Category: Otaku

Perentie Controls

  • January 27, 2008

Seconds (joke!) after returning to America I renewed my World Of Warcraft account. There’s still a lot to do in the game for me, and I still enjoy playing. Doubly so since I’m in a FF (Friends & Family) guild now, and helping others level their characters.

JBF is almost 70 on his Paladin. We’re at the point where we can 2-man the level 60 dungeons with ease:

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I also stuck my head into The Temple Of Ahn’Quiraj the other day so I could die to the first boss 🙂

WoWScrnShot_012208_165130.jpg < Skeram Anyway, since this game is so fiendishly addictive, for the first time I enabled 'Parental Controls'. I have now prevented myself from being able to play the game except for Friday afternoons and weekends. Removing such restrictions requires a password that is entrusted to KLS. Apparently my trust of my own ability to resist the urge for the occasional Tuesday afternoon WoW binge is not high enough... In short, I have taken the first step toward treating an addiction: recognizing that the addiction exists. And if you're wondering, this is a Perentie: Dsc00205.jpg

UFO Failing

  • January 5, 2008

There’s an arcade in Sydney, not far from Central Station, with a large amount of Print Club and UFO Catcher machines. It rivals some of those seen in Japan. I spent a few dollars trying to win some cute goods for KLS, and here’s a video of one such attempt.

If the link didn’t work, here’s a photo of the item I was trying to win.

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My approach may have seemed strange. I was going for the ’tilt approach’ – rather than pick up the item and carry it over the bin, I was trying to get under one side and angle it right over the edge. I was *very* close (It was at about 90 degrees when it fell back).