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Oct. 28th, 2009 @ 12:10 am So, borderlands
Here's what I've done so far.

1.) Get stuck repeatedly right at the start of the game, because the first NPC you meet was glitched
2.) Have bits and pieces of quests go missing, making them unsolvable.
3.) Invincible boss npcs with infinite hit points
4.) Invisible exp walls, I've hit 10 and it simply doesn't go farther after that, it just stops
5.) Random quests break in multiplayer, desynching me me from those I'm playing with and making me have to drop to single player to try to catch up.
6.) Had all my skill points vanish.
7.) Totally forgot this one, if you customize your win7 at all, your game...WILL NOT SAVE YOUR DATA. GENIUS!

I'm now on my 8th character, six of the ones before that are glitched and broken, unable to progress in the game any further, so I had to stop using them.

Other than THOSE things, it's an awesome game I guess -_-
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Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 01:40 pm Anthrocon Report
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Eek, that got long! )
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Jun. 19th, 2009 @ 03:05 pm Videogame Room: Equipment Needed!

RED DRAGON NEEDS EQUIPMENT BADLY!

We operate on a donation based system only! We need equipment donations for the room. I live out in Seattle now, not the east coast, so it's not exactly easy to haul everything out and into a suitcase and/or ship it over.

So we need your help!

Any system at all is fine. Retrogaming? All for it! Bring it whatever you like and think others would enjoy. Multiplayer gaming is the only sort we want though. We also will need equipment for DDR, Rock Band and Smash Brothers. We have tournaments for them, so we definitely will need extra equipment for them.

Important Disclaimer: Anthrocon has no liability for your equipment, you give it to us of your own free will. We will do are darndest not to let it get stolen, or damaged. We'll have someone posted at all times to keep an eye on the room, but if anything is damaged, we can't pay for it. We also have an inventory system to keep it from walking out with the wrong person.

So please, don't bring in your collectors items that are irreplaceable!



(Bodies are useful toooooo!)
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Apr. 15th, 2009 @ 08:04 am Random pondering and queries
I'm going to speak in broad terms and generalizations and I don't mean offense, but I'll likely cause some.

Conservative Hermaphrodites )
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Mar. 1st, 2009 @ 04:44 pm The Madness of Furp
There are several accountings on how to make slurm. I have observed the following so far.

Slurm Recipe )

The following took place at our after gathering-gathering, where we recreated some of this volitile tasty stuff. I logged on #furry on anthrochat (One of Furp's online hangout's) and rambled the following.

Behold its power )
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Feb. 20th, 2009 @ 04:20 pm Tonight
I am going to be playing TF2. I will be a medic. I will be drinking scotch. Tonight I declare there cannot be too many medics.

You can find me on steam by searching for riowens@vt.edu. I am old school steam before userids existed. I will probably be on the TFP/FA servers.
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Jan. 10th, 2009 @ 01:30 am Meh
I feel like I'm crawling up slow moving land slide. I may feel like I'm moving upwards from all the struggling, but then to realize I've only slowed the descent.

Here's a more detailed explanation of how my moods generally work.

My mood is swinging up and down fairly regularly, but so very rapidly (I think?). At work, for almost all hours of the day I am incredibly energetic, happy, excited, hyper, then it slows down towards the end of the day, so I start to get sluggish. Then by the time I get home through the traffic slog I'm depressed as hell.
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Jan. 6th, 2009 @ 05:54 pm ...
Well, I've been trying to schedule an appointment with my doctors for a month and a half now. It keeps being said 'they're not on the schedule' (They're professors at a local university as well, they do work at the clinic as charity or something). Well, they're still not on the schedule, not even for this month...even though it's this month now. I'm out of ALL of my prescriptions, I've repeated asked them to renew, they haven't. I really don't know what to do at this point, I haven't found a replacement doctor yet.
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Jan. 4th, 2009 @ 02:41 am Medical Issues==Depression?
This is TMI and it involves trans stuff, so I'm putting it behind a cut.

It is a possible explanation for my emotional issues though )
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Nov. 27th, 2008 @ 08:22 pm Thanksgiving
Current Mood: depressed
Was hollow. Everyone was depressed, quiet, not much laughter, everything tasted bland. I miss Mom, we all missed Mom. It's never going to be the same anymore. We sat down, tried to pray, but we all cried even my uncle who's a Methodist minister just burst into tears in the middle of his prepared prayer. No one spoke for a long while after that, I really don't know how it's going to be later, it's only going to get worse as the holidays progress. Mom was the center of all of our holiday events, she organized it all, she was the glue. We all love and care for each other, but the strongest link has passed on.

More thoughts:

Part of what makes it worse, is that it is so awkward. I've spoken of my personal reasons in a prior post, but mom...mom made a lot of choices in the end, and the family split. My brothers and I supported our father, because we saw mom slowly get crazier, we believed her to be dillusional...the rest of the family? They believed mom, or at least, believed that they should believe mom so she could be happy.

It's this big hidden untalked about bomb sitting in the middle of every gathering, and no one's opinions have really changed. I've asked probing questions, to see if anything could be fixed, or brought together, but I'm pretty sure all that would happen would be a metric ton of hurt feelings, shouting and perhaps even more fracturing.
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Nov. 10th, 2008 @ 09:28 pm Marryin Jaqls :D
Something I've been on pins and needles about for ages! We can't legally get married, but I felt the need to do SOMETHING. An actual ceremony would be ever so much trouble and...awkward, so...instead...ARTZ!



Art was by Kacey Miyagami if you didn't recognize the style. It is impossible to describe how pleased I am with the way this came out, she got everyone perfectly :D

Some notes, Tersi (She's the one on the left) is a space navy officer, something totally made up, so the rank intentionally doesn't make sense or match up with anything in the US military :) Darkso, our mutual friend, is in the back doing the ceremony. Rheoryn is of course on the right there.
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Jul. 15th, 2008 @ 10:18 pm My luck roll for this month is now officially a 1
So right now my checking account reads as somewhere around negative *insert five digit figure* here. Why? Well, I made a large deposit, and in the way things work with very large checks, they're supposed to credit your account, then put that amount on hold.

They only did that second part.

So, until they fix it, their system is going to continue bitchslapping me with gigantic fees until they manage to figure out who flipped the wrong switch and/or pushed the wrong button.

I am going to get a new bank, probably a credit union, as soon as fucking possible. This is absolutely retarded.

I can dispute, and win, all these charges. Conveniently however I can only call during business hours to get the department that does such things. Conveniently the hold time will be ridiculous, and keep me from getting any work done.
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Feb. 4th, 2008 @ 05:53 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: crying
Cindy Lou Torres-Owens
12/16/1957-02/04/2008

Rest in peace mom...
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Jun. 28th, 2007 @ 05:36 am Family
Current Mood: not good
It continues to crumble in horrible wails of agony.

Apparently my dad tried to rally just about everyone to petition a local mental health group to take mom in, in some sort of intervention.

It...didn't go well. See, she's not suicidal, so really they couldn't do anything, but mom found out he was planning this. So now all of her protests of 'everyone out to get her' are more or less true, which means she's shoving everyone away even faster.

She's also hellbent on wedging her new guy into my life too, despite me being 3000 miles away. Apparently she's told him 'everything' about me, and he's perfectly fine with my lifestyle and that it would be wonderful if I would visit them or talk to him on the phone. Seriously...what...the...fuck. Is it normal for your fifty year old mom to want you talk to her three-week boyfriend as if he was some sort of new father figure?

Ontop of this her CA125 counts are through the roof. She maintains that she's feeling great and alive but cancer is starting to spread out through her body at a scary rate.

My youngest brother, who was always closest to mom, is so shocked and stunned by this his grades have been falling apart. So, he's thought about joining the military and dropping out of college.

Oh yea, ontop of all this? That interview is in a few hours...lovely...just wonderful. I'm a fucking mental carwreck and I have that on my shoulders to deal with in the middle of it. Wonderful
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Jun. 21st, 2007 @ 06:54 pm Shambles: The state of my family
So much crazyness I can't even really get a grip on it enough to actually express an emotion of the situation.

1.) Mom's dating someone she met on match.com, they started sleeping together on the first date.
2.) His name is Rick, just like my dad's
3.) He even looks sort of like a heavier version of my father apparently.
4.) At every point and turn she tries to get this guy into the family, including introducing him to my 2.5year old niece as her 'new big big daddy'
5.) They've only been dating two weeks.
6.) My brother has told her he doesn't want the guy around his daughter.
7.) Mom keeps 'forgetting' this and blames it on the chemotherapy and has the guy 'accidentally' meet my niece over and over.
8.) Grandparents then decided they had enough and told mom she can't have this guy over at their place. (Mom is living with her parents during all this)
9.) So mom gets an apartment and uses dad's charge cards to get a place she can sleep with this guy.
10.) She continues to spend 2000-3000 a month over the internet on various unnecessary things.
11.) She's spent roughly 80% of my father's retirement at this point.
12.) She filed for divorce requesting the typical 50/50 split, which means in the end mom will have gotten 90% of my dad's money over the last four years.

I don't know whether to laugh at the absurdity or cry for the loss of my mother. She's gone. I don't know where she went.
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Apr. 30th, 2007 @ 05:45 am Pyrex sucks now
Apparently at some point, without really telling consumers, Pyrex changed over to regular soda-lime glass. This is the stuff that really really cheap glass products are made of, it used to be made of labratory grade Borosilicate glass. This allowed it to be heated to high temperatures by bunsen burners, it eventually migrated into the kitchen.

Yet what does their website say, despite it being made out of really cheap ass glass?

"PYREX® glassware products can go directly from refrigerator or freezer to a microwave, convection, or preheated conventional oven."


Why am I babbling about this at 5:34am PST? Well, [info]tyrc was doing a cookie round like before and was melting some butter. She had the pyrex piece filled with butter looking and talking to me over the sink. It did not touch anything and suddenly simply exploded, shattering into many many pieces. Multiple large chunks, but what was in her hand was nearly sandlike. It happened so fast and so surreal like it felt like a jumpcut from a really low budget movie. One second pyrex, another second a hand full of glass grits.


Apparently this is a common phenomenon now and it seems relatively luck that the kitchen itself and she herself were undamaged due to the insane forces of these explosions. I am pretty sure had there not been borders around the glass would have been thrown well over ten to fifteen feet in either direction if not more. Pyrex USED to be able to be heated on a burner, however they changed the glass type and have not really educated the consumer that the 'Pyrex' they buy now functions NOTHING like the 'Pyrex' from decades ago.

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Mar. 22nd, 2007 @ 08:44 pm Mom is home
Current Mood: crushed
But that's about the extent of the good news.

She's riddled with tiny tumors. The chemo is not working, they're going to have to biopsy and try to find another regimine.
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Mar. 15th, 2007 @ 09:27 pm So...
Do any of you live in the region of this route?

Mom is too sick and in the midst of chemotherapy, so she will not be joining me on the trek. I will go utterly bat shit insane if I do not meet some of you on the way!

**Note. With this far of a drive, 3-5hours 'out of the way' is not really 'out of the way' because as long as I go westish, I am going the right way**
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Feb. 24th, 2007 @ 08:41 am LT3M Fundraising Marathon



Pretty much everyone is DJ'ing today in a 24hour long marathon. That means pretty much EVERYTHING is covered. Tune in! Dragons demand it! Unless you're working all day like me, there's no excuse not to tune in at least for a bit!
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Jan. 16th, 2007 @ 08:18 am Cell phone for FC
If you want to trade phone numbers, reply to this. It's screened, so I'll reply with my number in private.
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