Of DST, butterflies, and WoW

[celticdragonfly]

I see lots of "I hate daylight savings" on my flist. Sorry to say it, but I LOVE it. Light in the evenings again! Makes me feel like I have my life back. Worth losing an hour.

We went off to a party last night and had a good time. Managed to get me and the girls off to church this morning despite getting to bed late and losing the hour. Maggie went off this afternoon with her godparents to a butterfly exhibit at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, and had a lovely time.

And oh yes... we have been assimilated by the collective, we have been hooked, we are doomed, so doomed. selenite and I are now playing World of Warcraft with fordprfct, and having a pretty good time. Yes, we're slow - it's a heck of a learning curve. He's been doing MMORPGs for 10 years, and I never have before - I've never even played a first-person shooter. So I have to keep asking for more information, and occasionally finding out that a word I thought was English is in fact jargon - I need a lot of jargon explanations. But I'm doing my best, and having fun.

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel better, every game has its own set of concepts that every new player has to go through. I've been playing computer games for over 2 decades and MMOs for several years, and when I started WoW there were still a lot of things that I had to learn.

You might have to learn more than someone with a basic gaming background, but its not as much more as you might think.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

DST is fine.... when there's enough light to bother having DST. When you live up this far you don't *get* enough light to go spreading around until AFTER Equinox... and the only reason it works going the other direction is that it's generally not nearly as cloudy between September and mid-October. But past Halloween it doesn't make any sense either.

I also look at it as more being jerked around by that jerk in the other Washington.

Gimme another couple of weeks, yeah, I'll be ready for DST. Not NOW. *sigh*

[mukhtar.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the addiction... I mean club. What server and faction are you playing on?

Don't worry about the jargon and the lack of experience, that will come with time. I've been playing WoW since 05 and still have stuff to learn about endgame content. That's one of the things that keeps me playing. Even after 3 years, there's still new things in the game to discover and explore.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Earthen Ring and Alliance.

Endgame content? Eek. I'm still trying to learn moving around in the game.

[taerin.livejournal.com]

When you start feeling the urge to look things up, here's my favorite reference site: http://www.wowhead.com/

It has all the quests, all the gear, all the information you could want. :-)

WoW Addiction

[tyledra.livejournal.com]

You will be missed! (of course I am only speaking that from my own experiences, there.)

Of course.. you have children there to help keep you grounded ;)

Enjoy guys!

Re: WoW Addiction

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Hm, from your own experiences? You play? What server and faction?