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Red Rider Air Rifle in World of Warcraft

Nils — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:36:20 +0000

Hah! I just found this in WoW:

Red Rider Air Rifle? I wonder if at this point this is a reference to the original, to the Christmas Story, or to Wasteland…

Rift: Screenshots III

Nils — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:03:11 +0000

Amazon Kindle

Nils — Sun, 29 May 2011 10:02:56 +0000

After thinking about it for an entire Sunday, I bought a Kindle. I love it!

Dyes are cool

Nils — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:21:11 +0000

I unfortunately didn’t take a “before” screenshot – and can’t afford enough dye remover. But my new cleric now has a shiny, colorful suit of armor:

Llewella

Having dyes in-game may seem so trivial – and yet it makes all the difference in the world that your character is NOT an exact carbon copy of the character every other player is playing.

Rift: Screenshots II

Nils — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:07:26 +0000

More Rift Screenshots…

Rift: Screenshots

Nils — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:48:41 +0000

I discovered a new MMORPG called Rift last week, and it looked so promising that I bought it. I’ve been playing it since Thursday, as part of their Headstart, before the game officially goes on sale next week.

Until I have time to write a formal review, here’s some screenshots to whet your appetite…

Lich King is Finally Down

Nils — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:55:47 +0000

Time and Tide, the Raid Group i have been member of for about two years now, has finally managed to kill the Lich King on 25-Man Difficulty. After weeks of failing to do so, mostly caused by the huge fluctuation in players we had over the sunmer, we went in last night for an epic battle.

And when the dust settled, we had killed him – on our first attempt of the night.

A well deserved victory, and a joyous event; even if I did not have enough DKP for Glorenzelg.

At the end of the fight only one burning question remaind: What the hell are we gonna do for the rest of the week?

Vanity Search

Nils — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:00:02 +0000

Richard, I see your 34 matches and counter with 46 players named “Jeppe” in Europe and 9 in the American World of Warcraft.

(Of course “Jeppe” is a fairly common name in Scandinavia, especially in Denmark.)

Raider of the Lost Instance

Nils — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:40:59 +0000

I recent weeks I’ve done something I’d never actually seriously considered before: I am now raiding in World of Warcraft. Raids, in case you are not familiar with the lingo, are larger groups of adventurers than the basic 5-man party. Currently, WoW uses 10-man and 25-man raids, though in the past there have been 20-man and 40-man raids as well.

Raids take on challenges that’d be much too hard for smaller groups. Naxxramas – a floating, undead citadel – was the primary raid in the current content; last week, Ulduar was added. Ulduar is a fortress inhabited by titans.

After joining raids fro some weeks now, I’ve gotta say: I am kind of glad I did. They are much more interesting and challenging than small-scale encounters. They require 25 people to work well together; there’s a leadership structure (though we’re kind of casual about it) and people have more specialized roles. Everybody needs to do their job well; a weak link means a wipe – death of the entire raid. For example, on one boss in Naxxramas, I have to use my hunter’s ability to set freezing traps to help neutralize a large group of zombies, and I have to use my tranquilizing shot to calm down the boss when he becomes enraged. Positioning is much important as well. In short, it’s much more about tactics than most other fights.

It’s really fun to do this. Naxxramas is a bit too easy, but Ulduar is very tough for us. This is in part because it’s just a hard area, but it’s also because we’re still learning how to defeat the bosses there. There is immense satisfaction in taking on a big, bad monster, failing for many attempts, and then finally working out the right approach for a successful victory.

Very gratifying.

Razorscale - Ulduar 10-man

Happy Halloween

Nils — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:05:27 +0000

Halloween is my favorite ‘holiday’. It is not celebrated here in Germany (but of course shops use it to sell candy, and nowadays Halloween party are quite common) and is probably the one thing I wish I had had in my youth. Trick-or-treat, spooky decorations, fog, scary stories, things that go bump in the night, the legend of sleepy hallow, jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, ghouls, vampires and zombies.

In the past years I always had a private Halloween movie marathon. This year, I somehow completely lost track of it and so I didn’t borrow or buy any scary movies. I still have a bunch that I have viewed before, we’ll see. I’ll probably spend the entire night working on the NaNoWriMo thing anyway.