tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post8064838229495832149..comments2024-03-18T19:38:53.390-04:00Comments on Parallel Context: We've been Liebstered!Redbeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-65001094762531900972014-04-10T13:07:15.500-04:002014-04-10T13:07:15.500-04:00Raiding, questing, PvP, or RP: which do you like t...<i>Raiding, questing, PvP, or RP: which do you like the most and why? The least?</i><br /><br />That's a tough one for me to answer, as I'm the kind of player who likes to do (almost) a little bit of everything. Questing and raiding together make up the bread and butter of my MMO experience I think, with neither being quite the same without the other. I also like a bit of PvP every now and then, though I've never considered myself a "PvPer". I suppose RP is the thing I like the least on that list, though I don't dislike it. I did some in the past but it just didn't stick.<br /><br /><i>When you put the keyboard and/or gamepad down, what do you do for fun?</i><br /><br />Um, you can have fun without a keyboard? Just kidding... but the thing I probably spend the most time on after gaming is reading and writing about it online, which does still involve a keyboard. Other than that I like to read fiction (though very, very slowly compared to when I was younger) and take pictures of my environment with my camera.<br /><br /><i>What drove you to write a gaming blog?</i><br /><br />I think I was only seven or eight when I made my first attempt at a diary, and I kept coming back to the idea on and off. In 2004 I started a personal blog online which I still update (sporadically) to this day. When I got into online gaming and started to worry about boring my friends who followed the blog but weren't necessarily into gaming with too much WoW talk, I made a separate blog for that.<br /><br /><i>Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter: which season do you like the best?</i><br /><br />Spring, because I'm very sensitive to temperatures. Summer tends to get too hot, and winter is too cold. Autumn can be okay temperature-wise, but the weather tends to be more dreary in general. I like the sunshine and blossoming flowers of spring.<br /><br /><i>What music do you listen to?</i><br /><br />Not a lot, actually! I like to buy film soundtracks, and when listening to the radio I tend to go for the rock/pop stations.<br /><br /><i>What is the best dish/dessert you cook?</i><br /><br />Uh, I don't cook, not very well in any case. I made some vanilla biscuits a couple of times that I'm told were popular with people.<br /><br /><i>What's the worst earworm you've ever had?</i><br /><br />No idea about the worst ever, but the most recent one was when I found myself repeatedly humming the tune that plays in the Pandaria inns in WoW, even though I hated it!Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-26196720254957257232014-04-10T13:05:25.441-04:002014-04-10T13:05:25.441-04:00Ok, so I worked on this for several days but kept ...Ok, so I worked on this for several days but kept drawing a blank when it came to pretty much anything after point two. I'm just not good at coming up with random things, and since I found trying more frustrating than anything else after a while, I eventually decided to let it be. These things are supposed to be fun after all.<br /><br />I <i>will</i> however post my answers to your questions in a comment here, since I can do <i>that</i>. :P<br /><br /><i>When did you first get into gaming? (It doesn't have to be computer gaming that you started with.)</i><br /><br />When I was very young, my family got not one, but two Commodore 64 home computers. One was mostly used by my father (presumably to do work of some sort), but the other one was given to my brother. He had literally hundreds of games for it, which had all been pirated from... somewhere. I have no idea how game developers made any money back then, because I didn't even know any shops where games were actually sold for money.<br /><br />Watching my brother play those games was highly fascinating to me, and after much begging I was allowed to give some of them a try too. Years later, when my brother got his first proper PC, I even "inherited" his C64... but of course by then the PC was the new shiny, and I begged to be allowed to play on that instead.<br /><br /><i>What MMO toon is your favorite of all time? Right now?</i> <br /><br />Probably Shíntar the Commando, my main in SWTOR. A lot of love was poured into Tiranea, my night elf priest, and Shintar the troll priest back in WoW, but after all the changes that game has gone through over the years I feel completely alienated from them, and thinking about them just makes me sad.<br /><br /><i>What was the funniest thing that ever happened to you in an MMO?</i> <br /><br />Hmm, hard to say. Funniest as in "strangest" was probably the time a (loose) friend in WoW randomly approached me on a lowbie alt I didn't know about at the time and pretended to be a girl looking for, um, questionable entertainment. As for "ha-ha" funny, many times when I unexpectedly fell to my death in a game made me laugh. I remember falling through the gap between the entrance and Soa's platform in Eternity Vault and literally laughing myself to tears.<br /><br /><i>Just how many toons do you have, anyway?</i> <br /><br />Currently sitting on 17 toons on The Red Eclipse, plus two or three that I rolled up on a US server but never got out of the starting zone. Back in WoW I must have had between 30 and 40 characters spread out across various servers. Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-73016881355603338212014-04-07T19:58:59.963-04:002014-04-07T19:58:59.963-04:00Fine with me! For the life of me, I couldn't ...Fine with me! For the life of me, I couldn't find your e-mail, so your dropping by worked out great.<br />Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-24413205222578638152014-04-07T19:20:03.595-04:002014-04-07T19:20:03.595-04:00Oh hey, look at that! Thanks for the om-nom. Does ...Oh hey, look at that! Thanks for the om-nom. Does it count if Netta and I split the questions?Taterzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02588062985859129680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-31927452516241845672014-04-03T09:06:27.866-04:002014-04-03T09:06:27.866-04:00Don't think. Feel.
Oh wait. You play a Comman...Don't think. Feel.<br /><br />Oh wait. You play a Commando.... ;-)<br />Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-56773141950899381172014-04-03T07:30:07.913-04:002014-04-03T07:30:07.913-04:00Thanks for the nomination. :) I'm not making a...Thanks for the nomination. :) I'm not making any promises though, as I'm not very good at these question meme things...Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-84940182564778096652014-04-03T07:22:29.448-04:002014-04-03T07:22:29.448-04:00"...Sweet Jesus, one toke over the line...&qu..."...Sweet Jesus, one toke over the line..."<br /><br />I still laugh at the Lawrence Welk clip, not just because it was so unintentionally funny, but that my grandparents would watch that show every... Sunday... night... That and The Waltons.<br /><br />But given that I'm the oldest active person in my WoW guild by about 6-8 years, yeah, I can figure out your age when you say you're seriously outside of the WoW demographic.<br />Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-73224852014294592902014-04-03T07:15:35.497-04:002014-04-03T07:15:35.497-04:00Oh! That's me too! I imagine the people on my ...Oh! That's me too! I imagine the people on my friend's list are all having 6 simultaneous conversations so I never want to "bother" anyone so you have to speak to me first.<br /><br />Oh dammit, how did I give away my age, is it because I'm always humming One Toke Over the Line?Tomeoftheancienthttp://tomeoftheancient.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-37502886676201187822014-04-02T20:04:48.506-04:002014-04-02T20:04:48.506-04:00Now that I think about it, I should probably have ...Now that I think about it, I should probably have added Navimie to the blog list. I was so sure she had over 200 followers, but now I'm guessing I should have tried anyway.Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-89941787385562107162014-04-02T19:55:28.878-04:002014-04-02T19:55:28.878-04:00I hope Njessi does too! I guess I shouldn't be...I hope Njessi does too! I guess I shouldn't be surprised you follow her with her posts on SWTOR fashion faux pas!<br />Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-10067087438515770072014-04-02T18:23:41.799-04:002014-04-02T18:23:41.799-04:00Thanks for playing along! I loved reading your ans...Thanks for playing along! I loved reading your answers, miscellaneous facts, and new questions! <br /><br />I do hope that Njessi takes the baton from you -- I considered nominating her myself.Kamaliahttp://kamaliaetalia.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com