When I made this journal, I made it specifically to document my thoughts and notable moments within the realm of Puzzle Pirates. I told myself that I would not say here that I have another journal (ah, well, I technically have three, but the third's handwritten) because I wanted to be able have a better idea of who's reading the other. Of course, in the light of this post, I suddenly realized that I don't care about keeping that on the lowdown anymore, and I suppose if someone cared enough, and if they were as stalkerish as I can be, they could find my first livejournal. Which, *shrug*, has a lot of things in it...it dates back to nearly the beginning of those wonky teenage years. It even has stuff about Y!PP up until I figured that none of my friends from outside of the game played the game anymore, and hence the desire for a Y!PP-specific journal.

But what happens when it's borderline? This was actually going to go into my first journal. But after thinking about what I wanted to talk about in this entry for just a short moment, I felt that this journal was more appropriate. Lucky you. And perhaps a watered down version will go into the first journal. Or I just might copy this over word-for-word. Whatever.

( Just because this entry is long... )

I think I've reminisced enough. Obviously, if I wanted to cover everything under this topic, more names would be mentioned, more memories...and this would go on forever. It's the tip of the iceberg...I didn't even touch upon everyone in my crew, let alone all my Y!PP contacts. And of course, my memories fade over time like everyone else's. So I dunno, maybe someday I'll revisit this with another really long entry. Until then, back to studying.

I decided in today's trophy whore whim that if I'm going to have a shot at that sf-ing ult, then I'm going to have to get over my fear of the brawl table and do matches outside of tournaments. I thank Kerrawyn for giving me the foundation of my style (although it doesn't go as well for me as for him) so I at least have something to shoot for in the first two seconds of the game.

The etiquette between rumbling and swordfighting still tends to vary, with the rumblers slipping in a quick gg before leaving, and more often than not, the sf-ers just left. I wonder what the difference is.

Granted, there are exceptions. I remember Aryian as one of the first legendary rumblers I managed to beat, but she sticks in my memory more as someone that leaves the table as soon as the match is done. Tonight I managed to slip in a "wow" after a scary and close match, prompting my opponent to inquire. A somewhat stiff, but friendly conversation ensued.

I won more matches than I lost today, which is good. I still fumble around with setting up combos. I did manage to pull off a donkey (which I thought was just a bingo).

Bah, I should study.

I got inspired to start this today. It's honestly not often where people annoy me enough for me to want to slap them, but well, today is just special.

Wall of particularly annoying people:

Bisquick lost!
Game over. Winner: Surasshu.
Surasshu says, "good game"
Bisquick says, "good game"
Surasshu says, "pwned"
Resentment is watching the game.
Surasshu lost!
Game over. Winner: Bisquick.
Surasshu says, "wdf"
Surasshu says, "WDF"
Resentment stopped watching the game.
Bisquick says, "heh, should I say it?"
Resentment is watching the game.
Jasen is watching the game.
Bisquick lost!
Game over. Winner: Surasshu.
Jasen stopped watching the game.
Surasshu says, "pwnt."

Baleful Blades: a long sword tourney. Not that this was the typical longsword (sticks in disguise!) match. The first and last fights he unleashed large completely debilitating attacks in the first 20 seconds. It reminded me of Kerrawyn's play style. In the second fight, he either messed up or got delayed because I got the fairly large attack off first. It took him longer to die, but there you go. It made me sad knowing that there really weren't any apparent ults in the tourney (this guy was gm), so as I predicted he also won the tournament.

I find the swordfighting community in general more likely to be annoying (like this guy!), which contributes to my dislike of it. There are a select few in it that have proven themselves exceptions to the community's reputation (Kerrawyn as far as I'm concerned) but otherwise...while this is annoying, it's really no surprise coming from a swordfighting tourney. I wonder if this Surasshu guy is 13 or something?

But anyway, I still hold out hoping for that ult trophy someday.... :P