Indeed, summer is on the way, and once again I lack gainful employment, as well as any prospects of obtaining such employment. The situation's even worse than it was last year. I was turned down for all of my summer research opportunities, and there are no internships available anywhere as far as I can tell. We're in a recession, and thus I doubt I can get a job as something besides an intern at this point; no one wants to hire a full-time student who is going to go back to college in a few months. My parents remain hopeful that I could find something, but I think it's too little too late at this point.
I guess that means I'll have time to develop my various DnD related projects--I haven't worked on DDSd20 since before Spring Break, and I really do want to finish it. I also want to develop a few more aspects of Talmirah sometime as well. The problem is that I don't really have the drive to do anything right now. Perhaps being back home will help that along. If I really devoted myself to it, I could probably finish it up in a week or two, but I know that I don't have that kind of drive; it'll probably take twice that.
In other news, I deleted all my characters on Dark Iron. I don't think anyone's noticed yet. This was brought on by a brief conversation with TWAL; he logs on and asks what everyone's up to. I reply something along the lines of, "Random questing." He replies, "Sounds fun." "Not really." "Then why are you doing that?" Now, at this point I just gave him a bullshit answer, but that actually started me thinking--why WAS I doing that? What was I even doing? I examined my strategy--Open with Seal of the Crusader, use Judgement, then put up Seal of Righteousness. Hit the enemy until they die, heal up, find new enemy, repeat. At the time, I was killing wolves. I reflected on what I had been doing 25 levels earlier--exactly the same thing. The numbers were just a bit bigger than before. Also, within the span of 15 minutes, I got killed twice by hoard players whose levels were too high for me to see. That was enough; fuck that game. I threw all my crafting materials into the guild bank, sold everything I could, shoved my money into the vault as well, and just hit delete. I don't think I'll ever pick it up again, and if I do, it sure as hell won't be on a PVP server.
The one thing that had me pause was reflecting on the guild members--there were several genuinely cool people there, and if they'll have me I might continue hanging out on the Vent channel. I definitely won't keep playing with them again, though--it seems my sentiment about high level destroying lowbies being bullshit was shared by many, but no one seemed to dislike it enough to actually move.
Heh, I halfway expect to get a frenzied "WTF?" from Dani or possibly (but probably not) TWAL over AIM not long after I post this. That'll be fun. Oh well. Publish post.
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Unfortunately, WoW doesn't let you know if characters are deleted past changing their transactions in the guildbank to "unknown" and telling you people on your friends list no longer exist (without telling you who they are). So I didn't know you had deleted everything =/
I was serious in asking my question. You never were happy to be playing the game, so far as I could tell. That's a good indication that you should seek fun elsewhere. Honestly, I'm having a very similar situation with the game. I didn't mind the boring questing that I've done to get three toons post sixty, but I'm not about to do it alone again unless I have someone to play with.
The game itself sucks. It's downright terrible. The only thing that's keeping me around is that I can play with my friends. That's on the decline now, too, so I may find myself in a similar position soon.
Anyway, There's no WTF from me. I'm just glad I was able to help you realize that you could be doing something you enjoyed more.
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