Current Ramblings

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

It's an ADVENTURE!

I've decided that I'm not nearly geeky enough, so this weekend I went and installed Linux on that shiny new computer I built. I installed it to dual-boot, and as I'm already running XP on 4 gigs of RAM I'm never more than a minute (if that) from the security of Windows. Everything's required a little tweaking, from the video drivers to the sound, but it's mostly operational. WoW specifically will not launch with Wine, but some of my other Windows programs will. WoW is supposed to work with Wine, though, so that'll likely be my project for this weekend. I reeeeaaaaally don't want to have to maintain two installations of it. I almost wish I had gone with this in the first place rather than spending a chunk of change on an OEM copy of XP x64 from NewEgg, but it's still nice knowing if I absolutely can't get something to work I can just reboot.

I went with SUSE. Go on, guess why.

Also I had to replace my DVD±RW drive so I could burn the installation discs, because my computer wasn't picking it up quite right and wouldn't let me burn to it. Those things sure are cheap nowadays.

Andrew thinks this is all super-hot, incidentally.

On a completely different tangent (though still on the tanget of people staring for too long as nerdy things), RP with Meridith is becoming...I dunno. She's an Apothecary, and she tends to spend all her time obsessing over her work, and her work right now is focused on Northrend. I don't want it to seem like I'm just so OOCly fixated on the expansion that it's all I can talk about ICly too, it's just...this is HUGE for her. This is the culmination of what she's been wanting to do since she first found her way to the Undercity. I just feel a little self-conscious being around other characters who are going on about their assorted dramas and all she can talk about is essentially upcoming PVE content.

I've also come to terms with why, even though I may complain about it, I don't want to raid on her. Blizzard designed Kara with the assumption that casters will take Tailoring, making it pretty much required for casters to take Tailoring if they want to raid. I'm not saying you can't play if you don't take Tailoring, they've just assumed that if you're raiding of course you want the awesome gear you can make with Tailoring and therfore forgot to put much in the way of good cloth drops in Kara. I could always go along for the ride and hope for drops, but I'd feel like I wasn't pulling my weight and I hate that. My hate for that is a lot of why I've taken so well to tanking. So I have a choice: Stick to my RP guns and either don't raid or be content to be filler at the bottom of the DPS meters, or drop Alchemy or Herbalism and level Tailoring. As someone who was Fire when Molten Core was endgame, it's not that big a decision. I whined about being useless as a Fire mage too, but accepted that it was ultimately my own decision.

Meg is still an emo little tank, and while I'd be happy to raid more on her I'm content with her other goals right now, i.e. irritating the hell out of rogues in PVP. Kalimdor makes her cut herself less.

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