Cav's Place

This would be more of the same, a Sunday post thrown in just to have two written this week, but it would appear that I have something to say today, due to a strange visitor I had here last night. Not that I wouldn’t have plenty of things to say otherwise as well, but not something suitable for such a rushed post on the last evening of the week. In fact, don’t have something suitable for rushed posts at any time, though I somehow managed to do a relatively decent job with the last one, as well as with last week’s serious post…

Anyway, the point is that there is a person who stumbled upon my OkCupid profile some days ago, poked around the blog a little as well and then sent me a message there asking if I have anxiety problems. I ignored the message, but he was back last night, first visiting my profile and then back on the blog. (By the way, I’m saying “he” because he lists himself as male on OkCupid, but the profile is otherwise empty and the required information is fake, such as showing up as being 101 years old, so that’s just for convenience’s sake.) First he had what appeared to be a couple of unsuccessful attempts of searching for posts in Romanian, then did searches for “dad” and “money” and went rather thoroughly through the results. Which could indicate that he’s not actually looking for me, but knows who my dad is and is gathering information, particularly financial information, about him? Or was he just checking to see if he could figure out how much I could possibly pay for something, the search for “dad” being a result of seeing that I have no income of my own?
Interestingly, there was a guy who started chatting with me on OkCupid some months ago and the nick does ring a bell, but I really couldn’t tell you whether it’s the same one or just a similar one or my memory is really playing tricks on me. That guy also asked about my anxiety problems and seemed to prepare, in a somewhat roundabout way, to start telling me about some miraculous solution for such issues when I cut in and directly asked what exactly was he trying to sell me. He said he wasn’t exactly selling anything, but wanted to let me know of a potential solution that he used himself, at which point I said I’m not interested and ended the conversation as politely as I could while mentally sending him to various highly uncomfortable places and locations. So of course I’m wondering if this is not the same person, only apparently much more determined this time around.

The above paragraph isn’t why I say “another” in the title though. That’s because of some other person who stalked me on-line for weeks, if not months, back in 2007. Also coming from OkCupid, but either browsing secretly or not even having an account, because I never saw profile views related to the loads of quite thorough visits to my blog that came from there, all by the same person. That ended after said stalker apparently got bold and posted this comment (the one under the name Gabi, to make it clear) and I gave the reply that, due to some weird issue, shows up above it on that page. Probably didn’t like it anymore after seeing that I was in on it.
As a general note, I have few visitors on this site. I didn’t have many at the old location either, but they were still usually three to five times more than I usually have now, since many people apparently won’t update links even after six months… Either way, the vast majority of visits are strictly for the Perfect World International Information Dump page, so anyone taking any sort of interest in the rest of the site stands out right away, and anyone taking that sort of interest repeatedly even more so. Which means it’d be awfully hard for me to miss any such, shall we say, events, don’t you think?

So… Ahem… Dear stalker: If you’re trying to sell or otherwise promote some sort of “cure” for anxiety, I’m not interested, so move along and don’t come back. If, on the other hand, you want to know something about my dad, kindly go ask him. If neither of these is true, then would you kindly explain yourself? Because your course of action is rather peculiar and suspicious to say the least… Especially if you’re the same person that contacted me last time as well.

But enough about that. Can’t end a personal post these days without saying something about Forsaken World, right? So I will say that the open beta did launch pretty much right on schedule and that the European English server is thankfully PvE, so I can use it for my characters. Lots of people are extremely angered by that decision and they can make quite a mess on the forums, seeing as those who want PvP servers are the extremely competitive, violent and/or simply frustrated ones, so just the ones who can generally complain very much and very loudly. In fact, the server’s not even listed as PvE when you’re asked to select servers, indicating that they could eventually go forward with a controversial leaked plan stating that, on the European servers, some realms would be PvE and others PvP, but so far it seems to just be PvE and I’m happy with that.
As for my characters, I recreated my human mage and my vampire. I really liked playing my marksman, the skills seemed to work really well with my playing style, but mage remains my top choice in any game and vampire had to be the second because being able to play a vampire was what made me interested in this game in the first place, so the marksman got left behind because I didn’t want to struggle with three characters again, considering that plenty of the items you obtain early in the game expire after a certain number of days. So it’s these two and so far it’s going surprisingly well. I got both to level 21 basically without getting out of Freedom Harbor and have just started the main quest chain now. Sold the obsidian shards you get for free for pocket change, so I’m trying to do this second part of the main quest without proper gear, being far higher level than I should be while doing it. Then I’m even considering skipping straight to the kind of gear you get for sapphire shards, so going over the ruby ones as well, because now I know I can get to level 30 without significant problems, though it certainly will be difficult to do the final part of the Sea of Oblivion quests with such awful equipment…