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- The other day, I powered through nearly all of Crimson Hero. This dazzling experience has summarily ruined nearly every manga I read after it, to the point that I'm avoiding them for the time being. (Except for Koi dano Ai dano. Conspiring!Kanoko = ♥.) I know Crimson Hero wasn't perfect, and that I'll probably read it in a month and be like WTF, but oh, those panels of Nobara mid-jump have run away with my heart.

- I played SWTOR last month, and then promptly renewed my WoW sub for three months. I really wanted to like SWTOR, but bugs, lack of endgame polish and annoying mid-to-late game mob difficulty kind of finished it for me. I got my legacy, levelled a couple alts for a little bit, and then realized I was seriously wondering if playing a Sith Sorcerer would get better once I'd picked up my super awesome AoE at level 34. Then I realized that if I wasn't having fun playing the game right then, I might as well stop.

It probably didn't help that I had a prepaid month or so left on WoW, and so could log in and gloat over my growing pile of gold while trying to decide whether to continue with SWTOR. And it definitely didn't help that the game fucked my new video card so badly that I had to give up windowing for vsync to keep things from overheating. Annoying travel times + the inability to alt-tab away just added to my frustration.

I'll probably give the game another try in a few months if they've improved everything, AND if Mists of Pandaria continues to be MIA. Otherwise, it's WoW all the way.

- There should be a third thing, but there ISN'T. :(. Maybe because I'm thinking of rereading Crimson Hero again right now...

I'm about to polish up a monster post on my experience with e-publishing the short story I mentioned the other day, but first.

- *hugs dreamwidth points* I'm so glad it's easy to transfer these! Now I can have some paid time on here.

- *hugs iPad* You would not believe how much I'm on this thing. Last night, I read through volumes 5-23 of Hikaru no Go (am I bleary-eyed? YES), and I still have 5-6 volumes of other manga waiting for me. I almost dread the day when manga publishers and translators wise up and start shipping to the Kindle at reasonable prices...there goes my future money ;_;

- Just finished reading Cold Fire by Kate Elliott, the sequel to Cold Magic from last year. Frankly, the slow start, rambly and confusing sentences and disjointed plot had me wondering what was up on the author's end, and whether I'd just not noticed how bad the first book was because of my entrancement with her awesomely arrogant cockscomb POC hero and kickass heroine. Then again, I did enjoy it overall, and am curious to see how she wraps things up in the last one, so it wasn't a loss.

- Am recovering from all the bombshells dropped at this year's Blizzcon. PANDAS IN MY GAME? POKEPETS IN MY GAME? The nerdrage everywhere is hilariously over the top, even though the announcements held something for everyone. Leet dungeons for leet raiders, with leet cosmetic gear and better-than-you achieves and leaderboards! PVE scenarios for the terrible dps who just want some VP! Dailies for the terrible casuals who don't even want to queue for VP! And then they'll also have new talent systems for the druids and warlocks who were weeping for their classes, with meh trees for the usual scapegoat classes (paladins ;_;), plus panda pokewow to make all the casual haters quit.

I have to admit, I side-eyed the Pandaria announcement, and I doubt the new race will not be faily or ridiculous in some way. And I am going to rage SO HARD if the female model ends up being the same catastrophe as the female worgen model from cata. But as soon as my love affair with SWTOR is over (hubby and I are pre-ordering and probably playing for at least three months)...that one-year WoW subscription shall be mine.

- I feel weird ending this on such a WoW note. But I have no serious!writer news, except that I'm still working on the godforsaken edit that's eaten the last couple months, so that's it.

I saw some thin, illustrated children's books at Walmart the other day (photo later if I become un-lazy). They were $1 each, and though the covers and pictures within looked really good, they were printed on so-so paper and perhaps not typeset as well as they could have been. I have to admit, I saw them and thought about how fiercely the battle over ebook pricing has raged; I wonder whether they're selling well, and what their existence means for Walmart's future moves.

Meanwhile, in sort-of-an-author-now land, I've been coding my brains out and feeling out the formatting process with a short story of mine. Tailoring my CSS for the Kindle platform was a giant PITA until I remembered the Kindle Previewer and downloaded it; the Kindle for PC program is soooooo slooooooow, especially when you have any more than 50 ebooks in your library at any time. I also don't know where I would be without KindleGen, which beats Mobipocket Creator on control and speed hands down.

Lastly, in a fit of nostalgia-fueled madness, my husband and I created characters on yet another WoW Vanilla private server. It is surprisingly fun, mostly because we're rolling around as two mages, and because it is so surreal seeing what changed and what didn't. The opening cinematics still look great today, to the point that I understood why people went ahead and played the shit out of suboptimal classes even back then; I came away from that video wanting to roll a hunter, lousy pet AI and quality of life be damned.

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