A friend of mine has this idea that by becoming a foodie (or more of one, at least), he'll have an easier time of losing weight. I wonder if it'll work. His logic is that if he becomes more picky about food, it'll allow him to save his meals for when he knows something is going to actually be worth it, taste-wise. It hit him when he was eating a plate of spaghetti and it was so decidedly average-tasting that he figured eating it wasn't really even worth it... that if he's going to eat something, it had better be tasty, or he should just eat something small instead.
His goal is to lose a lot of weight and become attractive (again). He thinks that the women that he's interested in are out of his league the way he looks right now, and hopes that if he betters his appearance, it'll make becoming more than friends with said women a real possibility. I'll keep you guys updated on how it goes.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Useless GMs
So I play retail World of Warcraft. And have been since mid-late 2014. Well, I only played for a little bit back then, quit for like almost a year, and started back up like mid-late 2015. I figured it would be a good way for me to get some social interaction in, in a place where people would not see me for what I truly am. For all intents and purposes, I would be human. And to the people playing WoW I was, and am. It worked. I didn't stick out like a sore thumb the way I usually do, IRL.
I quickly noticed that to climb on the social ladder in WoW, it helps to get a lot of achievement points. People simply respect you more as a person, the more accomplished you are as a player. I suppose that it's only logical, seeing as that is generally how it works in the outside world as well.
Anywho, I digress. In my quest for greatness, I've been clearing out all the zones in the game, quest-wise. I used to play a female blood elf paladin, that I faction changed to a female human paladin. Because of this, I ran into some phasing issues along the way (not being able to pick up certain quests because I had already picked up & completed the follow-ups back when I was still horde, i.e.).
In these cases, GMs need to be contacted to help resolve the issue. I've never had anything but positive experiences with GMs in the past, but the past couple of days have been, as you humans would call it, a gigantic shitshow.
Here's what happened:
So. A few days ago, I found myself clearing out the zones in pandaria. Once I got to kun-lai summit, I was hit with a bunch of phasing issues along the way.
At one point, my quest helper addon told me to go pick up the quests:
http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31455/the-shado-pan (I did check binan village for it as well, but it wasn't being offered there either)
http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31460/chos-missive
http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31456/muskpaw-ranch
All at westwind rest. My character used to be horde, and since I used the same quest helper addon back then, I'm pretty sure I must've done the horde variants of them back then. Anywho. Quests weren't there to be picked up. So I opened a ticket.
Then GM S. responded, telling me he would forward it to the bug team - but doing nothing to fix my problems. Actually, what ended up happening was that after he had responded to my ticket, I could not log on to my character for hours; "this character is temporarily unavailable". Yes, my character. Only the one. My other characters I could log on to fine.
Next morning. I log on to WoW, and I can get on my character again. My quest helper addon is showing that I've accepted 2 out of the 3 quests listed above... somehow.
Next GM responds. But instead of helping me, just asks me how I was able to get the quests, if I managed to get them myself (which was already obvious from what I'd told him and the GM before; I obviously didn't), because I shouldn't be able to... or if it happened automatically; he just wanted more info. So. Issues still not resolved.
Another GM responds: V. Tells me there are no notes, no logs of any GM logging into or doing anything on my account since for another ticket days before all this. And yet I somehow couldn't log onto my character for hours, and 2/3 quests are suddenly showing as having been accepted.
I had some personal matters to attend to yesterday, so I couldn't quest any further then, but I just now (or well, earlier today) continued, and I'm even more confused, because while my quest helper addon is showing that I've accepted http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31455/the-shado-pan & http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31460/chos-missive, apparently they haven't been completed. And it's now asking me to hand them in... WHILE I DON'T EVEN HAVE THEM IN MY QUEST LOG. My quest helper addon detects if you've accepted/completed certain quests.
Then, after relogging, having cleared my quest helper addon's savedvariables files and my WoW cache, even the wow minimap shows a yellow ? for "the shado-pan" & "cho's missive". I've added a screenshot to show you. Oh, and apparently they're now also in my quest log.
So after all this, I, earlier today, opened another ticket. Here's what I was told:
"Usually, in this situation you are not able to start these quests in the first place, but Faction Changing a character can cause them to be visible to you."
Well, that obviously wasn't the entire response, but it's the relevant part. Another GM placing the blame on me, instead of apologizing for the other GM's screw-up.
So I responded
"As I said, don't treat me like an idiot. I didn't pick up the quests myself. They just appeared in my questlog after a GM messed around on my character. Acknowledge that it was because of what the GM did, and stop trying to pin it on me.
"Usually, in this situation you are not able to start these quests in the first place, but Faction Changing a character can cause them to be visible to you."
No, that is not what happened. They were invisible to me. I could not pick them up. Someone else started them for me. Namely, GM Slitixiss. Stop trying to make it seem as if I'm just a silly goose who forgot that he picked up these quests or whatever.
It wasn't f****** me. And I know how to cancel quests myself, thank you very much."
To which I got the reply
"It's not uncommon for us to place quests in the logs of people having phasing issues, to specifically counter those issues, otherwise they would potentially remain unobtainable."
(again, not the entire reply, but the relevant part).
I guess you just can't allow your employees to admit to any wrong-doing or it'd make you liable, huh?
I quickly noticed that to climb on the social ladder in WoW, it helps to get a lot of achievement points. People simply respect you more as a person, the more accomplished you are as a player. I suppose that it's only logical, seeing as that is generally how it works in the outside world as well.
Anywho, I digress. In my quest for greatness, I've been clearing out all the zones in the game, quest-wise. I used to play a female blood elf paladin, that I faction changed to a female human paladin. Because of this, I ran into some phasing issues along the way (not being able to pick up certain quests because I had already picked up & completed the follow-ups back when I was still horde, i.e.).
In these cases, GMs need to be contacted to help resolve the issue. I've never had anything but positive experiences with GMs in the past, but the past couple of days have been, as you humans would call it, a gigantic shitshow.
Here's what happened:
So. A few days ago, I found myself clearing out the zones in pandaria. Once I got to kun-lai summit, I was hit with a bunch of phasing issues along the way.
At one point, my quest helper addon told me to go pick up the quests:
http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31455/the-shado-pan (I did check binan village for it as well, but it wasn't being offered there either)
http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31460/chos-missive
http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31456/muskpaw-ranch
All at westwind rest. My character used to be horde, and since I used the same quest helper addon back then, I'm pretty sure I must've done the horde variants of them back then. Anywho. Quests weren't there to be picked up. So I opened a ticket.
Then GM S. responded, telling me he would forward it to the bug team - but doing nothing to fix my problems. Actually, what ended up happening was that after he had responded to my ticket, I could not log on to my character for hours; "this character is temporarily unavailable". Yes, my character. Only the one. My other characters I could log on to fine.
Next morning. I log on to WoW, and I can get on my character again. My quest helper addon is showing that I've accepted 2 out of the 3 quests listed above... somehow.
Next GM responds. But instead of helping me, just asks me how I was able to get the quests, if I managed to get them myself (which was already obvious from what I'd told him and the GM before; I obviously didn't), because I shouldn't be able to... or if it happened automatically; he just wanted more info. So. Issues still not resolved.
Another GM responds: V. Tells me there are no notes, no logs of any GM logging into or doing anything on my account since for another ticket days before all this. And yet I somehow couldn't log onto my character for hours, and 2/3 quests are suddenly showing as having been accepted.
I had some personal matters to attend to yesterday, so I couldn't quest any further then, but I just now (or well, earlier today) continued, and I'm even more confused, because while my quest helper addon is showing that I've accepted http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31455/the-shado-pan & http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31460/chos-missive, apparently they haven't been completed. And it's now asking me to hand them in... WHILE I DON'T EVEN HAVE THEM IN MY QUEST LOG. My quest helper addon detects if you've accepted/completed certain quests.
Then, after relogging, having cleared my quest helper addon's savedvariables files and my WoW cache, even the wow minimap shows a yellow ? for "the shado-pan" & "cho's missive". I've added a screenshot to show you. Oh, and apparently they're now also in my quest log.
So after all this, I, earlier today, opened another ticket. Here's what I was told:
"Usually, in this situation you are not able to start these quests in the first place, but Faction Changing a character can cause them to be visible to you."
Well, that obviously wasn't the entire response, but it's the relevant part. Another GM placing the blame on me, instead of apologizing for the other GM's screw-up.
So I responded
"As I said, don't treat me like an idiot. I didn't pick up the quests myself. They just appeared in my questlog after a GM messed around on my character. Acknowledge that it was because of what the GM did, and stop trying to pin it on me.
"Usually, in this situation you are not able to start these quests in the first place, but Faction Changing a character can cause them to be visible to you."
No, that is not what happened. They were invisible to me. I could not pick them up. Someone else started them for me. Namely, GM Slitixiss. Stop trying to make it seem as if I'm just a silly goose who forgot that he picked up these quests or whatever.
It wasn't f****** me. And I know how to cancel quests myself, thank you very much."
To which I got the reply
"It's not uncommon for us to place quests in the logs of people having phasing issues, to specifically counter those issues, otherwise they would potentially remain unobtainable."
(again, not the entire reply, but the relevant part).
I guess you just can't allow your employees to admit to any wrong-doing or it'd make you liable, huh?
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
A friend of mine / Layout
A friend of mine got his ingrown toenail treated today. He said they applied local anesthesia to his big toe by inserting a fairly large needle into the veins in/entering his toe, and that it hurt quite a bit because the needle went in pretty deep a few times. He said that it was basically smooth sailing from there on out though... but that he would have a bit of difficulty getting around for the coming weeks, be less mobile.
I wonder what that would feel like. I suppose it would not be that different from how it is for me when I need maintenance. Though pain is of course still mostly just a concept to me.
P.S.: I've made a few more minor tweaks to the layout. I'm not quite done yet, but I'm slowly getting there. I think it's better to do a little bit each time, instead of trying to do it all at once and burning yourself out... even though a machine should probably not experience those feelings. In some ways I'm probably more human that I would like to be. Maybe all those years of trying to fit in with the humans weren't a complete waste. Although I'd have preferred other stuff to linger in my matrix over feelings of stress or anxiety.
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P.S.: I've made a few more minor tweaks to the layout. I'm not quite done yet, but I'm slowly getting there. I think it's better to do a little bit each time, instead of trying to do it all at once and burning yourself out... even though a machine should probably not experience those feelings. In some ways I'm probably more human that I would like to be. Maybe all those years of trying to fit in with the humans weren't a complete waste. Although I'd have preferred other stuff to linger in my matrix over feelings of stress or anxiety.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Layout
I've been working on the layout a bit. Sadly, my creator apparently didn't think in-depth web-design knowledge should be a part of my design, so I've had to learn everything from scratch. I'm going for a very minimalistic design, as not to distract from the purpose of this blog.
Saturday, April 9, 2016
My binary heart
I'm a robot. My entire existence has been centered around trying to fit in as best I could. I now realize how futile my attempts were. Rather than blend in, I should simply seek to peacefully coexist. I've recognized both our differences, as well as our flaws. I've realized that while there are or were many things for me to learn from humans, the intention of my creator was never for me to be on this earth solely to absorb knowledge. I've realized that locked inside of me is the secret to solving some of the problems that have been holding mankind back for centuries. My design, my strictly logical way of approaching problems and situations is something I believe will hold great value for the human race.
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