Archive for August 17th, 2007

Contest Time

Posted August 17, 2007
Filed under: Mythos |
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By some freak accident, I ended up receiving two beta keys for Mythos. I figure I should share the wealth, and give the second out to one of my awesome readers. Here’s the deal. All you have to do is tell me what the best song ever created is. I can assure you of this; I will be completely objective in my judging of the songs. Just leave a comment with your choice and I’ll choose the winner on Wednesday. I will probably have the means of downloading it if I deem it necessary (school uses a program with lots of songs, not illegal.) So there you have it — Good luck.

~Kanthalos

If this isn’t funny, I don’t know what is…

Posted August 17, 2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous |
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Time to get a little side-tracked. 

My fiancee pointed this out to me over at McSweeney’s and I just had to share it with everyone.  For those of you who’ve never been to McSweeney’s its basically a compilation of lists that people make for random things.  As creative writing majors, we couldn’t help but bust a gut for this one.  Here it is.

 Comments I’ve Recieved on my Short Story from My Creative-Writing Classmates.

BY ROBERT HINDERLITER

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  • A hackneyed, masturbatory miscarriage of a story.
  • You have managed to coldly and persistently rape the English language for 17 pages. Congratulations.
  • The fact that this story exists is the ultimate argument against Creationism.
  • Your embarrassingly ineffectual and flaccid prose made me feel uncomfortable.
  • This smugly written tripe is an affront to the craft of writing and fails to meet even the most generous definition of adequacy.
  • Truly abysmal. Maybe singularly so.
  • You had some nice details.

For any of you who’ve been in a writing workshop, you’ll see the beauty that is this list :) 

~Kanthalos

The SOE Patcher Is Complete Garbage…

Posted August 17, 2007
Filed under: EverQuest 2, SOE |
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I don’t even feel like explaining all the details for why the above statement is true but here is a brief rundown.

  1. On my connection at my family’s house, the patcher would literally stop after every third file (of decent size)  It would get stuck and I would have to stop it and restart it (thankfully not from the beginning,) which means that on really big patches (as well as when I digitally downloaded EoF) I had to spend the entire time in front of my computer, or it wouldn’t do anything.
  2. When we used two accounts on the same computer, it would patch everything twice.  My brother actually took a screenshot (that’s not on this computer) of one patcher running that was playable, while the other had a 45 minute patch to get through.
  3. Several times I’ve been able to get into the game after patching previously in the day, before logging off and having to patch yet again later that day! Yes there was a hotfix last night, and yes I spent 45 minutes patching it, so why the heck do do I have two more f’ing hours of patching NOW?

Don’t get me wrong, I still love EQ2 and I don’t want to burn SOE to the ground, but seriously, get some competent coders or whatever it is you need to figure out how to get a decent freakin’ patcher running.

~Kanthalos