Monthly Archives: July 2008

Ahh The Great Quest For Content

I’m just trying to relax for the 4th. But I’m also working on the backend of this site.

I’ve upgraded some plugins and added some new ones (as well as updated the theme to the latest version — and fixed the issue w/ the images where it would create a scroll bar, if it is NOT fixed, please shift + refresh the page to clear out any cached .css files). I’m also running google analytics on both the blog and gallery. Should give me some more insight. And, I’m really curious about it anyways.

I’ve also uploaded some pics from my trip to Budapest last summer. There will be more like this in the future. Enjoy. This is generated as a slideshow. Clicking on the right half of the image will move to the next, clicking on the left half will move to the previous image. Clicking on close or outside of the image will close the slideshow. There is also a link at the top which links to the Gallery.

{wp-gallery-remote: gallery=0; rootalbum=45; showalbumtitle=true; showsubalbums=true; showimagesheader=true;}

Trying Something New (Galleries)

{wp-gallery-remote: gallery=0; rootalbum=17; showalbumtitle=true; showsubalbums=true; showimagesheader=true;}

If everything worked right, these pics will show up. I’m still finalizing the gallery configs and defaults to make everything look as good as I can.

In the future, I’m going to use this gallery for various RL pictures and other in-game albums that don’t need their own post.

In the meantime, please enjoy my Blue Angels Pictures (complete w/ a CSS/JS image viewer).

Cheers!

-pyra

I Really Just Hate People Sometimes…

Now I like making fun of people sometimes too, but there are times when people join an end-game LS and all of a sudden think their shit don’t stink.

This came to me today.

http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2091015#post2091015

Quote:  Deuciont – “it’s shit like this that makes me wish mog bonanza never happened…”

Below that is a pic of someone he feels doesn’t deserve a Hauteclaire.

Now looking at the screenshot, I see a PLD who has reasonably decent gear, but because they ‘won’ their sword and didn’t ‘earn’ it via endless camping of a 2-3 day spawn, she is suddenly ‘gimp’.  All of the people that those felt ‘deserved’ the sword, all got congrats, those who didn’t ‘deserve’ it, ZOMG gimp.

I can understand that some are annoyed that these paladins got so lucky and got their sword, but if an otherwise decent tank suddenly gets an AMAZING sword, which helps them do their job better, its suddenly bad?  Looking at the gear, they have just about the best you can get w/o a bit of luck while not camping hnms all day.

Maybe it wouldn’t bother me much, but the poster (Deuciont) is just an ass.

He quit the LS I was in previously on diabolos to join a bunch of people who quit DarkStatic, which at the time was really falling apart.

http://www.devotionls.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3

Quote:  Deuciont – “Previous Linkshell: SomeRandom LS, I wasn’t having any fun over there.”

Just admit what shell you were in (here’s a clue, its the one post you made on their site during your worthless time there).  Really, you join a formerly ok end-game shell and suddenly you are too good to admit where you came from?  Then you have the audacity to tell this paladin — who is probably thrilled beyond all measure that they got one of the best swords for their job — that they don’t deserve it?  I don’t know Archangelite, nor am I familiar with her shell, but I will still defend them against an attack like this.

What she did was very smart, and good.  She has decent gear, and she just upgraded her sword.  She also did not spend everything she had on just one piece (which is also a GOOD thing).  She can still afford her foods.  Trying to get better items is generally accepted as a ‘good’ thing in this game, especially on BG.