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So I activated my account for another month, partially to appease my brother and my friend and in a way myself as well because I've actually kind of missed playing..

I decided against playing my human priest, Moriam, instead focusing on the Horde side of the game (as I've done almost all quests for the Alliance).

I created a tauren paladin called Borkedhorn ('cus, like, he has a borked horn... get it?) and will focus on healing, something I haven't done (properly) for a long time. My goal is to try and get him up to level 85 before the month is over, but we'll see how that goes; I've never been a very fast leveler..

Edit June 24: Well it's moving forward; Borkedhorn dinged 30 yesterday. My friend (who also play a tauren paladin) and I started a guild called Need CafPow If Sleepy, a sort of homage to NCIS, and Abby in particular. We both love NCIS.

The top shelf of my bookcase is the only shelf harboring books and they are all yet to be read. There is currently 31 books on the shelf, some of which have been up there for years...

...I don't read nearly as much as I would like to...

A week or so ago I added 6 titles:

The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett

Farlander by Col Buchanan

The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Stormrage by Richard A. Knaak

And lastly The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, which I'm currently reading. Best damn book I've read in a good long time.

I'm currently on a break from WoW. It's partially because I got a little tired of it; the content ran out faster in Cataclysm than in previous expansions, but also - more so - because my computer was shitsludge. Not limited to WoW either; I could hardly play any games at all that has decent graphics. WoW don't require that much but still looked pretty bad. To top it off, I had that little problem with my OS a little while back.

I decided enough was enough with the BS that was my computer and went ahead and upgraded a bit - Windows 7, new cpu, new gfx card, new everything. Made myself a little monster, I did. (Well, my brother assisted with the assembly).

I was looking at a few games to try out with this new "wonder-machine" of mine, and happened upon RIFT. I had glanced at it in the past, but thought little of trying it because my machine would hardly run it. (It probably would, but I'm sick and tired of always playing with lower graphic settings). Now though, I decided to download the 7-day trial to have a peek at it.

As soon as I got into Telara (the world in RIFT) I felt a sense of recognition; pretty much everything looks and feels like WoW, only enhanced (I'm comparing it to a low to medium-setting installation of WoW), which made it pretty easy to get into. On the one hand we have this beautiful world, open for exploration and adventure. On the other, while I knew a lot (or at least some) of the backstory to WoW (having played Warcraft 1-3) helping me get the feel of Azeroth, I don't know a whole lot about Telara or the races inhabiting the world, and I'm not sure I have the energy to fully take on a new world.

As tempting as it is to buy RIFT I have decided against doing so. I probably wouldn't hesitate if it didn't cost as much per month to play as WoW does (give or take). It's good fun to play it, and the world really is beautiful (more so than Azeroth! ;o) but since I don't know anyone else playing that could "mentor me" I don't know if I would enjoy it as much. We'll see though, I might change my mind in a week.

Moving forward through the mmo-swamp, a friend of mine is talking a lot about the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic, trying to get me onboard to play when it is released. I'm still uncertain to whether I actually will, but I've agreed to at least try it out. I'm not a HUGE fan of Star Wars, but there are sertain aspects of the game that looks promising and fun. Maybe...

That same friend is trying to get me back into WoW, and I might, if only to see what it looks like in all it's glory (haven't really seen it with every setting maxed out). My brother also wants me back in the game; I'm the guildleader of one of the "bank-guilds" we have and he's having troubles accessing stuff in my absence.. ;D

"That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?" - Pvt. Hudson, Aliens 1986

Game Over is a pretty sweet looking t-shirt - Aliens is one of my all-time favourite movies. And it sure looks like Game Over to me...

Eat your Wheatley's is the first of two Portal-themed shirts. I sure wouldn't mind a Handheld Portal Device being shipped with my breakfast, not one bit.

The Cheese is a Liederkranz, the much sought-after t-shirt that was posted on the release day of Portal 2. It sold out pretty fast.

Guardians of the Labyrinth An adventure with both loot and huge bosses? I'm in!

You've Got a New Follower! While it's nice to get more followers, it ain't something you wanna see in your rear-view mirror. Especially when you see the finish-line, just up ahead. Every god damned time...

It's been a few months since we took on the behemoth that is Dungeons & Dragons. We finished off the starter-set campaign and I bought a few of the books and boxes from the Essentials line. We then started out on a new journey to save the land.

But we didn't get very far. The roleplaying aspect of D&D turned out to be a little rough on all of us; too much were said and not enough got done, so to speak. And we found the character sheets and spells a bit hard to read out. All of us enjoy a good fight, but it got more complicated than it probably had to.

And that's where the D&D board game Castle Ravenloft comes into the picture -- It is a slimmed down version of D&D with the main focus on exploring the dungeons (in this case a castle) and fighting monsters. What makes it great is that no one is locked down playing the DM (which would always be my peril); everyone gets to control the monsters they reveal, which in my opinion is ingenious. I like that a lot, because now I can be part of the group of adventurers instead of hiding behind a DM screen.

I got the game a few days ago and my brother and I have played a couple of rounds to test it out. We both enjoy it immensely and I think Castle Ravenloft will be the favourite among my games for a long time to come. :-)

I'm planning on buying the "sequel", Wrath of Ashardalon which was released mid-Februari, as well as The Legend of Drizzt due for release in October.