117559-morning-coffee-2014-11-04-hold-your-nose-and-pull-the-lever-edition

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(Feel better Vic!)
 
I have a credo at work: No crisis before coffee.  Therefore:
 
 
 
Wildstar: I've made it to Wilderun and have worked through the southern half.  Managed to do some of it out of order so had a bit of cognitive dissonance when Walker kept wondering whatever happened to Tressayne.  I'm like, dude you were just talking to her...
 
I'll have to say this, the mob density in Wilderun is vastly improved over the density Farside's Biomes 3 & 4.  Anyway, stayed up waaaay too late (again) and am within spitting distance of 40 :huh:.  40 will be a mini-Christmas: Another costume slot (win!), I'll be able to upgrade to a T4 thicket (yay! more work!) and put in a couple other level locked (grr) FABkits.
 
The plan for tonight is to finish off 40 and then go be social.
 
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			I'm looking for Aurin Corpses for my next story line. If you have an alt that you wouldn't mind deadifying for Science and good story Gimme a ring!	
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I had a great day yesterday.  I was sick at home yesterday with my wife, and we got through Gale Canyon together.  After that, I dropped to Seeger and helped Qaestri kill Pyralos.  It was good times!  I then decided that, since it's Tuesday, I would drop to Celestion and help out.  It helped me out since I'm trying to work through the rep requirement for attunement on Seeger and I hadn't cleared Celestion.  I do need to kick off some more dailies, since I'm constantly forgetting to do them.
 
Anyway, I'm at work today.  Since I was sick yesterday, I have a full day today.  Metal Monday gets moved to lunch, then 0-50 at 2 while I'm working, and then I do the TL:DR when I get home, then dailies.
 
Long day ahead.  I hate being sick for this very reason.	
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Voted today.  Woo.  Go vote.  Stop playing Wildstar and go vote.  Unless you're in the EU or Australia... or Canada... or... well then keep playing Wildstar.
 
Two toons attuned to GA now.  Just have to actually go DO Genetic Archives, but dammit, I'm ready.  Mostly.  Engineer DPS runes are waiting on the Drop (please get that sucker popped soon), and some Esper DPS runes are waiting, but got my tanking runes in place.
 
Curious about the 22silver galactium thing.  I'm told they make lopp hookahs, but dunno.  Seems like a boring, but probably super effective way to make money.	
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Voted today.  Woo.  Go vote.  Stop playing Wildstar and go vote.  Unless you're in the EU or Australia... or Canada... or... well then keep playing Wildstar.
 
Two toons attuned to GA now.  Just have to actually go DO Genetic Archives, but dammit, I'm ready.  Mostly.  Engineer DPS runes are waiting on the Drop (please get that sucker popped soon), and some Esper DPS runes are waiting, but got my tanking runes in place.
 
Curious about the 22silver galactium thing.  I'm told they make lopp hookahs, but dunno.  Seems like a boring, but probably super effective way to make money.
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Two toons attuned to GA now.  Just have to actually go DO Genetic Archives, but dammit, I'm ready.  Mostly.  Engineer DPS runes are waiting on the Drop (please get that sucker popped soon), and some Esper DPS runes are waiting, but got my tanking runes in place.
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			Good morning folks!  I'm going to vote after i finish my show.  Oh yeah!  I'm back to doing Too Damn Early, now Tuesday mornings at 9am EST.  it's kinda nice having the morning show.  this is my goof off, play whatever i want show that's more for me than anything else.  But everyone seems to love it for much the same reason.  I get to play random stuff.  Anywho Malak's March to 50 continues today as well.	
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Morning everyone! Hope you're all having a great day!
 
Last night was great fun, got to talk with quite a few people and I really dug deep into leveling Montka. Gained 7 levels and got to 20.5 before logging off *flex*. I got a lot of kudos from random people as well for using the umm "skull face" for my character, which made me happy too.
 
Sadly as much as I wanted to take the day off, go vote, and play wildstar all day I decided to come into work to play the role of "that guy who actually does his job and cleans up after people who screw everything up!". Least this gives me a comp day though, which adds to my "ya I don't feel like coming in...." days, which I might use for pokemon and smash wii u release.
 
Once I'm off work though I plan to push for 25. The goal is to hit 50 by end of the week, because November 11th and onward with the releasing of 3 games this month it will be much rougher to level at a rate I'm happy with personally and frees me up to do other things in wildstar with people. Luckily I can go back and do content I missed along the way as well :)	
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Last night was great fun, got to talk with quite a few people and I really dug deep into leveling Montka.
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They probably saw Chua destroying trees and the Reapers were a Chua design. Therefore hatred of Chua.
 
Aurin aren't too complicated.	
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Typrop, I saw your new character's face and it's frightening. :unsure:
 
Today I might farm some ore, I'm basically just stockpiling plat and rare decor items while waiting for the decor limit increase.
 
I've also been playing with a few different event ideas lately. I wanna do something similar to Thaydfest to keep Dominion spirits up, probably for next weekend (which I'm hoping will coincide with Drop 3). However, I wouldn't be able to host such a major event alone... so is anyone interested in teaming up for this? I can handle the prize budget, advertising, and main host duties. I'd just need a few folks to help bump advertisement, tell their friends, and staff the bar/help host when the event happens.
 
Here are a few ideas I've had so far for funsies:
 
~ Costume contest. Standard stuff, a few categories with screenshots going up on the forums for the winners. I absolutely loved some of the Exile costumes... Dominion needs to represent!
 
~ Lore contest. I wouldn't be the best person to host this part, as I don't know much of the game's lore, but I don't imagine it would be too difficult to come up with some 'test your knowledge' questions that aren't google-able.
 
~ Macgyver housing contest. I was thinking this could take place on a stage, with contestants given a time allotment (say, ten minutes) to create something unique behind drawn curtains. I'm not sure exactly how the roommate situation works for placing decor, so this would need a bit more planning to work.
 
~ Guild Ambassadors. I was thinking we could use a major Dominion event as a way to introduce players to guilds, and a good way to do this would be to invite a guild ambassador from each guild that wants to participate. The ambassadors would have five minutes each to give a pitch to the attendees and then take a few questions. People would be free to mingle during the afterparty as well.
 
~ Deathboard. This is a game my cousin and I came up with in a state of intoxication (warning: do not play deathboard in-character!) Basically a large area is laid out on the ground with clear borders, and inside of it a whole bunch of different circles are spread out. There's also a liberal sprinkling of traps thrown in for funsies. Now, the point of the game is to throw your character off of a very high, elevated ledge, and attempt to land within one of the prize circles. If you succeed, you win the appropriate reward (there could be a decor circle, dye circle, plat circle, costume circle, etc). If you land on one of the traps or outside of the border, you're disqualified. The game is over when all of the prize circles are filled up (by broken bodies).
 
 
My plot would be available for any/all of these events, but if we find better venues for each individual aspect, that would work too. I'm thinking this could be an early evening thing so that we could have an afterparty at my club with some music from any interested DJs.
 
So that's what I'm working with so far. On a related note, I've also come up with a (probably not original) idea for the housing community...
 
After losing out on Halloween and Christmas events, I realized, why do we have to let Carbine do all the work? (don't give the obvious answer, I know we're technically customers :P )  So I designed my club, Serenity, with a kind of diorama thing going on at the front, and a few other places to put seasonal decor. Each month I plan on changing up this 30 decor to something fitting a new theme: Next I'll do Thanksgiving, then Christmas in December, New Year in January, on and on it goes. Valentine's, Easter... obviously I'll be taking a secular approach to these holidays, but I think it'll work well.
 
Chef Noriack did the same thing with his plot and it looks pretty fantastic. So I encourage everyone to think about doing something like this if you have an active plot. It not only spices up Nexus without having to wait on Carbine, we get a whole bunch of different perspectives on a given theme. And I think some of the lore staff at Carbine, maybe Pappy, would be happy to help us with bits of seasonal info, like what Christmas is called on Nexus, whether it's different for Exiles and Dominion, etc.
 
 
Here are a few screenies of the currently Shade's Eve-themed version of Serenity (my building style doesn't often translate well to 1D photos, sorry if these are too 'busy'). I'm hoping to up the dedicated decor for this theme to about 80 when drop 3 hits. 
Diorama
 
 
 
Club Entrance
 
 
 
Bar 
 
 
 
Seating... ever feel like something's watching you eat?
 
  
 
 
Stage/DJ for events
 
 
 
 
 
 
OK, now I'm done. Sorry for the incredibly long post, let me know if you're interested in helping me put together a drop 3 event... low level alts are welcome! :P	
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Good morning, everyone!
 
In honor of Pokemon next week:
 
 
I haven't played those games in forever, but they were always fun (just repetitive after the nth generation :P). The originals were released (in Japan) around my birthday in '96...aaaaaand then I had to wait until '98 to get my copy. Torture. :)
 
Anyway, in WS news, my Engineer can finally proceed past Ellevar. I enlisted SyKho's help last night to delve into three Explorer-gated areas of the zone and then managed to find the last challenge for 100% completion. Thank you SyKho (Sheae)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Sometimes I'm too much of a completionist for my own good. There was nothing preventing him from moving on...except that last 2% completion that my brain wouldn't accept. :rolleyes:
 
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I'll have to say this, the mob density in Wilderun is vastly improved over the density Farside's Biomes 3 & 4.  Anyway, stayed up waaaay too late (again) and am within spitting distance of 40 :huh:.  40 will be a mini-Christmas: Another costume slot (win!), I'll be able to upgrade to a T4 thicket (yay! more work!) and put in a couple other level locked (grr) FABkits.
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They probably saw Chua destroying trees and the Reapers were a Chua design. Therefore hatred of Chua.
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Yeah, there's a reason they go for mad plat: Can be placed without having to place previous tiers, they ignore the level gate and have a faster respawn rate.  My tier 5 relic-hunter/technologist is only level 25.  My tier 5 miner is only level 20 (and can't use anything better than the apprentice tool :().
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I know I'm going through contortions but I'm finding that blind hatred isn't working. Until the population and faction imbalance issues resolve themselves I'd prefer to be a bit less exclusionary at least on her.
 
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Good morning folks!
 
Breakfast this morning was the English muffin with muenster and grape jelly and chocolate milk again. I'm kind of in a rut. Maybe tomorrow I'll do bagel and lox.
 
 
WildStar yesterday pretty much consisted of attempting to fill in my cooking tech tree (guh), and then running a Crimelords of Whitevale to get a guildie the Snow Lopp for her plot, because she's contemplating turning her already Lopp-ified plot into a Displaced Lopp Refuge with Snow and Shinies. It was fun. I've only run Crimelords once or twice before, and I'd love to run more of it.
 
Tonight consists of lots of real life stuff, so I had to cancel the event I had planned for the Daggers. I will be rescheduling it for this Saturday afternoon when we have like, a bazillion folks online. The day is fairly busy, but I do hope to get some more of my cooking tech tree filled in. I'm also looking forward to 0-50 today, too.
 
What fun things did folks do last night?	
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I believe BDS and Skullkickers were planning on working together on another Thaydfest type of event in Spring 2015, since it's only been a few weeks since the last one.
 
The Dominion side of the event was smaller, as we were brought in later in the process, but some of the events you mentioned were held for both factions.
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If you're not feeling the official lore there's probably a reason!
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So ya.....guys....
 
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/drops/3/genesis-prime/	
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Hah... oh I have my issues with it. Magic *shivers* Keep the Science in Science Fiction!
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So ya.....guys....
 
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/drops/3/genesis-prime/
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Hmm, I didn't see any promotion for the Dominion side of the event, or any gatherings... did I miss that part? I'd like to put together more of a community-building thing to coincide with Drop 3, try to alleviate the boredom and get people excited.
 
Spring is super far away, why can't we have events like this monthly? There's no need to mirror Carbine's quarterly drop schedule! :P
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Hah... oh I have my issues with it.  Magic *shivers*  Keep the Science in Science Fiction!
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Somehow you did miss it. We'll have to do a better job at advertising next time, I guess, although the Dominion had a good number of participants.
 
I'm not opposed to greater frequency, but for things like housing competitions (which was one of the major events for Thaydfest that was mirrored on the Dominion side), people also need time to develop concepts and rebuild.
 
Things like the cliffjumper's dartboard event or hide-and-seek are much easier to plan more regularly. For that event, I suggest using the Shardspire FABkit and placing the circles in difficult-to-reach locations, rather than a simple jump off a high point. WS allows way too much movement in the air. The FABkit also prevents falling damage.
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*waves to all the morning coffee people*
 
Amazing video.. really hyped to learn more of the story.
 
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Now I wish I hadn't read the spoilers. :D
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"Magic is simply something that science cannot yet explain."
 
I wish I remembered where that quote comes from. Google failed me.
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			Isn't magic, by definition, inexplicable? :O 	
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Isn't magic, by definition, inexplicable? :O
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Yes. Once magic is explained it becomes science.
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But the quote is kinda implying that these are two sides of a coin, which I'm not sure is true? It seems to depend on how a given society thinks, in general. Example, we might not know exactly what the functions of sleep are, but we don't view sleep as magical in lieu of a formal explanation. We simply see it as part of the science of biology that hasn't been unraveled.
 
Not sure how this argument would apply to Nexus though. P	
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I know the quote well.  Arthur C. Clarke. (I was thinking Azimov, oops)
Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Profiles of the Future (revised edition, 1973) 
And yesss.... I might have designs on the theoretical bases of "magic".  At least they used "psionic" to describe Esper power recently.
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What if a certain aspect of a scientific endeaver is inexplicable. Can something be a coexistence of the two?
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So ya.....guys....
 
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/drops/3/genesis-prime/
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I love how they used the "NOOOOO" data cube. God that thing gave me CHILLS the first time I heard it. Still does, man. I'm pumped. :) 
 
Glad Carbine is keeping to their intended schedule. ^_^
 
/happy Aurin is happy
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What does "getting dead" entail?
 
I have an Aurin that I rarely play that I don't want to have to delete, but I could leave him afk on the ground for a while.  lol	
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Isn't magic, by definition, inexplicable? :o
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It depends it depends... *pace-su-pace-su* Hmmm.
 
Maybe it could be a "failed" trial. I'll have to talk it over with the tribe. Rani will probably eat all the failed trials.	
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Rani will probably eat all the failed trials.
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Would this happy Aurin be willing to get dead for a story? :D
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[snip]
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From the housing forum:
 
 
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New building blocks will be added in Drop 4 (there's new decor in Drop 3, but they aren't building blocks).
 
Drop 4 will include:
 
Windows (including clear glass panes)
Decking
Railing
Doors (frame-less doors that you can open)
Cylinders
Tubes
Curved Walls
Triangle Walls
Domes
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Hmm, I didn't see any promotion for the Dominion side of the event, or any gatherings... did I miss that part? I'd like to put together more of a community-building thing to coincide with Drop 3, try to alleviate the boredom and get people excited.
 
Spring is super far away, why can't we have events like this monthly? There's no need to mirror Carbine's quarterly drop schedule! :P
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From the housing forum:
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From the housing forum:
 
 
 
And I'm pretty sure guild/community housing will be released by drop 4 as well, which means we're gonna see some breakthroughs in MMO gaming come spring!
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So ya.....guys....
 
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/drops/3/genesis-prime/
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OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG Windows!!! I can make a dome now!!!
 
Also, I hope that guild/community housing *does* come in with Drop 4. I will write it down as just a rumor for now and cross my fingers that something will be confirmed SOON .
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Chestnut would prefer not to die. BUT! For the sake of SCIENCE! I could be convinced to roll a toon just to die for you. Just gimme more info. :)
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Yes. Once magic is explained it becomes science.
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			It's not a miracle it's an "unknown process!" Lol :lol:	
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Kraft sells Miracles.
 
 
Hwip one up anytime!
 
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			"Unknown process Whip" just doesn't roll off the tongue. :unsure:	
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I am not a huge fan of Miracle Whip or mayonnaise normally...
 
...if they called it "Unknown Process Whip"...I might just throw up a little. :mellow:	
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I am not a huge fan of Miracle Whip or mayonnaise normally...
 
...if they called it "Unknown Process Whip"...I might just throw up a little. :mellow:
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Truth in advertising.
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Photoshop it fast!
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Too lazy.
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ThaydFest II (in the Spring) is tentatively scheduled right now but it's waaaaaay too early to be doing anything with it yet.  We'll kick off planning and preparation in earnest about six weeks before the event.
 
The reason for waiting so long between them is just to give everyone a break (and because of holiday season).  It is a *lot* of work to plan an event of that size and then pull it off, and the guilds involved need time to go focus on their own members, relax, and build back up before the next one.
 
That said, I love the idea of your event and I thin you should go for it!  I'm sure the Kickers and other Dominion guilds will jump in and help out.  More community events is *never* a bad thing.  Who knows, I might even get my Dominion character up to 14 so she can come lurk at your event ;)
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I love how my friends and relatives come to me like, "Please halp! This expensive electronic doesn't work!"
 
And my help is like... "Allow me to read from the instructions you got when you bought it."
 
Speaking of Magic. 
 
If instructions were a wand, geeks would be wizards.	
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And my help is like... "Allow me to read from the instructions you got when you bought it."
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I'll keep Shardspire in mind for deathboard, I haven't yet checked to see how much control the physics of the game gives us (was hoping that if we had a lot of control, smaller prize circles surrounded by trap decor could help). One thing though-- the point of the game is to die, that's why we called it deathboard! :P  Seeing bodies flailing in the sky until they splat on their desired reward, or into some steel jaws, seemed like a big part of the fun to us. :D
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Fun to make, and isn't poisonous! Maybe.
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Went to work, managed to make it to noon and wrote Metal Monday (this week, we revisited Japan, visual kei, and The Gazette, so let me know if you want added to my mailing list or want any or all of my back catalog).  However, I spent most of the day feverish and foggy, and decided to take the rest of the day off.  Went straight to bed and slept until... well, pretty much now.
 
Logged in and couldn't type.  I was confused until I checked my subscription.  For some reason, my sub didn't renew.  I renewed it manually, so I'm good now, but I was freaking out for a minute.
 
If anyone else is having this problem, you might not have renewed automatically.  Check your subscription.	
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No fancy intro.
 
I did not post in the morning coffee thread yesterday so I figured I would take the time today.
 
In a nutshell, I have zero interest in WildStar at the moment. I log on, check the AH/CX and log out immediately after. That is how my divorce with WoW began so I am intrigued as to what will happen next. I can never tell because inspiration is a tricky mistress. Or maybe I should take the time to figure out why, exactly, I no longer spend time on WildStar.
 
I am not on any other MMOs either. I have mostly been playing Touhou and watching TV series online when I get bored. Maybe I am just burned out at the moment.
 
No fancy outro either. Only Mondo Zax.
 	
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