Leveling a lvl 49 mage is a real pain. You can work the whole day and get no more than 2% nowadays, particularly with all the other mages and elves crowding Oren Wasteland. Making money, on the other hand, proves quite easy, once again; or maybe it's just my luck. I went to DI and BOOM! I got the wind boss with a pledge mate, then 2 ndai in less than an hour. DI rocks.

Level up!

I think I can level up today. Help would be appreciated to make the final 3%.

Ok, more ranting about school. Let's begin.

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FUCK RATIONAL

Rational Rose is pissing me off. For those of you who don't know Rational Rose: it is basically a program used in computer science or software engineering for drawing nice diagrams for software projects. For example, fancy graphs called Use Case diagrams and sequence diagrams. Our teacher and tutor have been nerfing us to use this supposedly excellent software to create diagrams in our Software Process course.

My impression of Rational Rose after half an hour of usage is this is absolutely the most fucking retarded piece of shit that I have seen any big software company put out. Seriously, it's even worse than Microsoft Window 98 or Microsoft Office 97.

1. Inconsistent controls

Why is it easy to find the controls for creating a Use Case diagram while I have to fucking go through a software labyrinth to make a Sequence diagram? Both diagram types are basic UML stuff. It will be a cold day in hell before I believe the guy who designed this knows shit about usability.

2. Stupid behaviour

When I start a new diagram, it's probably because I want to work on it immediately, right? So why the fuck does Rational Rose remain on the old diagram after I create a new one? I couldn't find the controls for the Sequence diagram elements because of this. Again, go fuck yourself, whoever designed this behaviour.

Another thing, "Autosize all" from the "Format" menu doesn't work. If it really autosizes correctly, why does my graph look different everytime I click on "Autosize all"?

3. Incomplete and useless documentation.

If you actually wrote a page to explain what the sequence diagram does, you might as well tell me HOW to create a new sequence diagram, you stupid twat. BTW, if I actually used Rational Rose and wanted to create a Sequence diagram, doesn't it imply that I KNOW what a Sequence diagram does? The user manual is supposed to tell me HOW to find the controls and use them, not to give me a theory course on UML.

I'm sorry, Rational Software, but Microsoft Visio 2003 actually beats you guys at usability this time around. You can now go back and eat shit.

Peace out.

Wow, I just got the best drop from an Elmore soldier in like... 2 years?

A nzel... not that it's anything expensive, but still... an nzel from an Elmore soldier.

Don't expect much blogging from me until next Monday. I've got to do serious work in a school project due this Friday.

However, you should have no trouble finding me on Dep server.

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Just kidding.

Yet another birthday.

Happy Birthday to my sister, Mad Sheep. You thought I forgot about it, didn't you?

This is the Western birthday. Let me tell you non-Asian people something about birthdays. Birthdays are really cool for my generation of Asians because we usually get two birthdays every year: one lunar birthday, one Western birthday. We benefit from this particularly because our grand-parents tend to follow the lunar tradition and our parents tend to follow the Western tradition. So the result is that we get presents at least twice a year. Although the end result is the same amount of presents because one can only have so many grand-parents and parents anyway, we get to celebrate twice.

Damn. Making adena is really easy now, even without the uber drops like b-zels and b-dais. Last night I hunted for a bit and got 40k+. Really sweet.

It may be too early to think about this, but I'm wondering how I should play my mage after I reach lvl 52. Should I be a DK (or Kurtz) mage or a DE mage? If I go for DK mage, I'd need to get myself a SoF. Should I hunt orc mages myself or should I just buy a SoF off players?

Just did lvl 45 mage quest. Was a real pain. And big thx to Azu for helping me find the doppel. This guy is cool. He spent valuable time helping me when he could just go hunt on his own.

Thx to all the other people for tips and stuff too!!!

BTW, my request for +4 cmomr has ended. I got enough nzels from DI to make my own.

I'm confused...

Neither my mage nor my elf has taken the lvl 45 quest yet. And both are a real pain. I tried to do the mage's, but lost half of my alignment points in less than 10 minutes due to paralyze spell overuse. So I'm giving up on that until I find a way to not use para spell. :/ Then I read a guide for the elf's quest and found out I need to go to DVC 3f, which is a big "no no" for me cuz I don't have any decent AC right now. *sigh*