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Yes. Www.thevelvetcafe.wordpress.com
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Thank you! You're finding my place deserted I'm afraid, but if you liked it you might want to check out some of my older posts.
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Actually I've never heard of it. But thank you for the tip! I'll check it out.
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Awwww! I'll try to! I've been kind of busy making my main raid ready but hopefully there will be more time for alt playing soon. I must admit also that the initial queues to AD scared me off a bit. But I guess it's better now.
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Thank you very much! It happens occationally that I rage too, but I guess it's fairly rare. I blame age. I figure I just don't have the energy to go berserk these days. And then there's always the "other side" of an issue to consider...
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No, I don't. Quick and Simple answer. :) I'm way too wordy to be able to say anything that make sense within the character limit.
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Was that a question? A bit weird... You're free to use the comment tool if you like to! But anyway yeah, WoW has always picked up great ideas from other games and what's wrong about that, thinking of it? I guess they beware of trespassing the copyright line...
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It's true that I joined, but since my little pink pigtailed mage (yep, another one, although this one is frost) is only level 23, currently questing in Duskwood and pugging some low level dungeons through LFD. I really don't have that much to say about the guild. I haven't been a part of any raid and don't expect to be for a very long time. If I ever will, it will be in a far distant future. My visits are often late, after the last raid has finished, so I don't really see much of what is going on there through the guild chat either.
All in all. I don't think I have enough of experience of PuG to give much of an opinion. But when I've spent some more time on the server, I'll probably write something. Most of the things I do in the game will be reflected in blog posts. Eventually. -
Depends on if I like it! But as it is I can't check you out since you didn't say which it is....
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There ain't such a thing as a silly question! Apart from this one, possibly... ;)
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I sleep to little. Many times not more than 4-5 hours. It's a problem and I should do something about it. This isn't a sustainable lifestyle, to be honest. :(
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Well... There are a couple of bloggers who I've e-mailed to for various reasons and who feel a bit closer than others. I don't know if I should name them... Oh hell, why not. Gnomeaggedon and Gevlon have been reading PPI almost from the start and have been huge supporters throughout this adventure. Others have joined on the way. I've got a special spot in my heart for Ixobelle, Klepsacovic, Tamarind, Dwism... The only one I've spoken to is Tessy from Reflections from the Pond, since she server transfered joining my guild last year. We found out that we'll attend the same medieval festival this summer and hopefully we'll meet up there, which I'm really looking forward to! It's so... cool! We're very much alike, almost the same age and yeah... It will be nice.
Blogging is weird in this sense. Not every blogger, but some of them, are so... sort of intimate in what they write, leaving out very much of themselves. So you have the feeling that you know them. While you still don't even know their real name. They're like... mental, intellectual friends. Very close in one sense, strangers in another.
I'm not sure what will happen the day I stop playing or blogging. Will any of those "friendships" last? I don't know. But I know that even if we'll lose contact, I will always have fond memories and a special spot in my heart for those people I met through my blogging. -
Yep.
I'm not sure though that there are any silver colored aliens with big heads and black eyes flying in saucerformed ships that look pretty on the screen. Even though it would be fun if there were.
I'm pretty certain though that tere is some sort of life, just not so spectacular. Some bacteria creature or maybe some silicon based thingy (hm... I suppose you could call that an "elemental"?
Anyway. I don't think life is Earth exclusive.
Thinking of it you could read the question the other way round. I believe humans living on another planet might happen in a very far distant future. At least I wouldn't dismiss the idea completely. I hope however that we won't see an escape as a solution to the problems we have on Earth. Before colonizing Space we should tend to our own planet. -
Funny enough I'm not a bar visitor at all in real life. Many bars have the odd idea to play very loud music, which I find immensly annoying since it makes it impossible to run a normal conversation. I don't see the point of it. I don't think I visit any bar in real life more than once or twice a year.... But somehow I nourish some sort of dream/idea about a good bar. I suppose I've sort of modelled the inn after the bar in Cheers!, having that familiar feeling with guests that keep coming day after day and become sort of part of the family. However, since my origins are European I prefer to look at the inn more as a pub than as a bar, even though I use both words when I write about it.
This summer I'm going on a walking tour in some rural parts of the UK, which will include sleeping at inns and having lunches at pubs on the way. I'm really looking forward to this and hope that I might encounter the kind of pubs/bars that I would like to see, as opposed to the loud-music bars we have in my hometown.
About drinking: nah, I think I have more toasts on the blog than in real life. I'm not an absolutionist, but back in time I actually criticized the drink-until-you-drop-dead ideal that the Brewfests suggests. I'm all for responsible, civilized drinking, but I'm also painfully aware of the backside of alcohol. I sincerely hope that the drinks I serve at the in won't inspire the readers to abuse alcohol in real life. -
Nope. My sister stopped playing quite shortly after I started so I never came around to play with her. I have no family members playing, apart from that my oldest daughter has played a little on my account, although she never got any char higher than 30 something.
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I enjoy travelling a lot. We live very simple and try to save money for journeys. I've been to the US twice, one time visiting NY City and the other time touring around in California/Nevada. Both trips were absolutely awesome. It's a huge country and so much left to do and see and I hope to return there one day. Or to Canada. I'm a fan of trekking and such and there are a lot of mountains and conservation areas to see. However my favorite spot of all in my last trip was no doubt San Diego. It was absolutely enchanting, and if I could afford it I'd love to live there when I retire... Dreams, dreams...
Currently I don't have any plans to go there though. My next trip will be to UK this summer and then to India (Goa) next Christmas. -
It's a good question. To be honest I've cut down on it quite a bit. I think the biggest hold-back on my playing isn't that I'm bored with the game, but that everyone else is. Playing on your own IS kind of boring. If I had a group that would like to get Algalon, Firefighter, even Naxx undying, that would be awesome. But that's not the case. So I log in for the raids and that's it, and I think it will remain this way until some new conent is released, whenever that will be.
What keeps me in WoW is definitely the group aspect of it. Raiding and progressing with my guild, even though it's kind of hard now that it's summer and people are going on hiatus. At least we can do some 10 man hardmodes and that's better than nothing. The other side that keeps me a bit hooked is probably the blogging. I don't think I would still be playing WoW if I hadn't started blogging about it. It has definitely added another dimension to the game. -
I'm a trained Journalist and used to work at local newspapers back in time. Many years ago I switched sides though, and I'm now an emplyed PR specialist, working with media relations, press releases etc.
And thank you so much for the appreciation! I know my language isn't flawless, but I try to use spelling and grammar check as much as possible, and live with the errors wtihout bothering too much about it. if nothing else I get good practice doing all this writing. I took a one-term uni course in English back in my youth, but blogging has done way more to improve my skills I believe. It's way better to do something than to just read about it. -
I've always thought that the inn is my home, that I'd have some private areas where I sleep, but that it's connected to the pub sort of.
So the place would be the same as the other question I got, even though I haven't quite made up my mind about it. The style: quite dark, wooden tables, cosy fire...hm... and a bit of hibbit-house feeling as well. Oh yes, now I know, I'd want it to be like the faun Mr Tumnus house in CS Lewis wardrobe-book... -
It would be somewhere in on of the classic starting areas in the Easter Kingdom, but I can't quite make up my mind if it's Dun Morgough or Elwynn Forest and if it's inside or outside the walls of Stormwind respectively Ironforge. Dedicated gnome as I am, I have a good eye to the first place, but on the other hand, I've always loved the cheerfulness of EF, and - yes - Goldshire - if you ignore the players that currently are drawn to that place. Hm... Any suggestions? What do you think?
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