DIII Expansion Complete

I finally finished Reaper of Souls.  Actually, I'll admit, this was a while back.
No in depth review cause I missed the boat, but I can say I did have a good time.  I really did.

When I reviewed Diablo III Classic, I only played until the beginning of Act III.  I didn't know how rushed or unpolished the last 2 Acts felt, but my brother said it was kind of meh.  Truthfully, I didn't find it so bad.  Maybe there were changes between the expansion and the initial launch.  Or, it's because I'm a bit of a fan boy.  Moving on,

Who did I pick as my nephalem?

Of course...

Took my sweet time to enjoy all 5 Acts playing the Crusader (Crusaderess?) on normal difficulty, and had fun running around in Sanctuary.  After finishing the final boss, I cranked the difficulty up in adventure mode, but after 2 weeks of hard looting, playtime steadily decreased.  I still drop in for a quick smack and smash here and there, but it's more or less for a casual run.

Overall - 8  Feel good changes / updates and feels more polished as a single player game.

Crackrock Fireplace

I Caved

I'm playing Hearthstone now

I was hoping to hold out until the Android app came out and start at the same time as my buddy (cause our wives own the iPad).

But when he started, it's like, why the hell am I holding out all alone by myself?  Whelp, grab a beer and shuffle some cards.

Entering an old Gate

Downloaded Baldur's Gate on the Nexus 7.  I've never played it before.  So naturally, I'm a total noob.  You know what it feels like?  Going up against a demon with a skimpy sling and string.

I'm out of mana.

Not much protection there, but remember the D&D rules.  An enchanted hair elastic can provide more protection than a 2 inch full plate of armour.

True Story.

Knowing your Origin

PSA

Remember Battlefield 1942?  You cant buy it anymore, but if you had the physical copy, you can totally redeem it in Origin just by entering the code.  WHA?

Some WoW in my pocket

How deep was I into World of Warcraft?  Let's backtrack a bit and revisit some more (notable) lost and found pics from my Pocket PC:

Night Elf

Fem warlock.  Pop quiz!

What is a lady warlock called?  Hint, she can float on water and weighs the same as a duck.  Actually, we've already covered this.  Never mind, and finally:

Paladin.  My first character EVER

This was multimedia piece by nature where I scanned the graphite and refined it by squinting at my PDA while sitting on a park bench.  I had wanted to colour it digitally at first, but ultimately just printed it out.

And went crazy with pencil crayons

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I found an "S" logo I tried to make look like the Lordearon coat of arms, but it ultimately didn't turn out.  Fail!

Sanctuary

So I got some unexpected help in the world of Sanctuary.  Hehehe.  My brother finally caved and bought Reaper of Souls.  YES!!  Now, we just need an angel (or paingel, whatevs) to come join us and complete the trinity.

No, not this one.  Not chubby enough

If Chubby Bunny actually does pick it up, that'd be awesome.  Just like old times playing Diablo 2.  If I remember correctly, our party was a Paladin, an Amazon a Necromancer.  We'd fire up a game and waste weekends upon weekends dungeon crawling and arguing who gets what loot.  

Good times.

Reaper of Sales

I'm a Blizzard whore fan!

Serious Enemy Within

Happy New Year!  Which also means... Steam had their usual Christmas sale.

But I was good this year and only bought 1 thing.  And it was an expansion, AND it was half off...

That's right!

Fired it up, and it felt like putting on an old shoe.  I thought I'd just continue off the old game, but actually no.  You start have to start all over again.  Which is fine.  But, for this "Second Wave" I'm not going to get too invested in it, just fire and forget.  Actually, I've already gotten more soldiers killed than promoted.  Ooops.

Support Class FTW

Guess what else I played over the break?

The ultimate in retro FPS

Again, fire and forget.  I didn't pick it up this Christmas.  I was just reminded I bought it waaay back when.  So I installed it and was pleasantly surprised it's still being updated.  Nice!

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Make that 2 things I bought.  I cracked on Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition.

Uh HoH, ok

Feeling more than a little under the weather.  Made some warm honey lemon water.  Yum.
Tonight's short post is Malphite.

Shard of the Monolith

Hoping Riot Games releases more champions like Jinx.  She's crazy =/  Check out the music video.

Body Found, LoL

I watched a fake documentary.  Or as I like to call it, a f'ockumentary.  On mermaids.

What a sweet waste of time.  Apparently some teens found a washed up body of a mermaid and there's a huge cover up.  If you, uh, think there's a conspiracy, it's a hoax man.

It's not real.  I mean Nami, is more real!  And she's in LoL.

Plus, she's not as nasty looking.

Ewww.

Got to get back into eshape playing esports.  I admit I'm getting rusty.  But, no shortcuts.  This is something I'm going to do right and and take my time.

Adagio summoner!

Thanks Sona...

Toast

Sometimes the reward for drilling a safe successfully, is nothing.  It sucks.

Sometimes you get a worse than nothing.

A piece of toast

That's... great!  Thanks buddy.  Great work.

He deserved it.  He misidentified a sketch I had on my desk.

It's a Luigi!!

FAIL!  Geek card revoked.  Nerd cred disapproved.

Heh, jk.  It's all good.  I need him on my team.

End of the month, It's PayDay 2

Playing games again.  Twenty seven hours, as of writing, playing Payday 2.  It's not bad... It's not bad at all.

Join up with your friends and go on heists like robbing banks, breaking into safes in jewelry stores, trafficking substances.  YEAH!  My role is crowd control and medic.

Monkey mask for the Monkey King

We bought the 4 pack of to save a little money.  The punchline?  The 3 of who are married gave cash to the bachelor so none of us gets audited for spending $90.00 on a game.

Don't judge.
You don't know me.  You don't know me!

Got a Head, LoL

Guess who I bought?

Twisted Fate

Obviously a champion based on Gambit.  Cool!

In other news, Corki isnt as good as I thought.  Same with Fiora, unless you got someone playing who knows exactly what's going on.

LoG

I had a dream once.

That I'd be able to stream through a dungeon on my Nexus 7.  Enter Legend of Grimrock.  I fired it up and got even more excited when I found out that I can import my own character portraits.  So after many lunches with the travel sketchbook, I finally scanned them in.

The Tank

The Rogue

The Chick

The Squishy

Looking colour them up but, I'm not entirely sure where that's going to go.  As for the game itself, I, well, never touched it again.  XCOM got in the way.

New Champions

I finally saved up enough points to unlock Fiora.  Yay!  And that's where I've been all this time.  Playing LoL.  I wish I didn't have an addictive personality, but I'm so in a tail spin right now.  Is there a LoL Anonymous somewhere?

My name is Ron...
And I have a problem...

Who's that in the corner?  Corki!  He was a another champion I unlocked, but never gave much attention.  He's good to play, if your team needs a steady support guy to hold the fort down.

My hands are twiching.  C'YA!!

The Elder Scrolls Arena

An old DOS game with a title that confused me (for a split second) because it sounded like the up and coming MMORPG.  Nevertheless, if you're into retro gaming, you can even download it here.  Gonna try firing that up on my Nexus 7.  No, I'm not crazy.  I will be playing through an emulator.

How did I get confused between the 2 games?  Maybe I'm not as hardcore of an RPG fan as I thought.  Admittedly, I haven't even played Skyrim.  But, I love to draw fantasy.  Rule 63 applies.

Lady Skyrim

Open Salve

So I emailed Valve hoping for an answer.  After a week, they finally reply with update your steam client.  After specifically specifying the specific problem, and waiting another couple days, I am told they "do not offer technical support for development tools or user made content."  *slow clap*

WHELP !!

I know it's not a whelp.  My brother drew this.

Used with permission.  Thank you Yeegoh!

Lets check forums.  Some help, but even then it's kinda vague whats going on.  What kills me is I can't even post anything on the forum because, as of blogging this sentence, I am waiting for them to authorize my account... to post on the forum.

ANYWAYS

This is what I did that worked.  If you're luck enough to still have the "day of defeat source.gcf" file.


1.  Extract "day of defeat source.gcf" folder with "GCFScape"

2.  Copy "root\dod\materials" folder to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Day of Defeat Source\dod"

3.  Copy "root\dod\models" folder to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Day of Defeat Source\dod"

4.  Open "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Day of Defeat Source\dod\info.txt" with a text editor (like Windows Notepad)

5a.  Add "ToolsAppId                211" to the line after "SteamAppId                300"

5b.  Add "Game |gameinfo_path|." to the line before " // First, mount all user customizations.  This will search for VPKs and subfolders"

6a.  Run Hammer (Source Engine MP / Day of Defeat: Source)

Good luck and may the Force be with you.

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Actually, I'm back cause I missed a couple things:


6b.  Tools -> Options

7a.  [Game Configurations] tab
Game Executable Directory:
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\day of defeat source
Game Directory:
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\day of defeat source\dod
HAMMER VMF Directory:
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\username\sourcesdk_content\dod\mapsrc

7b.  [Build Programs] tab
Game executable:
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\day of defeat source\hl2.exe
BSP executable:
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\username\sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin\vbsp.exe
VIS executable:
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\username\sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin\vvis.exe
RAD executable:
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\username\sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin\vrad.exe
Place compiled maps in this directory before running the game:
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\day of defeat source\dod\maps
[OK]

9.  Close Hammer

10.  Run Hammer (Source Engine MP / Day of Defeat: Source)

Broken Valve

Valve broke my head.

They updated Day of Defeat to streamline it, but the now map creator doesn't work.  Spent 2 days changing paths and looking for assets and have come up empty handed.  WHAT THE HELL MAN?

I was mocking up the office to play with friends.  I had a good alpha test too.  Now, it'sWHAT THE HELL MAN??

I cant fix the app, I cant fix my head.
Going to eat cheese now.  Mixing chocolate milk and Bailey's now.

Video Games

My buddy shared this with me today.

And we started chatting, reaffirming our love for games and how true it is that it has benefited us.  I noted how games are so complex now you can even apply classical texts like Sun Tzu's Art of War to your strategy.  So I quoted:

Strike like the eagle on top of the mountain

Root like the tree in changing winds

Zerglings flow like water

HA!  I cracked him up good.  I was so proud.  By the way its a Korean proverb.
HA!  If you still don't get it, um, its not going to be funny even if I explain. =(

Let the Commencement Beginulate

It's finally here!

See you later,

BITCHES!!