Lava death and medieval dress

Priorities:

I have been spending a lot of my free time on the internet. Not playing games, just watching youtube videos, editing and reading the Unlimted Craft forums, and other surfing.

Otherwise I am playing minecraft.

Yesterday I played some battlefield. It was fun, I think I might play more.

Virtually virtual:

I am excited for the Minecraft xbox game to come out! It will be fun to get all the achievements and play split screen with the wife.

I am kind of loosing interest in minecraft again. As I have said before, it comes in waves.

It's ironic I loose interest now because I was just promoted on the UC server. I have more responsibility and should be there more. But I am tired of building mundane things. I want an epic project again. Even then, I just want to do the epic project.

Maybe I should take a week vacation or something from UC.

The Head-Staff, eydya, and I are good friends (through minecraft) I am sure he would ok it.

Maybe I will get back into battlefield. Or if I ever get skyrim I will just play that.

Thoughtful gab:

So I got my wife to play Minecraft with me a few weekends back and she was totally hooked. We played all evning then on Saturday we played all day together! We have made some roads and stuff in the jungle, around our base. We have a farm and a sheep farm with different wool colors. Its fun.

She had never found a diamond on her own and was sad. She was recently killed by a creeper. So I used an xray texture pack to find some diamonds and let her mine them. I saw that there was lava behind them and warned her. When she got the diamond she freaked out and said the computer wouldn't let her move. The lava poured over her and she was dying. In a panicked act I placed dirt around her to stop the lava and somehow eneded up suffocating her with it.

So I technically killed her, but we say the lava did.

She lost all her stuff to the lava, including her first diamonds. She shut the game off and said she would never play again.

-sigh- it happens. We have all been there before. I am sure I can get her to play again though. I made chest with a present for her for when she gets back in game. :)

We also went to the Renaissance Festival here in Arizona this past weekend! Totally fun, like always. We dressed steampunk.. or attempted to.

Saw some sweet medieval costumes though. And the turkey legs were a hearty meal. HUZZAH!

Star Wars beta: storm before the calm

Me:

In 24 hours time from this time I will be playing the Old Republic beta. Between then and now I will be working black Friday at Target.

It is a weird mix of dread and excitement. Honestly I have tunnel vision and the fact I will soon be playing Old Republic will keep me smiling the whole time.

I promise either during, or as soon as the beta ends, I will post some sort of review on it.

I plan on being a class I do not plan on playing for a while when the game is released. The smuggler. I will review this class and the game itself.

In other news my xbox decided it does not want to play CD's anymore. So no more Battlefield until I get a new one. Christmas? Tax return?

More info on SWTOR:

The game will be released on December 20th but will be playable via internet download for people who pre-ordered on the 15th.

I highly recommend http://db.darthhater.com/ for detailed information on planets, classes, skills, and more.

Home front:

My wife and I are doing well. She thinks it is a waste of money that I have donated money to the Legendary Craft server that I play on on Minecraft. The donation not only give me more abilities in the server, but shows the admins I care for the server, increasing my chances at mod, and keeps the server running smoothly.

She is afraid that when Old Republic comes out I wont pay any more attention to her. I already addressed this in a previous post. I myself realize the game will be addicting and hard to leave at any time. But I know over everything my wife comes first. No matter how hard it is I will make time to be with her during my "new game craze" phase.

Legendary-Craft

Priorities:

11:30-3:30 (4)

minecraft

4:30-5:00 (.5)

dead island

5:30-6:00 (.5)

minecraft

10:00-12:00 (2)

minecraft

7 hours of games.

The most I've played in a week or so.

Virtually virtual:

Been playing on the Minecraft legendarycraft server. I was going to take some pictures of the house I made but kept forgetting. Most servers are chaos but LC server is fun. They have a functioning economy, the admins are friendly, and its real survival; they don't just give awaway stuff you have to find it.

Thoughtful gab:

My wife and I decided that we were going to have a media free night. Meaning no electronics or books, just productive work and us time. That lasted about half an hour then she started reading and I got on Minecraft.

A little of everything

Priorities:

3:30-5:30 (2)

minecraft

Virtually virtual:

I am already kind of tired of Dead Island. I like it, but it is certainly overrated. It is to repetitive, You are always on the run or fighting zombies, there is less of a survival feel and more of a tunnel shooter feel, gets old quick.

Minecraft on the other hand does not get old quick but even so... It's finally getting old. I just don't find building on my own very fun anymore. Iv'e built so many things and explored so far, I've seen the sights, I've made some sights, and if one more creeper ruins my creations I might explode myself. And multiplayer is lame because its chaotic and people build a bunch of random crap. Or they have made the world to civilized and "surviving" is no fun. The only time I find Minecraft fun now is when I am playing on my survival server with my friend Austin. I played a little bit today and had some fun being nomadic.

Iv'e made myself to expectant of BF3 and Old Republic and now they are the only games I want to play. I'm just killing time till then really. Minecraft 1.9 will hopefully come out soon so I can play that until BF3.

Thoughtful gab:

Today was nice because it had a little of everything. I watched TV with my wife and we... bonded, Then we went out on a picnic with my friend Jake and even got some dessert from the Mexican ice cream man. Then we came home and I played some games. Just had a little of everything.

Dead Island

Priorities:

I fell asleep and watched TV and then came up with a plan to get a new game. I played the new game for a few hours, was busy, out, with the wife, then went to bed.

Virtually virtual:

small Dead Island review coming next post.

Thoughtful gab:

I love zombie games. Surprisingly enough I am just now hearing about this game called Dead Island which is supposed to be a really fun zombie RPG. Sounds awesome.

I have two problems though. I am already buying a monitor, BF3 and Old Republic collectors edition the end of this year, and don't really want to drop another 60 of our hard earned dollars for another game quite yet. Not sure if the wife would appreciate it and even if she didn't mind, I would somehow feel kind of bad considering she makes more money for us than I do.

The second problem is the same as the first but for a different reason. I am getting those other games so I will be playing a lot of them. I don't want Dead Island to gather dust while I'm playing those other games, and even more so, I don't want Dead Island to take priority over them. I want to get as much BF3 in before I get Old Republic so I can have played my $60 worth and so I can have a better rank to be sitting on, so if someone asks, I'm not some wimpy enlisted rank.

I really want the game though so I don't know what I will do.

-later-

With the help of my friend Jake, we both ended up getting it. He is playing the sword girl and I am playing the throwing knife guy.

The wife had some reservations about me getting another game but we talked it out. I still can't help feeling kind of bad that she works more than I do and I'm spending more than she is on extra things.

I guess that just goes back to one of my earlier blog posts though.

Old Republic and Nyan cat

I find it funny that it just so happens that the day I play no Minecraft, it's an amazing day.

The wife and I decided that we needed a day together where she didn't read her books and I didn't play Minecraft. An us day. We had fun

which I don't want to brag so watching TNG and some Buffy the vampire slayer that she wanted me to see. We played some Soul Calibur 4

I won't :)

We did other married couple things ;) and cleaned the house and stuff.

Then had a awesome date night pick nick in a field.

I am currently listening to Nyan Cat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyan_Cat

I have actually been listening to this video for 1

hour, 37 min. I don't know why....

My wife made me turn down Nyan cat at 1 hour, 12 min :(

I didn't make this but kudos to the Minecraft-teer who did.

If that wasn't enough to make it a good day... Star Wars: The Old Republic came out with a release date!!!

Countdown will be on the side panel until release. ------->

Which brings me to my next topic. The pre-ordering.

SWTOR Pre-ordering and you:

If you plan on getting the game and have not pre-ordered yet, do it. Do it now. If you don't have money right now, do it through amazon.

Pre-ordering the game gets you

-a guaranteed spot in the servers which will be like a can of sardines

-early access which means you will be able to play a day to a week earlier than the actual release date. But depending on how fast you get the pre-order determines on when you will be invited to early release. So hurry and get it so you can play sooner!

-a color customizer for your weapon

There is also the epic bundle you can get and electronic version which both offer an more perks.

you can read that info here

http://www.swtor.com/preorder

Which store should you buy it from you ask? Best buy and gamestop are usually reliable. They are walk in's meaning you walk in to order it, and walk in to pick it up. This is good in the fact that it means as long as you are there and it is open on release day, you walk home with your copy. Now Iv'e never used Amazon to pre-order something before, but by culminating my knowledge of online shopping, my wife's Amazon pre-order experience, and things I've read online, I don't know when you get the game. Will they ship before the release date so you actually get it in the mail? Or will all the Amazon buyers be playing late because they had to wait for the shipping? Price is nice because Amazon does not charge you for a pre-order until it ships. So save the money now and make sure it will be in the account come December!

I chose Amazon because I was low on money at the time. The jury is still out on the shipping. Will I get it in the mail a few days early or late? Has the potential to be awesome or stupid.

As far as I understand it though, they give you a link to the game client so you can download it off of the net and play for early access so this is no problem. So it really comes down to:

Wait in long lines at a store (chance they run out?)

or

pay extra for asap shipping (chance it comes late?)

P.S. I made it to two hours of Nyan cat! Now I'll go to bed... if I can get the song out of my head...

Life transition

Priorities:

11:00-11:30 (.5)

minecraft

1:30-5:00 (3.5)

minecraft

8:00-12:00 (4)

minecraft

8 hours of Minecraft

Virtually virtual:

I didn't really feel in the mood for minecraft during the day. I really just wanted to make a minecart system but my friend whom I'm doing it with is was busy. Nothing else sounded appealing. So I went on some servers and tried playing but they were lame. I ended up just going back to my server, mining, and expanding my farmland.

Later, my friend got on and we made a really long mine cart rail from our main base, over an ocean, forest, and dessert, to an abandoned village. The rail ate nearly all of my supplies but it was worth it. The project we are now working on is restoring the village an claiming it our own!

Thoughtful gab:

Intense gamers like to play videos games all day with little to no socialization. A married gamer can't do that. Lately my wife is asleep by the time I get to bed. Neither of us like that.

Just tonight she said, "I'm a freaking Minecraft widow."

It was a joke but I know in all actuality I spend a little to much time playing games and not enough with my wife. It's the battle between the gamer self and the married self.

She likes games and doesn't mind me playing them to much. But there needs to be a balance. The sooner I find it, the better

Today's married gamer...

Router needed. Loosing game time

Priorities:

5:30pm-7:00 (1.5)

minecraft

8:30-11:00 (2.5)

minecraft

4 hours of Minecraft

Virtually virtual:

I finished the tower. It's awesome and all. But I don't have any use for it really, got dull quick. But its still just cool that I took all that time to make it. Im just glad I don't have to burn any more sand...

Yes that tiny thing down there is my boat

The most exciting moment!

The final product

There is another 1/3 of the tower under the seabed

Thoughtful gab:

I need to get a router so we can have more than one device using internet so she can stop using my computer! I would already be started on my next Minecraft project if she hadn't taken her time watching Youtube videos of cats. I had nothing else to do besides clean the house! D:

In all actuality I like cleaning the house. Mostly because its messy and I don't like living in the mess. But I have a hard time doing it on my own when I could just play games. So if anyone, or more specifically my wife, helps me, it changes my mindset to work mode and I do it. Sure I like to play games a lot but I still take responsibility when needed.

My wife and I watched more Star Trek TNG together today. She has not seen the series where I have. And she has been showing me Dr. Who where our situations are reversed. I enjoy our time spent together watching nerdy things. She plays StarCraft 2 and shes actually not bad at it but she doesn't have an account so we cant really play together. Now only if I could get her to play Minecraft...

Inter-spacial exponential observatorium

Priorities:

12:30-2:30 (2)

minecraft

6:00-8:00 (2)

minecraft

9:00-12:00 (3)

minecraft

7 hours of Minecraft

Virtually Virtual:

I am taking a break from mapping to work on my next Minecraft project, a tower that scrapes the sky at its tip and rests in the ocean on its middle but penetrates the seabed and goes all the way down to the bedrock. I have named this mighty tower the "Inter-spacial exponential observatorium."

Note that I am not in creative mode, and the only mod I am using is the server to change the time of day. All this was mined and built the old fashion way.

The hardest part was at the

beginning. If you place a block over water, and there is no water to rush

back in, when you remove said block the water will be gone. I essentially did that but on a much larger scale. Built a solid 11x11 slab all the way down. Yes I ended up swimming up for air alot. Then I carved out the inside leaving a dry empty rectangle.

I have dug past the sea floor and hope I am close to the bottom. After I hit the bedrock im building up!

Thoughtful gab:

I was shopping at walmart with my wife today when I took this picture, on the left. I couldn't resist...

Bigger version

Minecraft build credit goes to Adam Gunsch. Thanks Adam!

Map Quest

Priorities:

11:00am-2:00pm (3)

minecraft

4:00-6:00 (2)

minecraft

11:30-2:30 (3)

minecraft

8 hours of Minecraft

Virtually Virtual:

I basically spent the whole day mapping. Meaning I walked the entire LOS in two map sectors. Meaning I walked a lot. Why would I take the time, to do somthing that does not nessisarily effect game play, and that I have to go outside of the game to edit? Because it makes me feel like I am really charting unexplored lands. When else are you going to do it? It's unrealistic to explored the unexplored in real life. But here its relatively easy, safe, and there is plenty (infinite really) land for me to explore! Who knows what crazy landscapes I will happen upon. The picture is the product of today's work.

This is a bigger version.

Click here

Thoughtful gab:

The line between real life and video games may be thinner than you think. In video games I usually don't like consumable items. Mostly when it comes to stockpiling them. In the video game Diablo 2, I hate potions because I am constantly worried I will run out of them and die. So I always have a belt full of them and 2-4 in my inventory. As soon as I use one I have to get another one immediately. If I don't then I may use more and have to use the ones in my inventory. And if that happens then I may run out and die! The only thing that brings me peace is to either overstock, or always have a set number. The silly part is that I sometimes get even more potions that I am ok with the number fluctuating just to fill into my inventory stock if I have to use any, so my belt and those 4 in my inventory are always fully stocked.

In Minecraft I always have a certain amount of stone on me just in case I have to build a bridge or something, and I always have as much food as I can get my hands on in a chest back at the base. And even if I have more than enough, I will gather food along my travels, just to be sure.

Now in real life something similar happened. To save electricity my wife wants me to turn the Air Conditioning down (warmer) during our electricity peak time, when it costs more. I hate this. I hate the fact the air conditioning can't take care of itself anymore and I now have to worry about changing it on a daily basis. So far I haven't planned on changing it. Im content with it staying the same so I don't have to worry about it, much like the potions in my inventory.

"This level is the devil"

About once a week I go to work with my wife and work there for the day. Today is that day.

Priorities:

8:30

Work

5:30-7:30 (2)

Minecraft

2 hours of Minecraft

Virtually virtual:

I started mapping my Minecraft world today. I never re

ally liked the map but I came up with a neat idea. I'm going to take multiple maps and combined them in paint and make notes on them. Idk it just sounded like a fun project.

Thoughtful gab:

My wife is a very vocal gamer. While I was in the bedroom playing Minecraft, I couldn't help but hear her almost constantly yelling at the Burnout 3 game she was playing in the other room.

"Where is that first place bastard?!"

"I am my own worst enemy!"

"That's the finish line you rat bastard!"

"I'm restarting, I'M RESTARTING... ahh don't start yet!"

"I will not remain in 6th place, It is you who will be eliminated!"

"This is such a freaking violent game."

"You are mine for the taking! There see, I took you!"

"This level is the devil"

And that was just a few...

Fear for the future

Priorities:

10:30-11:30am (1)

Minecraft

4:00-7:00 (3)

Minecraft

8:40-11:40 (3)

Minecraft

7 hours of Minecraft

Virtually virtual:

Today was the day two of my friends and I launched our new 1.8 server. I didn't work on an epic projects today besides making a large hollow room deep underground. I was mainly exploring the caverns, gathering minerals, and tending to my garden :)

Thoughtful gab:

My wife was a little upset today when she got home. Usually I greet here happily at the door but today the 1.8 update held me to my seat. I still greeted her but the game sucked me in to much and sometimes and it can be frustrating for her. If she thought that was bad though.. I fear to see what will happen when Old Republic comes out!