Account inactive

Just a quick note: I've let my account fall inactive for a bit. Very busy at the moment, doing travel, work, family stuff and CBA (yet) to call up my Blizzard contact to get more free play time.

I'm in a foreign clime this coming week anyway, land of the Tiv, so see you all after that.

Oh -- I have the cover story of Wired UK September issue.

have fun jetting about and grats on the story

play more WoW nub.


and gratz on the story

I was wondering where you had been. LFRP isn't the same without your complaining about the state of BGs and random ganking whineage.

Gratz on the story from me also.
A break is always good anyway, just don't be a quitter like these wets Morgy and Quint and come back.

I heard that Morg is the scourge of Hello Kitty ... as for the Trondheim fella, well if he comes back, I'm sure half the Korean pr0n industry will be put out of business by the sudden lack of web traffic from Norway ...

p.s. Wired story is on fraud

Grats on the story... and psst... hook a brotha up on that free playtime (and/or contact(s)). ;}

Just to (re-)confirm: I still exist but am not inside the game (at the moment). I'm busy with work, house, moving office, garden, stress, travel, book writing and so on.

I'll be back at some point. Gurfang if you can hold the fort, be much appreciated. Or someone else in my absence.

Or closed Beta of the new Twilight MMO that's being worked on.

...I so hope that was a joke

Feronius wrote:

...I so hope that was a joke

Why? A Twilight RPG would finally distract the vampires from Goldshire... leaving only the lolboys and the lesbians there.

Opathu wrote:

Just to (re-)confirm: I still exist but am not inside the game (at the moment). I'm busy with work, house, moving office, garden, stress, travel, book writing and so on.

I'll be back at some point. Gurfang if you can hold the fort, be much appreciated. Or someone else in my absence.

Only just got back from a camp with 50 young people (and yes, there were about 20 other youth workers there too!) so I will aim to put up something on the GMOTD when I get the patch sorted. However, I am off camping on Wednesday and then off again on 22nd, both for 6 days, so can't guarantee to be around much.

<--- rofled

Quote :

Now where's our Harry Potter MMO, hmmm? We want a wizarding war!

Merlin's beard, yes! We want a Hogwarts Online game! I wanna see Fluffy the three-headed dog as an instance boss, Buckbeak the hippogriff as a flying mount, Mundungus Fletcher as an Exotic Goods vendor, and Hedwig the owl as a vanity pet!

Snape on farm...I can see it now

Basilisk Fang - rare dagger, dropped in the Chamber of Secrets instance by the Basilisk boss...
Avada Kedavra - level 65 spell for the Death Eater hero class...
Albus Dumbledore - faction leader, starts the Destroy the Horcruxes! quest chain...
Deathly Hallows - epic set of a wand, a cloak and a ring, possessing all three gives the achievement title Master of Death...
Horace Slughorn - expert Alchemy trainer...
Should I go on?

Snicka wrote:

Should I go on?

Please do, I'm highly entertained!!!

I wonder how many of the teachers at Hogwarts would pass a CRB check ...

As a small aside to all you geeks out there, my latest piece just appeared in The Times Magazine in the UK:

1. Their version: Living with Dying http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6789872.ece

2. My version: Dying To Live http://www.nickryan.net/articles/dying.html

A wakeup call to us all ...

Also new articles on:

Lords of War http://www.nickryan.net/articles/mercenary.html

Good Heart in Africa http://www.nickryan.net/articles/creagh.html

My Virtual Family (a longer version of the piece which appeared on the BBC website) http://www.nickryan.net/articles/virtualfamily.html

Hammering The Rock (an old story which I just posted for the first time) http://www.nickryan.net/articles/aryan.html

Good job Nick!
The Times Magazine is a big one, right?

Siheld wrote:

Good job Nick!
The Times Magazine is a big one, right?

Thanks Bob, yes The Times is a big newspaper here (and around the world) and this was a large story in their weekend colour magazine.

If you go to my blog, Ryans Rants, you can see examples of all these new stories up there and just click on them.

Do they give you big money?

Siheld wrote:

Do they give you big money?

I take it that is a humorous question. Journalist and big money ... if only.

Do you wear a coat and a hat and hang around in those bars with them, whatsemcalled, chestershire chairs or something.. and smoke cigars and indulge in heated discussions with other eager intelectuals and keep refer to eachothers articles and stuff?