Azdeus

It was a bit windy at work yesterday, with some pretty strong gusts of wind. One of these gusts got hold of a big trailer door that I was opening and wrenched it out of my hands and hit me in the head, wich caused me to loose my balance and stumbled a few metres before I fell over. I overextended my thumb and I've got a pretty vicious headache, so I'm staying home from work today to let it clear.

I was thinking about factions and such things, but I don't doubt that they will try to sneak in some "rpg" stuff in there aswell.

Well, that trailer tells me nothing except that there appears to be powered armor and there's a wall. Unclear whether the wall was commissioned by Trump and built by Mexicans or not. These trailers are less than informative. But I guess it's better than BioWare showing a bunch of cool features that they'll end up cutting in the final product. "You either live with the choices that you make... Or die trying to change them" Yeah, no, bull****. Bioware doesn't have the balls to do anything like that. There's no way that would happen in a modern AAA game.

Granted, it isn't literature, but since you're on the subject, I really liked the interview Matt Chat had with David Wesely on D&D

Let's not forget Brian May, astrophysicist. Then again, Hedy Lamarr has them all beat, since she actually worked as an inventor; She helped develop the tech behind bluetooth and wifi.

I forgot to mention Gjallarhorn

Nordman, an old Swedish band that has some great songs; There's Eluveities Arcane Dominion album, they're normally more of a folk metal band, but they toned it down a bit for a couple of songs. Also, this song; There's also Corvus Corax

Love the colours and style of the game, but damn it, I want to drive a mech not command it!

Played a little bit of New Vegas yesterday and this showed up in my youtube recommendations list today;

It's going to be a great weekend. ^^

Not in the 1400's, there might've been pockets in really remote locations, but generally christianity was well on it's way to be the dominant religion by the 1100's if not the dominant religion. If I recall correctly, between year 1100 and 1300 they built about 6000 new churches in Sweden alone.

And finally Fallout New Vegas is mine.

The song isn't about a "troll" per se, in old Swedish it could just aswell be "trollkvinnan från bergen" or "The Witch from the mountain", there is also a theory that the woman was under a curse to look like a troll, hence the shaking and shrieking when he refuses to betrothe himself to her and complaining that he won't release her from her torment. Also, it's about a squire most likely and/or virgin since that is what "sven" is usually used as. Also, the viking age was 800+ years ago by now. As a viking descendant you ought to know this, because this song his made after the christianization of Scandinavia.

Happy birthday! =)

I can't help it, I'm a sucker for "peppy" metal;

Don't know your preferences, but I find Barcelo Gran Anejo quite good. Speaking of, this last weekend me and my friends celebrated a holiday and my birthday, so we ended up drinking a bit. From Thursday to Saturday, though only about ten beers a day on thursday and friday, we stepped up our game on saturday and went for the booze, he had a bottle of Ileach and his girlfriend had a bottle of her own, I had a bottle of Barcelo. They got emptied. I think my friends have a slight hatred towards me after sunday, they both had hangovers from hell and I was perfectly fine and couldn't stop pointing it out.

All of a sudden, you'd find me in a gym

To me, 1800x is far too much premium cash wise for too little benefit unless there's no plan to overclock or for workstation situations where the competition is Broadwell-E. The overclock ceiling on it vs the 1700 is only 200Mhz difference, and you pay nearly 1USD/ hz for that. That's also why I personally wouldn't consider watercooling either, unless sound is an issue. You might eke an extra 100Mhz or two on top of Wraith Spire but again that's at a hefty cost relative to benefit. I am very much concerned with getting the best longevity/ cost/ performance balance though, so I tend to see everything through that lens. Yeah, the price hike is pretty damn big, but it would save me the headache of silicone lottery. I've got both a processor and GPU that won't accept even the smallest of overclocks. I've always had bad luck. The water cooling is 99% because I don't want any extra weight hanging on the motherboard. I live in an old house and the floor sways when you do something like close a door, so if I can get something that doesn't have an high offset that leverages the weight I'll go for it. I'm considering getting a waterblock for the gpu aswell but I don't think that I would save as much weight on that and that I have ALOT of lego. I usually try to balance a build aswell, I just wish inet could get a decent b350 motherboard in stock with 3200 support.

That's an awesome version of Herr Mannelig, it's a really sad song though which doesn't carry aswell in their style, but damn is it good.

I'm a bit torn as to wether I should pick up an Ryzen 7 1700 or an 1800X while I'm at it, and wether I should/could go for an Fractal Design Celsius S36 or S24 cooler. I'll pick up a new graphics card when AMD releases their new ones. My HD7970 is still quite capable. https://www.inet.se/kundvagn/bild/10428302/ The X370 motherboard is by necessity since the store doesn't have any 350 motherboards that are worth it.

I haven't met many girls I've an interest in, most times I lose interest after talking with them for a while, and the exceptions typically have girlfriends. The last one was a blue haired french girl I met at work a while ago that wants to become a game designer, but she got herself a girlfriend now. C'est la vie. I'm at my friends house, been playing pnp, drinking beer and booze and playing some more pnp. Good times, I don't enjoy the inflatable mattress that I sleep on, but I'd suffer much for what it allows me to otherwise enjoy. We've been going through more of Storm kings thunder, the paladin player that died made a new character, a much more interesting one; a Harper arcane trickster rogue. His former character was really awkward having around. More of that tonight, and a rare turn up for our barbarian. Luckily the adventure isn't based on exp so he's getting bumped up to level nine right away, so he won't be a dead weight. Literally. Not that that would be much of a problem, we've got two bags of holding wich we for some reason always end up filling with dead bodies. Our group is too kind for our own good, we found an adamantium full plate armour (Wich is worth a filthy amount of gold) with a dead dwarf inside. We decided to bring her corpse along for the ride and used a priest to talk to the dead spirit which wished for her body and possessions to be returned to her family. Doh! What did the family give us to show their thanks? Boots of Levitation. :| We're going sailing tonight though, so atleast I might get some use of the Cloak of the Manta Ray that I've got...

My coworkers actually manage to make me feel old, not because of physique or anything like that, no. It's their mindset; They just do things and never think the consequences through, they never analyze problems, they don't plan ahead and most of all; They don't know how to say no. Which is being exploited by others at my workplace, and it frustrates me. When people want things they call for them by name, trying to circumvent me since they know I will have none of it if we don't have time, while they will say yes. It's fun to tear those people trying to go around me a new one over the radio though.

I've been watching the Saint myself.

Roger Moore passed away.