DragonBloodthirsty

Can an entry to the wiki be made to let me know what a WRPG is?

I like RPG's in general for a lot of reasons, although  the two important ones are an interesting story and a compelling combat system.  I think that having too much story results in long, eventually dull scenes where I just want to go off and do something else.

I like always knowing what I'm "supposed" to be doing next, but I also like being able to ignore it and do whatever I want.  I want to be allowed to do what I want, not forced to do what I'm told; I like having a set objective because when I'm lost, it gives me a clear goal to pursue.

I liked the original Dungeon Siege, played the demo for DS2 and hated the addition of the skill tree.  Story will not sell me on this game; I care about how I gain levels.

Today, I checked out the site, wrote a little bit on Ascendancy, played a little on Ascendancy (when you write about a game it makes you want to play it!), and then watched some few videos on Giant Bomb.  

Checked my email a little bit, did some job hunting stuff.  Got email from the career center at my school; they recommended a few places to look for work, but I don't know how it'll pan out yet.  

I was mildly surprised at the reaction to wanting to work at NASA, so I think I'll go into greater depth.  My two primary interests are in propulsion (where I have some talent) and navigation and control (where I have interest), but my interests are broad and I'm flexible, and I'm not 100% sure exactly what I want to do.  My psychology interests are mainly in human factors and Industrial/Organizational Psychology -- the two branches of psychology most related to engineering.  

Human Factors focuses on making things easy and intuitive to use, the most familiar example being natural mapping.  It's the best thing since sliced bread, and about as exciting.  Most stoves have the dials across the front or the rear, in some arbitrary order.  Stovetops that use natural mapping have the dials arranged in the same pattern as the burners; this eliminates rare but unpleasant experiences like turning on the front burner when you meant to turn off the back burner.  Human factors fits in well with an Aerospace degree because planes are large and complicated vehicles that can be difficult to control, especially in a crisis.

IO Psychology focuses on workplace effectiveness, and the associated mental health of employees, to enhance worker productivity. Things like providing proper lighting for work are in the realm of IO psychology; I recall a story about some false-white lights that were more energy efficient being installed in an office.  When they asked the engineers there how the lighting worked, they opened a drawer and pulled out the resistors; all the bands were black because the false-white lighting didn't provide all the colors in the spectrum.

Trivia aside, my day was pretty dull.  My family went out of town, which was nice.  I feel like Pliny the younger, who often wrote about how he liked public activities that made other people go away, but I really like it when I get time to myself.  Been trying to pick out a good background for my profile page.

More info!  MORE INFO!!! lol

One of the best things about blogs is that they let you fill the empty days with even more nothingness.  If I have a life going on, I don't write in blogs.  That said, here's where I am:

I am a recently graduated double major in Aerospace Engineering and Psychology.  I'm currently looking for work in "the space industry", wherever and however you do that (I'm working on it).  I have an amateur interest in game design and development, the shining pinacle of this being my participation in the Great Designer Search at Wizards a few years ago (I placed about 15th of a little over 1,000).  My brother is a freaking obsessed fan of this website and the guys who run it, so I've been on here some lately.

For "fun", I've been doing a little gaming.  I've played a lot of Guild Wars (a bit over 5,000 hours), although I'm more interested in playing all the different classes and builds than I am in maxing out any one character.  I do some of the light PvP that doesn't require extreme organization or commitment, because until now college demanded my full attention.  I tend to prefer strategy games; I play a little Go once in a while (Chess tends to have only extremely good or extremely bad players; Go isn't that different, but I'm extremely bad at it - estimated 15 Kyu).  I play Civilization 4 some, although I tend to get bored and quit rather than stick to the end.

I picked up Dungeons and Dragons Online recently, because it's cheap (free to play).  My ex-gf, whom I play with in GW sometimes, refuses to play because she says the user agreement is unreasonable and the game uses invasive programming.  

My brother convinced me to try Final Fantasy 12, so I started a game of that recently.  I hit up some Stella Deus recently too.  I've been thinking about trying out some RPG maker, although I honestly expect I'll just fiddle with it a little bit and give up.  If I get a single working dungeon I'll consider it a success.

I'm bored of writing this now.

My brother is really into this site, so I thought I'd look at it.  I figured, why not?    I'll probably, if anything, write a game review once in a long while.

For now, I'm busy with classes and exams are coming up, so I don't expect to be super active.