Payabangan oh..

An old forwarded mail.. I think I got this from way back 2005..  Still, it never ceases to amuse me.

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Metallica: Fixxxer & Better than You

Both from the Album Reload:

Metallica - Fixxxer

Fixxxer 

Dolls of voodoo all stuck with pins
One for each of us and our sins
So you lay us in a line
Push your pins, they make us humble
Only you can tell in time
If we’ll fall or merely stumble

But tell me
Can you heal what father’s done?
Or fix this hole in a mother’s son?
Can you heal the broken worlds within?
Can you strip away so we may start again?
Tell me, can you heal what father’s done?
Or cut this rope and let us run?
Just when all seems fine and I’m pain free
You jab another pin
Jab another pin in me

Mirror, mirror upon thy wall
Break the spell or become the doll
See you sharpening the pins
So the holes will remind us
We’re just the toys in the hands of another
And in time the needles turn from shine to rust

But tell me
Can you heal what father’s done?
Or fix this hole in a mother’s son?
Can you heal the broken worlds within?
Can you strip away so we may start again?
Tell me, can you heal what father’s done?
Or cut this rope and let us run?
Just when all seems fine and I’m pain free
You jab another pin
Jab another pin in me
Jab it

Blood for face
Sweat for dirt
Three x’s for the stone
To break this curse
A ritual due
I believe I’m not alone
Shell of shotgun
Pint of gin
Numb us up to shield the pins
Renew our faith which way we can
To fall in love with life again
To fall in love with life again
To fall in love with life again
To fall in love
To fall in love
To fall in love with life again

So tell me
Can you heal what father’s done?
Or fix this hole in mother’s son?
Can you heal the broken worlds within?
Can you strip away so we may start again?
Yeah, tell me, can you heal what father’s done?
Or cut this rope and let us run?
Just when all seems fine and I’m pain free
Jab another pin
Jab another pin in me
Oh yeah

No more pins in me, yeah
No more, no more pins in me
No more, no more pins in me
No more, no more, no more
No, no, no

Better Than You

Better Than You 

I look at you, then you (look at) me
Hungry and thirsty are we
Holding the lion’s share
Holding the key
Holding me back cause I’m striving to be…

Better than you (Better than you)
Better than you (Better than you)

Lock horns I push and I strive
Somehow I feel more alive
Bury the need for it
Bury the seed
Bury me deep where there’s no will to be

Better than you (Better than you) ho,
Better than you (Better than you)

Oh, can’t stop this train from rolling
Oh, no, nothing brings me down
No, I couldn’t stop this train from rolling on and on on
No, no, forever holding on…

Oh, can’t stop this train from rolling
Oh, yo, you can’t take it down
No, never stop this locomotion, on and on and on and on
No, you can’t bring it down cause I’m

Better than you (Better than you)
Better than you (Better than you)
Oh better than you (Better than you)
Better than you (Better than you)
Much Better than you

Better than you (Better than you)
Oh better than you (Better than you)
Better than you (Better than you)
Better than
Better than
Better than
Better than you, yeah

Can’t stop this train from rolling

Forever on and on and on and on and on
Forever on and on and on

Better than you, yeah
Better than you

RagnaTalk: Emperiums are meant to be broken.. (but not this one.)

Nothing special, just emp breaks. It’s been my Job since letting go of my vit knight from 3 years back..

The Assassin class is what made me love RO. but no, a Swordsman was my very first avatar way back july of 2002, yes, the beta days. When the population of the lone server chaos then was at the average around 500.. and during weekends it goes up to 1,000 and it was already laggy when the server population hits that number, and being in beta stage, it was played for free!

As any "less" curious gamer (was just referred to me by a friend), I didn’t bother with the proper stat build, (that’s how it goes with Diablo II) until I realized it is a difficult game, in terms of earning zennies, getting equips, those aspects that come easy with Diablo II (D2 was my benchmark for a quality multiplayer RPG then). I stopped playing, as my swordie was being mauled by Vadons and Marinas…

Then I saw the Digital Tour (studio 23) episode featuring Ragnarok Online, I saw one avatar, upon a flash of a certain japanese character, wham! 8 consective hits killed the Munak! I was mesmerized, I only thought there bashes and magnum breaks in the game.. That was the first time I saw an Assassin class, and it’s bread and butter move, Sonic Blow. I found new inspiration to play RO anew, so I played once more.

My build was no better, it was still disastrous, but having my first Assassin, as well as my first second jobber, I was officially a ragna-holic. After school ( I was a college freshman then), I go to the nearest Netopia branch near my home (that’d be Netopia in front of JRU) and play for 3-4 hours before going home. Sicorro was legendary on that point, we was hailed like a God by the shop regulars. I never saw his avatar with my own eyes, because I never stepped on the PVP rooms yet then.. But that aura he had more than convinced me that the Assassin’s path is what I’ll be taking.

But then, an unfortunate event occurred. My account got banned. hacker? no, but was conspired by one. A friend (HS classmate) of mine hoarded the account of another batchamate of ours during Highschool, claiming he thinks, the guy was inactive anyway. My part was being the transfer medium for the items, he logs in to the account, deals the items to me, he logs back to his own avatar and collects the items, of course I didn’t go unrewarded, roughly 20% of what he got.

Then the next day, I got an email from LU, yeah, I my account was banned indefinitely. It was pretty frustrating of course, I already have a "home" guild (Divine Providence II). Then, it was made available without notice, I think around 6 months after.. But I was already at Fenrir server then, with a better Assassin, but my spirit wasn’t there. I eventually quit, was busy with school stuff, got tired of levelling and didn’t have much reason anymore for playing.

Then, a classmate of mine (in college) invited me to start anew on Loki server. I was persuaded for two factors. They support my finances and levelling in-game, and we were gonna be part of an active and WOE-competitive guild, which was the Final Alliance guild. and heck, the Guild Master was even my classmate, and so they told me I should make a Vit-Knight.. aww.. I really wanted to be an Assassin, as I always did, but then the extension which we formed are mostly "Kalabaws".. to act as battering rams and tanks to break through defenses.

My move to Loki, was also an introduction to botting.. as everyone seemed to bot, I was left behind in terms of levelling and in-game wealth. And so, my avatar became part of their botting army, and so were the other suceeding characters I made, which then I’ve automated by myself, I made an Assassin again, and this time it’s for good, as those who made me move to Loki eventually quit. They claim there’s just more to life than RO.. I get that part, as I’ve experienced that myself, having "quit" on a number occassions. But I think what they didn’t realize is, botting stealthily stripped them the desire to keep playing, or at least diverted their purpose, and motivation for being part of Rune-Midgard.

I loved RO for its RPG elements. I loved the Assassin job class, the crits, the SBs and EDPs.. I embraced the mystique, the aura of the job lass. being community-oriented and people-driven only comes next. but as I’ve hung around to see my in-game friends and guildmates come and go, and my gaming time cut down considerably because I’m working now, I realized I’m no different, I’ve also ran my course on botting, I no longer see the need, or rather the urge to continue creating new avatars, new accounts.. But I still play, for the dead branches, new items,  and occassional sieges with the remnants of the guild I really can call my home (RAGE).. and that’s about it. But I’m not quitting anytime soon, I will have to see pRO through, and heck, I still have to become a Guillotine ‘Sin!(if it ever comes out).

That has been the gist, at least of my RO life so far.. I didn’t put emperium on the title with just the purpose of a catchy title.. proof + my modified ( and blood-pumping) theme of siege agits:

Pompeii (E.S. Posthumus)

Coheed and Cambria, FTW!

Two of the best songs from C & C, and two of the best rock songs in my book. enjoy!

Welcome Home

You could have been all I wanted
But you weren’t honest
Now get in the ground
You choked off the short list of favors
But if you really loved me
You would have endured my will

Well if you’re just as I presumed
A whore in sheep’s clothing
Fucking up all I do
And if it’s here we stop
Then never again
Will you see this in your life?

Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest, is our love ever longed?
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs

You stormed off to scar the armada
Like Jesus played leader,
I’ll drill through your hands

The stone for the curse you have blamed me
With love and devotion, i’ll die as you sleep

But if you could just write me out
To neverless wonder… happy will I become
Be true that this is no option,
So with sin I condemn you
Demon play, Demon out

Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs

One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl…
I’d do anything for you
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl…
Before I hope you die

Welcome Home (Coheed and Cambria)

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