The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Angel Tarragon]

Heya Hafrogman, how are you doing?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Gotta go. I want a quick shower before work and I need to hit the post office to pay the car that is 23 days late.

UGH.

Later, mega. I hope I catch you later!

 

[Mycanid]

Good question. But actually I'm on a break from my gaming group. Life has kept me too busy lately.

Honestly, it might be hope more than anything. I had great fun with my group, a bunch of people that I enjoyed spending time with, but the gaming was kind of meh. Not so different from a bunch of jr. high students teaching themselves the game. But I come hear and a read people's stories about their amazing, epic gaming experiences and I keep hoping.

Hmm ... you have never had one of those amazing epic gaming experiences yet, either as a player or as a DM?

Interesting.

Yes, well I know the thing about life keeping one busy. :\

Say hafrogman I got a question for you....

Have you ever done a PBeM game? They take an awfully long time, but can be quite entertaining.

 

[Mycanid]

Btw Fru ... as you can now see I updated my sig to what is more standard on the other forums I frequent. More boring perhaps, but there it is.

 

[hafrogman]

Heya Hafrogman, how are you doing?

I am . . . alive? Mostly.

Hmm ... you have never had one of those amazing epic gaming experiences yet, either as a player or as a DM?

Interesting.

Yes, well I know the thing about life keeping one busy. :\

Say hafrogman I got a question for you....

Have you ever done a PBeM game? They take an awfully long time, but can be quite entertaining.

I don't DM, I'm horrible at it, and I've never had an amazing epic gaming experience. I haven't actually played that much, despite supposedly having been at it for 17 years.

I've never PBeM, I really can't wrap my head around it. PbP is much more my speed, and some of my greatest experiences have been had here on the ENWorld boards. But the pacing just about keeps it from being the aformentioned amazing epic experience, in my opinion.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Btw Fru ... as you can now see I updated my sig to what is more standard on the other forums I frequent. More boring perhaps, but there it is.

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PC Specs: Athlon X2 4600, 1gb dual channel 800mhz ddr RAM, 256mb 7600gs nVidia graphics card, Asus M2NBP-VM MoBo, DVD Burner, DVD Reader, 300gb Sata 2 hard drive, Antec Sonata case, 500gb external hard drive

Laptop: IBM T42, 2.0 ghz centrino cpu, 1gb ddr RAM, 128 mb Fire GL T2 video card, 60gb hard drive, DVD burner, two 9 cell batteries (for 6 hours battery life - very helpful!)

MP3 Player: iRiver H10 20gb (using EasyH10 freeware)

Palm: Tungsten E2 (16 hours of battery life - can't go wrong), and a wireless external keyboard

PC? Where do you keep that?

Nice laptop.

The iRiver sounds promising. I may have to get one.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I am . . . alive? Mostly.

Well, if you haven't been gigged, then you are most definetely alive.

 

[Mycanid]

PC? Where do you keep that?

Nice laptop.

The iRiver sounds promising. I may have to get one.

The PC is my work PC.

The laptop is more of a shared one. I use it more than the other person, hands down, though.

The iRiver is turning into a nicer and nicer mp3 player. It has a built in voice recorder, an FM radio, a .txt file reader, and a photo display mode. It has about 14-16 hours battery life. And if your machine is COMPLETELY updated with microsoft stuff it interfaces very well with windows xp, at least.

The freeware program "EasyH10" is what makes it shine, though (unless you are a pro at working with Windows Media Player on a serious level, of course).

I saw a 20gb iRiver at amazon.com for 130$ the other day, now that I think of it.

But you should be aware that their tech support is among the worst in the world. I was lucky. I got a refurb cheap and have had it for over a year and a half now. In the beginning it was a torture to get it to work right. But after a few days I got it ... and I am more tech savvy than the "average joe" due to my job's demands and my contacts.

 

[Mycanid]

I am . . . alive? Mostly.



I don't DM, I'm horrible at it, and I've never had an amazing epic gaming experience. I haven't actually played that much, despite supposedly having been at it for 17 years.

I've never PBeM, I really can't wrap my head around it. PbP is much more my speed, and some of my greatest experiences have been had here on the ENWorld boards. But the pacing just about keeps it from being the aformentioned amazing epic experience, in my opinion.

PBeM is very similar to PbP, with the exception that each email is an individual player's "post" and a common email fired off by the DM after reading all the emails is the "digest" of it. It is slower than PbP, of course, but tends to die less easily ... at least I am told all this. :\

 

[Angel Tarragon]

The PC is my work PC.

Ah. I guess I should have gathered that much.

The laptop is more of a shared one. I use it more than the other person, hands down, though.

Do you get to keep it at your place?

The iRiver is turning into a nicer and nicer mp3 player. It has a built in voice recorder, an FM radio, a .txt file reader, and a photo display mode. It has about 14-16 hours battery life. And if your machine is COMPLETELY updated with microsoft stuff it interfaces very well with windows xp, at least.

The freeware program "EasyH10" is what makes it shine, though (unless you are a pro at working with Windows Media Player on a serious level, of course).

I saw a 20gb iRiver at amazon.com for 130$ the other day, now that I think of it.

But you should be aware that their tech support is among the worst in the world. I was lucky. I got a refurb cheap and have had it for over a year and a half now. In the beginning it was a torture to get it to work right. But after a few days I got it ... and I am more tech savvy than the "average joe" due to my job's demands and my contacts.

Yeah, I Amazon'd it when I saw it in your sig. It has a lot of promise. Where can I find the DL link for EasyH10? Tech support doesn't concern me, I am very good at troubleshhoting and fixing problems myself.