Happy New Year 2012

Posted on January 1, 2012 in Thoughts & Musings

Well, hello there  2012. Fancy to see you.

I’m not a fan of new years declarations. Most of them are hollow. Feel good things made because, well, people should make them. It’s why the majority of them are forgotten in February.

Wanting things is hard. Declaring them as goals you take serious, that’s even harder. Actually taking action? That’s the hardest part of them all. I do not even want to talk about what I want.

So the only thing I did in preperation for 2012?

I bought a calender. Maybe I will use it to write down what I did for ToC each day. Maybe not.

Happy new year to you all!

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Boobplate, no boobplate and Skyrim got it right.

Posted on December 16, 2011 in Thoughts & Musings

This is an armourer’s take on it -  good article, plus, it gave you that wonderful equation above.

 

If you need some good example for realistic female armour (in case you feel the need to differ armour between the sexes) go, check out Skyrim. That’s something it did really, really well.

 

All the ladys 1, look definitivly female but still badass and, most importantly, their armour looks as if it indeed does protect their important bits. Frankly, it’s a good thing Skyrim this right. The game is going for utmost realismn on the armour and graphic front, and boobplate woulda pulled people out.

Incidientially, another thing Skyrim does well is maintainging fair and interesting relationship between the sexes despite being set in a classic, high fantasy mediavial/greek/nordic society. Skyrim basically is the poster child for Rated M for manly, where proud vikings wrestle polar bears, and yet it manages to have heaps of respectful treated women, who are genuily complex characters2 and actually do something.

I can’t help but feel that those two things are related.

Footnotes:

  1. Including my thieves guild armour wearing, firebreathing, dragon-slaying kitty lady, although, now that I play on maximal difficulty, the dragons tend to slay HER ↩
  2. I am particular fond of Legate Rikke (General Tullius Second in Command) and Igrod Ravencrone (the jarl of Morthal) ↩
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You know the serenity prayer?

Posted on December 13, 2011 in Thoughts & Musings

You know, the one that goes:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.1

I am slightly less religious as your common quartz, but me thinks I really need something like that, just for not-dithering.

Goddamnit2. Stuff doesn’t have to perfect, it just needs to get DONE. *shakes fist*

Footnotes:

  1. Frankly, I wastly prefer the variation where the last line goes: “And the wisdom to properly hide the bodies”, but there you go. ↩
  2. The major drawback of being a-religious always has been the lack of interesting blasphemies. In my younger angry-atheist-days I screened and replaced them, but well, there’s only so much you can replace with fuck until you sound like an angry rapsong.
    Speaking of which, the best and most creative cursers I knew where Catholics. Go figure. ↩
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I’m being painfully adult today…

Posted on December 8, 2011 in Thoughts & Musings

I’m sorting out my budget.

It wouldn’t be that bad, if it weren’t for all that unpredictable crap you just know will always happen.  Sometimes a dentist bill will rack up hundrets of euros, sometimes it’s a sudden birthday1 or wedding presents. How am I supposed to get vacation and clothing into that budget? I haven’t bought a single pair of shoes in a year, I’m down to one pair of boots and one pair of sandals!

Question for you guys: Do you budget for that? If so, how do you decide how much you need for that and where to keep it?

Because I know myself – if I budget too much, I won’t keep it, if I budget too little, I screw over myself.

This was definitivly the wrong month to give up sweets. Or to become mature about my spending habits, one of these.

Footnotes:

  1. Birthdays and holidays in general sneak up on me each year, those stealthy bastards, and Christmas is the worst of the fucking lot. ↩
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Siendes…

Posted on November 28, 2011 in On Traces of Chaos, Yay, art!

What else would she have as a cutie mark but an explosion?

 

I’ve been dared to do this. Not my fault. Do you hear me?! NOT MY FAULT!

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