kommer den inte att vara imorgon. Kan någon tala om för mig varför jag har så många kjolar?
• Bakat stridmuffins (de är näst intill oätligt hårda pga varmluftsugnsmisstag) och havrekakor (blev supergoda).
• Skottat snö (mer jävla snö nu och jag går i ide).
• Sprungit på gymmet och långbastat.

Så du ser kära läsare. Nog är jag aktiv men inte på "rätt" sätt.

Awaiting Paul

I'm looking forward to this movie with all the nerdiness of my bitter heart. Nick Frost and Simon Pegg meets the Nevada desert UFO/Area 51 geek myth. LOVE IT.



It's the mother of geek themes.

Lonely activities

It's not what you think, you dirty freaks!
Jokes aside, I don't know what got me thinking about it but I found myself considering how many movies I watch in a year's time and reached the conclusion of between 200 and 280 movies. In addition, there are between 30 and 50 books read each year (counting textbooks for school) and countless anime and tv series. Between all that, it's a wonder I ever have time to interact with anyone. Sometimes I surprise myself.

It's a Black Books day

Yep, you heard me. It's one of those Black Books or Dead Like Me days. Dark humour at its very best. Some days you just need it.

VS.

Vampire Diaries - we're through

I’m now officially done with anything to do with The Vampire Diaries. I just finished The Vampire Diaries – The Return: Shadow Souls by L.J. Smith only to realize that I’ve got four books left in the series. As if I'd bother.

What really ticks me off is how the tv series could become so dull and tedious after only a season and a half (if there’s only one character left to appreciate – Damon Salvatore/Ian Somerhalder – I’d say there’s nothing left to see) when, at least, the novels keep getting you confused with all the far-fetched twists and turns and creatures from all kinds of cultures to put the main characters in deep doo-doo.

Like so many other authors, L.J. Smith suffers from making her characters infallible. Elena Gilbert, the girl we all (including all the other characters of the novels/series) follow in awe, is invincible. The fantasy genre of books is full of these characters (ever read an Eddings book?) that can (almost) never lose and always come out alive at the other end no matter what obstacles they run into (mostly thanks to their awesome godly strength or wit or cunning or whatnot).
Also, it annoys me that they had to change the name of the town from Fell’s Church to Mystic Falls when it had a perfectly good name to begin with.

Bah.

Philips GoGear

Lately, I’ve had some trouble with my old mp3 player (emphasis on old here). Just the other day I wanted to pretend that the New Year meant that I'd gather energy to take those long walks and be a genuinely healthy kind of person (you know how it’ll end). Imagine my surprise when I realise that the mp3 has deleted itself. Not just music but also software. It's thoroughly and painfully empty (= no walking done that day).
So today I decided that it was time to get a new mp3. When I happened to mention to the clerk by the counter just how long I've had the old one he raised his single thick eyebrow and laughing said that Lady Luck had given me one helluva break. I’ve had my lovely black Philips GoGear for five and a half years (almost six) so understandably I have it in my mind that Philips makes good things and therefore I settled on a new Philips machine – an updated version of my old mp3 was found in Philips GoGear Vibe (the same amount of storage but about half the size of my old mp3, delivered with really lousy in-ear headphones).

Yes, my new mp3 is actually just as pink as in the picture.

Update:
Easy navigation ecxept for the "next track" key that seems to only want to fast forward and not skip a track. Irritating at times. Personally, I love the function where you can adjust and decide on a volume limit - perfect for all careful listeners.

Shangri-La

"Fafner in the Azure - Dead Aggressor" is an excellent anime if you're considering to give it a go. Also watch the OVA episode "Soukyuu no Fafner: LEFT OF RIGHT".
The movie "Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor: Heaven and Earth" was just released in Japan only a month ago. I'm going to see it - of course.



I still get the shivers when I listen to this song (though I saw the anime four years ago) but I haven't quite decided if it's awesome or just plain horrible. And this is the whole song, not just the opening version. The Japanese J-Pop band Angela made all the themes for Fafner (I know they're weird, but their music grows on you, trust me!).

Rollspelare - världens mest trogna

Världens mest trogna fans måste vara rollspelare.





"Kunskapens Pris - Balladen om den Vilsne Vandraren" på DVD fanns att köpa på sci-fi-mässan tidigare, men jag har inte haft koncentrationen att undersöka saken de senaste åren. Ska kolla nu i februari om det är någon som vet något. Skulle vilja ha den om den fortfarande finns att köpa. Om så bara för sakens skull och inte för att jag är en trogen Mutant-spelare.

2011, what the hell

Swedish actor (and legend) Per Oscarsson is feared to have died in a fire (and since he hasn't showed up to refute it, I'm guessing it's true) and Pete Postlethwaith has lost his long struggle against cancer.
It's been three days of the new year and already 2011 is a bad one.

Promises

A friend of mine said this morning when asked what his New Year’s resolutions were that he doesn’t make any promises to himself that he wouldn’t be able to make and keep on any other day of the year but since I’m a bit of a tosspot I’ll have a go nonetheless;

Just like Bridget Jones I’ll promise to lose a few pounds, leave off the sugar and be an energetic visitor at the gym. I’ll read the paper and watch the news to keep up to date. Lastly, I’ll get that blasted essay done and solve the whole degree bullshit business.

That’s something.

Pfft! Just kidding, as if this year'll be any different from any other when I've broken all resolutions. Preposterous.

I had a lot of fun last night at least. Awesome.