So, a few things to put here: First, thursday evening I heard a ballsy old black man call someone "white boy", which is something I've heard in movies from ballsy old black men, but never thought I would actually hear myself. So that made that night.
Second, I finally got a beta invite for ESO online. The download speed is crap because zenimax decided to host a 20 gig download on a server that only spits out 200 kilobytes at a time at best, but still, official beta tester now. (with the server power needed to run this game, they should have put it on one of those spare megaservers or something)
Third, I found a site where I can make decent sigs, like the one currently in my sig spot right now.
And finally, in an attempt to increase the piss poor download speed, I fiddled with the DNS settings on my computer, and now pages load at the speed of beautiful. Even BG which has consistently been a time vacuum when it comes to loading a page.
Well for whatever reason I was connected to a bell south DNS server. And at the time I was a little confused on what messing with the DNS would do since I'm not a computing major, but the destination justified the journey. The download speed is still bad on the zenimax launcher, but at least its more consistent at the moment. Before it would dip wildly to like 50 kilobytes per second, but now its holding strong at 200. Overall, no big change other than pages loading so much more quickly than before along with youtube videos. I don't usually download anything bigger than maybe 600 megs at a time anyways.
EDIT: Maybe tomorrow(rather later today) I'll take another crack at hooking directly into the ether(net) to get the ESO download really moving because my beta testing is only good till monday, and I still haven't made a khajiit.
Someone asked me today why I'm still on this site "if you hate it so much".
I love posting. I love every part of it. I love getting posts. I love reading posts. I love writing posts. If I were banned from every out of character forum, subforum, chat and skype and could still manage to find IC threads I wouldn't mind at all. I know I post a lot OOC when I don't have enough time to post in character. I know I stress *way* too much about useless crap like mechanics and applications and future plot plans. But when it really comes down to it? Nothing on the internet--no game, site, comic or otherwise--makes me happier than logging into bleach gotei and seeing a post for me and knowing that somewhere out there someone is waiting for a post from me to them so they can experience the same feeling as me.
Community? Chat? Mechanics? Plotting? Character Design? I love these things too in their own way. But when it comes down to it I'm here to write RP posts. Not even RP chapters or threads. Just posts. And when I sit back and think about the simple joy of seeing a post response in my inbox it reminds me why I stay here.
So thank you for giving me a place to experience this time and time again.
Said it to a few, but fuck it, I like to repeat myself. Kiss my ass if you don't like it. :-P
Thanks for helping me break my 5 year writer's block and giving me a place to write again. For offering up your characters, your plots, and your wacky shenanigans in a way I haven't felt so happy and enthusiastic about since the mid 2000s. Also thank you for enabling me to meet a wonderful, loving boyfriend in the most unexpected of places. Did not fucking expect that and am more than just a little happy about that.
I am so sorry but not sorry for the sheer volume of word vomit that's come out of my short time here. And for what has yet to come. I continue to look forward to doing nothing but more word spewing and being an absolute pain in the ass from now until I can't write here anymore.
So, yep. There it is.
Thanks guys, you're fabulous and I appreciatehate you all.
Post by Sakamoto Miki on Mar 7, 2014 0:07:56 GMT -5
I just realized how much I've written on BG.
Just on one character alone, if I claimed her threads/everything right now, I would have over 250,000 Words written worth of GP.
I've got more then that because of an alt.
That still astounds me.
I'm not sure I've ever stayed ANYWHERE long enough to get half that, let alone a number like that.
Thank you BG, you guys are amazing.
I Left last year because of Life and many other reasons and I came back here because of how dearly I loved Miki and I wanted to close her plotline. I've not only closed what I wanted, but I've expanded on well beyond that.
We have our many, many, many, many, many, many, many differences and opposing view points and personalities.
But that, my dear little sister, was funny as fuck. Your weird as shit sense of humor out does mine at times, and explaining to your boyfriend that "George Lucas selling out to Disney is like he just shot Star Wars in the thigh and wandered away, dazed and confused, afterwards to go soak in a hot tub full of bourbon." is probably one of your better comments.
I'm grateful for everyone who wants to thread with me.
Seriously I take every post I get from you guys as a gift. Every "lets thread, TK!" as a blessing. And every one of you are an awesome person capable of brightening up my day anywhere in the world.