anghraine | Entries tagged with game: guild wars 2

This isn't really discourse (at least, I hope not!). I really wanted to keep backing up my Tumblr posts and keeping a lot of my content over here and linking or something, but a few months ago, I ran into a single terrible problem with Dreamwidth that I never before thought about.

Even the paid premium accounts max out at 2000 tags :(

"But Elizabeth," you might say, "you don't even use tags for commentary over here, just for organization. You shouldn't need more than two thousand, surely."

And to this I would say: "shut up."

I was already deleting less essential tags to get them below 1999—for instance, extremely minor Guild Wars 2 characters I had dutifully tagged even though I suspect vanishingly few of you have the slightest interest in even major GW2 characters/ships like Marjory/Kasmeer (my beloved MMORPG f/f ship canonized in 2013; if ArenaNet doesn't animate their wedding I will revolt harder than Separatists in Ascalon), much less a barely-named character who shows up in one chapter of a 70k stylistically odd and niche GW2 fanfic. I used to tack more generally, but I don't want to give up things like my Gondor-specific tag ... or my aasimar tag ... but after so long the tags have definitely accumulated. And I don't think you can even pay for a higher number of tags than the 2000 from the premium account (which I would do! take my money, Dreamwidth!).

Anyway, at this point, any post that uses a new tag involves combing through my old tags and making decisions about what tags are really essential and it pains my soul. :( :(

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie)

heckofabecca responded to this post:

…. wow

I replied:

Thank you! :D

darkwingatlarge said:

Original guild wars was such a good game

I replied:

Yes! I love GW2, but I have a particularly soft spot in my heart for the original and still really enjoy playing it. The skill system can be a bit overwhelming, but it’s fun to have that much freedom + individualized instances and hero companions and everything. Also, Mesmer is my favorite class, so fabulous costumes, too :D :D :D

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Now I'm Here (Queen)

My dad has been complaining about Guild Wars 2 not being the original Guild Wars for … like, seven years, and in the course of a conversation about it, announced that he wants to get the new GW2 expansion for the whole family when it comes out.

me: I’d love it, but … ?

dad: I want to support ArenaNet.

me: ?????

dad: So that they keep running GW1!

me: …ah.

Tagged: #aedf;addk i love prophecies too #but there is something purely and unswervingly dad-ish about his devotion that i can't quite aspire to #(i'm a weakling who likes being able to jump :P)

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Rain Is Falling (Electric Light Orchestra)

I was reading a discussion about GW2, and it was like—

person: the lore isn’t great, but the mechanics are

me, someone who has written 90k of fic driven by raw frustration with GW2′s treatment of lore: HOW DARE

Tagged: #the treatment of the first major event in the whole series is SO BAD in gw2 and yet i'm super defensive of it anyway #eternal fave

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Strange Magic (Electric Light Orchestra)

Truly trivial complaints:

My birthday is coming up (the ides of March!!) and it’s a Significant Age, so people are like … you need to make a list so we have some idea of what to give you for the Significant Birthday!

Which is fair, but these days, the things I want are like … “my longtime best friend to live in the PNW again” and “my prelims to be over” and “a book cover for my perpetually unfinished novel” and “Amazon to do well by Númenor” and “a sudden desire to eat vegetables.”

I mean, there are plenty of things that occur to me in passing, but when it comes down to making a list, they all flee my mind and … ???

Tagged: #i know there are things other than money that i want #i just can't think of most of them #and the ones i can think of are prohibitively expensive so i wouldn't actually ask #hmm #hmmmmm #gw2 costumes? i'm not playing at the moment but i love them and am feeling like going back #but it seems a kind of trivial thing #i've thought one of those genetic tests would be fun but a) they're expensive and b) i know exactly where my ancestors are from #seriously though if i could pick any actually-possible thing it /would/ be money for art commissions #not just the novel ... like althea and logan or fíriel and éowyn or lucy and vader or the aasimar au or my d&d warlock ororor #this is what comes of having art ideas but no ability lol #but i can't really ask the people in my life for that #uhhhh #i don't want to read anything rn so the old reliable of books/bookstore gift cards is kind of out #cooler dice? i don't know!!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: The Show Must Go On (Queen)

It seems ridiculous, but—

I feel sort of accomplished by the fact that I:

got up at 8 AM
posted materials for my class
played a Guild Wars mission with my mother
drank tea
ate breakfast
answered a student email
posted instructions/announcements for the week in Blackboard
showered
brushed some of my hair
brushed all my teeth
took my medications (bipolar meds & asthma ones & supplements)
tried to return a call

There are other things that I not only need to do, but should have finished at absolute latest last week, and meanwhile, my brain is like “okay, but we brushed a mat out of our hair for the first time in six weeks”

Tagged: #even my best friend is like 'but you're so high-functioning' and meanwhile getting my shit together enough for basic hygiene is just #this ordeal #and has always been! #because a) getting my shit together enough to do much of anything is a very steep climb #esp things with more than one part to them #and b) sensation is Bad #except peeling the skin off my lips. which i do for no reason but have never managed to stop. #but nearly everything else is high intensity red alert #ugh #i should be doing more things than this! but a lot of days i don't manage this much so ?????????

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Love of My Life (Queen)

GW2 EXPANSION GW2 EXPANSION GW2 EXPANSION

Sorry, I'm totally chill >_>

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Fear Not This Night (Laura Platt)

Today is the first time I've missed using Twitter/Reddit, purely because I want to participate in the buzz over the awesome-looking new GW2 expansion.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Peculiar Magic (Audiomachine)

It's kind of funny, but my latest GW2 fixation has resulted in me spending less money than usual.

That isn't even because it takes up a certain amount of time while requiring no subscription (you buy a GW game, you can play it forever). Rather, it's because the last class I teach is near a Starbucks, and I'm usually both hungry and tired at that point, especially if I have a still-longer day at campus ahead of me. The prices are exorbitant IMO ($11 for a small mass-produced sandwich and 16 oz tea??), but it was what was there, so periodically I'd stop by and fortify myself for the rest of the day.

So one day, I was thinking through GW2 headcanons as I was heading to class / being tempted by the lure of a not very filling Starbucks "meal", and suddenly thought, hey, $11 is like ... 800 gems in GW2. You can get a lot of cool stuff for 800 gems, and I enjoy those a lot longer than a heated up sandwich and tea I could probably make myself if I got up earlier.

I can't actually justify spending $11 on game stuff instead of literal food (even if kind of shitty literal food) every time I'd normally have picked something up at Starbucks, though. That feels weird and unhealthy somehow. It's more a bargain with myself when the lure is especially strong, I guess, and I've stopped eating at Starbucks pretty much altogether. So the net result is actually spending less rather than more.

*\0/*, I guess?

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Journey Through the Portal (Audiomachine)

I've played the entire GW2 personal story (for the core game) before, on my first character, but once I decided to make a main out of my fave class in both GW1 and GW2, I wanted to do it again, more carefully. It's taken... uh, years, but I'm currently in Orr and nearing the end. However, it does feel a bit strange to be playing the level 80 Orr missions while writing the Logan-Althea brotp fic with the Althea of the early game. Whiplash of the mind!

(Also, Malchor's Leap is an awful zone.)

Current Location: Washington

I don't think most of my GW2 friends are over here, so this is of zero interest to most/maybe all of you, but I made a new GW2 character—a rather flashy engineer thanks to using the Total Makeover Kit to get a face I liked with red lipstick, and a fancy updo for her hair. It's not very engineer-y, but that's my fave class after mesmer, and I wanted to try the new specialization. It was a lot of fun to fiddle with everything and I've really been enjoying playing her—I even got the name I wanted.

When I got to the "Missing Sister" storyline, I actually contemplated doing something different for her background—this character, Alexandra, is a commoner where my main is a noble, so she was already playing differently in my head, and she could have a different background or something ... but my GW feelings are still rooted in Prophecies and I couldn't resist choosing "Ascalonian, sir, and proud of it" again. My people <3

Anyway, Alexandra!