Skyrim

So the Skyrim post! I think I may have pretty much exhausted all my interest in the game finally. Well I feel fulfilled at least, theres a bunch I would totally do if I allowed myself to play more. Took about two months. And that was like...an obsessive two months. Everything you heard about nerds living in a fantasy arctic world for an extended period of time, its true, you pretty much do live there.

Its amazing, I really really like this game. I fucking hate bethesda something fierce, so I think that probably says something. I mean this is a Bethesda game through and through, huge open world, tons of silly conversations you can manipulate for your amusement, quests, some killing, some looting, and of course, endless glitches. Holy crap this game is buggy. It sure didnt turn me off enough to turn me away from the game, but dang if it isnt throw your cat out the window frustrating. The truth is, theres just so much shit to do that you just go do something else and you forget about the glitch in that one quest you spent hours trying to complete...only to be thwarted by a mysteriously dissapearing NPC...or a conversation that always crashes your ps3...or for some reason kills you, brings you back to the last auto-save which happens to be the moment before you died and, well, yea...

The graphic style is pretty interesting. I would say, overall, pretty ugly. The people dont look that great, up close everything is pretty crappy looking, it just doesnt really impress...Until you just kind of take it all in. It just kind of hits you that this world is HUGE, that mountain looks awesome and I want to climb it! That tower by the lake is scary, I want to invade! It all works very well as a whole. I guess they are like this years denver nuggets, as individuals they all are alright, but as a team they become a monster.

The biggest draw for me had to be just the size of the world. And by that I don't just mean the physical size of Skyrim. It is big, and that is great, but just all the shit to do man. The endless sidequests, the seemingly infinite dungeons, the endless dragons that spawn, all the story lines to chase at your fancy, the random ass giant encampments that always humble your ass when you feel powerful, it really is just too much to even think about. Let me throw some numbers out here: played 202 'skyrim days,' completed 106 quests, 193 misc objectives, 5 questlines, looted 1113 chests, killed over 2000 things, trapped almost 300 souls. I mean you get the idea, this was a lot of shit, and I have no doubt I could easily play this game another month and be fairly well entertained! A frightening prospect, to be sure. Skyrim is great, an epic time drain rivaling even the king, pokemon. Will I get elder scrolls 6 when it comes out? I dunno, I hope to have a life outside of skyrim by then...at this rate I wouldnt count on that tho.

JEREMY LIN

Dude is a monster. Call me crazy, but he totally reminds me of a smaller...asian...Brandon Roy. Sounds crazy, I know, but his uncanny ability to kind of lull you to sleep as he blows by you while attacking the rim is confusing to watch. He looks like hes so slow, yet he burns whoever guards him.

I guess I already knew this but....

Had an interview with a super friendly guy yesterday. Super friendly. He was really interested in applied linguistics. I'm kinda meh on applied ling, I think most of it is crap, but the world disagrees with me an it seems to be growing. It was funny/strange though. Topic of grad school came up, I said I'm not really thinking about it, its probably too expensive/not realistic for me. He was kind of adamant that I ought to give it a shot. He even sent me a email today about a program I ought to look into.

At the time of course I was just thinking "guh some old guy trying to push the young one to follow a dream because they cant anymore." and then he just tells me, almost like hes reading my mind, he wishes he could have done something like ling in school, he finds it so interesting, he reads ling papers it interests him so much. An now I'm sitting here thinking about how this guy coulda been me. And I coulda been him. I regret almost every day now not getting a BS, getting something practical. And here's this scientist telling me he wishes he hadnt been a successful scientist and instead chased a random interest. Would I be happier if I had done engineering or CS or something? Actually I bet I'd be way unhappier, and I'd prbly wish I had done something like ling. I'm prbly just a complainer.