Lliira

If you want to talk to me about something that's not discussed in one of my posts, make a comment here and I'll probably create a new post for it.

This post was written January 14, 2012. I've post-dated it to 2032 to keep it on top.

 CN:  Rape, rape the author pretends is not rape, paranormal romance, werewolves, vampires, violence

Laurell K. Hamilton published the first Anita Blake book, Guilty Pleasures, in 1993. Anita Blake started out as a vampire hunter, necromancer, and zombie-raiser living in St. Louis, Missouri. She had an antagonistic/mutually beneficial relationship with a powerful vampire, Jean-Claude. Soon, she obtained a werewolf boyfriend, Richard. Anita solved mysteries (sort of) and killed things in bloody ways. All in all, a somewhat typical paranormal noirish series with some interesting twists, like the fact that the world had always known about vampires, werewolves, and magic. Fans enjoyed LKH's world, and the series sold pretty well. 

( And then she got really popular )

This is a site of color palettes. There are six colors per palette. I mostly use them for Sims stuff, but sometimes I find myself just clicking through them. The site's making me want to try beading again, just so I can use some of the palettes in a tangible form. 

I tried to get my Sims stories onto my Wordpress blog. I expected it to take quite a while and be a massive hassle. But I expected it to be possible. I was able to import what I'd done on Google Blogger onto it without problems. I was not able to make the simple html stuff I wanted to happen, happen. If one does not own the site one posts to, Wordpress just doesn't seem to have much flexibility, and it keeps trying to "help" in ways that make everything harder.

I decided I'd see how Dreamwidth handled what I need. Answer: perfectly. And there are lots of people with gaming blogs on DW -- not as many as on LJ, but I hate LJ. So, embarrassingly, I'm going to move what little there is on my gaming blog AGAIN, to a second DW blog. I don't know if I can import Wordpress content to DW directly, but DW is just so much easier to deal with for a blog I'm doing for fun, and not hoping to make money from. So, here it is: lliirasgames . I hope to get some basic stuff on it in the next few days.

Y'all, I'm loving an action RPG. I've had fun with some action RPGs, but this one I am LOVING. I do not know who I am any more.

Torchlight 2. It's like when I first played Super Mario World, Baldur's Gate, Final Fantasy 4. Or read Bujold's Memory or L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle or Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile. Or saw Spirited Away or Labyrinth or BBC's Pride and Prejudice. Or made Molly Katzen chocolate mint cookies. It's -- this, yes this is how you do this thing. This is how you make this thing. You are doing it right! Let me give you all my monies! Of which I have virtually none!

My engineer has a headcrab pet named Cookie and the biggest gun ever and a little robot that heals her.

I advise against taking it except for an extremely short period of time, like 2 days.

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The next time I see a bunch of people recommend deleting a Windows update and stopping Windows from updating to solve a problem in a years-old game which is easily solved by a little copy-pasting, I am going to re-channel the online persona I had in 2005. Participating in forums I participated in for this game (Sims 2), I am remembering why I had that online persona. I can only take so much repeated ignorance before I go full Callisto, and I think I've hit my limit. 

I am on five different prescription drugs. So I haven't been commenting on people's posts, not because I don't want to, but because I have a feeling it might come out really... um... odd. I've already had some issues making dumbass comments while just on two drugs, so I figure I won't subject anyone to that on their personal blogs. Though I do feel more clearheaded than I have in a long time, but that might be completely my imagination.

So, everyone who uses Disqus is being forced to use the "new" 2012 form of it. Which forces downvotes and threading on people. I hate both upvotes and downvotes -- downvotes are worse, but I find the whole concept inimical to discussion. (And really bad for people who are semi-addicted to praise. It's like waiting for those "A"s all over again.) I can deal with threading fine, but I know a lot of people can't. But there is something even more important than these things, which no one using Disqus has ever seemed to care about: IT IS BUGGY AS HELL.

Disqus has always been buggy as hell. I don't foresee it ever being anything but buggy as hell. The product does not bloody work. Why must people keep adopting something that doesn't work? Haven't we all been here long enough to demand that new shineys actually work before using them? Well, Geocities seems to be rising from the tomb on Tumblr, and various other websites and internet programs are doing that "cool", "clean" thing of hiding their tools that people figured out a long time ago does not work. Wake me up when we're no longer in 1997. Gah.

Oh and also for some reason Dsqus on Slacktivist is making me nauseous. It doesn't do this on, say, Tony Ortega's blog. Something in the settings, the font, I dunno. Well, I was going to try to stop reading the comments and commenting there anyway, I guess this makes it that much easier.