Well, I’m still not that organized with respects to wedding planning, but I did ascend in Kingdom of Loathing. My new (perhaps unattainable) goal is to re-ascend by this Sunday (or at least beat the council quests). I’m already on level 7, so at one level per day I’ll be at level 11 by Sunday!
I haven’t been doing much in the evenings, except stupidly playing Kingdom of Loathing. For some reason I am obsessed about beating the game and planning what I would do when I beat it.
I’ve read large parts of the KoL Wiki, I’ve got del.icio.us bookmarks for various tools, I’ve got a bunch of KoL greasemonkey scripts, and I’m about 75% through beating the game… the first time.
Some people have beaten the game dozens of times; some game items, for example, only appear after you’ve beaten the game 25 times.
I’ve been playing Kingdom of Loathing for about a week now, per Rob West’s recommendation. KoL is the kind of game that I get addicted to very quickly: it’s turn-based (so I can’t just keep playing until I win), it’s got some jokes, and there are quantifiable goals that are not easy but that are definitely possible without too much thinking.
With these kinds of games I try to figure out what the ideal strategy is. When I’ve proven to myself that I’ve figured out the ideal strategy, then I usually (hopefully) stop playing.