Gaming

Permadeath (part 1)

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Dungeons and Dragons Online has added a Hardcore server with permadeath.

I’ve been wanting to play this style for a long time.

I managed to get up to level 7 before getting killed.

I was taken out by a Troglodyte Shaman who cast Melf’s acid arrow on me. The DoT took me down to incapacitated and then death before my hireling could heal me.

Unfortunately, I can’t get back my Greater learning tome or the permanent gold seal hireling Eleri. Those two things really made a difference in the early game for questing.

I’m licking my wounds for now, and I’ll try again tomorrow.

Deals

Miffed

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A couple of weeks back, the US Mint released the “Pride of Two Nations” coin set. It was a limited sale with 5 sets per person.

Apmex was offering to buy the sets for $20 more than the cost of the sets. The deal was listed on two awesome sites I follow for deals: Miles per Day and Doctor of Credit.

I got signed up with APMEX and ordered my coins. My order number was early enough to meet the cutoff for selling to APMEX.

Up until the order arrived, they had been emailing me instructions on how to proceed with the shipping. But once the coins were delivered, they dropped contact.

They never sent me shipping labels. I called them and was transferred to the sales department, but the guy was away.

They never called me back. No one has responded to my emails.

I only bought the coins because APMEX was offering to buy them. Normally, such a purchase would be out of my price range. The 5 sets are equal to a month’s pay for me.

I just feel like I’ve been misled and left holding the bag. A very expensive bag.

Shopping

Break time

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I’m taking a week of vacation starting today. I’ll be lounging about the house watching K-dramas and playing DDO.

Although that is basically what I do every day, now I can do it without having to work in between.

I have a bunch of packages arriving from my orders on Amazon Prime Day.

I signed up for the free trial of Amazon Prime and bought the Tineco A10 Hero Stick Vacuum that I see all the time in Chinese and Korean shows.

I also bought two Fire 7 tablets, a 128GB flash drive, a 32GB micro SD card, a Microsoft Lifecam, and the Roku Ultra.

There are some other items I ordered, but at the moment I don’t recall what those were.

I spent around $300 on a variety of credit cards. I got discounts using both my personal and business AMEX cards and some of my Chase cards.

I did use my Amazon Business Prime AMEX for some buys after the discounts ran out, since I got 5% back with that one.

All of my image uploads are failing, so no pictures of the loot.

Shopping

My new computer

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I recently got the Rewards+ card from Citi and they had a nice bonus when you spend $1000. I got 20k points plus I’ll get a 10% bonus on redemption.

I decided earlier this month it was time for a new computer so when I saw the signup bonus I felt like the stars had aligned.

I ordered the CyberpowerPC Gamer Extreme GXI1280. It has a 4gb video card which a big step up from my old R7 360. I’m looking forward to playing in Sharn (DDO) with this computer.