League of Legends – The Beta Test

If you’ve been following me from a long time ago, you know I wrote a little about League of Legends (LoL). If you haven’t, here’s the link to it, and it’s a very short post.

Thursday night, I was happy to say I got my desktop running and installed LoL on it. It was just the beta, but I pre-ordered the game already. It definitely has the feel of Defense of the Ancient (DotA) map in WarCraft 3. LoL is its own game and I am very glad they did it. It should have its own title. Not only is it competitive, but also fun. It definitely brings a whole level of teamwork. I do wish that it would play on a Mac though, cause I have my laptop everywhere I go and there are times I crave that game… already.

I only played it once, so don’t take my word for it, but I was convinced that I would enjoy the game and pre-ordered the game. That was how I was able to play beta, I wasn’t really invited into it, though it would be nice (my cousin did though). Nevertheless, my first play in a test server game was nothing more than an enjoyable one. It was even better after my team won ^_^ I played Ashe, a ranger. She reminded me of Drow Ranger in DotA.

Into a short analysis of the game. The first thing that caught me was that it’s beautiful. The color and the look was just stunning and gave a new feel for such a game (that I don’t think was ever created before). I couldn’t be more please with the gameplay. It took a little to get used to the keyboard shortcuts, but after a while, it was really easy. I never needed to move my hand (left hand) on the keyboard away from the home row. It also took me a little while to get used to the fact that my hero was always selected. For strategy games, it is very normal to be able to deselect, only because you usually control more than one hero. In this sense, it’s almost like an MMO, action, or an adventure game where you’re only controlling one person. I am unsure about the tree stats and certain extra things added for heroes when your sorcerer levels up, but things like that brings longevity to a game that just sits there. In this sense, it makes each hero different. I could have the same items and same hero as another person on the team, but because of the different runes we use, our hero will end up with different results and different stats. I could have runes that only up my hp and mana and their regen while the other player could use runes that brings up their damage and attack speed and defense. This definitely brings about the competitiveness of the game and also the different outcome of a game that could happen.

The battle was only 20 minutes. Which was a good time frame. After reading the forums a little, it looked like the time frame could go up as long as an hour, depending on how well each team plays of course. Seeing this, I would recommend people trying out the beta first before purchasing the game. If you’re already into DotA and wish for a new look and feel and play, I say get this game and play both. I stopped playing DotA because the fact that people quitting the game (regardless of being banned or not) just keeps happening and it got very tired.

Regardless, if you are interested in the beta, I do have one available beta request left. If you are interested (after checking out their site) and would like to try it or get an invitation, you are welcome to leave your e-mail address in a comment to this post. Just for a heads up, your e-mail will be publicly known and that is at your own risk. I will also need you to write why you want an invite and who would be your first hero of choice. This is so I won’t be giving invite to some random anonymous person who doesn’t know anything about the game at all. At least I would know why you want it and who you would play. First come first serve, that’s it. Sorry I only have one. I had 2, but the second one was already given out and I only had 3. First one was already given out to a friend.

Once again, check out League of Legends website, created by Riot Games.

Weekend Blurb #3

This week has been awfully quick. The days went in a blink of an eyes. Nevertheless, they were great days. I finally got my computer parts on Thursday. It’s built and running. There are a few things that I’ll have to live/cope with but I think they will work for now. I can’t complain too much with the things I have going for me.

I got all my computer parts on Thursday and I built it that very night. Outcome, I was very happy with it. I bought all the parts from Newegg.

In their original boxes

It took me a while to build the computer because it was my first time putting one together from unopened box parts. Several hours later, it came out awesome and after firing it up, it worked. Lighted up blue in the back, sides and front. Unfortunately, I don’t have any picture of it turned on. I do have how it looks on the inside though.

The inside of my computer

Friday, Chelsea came over. We spent the weekend together. It was very good.

This weekend was overall a good week. I got very tired towards the end of the weekend though (today). Chelsea played Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise. It was good to see she enjoyed the game.

One fun thing that we did this weekend: we went to an art place. We painted on  pottery. It was fun. I got a bowl and Chelsea got a tea set. It should be ready by Wednesday or Thursday. When I get a change to get it online, I shall share. Until then, this weekend has been a fun-filled weekend, though tiring.

2-Years Anniversary Fun

Weekend Blurb? This weekend isn’t just a blurb. It was a fun-filled Saturday alone and even though I could say it in 2 or 3 sentences, it’s not just a weekend blurb.

Friday night, I arrived at Chelsea’s place. Noting special there, just haven’t seen her for 2 weeks and that in itself took Friday night to fill each other out from not seeing each other for a while.

Saturday morning, I decided to buy roses for her. I contemplated the time I should have left, but decided to do it later as I could get back, get the flowers in a vase, and made her late breakfast. Nope, didn’t go as planned. She woke up when I got back with the roses and a balloon in my hand. No big, I could work around this little thing. Made French Toast with her for breakfast and had breakfast with her mom.

Saturday evening, we went to Walt Disney World. Left at 4:30PM. We laid around her place until we had to leave. A little before I took the exit, she already guessed where I was taking her for dinner, Planet Hollywood. I still couldn’t surprise her (this one was a pretty easy give away to be honest), she has made the day difficult for me to surprise her. There wasn’t a wait, so we took our seat and started talking about plans after. I told her we could walk around Marketplace and go to Pleasure Island later in the evening. She was up for it and didn’t suspect anything further.

Once we were done with dinner, I told her that we should walk around a little. Since we talked about Pleasure Island (PI) earlier, she wanted to go there, but I told her I wanted to take her somewhere first. We didn’t have to go to PI then. We saw a guy playing a double-neck guitar (12-string on one neck and 6-strong on the other) and a didgeridoo (a modern one). Then took some pictures. We started walking toward Disney Quest and Virgin store (which was what it used to be). She’s not been to Disney Quest before, which I was quite surprised and I was surprised when I found out that the Virgin store is now somewhat of a museum of Prince Diana. I wasn’t sure of it, but we continued walking.

She saw Cirque du Soleil building and mentioned how her dad and step-mom got to see it twice for free because it was paid for and how it wasn’t fair, so I casually said, “Why don’t we go see if they have a showing?” As we walked closer, she saw a sign for the prices and pulled me toward it. I told her not to look at that nonsense and walk with me. She continued pulling, so I just let her hand go as she went to look at it and I went straight to the ticket booth. I have bought the tickets on-line some time last week and I was just going for the pick-up. She was surprise. Finally! I knew I would get her for that one.

Morning didn’t go as plan. Dinner was a give away. Finalé was a sure thing.

We walked around Marketplace a little because we were still an hour and a half early. Seeing her happy like that brought joy in my heart. I knew I’ve done well ^_^

Cirque du Soleil was money worth spending. The place was a little smaller than I thought, so we were 5 seats away from the stage. I was hoping it would be a little further, but was a excellent view nonetheless. I wouldn’t sit that close if I were to go again, but I would definitely go again.

We ended the night with some dessert at Sonic and a few hours in each others’ arms.

Our 2-years anniversary of going out together.

I love you sweetie!

9 Years Later and It is Coming

I’ve had my desktop for a long time, around 9 Years. I still use it to play games like World of Warcraft. It was worth the money spent on it, but it was my own money (I’m not complaining though). It was a gift from my mom and I was only in 9th grade then. I wasn’t working, so I couldn’t afford one.

Fast forward to the present. I am currently waiting for the computer parts that I recently bought. It will be my first-actual-real PC (personal computer) because I used my hard-earned money, and I will be putting it together from the physical parts to installing the OS (operating system) into it. It’s going to be a gaming computer mainly, but I will be getting more hard drive for it for separate storage such as music and anime. This is my first time putting a computer together from parts, so I will more than likely share this experience with everyone ^_^

My old computer lasted 9 years. It’s a Dell and it actually still works very well. I want to upgrade it because it’s not good enough to play the few games that are coming out and it has served its time. I hope my next desktop will serve me just as long or longer. I’ve only had 2 desktop in my life and both of them turns out to work for a very long time. I would love for this desktop to last more than 10 years, but if it lasts between 7 – 10 years, I’ll be just as happy.

I’ll likely get the parts next week. The wait continues…

Yesterday, the 2-day

Yesterday was 2 years anniversary for Chelsea and me AND 2 months working for the new job I was at. Man, the 2’s keep coming, and it is definitely one of my numbers.

Did not spend the time with Chelsea like I wanted because she’s on vacation with her dad and family. She’s coming back tomorrow and we’ll spend this weekend together. I can’t really write what I have planned since she reads my entries, so it’ll have to wait.

Other than that, everything’s been better. I feel I can talk with my sister like normal again and we just went for a buffet dinner tonight. It was good. She recommended the place.

Tonight’s short. I thank you all for reading. Yesterday, I had the highest read ever, 30. I think it might be some people just clicking the link, so that might not even be anything, who knows.

Blogs are meant for knowledge and for sharing. Information that matters to someone other than the writer. Here’s something I’m going to share:

Honor takes you a long way. In today’s society where trying to get the best results for the lowest cost might be important, but when you develop that mentality, honor is some times lost. Especially if you’re there to cheat people as well. Honor your words. It’s ok to take free things, they’re free for a reason, but for those that’s not, don’t. I’ve been keeping up with some spec design site. People hold competition for designers to do job and “pay” the winner(s). Well, not all competition goes that way and the competition holder decides not to have a winner. I’m thinking they have someone to do the job, but probably stealing the ideas from the designers who take time to do it. That’s not honoring. If you want to take that design, then choose that person as a winner.

I can never work like that, not even if I want to put my thing out. If I do, I’ll build my own website for portfolio and do logos or web designs and put them on my portfolio.

Honor, respect, and most of all, honesty. Take that to heart, live life with such and not only will you contribute to society but society will notice and contribute to you.