Dammit, I just had to go and give myself more things to distract myself from my unfinished Portal projects. xD  I haven't played an RPG for years, and never paid attention to the Elder Scrolls series until now.  I'll admit that a small part of it was just curiosity of all the hype going on about it, but the main attention grabber for me was when I heard that you could pretty much ignore the main storyline whenever you want and for as long as you want.  Then I was told you could pretty much eat anything you find.  Hunt an elk? Raw venison!  Pluck a salmon right out of the river and they magically turn into filets.  Eat random mushrooms growing next to a corpse in a cave.  EAT THE BUTTERFLIES.  YEAH.



Oh yeah, dragons are cool too.  But man, some of the children in this game are little snots.  I wish I could kill them.   (Yeah, I know there's a mod for that, but I'm lazy.  And my stealth's too low to get away with that unnoticed.  Harhar)


In other news, my MapleStory account was hacked at the end of October.  =/  I found out via a call from a friend as I was in the hospital keeping my mom company for a surgery.  I invested a lot of time and real money into my character, a lot more than I wish to admit.  4 billion in pure mesos gone, and if I had to take a raw guess at the worth of the items and equips that were taken, I'd like to say 10-15 billion?  I don't know market prices.  To some it might not sound like a lot, but for me it is. They didn't take everything, which is a bit of a comfort, but I still have that feeling of being violated, in a way.  I don't know if I'm going to continue playing anymore.  Even if I miraculously manage to replace some of my equips that were stolen, I think I'd die a little inside if it happened again.  I had submitted a ticket to Nexon about it with high hopes, but as I read from other peoples' experiences, well...  I think I'll be surprised if I so much as get something that isn't an automated reply.