So this was my first Canthan New Years celebration in GW. I enjoyed it and thought it was fun overall from the Rollerbeetle racing (which I've done at other events) to the quests and getting a mini-Celestial Rat on my 34th lunar fortune. I mostly played my ranger, Gena Aster, but did things with all my chars save my Dervish, Lilred Scythinghood.I was a little disappointed in some of my guild mates lack of interest, and spent much of the time alone or hanging with the guild leader or alliance members. In fact, I think I spent more time with...
Beware: Possible Spoilers Under Cut!Queen's GambitPlotSarah meets up with Andy who had entered his computer into a chess competition with the prize being a Defense contract and leads to an encounter with a man connected to Sarah and John.Assorted CommentsChess is nice and all for learning simple strategy and tactics, but in modern warfare it is little indication of how well someone will or will not be able to think strategically or tactically. I hate when people imply learning chess makes you some great military thinker as the writers did.. Okay I know they're just trying to tie in previous...
Okay, that was a very bad pun at the expense of the Chinese Year of the Rat. I was born in the the Year of the Rat, FWIW. I didn't realize it had been so long since I've written here at LJ. I guess I've been too caught up with RL stuff, filling in the BSG hiatus with Guild Wars, and writing at my other blog. That and wishing I had the money to fix my laptop so I can recover the assorted stories/artwork I was working on. I've been lax on writing reviews for Atlantis, Torchwood, and other assorted...
