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I’ve always cosidered the Warhammer universe (Warhammer 40,000 more so than Warhammer Fantasy) to be very rich and very engaging. A new game is being released, set in the Warhammer fantasy setting, called Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, a real-time strategy game, which isn’t really my cup of tea, usually. However, they’ve released the game trailer, and it’s probably the best game-trailer I’ve ever seen, bar none. Check it out here, and let me know what you think. :)

A lot has happened recently, more than I care to recount right now. A quick rundown; more drama than usual in my family and I’m stuck right in the middle of it. Bought a new computer. Helped Eva and Frank move. Have my hair cut shorter than it’s been since I was born. Have been playing a lot of WoW. Have not been enjoying the summer. Have been working on Pinksteren (or Whitsuntide, or Pentacost, or Pèntèkostè, or however you want to call it.)

The drama is more complicated than I had initially anticipated. I thought one person was acting out of line, and in my perception had been doing so for the last couple of years, and finally I had the balls to confront that person with the mud that person had been slinging all these years. That person convinced me that the person had not done such a thing, and we had a long discussion on it. I went back to my initial source of information, who had to admit that perhaps the information that person had supplied might not have been entirely kosher. I couldn’t give a rat’s ass who is lying to me, or who is acting on false information; I just want to get rid of the rumours and mudslinging. It’s negatively affecting my family, and a few innocent ones at that.

Pinksteren is a national holiday. There are two days of it, one on sunday, the next on monday. Monday is always off, just like with Easter. This time, however, I got to work on our release, which will be going live in about 2 hours. I worked about 12 hours on a national holiday. Teh suq. But, on the other hand, we did deliver a nice piece of work, and if the release had gone live without the effort we put in yesterday, it would have been a flaming piece of shit.

The summer has been a little disappointing so far. We’ve had a couple of weeks with great weather. You know the type, the one that doesn’t have you sweating like a pig, but has got your energy and happiness up. Sun, breeze, happy and beautiful people. Now it’s definitely a lot colder, but I still can’t complain. I really dig the type of weather that allows you to walk around without a jacket, and isn’t too sunny and bright. My eyes react badly to bright light, and that often leads to headaches. (Not that I’m a Gothy vampire or anything. “The daystar! It’s burning! Aaaarghhh!”) Hopefully things will clear up just a bit more so that I don’t have to sit around listening to other people complaint that the weather’s so bad.

Why is it that no matter what the weather, people will always complain about it? In the summer it’s too hot. In the winter it’s too cold. In the summer people long for gezellige winters. In the winter people long for gezellige summers. It annoys me.

I’ve been playing a lot of Warcraft lately. I’m really digging it. I have a Hunter which is nearly exalted with the Wintersaber Trainers. I’ve been working very hard on it, and I’ve let many other opportunity slide in order to get where I am. It’s been good, but it’s about time for it to be completed. As a result of all the grinding I do in Winterspring, I’m also nearly exalted with theTimbermaw Hold, which should net me a nice epic trinket.

I’ve also done my first Onyxia raid. I’ve been attuned for a while, but never bothered to sign up on the Onyxia roster. The first run I went on netted me the Mature Black Dragon Sinew. As soon as I’m attuned for Molten Core, and my guild carries my noob ass to Majordomo Executus, I’ll have the Ancient Petrified Leaf, and I’ll be doing the hunter epic bow quest.

Nine out of ten times when I claim that something is of poor quality, people will try to point out that the product was also not very expensive. People always go for the compromise, and the “bang for your buck,” which I think is kind of stupid. Why? I’m glad you asked;

Remember when you first were taught divisions in school, and they teach you that bullshit line about how you can’t divide a number by zero? Well, that’s as bullshit as that rule is, you can divide by zero, but the result will always be infinity. Don’t believe me? Well, take any number, and divide it by ten, then divide that same number by nine, then by 8, then by seven, etc. Do that until you reach one, then divide it by 0.9, then 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 0.5, etc. The smaller the number becomes that you’re dividing by, the bigger the result. The more you approach zero, the more the result approaches infitiy.

Now, to get back to my point; when something is free, no matter what the quality is, or however you decide the quanity quality, the “bang for your buck” is always infinity, because the quality per buck spent = quality / money spent, which is to say X / 0 = infinity. So, if someone were to give me a old, beat up, Vauxhall Asma for free, the bang for my buck will be infinity, just like if someone were to give me a Lotus Elise 190e Sport for free.

And that, my friends, is a load of wank. Anyone who wants to sell me that line of nonesense, no matter how true it is, will get: “What don’t you pull the other one, mate, that one’s got bells on it.”

Here’s a story about a guy playing WoW and nearly getting killed by his neighbour. I’m in no way suggesting his neighbour shot at him for playing WoW, but the comments I get from family and friends about my WoW behaviour might suggest it’s not unlikely to be shot while playing WoW. :)