I told you!

I can't keep a journal or a blog to save my life.  I don't know how people can post every day, besides.  I'm fairly boring. XDD

In other news, Guild Wars 2 beta weekend's been producing a lot of new information and videos! I AM EXCITE! 8V  I can't wait to start playing it on my own, though I suspect I won't be playing right away because I'll have a little munchkin to take care of.  That doesn't mean the hubby can't play, though, so I'll just annoy the heck out of him and back-seat drive.  LoL!

So it's the New Year!

2012... the FUTURE!  No flying cars, but not sure I want flying cars more than I'd like to see a few awesome robots doing awesome things.  I've always liked robots, it's something I thought of when I thought of "the future".  All this doomsday hooplah can go get stuffed, give me high tech lights, sounds, and robots.

I don't get why people want the world to end, right when things are getting interesting.  And by interesting, I mean in a whole mess of ways both good and bad.  Climate change, biological changes, and my life's about to turn a corner.  Being a mom is going to be a real trip, I can tell that already.  Having someone call me "Mommy" and eventually "Mom" is going to be a real strange feeling.  The cats just call me "meow", but it's a step in the right direction.

What are my hopes for this year?  To survive the year!  I can't think too far ahead because I'll get overwhelmed, but there are some awesome games to look forward to.  I think even with a baby, I'll find time to enjoy good games.  Guild Wars 2, for a start!  I'm sooooo excited for Guild Wars 2, even if I don't get to play it right away my hubby can play it for me and YouTube will probably be flooded with some awesome game play.  I'm kind of also looking forward to the glitches... 8B  I can't help it.  Ever since the alpha and beta days of Ragnarok Online, I've found that being the first to discover interesting glitches and bug reporting to be fun.  You can't tell me there won't be game breakers.  When the original Guild Wars was first implemented, there were grammatical errors, nationalization errors, and plain old bugs.

If you've never heard or played the cinematics for Guild Wars using the other language packs, you really should.  Some of it is hilarious when you're used to the character sounding one way and she ends up sounding another when her language is swapped.  Hearing "Koss" from the Nightfall expansion speak in Spanish was a riot.

I'm not sure why, but I really like Chinese New Year.  It's got its own set of traditions, colors, sounds and Guild Wars also implements it into their Factions expansion by calling it "Canthan New Year".  This year, the lunar animal will be the dragon, so I'm probably guessing it'll have the salt spray dragon skin done in stars much like the Celestial Dragon summon from the summoning stone.

Ooooh, a reskin of the Skyrim dragons done in stars would kick ass!

Emoti-whozits

Some of you see me type with the following symbols at the end of a sentence.

<3 <333 8V D: D8 8D 8B LoL

They are the secret code of the Illuminati! 8V  No, not really, they're emoticons and emotes that I've picked up from all over the damn place.  The faces are called smilies/emoticons.  They're little faces to depict a mood since it's so hard to tell when people are serious or silly on the intarwebz.

"LoL", "lol", "LAWL" = laugh out loud, "lawl" meaning saying the abbreviation as if it were a word
LMAO, LMFAO, ROTFLMAO/ROFL/ROFLMAO = laughing my ass off, laughing my fucking ass off, rolling on the floor laughing my ass off, some people make it "clean" or cutsie with LMBO: laughing my butt off

<3 and <333 = Love and MUCH LOVE
8V and 8U = Chicken/Duck face; I use it to show that I'm being facetious or sarcastic.
D: and D8 = Unhappy and shocked or upset. "8" usually denotes eyes bugging out.
:D and 8D = Happy and really happy.
8B = wide eyed and bucktoothed, being silly/stupid.

And the Japanese emotes are totaled by the hundreds.  I won't go into detail about all of them, but here are some basic ones.

ono = two "o" eyes and an "n" for an unhappy mouth, sad with pouting mouth.
ovo = happy "v" mouth
ouo = happy "u" mouth
-_-; = the "-" denotes closed eyes, and the lower "_" denotes a serious line mouth. ";" is a drop of sweat, meaning defeat.
@_@, @n@, @o@ = dizzy "@" eyes and various mouth expressions.
¬_¬ = a sidelong stare, used for things like a conspiratory glance, an angry glare, sarcasm.

One of my favorites is the flipping the tea table emote.  It just means being really angry or frustrated to the point where you overturn everything on the table, disturbing things that were at peace.  General chaos.  It comes in all sorts of flavors.

HURRRRGH!!

(ﾉಥ益ಥ）ﾉ ┻━┻

OMG, YAY!!

I DID get one of my Christmas wishes, after all!  Skyrim got some Christmas mods!  Once I figure out how to install them, I'll do it. 8V  I want my orc female in a Santa suit.

Christmas in Games

Christmas this year has been slow, cliche, and disappointing in my games this year.  Probably because in Guild Wars, they've recycled the same quests for the past five or six years.  In RO, they're only promoting packages for real money so far and not an Antonio or present snatching Goblin in sight as of yet.  Maybe for today's maintenance...

Skyrim is ALWAYS snowy, so... what I'd really like is someone to make some Santa Suit mods so I can smash bandits in style.  It's already red, so, not that much cleaning involved.  Though, I suspect a Father Christmas set would probably count as Light Armor.  Come to think of it, seeing someone with one of the named masks on and a green or red Father Christmas suit on would either be really funny or really badass.  A holly wreath hat instead of a circlet would RAWK!  I wish I knew how to model and build mods, but alas... I do not.  SO SOMEONE MAKE IT FOR ME! <3333

There ARE, at least, new costumes in Guild Wars.  This year it's costumes for Kormir, the goddess of Secrets and Lyssa, the Mesmer goddess of messing with your head.  Lyssa's costume looks very much like Janus with faces looking towards the past, present, and future with the purple color that's prominent in Mesmer skill sets and armor.  Kormir's costume marries the armor of both the Dervish (scythe wielders) and the Sunspear (spear wielders) in chains and snowy white.

MLP Chibis!

I've made some chibi ponies for adoption at the MLP Arena.  They're free for all members!  So if you're an MLP fan or just like fantasy colored ponies, in general, come on over and be sure to introduce yourself before posting anything else. <3

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I made a few Dotee Dolls

I made some Dotee Dolls to sell on Etsy.  But now I'm losing my nerve to even post them up for sale.  Most of the items listed are so super professional that my self confidence goes right down the toilet.  From cast resin dolls to super pretty embroidered owls... I can't compete with that.  I'm too poor to buy materials, for a start. ;o;  I've always wanted to learn to crochet properly or cast resin from my own sculpts, but all that takes time and money.

Oh, well, all I can do is try. XDD