Vi Sittar Har I Venten

I've recently gotten no less than three e-mails demanding that I TRANSFER MY CHARACTER NOW from Bioware.  There's a lifeboat analogy there somewhere.

I played APB: Reloaded for a while last night.  It was fun and I'd like to continue playing it but for three strikes:
-The game is optimized terribly.  My computer is no powerhouse but I turned all graphical options to their minimum and went to lengths outside the game to limit performance hindrance, yet the game still has 3-minute long loading screens and rampant framerate drops.  This game's been out for over a year and this is still apparently an issue.
-This is may be two points, but I'm combining them into one: the game apparently at one time had a tutorial zone which was evidently removed--though the game still assumes you went through it.  There is nothing to tell a new player what's up, though I was quickly informed that I was leagues ahead of the vast sea of trainees having equipped my grenades and supply pack.  An hour into the game it's easy to see why there's no tutorial zone however, as an hour into the game I'd seen pretty much the extent of the gameplay--there's little else to do but run missions all day for small pocketfuls of cash and rep.
-And the matchmaking was the last straw.  I was actually on a 9 mission win streak when the matchmaking decided it'd be totally alright to put me alone on defensive missions against a group of 3 experienced players after I'd barely scraped through a previous solo mission against two fairly determined opponents.  I play enough other games with shitty matchmaking to humor yet another.

So that's going far on the back burner as far as games I'd like to keep playing go.

I decided to learn how to jungle in Dota 2 in order to broaden my experience with the game beyond what I'm used to from my old HoN days.  I briefly tried to get into jungling in LoL; I'm finding jungling is much, much easier in Dota.  Learned all of the "jungler" labeled heroes that don't involve additional unit micro and am now wading into the ones that do starting with Lycanthrope.  It's tricky.  Need to find a better way to hotkey groups.

Build That Wall

So it's coming up on a month since I quit and Nightmare Mode Denova isn't even out yet? That's funny.

The longer I'm away from it, the more glad I am that I actually decided not to stick it out and give SWTOR a long term chance. What a train wreck.

Still playing lots of SMNC. Finally started learning heroes in Dota 2 as well. Playing through some of my Steam backlog as well to kill time to Torchlight 2.