More Dark Age of Camelot. These screens are from a Chapter 3 Circle of Five raid I attended on Sunday night:

I’m really enjoying the game this time back. I’m a big fan of the horse, as I’ve said a number of times. I made Champion Level 1 during the raid the above screenshots are from. I’m .8 away from dinging Champion Level 2. At level 2 I’ll be able to use saddle bags. Which for some reason is a real turn on. In a way that owning a house was a turn off for me. The idea with the house is that I could echo real life habits and throw shit all over the floor if I want. Kinda pissed me off when I found I had to buy a fucking chest.

When I get my vacation time I just may play DAoC for 2 weeks straight. Of course by the time I get vacation who knows if I’ll still be enjoying the game as I am now. I would like to be able to get a Master Level or two as well. Seems fitting since my activity as of late in the game. As it is I’m still Master Level-less and I still have no artifacts. I have this Harpy Cloak item still from one of the last times I started playing again. And I have the 3 scrolls for another artifact. So two weeks of playing Camelot could be very productive.

You know how normal people with jobs get vacations? Well here is the fucked up thing at the hotel. I get paid vacation, two weeks since I’ve been there forever. Sounds great right? Well here is the fucked up part. I can’t take my vacation because they have no one to cover my time off. This is what the Sheriff told me the other day.

Which really sucks. Because right about now I could use two weeks off. It’s getting to the point that instead of two weeks off it’s going to be two weeks notice. I just think I’ve had it up to here with the retards at work. The Sheriff needs to start acting like a fucking front desk manager. No one to cover a shift? Well I got news for you Skippy it’s your job to cover that shit. Be it first, second, or third shifts.

What the fuck would the Sheriff do if I quit? Sure the majority of the time I talk about quitting I’m full of shit. But in this hypothetical situation what would he do? I’m under the impression he’s not all that happy to be a working manager. I think he may be another one of those people who think a manager should sit in their office all day. It’s something I’ve given name to. It’s called being a Munson. And honestly that’s the worst thing that you can be.

Front desk manager my ass. We haven’t had a real front desk manager for years. The one guy they wouldn’t actually give the title and position to came really damn close. But he got burnt out on their bullshit and left. Which is really to bad. Because now we deal with the likes of the Sheriff and his ilk. Brethren that just can’t be done away with. I swear these fuckers grow out of the fucking woodwork. All seemingly having ties to one another.

Want an example of what I’m talking about? The schedules. The Sheriff has a damn time getting this thing out on time. I could quote some law about having it out a certain number of days beforehand. But what does it matter. Here’s the little note on the current schedule:

If the numbers don’t improve, I may ask you to leave a few hours early or come in a few hours late as I cover those hours.

Excuse for being all confused by this, but isn’t this the opposite of the purpose of a schedule. I work what I’m scheduled. No more no less. If the Sheriff want’s me to leave early or come in late schedule it that way. To me it’s the whole reason there is a schedule. So I know when to come in and when to leave. Fuck this guess work bullshit. I would recommend the desks clerks stick to their scheduled time. Lazy fucking management is what this is.

I have an idea how about tonight I come in two weeks late? Shit this may just be a good idea yet.

Bored yet with all this game talk? So I finally beat that one asshole and got my Champion Weapon. I also finished up the Epic Quests for armor. Overall this was my most productive session of Dark Age of Camelot since I started playing the game. Below are shots of the two different versions of the merc champion weapon and the before and after shots of my old/epic armor.

Once again I’ll say I’m having quite a bit of fun playing Camelot again. Not sure I want to quit just yet. I still want to get a Champion Level or two.

Jack Thompson. This guy is getting way to much press. Honestly I’m sick of it. The best thing we could do is just leave this lunatic alone. Let him spout his bullshit and hope that the mainstream press doesn’t pick this fuck up and run with it. Eventually I can see this guy being my generations Fredric Wertham. Thompson is the same kind of beast as Wertham was. All Jack needs is a Senate Subcommittee or two to vomit his spiel at and they would burn games just like they did comic books (echoing in my mind that great mentality of the Nazi’s).

The more I read about Thompson the more I think the guy may be half right. I say this because the more I read about this lawyer scum bag the more I wish for bad things to come to him. Not that I personally would kill Jack Thompson. That would be wrong. Which if you listen to him the fact I play all of these violent video games I should want to kill Jack Thompson with my bare hands in cold blood. So I’m an anomaly then. But I would like Jack to become a martyr for his cause. I would laugh quite heartily if I was to read that Jack Thompson was brutally murdered.

Which leads me to my idea for a video game. Not at all that different from Jack’s A Modest Video Game Proposal, except I don’t want to make claims about donating money I don’t have. It’s very simple and the title is the title of this item your reading. Which of course comes from Bill Hick’s bit “Let’s Hunt and Kill Billy Ray Cyrus”:

I think it’s fairly self-explanatory. Each week we let the Hounds of Hell loose and chase the jar-head, no talent, cracker-asshole all over the globe till I finally catch that fruity little ponytail of his, pull him to his chippendaleís knees, put a shotgun in his mouth and “pow”.

Of course the potential is far more than just a video game alone. I think it would make a great reality tv show as well. It would be the first reality tv show I would watch.

In closing I will leave you with the very wise words of Mike Krahulik:

I think we can all agree that young kids should not play violent video games. I think we can also agree that they should not watch violent movies or read pornographic magazines. That’s a job for parents not Jack Thompson.

Which I think is something all who support Thompson should read.

This post is about a half eaten piece of cake/pie (whatever the fuck it was). Since I can’t hear this shit from the individual (yes you) I figure they can find out stuff from other sources as well. Of course it is my site so it’s just as good as coming from me personally.

I was told yesterday when I came in (by the only good front desk employee we have) that I was accused of throwing away some kind of baked food the night before. I’m told that the person bitched for a rather long time about me and this baked good I supposedly had done away with.

So for the record here is what really happened. I came in to work like any other night. I had my twelve pack of Diet Mountain Dew with me as I always do. The twelve pack is placed in the fridge in the back of the front desk where I always put it. Now anytime I find shit left in this fridge I take it out of the fridge and place it on top of the fridge.

I do not clean up after lazy front desk clerks. So any shit I find left behind I leave it where I find it. For example plates of food that certain individuals are supposed to take back to the kitchen after they eat or in this case a fucking half eaten piece of god damn cake or fucking pie or whatever the fuck it was.

That fridge back there is not yours. It’s not mine for that matter. If you leave shit in it your just asking for it to go and vanish. It’s rather inconsiderate to think that just because your fucking cake/pie is in the fridge I’m not going to put my pop in there. I like my pop cold. Pop goes in the fridge. It’s very simple. You see me come in every fucking night with the twelve pack?

So I expect an apology. Because the last I saw this piece of cake/pie it was sitting on top of the fridge. So the accusation that I threw it away is false. Not that I really give two shits if some front desk clerk says. I don’t give two flying fuck if the person apologizes either. This incident is just further proof just how little the Sheriff is really doing to change the place.

Questing in Dark Age of Camelot has never been something I enjoyed. Which in comparison questing was one of the features that World of Warcraft got right. Now comes the newest expansion pack for Camelot called Darkness Rising and something surprising has happened. I find myself actually enjoying the quests that this expansion offers. So far doing the Champion Quests have been nothing but fun.

I’ve managed to solo my way right up to this nasty bastard below in these two screenshots:

Geryon just doesn’t want to go down. I need to find a good group and get past this guy so I can continue to enjoy this game. That and I want to get at least two Champion levels before the enthusiasm wears off so I can get some saddle bags for my horse. It just would make the horse experience that more complete if I had saddle bags.

I download the 817mb installer, I patch, I crash, I downgrade my video drivers, I install old drivers, I spend 1 plat on my horse, and finally I crash again. At least they are taking the servers down. So far it’s been a hoot.

I’m just pretty stoked that I got a horse to be honest.