Ugghhhh...

Well, Syberia 2's arrival at gametap and the anticipation I felt leading up to it were more exciting than the day I spent beating this game. And I am really sad and disappointed on many levels.

I started at about 8:30am and I'm finished already (5pm). I realize I only took a couple of breaks to grab a drink, grab some food, and let my dogs outside, but I don't think I'd have been done with Syberia by now if I had played straight though like I just did with Syberia 2. Overall it seems to have been much shorter. The story did not captivate me. I'm the biggest crier during a good game but this one didn't jerk a single tear out of me. I suppose I'm glad I played through it.. if not for any other reason than to find out if Kate and Hans would actually find Syberia if it truly existed. This review explains it all better than I can. It hits the nail(s) right on the head.

Next time you make a game, Legacy Interactive, take your time! You obviously soared through the making of Syberia 2 and you only hurt the game by doing so. Dreamfall: TLJ 2 took a long time to come out. You only took 2 years to come out with Syberia 2, and it's likely you didn't even start putting it together until less than a year before it was released by the way it looks.

I think the only thing that could possibly lift my gamer spirits at this point is a holy shit awesome Syberia 3 kicking Syberia 2 right in the cool nuts or Ragnar Tornquist announcing "DREAMFALL TWO! ZOE AND APRIL'S RETURN!" but I ought not hold my breath for either one of those.

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Karl bought a really nice Ludwig drum set yesterday. This tying into the dream he and Brice have of us being some sort of badass rock cover-band. We're supposed to "jam" together with Max this weekend. Brice and he will be on guitars, I'll be on bass, and Karl on drums. Brice and I will probably split the vocals or duet. If I remember, I'm gonna be making some video recordings. Karl and Brice were practicing together last night and I was amazed by how "not like complete shit" they sounded. Brice is fairly good on the electric guitar and Karl is some sort of savant who can pretty much pick up ANYthing and be a master at it in a matter of days. Like a slightly lesser version of the rain man. I hear Max is pretty good too and I can sing decently and keep a rhythm on bass.

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There was a bit more WoW guild drama last week. Casuals, the guild I've had my priest in for well over a year is starting to worry me. I recently brought my hunter over into it from Night Rain because Komo was letting a bunch of douche bags in the guild without having to app. It took an act of congress for me to get in, why not these guys? And they're assholes, all the more reason to wonder "why, Komo? why?" So over in Casuals things are looking good... but I notice that a couple members who haven't been in the guild even a fraction of as long as I have on Umiki are officers. AND they don't do anything. Thalios is pretty strict about letting people become officers. It's a position you earn by stepping up and taking the initiative to lead raids and learn boss fights and recruit and just be a big help overall when he can't. Pre-WotLK, I hosted Kara raids and was pretty much stuffing any extra stuff I had into the guild bank. I put gold too.. a lot of it. I hosted heroics as well and was in high demand, being a healer and all. I did that stuff for a long time and when I inquired as to why I hadn't been promoted to officer yet, I was blown off. I found out from Karl later that Thalios had mentioned something about my attitude and a fear that I'd kick everyone out of the guild. I absolutely NEVER gave Thalios that impression and I know exactly who did, and why and where it came from. I had made a guild for a short while on my hunter with my friend Steven and we were growing in numbers really rapidly. Well, guys on WoW don't like to take orders from females... hence the lack of female guild leaders. You might have high ranking second in command females of guilds, but rarely a full on first in command. Guys just don't take it seriously. Well, Steven pretty much told me it was my guild.. so I tried to run it like a first in command. Not bossy or mean, just in charge.. keeping order when need be. Well, finally the overthrowers (all guilds have these) showed up and tried to.. yep.. you guessed it.. overthrow me. I was in no mood to fight so I told Steven I was gonna take my contributions to the guild bank and just split. We'd say it was a nice try and avoid making a scene. Well, when I headed to the g-bank, it had been put on lock down. There were only three of us who had the power to do that. Myself, Steven, and his roommate Alex. Now I thought Alex was as much my friend as Steven... but when he found out I was taking my 500 gold back from the bank, he didn't like that very much and thought he was gonna go ahead and make sure I couldn't get it. Not only did he lock the gold in, but he TOOK all of the enchanting materials I'd put in there. Shards and dusts worth more than the amount of gold I had in there. So I told Steven very sternly over vent "I want what I put in. Nothing more. Nothing less. Now." and he argued.
Probably because Alex was looming over his shoulder. Whatever the reason, I had to get REALLY pushy to get my shit back. And afterward, for a long time, Alex and I didn't speak. Well.. Alex likes to talk shit and embelish things to make himself a funny guy. A game of telephone began until finally Thalios got a twisted version of the story. That I was some kind of psycho who freaked out and tore apart guilds when I got angry and stole from the guild bank.

So back to Casuals, Thalios had officers who I still think don't deserve the position. Two of them are people who are rarely online and don't do anything. I mean nothing. Not a damn thing. I think the positions were given as bribes to keep them in the guild and that's shady to me... once a guild leader starts doing crap like that, you can bet the scandels will only get worse. On top of all this, Thalios busted up a raid the other night refusing to pug. I held back and bit my tongue but I wanted to point out some of the first news he wrote on the guild website about pugging for a kara raid and finding the greated pally tank ever by doing so... my husband! He sat right there and told us "I DON'T pug. EVER." Blatantly lying for the sake of his pride and being stubborn. We are just a few short of having a full in guild 25 man naxx raid and because of Thalios's refusal to pug just a few people (who could have ended up being awesome) several of those people who we NEEDED left the guild. One of which I recruited. I was really pissed off.. at Thalios especially. I went and swore up and down to my recruit that Casuals was the best guild ever and less than a week into it, he witnessed our guild leader throwing the biggest dramatic tantrum I've ever seen, thus I looked like a huge liar. If Thalios thought pugging a couple of people was so horrible, hate to see what he thinks of the result of his fit. That is, losing members and having the ones who stayed stop getting online anymore and playing alts instead so as not to have to deal with the drama. Luckily, I have plenty to do on alts myself, and now the privelege to play with Julien on his horde server as his Rogue.. or the other dk I made there. That should keep me busy until Thalios either implodes the guild altogether or at least pulls the stick out of his ass. Whichever comes first.