Do you have the time to listen to me whine?

Funny these three letters. When I first saw it come up in chat I mistakenly thoughted that some English dude was dutch. I learned then that lol stands for laughing out loud. Its a pretty standard way of letting someone know you liked his joked. But how often do we really lol?

Well this sure as hell made me lol: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/926-Batman-Arkham-Asylum

Current Mood: lol

Passed, no big suprise there. Theory was never the problem, its sitting in that goddamn metal box of death that gets on my nerves. Oh well, it has gone better and improving still.

Current Mood: happy

Expected time 20.00 till Terenas is back.
This on a patch maintanence scheduled for 03.00 till 11.00.

GJ blizz GJ

guess i'll lvl my rogue on a server that does work until then or something

Current Mood: pissed off

You may call me an addict or a whiner again but another blizz maintance. Should have been 3.00-11.00 Now just got extended to 17.00.
Not to mention we already have a rolling restart the other day. Seriously this isnt funny anymore.

Current Mood: angry

I don't care if we've never talked,never really clicked, or if we already know everything about eachother. I really don't. You are obviously on my flist, so let me knowwith whom I'm friends!

(thanks again to moriestiel, meme expert :P )

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent.
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27.If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

Current Mood: sleepy

Ps. Vandaag voor het eerst gestemd, nou ja me moeder gemachtigd dan zij ging toch en ja ik ben lui als de neten.

Current Mood: content

Everytime the same goddamn shit. Honestly I dont know why blizzard even makes announcements saying they will be done at 11.00 when they never are. You would think better of a proffesional company who has 'some' experience in patching already. Seriously.

And no I am NOT patiencent and I do NOT understand!

Current Mood: pissed off

Van glimworm gejat ;)

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you ANY five questions.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

1 - As long as i can remember you've been a couple (You know what i mean). When did that start, and how?

Pretty much I have been single for about 19 years. Then I met a girl on a forum, later know as my first ex-girlfriend. I was so devastated by our break up and apparently my friends were fed up with me whining. So they made a profile for me on a dating site (relatieplanet), paid for it, then changed the email of it to match mine and gave me the password. Shortly after I found Merel, we had a chat on MSN and decided to have our first date on November 6th 2004. We had a great time and to this day still have.

2 - I think gaming is a very important hobby for you. If given the chance, would you take it to another level and go 'pro'? This could apply to any type of gaming, computer, roleplaying, larp, etc..

Well I am going into game development, making serious games (educational ones), and yes I love gaming. But going pro playing is something I think is out of my reach. I sometimes pride myself in being above average in gaming, but certainly im not pro. Nor do I desire to be, I pride myself most in playing for fun. I could have taken up countless offers in WoW to join high-end raiding guilds but I'd rather stick to Elysium and play with my friends.

3 - You're a very nice person. Have you ever been truly mad? Not just annoyed and aggressive, but ready to actually fight someone? If not, what would push you to this?

I actually beat someone to the point of unconsciousness and getting him a free trip to the hospital. Funny thing is that he also got punished by the teachers after, not me. The thing that set me off back then was him calling me a 'kankerlijer' very shortly after my father dying of cancer. Nowadays even that wont set me off to a point of physical confrontation. I find fighting to not solve anything, the world is a big enough to ignore assholes and still have loads of friends.

4 - You could expect this one. The beard. Why did you decide to grow it? What does it mean to you?

It started by being just plain lazy. Then I decided I quite like it. Also I dont know how to properly shave to save my life. Its either all off or its all there. Never had someone to learn me to shave, dont have any desire to be taught either. People who judge you by appearance so harshly are people not worth my time anyway.

5 - Another game-question. If you alone could decide upon which game would be the best game ever(tm). Which game would it be?

Torn between Diablo (nostalgic) and WoW. Diablo because the game is just so awesome. WoW for its social interaction making replay value immense. So a MMORPG of Diablo where I could get my wow Elysium friends on would probably be it. Till then I'm leaning toward Wow.

Current Mood: Bored of doing homework

D&D Home Page - What Class Are You? - Build A Character - D&D Compendium

Last year actually in october nonetheless.

My second minor is keeping me busy, making a serious game. Which is best described as a game in which the user learns something. Not information with a 'something like a game element in it' or a game where you learn to aim and shoot which has a message in it. But a proper mix.
Our team is making a game in which we want to prep 'new parent' into being parents. Will post it up here once its done I guess.

WoW front.
Well lich king has been out since last update. Happily to announce that Osgarth is already 80 and ready, gearwise, for all 25 man raids except Eye of Eternity. Oh the shoulders I eventually did get from Gruul, and have been replaced with blue-wotlk ones, funny how those things go.
I also revisited my warrior, dual wielding two two-handers got me excited and level 75 fast.

On the larp front I went to Call of Heroes. It was fun, it has its charms and downsides, but overall had a great time with Reviss, Reviss, Reviss and all the other Reviss'sesses's.

Last but not least DnD, I'm retiring as DM because I wanna play more. My only real option to do so came down to stepping down as DM. Three players have already said they were wanting to step up and play the DM so we will have some trial sessions and go from there.

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Under the scotman's kilt

Level 1
(x) smoked a cigarette
( ) smoked a cigar
( ) smoked weed
(x) kissed a member of the same sex
(x) drank alcohol
SO FAR:3

Level 2
(x) said "i love you" to someone
(x) had a pet die
( ) shoplifted
() been fired
(x) been in a fist fight
() fell down a mountain
SO FAR:6

Level 3
( )snuck out of a parent's house
(x) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) been arrested
() made out with a stranger
( ) gone out on a blind date
(x) lied
SO FAR:8

Level 4
( ) had a crush on an older person
(x) skipped school
( ) slept with a co-worker
() seen someone/something di
SO FAR: 9

Level 5
(x) had/have a crush on one of your Livejournal friends
(x) been to Paris
() been to Spain
() been on a plane
( ) thrown up from drinking
SO FAR: 11

Level 6
() eaten Sushi
( ) been snowboarding
( ) met someone BECAUSE of Livejournal
(x) been mosh pitting
SO FAR: 12

Level 7
( ) been in an abusive relationship
() taken pain killers
(x) love/like someone who you can't have
(x) laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
(x) made a snow angel
SO FAR: 15

Level 8
( ) had a tea party
(x) flown a kite
(x) built a sand castle
(x) gone puddle jumping
(x) played dress up (i count larping)
SO FAR: 19

Level 9
(x) jumped into a pile of leaves
(x) gone sledding
(x) cheated while playing a game
(x) fallen asleep at work/school
SO FAR: 23

Level 10
( ) used a fake/someone else's ID
(x) watched the sunset
( ) felt an earthquake
( ) killed a snake
SO FAR: 24

Level 11
(x) been tickled
( ) been robbed/vandalized
( ) robbed someone/vandalized
(x) been misunderstood
() pet a deer
SO FAR: 26

Level 12
(x) won a contest
( ) been suspended from school
(x) had detention
(x) been in a car/motorcycle accident
SO FAR: 29

Level 13
() had/have braces
(x) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) had deja vu
(x) danced in the moonlight
SO FAR: 32

Level 14
( ) hate the way you look
( ) witnessed a crime
(x) pole danced
() questioned your heart
( ) Been obsessed with post-it notes
SO FAR: 33

Level 15
(x) squished barefoot through the mud
(x) been lost
( ) been to the opposite side of the world
(x) swam in the ocean/gulf/lake
(x) felt like you were dying
SO FAR: 37

Level 16
(x) cried yourself to sleep
(x) played cops and robbers
(x) recently colored with crayons/colored pencils/markers
(x) sang karaoke.
(x) paid with only coins
SO FAR: 42

Level 17
(x) done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x) made prank phone calls
(x) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(x) kissed in the rain
SO FAR: 46

Level 18
(x) written a letter to Santa Claus (Sinterklaas, that is)
(x) been kissed under a mistletoe
(x) watched the sun set with someone you care about
(x) blown bubbles
() made a bonfire on the beach
SO FAR: 50

Level 19
() crashed a party
(x) have traveled more than 5 hours with a car/bus full of people
(x) gone rollerskating/blading
(x) had a wish come true
SO FAR: 53

Level 20
() worn pearls
( ) jumped off a bridge
(x) Screamed 'PENIS' in class
( ) gone swimming with dolphins
SO FAR: 54

Level 22
(x) got your tongue stuck to a pole/freezer (damnit not funny)
( ) kissed a fish
(x) worn the opposite sex's clothes
(x) sat on a roof top
SO FAR: 57

Level 23
(x) screamed at the top of your lungs
(x) done/attempted a one-handed cartwheel
(x) talked on the phone for more than 6 hours (Skype counts for me)
(x) stayed up all night
SO FAR: 61

Level 24
( ) picked and ate an apple right off the tree
(x) climbed a tree
(x) had/been in a tree house
() are scared to watch scary movies alone
SO FAR: 63

Level 25
() believe in ghosts
( ) have/had more then 30 pairs of shoes
( ) gone streaking
(x) been in jail (neighbour was a cop, wasnt in trouble ;) )
SO FAR: 64

Level 26
(x) played chicken
(x) been pushed/jumped into a pool with all your clothes on
() been told you're hot by a complete stranger
( ) broken a bone
(x) been easily amused
SO FAR: 67

Level 27
( ) caught a fish then ate it later
(x) made or been in a video
(x) caught a butterfly
(x) laughed so hard you cried
( ) cried so hard you laughed
SO FAR: 65

Level 28
(x) mooned/flashed someone
(x) had someone moon/flash you
() cheated on a test
(x) forgotten someone's name
(x) slept naked
( ) French braided someone's hair
( ) gone skinny dipping in a pool
( ) been kicked out of your house
SO FAR: 69

Level 29
(x) Rode a rollercoaster
(x) went scuba-diving/snorkeling
(x) had a cavity
( ) Black-mailed someone
( ) been black mailed
SO FAR: 72

Level 30
(x) fell going up the stairs
(x) licked a cat/dog
(x) played hide and seek within the last 3 years
(x) bitten someone
(x) licked someone
SO FAR: 79

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THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
• Erik-Jan
• Satan
• Drass

THREE THINGS YOU'VE DONE IN THE LAST 33 MINUTES:
• Play wow
• Skype with Merel
• watched tv


THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
• Hair
• good with people
• loyal

THREE THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
• teeth
• being lazy
• being stubborn (those who have seen me lose a game know enough)

THREE THINGS YOU'RE AFRAID OF:
• Being alone
• Failing
• Hurting people I care about

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
• black hoody
• black pants
• black socks
(and yes, also black underwear but that would be 4)

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
• Chat with Merel
• Play a game (wow mostly)
• Check up on forums

THREE IMPORTANT OBJECTS:
• PC
• TV
• Bed

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS/ARTISTS:
• Aerosmith
• Green Day
• Blink182

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY:
• Think positive things
• Talk to people
• BE the miracle

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
• Portal - Alive
• Under the scotsman's kilt
• Manamana

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
• finish school
• get lvl 80 (gods im shallow)
• (start making serious plans on) living together with merel

THREE THINGS YOU REGRET:
I have a policy never to regret anything. I make decisions based on what I know, and you just can't know everything all the time.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
• Laughter
• Compianship
• Romance

THREE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU'RE GIVING TO THE WORLD:
• Laughter
• A listening ear
• an open mind

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in order):
• you can't handle the truth
• I was promised cake
• The cake

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
• butt
• long hair
• a smile

THREE EMOTIONAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
• reason
• romance
• humor

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
• take iniative
• sports
• change

THREE THINGS YOU MISS FROM YOUR PAST:
• my father
• free time
• innocence

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE:
• games
• movies
• CD's

THREE REASONS WHY YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE:
• family
• friends
• those I dont want to be like

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES:
• LARP
• Gaming
• dnd

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
• sleep
• finish school
• win the lottery

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
• game design
• interaction design
• usability

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR HOLIDAY:
• home
• home
• home

THREE CARTOON CHARACTERS:
• the dungeon master
• goliath (gargoyles)
• lion-o

THREE BOY’’S NAMES:
• Erik
• Jan
• Henk

THREE GIRL'S NAMES:
• Merel
• Ans
• Truus

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
• Write a book
• publish a game
• be a father

THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ OR SUFFER:
• chaplain_aldaris
• svala19
• musemistress

Current Mood: sleepy

Well its been awhile since my last real update, because well, busy busy and stuff like that.
School isn't going as great as I wish it would be. I took a minor in Time Based Arts, wanting to try something different (film) while I still could. But it turned out to make things just a bit harder and more time consuming. But I suppose the conformation that I don't want to go in that direction is also a conformation that I do want to go what I want to go do.

In wow news, got the pants, got the ring, didn't get the boots though as this would have ment going under uncrushability and not giving a whole lot of better stats than my current boots. Osgarth has only one blue remaining > shoulders. And those are a pain to upgrade, not saying the current ones I have suck, in fact they are pretty good but they are BLUE! Replacing them is the hardest part though, no good BoJ upgrades, and getting into gruul or higher is hard as well. Not saying I'm not geared enough, I'm geared enough for the first part of Black Temple now, but the problem is getting a group to anything above kara.
I also gave up on my warrior, the whole idea was based around mace-stun pvp, but that is being nerfed in the expansion :(

In larp news I went to symbols not so long ago and had a great time playing Drass Deldar from Delania once again (driedubbel, is dat 3 of 6? :P ). I had a shining one priest visiting me who knew my mother (before she died) and explained a lot. In addition to that I got a letter, Drass' first drawing, a picture of my mother, some potions and a chalice of +X Cha ;) Basically anyone drinking from said chalice would become so charismatic that everyone would believe him/her. It was also the reason my mother died, she stole it from the head guy of the bad side of the Shining One, because said baddy was using it to gain followers. So my mother wanted me to destroy it, conflict of course being that I am now a follower of the Grand Protector who can't just destroy something. Ryne said she could just dispel the magic so, without giving much thought of actually using/testing the item, I let her dispel it. But apparently Ryne's wild magic aura thought differently, it went BOOM! Hehe, I confessed to Svala, new head priestess: "Uhm I kinda destroyed a major artifact...sorry?"
But I was forgiven, letting such evil magic exist would have been bad aswell, in the end we mended the shards into something closely resembling the chalic, but without the magic of course.
We also had a nice battle in the web-thama-thingey's inner circle. It lasted about a full hour I think, with lots of waves of Denomethama's minions. Only downside of the battle was that my shield broke OC again, the handle again. But it was the most fun combat I had since the mistcreature army on a special once.
So yeah, symbols rocked.

Vortex was also fun, though the event will always take second place to Symbols in my mind. It has its charms though, I mean how many chars can say they can pump out 7 fatals a day when they feel like it? Well not me anymore, Rekijan died. Mixed feelings about that to be honest, sad I won't be able to play my fatal-canon also known as that old-perverted bearded chaos bastard, hehe. But then again playing something else for a chance will be something to look forward to.
I am currently doubting which back-up char to play though. My goblin paladin Snars is pretty funny, but I hate the fuss with all that green crap on my face. I have a nice idea about another priest (nature, order) with or without a spear, or a meat-shield plate wearing type of guy. And I was also thinking about aasimar like, but that fits with either priesty or warrior. Any thoughts from the audience?
Not much to say about the event though, it was pretty average like most vortex events.

And that about wraps it up I guess.

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Cranius - big blue dress

1. sna
2. ghost_musician
3. chaplainaldaris
4. lasmes
5. ghost_musician
6. crazy_aupair
7. crazy_aupair
8. -
9. lasmes
10. lasmes
11. ghost_musician
12. lasmes
13. -
14. phalar_reign
15. ghost_musician
16. maglok
17. svala19
18. moriestiel
19. maglok
20. glimworm
21. chaplainaldaris
22. sna
23. -
24. riftie
25. musemistress
26. lasmes
27. lasmes
28. lasmes
29. lasmes
30. The early bird gets the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

To get the questions ask me and promise you will make a list yourself.
Next blog will be about larps.

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Jonathan Coulton - Still Alive

Current Mood: okay

moriestiel gave me an F.

Comment and I'll give you a letter. Then you have to list ten things you LOVE that begin with that letter. Afterward, post this in your journal and give out some letters of your own.

1. friends
2. family
3. fast-food (two f's even)
4. forums/fora
5. fantasy
6. films
7. females
8. (the) Fratellis
9. Fridays (first fun day of the week :P )
10. making love ;)

Current Mood: okay

Well today I started school again. As usually things were pretty much unclear, the timetable wasn't made available until the weekend before and then later changed by mail. This change was mainly because the teacher has to come from Amsterdam (to Breda) which means she already has to wake up early, good for me because I aint the early bird myself more of the second mouse that gets the cheese if you know what I mean.

Not a whole lot to report yet, teacher is pretty hyper though, claiming to have sensory overload (taking meds and all) and promising us a full and heavy class. So if it goes her way I will not have much free time, wondering how all this will go. One side I dont mind my hours of wow of course but a busy working schedule should help me improve and such. In any event, I'll live :P

Talking bout wow, it has been going pretty damn good. Osgarth has mostly epics, just a few pesky blues to get rid of. Already have 89/100 badges to replace my pants. Will need another 60 for ring and 60/75 for boots. Most hard to get rid of are shoulders and cloak. Both that I have are pretty okayish but require difficult raids to improve as no good badge loot is available. Shoulders would be T4 which drops from first boss in Gruul's lair, cloak was I believe SSC but could be mistaken. Guild isn't ready for those though, so probably won't see much improvement until expansion ;)
Dreamborn, though kara/heroic geared, I dont play much, as predicted my tank is more needed.
My hunter is a handy gold maker, dps is very handy for sso dailies.
And my warrior is going slow, I hate leveling the class as a warrior is more of a party player than a solo char. Going to make him my other sso daily guy and pvp-er since I already have Osgarth as a tank. Warrior is currently 46 or 47 or something like that.

Well that is pretty much it I guess, break almost over anyway.

Current Location: school
Current Mood: okay

02. Warning - Green Day
04. Pulling teeth - Green Day
10. One - Metallica
12. Iedereen is gek - Heideroosjes
13. Strong - Robbie Williams
14. Crash - Aerosmith
17. Sugar, we're going down - Fall out boy
22. Baby got back - Sir Mixalot
23. Long road to ruin - Foo fighters
24. King for a day - Green Day
27. What's my age again- Blink182

Funny thing is that some Green Day songs were picked up and others weren't. Also I'm quite suprised that 10 and 22 weren't guessed, they are classics! Other then that I was suprised that 5 and 11 were guessed, not too mainstream those two :P

On a more day to day note last couple of weeks have been fun. We had a meeting with our guild leader from wow in Amsterdam. Had a lot of fun, mostly a lot of talking and some walking :P

Survived yet another Summoning, I was planning on letting Rekijan die, not that I don't like him anymore but after over 4 years I'm itching to try something different. In the end I deciced against it, mostly because I was so busy I couldn't get a chance lol. Not sure what I'm going to do next, will see.

My birthday came and went and for the first time since ages I invited people to my little home. Usually my birthday is on the summoning so I am already with my friends and there is little need for a party but this year Sum was a bit earlier. It was a fun party, played games, which I love, lost all of them, which I don't like :P Somehow I was a bit sad in the beginning because there weren't a lot of people, but in the end we had a full house so that feeling went out the window fast enough. All in all it was a good party :)

On a more geeky note: We finally downed both the Crone event from opera and Curator for the first time w00t :D Talking bout wow, time to go play :P

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Shantel - Disko Boy

Also stolen from moriestiel

1. Put your playlist on shuffle.
2. Write down the first line of the lyrics of the first 30 songs.
2a. If the title of the song is in the first line, use the second.
3. Have your friendslist guess the songs.

( Long as well )

Current Mood: happy

stolen from moriestiel
( Bit long )

Current Mood: happy

http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/

Diablo 3, and its looking good already. Waiting time doesn't though, so might have to freeze myself in like Cartman to make it less :P

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Aerosmith - Trip hoppin'