forgotten_aria

On Friday my world of warcraft account will lapse for the first time since November 2004, shortly after this post. a little over 12 years of playing the same video game. I had already started to fatigue, only logging into to do the group content, and then my group fell apart. I'm trying to figure out if there's anything I really want to do before my account stops. And really, I might like to poke at the chromie stuff, but I'm just super bored with WoW, which is understandable.

A few years back they sent statues to anyone who had had an account, continuously, since launch, so I'm putting myself out of the running for the 20th anniversary statue. ;)

This is unlikely to give me any more free time to play other things, since Overwatch is already taking up more video game time than I would really like in my life. I've been putting off making music and other things because of various other priorities. I'm hoping I can find a good balance soon.

Due to a personality conflict, I have to pull more out of taiko again. That's also feeling like a good thing. Hopefully when the dust settles I can make an effort to do the "hard" things of making music videos and putting myself out there again.

I also haven't been to School of Honk since January and miss that (and some of the fun gigs, like the Georges island gig.)

While falling asleep last night I was thinking about the world of warcraft burning crusade introduction of the two new races and this wallpaper art ( cut for largeness )
And how the one of the new races, worgen had almost the same body type as dranei. Then my brain was completely amused by the idea of a goblin in that outfit, so I spend the morning doing ( this )
I love the gimp!

G's sound on his motherboard flaked out, which caused him to go buy a sound card, which happened to support 5.1 sound. He just got his 5.1 computer speakers and now there are WoW sounds everywhere! It has me lusting. Specially if I splurge on the monitor or sell the glasses and get the monitor. More dimention in sight AND sound! Whee!!

I'm not WoW filtering this, because it's kind of a meta post.

Wrath (the lastest World of Warcraft expansion) comes out tonight at midnight. I can't believe it's been almost two years since Burning Crusade (the last expansion) came out. 2 years... I guess even scarier is that I've been playing WoW since it's release. November 23, 2004. That's almost 4 years. That's longer than I've ever held a job. That's half the time I've been married. While I don't really feel like I'm addicted to the game, it's been part of my life for so long that it's hard to imagine what it will be like when it's gone from me life (and that day will come.)

It's interesting. People can easily see how MMOs make the game more social, but I never thought about the longevity it gives the game. How many other games have that kind of life (that aren't mmos.) I played DDR for three years, so clearly it counts (and I wish I were still playing it.) But even my other video game addictions were months, not years.

I don't actually regret my time playing WoW (total played time is about 200 24-hour days total.) It's come at a time in my life when I desperately needed escapism and distraction. I seem to be able to ignore it when I need to be doing something else and it's stopped me from becoming a complete WoW widow. (While I couldn't play on the same scheduel G plays, I do have enough of an understanding that it can be a shared topic between us.

The concert went great. I worked hard all day. I felt like everyone was alittle off, but that we still put on a good show. I've been working hard for two weeks now for this and it's felt really good to work as a team, to work hard for something I care about. And people even showed up! (yay people!)

Then I came home and ( Did some World of Warcraft stuff )