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No Shopping Sprees! No! Bad Thess!
Jul. 10th, 2011 04:35 pmThere are too many things I want and not enough damned money.
So okay. A Dance With Dragons is coming out. I'm ... not entirely sure how much I want this but given that I am all over fan communities, there feels like there's a kind of obligation and it sounds from the spoilers like things have drastically improved. Some of the threads seem to be coming together and I admit I want to be there to see it. Though ... hardcover prices for this guy? I dunno. But I must not blame the books for Martin's ... attitude problem.
And then there's Ghost Story. This one? This one is a must-have. This one is going to have me dashing up to the nearest bookstore, tearing it apart until I find what I want, hugging the book all the way to the cash register and giving over my money in the most cheerful manner possible. I have been waiting too damn long for what happens to poor Harry Dresden.
I want to give Seanan McGuire's stuff a try too. Not the Newsflesh stuff she writes as Mira Grant; I'm on that already. I mean her fantasy stuff. I'll start with the October Daye books, as I was okay on Holly Black beyond not quite being engaged with her writing style and this sounds like a similar sort of thing. I do know that McGuire is one of those authors who engages you very firmly in the world of the story, instead of focusing on the lead character and the imagery, and that's the sort of thing I look for. Pretty language is all very well, but ... I guess the best way I could put it is that I want my book to be an amusement park, not an art gallery. Anyway, I also want some of her filk but I wish we could buy the downloads rather than order CDs that then need to be shipped and possibly broken and ... egh. Plus Pretty Little Dead Girl is going out of print and that's the one I want the most. So we'll see at the end of the month, but ... waaaaaaant.
Oh, and then there's a bit of DLC coming out for Dragon Age 2. Now, I know what-all I said about the Origins DLC and I never bothered with the Exiled Prince in DA2 because he seems boring and I'm not paying for him now that I missed the pre-order. However, I have seen trailers for this and it actually looks phenomenal. Finally, DLC I don't mind paying money for! This is new!
On the subject of video games ... well, some of you may be aware that I'm a total sucker for OSTs, specifically the instrumental scores. My collection is growing by leaps and bounds these days: Carnivale, Firefly (and Serenity), Dragon Age, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Game of Thrones, Mass Effect 2 (and I haven't even played the game...), Pan's Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Saw, Silent Hill, the Watchmen movie, Advent Children ... and now some of the Warcraft scores. I am, unfortunately, missing a couple. I have Cataclysm and Wrath of the Lich King, but am missing out on the base game OST and Burning Crusade, and it's that last I really want. Well, I can get it on iTunes, but ... y'know. Not right away.
But I'm being fiscally responsible, damnit.
Anyway, on the subject of Warcrack, Dar'Khan kicked my arse yesterday. I therefore decided to go level up a bit more before taking this guy on. I'm figuring more stuff out at this point, and it's a lot easier to get around than it used to be, what with warhorse and figuring out the flight routes and all. And I even figured out the zeppelin when I desperately needed a break from the undead, so now I'm in Orgrimmar, after figuring out the bank (I can store shit! WOO!) and having made a few purchases from the auction house so that I could level up my cooking a bit more. Wonder how the auctions I put up recently went. I put up some copper and some bronze, and a few more gems. This should, if I get bids, make me some gold. That'd be nice. Though to be fair, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with more gold. Beyond put it into levelling up various crafting bits and bobs, y'know? Then it's back to the Forsaken Front to do more quests for the rotting corpses. *g*
Ah, lazy Sundays, how I love thee.
So okay. A Dance With Dragons is coming out. I'm ... not entirely sure how much I want this but given that I am all over fan communities, there feels like there's a kind of obligation and it sounds from the spoilers like things have drastically improved. Some of the threads seem to be coming together and I admit I want to be there to see it. Though ... hardcover prices for this guy? I dunno. But I must not blame the books for Martin's ... attitude problem.
And then there's Ghost Story. This one? This one is a must-have. This one is going to have me dashing up to the nearest bookstore, tearing it apart until I find what I want, hugging the book all the way to the cash register and giving over my money in the most cheerful manner possible. I have been waiting too damn long for what happens to poor Harry Dresden.
I want to give Seanan McGuire's stuff a try too. Not the Newsflesh stuff she writes as Mira Grant; I'm on that already. I mean her fantasy stuff. I'll start with the October Daye books, as I was okay on Holly Black beyond not quite being engaged with her writing style and this sounds like a similar sort of thing. I do know that McGuire is one of those authors who engages you very firmly in the world of the story, instead of focusing on the lead character and the imagery, and that's the sort of thing I look for. Pretty language is all very well, but ... I guess the best way I could put it is that I want my book to be an amusement park, not an art gallery. Anyway, I also want some of her filk but I wish we could buy the downloads rather than order CDs that then need to be shipped and possibly broken and ... egh. Plus Pretty Little Dead Girl is going out of print and that's the one I want the most. So we'll see at the end of the month, but ... waaaaaaant.
Oh, and then there's a bit of DLC coming out for Dragon Age 2. Now, I know what-all I said about the Origins DLC and I never bothered with the Exiled Prince in DA2 because he seems boring and I'm not paying for him now that I missed the pre-order. However, I have seen trailers for this and it actually looks phenomenal. Finally, DLC I don't mind paying money for! This is new!
On the subject of video games ... well, some of you may be aware that I'm a total sucker for OSTs, specifically the instrumental scores. My collection is growing by leaps and bounds these days: Carnivale, Firefly (and Serenity), Dragon Age, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Game of Thrones, Mass Effect 2 (and I haven't even played the game...), Pan's Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Saw, Silent Hill, the Watchmen movie, Advent Children ... and now some of the Warcraft scores. I am, unfortunately, missing a couple. I have Cataclysm and Wrath of the Lich King, but am missing out on the base game OST and Burning Crusade, and it's that last I really want. Well, I can get it on iTunes, but ... y'know. Not right away.
But I'm being fiscally responsible, damnit.
Anyway, on the subject of Warcrack, Dar'Khan kicked my arse yesterday. I therefore decided to go level up a bit more before taking this guy on. I'm figuring more stuff out at this point, and it's a lot easier to get around than it used to be, what with warhorse and figuring out the flight routes and all. And I even figured out the zeppelin when I desperately needed a break from the undead, so now I'm in Orgrimmar, after figuring out the bank (I can store shit! WOO!) and having made a few purchases from the auction house so that I could level up my cooking a bit more. Wonder how the auctions I put up recently went. I put up some copper and some bronze, and a few more gems. This should, if I get bids, make me some gold. That'd be nice. Though to be fair, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with more gold. Beyond put it into levelling up various crafting bits and bobs, y'know? Then it's back to the Forsaken Front to do more quests for the rotting corpses. *g*
Ah, lazy Sundays, how I love thee.