Don't make 'em like they used to...
Aug. 4th, 2005 01:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothWhen I got home from work today, my monitor was dead. It just had no picture, not even the normal diagnostic stuff when you hit the appropriate buttons (which is how I knew it was the monitor). So since it was still early enough, even though I'd walked home, and then washed the bathroom and went swimming for a bit, I went out to the stores to get a replacement.
Couldn't find one. All anyone's selling nowadays are LCD monitors supporting 1280x1024 resolution. Sigh. I want a CRT monitor (so as it can change resolutions without looking like ass) that supports 1600x1200. No joy.
So instead I bought a cheap 17" LCD, since that's apparently ALL THAT ANYONE'S SELLING. Maybe I'll be able to mail order a new one or something, but urgh, CRT monitors are awfully heavy...
Man, windows is ugly at 1280x1024. It doesn't do antialiasing of its fonts, so while switching to normal fonts from large fonts makes them draw at about the same size as I'm used to (and it looks like other UI graphics were being similarly scaled), man... they're ugly.
EQ2, on the other hand, is a *lot* prettier on an LCD, so I sort of have mixed feelings about the whole thing now.
Made 22 adventuring with Chitter doing some oldish quests, including the access quest Zargonn's Legacy, which took me to a zone full of tier 3 harvesting nodes. Harvesting those (had to kill a few pesky skeletons) let me tradeskill enough to get up to 22 alchy too. I made a bunch of inks and spikes and ornaments and mailed them off to the only jeweler in the guild, asking him to combine half of them for me. He's not someone I've ever talked to (we seem to have mutually exclusive schedules), so I guess I'll hear back or not later.
Major kink in the alchemist biz: You can't make bottles with chemisty. You have to use apothecary, which I have never had any reason to use before now. Given that they use *apothecary*, I have to wonder if jewelers are the ones who make them, or what? At any rate, I made a ton of neolith tempers with apothecary and got it up to about 80, which let me make some pristine bottles on the fourth try. Ugh.
Also, while the imbued clicky rings all sold for 3g each (total of 12g there, since I made a second set after the first sold out), no one will buy my adept IV combat arts that are up for 25s. Do warriors just not care *that much*?
Couldn't find one. All anyone's selling nowadays are LCD monitors supporting 1280x1024 resolution. Sigh. I want a CRT monitor (so as it can change resolutions without looking like ass) that supports 1600x1200. No joy.
So instead I bought a cheap 17" LCD, since that's apparently ALL THAT ANYONE'S SELLING. Maybe I'll be able to mail order a new one or something, but urgh, CRT monitors are awfully heavy...
Man, windows is ugly at 1280x1024. It doesn't do antialiasing of its fonts, so while switching to normal fonts from large fonts makes them draw at about the same size as I'm used to (and it looks like other UI graphics were being similarly scaled), man... they're ugly.
EQ2, on the other hand, is a *lot* prettier on an LCD, so I sort of have mixed feelings about the whole thing now.
Made 22 adventuring with Chitter doing some oldish quests, including the access quest Zargonn's Legacy, which took me to a zone full of tier 3 harvesting nodes. Harvesting those (had to kill a few pesky skeletons) let me tradeskill enough to get up to 22 alchy too. I made a bunch of inks and spikes and ornaments and mailed them off to the only jeweler in the guild, asking him to combine half of them for me. He's not someone I've ever talked to (we seem to have mutually exclusive schedules), so I guess I'll hear back or not later.
Major kink in the alchemist biz: You can't make bottles with chemisty. You have to use apothecary, which I have never had any reason to use before now. Given that they use *apothecary*, I have to wonder if jewelers are the ones who make them, or what? At any rate, I made a ton of neolith tempers with apothecary and got it up to about 80, which let me make some pristine bottles on the fourth try. Ugh.
Also, while the imbued clicky rings all sold for 3g each (total of 12g there, since I made a second set after the first sold out), no one will buy my adept IV combat arts that are up for 25s. Do warriors just not care *that much*?
