Not entirely unrelated to my previous posts, but the tie-in is there. So if you don’t wanna read more about my whining, feel free to skip  :p

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 soliloquy: (noun) 1.  an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character’s innermost thoughts) 2.  the act of talking while or as if alone.

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I deleted a few of my latest postings. I dunno why I do that. I already embarrassed one women with my unwanted attention, I guess I don’t want to do that again. But here I am, posting the same thing, so am I being stupid anyways? I told her how I feel, and in a way, I hope she sees this. Not to embarrass her, but so that she might see that I’m not playing games or joking. Maybe gain favor in her eyes? I just don’t want her to get mad at me! :(

*sigh* Sometimes I feel like such a wreck, why would someone look favorably on me when I get all worked up like this?

I feel like running away.

Lyrics first, video is at the end, in case you decide to skip it.

Dying days of despair
Are the mirrors of pain
The glass in which I stare
Are slowly building a palace in my mind
Where the memories breeds my fear
With halls of mourning and with walls of bitter loss

The world around me dies
As the seasons change
The water turns to ice
And another year will push the past
Further back into forgetfulness
Among the moments never to return again

Lives are spread by the wind
Growing further apart
Can’t return what has been
I will never again touch those winters
Or the shadows of the fall
Never the innocence, the light of each day

Tell me now, where’s the end to our strive?
Shattered life, the point where freedom dies
Behold my eyes, can’t you see I’m terrified?
Desperate holding on to a distant time

Life Shatters

Lives are spread by the wind
Growing further apart
Can’t return what has been
I will never again touch those winters
Or the shadows of the fall
Never the innocence, the light of each day

So paint the edge with tears
Of a perished emotion
A wound so severe
And much too deep to be erased
By the healing hands of time
That life has withered, and is gone forevermore

It looks like the SEA version of HKO will be going live on October 15. You can run AutoUpdate and get the latest patch. Let’s just hope they don’t get the “patch of death” that NA got (the one with the mobs on steroids).

Yesterday (Sunday, Sept 27), I had over 20k Kitty Points. This morning, I have 30 Loyalty Points. What gives?

Went to the NY Anime Fest. Didn’t buy anything, and didn’t cosplay. But it was still fun. It was at the Javits Convention Center, which is right across the Hudson via the ferry. About an hour drive to the ferry, and 10 minutes across, so it’s not too bad. Worse thing about it is Route 3 traffic. The ferry is the last exit before the Lincoln Tunnel, so you might be stuck at the mercy of traffic.

Anyways, here are a few photos. Between me and my friend, we actually took quite a few, more than I could post here, so I posted about 60 of them on my Facebook profile. If you wanna see, just feel free to send a friend invite.

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Here are some screenies of people at end of CB. The GM was giving away anything we wanted, so after a little bit of time, everyone was all fancy. I can only imagine, and hope, that these will eventually appear in the Item Mall. Some of these are really nice.

Lots of screenshots after the break…

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HKO-NA shuts down shortly, and one of the events was a GM will give you whatever you want. Of course, everything is going to be deleted. The GM also ported us to NY, so we could explore a little bit. No screenshots of NY, you can see previous postings of that. All the Christmas stuff is gone, the NPCs are pretty unfriendly, etc. So there’s not much to do.

Bi was logged in, but in a perma-afk state. I thought it would be funny to ask the GM to port her, too. If she came back and saw she was in NY, she’d be all sorts of confused :P

Well, I thought it was funny. I hope she doesn’t get mad at me.

I’ll post some more later.

Just sitting in my house, enjoying the last few hours of HKO. I’ll miss all my friends as well, once Aeria shuts down. We’ll have to see what their schedule is for Open Beta.

And I’m not in the mood to go out into the wild and do quests, not with this insane damage mobs are doing, so I guess I’ll just wait for the big bash they’re planning later on.

This was posted via the (new) in-game blogging feature. It’s called the “mini blogger”, and I think it’s a great addition to the game. It’s only available while you’re on your farm or in your house. Press F9 and it’ll give you a window where you can type in your blog.

After it was posted, I edited this via SanrioTown. I personally didn’t like the “more” tag, and the title was slightly generic. Neither of which you can change in-game, but that’s not even a gripe, just an observation. I also have blog categories set up, but the in-game blogger defaults it to “uncategorized”.

The image is rather tiny, but I guess that’s a tradeoff they chose to make. Everyone has their own preferences for the sizes of images posted to their blogs.

When Aeria was at PAX, they had a contest on Twitter so people who didn’t get to go could have a chance to win. It was a random selection from people who tweeted Kitty’s father and mother’s name. Any HKO player should know that like the back of their hand. A few days later, I got a private tweet telling me I was the winner.

Oh and beware,  as usual, there’s a little bit of hot air at the end…

When I got home, there was a package sitting at my door…

It was rattling :O Hmm… Lots of stuff fell out of the box!

Underneath is a tee-shirt. From left at top: a congratulatory letter (sealed for the photo, is all); a DVD of HKO!; a magnetized refrigerator notepad; and one of those insanity-inducing tilt games where you have to get the balls into the holes.

But wait, that’s not all

A little Hello Kitty tote bag, stuffed with goodies.

Underneath is a sheet of stickers; a Hello Kitty candy tin; an HK eraser shaped like a Popsicle;  a pen and two pencils; HK band-aids; and an Aeria branded 1g memory stick.

Whew. And wow! Thanks Aeria!

And now for the rant I promised you.

There have been a few, but not many, instances of HK haters showing up in-game or on the forums. Surprisingly few, actually. But see, this is something they’re not getting.

Not only is there the “social” aspect of HKO, where I’ve met many people online, including some pretty girls that, well dot dot dot (nothing bad, just that they make me forget my name when I think about it). I know some HKO players even have “HKO meetups”, where they all get together and have lunch or something. Alas, no HKO meetups in my neighborhood :P

But how many other games give you the opportunity to win real-world goods? This is the FOURTH time I’ve won something related to HKO. Sure, you may have tier 16 ubertank gear from the final boss of whatever-the-latest-raid-instance-is, but this is real stuff. I can put this stuff in my pocket, bring to my friends to show, and say “look what I got!”.

I think what I’m trying to say is that the HKO “experience” is not just virtual rewards, but tangible. I hope that continues. It is one of the things that really sets HKO apart.

They’ve announced the end of NA CB for Saturday, Sept 19 at 23:59 PDT (GMT-7). No word on the next phase of testing, but I have a bet with myself that it’ll be sometime in October. Kitty’s birthday is November 1, remember, and it would be a big publicity thing for Sanrio if some of these regionals were live and having some sort of in-game celebration.

Anyways, my “final” avatar.

Level 30 (the max), which is kind of unfortunate since we’re gonna be wiped. But what can you do? The outfit is a male “Silk Traditional Chinese Outfit” which I got when a GM did their “farm hopping” stunt. The hat is a”Green Propeller”, from the same event. The shoes are unnamed, but they were from an in-game trivia event.

I really like the visual. And it goes well with the Samurai  topknot I got in Paris, although it’s obscured by the propeller beanie. And the facial tattoo was an pre-beta event Aeria ran, but I don’t think I like it.

But they’ll all be wiped, boohoo, so I hope these will eventually be in the item mall.

To “us”, HKO means “Hello Kitty Online”. But did you know it’s an acronym also used for the Hong Kong Observatory?

Some random googling today came back with a hit which said Moon phase icon now featured on HKO front page. Of course, my first reaction was “oooh, is this a new feature? Like having night and day and stuff?”.

Well, I thought it was interesting.

Oh and looking at the (other) HKO page, it looks like Hong Kong is having a severe weather event. Hope y’all are OK!

What’s with Aeria and their Draconian enforcement of “the rules”? Apparently, several accounts were blocked with little or no explanation:

http://basicktforum01.sanriotown.com/scripts/mb2/mb2.cgi?rm=show_topic&period=0&topic_id=40701

And there are similar postings over at aeria forums and on their shoutbox.

According to the posters, they were disconnected immediately after their “infractions” and then perma-banned. If that is the case, there must have been a GM monitoring at that moment.

Whatever happened to warning people?

I know HKO has a “jail” where players can’t talk, PM or even emote. Why not try to pull them there and explain to them what they did wrong?

When I asked about this, here is the response:

So they’ll basically ban you, no reason given, no explanations, no warnings. And it even sounds like you have no chance of you ever getting a “stay of execution”.

Nice. Now any time I get disconnected, I wonder if I’ve been banned yet.

Wonder how Gloot.net is doing with their launch?