Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

Created some files for a database search, acidified some digests and extracted a few others that are drying down now. Checked the QC samples on one instrument that ran last night, resolved a billing issue with AR (darn people forgot to bill one of my clients ), started staining a gel, sent another gel image off to a client who wanted to see it before we proceeded with the work on his samples (I already started that work, but he doesn't have to know that, better late than never right? ). Now I'm looking up search parameters for two different projects I want to get searching before I send off another billing for AR to process and get to work on cleaning up a few of the digests that I did previously. However, I still have some time as those samples are drying down still, hence this long boring description of the first 3 hours of my day.

Hope that works for you.

in butter?

Hmm, that's no good. What you need is someone with low self-esteem to verbally abuse. Unfortunately there isn't the constant stream of noobish hunters here that there used to be, that'd be perfect about now. Maybe you know a co-worker or client who's particularly meek and vulnerable? I'd say go yell at Alma, but he's actually been rather amusing lately.

Edited, Oct 16th 2013 10:51am by someproteinguy

Sounds like more fun, you can play video games that way.

That's a tough feeling to recapture.

Being able to explore in an MMO isn't something that's really supported as well as it could be. SWTOR always felt too confined, the stories were great, but you couldn't just go out and explore the world so much, lots of smaller maps. TERA was beautiful, lots of pretty scenery to find, but the storytelling made you hurt something cute, and once the novelty of the combat wore off the game got really dull.

400 hours into Skyrim and I'm still stumbling across new storylines, which is great. The hubs of the world have gotten really old though, so I've been modding the heck out of them to try and keep them fresh. The freedom of character development and lack of variety in combat seems to keep me re-rolling, which means a lot of repeating the same entry quests.

Still nothing really is what WoW was, not even WoW of course, as that's barely recognizable at this point.

I'm tempted to give Skyrim a chance but I know I most likely won't find what I'm looking for. I'll see if it goes on sale on Steam so I can pick it up for cheap.


But really, I know I'll most likely never recapture that feeling of playing my first MMO. I had never been much of a gamer or played anything like it before and the only RPG's I had played were Japanese RPG's that are basically ran along a rail with little to no freedom. Couple that with being in a really bad time in my life with nothing satisfying or rewarding going on and WoW was basically the most magical feeling ever.

Edit: I've got my creative fix covered with RCT3 when I need it, although when you spend 40+ hours a week having to be creative it's no fun to do creative stuff in your free time.

Edited, Oct 16th 2013 9:03pm by Aethien

Steam winter sale isn't too far off so it could very well go on a nice sale then.

I'm still interested in EQNext but it'll be a while before that's launching.

As far as I know they don't even have a date for beta yet.

They're still fairly early on in development because at some point they scrapped everything they had and started what they have now.

Got to love bureaucracy.

Pretty much.



Better ones, just because it was bugging me.

Well in short, I don't know. I'm on like my 3rd or 4th different eye mod at this point, trying different things out. I think the cross-eyed thing is mostly the lighting there (?). One of the mod bumped up the contrast for outdoor visuals, and there's some odd shadows at times.

And no not too weird, at least it's one of those areas that everyone will go past early in the game, and it's rather distinct. Was on my way to fort Amol to grab the bound bow book and figured there was time for a couple of pictures before killing all the bandits on the bridge thingy. If I was standing at the bottom of some cave or something in the middle of nowhere then I'd have to question your sanity a bit more of course.