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Dec. 4th, 2004 02:23 pmGraah.
Yesterday was a day of hell at work. Last friday i had four computers that HAD to be ready for the next morning. I stayed one more hour at work (without being paid), but i did it. So this week, it was 8 computers that had to be ready by 9pm... And to make things harder, there has been a lot of confusion about which system belonged to who, so things went to hell. And people kept coming to complain about X and Y, people kept calling about the fax spam. I was supposed to also finish the website, and there has also been internet problems all the time. And the boss kept calling about what was done, what wasn't, and kept going on about what i should be doing, which was either total nonsense, or what he was stopping me from doing by not hanging up and lettimg me do it.
So obviously this time i didn't finish everything in time. I got to the point where i was just feeling sick and dizzy, and had no idea where i was going. The last customers and people at the fastfood place i went after work told me i looked like a ghost and as if i was about to lose consciousness. So definitively no unpaid overtime.
And i pretty much fell asleep as soon as i was done eating. I wanted to stay up, but i didn't have the energy.
And obviously, i didn't really get to sleep. I woke up once at 1am because the stupid brothers and sister decided to have another wrestling match in the kitchen, right above my sleeping thing. And around 3am, something woke me up. No idea what, but i didn't manage to fall asleep again until 4-5 AM. Then at 10AM, someone decided that they didn't want to help my father change wheelchair or get on the toilet, so they woke me up to do it... *growls* They know i'm not able to just leave him there to pee on himself in his other chair, so they take advantage of that... ...tried to get a few more hours of sleep after that, but it didn't really work.
Had some interesting dreams at least. The one i remember the most is one where i went to a large complex where you would get into virtual reality games. They were very fun. The first one was a based on half-life 2. You had all the half-life 1 and 2 weapons, and some extras like the sawblades you get in HL2, the bouncy magnetic bots, some kind of floaty grenade, something similar to the UT sludge gun, a very customisable handgun-machinegun-chaingun, and a few others. The first part was a "mission" mode. You started as yourself, no weapons, no anything, and you had to infiltrate a base. We were fighting AIs, and it was an "everyone for himself" thing. There were two of every standard weapon in the level, and there were suits made for special classes at various points. You could only wear one, and there was only one of each type, so you had to run to get it first.
For the "mission" part, everyone was more experienced, so they rushed to the end and got the best suits. I just wandered around picking up regular weapons, until l got to the end. All that was left was some kind of "sticky" suit. It provided no defense, made "blade" weapons hurt more, and gave you only the ability to make surfaces sticky and climbs wall that way. I decided that i wasn't going to take that, so i found a way to half-shift to dragonform, jump into what would be an off-limit part of the level, kill one of the engineering bad guy and get some other suit. It was just a bulletproof vest that the guy wore, but i got a special weapon. It was a partially completed machinegun, in working condition, but very weak and uselessly big.
Then came the "deathmatch" part. It was inside the basement of the base, and was built very weirdly. It reminded me a little bit of some levels in Descent 1. A lot of hallways, random monitors on the sides, and many doors in unreachable places from the ground, or hallways suddently being much wider and turning into a 3d crossroad.
Most people knew eachother, so they just went ahead and started figting with eachother, mostly ignoring me. I just wandered around for a while, trying to shoot people when i could, until most people killed eachother and noticed that there was some unnown guy left.
The first person who went after me was some kind of slime blob. No matter how much i fired at him, the bullets just went thru him. So after trying a few things i just ran. This made me discover that the way to kill him was by send him out by ventilation traps. The guy avoided them, but i outran him and took apart a door control panel. Then i tricked him into standing in the doorway and closed the door on his head. And that did kill him. Hehehe... His body on the other side became liquid and only his head was left.
Once he got killed, i got to fight with another person who had the ability to walk on walls and ceiling as if they were floors. A little bit like in the club in Matrix Reloaded. I fought with him for a while, and it was mostly brainlessly spraying bullets everywhere in the room. My shots were too weak to really dammage him, and my armor protected me from his. It was kinda fun, until a 3rd player, which had the equivalent of the gravity gun of HL2, threw a sawblade and cut him in two.
As soon as i saw the other guy being cut in half, i ran out of the room. The zero-g guy went after me, staying behind and throwing sawblades and some kind of spikey grenades. I barely avoided the blades as they bounced around, and finally found out that i could catch them by the hole in the middle. This quickly turned into a sawblade fight, where i caught the ones he threw at me and threw them back at him. I missed many of them and started getting some deep cuts until i thought about putting a grenade in the middle hole. I threw the blade witht he explosive among other blades. The explosive one threw the guy against the wall, and all the other sawblades hit him, tearing him apart.
After i won that one, i went to a supposedly lord of the ring themed game.
It was one team with the ring, who had to bring it to a "volcano" inside the second team's base, and the second team had to assault the first team's base, and either kill everyone or get one of their 6 "commanders" to wear it. The commanders were all kind of creatures, which stayed hidden inside the base. I was in the first team, which had to destroy the ring. Each team had over 100 person playing, and it was supposed to be only bows and swords.
The first round went like the game normally would. A huge battle happened in the middle, everyone fought, most got killed, and a small group barely won at the end, after successfully sneaking into the base and destroying the ring. During that round, i didn't know how the game worked, so i just ran around trying to figure out how it worked.
The second round, i had more of an idea how it went. I tried to stay and fire arrows from our base. It worked extremely well, i got many kills, and our team won again. Some people from the other side complained to the people organising the game, and tried to make a rule against firing arrows from inside the base. They didn't get that rule made, and just went to us complain about how we cheated and that if we hadn't done that, they would have won. They didn't bother me at all, but this time the rest of the team made me the ring carrier, because they were sure that the other team would try to beat up the carrier this time.
When the second round started, i made a run for it. Instead of going by the ground, i jumped out of our base, landed on a defense wall, and jumped from thing to thing across the battefield without being noticed. I was kinda in half-dragon form there, so i could easily glide across the field. When i got into the enemy base, a pterodactyl-like creature tried to stop me, but i just ran into him, knocked him down, and threw the ring into the fire.
At the end of the round, the "creature" came to talk to me and said that this wasn't supposed to be done, and that they knew what i was. They tried to intimidiate me again, but i didn't care. I just shifted completely the next round and went straight for the enemy base. The pterodactyl guy flew after me, trying to intercept me, but he got thrown into the volcano with the ring instead.
After that victory, the other team was absolutely mad at us, and shouted that the rules were off before returning to their base. When the next round started, they had the weapons from the previous game i played, had the blade-guy as a "creature", the pterodactyl guy was a zombie and they had various wolf-tiger like creatures, some komodo dragon -ish ones, and various other ones. They charged straight at our base, and everyone went to hide.
Our base got destroyed, but if all rules were off, they were off for us too. I tackled a few of the ennemy team's creature, trying to get the other team's anttention. This worked, and this allowed my team to escape and go get weaponry from a nearby counter-strike-ish game. This turned into an insane deathmatch once more. Humans-ish creatures with modern guns and a dragon as leader, fighting against undead and various creatures armed with plasma weapons and zero-g guns.
That battle just went on, and people kept respawning. I fought from the air, mostly against the other teams's flyer. And then i woke up... I wanted it to continue.
I had another one which was a lot more normal. I was in some undefined place, in the basement, chatting, and i overheard people upstair talking about if i was a furrry or otherkin or just insane. I don't remember much of that one, but i spent most of it trying to listen and hide.
And i think i've written too much now.
Yesterday was a day of hell at work. Last friday i had four computers that HAD to be ready for the next morning. I stayed one more hour at work (without being paid), but i did it. So this week, it was 8 computers that had to be ready by 9pm... And to make things harder, there has been a lot of confusion about which system belonged to who, so things went to hell. And people kept coming to complain about X and Y, people kept calling about the fax spam. I was supposed to also finish the website, and there has also been internet problems all the time. And the boss kept calling about what was done, what wasn't, and kept going on about what i should be doing, which was either total nonsense, or what he was stopping me from doing by not hanging up and lettimg me do it.
So obviously this time i didn't finish everything in time. I got to the point where i was just feeling sick and dizzy, and had no idea where i was going. The last customers and people at the fastfood place i went after work told me i looked like a ghost and as if i was about to lose consciousness. So definitively no unpaid overtime.
And i pretty much fell asleep as soon as i was done eating. I wanted to stay up, but i didn't have the energy.
And obviously, i didn't really get to sleep. I woke up once at 1am because the stupid brothers and sister decided to have another wrestling match in the kitchen, right above my sleeping thing. And around 3am, something woke me up. No idea what, but i didn't manage to fall asleep again until 4-5 AM. Then at 10AM, someone decided that they didn't want to help my father change wheelchair or get on the toilet, so they woke me up to do it... *growls* They know i'm not able to just leave him there to pee on himself in his other chair, so they take advantage of that... ...tried to get a few more hours of sleep after that, but it didn't really work.
Had some interesting dreams at least. The one i remember the most is one where i went to a large complex where you would get into virtual reality games. They were very fun. The first one was a based on half-life 2. You had all the half-life 1 and 2 weapons, and some extras like the sawblades you get in HL2, the bouncy magnetic bots, some kind of floaty grenade, something similar to the UT sludge gun, a very customisable handgun-machinegun-chaingun, and a few others. The first part was a "mission" mode. You started as yourself, no weapons, no anything, and you had to infiltrate a base. We were fighting AIs, and it was an "everyone for himself" thing. There were two of every standard weapon in the level, and there were suits made for special classes at various points. You could only wear one, and there was only one of each type, so you had to run to get it first.
For the "mission" part, everyone was more experienced, so they rushed to the end and got the best suits. I just wandered around picking up regular weapons, until l got to the end. All that was left was some kind of "sticky" suit. It provided no defense, made "blade" weapons hurt more, and gave you only the ability to make surfaces sticky and climbs wall that way. I decided that i wasn't going to take that, so i found a way to half-shift to dragonform, jump into what would be an off-limit part of the level, kill one of the engineering bad guy and get some other suit. It was just a bulletproof vest that the guy wore, but i got a special weapon. It was a partially completed machinegun, in working condition, but very weak and uselessly big.
Then came the "deathmatch" part. It was inside the basement of the base, and was built very weirdly. It reminded me a little bit of some levels in Descent 1. A lot of hallways, random monitors on the sides, and many doors in unreachable places from the ground, or hallways suddently being much wider and turning into a 3d crossroad.
Most people knew eachother, so they just went ahead and started figting with eachother, mostly ignoring me. I just wandered around for a while, trying to shoot people when i could, until most people killed eachother and noticed that there was some unnown guy left.
The first person who went after me was some kind of slime blob. No matter how much i fired at him, the bullets just went thru him. So after trying a few things i just ran. This made me discover that the way to kill him was by send him out by ventilation traps. The guy avoided them, but i outran him and took apart a door control panel. Then i tricked him into standing in the doorway and closed the door on his head. And that did kill him. Hehehe... His body on the other side became liquid and only his head was left.
Once he got killed, i got to fight with another person who had the ability to walk on walls and ceiling as if they were floors. A little bit like in the club in Matrix Reloaded. I fought with him for a while, and it was mostly brainlessly spraying bullets everywhere in the room. My shots were too weak to really dammage him, and my armor protected me from his. It was kinda fun, until a 3rd player, which had the equivalent of the gravity gun of HL2, threw a sawblade and cut him in two.
As soon as i saw the other guy being cut in half, i ran out of the room. The zero-g guy went after me, staying behind and throwing sawblades and some kind of spikey grenades. I barely avoided the blades as they bounced around, and finally found out that i could catch them by the hole in the middle. This quickly turned into a sawblade fight, where i caught the ones he threw at me and threw them back at him. I missed many of them and started getting some deep cuts until i thought about putting a grenade in the middle hole. I threw the blade witht he explosive among other blades. The explosive one threw the guy against the wall, and all the other sawblades hit him, tearing him apart.
After i won that one, i went to a supposedly lord of the ring themed game.
It was one team with the ring, who had to bring it to a "volcano" inside the second team's base, and the second team had to assault the first team's base, and either kill everyone or get one of their 6 "commanders" to wear it. The commanders were all kind of creatures, which stayed hidden inside the base. I was in the first team, which had to destroy the ring. Each team had over 100 person playing, and it was supposed to be only bows and swords.
The first round went like the game normally would. A huge battle happened in the middle, everyone fought, most got killed, and a small group barely won at the end, after successfully sneaking into the base and destroying the ring. During that round, i didn't know how the game worked, so i just ran around trying to figure out how it worked.
The second round, i had more of an idea how it went. I tried to stay and fire arrows from our base. It worked extremely well, i got many kills, and our team won again. Some people from the other side complained to the people organising the game, and tried to make a rule against firing arrows from inside the base. They didn't get that rule made, and just went to us complain about how we cheated and that if we hadn't done that, they would have won. They didn't bother me at all, but this time the rest of the team made me the ring carrier, because they were sure that the other team would try to beat up the carrier this time.
When the second round started, i made a run for it. Instead of going by the ground, i jumped out of our base, landed on a defense wall, and jumped from thing to thing across the battefield without being noticed. I was kinda in half-dragon form there, so i could easily glide across the field. When i got into the enemy base, a pterodactyl-like creature tried to stop me, but i just ran into him, knocked him down, and threw the ring into the fire.
At the end of the round, the "creature" came to talk to me and said that this wasn't supposed to be done, and that they knew what i was. They tried to intimidiate me again, but i didn't care. I just shifted completely the next round and went straight for the enemy base. The pterodactyl guy flew after me, trying to intercept me, but he got thrown into the volcano with the ring instead.
After that victory, the other team was absolutely mad at us, and shouted that the rules were off before returning to their base. When the next round started, they had the weapons from the previous game i played, had the blade-guy as a "creature", the pterodactyl guy was a zombie and they had various wolf-tiger like creatures, some komodo dragon -ish ones, and various other ones. They charged straight at our base, and everyone went to hide.
Our base got destroyed, but if all rules were off, they were off for us too. I tackled a few of the ennemy team's creature, trying to get the other team's anttention. This worked, and this allowed my team to escape and go get weaponry from a nearby counter-strike-ish game. This turned into an insane deathmatch once more. Humans-ish creatures with modern guns and a dragon as leader, fighting against undead and various creatures armed with plasma weapons and zero-g guns.
That battle just went on, and people kept respawning. I fought from the air, mostly against the other teams's flyer. And then i woke up... I wanted it to continue.
I had another one which was a lot more normal. I was in some undefined place, in the basement, chatting, and i overheard people upstair talking about if i was a furrry or otherkin or just insane. I don't remember much of that one, but i spent most of it trying to listen and hide.
And i think i've written too much now.
