Yes, I know I haven't posted in a while but I ran out of things.
This is the Imgur post I made to demonstrate the problem I was having with TES IV: Oblivion
I completely uninstalled the game, and had it removed from my Steam account. This was a couple of months ago. The Steam holiday sale starts, and the game is on for USD$10, so I purchase it to give it another go, with the hopes that a new game equals no problem. HAHAHA NOPE. I get the exact same fucking copy back, problem included at no extra fucking cost. Worst part is, Dad has it on his Steam account and it works PERFECTLY FUCKING FINE.
All I wanted was to play a game I very much enjoy. I even went on Reddit and asked for a solution, and the only response I got was some whiny little shit complaining about over-encumbrance. (In game, if you pick up too much stuff you can't move. Easily solved by either dumping a load of shit or, even better, opening the 'console' and god-moding until you reach a trader)
Life Pro Tip: If someone asks a question, answer that question, and not an unrelated one about the same subject.
I can't even get a refund, because Steam's refund limit is two hours gameplay, and I had 64 hours on the game. It even fucking remembered that. They won't do anything about fixing the problem, since it's apparently with the game and not to do with them, but if that was the case, it would be broken on Dad's account too, surely?
I've tried everything I can fucking think of now - uninstalling all my mods didn't fix it, un- and reinstalling didn't work, and now re-purchasing has failed.
And even worse - none of y'all will even read this.
Sunday 25 December 2016
Thursday 14 July 2016
July 2016
Recommended Thing of the Month: Claymore, by Norihiro Yagi
Life is not easy. The people live in constant terror of beings known as yoma, shape-shifting monsters that disguise themselves as townspeople and eat human organs. The only ones strong enough to defeat these creatures are the Claymores - the Silver-Eyed Witches; half-human, half-yoma female warriors who wield the massive swords after which they are commonly known.
Claymore was the first manga I ever read whole way through, and after recently re-reading it I remembered how much I enjoyed it - and was also struck by some similarities to Attack on Titan: humanity living in fear of monsters that eat people, only a select group of people able/willing to fight them, not everything as simple as it seems at first glance at the story. Even the part where they use the monster's own abilities against them!
I was rather disappointed in the anime, however. It aired before the manga was finished, so of course it would end up different, but they changed the whole ending and left it at an unsatisfying cliffhanger. A revamp is, I think, in order; now that the manga is finished.
Re-reading the manga has also made me think more about my Claymore OC, Kiara. I had originally envisioned her as no. 25, but I can't see where I could fit her story in with the main story, so I've decided to change that. To explain would be to spoil the main story, however, so I shall say no more here! I might on my Tumblr, though. I'll link it below.
Relevant post is here
Main Tumblr is here
Life is not easy. The people live in constant terror of beings known as yoma, shape-shifting monsters that disguise themselves as townspeople and eat human organs. The only ones strong enough to defeat these creatures are the Claymores - the Silver-Eyed Witches; half-human, half-yoma female warriors who wield the massive swords after which they are commonly known.
Claymore was the first manga I ever read whole way through, and after recently re-reading it I remembered how much I enjoyed it - and was also struck by some similarities to Attack on Titan: humanity living in fear of monsters that eat people, only a select group of people able/willing to fight them, not everything as simple as it seems at first glance at the story. Even the part where they use the monster's own abilities against them!
I was rather disappointed in the anime, however. It aired before the manga was finished, so of course it would end up different, but they changed the whole ending and left it at an unsatisfying cliffhanger. A revamp is, I think, in order; now that the manga is finished.
Re-reading the manga has also made me think more about my Claymore OC, Kiara. I had originally envisioned her as no. 25, but I can't see where I could fit her story in with the main story, so I've decided to change that. To explain would be to spoil the main story, however, so I shall say no more here! I might on my Tumblr, though. I'll link it below.
Relevant post is here
Main Tumblr is here
Saturday 4 June 2016
June 2016
Recommended Thing of the Month: Supernatural
When their father goes missing, Dean Winchester seeks the aid of his younger brother Sam to find him. Following leads across the country, the siblings fight monsters and demons and save the day. But finding their father is the least of their problems...
I've always been interested in the supernatural genre, so I suppose it was kinda fitting that I gave this show a look. I haven't quite caught up on it yet - season 12 has just been commissioned, and I'm just starting season seven - but it is certainly something interesting to watch while I work on my Pearl cosplay. It is starting to sound a little like their 'beating a dead horse', or dragging it out a bit too long just to make money out of it, but with the number of monster stories out there they're not going to run out of monsters any time soon.
It does stand out in one way though - the lack of spin-offs. Many shows with such a large fandom and as many seasons under its belt would have at least one attempt at a spin off - heck, even 'Friends' had one! That failed, but that's beside the point. They introduce many other hunters, so we know that the Winchesters aren't the only ones, so why not Supernatural Australia? I wanna see a pair of Aussie gals kicking the ass of an evil Bunyip, being confused by the Yara-ma-yha-who, and getting thrown around by a Yowie!
When their father goes missing, Dean Winchester seeks the aid of his younger brother Sam to find him. Following leads across the country, the siblings fight monsters and demons and save the day. But finding their father is the least of their problems...
I've always been interested in the supernatural genre, so I suppose it was kinda fitting that I gave this show a look. I haven't quite caught up on it yet - season 12 has just been commissioned, and I'm just starting season seven - but it is certainly something interesting to watch while I work on my Pearl cosplay. It is starting to sound a little like their 'beating a dead horse', or dragging it out a bit too long just to make money out of it, but with the number of monster stories out there they're not going to run out of monsters any time soon.
It does stand out in one way though - the lack of spin-offs. Many shows with such a large fandom and as many seasons under its belt would have at least one attempt at a spin off - heck, even 'Friends' had one! That failed, but that's beside the point. They introduce many other hunters, so we know that the Winchesters aren't the only ones, so why not Supernatural Australia? I wanna see a pair of Aussie gals kicking the ass of an evil Bunyip, being confused by the Yara-ma-yha-who, and getting thrown around by a Yowie!
Saturday 14 May 2016
May 2016
Recommended Thing of the Month: The 'Wheel of Time' series by Robert Jordan
Several thousand years after the Dark One is finally sealed back in his prison by the Dragon and his soon-mad companions, the world is in a state closely resembling peace. The Aiel War having ended twenty years before, swords and armour is left to rust in the attics of the returned soldiers as they work on their farms and raise their families. But the seal is weakening, and the Dark One's closest disciples, the thirteen Forsaken, are emerging from their own prisons and are gathering covens of Darkfriends, to work towards victory in the on-coming Last Battle that will end the Third Age. The peace is shattered as political intrigues, twisted by the Darkfriends, starts war between many of the countries. It all comes down to one man. Can the Dragon Reborn re-unite the continent, make peace with the invading force from a country long-forgotten, and put a final end to the Dark One's machinations?
Now I know what you're thinking. 'This is just a rip-off of Game of Thrones!' But actually its the other way around - the first book of WoT was published in 1990, and 'A Game of Thrones', the first of 'A Song of Ice and Fire', was published in '96. It's just that since George RR Martin is still alive while Jordan died in 2011, and a very disappointingly bad pilot, GoT has been converted for TV first. Which means I was nervously excited when I heard that WoT is finally being televised soon!
This series is the first actual 'traditional' fantasy series I got into, really. I'd read LOTR a few times already before I picked up 'Eye of the World', but it was just a story to me, whereas WoT really immersed me. True, it can be frustrating at times - no-one communicates, and the phrases 'tugged her braid/smoothed her skirts' have become almost memetic in the fandom. But I've always enjoyed the stories.
I'm going to be reading the series, starting with 'New Spring' (a novella that's set twenty years before the main storyline), in a series of Livestreams, so tune in! If you're willing to stay up for a 1am AEST start, that is... At least you can watch it afterwards!
Several thousand years after the Dark One is finally sealed back in his prison by the Dragon and his soon-mad companions, the world is in a state closely resembling peace. The Aiel War having ended twenty years before, swords and armour is left to rust in the attics of the returned soldiers as they work on their farms and raise their families. But the seal is weakening, and the Dark One's closest disciples, the thirteen Forsaken, are emerging from their own prisons and are gathering covens of Darkfriends, to work towards victory in the on-coming Last Battle that will end the Third Age. The peace is shattered as political intrigues, twisted by the Darkfriends, starts war between many of the countries. It all comes down to one man. Can the Dragon Reborn re-unite the continent, make peace with the invading force from a country long-forgotten, and put a final end to the Dark One's machinations?
Now I know what you're thinking. 'This is just a rip-off of Game of Thrones!' But actually its the other way around - the first book of WoT was published in 1990, and 'A Game of Thrones', the first of 'A Song of Ice and Fire', was published in '96. It's just that since George RR Martin is still alive while Jordan died in 2011, and a very disappointingly bad pilot, GoT has been converted for TV first. Which means I was nervously excited when I heard that WoT is finally being televised soon!
This series is the first actual 'traditional' fantasy series I got into, really. I'd read LOTR a few times already before I picked up 'Eye of the World', but it was just a story to me, whereas WoT really immersed me. True, it can be frustrating at times - no-one communicates, and the phrases 'tugged her braid/smoothed her skirts' have become almost memetic in the fandom. But I've always enjoyed the stories.
I'm going to be reading the series, starting with 'New Spring' (a novella that's set twenty years before the main storyline), in a series of Livestreams, so tune in! If you're willing to stay up for a 1am AEST start, that is... At least you can watch it afterwards!
Sunday 3 April 2016
April 2016
Recommended Thing of the Month: Fallout 4
October 23, 2077. Another peaceful day begins in the small community of Sanctuary Hills. All the recent troubles in America - rampant unemployment, paranoia over communism and a recent curfew in nearby Boston- seem so far away as you sip your coffee and watch the morning news, your spouse at your side and your trusty new Mr Handy caring for the needs of your infant son Shaun. It almost feels like paradise - but it is not to last. The sirens blare, the newscaster stammers as he reads new reports of nuclear detonations all along the west coast - and more bombs headed inland. One week before Halloween, the world ends. 210 years later, you emerge from cryostasis in Vault 111, on a desperate search for the man who kidnapped your child while you watched helpless, and who murdered your partner.
And yet, despite how desperate my apparent need to find my son, I still haven't properly started the main quest, with my current 'Sole Survivor'. I have done it once, with a previous character, but I am very indecisive. The main reason I restart so often is 'what would have happened if I had done *this* instead?' - usually as part of a decision I made several in-game days ago and so have no pre-decision saves left to go back to. Though I think another reason is I enjoy the character creation part, and seeing the Fallout world before the bombs fell - even if it is confined to your own home for the most part, and what little you see as you flee to the vault.
I love the whole Fallout universe, to be honest. I love to read all the terminal entries, and learn all I can about 'the world before', a universe that deviates from ours after WWII. Instead of discovering miniaturisation, science instead focused on nuclear power. By the time the bombs fell, the world was a bit of a mish-mash of technology - lazer rifles and plasma pistols being used by power armour-clad soldiers who would return home to a loving housewife to eat preservative-laden foods in front of a black-and-white CRT television.
Scrounging through the ruins of the metropolitan area can be heartbreaking too - I remember in Fallout 3 entering a bedroom in a house to find two skeletons on the bed embracing each other. I can't help but imagine how terrified these people would have been, because unlike the people of the West Coast, they had warning. They knew what was coming and there was nothing they could do to save themselves. And, when you read enough of the lore and discover it was an American who launched the first nuke, you can't help but hate what happened to the world, the decadence and corruption that lead to the war.
And comparing that to the real world, to how we overuse oil and coal and ignore all the possibilities of solar power and wind power because the 'turbines are ugly', I can't help but be scared that that is what we're headed for,
October 23, 2077. Another peaceful day begins in the small community of Sanctuary Hills. All the recent troubles in America - rampant unemployment, paranoia over communism and a recent curfew in nearby Boston- seem so far away as you sip your coffee and watch the morning news, your spouse at your side and your trusty new Mr Handy caring for the needs of your infant son Shaun. It almost feels like paradise - but it is not to last. The sirens blare, the newscaster stammers as he reads new reports of nuclear detonations all along the west coast - and more bombs headed inland. One week before Halloween, the world ends. 210 years later, you emerge from cryostasis in Vault 111, on a desperate search for the man who kidnapped your child while you watched helpless, and who murdered your partner.
And yet, despite how desperate my apparent need to find my son, I still haven't properly started the main quest, with my current 'Sole Survivor'. I have done it once, with a previous character, but I am very indecisive. The main reason I restart so often is 'what would have happened if I had done *this* instead?' - usually as part of a decision I made several in-game days ago and so have no pre-decision saves left to go back to. Though I think another reason is I enjoy the character creation part, and seeing the Fallout world before the bombs fell - even if it is confined to your own home for the most part, and what little you see as you flee to the vault.
I love the whole Fallout universe, to be honest. I love to read all the terminal entries, and learn all I can about 'the world before', a universe that deviates from ours after WWII. Instead of discovering miniaturisation, science instead focused on nuclear power. By the time the bombs fell, the world was a bit of a mish-mash of technology - lazer rifles and plasma pistols being used by power armour-clad soldiers who would return home to a loving housewife to eat preservative-laden foods in front of a black-and-white CRT television.
Scrounging through the ruins of the metropolitan area can be heartbreaking too - I remember in Fallout 3 entering a bedroom in a house to find two skeletons on the bed embracing each other. I can't help but imagine how terrified these people would have been, because unlike the people of the West Coast, they had warning. They knew what was coming and there was nothing they could do to save themselves. And, when you read enough of the lore and discover it was an American who launched the first nuke, you can't help but hate what happened to the world, the decadence and corruption that lead to the war.
And comparing that to the real world, to how we overuse oil and coal and ignore all the possibilities of solar power and wind power because the 'turbines are ugly', I can't help but be scared that that is what we're headed for,
Sunday 6 March 2016
March 2016
Recommended Thing of The Month: The Elder Scrolls Online
It is five years after the devastating event which tore through the veil between worlds, known as the Soulburst, and chaos is tearing through Tamriel. The Empire is no more, and three factions - the Aldmeri Dominion, the Daggerfall Covenant and the Ebonheart Pact - wage brutal war for the Imperial Throne. Using this as a smokescreen, the malevolent minions of Molag Bal, the Worm Cult headed by the traitorous Mannimarco, work on the Planemeld, the disastrous merging of Nirn and Coldharbour, Molag Bal's dangerous plane. In a world of anarchy, the task of rescue rests upon the shoulders of not one hero, but many.
Or so it would be, if all the quests weren't all of the 'only you can save man- (or mer-) kind' variety. While it is very in-keeping with the Elder Scrolls theme, when it's in an MMO it doesn't work as well. I've heard this game described as 'a generic MMO with the Elder Scrolls slapped on top' and it is, but that doesn't stop me from loving it (though that may be because of my TES bias...)
It is understandable how this came to be, however. Zenimax were already working on an MMO, they just needed the RPG part of it, and Bethesda stepped up. If it were the other way around - an Elder Scrolls game with the MMO part 'slapped on top' it could have been so much better.
This set up does work well for me, though. I am a very solitary person, and I enjoy running around the game world, going solo as much as possible - meaning I get a very happy burst of adrenaline when I manage to do something on my own which is meant to take a group of people to manage - though it does mean waiting until I am at least five levels above that of the monster! But then again, this does make doing the group dungeon - which trying to do solo will get you removed from the dungeon by the game - that much more fun. When I can find a group to 'run' it with!
I would recommend one tries it though, to form your own opinion of it - but on someone else's account, so you don't waste your money if you end up disliking it!
It is five years after the devastating event which tore through the veil between worlds, known as the Soulburst, and chaos is tearing through Tamriel. The Empire is no more, and three factions - the Aldmeri Dominion, the Daggerfall Covenant and the Ebonheart Pact - wage brutal war for the Imperial Throne. Using this as a smokescreen, the malevolent minions of Molag Bal, the Worm Cult headed by the traitorous Mannimarco, work on the Planemeld, the disastrous merging of Nirn and Coldharbour, Molag Bal's dangerous plane. In a world of anarchy, the task of rescue rests upon the shoulders of not one hero, but many.
Or so it would be, if all the quests weren't all of the 'only you can save man- (or mer-) kind' variety. While it is very in-keeping with the Elder Scrolls theme, when it's in an MMO it doesn't work as well. I've heard this game described as 'a generic MMO with the Elder Scrolls slapped on top' and it is, but that doesn't stop me from loving it (though that may be because of my TES bias...)
It is understandable how this came to be, however. Zenimax were already working on an MMO, they just needed the RPG part of it, and Bethesda stepped up. If it were the other way around - an Elder Scrolls game with the MMO part 'slapped on top' it could have been so much better.
This set up does work well for me, though. I am a very solitary person, and I enjoy running around the game world, going solo as much as possible - meaning I get a very happy burst of adrenaline when I manage to do something on my own which is meant to take a group of people to manage - though it does mean waiting until I am at least five levels above that of the monster! But then again, this does make doing the group dungeon - which trying to do solo will get you removed from the dungeon by the game - that much more fun. When I can find a group to 'run' it with!
I would recommend one tries it though, to form your own opinion of it - but on someone else's account, so you don't waste your money if you end up disliking it!
Monday 8 February 2016
February 2016
Recommended Thing of the Month: Restoree, by Anne McCaffrey
A walk through Central Park goes horribly wrong when an overwhelming stench of dead fish and a huge shadow blocks out the sun. After suffering through an almost endless nightmare, Sara awakens to find herself not only in a new body, but acting as nurse to an apparently insane man! Can she get to the bottom of what happened to her? And can she save the ruler of her new home from suffering the same fate as her patient?
I really connect with Sara - not just because of our very similar names, but I know what it's like to feel like I'm in an alien world. I may look like everyone else on the outside but inside I am very different.
I can't help wondering if the writers of Star Wars are fans of McCaffrey, as the planet's name on which this book is set is Lothar, which is very similar to Lothal, upon which much of Star Wars Rebels occurs. In another series by McCaffrey, the Crystal Singer Trilogy, there is a character called Tukolom who speaks in the same way as Yoda. So maybe they drew inspiration from each other!
The only real problem I have with McCaffrey's works is that she didn't allow fanfiction of her stories, and yet her worlds are left very open, and there is so much that a fan writer could do with them! I would love to see people's interpretations of how Earth's first contact with the Lotharians went; do they welcome the offered help against the Mil, Sara's abducters, or do they shoot first and ask questions later? Does she ever meet up with her family again and if so what were their reactions to her new, perfect body? All this potential gone to waste! Which, of course, makes me incredibly thankful for people like JK Rowling, who actually encourage fanworks.
(Sorry for the lateness, Saturday was a very long day!)
A walk through Central Park goes horribly wrong when an overwhelming stench of dead fish and a huge shadow blocks out the sun. After suffering through an almost endless nightmare, Sara awakens to find herself not only in a new body, but acting as nurse to an apparently insane man! Can she get to the bottom of what happened to her? And can she save the ruler of her new home from suffering the same fate as her patient?
I really connect with Sara - not just because of our very similar names, but I know what it's like to feel like I'm in an alien world. I may look like everyone else on the outside but inside I am very different.
I can't help wondering if the writers of Star Wars are fans of McCaffrey, as the planet's name on which this book is set is Lothar, which is very similar to Lothal, upon which much of Star Wars Rebels occurs. In another series by McCaffrey, the Crystal Singer Trilogy, there is a character called Tukolom who speaks in the same way as Yoda. So maybe they drew inspiration from each other!
The only real problem I have with McCaffrey's works is that she didn't allow fanfiction of her stories, and yet her worlds are left very open, and there is so much that a fan writer could do with them! I would love to see people's interpretations of how Earth's first contact with the Lotharians went; do they welcome the offered help against the Mil, Sara's abducters, or do they shoot first and ask questions later? Does she ever meet up with her family again and if so what were their reactions to her new, perfect body? All this potential gone to waste! Which, of course, makes me incredibly thankful for people like JK Rowling, who actually encourage fanworks.
(Sorry for the lateness, Saturday was a very long day!)
Sunday 3 January 2016
January 2016
(I'm going to try to blog the first Saturday every month, and talk about something that's been pretty important to me in that time. Happy New Year!)
Recommended Thing of the Month: 7 Seeds, Yumi Tamura
In the years before a giant meteor wipes out all human life on the surface of the Earth, five groups of seven youths, along with an adult guide, were placed in cryostasis as part of a project called 'The Seven Seeds'. Seven supply depots were built under the 'Seven Fuji' to aid in their survival in the world they were to wake in. But with a still-unsteady climate, natural disasters aplenty and evolved wildlife to contend with, it seems their chances of survival are slim.
This is the first manga that made me cry. The hardships all the characters go through are, admittedly, rather unrelatable, since I've never been and hopefully never will be in an apocalypse situation, but I can relate to them all the same as, despite everything, they still have normal problems to contend with alongside that of survival in a world that still hasn't settled into a steady climate yet. I guess I'm just fascinated by 'after the end' stories like this one; of people's struggle to survive when everything they've ever known is gone.
The only character I don't really like that much in 7 Seeds is Natsu, who reminds me too much of me: she finds it difficult to speak up about things, relies on people noticing when something is wrong and is pretty useless about 80% of the time she's featured in a chapter/arc. I am hoping she improves as a person over the course of the story, but in all 30 odd chapters I've read of it so far (I'm on a re-read, but it's been ages) the only thing she's managed to do off her own bat is make a basket.
The saddest stories I've read in this manga so far are those of Aramaki and the Ryugu Shelter. I don't want to go into too much detail, but I nearly cried reading the Ryugu arc, and I definitely did when I read Aramaki's story. I'm definitely looking forward to reading the rest, and the newer chapters that I've never read before. If you're a fan of tales like '2012', 'The Day After Tomorrow' and such, then this manga is definitely right up your alley!
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