Weekly Updates?

I guess I can do some of these if you're interested in reading them. Talking about what I did and what I'm planning to do may both be informative and interesting. In these situations, coffee and good music will help for sure!

If you want more weekly updates, then vote for it. Comments are so underrated :D

*Starts the playlist on Youtube*

Well, let's throw some inportants info that you will enjoy. The Minecraft server is going really well, with a reduced griefing rate of about 50%. That ain't bad at all! Thanks to everyone who reported most of the damage, I was able to fix all of that in less than 10 minutes.
As for buildings, there is a new cart tracks system from the main station to the Fiery Veins. may I remember to everyone that it is only the first town, and the main station will be linked to pretty much everything. On the fans side, there's a nice looking new tower, some additional houses and, to my surprise, some group projects. Internet is a wonderful thing.

I will surely make a update video very soon, so expect some visuals.

Also, for those who STILL doesn't know, we are in the middle of my Fans Challenges showdown. Challenges 4, 5 and 6 are already up, and the three next ones will be up this week. I still didn't do the bonus challenge yet (The L4D2 backward one) but I'll find a way to twist it in my schedule somewhere.
Right after the challenges, I will post the Bloody Palace run I did on Devil May Cry 4. I did really good, but I will not spoil the finale!

What else... Oh right, the next LP! Dead Space 2 was fun and all, and doing Blind runs is really fun, but for the next one I will play a game I already know. Probably on the Snes, too! Thing is, I'm a fan of a lot of games, going from the NES to the Wii, passing by the PS2 and so and I never even mentioned one of these. Ever!
 Maybe I will do a top 13 of my all time favorite games. Or I could simply talk about games I love. You can guess what the next LP is if you want and hey, if you're right, I'll give you a virtual cookie :D

Other than that, I had a fun week-end. Erillian (Dave) and I had a Monster Hunter Tri Marathon to increase his hunter rank (or level, if you want it that way). So I went to his place with my Wii, we plugged another tv and played together in the same room. It was epic, except the occasional crashes (His wifi sucks :s), and we actually made some solid progress. We grinded through some missions, especially *Cold Call* which is an event mission (You need to kill a Great Baggi, a Gigginox and (jesus) a Barioth. I hate this goddamn snow kitty! BUT, he have his Tenebra, so I guess it was worth it.
I also showed him how to deal with Ceadeus, which is a gigantic whale-dragon. He's one of the two end bosses and despite not being terribly hard, he's time consuming. His weapons and armors sets are cool though, and I guess he beat him a couple of times (He was amazed by his water laser. Yeah, a water laser :D)

Aaaand I just realised that most of you guys have no idea what I'm talking about. I'll explain what the game is in the next post. Until then, see ya next time :D

DA2 Discussion

To make things short, me and DMT had a chat on Skype. At first we talked about random stuff but quickly started a discussion about Dragon Age 2 and "one" of it's problem, which I still had in mind. It goes as follow:


(First segment is a bit random, but I like it enough to keep it)

[06:01:30] DMT: How's work?
[06:01:34] DMT: You keeping Canada safe?
[06:01:41] Anzariel: oh yeah.


Some random chatting. Following passage was nice enough to mention it::

[06:04:06] DMT: wanna know why I've been grumpy as **** lately?
[06:04:15] Anzariel: shoot it
[06:05:32] DMT: Simply being terribly sick.
[06:05:36] Anzariel: I'm sry for you :S
[06:05:51] DMT: just got the medication a matter of minutes ago.
[06:05:55] Anzariel: kk
[06:06:04] DMT: Started on Thursday.
[06:06:04] Anzariel: well, at least, you can treat it
[06:06:06] DMT: Just got worse.
[06:06:11] Anzariel: being french in incurable
[06:06:18] DMT: Bah.
[06:06:40] DMT: Just means your food's better, your accent's sexier, your babes hotter, and your ass-kicking more definitive.
[06:06:49] Anzariel: .....
[06:06:53] DMT: And you're more stylish.
[06:06:56] Anzariel: that's France
[06:06:59] DMT: oh.
[06:07:15] DMT: I dunno, then.
[06:07:22] Anzariel: us, we're all of that, but we're stupid enough to re-elect the same government who lied to us a couple of times :S
[06:07:30] DMT: If someone pisses you off, drop a French log cabin on them.
[06:07:35] Anzariel: lol
[06:07:38] Anzariel: on yeah
[06:07:43] Anzariel: Maple wood is HEAVY!
[06:07:51] DMT: Smells nice, too.
[06:08:11] Anzariel: if you'd made a Heavy minigun in Maple wood for a Heavy, it wouldn't break!
[06:08:18] Anzariel: AND it would give their rotting corpses a good smell. Maybe.


So we randomly talked some moar. Nothing too interesting. Then...

[06:18:57] Anzariel: you tried dragon age 2?
[06:19:05] DMT: Nope.
[06:19:05] Anzariel: and if so, what's your thoughts about it?
[06:19:08] Anzariel: ok
[06:19:11] Anzariel: you planning to?
[06:19:23] DMT: Not sure.  Might warez it at some point. ( DMT is a CRIMINAL!)
[06:19:48] Anzariel: before you do that
[06:19:52] Anzariel: http://anzariel.blogspot.com/
[06:41:15] DMT: Your character dies?
[07:06:46] Anzariel: no, the one you pick to join you in the expedition does.
[07:06:51] Anzariel: in a very lame way too
[07:07:08] Anzariel: ...food poisoning
[07:07:11] Anzariel: no kidding. Didn't burned  or anything interesting :(
[07:12:48] DMT: .
[07:14:05] DMT: The brave stalwart wizard Gandalf raised his staff, then toppled over and shit himself, his dying words choked by his vomoting weakly down his front, and the loud, wet fart of his death as muscles relaxed and moved no more.
[07:16:01] DMT: Why not just include the sound of them dying offscreen with comical vomiting followed by a watery fart as they crap their pants after death ala South Park?
[07:19:17] DMT: Why not just say "HERO X HAS DIED OF DYSENTERY."
[07:20:15] Anzariel: lol
[07:22:12] DMT: How... is the hero death thing handled?
[07:22:27] Anzariel: no idea, didn't finished the game
[07:23:28] DMT: How are you told about the death?
[07:23:40] Anzariel: about the food poisoning?
[07:24:06] Anzariel: or the cinematic before that?
[07:24:38] DMT: Food poisoning.
[07:25:00] Anzariel: skin turns pale, the character says *I won't make it*
[07:25:02] Anzariel: Screen fade...
[07:25:06] Anzariel: Game tells you "THREE YEARS LATER!!!"
[07:25:11] DMT: Wait... what?
[07:25:22] DMT: They have magic and all that shit, right?
[07:25:26] Anzariel: yep
[07:26:49] Anzariel: and the thing is, I found about 3 plot holes (just in the expedition scene)
[07:26:56] Anzariel: you're scared about spoilers?
[07:26:59] DMT: Not really.
[07:27:10] DMT: not for that game.
[07:27:11] Anzariel: ok, I'll just shoot the most obvious ones

Must I say "SPOILERS!!!" about right here?

[07:27:42] Anzariel: pretty much, they're in a cave, which already took them a week to get that far, a door gets stuck, they have to find a different path which takes them 5 days.
[07:27:55] Anzariel: and they had to eat mushrooms on the way because they don't have anything on them besides gold.
[07:27:57] Anzariel: ...mushrooms they find in the cave...
[07:28:01] Anzariel: with dragon poop and etc.
[07:28:14] Anzariel: so, first of all, BACKPACKS!
[07:28:27] DMT: Why not stock up on mushrooms?
[07:28:27] Anzariel: bring some ******* nuts next time you go cave scavenging!
[07:28:36] DMT: Or rations, like any sensitible adventurers?
[07:28:41] Anzariel: exactly
[07:28:56] Anzariel: SECOND! they all eat mushrooms, so why is there only one fag noob adventurer dying from them
[07:29:14] DMT: Allergy?
[07:29:27] Anzariel: NO it is clearly poisoning
[07:29:30] Anzariel: slow death
[07:29:33] Anzariel: veins runs black.
[07:29:44] DMT: He/she had the shits.
[07:29:48] DMT: No toilet paper.
[07:29:49] Anzariel: yeah
[07:29:51] Anzariel: lol
[07:29:52] DMT: Held it in.
[07:30:04] Anzariel: no
[07:30:09] Anzariel: makes no sense, shut up
[07:30:36] DMT: Hey, it's magic constipation, okay?
[07:31:50] Anzariel: THREE! if you go somewhere where you may be blocked/left alone,  BRING A ******* SURVIVAL BOOK!
[07:31:54] Anzariel: there
[07:32:07] DMT: Wait...
[07:32:12] DMT: Why are they even going into a cave?
[07:32:19] Anzariel: treasures
[07:32:21] Anzariel: expedition
[07:32:36] DMT: So... don't they have a wagon?
[07:32:41] Anzariel: nope
[07:32:42] DMT: With... provisions, etc?
[07:32:45] Anzariel: not that kind of swarves
[07:32:48] DMT: Wait...
[07:32:49] Anzariel: dwarves*
[07:33:00] DMT: Wait wait wait...
[07:33:05] Anzariel: not even in the cinematics. no wagons. And they're 13
[07:33:07] DMT: If they don't have a wagon...
[07:33:08] Anzariel: well, over 10 guys
[07:33:17] DMT: And they don't have provisions...
[07:33:20] Anzariel: NOPE
[07:33:25] DMT: How did they get to the cave to start with?
[07:33:32] DMT: And how were they going to get that treasure back?
[07:33:42] Anzariel: MAGIC OF VIDEO TRANSITION!!!!
[07:33:46] DMT: HOW DID THEY EAT ON THE WAY THERE?
[07:33:54] Anzariel: MAGIC OF VIDEO TRANSITION!!!!... and a boat. With nothing on it.
[07:34:26] DMT: Likely the food was being kept up the *** of the character that died.
[07:34:30] Anzariel: well, to be honest, there is ONE wagon, but it belongs to the ENCHANTER!!!
[07:34:46] Anzariel: and it's so small it couldn't hold enough food for me and you for even 2 days...
[07:34:57] DMT: Geez.
[07:35:01] Anzariel: yeah
[07:35:03] Anzariel: Go EA
[07:35:16] Anzariel: anyway brb (Had to check something. I AM working while having this discussion. Night shifts benefits :D)
[07:38:11] DMT: So... I'm guessing the expedition is kind of a spur of the moment affair?
[07:38:20] DMT: "Look guys, a cave!  Let's see what's inside!"
[07:38:45] Anzariel: oh no
[07:38:48] Anzariel: actually a planned event
[07:38:50] Anzariel: for months!
[07:39:01] DMT: Hahaha!
[07:40:24] Anzariel: yep
[07:41:47] Anzariel: ...how many employees are working at EA?
[07:41:52] Anzariel: and how many worked on DA2?
[07:42:30] DMT: How many of them have ever been on a hike?
[07:42:46] DMT: Or seen the outdoors?
[07:42:58] Anzariel: I WAS GONNA SAY THAT!
[07:43:25] DMT: This... is stuff that you should post on your YouTube channel.
[07:43:38] DMT: "About Dragon Age II"
[07:43:45] Anzariel: HOOYY goys, I went and took a walk in the forest and going up and down repeatedly DUG A HOLE IN MAH BELLEH!
[07:43:54] Anzariel: yeah, I probably should
[07:44:07] Anzariel: but....hhggggnnnn I don't wanna replay all of that again :S
[07:44:15] Anzariel: took me 10 hours to get that far...
[07:44:16] DMT: And just have you and others discussing Dragon Age II's plot holes and assorted stupid **** with dumb **** in the game happening behind you.
[07:44:33] Anzariel: ....hell, we're doing it right now
[07:45:21] DMT: *companion dies* "Well damn, look at that.  They got a protein source right there.  See?  They *did* bring food after all!"
[07:56:34] DMT: Hmmm.
[07:56:36] DMT: Actually...
[07:57:02] DMT: Discussing retarded stuff from games and recording the conversations would be... amusing.
[07:57:07] DMT: And play into popular culture.
[08:06:32] DMT: "What I Learned From GAME"
[08:07:31] DMT: What I learned from Dragon Age II: BioWare employees have never been hiking, nor gone into a cave.
[08:10:01] Anzariel: lol
[08:10:05] Anzariel: actually hylarious
[08:10:16] DMT: Going into a cave will KILL YOU for no reason.
[08:10:32] Anzariel: you know what, I'll copy all of this discussion into my blog
[08:10:36] DMT: YOU WILL GET CONSTIPATED AND DIED if you go to a cave.
[08:11:01] Anzariel: anyway, need to go
[08:11:06] DMT: Okay.
[08:11:09] DMT: Later.

This week's résumé

Well, first of all, I had an exam last week (french litterature, college) containing five questions about a book we had to read. 100% biatches!

The rest of the week went like this: Work, post challenge #4. Sleep, work, sleep, work, posting challenge #5 Right NAOH! And then I'll have to work tonight too. Oh well, more monyy in my pockets is always enjoyable.

Also, I finally convinced myself to box a little (we have a boxing bag at my job. Lucky me). Stretches, some exercises and then three 3:00 rounds. Yeah, it's not that much, but I'm getting back into it. Still had to vent due to a DA2 additional disappoint!

Another interesting point, I had a good little discussion with DMT about the flaws and plot holes in Dragon Age 2, and I must say that it was hylarious. I was planning to post it right away but then realised that some parts of the discussion weren't...well...friendly to kids. So I'll have to fix it up a little. It won't affect the humor in it, just use your imagination :D


So, yeah, just a little piece of my mind. Btw, since all of my other planned stuff is finally done (I did a high score on the bloody palace in DMC4. No spoilers lololololol), I seriously got back into writing. Yes, for this blog, but also for my private secret manuscrip. But there's no way I'm unveiling these secrets, sorry :D

My Dragon Age 2 Experience in Minutes!

First of all, I pre-bought Dragon Age 2 before its launch. Just to say how much I was waiting for this. I loved the first, as I loved the Mass Effect series, so I was looking forward to this.
Two days after its launch (Managing a Minecraft server is time consuming, but that's why I'm a fool), I finally have time to start playing. In the first game, I was first a good warrior, then an evil mage, so I thought I'd try being a rogue this time. On nightmare. Without any idea of how to manage my ability points and etc. Of course, it was catastrophic, and some hours later (of supplice, suffering and hatred) and a little mug of coffee, I decide to stick to the warrior, on normal difficulty for my first run.

Must I say SPOILERS?!?!?!

So, first off, intro, no matter what you say, or what class you pick (you cannot change your race. Charming), the intro will stay the same. You flee from the darkspawn, you meet some other survivors (Eveline and her husband) but she's useless at this point of the game, you fight some moar, and then I realised something. Warrior with a two-handed owns. A lot. Maybe it's because of the normal difficulty, but a single tap of my *1* key and 10 of these guys are transformed into red jelly. And I still have 3 attack skills just waiting to be used!

Anyway, we push through, boss time, super easy this time... I actually checked to make sure I was on normal. Then the story goes on, you travel to a big city, you cannot enter unless you work for either a band of mercenary or a guild of thieves. I need no pocket grinder, thank you! And then, the game tells you *one year later*.

.......wut? Who told the game I wouldn't love to raid keeps and pillage innocents?

Nope, Instead, you're treated with EIGHT FREAKIN' HOURS of secondary quests! Of course, the game have the balls to tell you (in a loading screen.......re-charming) that if you don't complete all the quests, they will disappear. Like I will sacrifice that much time to help every single losers in that city (even if I did, just to see if something special would happen. Nope, no medals).

Now, to be honest, some of these...uhg...filler quests are actually fun. Most of the choices you make, may it be good or bad, will stick with you. Still, to do that just to get 50 gold to then fund an expedition? It feels forced. Not only that, most of these quests are dull. Except if you're evil. Unfortunately, I decided to be gentle and etc. Oh well.

After all of that money grinding, you finally leave for the expedition, having to choose two characters who will follow you (you cannot change them for a while). This feels....completely retarded, but meh, fine, I'll do it. I'm not telling you who I picked. Then, there's a cinematic announcing the end of this grindy chapter, followed with a discussion between one of my allies and his interrogator. They talk about what happened in these mines and plainly tell the player that X character died.

...WOW. A little homage to the Nostalgia Critic (I'm a fan)...It feels like being forced to watch IT. It's hours long, and the finale is totally lame.

Then, after your little adventure where the character in which you probably invested a lot of time dies, you're back to the city THREE YEARS LATER! What's worse, nobody seems to remember that character existed, except the main character and your mom, and you can't engage a conversasion with someone when they're done meddling with you. Instead, you're summoned by some other important dude who ask you to, guess what, clean the city some moar in his stead.

Didn't played the game since...


So, the verdict. It's not THAT bad of a game and I'm having some fun here and there, but the first one was way more interesting. You cannot choose a race, your character talks, which sometimes leads to you choosing an option and your character telling something entirely different (it's rare, but it happens) and is probably why you cannot pick a race, there is NO FINISHING MOVE WHATSOEVER! (Adios superb dragon and ogre kills, instead they just fall down) and even if your decisions affects what happens, it's still a big on rails game with different endings (and not paths). So far anyway. I'll be able to tell you that when I'll finish the game.

That was my personal Dragon Age 2 experience,
Anzariel, signing out.