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Ownage for today: Cleared an eighth-level monster zoo. This was far more awesome than it may sound at first.

Meet Urist: my best adventurer to date. Instead of fancy-shmancy skillsets like Promethean Magic or Communism, Urist relies only on his sword, shield, heavy armor, an impressive blocking skill, and berserker fury to carry him through the dungeon. For any sort of ranged combat, he uses an assortment of crossbow bolts and wands (when I remember to actually equip them).

He did, however, have one special item that I had been saving for the last floor or two: a Root of T'Char. I had no idea what it did, but I decided to eat it once the door to the zoo opened.

It was, to put it simply, epic. Urist began to unleash blasts of magical energy at random, including a couple of short-range teleports that left him in the midst of the crowd of slavering horrors. This is where he's best, however, thanks to his array of defensive skills (when they all activate, Urist has a block chance of well over 100), high resistances, and a respectable counter. The entire zoo was slaughtered so quickly that even after Urist chased down a few stragglers that wandered off or were passive, the combat log was still scrolling for a few minutes.

That's downright sane for Conservapedia. At least they aren't claiming that other planets are a Satanic liberal myth.

It's raining today. Normally, that makes me happy.

Instead, I lost traction on the way to school. No crashes or anything, but it put a damper on the whole "driving in the rain is AWESOME" feel I usually get.

Then the shallow puddle I walked through on the way to class turned out to be nearly a foot deep. Hello, waterlogged socks and shoes-which-still-aren't-dry.

Finally, I was stuck in traffic for half an hour on the way back home, all because some guy lost control and pulled off to the side (not even wrecked, from what I could tell). Somehow that warranted two cop cars and several miles of backed-up traffic.

Ugh

I guess my biggest question is if any of these games have some sort of always-on DRM. Aside from Steam, that is.

Ooo damn, tempting. I already have Metro 2033 and Company of Heroes (but not the expansions).

You know, this comic didn't make sense to me before now. But it makes complete sense now that I'm a full time college student.

Makes perfect sense to me. Then again, I've been in college for a while.