日常生活

I don't always shop at Threadless but when I do, it's Back to School Sale. I feel a little cheated though, I bought these tee's for $12 a piece - which is a bargain from their usual $19/$20 - but the next day I got a mail saying "they're now only $10"... >:|

The Horde, Perfect Timing and The Guest dropped in the mail today, along with Red Revenge from Woot. Tasty. :-)

Edit: And I almost forgot about Another Dramatic Moon Scene. Seems like the recurring theme this time around is "man versus very large monsters" (or just large amounts).

I don't know the language, but I'm guessing it's Korean. Honestly, I don't think it matters whether you can read it or not; it scared me shitless just from looking at the pictures. Just click the image and scroll down....

Source: [comic.naver.com]

Before you say anything; there is no such thing as too many Portal-themed t-shirts. Well, in all honestly, there is no such thing as too many t-shirts, period, and he who dies with the most t-shirts wins!

"So, how are you holding up? Because I'm a Potato" is one of the best quotes from Portal 2, one of many, many good ones. It's starting to smell like there'll be another run through the Enrichment Center in the near future. Perhaps some Co-op this weekend... Hmm...

Moving to another universe, "These Aren't The Droids you're looking for" is another great quote, although I'm not an as huge fan of Star Wars. This shirt was randomly picked in Qwertee's InsaniTEE Sale and it's not horrible. Quite humorous , really.

My brother and I decided to build a HTPC. Having all media and games (well not all, but a lot more of it) in the same place, within easy reach, is awesome. The build is near perfection, with only a few small "bugs" left to sort out, such as a the screen flickering now and then, sometimes losing colours, something which I have yet been unable to find the cause of.

And the connectivity of the mouse and keyboard is less than desirable. I'm buying the Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 which hopefully will sort that out. Looks pretty neat, that one.

The media-side is "powered by" XBMC, a superb piece of media-center software that looks and operates just delisioucly. :-)

Games.. Well, the current-gen gaming will still be "left to" the consoles we have (Xbox 360 and Wii) but [more interestingly] various emulators will take care of the older-gen (Nes and SNES and the like). Using a wireless gaming reciever we're able to play with the 360's controllers. It's not always optimal, but beats the hell out of using a keyboard. ;-)

None of these t-shirts have arrived yet but I went ahead and posted a little snippet anyway. Because I could. :3

Game of Blades - Game of Thrones (the tv series) was pretty badass. Link is pretty badass. The Portal gun is just pretty, but overall, this shirt is badass.

Death Portal - SPAAAAAAAACE! Also, that's no moon!

The Orchid Onryo - A Japanese ghost, on my shirt? Why, I have never.... Which is why it's on the way, damnit. She's actually pretty cute for an 怨霊, what little you see of her.. It's just a shame the shirt is white. :|

True Love Never Dies - Never. Dies. Ever.

Sci-Fi Cussing - Honestly, I don't care that much about the cussing per say. I do however like the shading on this one a lot.

In other words, three out of five was Portal-related. You can't go wrong with Portal. :3

It's been a while since I saw any anime and I wanted to pick up a slow paced show to easy my way back. I decided on Hourou Musuko, a story about a boy who wants to be a girl and a girl who wants to be a boy.

I think this is my first experience with these particular topics; gender identity and transsexuality. I'm not really sure why I picked it, but I'm glad I did. It's a really nice story, short but so very sweet.

The art style is really neat, and actually what I first fell for - I noticed the image before reading the synopsis.

I only wish the show would've lasted longer, but I guess I could, nay should read the manga. :3

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...