Bought an extra pair of yummy 512mb RAM for AMD Diablos! Although they’re completely out of sight (under the wires) in the picture…

Games I should have bought much, much earlier! (Command & Conquer The First Decade + Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence)

Although AMD Diablos still doesn’t like this version of Red Alert 2… (started Windows Installer, ran game compatible to blah blah blah; nothing worked)

But I’m glad she (+ her 7600GS baby) gets along very nicely with Lineage II, at 1280×1024, too.

Overall, these make Vickie a semi-happy gamer and geek (wannabe).

But but but… I really wanted me some old school Apocalypse.

Warning: gazillion images beyond this. Present tense, past tense, we, they, I, her, etc. all mixed up and mixed together. Hover on images for additional descriptions (Firefox friendly ). Teaser:

I haven’t actually been playing the game since I last blogged about it. New patch; the next thing Bro and I wanted to do after unlocking our sealed armours was to play in the arena since we’re already in Giran.

Just fooling around. My Lightning Strike did paralyse (or freeze?) Bro’s character this time, though.

A flying dragon wyvern (a new feature: only a castle owner gets to keep one!) in the very crowded arena.

We went mini shopping in Giran afterwards. It’s almost like she’s clinging to my arm. (Although they both looked rather scary because of the bad “lighting”. )

At the master’s learning new skills (or skill – singular, since I didn’t have much SP left at all…).

The “kiss”. You don’t get to kiss (yet?) in the game; it was just the characters overlapping by mistake and the camera angle, hehe.

We went to Hunters Village after the Giran shopping, where I bumped into an old friend, a fellow Shillien Knight and Hong Konger, whom I haven’t seen for aaaages (because I’m not playing as much as I used to).

On our way to Aden. Just thought the picture was kind of cool.

Swimming/diving. Not much to see under the water.

New effects for a couple of magic! “Greater Concentration” in the pic; and I’m clapping.

And crying because Bro’s taking forever to cast buffs on both of us. Nah, I was just bored.

Swimming in a new place only available from C3 onwards. No idea what it’s called in English.

Bro buffing again. Ooh, possible new quests here?

And that was pretty much the day. If I could just fix the DirectX 9.0 bug that keep on closing the game and bugging me…

Which can also be interpreted as oh my god my parents are away for their wedding anniversary so I secretly installed the game on Dad’s new computer and started to play non-stop again but the character only made 4% even though I’ve been playing all night which reminds me why I stopped playing besides the fact that it almost killed my laptop computer back then. Oops, run-on sentence.

I can’t really explain why the character looks all shiny and slippery, though. Something is probably wrong with Dad’s graphics card…

Anyway, a new look for my beloved 迪阿比羅斯.

But I’m regretting a little already. Perhaps I should get 整形藥水-B and revert to the face I’m more used to…

And this is what happens (for 2 minutes) after you gulp down the 大頭藥水.

Absolutely adorable.

And later, on the same day…

Should have released 極限防禦 (Ultimate Defence) earlier.

Now… *cough*

Nice fighting style, baby.

Tree: /gm I think I’m stuck

This happened quite a lot when I played the game at maximum quality on my laptop computer…

貝爾勒獸人弓箭手對您造成22的傷害。