DON'T STAND IN THE FIRE!

No, it's not supposed to be that much fire, but you know how it is with pick-up groups...

The Witcher 2, again

After having played through the game again (to check out the other main story path) on Hard difficulty and a Mage talent build, I am considering trying the last talent tree: Alchemy, on yet a higher difficulty (the first time I played on Normal as a Swordsman).

The problem is that the Alchemy tree seems more difficult to play in itself, but I might be wrong. And the difficulties available are:
Insane: Enemies deal more damage than on Hard, and the game deletes your saves upon death. You die, you start over.
Dark: The enemies are harder than Insane, but you can load earlier saves.

I have a feeling I will never be able to play through Dark difficulty as an alchemist. On the other hand I am certain I won't be able to on Insane.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

This was an awesome game, but the learning curve was a bit odd. In my opinion it went something like this:

COFFEE!!!

I have a percolator, fuck yeah!

LOL

*caugh*
*caugh*
Aheeem... Right. Wow. That was...

Was watching alpine skiing on Eurosport, and suddenly they cut for commercials and there's one of the skiers, Maria Hoefl-Reisch, cuddling a purple cow costume (Milka mascot/logo). Looked creepy as hell. Germans. *sigh*

Ubuntu and Me

As I told Rik earlier today, I always end up installing the latest version of Ubuntu on the nearest accessible laptop when left without any better activity for a few days.

This usually starts by a long and frustrating struggle to actually manage to install it at all. This time however, it was strangely compliant. I had a brief hickup when creating the bootable USB that was easily solved by just reformatting it from NTFS to FAT32.

The next thing that happens is that I get impressed by the built-in smartness like the all-inclusive instant messaging service. Why I continue to get surprised by it every time I encounter Ubuntu I do not know...

The next step is to get VLC and watch a movie from my Windows files - works like a charm, closely followed by a bitTorrent client...

By now I start realizing that the browser I'm using is Firefox, which prompts me to start looking for add-ons. After a few minutes trying to find an add-on that imitates one of Opera's standard features I somewhat sheepishly realize that there is indeed a Linux version of Opera.

This is when the fun begins. Downloading Opera is easy as pie. Installing it - not so much (for a Windows noob like myself). Double clicking the package actually does produce an attempt by the OS to install it, but it invariably fails.

I google "how to install a .deb file in ubuntu" and find an answer going somewhere along the lines "type X in command prompt". Easy enough...

..."how to open command prompt in Ubuntu" produces the following instructions: The easiest way to open the Terminal is to use the 'search' function on the dash. Or you can click on the 'More Apps' button, click on the 'See more results' by the installed section, and find it in that list of applications. A third way, available after you click on the 'More Apps' button, is to go to the search bar, and see that the far right end of it says 'All Applications'. You then click on that, and you'll see the full list. Then you can go to Accessories > Terminal after that. So, the methods in Unity are:

Dash -> Search for Terminal

Dash -> More Apps -> 'See More Results' -> Terminal

Dash -> More Apps -> Accessories -> Terminal

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctl + Alt + T

I decide to use the keyboard shortcut. It works. 'Nuff said.

Ps. The installation command failed though. Trying the other type of package that Opera provided. Ds.

Holiday Special - How to keep yourself entertained in the company of your family for 2 weeks

Starting out by watching Bad Teacher yesterday might have been a fatal error on my behalf. As I started looking through my hoard of movies to see I suddenly realize they're all very dark and depressing. All of them excellent views (I hope, at least that's why I brought these specific ones) but nothing that is just lightweight and fun.

Other than that my holiday at home took a dark turn right away, with one man being beaten to death in the middle of the street and another one shot in the chest 12 hours later. Suddenly my quiet little home town is on par with the big bad city of Uppsala in crime rate.

I have also concluded once and for all that my computer is indeed not capable of running WoW. Or well, if I set all the graphics settings to minimum and make sure to avoid major cities I can chat with my guild. Always something I guess.

Now, if you excuse me I'm going to watch a movie about a man who died in a violent car crash.