What have I been up to these past weeks? Playing a lot of Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening on my PS3, that’s what. Well, that and working. Neither of which leads to much discussion, so I haven’t written here and I’ve not emailed my parents as much, causing them to wonder if I’d fallen off the planet. I should send my mom a link to view my PS3 trophies online—that would show her I’m still alive.

I’ve run through Origins once as a mage and most of the way a second time as a rogue before I got tired of it and switched to Awakening. I ended up finding a glitch letting me get a party member (Velanna) after I was supposed to, and getting into an area that was supposed to be locked down (the Silverite Mine), so I switched characters and ran through as a blood mage. Bioware has announced they’re not fixing the Silverite Mine bug, which I don’t understand because there are plenty of other unpickable door locks, so why can’t they fix that one? When I first got in there, none of the dialogue made sense because I hadn’t gotten Velanna in my party and she hadn’t told me her story yet. I missed out on some cut scenes that I later saw when I ran through as a blood mage, too.

On the subject of glitches, I wish more sites would use OpenID for authentication. I rather consider it a glitch that every time I want to log into, for example, my cell phone provider’s site, I have to use their Reset Password form because their password restrictions keep out my passwords of choice. It’s ridiculous, too, because I like having, say, exclamation points in my passwords, but they disallow them, so my passwords are less secure. I don’t want to use the same password everywhere, though I guess OpenID would pretty much be the same thing. At least then I could focus on having one awesome password through a site like Google, that doesn’t have pointless password restrictions, and have that everywhere.