Updates

Exams in just a few weeks now so starting to get frantic with the study. Right now I'm spending almost no time at all playing any games at all except for an hour or so on the weekend. I've been languishing at the same level on RoM for a couple of weeks now and really feel that I'm not getting anywhere. Even why I do find the time to jump on I often get a ridiculous amount of lag and waste a lot of time when I'm killed by lag: it just makes the entire process a lot harder. On the other hand, I have started working more in photoshop as its easier to jump on that for a while and try and make something to relax. Speaking of which I have decided to most at least one of my photoshop efforts every week probably on a Saturday, just to track my process and hopefully motivate me to think up new things and improve my skills.


Time to go and do some study. *sad face*

The Warlords open beta

Open beta for The Warlords in out in an hour or so. Have no idea what it is but as I just received an email informing me, I must have checked it out at some point.

Choppa stuff

Keen just wrote up his thoughts of the Choppa class from the PTS and it just seems to keep getting better. As much as I love the sound of the class though what I really want is significant change to the end-game RvR, as that was the real issue when I decided to leave. It may sound strange but what I really, really want is to really, really want to play this game.

Its begun

The storm has begun. I logged into google reader today and got hit by a mass of articles, all about WAR beta. Its going to be an exciting couple of days ahead as open beta looms ever closer. Now I'm beginning to wonder about whether I will still blog my experiences in WAR when it is launched because the blogging world already seems saturated with WARness. Oh well, something to think about.

Top 3 toons

Ok, in light of the looming presence of WAR I have added a new feature to the blog where I have my top 3 toons. These are the ones that at the present time I am most likely to play, and will most probably be constantly changing.

Viewing statistics

Syp over at WAAAGH! just hit the 100k viewer milestone the other day. And he did it in 4 months which is ludicrously fast. Syncaine hit the 100k mark shortly before his first year anniversary of blogging which I thought was impressive enough. /random made a post about being a blogger which was interesting. Some of the comments from legendary bloggers such as Keen and Graev were that all the 'advertising' they did was through commenting on others' blogs.
Anyway I think I am up to 20 total views or something by now after a bit over a month of blogging but I'm looking forward and 50 views holds no fear for me.

Update

Just a quick note. I have edited my Dungeon Runners review slightly as I felt, reading over it later after I had posted it, that it was unfairly harsh. I guess it is a lesson for me not to write reviews while I am in an emotional state, in that case very annoyed.
Also Combat Arms has come out of beta recently and I will be playing that for a while. If anything yummy happens I'll let you know.

Combat Arms

Have downloaded the game Combat Arms in the open beta stage. It looks quick nice and its free, and I am still really bored while waiting for WAR so I'm going to be trying it out for a while. Dungeon Runners is getting quite monotonous, so playing a bit less on it which allows me to dabble with a mmofps. I'm slightly apprehensive that I will enjoy myself as I am hopeless at shooting games, though I still generally really enjoy games such as Call of Duty. Well, hopefully all goes well and I'll give you my opinion on it a bit later.

Weekend reading

Well, I finished the Matthew Reilly book Six Ancient Stones over the weekend. It was ok but definitely not his best, looking forward to the next book in the series though. I recommend Scarecrow to anyone interested in reading his work because that is probably his best.

Ahh

Quick post. I just got Matthew Reilly's most recent novel Six Ancient Stones from the library so will probably hibernate for the next couple of days. Although I still have to do a ton of study over the weekend for tests next week and I hope to get through a good chunk by Monday.

Hmm

Hmm, I recently typed in 'Chappo's corner' into google and the link to my website was not there. I dabbled a bit longer and found that the link to my previous web address 'chapposopinion.blogspot' was still there, of course that link leads to nothing which is very confusing...I was wondering why I didn't get my usual 2 million hits. (I wish) Ah well, being technologically backward in these regards I have no really idea what is going on except I guess that it hasn't been updated by blogger as yet.

Stuffing up

Hello readers, I have to apologize for not posting recently as Internet has been messing up so I couldn't access anything. But it is fixed for the moment.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Hey guys, I have to apologize for not posting over the past week or so as have been very busy with random schoolwork. As a final kind of note on my blog I have decided to make it totally focused on my gaming experiences.
I have tidied up the blog look and made it look like somewhere you would want to sit and have a hot chocolate and just read my lovely writing.
The first week was intense as I was trying to figure out what I wanted to write aboout, and as such my writing was all over the place and slightly hysterical. But now I am slowing down and writing better and slower so that it will be more enjoyable.

Adding Bling to My Blog; A Short Post

All in an effort to make this blog slightly more interesting I had a search around and finally found the 'add picture to blog' thingy so I can now illustrate my rants. Also I can link back to previous posts as I also found the 'link' button. The thing is I really do not want to distract the reader away from the writing because the only reason I made the blog is a can ramble on about anything so I will be trying to keep the photos to a minimum so its just enough to create more interest and add to the writing and not enough to detract from it.

New Heading, Sadness, and Too Cool

Well, I finally figured out how to change the heading of the blog and decided to do a montage of photos. I wanted to change it so it would capture people's attention and they might possibly want to linger a bit longer in the dark, lonely corner that consists of this blog. It might be subject to change later, but for now I quite like it and have no plans to change it.
When I told my friend that I had started a blog he said 'sad 2 have a blog.' Just about sums it all up. But how was I supposed to know? They don't teach you these things at school, and your friends only mention it when you have already done it. Now, because now body told me I feel like a total idiot for not knowing what seems like common knowledge.
Mind you, that seems to happen a lot for me, everyone is too cool these days except me. Not that I'm not cool, just that I'm not too cool.
People are so stupid sometimes.

A Boring Side-note About My Blogging, I Say Cheers at the End

From now on I have decided to keep my posts in two categories.
1. For a majority of posts I will comment on something that has interested me such as a show I saw, or an issue that was brought up, or a generally about our society.
2. In these posts I will review things, such as a show I have seen, or a movie or a book, even a game I have played or am playing.

Now I will not label each post with either of these numbers, but these are the things I will be posting on. It narrows what I talk about down and gives me a guideline to work with. I'll look forward to continue on posting and I hope you guys enjoy what I say.
Cheers