Bastard's Notebook

So, I found a cool thing this morning, or at least, I'd thought I had.

Meet the PMOG, or Passively Multiplayer Online Game. It's a nice little browser-driven (firefox only, and that's with an installed extension) game with a steampunky flair. The basic concept is racking up XP/levels by browsing unique pages, leaving tools, traps, etc around for others with the extension to find. There's even the ability to create quests for other players.

At this point, I'm interested- a game our home system's guaranteed to run with no huge issues, and I can play it while simply browsing around and doing some of my nightly routine! Sounds like fun.

Fun, that is, until I made the mistake of checking the forums on PMOG's site out, just to see what players are saying about stuff. The Strategy section? Full of nothing but fucking point farmers- with working methods for generating themselves tons of points per day by bending the ToS (and a few scripts) as much as possible. And, since the system's point-driven, it means they can pretty much dominate most aspects of the game. For someone (like myself) who wants to just play it and actually play within the normal bounds of the game, that's pretty fucking daunting. And, it's nearly unsold me on downloading it tonight.

Does no-one actually play online games just to [play the fucking game itself any longer? Or am I just insane for immediately disliking going out of the way to find new and interesting ways to cheat the game itself?

I'll take another serving of single player, please, just so I don't have to sit next to those bastards.

Sigh.

Hates it when projects end.

I've now gone and managed to get copies of all the 70171 tracks downloaded from Mperia. At least I still have those. And I will find later hosting for them in the future. Just not right now on top of everything else.

Sigh. '07 was supposed to be a better year for me. At least I'd hoped that'd be the case.

Ow.

Seems I'm posting a lot about pains lately, of varying types and natures. Today though, it's just all physical.

The Cause? We have some new furniture- managed to find a kickass bookshelf to replace one of our smaller ones and a utility cabinet-thingie for 12 bucks at a nearby garage sale. This was, of course, in addition to a bookshelf we'd already promised a friend we'd take off her hands. So 2 new bookshelves and the cabinet thingie. All of which had to be fit into the living room. Well, after several hours of sweat, dust, more dust, cleaning, hauling, lifiting objects that weigh far more than they should, etc. It's done. For the first time in a long long time, WE HAVE SHELF SPACE!!!!!!!

And I have a hurting shoulder. again. Right side, everything from the neck down into the elbow. OOOOOWWWWWWWWW......