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I have been playing The Witness.
And, while enjoying the scenery and wandering around a bit,
have mostly been banging my dumb head
against the aggravating puzzles.
While I am glad someone finally made a great (console)(spiritual) successor to Myst and Obsidian,
I am not pleased to discover I that I am not very bright.
I'm not even that far into the game
and there have already been two locations where I could not even begin the section
because I couldn't even figure out the first damn puzzle.
And since the puzzles
(at least the ones I've come across so far)
are mostly sequential, you have to figure out the
key/pattern that will help you progress
and unlock the cable to the next puzzle.
Sounds simple doesn't it?
Well, it's anything but that.
What, for the love of God,
do the squares inside the squares mean??
I can't figure that one out and it's shown up again
when I peeked into another area.
So far I've completed the entry garden,
the little bunker outside the garden,
that symmetry/boat house area,
the desert ruins area
(except for puzzle that opens the bunker door by the sea)
the pink orchard,
and the two puzzle installations before the pink orchard.
Now that I'm writing this I think I've only activated two lasers.
Oh--I did get the windmill going--
which I noticed has a puzzle on it's face
and which I'm sure will haunt me later-
but that area underneath with the video--is bizarre.
I wasn't able to solve any of those puzzles.
I did solve two puzzles in--shit-
I don't where or what the area is called
but--whatever--I've stopped playing for now.
I would sit there after work staring at the screen so long
trying to figure out a pattern/path
and would eventually feel what energy I had left
just fade right out of me.
I kept nodding out.
So I bought Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
I'll be battling rouge operatives
and storming enemy camps in Singapore at night.
And during the day (on the weekends)
I'll wrestle with The Witness--
on the island of mind bending puzzles--
since I'll be armed with fresh coffee
and a clear head from a full night's sleep.
I have been playing The Witness.
And, while enjoying the scenery and wandering around a bit,
have mostly been banging my dumb head
against the aggravating puzzles.
While I am glad someone finally made a great (console)(spiritual) successor to Myst and Obsidian,
I am not pleased to discover I that I am not very bright.
I'm not even that far into the game
and there have already been two locations where I could not even begin the section
because I couldn't even figure out the first damn puzzle.
And since the puzzles
(at least the ones I've come across so far)
are mostly sequential, you have to figure out the
key/pattern that will help you progress
and unlock the cable to the next puzzle.
Sounds simple doesn't it?
Well, it's anything but that.
What, for the love of God,
do the squares inside the squares mean??
I can't figure that one out and it's shown up again
when I peeked into another area.
So far I've completed the entry garden,
the little bunker outside the garden,
that symmetry/boat house area,
the desert ruins area
(except for puzzle that opens the bunker door by the sea)
the pink orchard,
and the two puzzle installations before the pink orchard.
Now that I'm writing this I think I've only activated two lasers.
Oh--I did get the windmill going--
which I noticed has a puzzle on it's face
and which I'm sure will haunt me later-
but that area underneath with the video--is bizarre.
I wasn't able to solve any of those puzzles.
I did solve two puzzles in--shit-
I don't where or what the area is called
but--whatever--I've stopped playing for now.
I would sit there after work staring at the screen so long
trying to figure out a pattern/path
and would eventually feel what energy I had left
just fade right out of me.
I kept nodding out.
So I bought Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
I'll be battling rouge operatives
and storming enemy camps in Singapore at night.
And during the day (on the weekends)
I'll wrestle with The Witness--
on the island of mind bending puzzles--
since I'll be armed with fresh coffee
and a clear head from a full night's sleep.
I'm just a clown
who's feeling down
Since my baby left town.
I'm just a clown
I wanna drown.
I'm just a clown who's feeling down
---The Electric Company
(The drown part is probably incorrect
as this was a kid's show-
but who knows--kid's can be really depressed too.)
(I used to love the Electric Company.
When we were little boys, my brother and I had the album that featured various songs from the program like Morgan Freeman's Easy Reader,
Punctuation-which I think featured Rita Moreno,
The Counting Pinball Song which featured The Pointer Sisters-I actually just discovered that it was the Pointer Sisters earlier this year,
and The Silent E song.
I'm going to do a Silent E SL picture soon.
Alakazam!)
V.
I love love LOVE this outfit.
Another random set of pieces that I put together on a whim.
I look pretty damn good here--if I say so myself.
Perhaps I'll even wear this to work tomorrow.
That will certainly shake the sheep up.
And I'll probably have to think of a real Wraeththu name
now that I have discovered the Saltrock sim here in SL
(and I also happen to be currently reading "Book 3"
of the Wraeththu histories).
But I do like my name as is, Vadrian Lexenstar.
Cocteau Twins
CD :
Cocteau Twins
Treasure Hiding
Fontana
2017
Design . Black Finch
Postcard :
Masahisa Fukase
Karasu
Tokyo
1986
Use Hearing Protecion
GMA
I only came here to dance--
and, even after all these many many years, Living On Video,
is still a super song to spin and shake your spaceship to.
Synthesizers set to maximum warp.
The keyboards are killer
and
LIVING!
Left out in the dark alone
To see what you are made of
Nobody gives a hand
When you're in deepest pain
Crying both your eyes out
And swallow all your pride
I'm longing for the day
That you return to me again
And see me in the brightest light
That you have ever seen
With my heart open wide
To love you once again
Like I have done before
But you chose to ignore
I'll wait here for evermore
I'll wait here forever and ever more
I'll wait here until you return to me
I'll wait here
Forever
---Angels & Agony
This really should have been titled: He Doesn't Want Me 3
I fell in love this past month--certainly a very deep like and want.
But--in that bright light,
I blinded myself
and, once again, fell over the fucking cliff.
Vincent
---
Perhaps Dr. Stack could have helped me prevent this.
But it's me.
Always me.
Chasing the wrong guy
Down a dark highway
And then wondering why I end up broken and bloody again
Alone in a muddy damn ditch.
---
Anyway--
I actually used to dance to this song at Neo.
I wonder if the dj still plays it.
The fucking impossible, ridiculous, storm riding, Nameless King is one of the hardest bosses I have ever fought in a game.
It's a miracle my controller still works since I have thrown into the floor so many times.
It's stupid of me, I know. I know.
It's how I broke my PS3 controller two or three years ago.
It's how I corrupted my Borderlands 2 game.
I just go into these rages.
So many times during this game I have stood up and screamed at the top of my lungs and then lunged at the Playstation wanting to rip it from the tv
and throw it with full fucking force into the wall.
I--Jesus--my blood pressure is going up just writing this.
Anyway--back to that damn king without a name.
Have I said I hated him yet?
I hate him.
And he's an optional boss!!
Optional my black ass.
He was a complete and blessed nightmare.
I thought that piece of shit Pontiff Sulyvahn was bad.
I thought Aldrich and his god damned arrows were bad.
Noooo.
And as absolutely infuriating as those motherfuckers were
(I won't even embarrass myself telling you how many Embers I lost fighting and dying to those bitches over and over)
they were nothing at all compared to the Nameless King.
I fucking HATE him.
And even after I finally beat his bitch ass--
which just happened yesterday--
and which took well over a week
(at countless times a pop)--
I still hate him.
I seriously close my eyes and cringe at the thought of NG+.
I was very very late
to the Mass Effect Party.
Several years ago someone highly recommended it to me,
after being highly astonished that I had never played it.
Anyway--I didn't play it then.
Years later, a second time,
another fellow gamer's mouth hit the floor
when I said I hadn't played Mass Effect.
The third strike was a couple of months ago
when yet another person/gamer friend
lost his shit when I admitted I still had not played
any Mass Effect games.
After that blow up--I finally broke down
and bought the games--
to see what all this fuss was about.
Well, I've played the whole trilogy now
(I actually had to play the second and third game twice--
and not by choice).
My essay on the whole Mass Effect trilogy experience
will be saved for another time.
I just wanted an image--though it's not a great one
(not sure why the blue electricity lines
are not showing up on the spacesuit)
to document my romantic interest: Kaidan.
As much as I hated driving that fucking tank thing around,
I am considering playing the first game again
and not as a Vanguard as I did(like an idiot)--
and which, actually, I had no business doing
because I did not know WHAT I was doing.
Still, with that in mind--though I didn't know anything about having a love interest at the time-
in the first game I saved Kaidan---and let Ashely die.
And like I said, at the time,
I didn't know anything really about love interests/possible romance partners.
I just knew I was sick of Ashley's arrogant ass.
She was annoying me to death(and she killed Wrex).
So I sent her to hers.
I'm being harsh--
Yes, I was sick of her
but I admit I was frozen when that part happened
because I didn't know what to do--
and I had never played a game
where I had to make an extreme choice like that.
But I guess it was also kind of easy because I was right there near Kaidan's fine ass
as he was squatting down by the bomb diligently diffusing it.
So that was all a little fucked up.
And later when Kaidan asked why I had saved him--
I answered all brusque and tough and shit--or something.
I didn't realize I could have said something sweet to him
and then put some medi-gel on my joystick
and loved him down.
Ok--you couldn't have done that.
And the third gamer friend
told me I can't romance him in the first game anyway--
or the second one-which I found out when he dissed me
on Eden Prime--
or whatever fucking planet that was.
Still, I'm willing to play that first game again
to switch up my dialogue a little with him.
And just play as a soldier--
because playing as Vanguard was too hard--
well, it may not be hard now
as I've done all three games and got the feel of it now.
First game I was a Vanguard--like a dumb ass.
Second game I was a Soldier
and the third game I played as a Sentinel.
But in the first game I took Kaidan with me
on practically all my missions.
I'm not sure how I ended up with Garrus and Liara
in that final fight at the end.
Anyway--again--this little generic pic is sort of a place holder for Kaidan Alenko--
and who I finally got to fuck in the third game.
Before that, I was always in his grill--
stalking him in the Starboard Observatory--
but he always had a report to finish or some other nonsense.
I'm the captain for crying out loud!
Come up to my cabin now and service me Kaidan--
and bring Joker--
and Donnelly from Engineering.
(I wanted to romance Joker too--
but he was not an available option).
Anyway.
I did like Kaidan a lot
and always kept him close.
Plus it was pretty hot
to be a badass soldier
and captain of a badass starship
AND have one of your very capable squadmates/teammates--
particularly the handsome dark haired major
with the biotic bubble butt--
be your boyfriend/fucktoy.
I'm all in for that.
Sign me up to be the captain
of a sleek black space ship full of
handsome, masculine, sexy, serious, scruffy soldiers,
engineers, mechanics and pilots.
Never thought I'd say this
but, as great as the base game is,
the romance shit made the game even more interesting.
Soo--as you can see--
I kind of took Kaidan seriously--
thinking about him when I wasn't playing--
wondering if he missed me
when I logged out to go the grocery store
or when I went to work.
I'll probably do a better darker version of Kaidan later.
This one is a little on the fluffy and colorful side.
And, in the meantime,
I guess I will continue to gape at
and lust over real life models
and porn actors who remind me of him.
Sad. I know.
I need to get a life---
and a real boyfriend.
Sloppy, mincing, eyedropping, biopsy.
Cyclops overlooks optic options.
Rotten, showstopper, skinpopper.
Babbler dabbler.
Self confessed criminal.
Instincts evolve
Over and over.
Wasted views
That's all they see, blue
Hot blood
Guilt
Optic nerve.
With the right attitude
You will succeed, blue
Self abusive recluse
Too late for me.
With your eyes open
You know soft spoken changes nothing.
A view so cruel.
Worlock
---Skinny Puppy
----
I can(and have) dance to anything by them---
because I am often that weird creepy dancer in the dark corner of a dancefloor.
I even still dance to Mirror Saw--which I think might be one of my most favorite Skinny Puppy songs.
But I have to admit Worlock isn't the best Skinny Puppy song to dance to.
That honor goes to Spasmolytic, Sleeping Beast, Smothered Hope,
Process, Death or Assimilate (R23).
Whenever the dj would play Worlock (at the club I used to go to back in the early 90s),
he would drop the giant projection screen over the huge wall mirror that lined the dance floor
and also play the accompanying video.
A lot of us would just line up in front of the video screen like disciples
and then lurch about like zombies while being splattered with gore.
Anyway---the first several seconds of the keyboard intro
has always been one of my favorite parts of this song--
Ominous.
Sinister.
Wicked.
And then the screaming at the end---to the end.
That poor victim looking upside down
at killing numbers going up.
Agony.
And then Death.
Vincent
*
The elevator goes down:
Basement
Maintenance
Level Negative 2
I have been playing The Witness.
And, while enjoying the scenery and wandering around a bit,
have mostly been banging my dumb head
against the aggravating puzzles.
While I am glad someone finally made a great (console)(spiritual) successor to Myst and Obsidian,
I am not pleased to discover I that I am not very bright.
I'm not even that far into the game
and there have already been two locations where I could not even begin the section
because I couldn't even figure out the first damn puzzle.
And since the puzzles
(at least the ones I've come across so far)
are mostly sequential, you have to figure out the
key/pattern that will help you progress
and unlock the cable to the next puzzle.
Sounds simple doesn't it?
Well, it's anything but that.
What, for the love of God,
do the squares inside the squares mean??
I can't figure that one out and it's shown up again
when I peeked into another area.
So far I've completed the entry garden,
the little bunker outside the garden,
that symmetry/boat house area,
the desert ruins area
(except for puzzle that opens the bunker door by the sea)
the pink orchard,
and the two puzzle installations before the pink orchard.
Now that I'm writing this I think I've only activated two lasers.
Oh--I did get the windmill going--
which I noticed has a puzzle on it's face
and which I'm sure will haunt me later-
but that area underneath with the video--is bizarre.
I wasn't able to solve any of those puzzles.
I did solve two puzzles in--shit-
I don't where or what the area is called
but--whatever--I've stopped playing for now.
I would sit there after work staring at the screen so long
trying to figure out a pattern/path
and would eventually feel what energy I had left
just fade right out of me.
I kept nodding out.
So I bought Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
I'll be battling rouge operatives
and storming enemy camps in Singapore at night.
And during the day (on the weekends)
I'll wrestle with The Witness--
on the island of mind bending puzzles--
since I'll be armed with fresh coffee
and a clear head from a full night's sleep.