Intro Post for new online friends
So hi new people on the FL. What's up? I'm good. As I said in the friendocalypse post, I'm into tabletop rpgs, video games, drawing, painting, reading, writing, anime, and being lazy. I also like music but I'm still getting a feel for my tastes. It's mostly classic rock stuff right now: I like the Eagles and Boston and Aerosmith and the Stones and the Zepp (thank you, Brock Sampson.) It's partly Rock Band's fault. I have a friend who works at Harmonix so I got RB2 through him at his discount and it was pretty awesome, but we've been lame and not playing it for a while. We being the household--I have 3-5 housemates, including my husband and depending on how you count the house because we're the upstairs apartment and 2 of our friends live downstairs. We treat it as a big geek household, though, and pretty much never lock the doors in between.
My two direct housemates, the ones that I signed a lease with but didn't marry, have bought a house so will no longer be my housemates as of August 31st. My husband (let's call him Nybble, he likes that online handle) and I will have to find new roommates to renew our lease, but we've got a pair of brothers lined up who want to move back to Arlington. Twin brothers. It'll be hot. Except not because I'm pretty vanilla, but I can pretend in my mind. One of them even has a goatee, so I can tell which one is evil.
Anyway, Nybble and I are not buying a house just yet because the stars have not aligned right to have it all work. And by that I mean we don't make enough money to justify buying a house right now, but probably will when his job situation irons itself out. We'll see how that works. It might happen next month, it might happen in a few months... eh. If I get to talking about that I'll depress myself so how about not.
Did I mention the rambling? Yeah... Apparently my rambling now comes with a side of run-on sentences and derailed trains of thought. Awesome.
I am a gamer but sort of a lame one. I tend to stick with the classic tried-and-true games and have a hard time branching out. I'm replaying Secret of Mana now that it's out for Virtual Console, because it doesn't require a multitap to get 3 people to play. I don't remember a whole lot of the game, but Nybble showed me the magic-level-wanking mechanism so that's cool. It makes it a whole lot easier. This game was hard when I was 14. I'm also building a PC for the Sims 3. The case should get here tomorrow--all the other components are already here and sitting on the couch.
My personal laptop fried itself on Sunday. Nyb says it's the logic board and it's not worth replacing anymore. So I have a six-year-old white Macbook that's now acting as a paperweight. I'd get another one but I just spent my allowance on a new gaming rig. Great timing, laptop. Pricing out a new one led me to see that Wacom has a lightweight Cintiq--4.4 lbs and the size of a small sketchpad--for the same price. Gah, so tempting. I've always wanted one but I don't know if I can justify it. I just don't know if I'd actually use it enough. I really want to make a webcomic or two out of our D&D games, and it'd help, but I run into the fact that I am inherently lazy and will probably not work at it. It's all well and good to dream about it, but putting down $1000 for a piece of hardware that, while pretty, will most likely just sit around is hard to justify. Maybe if/when Nybble starts making more money.
I've made a couple of attempts at character designs for webcomic-style things based on various games we play. For instance, our 2nd Ed campaign as featured a priest of Pussich, the god of hiccups; a mage/cleric of Bambi, the goddess of small furry animals; a miniature storm giant paladin of Pussich; a female satyr acrobat who runs around naked; a hyperactive human monk; a gnome inventor whose inventions sometimes actually work; a 5-year-old Saiyen (sans tail); an elven bard of mostly indeterminate gender; a drow ranger with odd-colored eyes and two swords (LOL, her drow is different); and a 13-year-old half-elf mage who's just hitting puberty. It's comedy gold in monthly installments and we have about 10 years worth of backstory. Then there's the 3.5 Ed campaign that started off as high level so that people could play characters with interesting templates: werewolf, mhyuuntir (Zee will correct my spelling, I'm sure), half-celestial, half-dragon, tremen, and lich. That just has the option of being very pretty, if I can manage it.
The problem with both of these is that if I tried to do a webcomic of it, 1) it would take a lot of work and 2) I have no idea where the story is going, because I'm just a player. It'd probably end up focused on my character, which could get boring and annoy the other players.
Anyway, it's getting late and I have to be up early for a release in the wee hours of the morning. Sorry about rambling, thanks for reading, and I look forward to having a much more active friends list.