Random Rants: Of Tweet And Man

In my early steps back on February 2012, I started The Crawler's account (aka @Crawler3333) as a "regular" RP account. Seeing that there were more Nightcrawlers out there (as expected), I decided to made some sort of "alternate" Nightcrawler, taking the funniest aspects of the well-known blue mutant teleporter. Seeing my lack of motivation and skill in making it a "true" RP account (especially when compared with some very serious, committed and amazing writers) I soon gave it the label of OOC ("Out Of Character") in my account bio.

Then something else happened, something called Adventure Quest and Adventure Quest Worlds. Both of them are RPG games, and RPG games are (with some noticeable exceptions) by definition some of the most time-consuming video-games ever.

Unable to drop off entirely The Crawler (thanks to which I was able to meet a considerable number of amazing people), I decided to drop most of the "role-playish" side on @Crawler3333 and turned it in an "RP-RL" account. For those who follow me for a long time, the change will be subtle and almost unnoticeable, but some of my followers (both old and new) might feel somehow "betrayed" by this choice. If you are among them, I guess I will have to beg your pardon and suggest you to search some good "true" Nightcrawler RPer. 

For better or worse, some followers (which I eventually followed back in turn) decided that The Crawler had its own right to be in that awkward reality I call the "Twitterverse" - and these are the ones I feel more obliged to. So yes, you'll have to bear with an alternate Nightcrawler which likes to "play Batman" in Metro City from Final Fight (I never said I would drop RP entirely, after all ;) ),  listens heavy metal, watches anime, plays videogames and all - and when you see tweets in Italian you can easily assume that's the writer talking. Or you could just push the "Unfollow" button.

That's what The Crawler / @Crawler3333 is, after all. Love it, hate it... or just let it be.

Random Rants: Adventure Quest

When the going gets tough.... the tough gets Missing

For those who don't know, Adventure Quest it's a free-to-play, turn-based web RPG.

http://www.battleon.com/

After months of  furious battles I finally reached the so-called "mid-levels" and I had to witness some of the game limits - and more than anything else my precious character's build. 

When I started playing AQ I underestimated this game difficulty, naively thinking that all I had to do was to equip the right stuff with the right enemy. 

Now, I completed many of the game sagas (specific stories made up of several quests) and I had  to skip some quests because certain bosses (and even regular battles !!) were too strong for my character. "What went wrong ?" I asked myself - and the I found the answer by looking in the dedicated forum: the build (i.e. the way you distribute your character's point in the various stats) I made for my character is very, very bad. Too much Endurance, and not enough precision Dexterity and Luck. In other words, the great Atreides is a hyper-tank which lacks the precision he needs to hit the most nimble enemies.

http://aq.battleon.com/build30/charview.asp?temp=83701246

Sure, there is an in-game trick to  reset to 0 one of your skills and distribute those point again, but  it seems a little too convenient to  me. So be it, then - what's done it's done. I will bear with the character's build as long as I'll be able to and make up for this grave mistake by distributing all the points to Luck for the next 12 levels (!?).  I'll much probably miss my enemies A LOT, get frustrated at unearthly levels - but just as a Savatage song say "that's the price you pay when you come to play".

                                              I'm afraid I'm going to see this a LOT :(

So take my heed, future heroes of Lore, and don't make the same mistake that Atreides did in his crazy quest for power. Don't train your stats carelessly thinking there will be no relevant consequences: read the instructions first. 

It's all about sharing

What is the sense of writing something that much possibly no one will ever read ? That is a question I ask myself every time I post something on the web, from a review to a single tweet. When it comes down to a personal blog/website, this question becomes even more relevant.

And that's when the title of this post comes into play: a blog  is (or CAN be) some kind of personal diary. Unlike a "regular" diary, anyway,  a blog is written keeping in mind that there is a chance (and hope, I believe) that somebody is gonna read it. At least, that is somehow the use I make of it. In this particular case, this blog is made with the same intent I made every other entry in the strange world of Internet: sharing.

Whether is a song, an anime or a video-game, sharing is the very essence of this blog. Whenever I find something that amuses me, I'll be keeping track of it and include in the "Cool stuff of the moment" and the other side-bars. If somebody happens to read it, he might eventually consider to watch/listen/play my recommendations and (hopefully) enjoy them as I did. If nobody reads it, it's fine anyway: this blog would have served its purpose as a record of the things that made me passionate, entertained me - or simply helped me making through the day.

With that said, here is the very first list of things that I recently found entertaining and I'd like to share with all those who might read this thing:

Anime
Azumanga Daioh (Slice of life comedy)
Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou (Slice of life comedy)
Jojo no Kimiyona Boken: The Animated Series (Action)
Nichijou (Slice of life comedy)
Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (Action)

Movies
Big Fish
Iron Sky

Video-games
Adventure Quest (Web RPG)
Adventure Quest Worlds (MMORPG)
Warriors Orochi 3 (Action)
Yume Nikki (Horror/Exploration)

Here's also a list of my contributions (!?) so far

DeviantArt
Deviations Gallery
http://crawler3333.deviantart.com/gallery/

MyAnimeList
Nichijou review
http://myanimelist.net/profile/Crawler3333/reviews

Japanator
Check This Out: Fortified School
http://www.japanator.com/blogs/Crawler3333/check-this-out-fortified-school-27676.phtml
Random Thoughts: The Dojikko Effect
http://www.japanator.com/blogs/Crawler3333/random-thoughts-the-dojikko-effect-27579.phtml
Yume Nikki: A Journey Through The Dark.... in 32 bit
http://www.japanator.com/blogs/Crawler3333/yume-nikki-a-journey-through-the-dark-in-32-bit-27287.phtml

Youtube
My Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/Crawler778

If just one of these recommendations and/or contributions will entertain even just one reader, then I'll call myself much more than satisfied. Because, in the end,  it's all about sharing.

Atreides LIVES !!! (...but he also dies a lot)

Well, you might actually see him roaming in the world of Lore as XAtreidesX... but no one would complain about a couple of X here and there, right ?

I recently made some accounts in the various Artix games, and I currently made this new alter-ego with quite a precise idea in mind-to the create one of the most epicly insane (or was insanely epic ? Well, let's not indulge in details) characters of AQ and AQW. Now, bear in mind that when I say that I don't mean "strong" or "cool" (not that I would mind that, though...) because it would be quite a delusional fantasy.The very purpose of such a character is actually to make fun of epicness and "ownage"-some kind of parody of the very well-known mythological hero Achilles (the name sounds pretty similar and is NO coincidence) and all powerhouse characters ever made.I think it's quite appropriate because it's pretty obviously the very same approach that Artix developers themselves use on that matter.  

Another quite interesting thing I will try to do is to test the game somehow (especially AQW) and see how far a character can go by only using "basic" equipment (non-members, non-AC).For those who will encounter the insane warrior during his crusade against evil, chaos and pretty much everything with a red name over his head, I'd like to say that I won't accept friendship requests until I'm around level 40 and I'll generally give priority to the 13 Chaos Lords quest for practical reasons-but I'll obviously be glad to help (and be helped) in furious boss battles.

With that said, here are the links to both Atreides accounts:

AQ: http://aq.battleon.com/build30/charview.asp?temp=83701246

AQW: http://www.aq.com/aw-character.asp?id=XAtreidesX

I will might even decide to write down a couple of stories about Atreides deeds sometimes - who knows ?

Well, at any rate...

BATTLE ON !!!

Noob times

There is a time for everything in life, and I just decided randomly to start a blog. The only thing that's left now, is to finally understand what actually a blog IS....