Banned For Being An American

So, now that the year is finishing up my friends and I are getting more and more anxious to start seriously playing MapleStory’s MapleSea. I’ve been playing for about a month and I really like it but I just haven’t had enough time to devote myself to the game. Well, my friends and I all consented that it was time to take a brake and play last night and for some reason we couldn’t. We knew there was going to be a server update so we just gave it some time and kept trying to log in every hour but we were never let in. I wasn’t to worried about it and I was even looking into getting some a-cash finally. After two failed attempts in the past to get a-cash I was finally getting serious. Then, today, just as I was about to head out my friend called.

It seems we aren’t the only ones who can’t log in. On the game’s forum it has announced that all players from Europe and US can no longer play. They said that there is a MapleStory made just for us. I knew about it. It’s called MapleGlobal but it has lots of hackers and my computer just wont let me download it. So when we chose MapleStory we purposely choose MapleSea to avoid hackers and cuz we love people from other places and since MapleSea is in English we figured there was no harm in joining it.

Well, even MapleStory knows that MapleGlobal has hackers and apparently they have lumped all US players in a ‘hacker’ stereotype and banned all of us to keep us from hacking MapleSea. I think that is really stupid but I can understand where they are coming from but they did a lot of things really wrong.

1) They banned us without any notice whatsoever.

2) People spend US money called a-cash on this game and many people have spent anywhere from 10-500 dollars on this game. When they purchased that money and then items Asiasoft and MapleStory made an agreement that those players would have those items for 90 days. This agreement has obviously been broken and many people are upset.

3) They banned IPs but there is a way around it. Something about Proxys? I don’t know anything about a Proxy (other than the anime Ergo Proxy) but you know who would?? HACKERS.

So if please give me two seconds more of your time and sign this petition so I can go back. I really liked the game and I really want to keep playing.

http://www.petitiononline.com/mapcpet/petition.html

Close Quarters

I believe when two people are forced to live together in a small space bad things will happen. Most people deal with this their entire life. First you have your family, then roommates at college, then your spouse. Right now I’m in the college phase and I have to say it’s not pretty.

My roommate and I haven’t gotten along that great the entire year. Now, in about a week, she is going to be moving into an apartment and out of the dorms. I’m very thankful for this because that means I’ll have the room to myself during finals week but it also means that our room is filled with boxes. She has taken it upon herself to already start purchasing the stuff for her apartment and storing it here. Other than that there are the daily inconveniences of living together.

Just the fact that we live different lives and have different waking and sleeping times sucks. Her seat is in front of our bedroom door so this is also sucks for both of us. Her because she has to deal with me scooting past her and me because she never scoots up to let me pass and while I don’t consider myself in the fat category the space she gives me to pass her is ridiculously small. Then, the TV. I use the TV three times a week. Monday at 9 for Heroes. Wednesday at 10 for Lost. And Friday at 12:00am for Meerkat Manor. She, on the other hand, loves to watch movies. There is also the fact that her boyfriend is glued to her hip and therefore allowing me the pleasure of witnessing every kiss, hug, and fight. I on the other hand have two friends who always come over and are just as loud as her boyfriend.

This is a kind of rant if you couldn’t tell except I actually realize that I’m just as much a pain for her as she is for me. Tonight is a basic problem. She said she was sleeping at her boyfriend’s room which is good because I have a lot of work I had to study for and I wasn’t looking forward to having her get mad at me for staying up late. Well, at about 1 am she decides that she wants to stay but not go to bed just yet but she still decides to tell me to take the wheel out of my rats’ cage. I do mind doing this because neither of us were sleeping, it wasn’t that loud, and it’s a real pain to take the wheel out since it is a wire cage and locked to the side. I questioned her about her sleeping plans and that’s when she revealed that not only was she staying her boyfriend would soon be joining us. That I was not pleased about. I know that she sleeps at his place but that’s not really my fault. There is no rule saying they have to sleep together every night and since he didn’t pay to live with us and I don’t like having a male roommate I don’t see why he has to sleep over. I decided to just go ahead and let my feelings known. I told her that since there wasn’t much of a semester left it was kind of pointless to bring it up but that I would like to be apart of the deciding factor on whether or not her boyfriend sleeps in our room and not just nonchalantly informed. With this she brought up the usual about how she sleeps with him in his room all the time and I said nothing. I know she hates my snoring (which I’ve been told by others really isn’t that bad) and I hate her waking me up every hour to tell me I’m snoring and to ‘please stop’. Like it’s really that easy.

Anyway, I really do need to get to bed. I just had to go ahead and rant a little.

Photo Booth

Earlier today my friend showed me these videos on youtube and I really liked them. I hope they make you smile.