{"id":445,"date":"2014-06-09T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2014-08-05T03:17:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T03:17:24","slug":"my-college-roommates-and-i-arent-close-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-445 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=446#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6wpweqR4K1roeliao1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>My college roommates and I aren&#8217;t close anymore, though I&#8217;d certainly still consider them friends &#8211; we just all have families and jobs and live scattered all over the world. It&#8217;s been over 20 years since we lived together, after all. But this picture briefly reminded me of my old college roommate, the one I was in a band with, so I&#8217;ll share this story.<\/p>\n<p>I was working with my roommate at a tech company in Houston. We were both survivors of the Houston Independent Music Scene of the 90s and there was a lot of musical talent at that company; I was on my way out of that for a variety of reasons. But he gave me a copy of Jeff Buckley&#8217;s &#8220;Grace&#8221; and said, I think you&#8217;d really like this. I nodded politely, took the CD, and said I&#8217;d listen to it.<\/p>\n<p>I did, kinda. I listened to the first track and was like ehhhh not really my thing because &#8216;my thing&#8217; was Metal of all shapes and sizes. I wasn&#8217;t a musical omnivore, I was a musical snob. (I was in my 20s, arrogant and ignorant are pretty much part of the job description.) So I shelved it and said it was nice.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward about 10 years later. I was &#8230; I want to say I was engaged but not yet married? Certainly I wasn&#8217;t living in Texas anymore, I was living with my future wife, but we didn&#8217;t have any kids yet. And for some reason &#8211; probably the OC &#8211; I went back and listened to that CD. And was promptly blown away by how good it was. There are some amazing tracks there.<\/p>\n<p>So I wrote my roommate and said, listen, I&#8217;m sorry that this is like 8 years too late but I&#8217;ve only really now appreciated how nice of a gift that was, thank you. And he wrote back and said, no worries man, I&#8217;m glad you liked it, you always take your time in discovering things. And that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>About two years ago, folks told me that I would really love Guild Wars 2; it resolved a lot of my gameplay problems with That Other MMO and had a lot to offer. And it had great fashion systems in it too &#8211; dyes AND transmog, laid out in a far more sensible way.<\/p>\n<p>So as I was taking the picture of my Guardian above, I briefly thought of &#8220;Grace&#8221; and how it took me a while to get to it, too.<\/p>\n<p>So to those folks who recommended I try GW2 YEARS ago &#8211; thanks. You were right, I do like it, it&#8217;s a nice game. I might not ever approach a game like That Other MMO, but I do enjoy this one and it&#8217;s done a lot of things right.<\/p>\n<p>And to all you folks out there who are currently enjoying the heck out of Wildstar?<\/p>\n<p>Hold your horses, cupcakes. I&#8217;ll be there when I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My college roommates and I aren&#8217;t close anymore, though I&#8217;d certainly still consider them friends &#8211; we just all have families and jobs and live scattered all over the world. It&#8217;s been over 20 years since we lived together, after all. 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