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Breakfast this morning consists of a smoothie! A Mango-Blueberry-Banana Smoothie to be exact.
 
 
We got a new blender, finally, this weekend. So excited to have my breakfast smoothies again.
 
First, a disclaimer: If there's a lack of spaces in between words it's because the spacebar is being a Cupcaker.
 
On the WildStar front, I'm really hoping that Megas are up sometime this week. That way, EVERYONE can participate in ThaydFest! Which reminds me, Evindra folks (both Exiles and Dominion). If you have yet to enter your house(s) into the housing contest, do it! Last day for the submissions is the 15th. And check out all the cool events we have set up for ThaydFest as well (Exiles). Some things are cross-faction, thanks to Skullkickers. You guys rock.
 
I did a lot of leveling this weekend on various toons. I got my baby Esper (Chestnut's baby sister) from 3 to two bars away from 11. Bauxyte got a level and a half, and Jhisalith is half a level from 30. I also got in a round of dailies with the Chaide-hubby in Northern Wastes, which I like a lot more than Crimson Badlands. Tonight, I plan to help out guildies that need group quests in sub-50 zones. Maybe even get some more levels on various toons.
 
What about everyone else?	
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I RPed Rocio at the bar "with" Seeger as a peanut gallery of sorts, observing Rocio flirt his tail off with folks of all ages and races.  It was a nice time.
 
I also confided in Seeger a kind of pet peeve I have.  It's not toward anyone in particular, it's just a personal choice.  It's the fact that many folks regardless of faction or even title, like to make characters with a dark and sordid past, but seem to have no dark and sordid present. Granted even IRL there are people who you look at as your Scout Troop Leader and turns out to keep bodies in his basement...
 
But most of the time folks who are murderers tend to run their own gang, kill repeatedly and destroy their communities...
 
Why not roleplay that out??
 
... because of consequences and lack of victims.
 
Let's face it no one wants their character to die. And even if they live, if your character is wanted in 6 states, it kinda eliminates a LOT of bar RP which some nights is ... all you can do. And yet, and yet, this kind of RP can actually be a cool thing.  
 
I'm not going to go all grim-dark with Rocio or my other character, but you gotta be the change you wanna see in the world right?
 
Stay tuned. I may have a good idea for a good villain and he or she won't be immune to death and consequences... I just hope I get get some good victims So if you have a character you never play and don't mind that character ending up dead in an alley somewhere, send me a message!	
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			D'awww, I said I was making one in the last thread XD  Whose should we ask the mods to lock up?  I can repost mine here if you'd like.	
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D'awww, I said I was making one in the last thread XD  Whose should we ask the mods to lock up?  I can repost mine here if you'd like.
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I'll move over, Chestnut!
 
First, breakfast, Seeger style!  :D
 
 
And a bagel....
 
 
So, the weekend was kind of hectic.  I took Friday off sick and did some work on Seeger (down to just group quests in Blighthaven I'll be putting groups together for this week, so if you need to do the 5 man underground nursery quests, lemme know), but I spent a lot of time playing with my wife.  We raised both pairs of characters we play together (anyone in the Saddles would know my wife as Parthenia and Hadiya, paired with my characters Herrick and Jonson respectively).  We got the Jonson pair to 14 and got them houses, and the other two are walking into the canyon in Galeras.
 
Also, did a little work last night to the Shadowcaster.  I've discovered that I'm going to hit the outdoor decor limit pretty quick, but I don't want to sacrifice anything I have.  Hence, I'll be finishing right up to the 300 limit and finishing once I get the decor limit increased.  Does anyone know if that comes this drop, or next?  Regardless, I finally put together the aftcastle and began building the rear flydeck, as well as putting in a front rail.  Next, I'll be finishing the flydeck and aftcastle, as well as installing a rear rail on the aftcastle.  Odds are, I'll need a boost to the decor limit before I furnish the exterior, so in the meantime I'll build the bar into the housing plug.
 
One day, hopefully soon, the housing plug won't be there (I want to use the empty one) and it'll look great.  It's built entirely from scratch, no plugs, and will have a hot-drop pod launch bay, a main coilgun, artillery in the aftcastle, deck guns on the glacis plate on the forecastle, barracks and a bar in the back, and hopefully a storage hold and brig below.
 
Until then, this is what I got done.
 
 
What are your plans after the upcoming drop for your characters and guild?
 
By the way, the <Blazing Saddles> is a tenured RP/Social guild on Evindra looking to give players a good home both before and after the megaservers.  Please send me a message here or in game on Seeger for more information!  :D
 
#shamelessplug
 
Okay, back to work.  See you all on Nexus!	
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Chua confused now. Saw two Morning Coffee threads. Not possible, no no no.
Chua suggest post here since Chest was first. Chua advice Chest not to create Morning Coffee every time, others want to do too sometimes.
 
Chua also started with new breakfast routine and made Yoghurt with Banana and Kiwi this morning.
Although more healthy, experimental science shown that Chua becomes more hungry at lunch, so must control food intake at lunch.
Chua running more science to see if missing ingredient in breakfast to control hunger.
 
No WildStar from Chua's side, outside trying out bit of PvP.
Played 3 games and won all three, slowly accumulating points for AMP and Ability point.
Chua not playing tonight due Pen and Paper round....
 
Also Chua writing article on  blog soon about LARP last weekend :)	
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Chua confused now. Saw two Morning Coffee threads. Not possible, no no no.
Chua suggest post here since Chest was first. Chua advice Chest not to create Morning Coffee every time, others want to do too sometimes.
 
Chua also started with new breakfast routine and made Yoghurt with Banana and Kiwi this morning.
Although more healthy, experimental science shown that Chua becomes more hungry at lunch, so must control food intake at lunch.
Chua running more science to see if missing ingredient in breakfast to control hunger.
 
No WildStar from Chua's side, outside trying out bit of PvP.
Played 3 games and won all three, slowly accumulating points for AMP and Ability point.
Chua not playing tonight due Pen and Paper round....
 
Also Chua writing article on  blog soon about LARP last weekend :)
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Good morning, coffee people! How's the science? (Maybe I should change to something more...Aurin-like. Mostly been playing my Esper.)The weekend was uneventful. I worked all day Saturday and binged the second half of the final season of the series I was watching. This week will be more of the same. I am going to the theater Wednesday evening (David Ives' "Venus in Fur") and I am working the Friday morning shift FROM HELL. After that, I am off from Friday at 1pm (October 17th) until Monday (October 27th). This morning, I had Honeycombs for breakfast. I am a cereal person.Today's picture will be in a spoiler tag for spoilery, spoiler-like and spoiler-ish reasons. Open and read at your own risk o.o
 
Meet Dreadphage Ohmna, the last boss in the Genetic Archives, formerly known as Progenitor Ohmna, the Eldan who created the Skeech and played a role in creating both the Osun and the Falkrin. So much for being "Ohmna the Compassionate" now!
 
 
 
In WildStar news, I have mostly been doing dailies. I took the time to do the math behind those this morning. It feels like I have been cleaning Crimson Badlands and Northern Wastes for ages now but the math says I am halfway through (15 and 14 days left, respectively) so this is pretty much awful. It takes roughly a month of non-stop dailies to hit Beloved. That's terrible but the reward is, at least, somewhat worth it. Makes catching up on alt characters a giant pain in the cupcake though. I have also been having issues acquiring new dyes from bags and housing challenges have proven to be uncooperative on all fronts. I ended up buying an Exile Generator on the AH instead. I swear housing challenges heavily favour giving you renown over anything else.Science is violent and violence is fun!	
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I RPed Rocio at the bar "with" Seeger as a peanut gallery of sorts, observing Rocio flirt his tail off with folks of all ages and races.  It was a nice time.
 
I also confided in Seeger a kind of pet peeve I have.  It's not toward anyone in particular, it's just a personal choice.  It's the fact that many folks regardless of faction or even title, like to make characters with a dark and sordid past, but seem to have no dark and sordid present. Granted even IRL there are people who you look at as your Scout Troop Leader and turns out to keep bodies in his basement...
 
But most of the time folks who are murderers tend to run their own gang, kill repeatedly and destroy their communities...
 
Why not roleplay that out??
 
... because of consequences and lack of victims.
 
Let's face it no one wants their character to die. And even if they live, if your character is wanted in 6 states, it kinda eliminates a LOT of bar RP which some nights is ... all you can do. And yet, and yet, this kind of RP can actually be a cool thing.  
 
I'm not going to go all grim-dark with Rocio or my other character, but you gotta be the change you wanna see in the world right?
 
Stay tuned. I may have a good idea for a good villain and he or she won't be immune to death and consequences... I just hope I get get some good victims So if you have a character you never play and don't mind that character ending up dead in an alley somewhere, send me a message!
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Chua confused now. Saw two Morning Coffee threads. Not possible, no no no.
Chua suggest post here since Chest was first. Chua advice Chest not to create Morning Coffee every time, others want to do too sometimes.
 
Chua also started with new breakfast routine and made Yoghurt with Banana and Kiwi this morning.
Although more healthy, experimental science shown that Chua becomes more hungry at lunch, so must control food intake at lunch.
Chua running more science to see if missing ingredient in breakfast to control hunger.
 
No WildStar from Chua's side, outside trying out bit of PvP.
Played 3 games and won all three, slowly accumulating points for AMP and Ability point.
Chua not playing tonight due Pen and Paper round....
 
Also Chua writing article on  blog soon about LARP last weekend :)
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Very nice smoothie there. Reminds me to try more smoothies other than pomegranate.
 
Spent most of time tinkering with house again yesterday, doing daily quests every now and again to sate explosion addiction. Also did a little RP which led to some interesting developments.
 
Won't be in Wildstar until late this evening, so not much to recap on tomorrow unless something truly explosive happen in short space of time.
 
Ah, almost forgot! Breakfast was pancake with glass of milk.
 	
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			I love making Rocio have an action plot, so I'm also looking for baddies who wanna be bad to a character who can fight fair. I wish you could duel box in this game without having an entirely separate account.	
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I figure that it'll be best for whoever posts the first post in the previous thread that they're making the next coffee gets it.  I usually post it in the morning when I come in if there isn't one already and I didn't make it yesterday.
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I approve of this idea, good Sir. 
 
 
RP with self... interesting idea for story-driven RP. That would actually be pretty neat. 
 
Sadly, none of my characters would ever be baddie enough to help you out in your quest. Though, I am interested on how a baddie RP character who eventually gets caught and executed would be dealt with from the player's perspective. Buh-bye toon?
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Chua published new blog article ;)
Can follow link in signature or here: http://arnedeherdt.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/vampire-the-masquerade-a-new-prince-and-malkavian-madness/
 
Chua bit sad cannot play WildStar tonight.
Chua must think up stuff to do now has found out that Chua Moska is big brother of Chua :D	
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Morning Tea:  Kenya Milma
Morning Breakfast:  Skipped again
 
In Game:  Really not much this weekend, because VeritasFest!  Should be back on tonight some.
 
Out of Game:  What *didn't* we do?  Latin restaurant Friday night for awesome food and mojitos, and then back to our place to Skype with folks who couldn't make it.  Saturday, our annual Ren Faire trip, even though the weather was a little cool and drizzly, then dinner at Fat Boy's Crab Shack.  Helped a few folks research some steampunk costuming looks and how to build costume ideas, and also introduced some non-WS players to Wildstar.  Sunday, we went to the National Zoo, then dinner at Dogfish Head and games back at our place in the evening.  Good times, all around!  I'll see about posting pics later, once I get permission and such.  Was really fantastic to see everyone again.
 
I am happy to report that, while I loved hanging out with people of course, I did find myself missing the game a little - which is always a good thing.  If you don't miss a game while you're not playing it, there's no sense playing it - so in spite of all the bad press and the slow times in game, I at least feel reassured I still enjoy it.  So looking forward to getting back into it tonight.
 
Delighted to report I am promoting a new officer, to hopefully help me manage activities and get more stuff on the calendar, as well!  IRL has been challenging as of late (continued health issues of my mother in law, which has often left me too mentally exhausted to do much in game besides socialize and maybe dabble a bit on housing).  So having help will be a tremendous boon, and hopefully help us get more going on the calendar from a PvE perspective to keep people active and engaged.  Huzzah!	
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So megaservers on Wednesday but this specifically caught my eyes...
 
 
In regards to the maintenance lasting 12 to 24 hours: 
"This is not standard maintenance,  so in appreciation for your patience while we make this transition, we are giving a month’s worth of Boom-Boxes (One per day for 30 days) and a free day of game time to all our players, with the additional time to be credited to accounts by no later than the end of October."	
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So pumped for Megaservers! Woo! THAYDFEST FOR EVERYONE!!!
 
I like the boom boxes, too. :)	
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
Had eggs and toast for breakfast. And, coffee .. lots of coffee this morning :)
 
Yay!! Mega-servers! Can't wait to play with you all. The only thing is that I will have to flag myself for RP in order to talk to you all in the RP channel. I don't know how I feel about that :) (Source: https://twitter.com/CRB_Anlath/status/521671731543834624)	
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Good morning, everyone!
 
Friday nights are always busy for me, but this week Saturday and Sunday were almost as crammed. I didn't get much time for WS over the weekend due to a rather hectic RL schedule (but the Skullkickers in general had a good weekend. We got several new members, including Oli's NA self and two folks from BDS joined up with alts. It's a small active group, but I'm still hoping to see some of the inactive members come back in the next few weeks.
 
I did have a chance to alt hop last night for a few minutes, since I hadn't played my Exiles in over a week. BDS greeted me with far more exclamation points than I deserve for rarely spying on playing with them. :D Ended up finishing the Ravenous area of Celestion on Grimsaw, who is now lvl 16.
 
With the megaserver announcement, I'll have to make sure to log into my poor Warrior tonight so she doesn't get deleted. She's level 1 and she's been on the arkship since I transferred to Evindra a couple weeks ago. [Chestnut or Nephele - she'll need a /ginvite!]
 
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I just hope I get get some good victims So if you have a character you never play and don't mind that character ending up dead in an alley somewhere, send me a message!
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			Vick,  is assuming Chua care :D	
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Vick,  is assuming Chua care :D
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mmm boomboxes.  Good morning folks.  Not much on the Wildstar front for me at the moment.  Kind of spent the morning preparing both the station and the guild for the megaserver merge.  Thankfully I've been fighting hard to keep people positive and trying to keep the community on the same kind of note with our (somewhat misinterpreted) Megaserver events.  So there hasn't been any panicking and flailing about.  Figure i'll work to get Malak another level today, maybe two.  I still have time to get him to 50 before drop 3 and 4 hits.  
 
I'm really looking forward to ThaydFest and the merger coming before then I'm happy about and a bit concerned about.  In my experience huge updates alone (in other games admittedly) usually send ripples for a few days to a week afterwards.  Lag, people unable to log in and the game being nearly unplayable for days afterwards have all been common maladies and I'm hoping that things go smoothly after the server is brought back up.  We're still gonna be broadcasting while the game is down and I hope things go well for everyone.  
 
Oh and I'm totally unimaginative with my coffee again this morning save for the Bailey's coffee creamer that I've added to the Cinnamon Hazelnut coffee i've been guzzling lately.  it's surprisingly good.	
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Good morning, everyone!
 
Friday nights are always busy for me, but this week Saturday and Sunday were almost as crammed. I didn't get much time for WS over the weekend due to a rather hectic RL schedule (but the Skullkickers in general had a good weekend. We got several new members, including Oli's NA self and two folks from BDS joined up with alts. It's a small active group, but I'm still hoping to see some of the inactive members come back in the next few weeks.
 
I did have a chance to alt hop last night for a few minutes, since I hadn't played my Exiles in over a week. BDS greeted me with far more exclamation points than I deserve for rarely spying on playing with them. :D Ended up finishing the Ravenous area of Celestion on Grimsaw, who is now lvl 16.
 
With the megaserver announcement, I'll have to make sure to log into my poor Warrior tonight so she doesn't get deleted. She's level 1 and she's been on the arkship since I transferred to Evindra a couple weeks ago. [Chestnut or Nephele - she'll need a /ginvite!]
 
 
Chua are allowed to refer to women by anatomy? The rest of us get slapped. :lol:
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mmm boomboxes.  Good morning folks.  Not much on the Wildstar front for me at the moment.  Kind of spent the morning preparing both the station and the guild for the megaserver merge.  Thankfully I've been fighting hard to keep people positive and trying to keep the community on the same kind of note with our (somewhat misinterpreted) Megaserver events.  So there hasn't been any panicking and flailing about.  Figure i'll work to get Malak another level today, maybe two.  I still have time to get him to 50 before drop 3 and 4 hits.  
 
I'm really looking forward to ThaydFest and the merger coming before then I'm happy about and a bit concerned about.  In my experience huge updates alone (in other games admittedly) usually send ripples for a few days to a week afterwards.  Lag, people unable to log in and the game being nearly unplayable for days afterwards have all been common maladies and I'm hoping that things go smoothly after the server is brought back up.  We're still gonna be broadcasting while the game is down and I hope things go well for everyone.  
 
Oh and I'm totally unimaginative with my coffee again this morning save for the Bailey's coffee creamer that I've added to the Cinnamon Hazelnut coffee i've been guzzling lately.  it's surprisingly good.
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Yeah, people who were interested in Dominion alts once Megas hit asked where to go, and we said "SKULLKICKERS ARE UBER AWESOME, YO! Plus, Leoni, err, Vick, is there!". :D Expect some alts from some more of us as well. :) And don't worry, whenever we're on, hit us up and we'll get your baby warrior in.
 
Vick is also assuming Chestnut cares. ;P (Honestly, I was called "Chest" all the time when I used Chestnut in other games. It doesn't bother me. I've also responded to C-Nut and HEY YOU. Though I don't particularly care for the last one.)
 
But yeah... Still flipping out over Megas. So excited! I even texted Chaide incessantly about how we need to choose a last name for our characters. I'm pretty sure he's about -_- by now.
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I have just completed the list of the dyes I am missing on my main character and it made me go into panic mode. I am missing  22 dyes from the Trunk of Tarnished Tints. Those are readily available from Thayd's challenges (rarer as world drops) but with a whole lot more people in the capital on Wednesday, this might become problematic. My SO jumped after I shout: "More to do! More to do! Also, more to do! System critical! Which system! ALL SYSTEMS! DYE HUUUUUUNT!" I play WildStar too much, eh.
 
...time to farm all the Thayd challenges every half hour for the next couple of days.	
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No connections, but OMG.  I am going to be late for work.
 
ThaydFest is going to be awesome!
 
You guys rock.  I'll post a more meaningful post when I can calm down and collect myself a bit :)	
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Trunk of Tarnished Tints
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			Where did you find a complete list of dyes? Most of the lists I'm aware of are WIPs.	
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Oh, you mean the Trunk of Laser Beam Dyes?
 
(I've gotten so many of that color that I stopped doing those challenges.)
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			I built my own through jabbithole.com 's search engine.	
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			After extensive polling the winner is: penguins!	
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			Penguins? Leaving this here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/11011810/Giant-penguins-roamed-Antarctic-40-million-years-ago.html	
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Penguins? Leaving this here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/11011810/Giant-penguins-roamed-Antarctic-40-million-years-ago.html
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It's been a great day so far!  We're getting sign off on this command center project, the megaserver announcement, and Metal Monday just happened to be one of my favorite bands of all time, Turkish powerhouse Mezarkabul!
 
Can't wait to get home to play tonight!	
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It's been a great day so far!  We're getting sign off on this command center project, the megaserver announcement, and Metal Monday just happened to be one of my favorite bands of all time, Turkish powerhouse Mezarkabul!
 
Can't wait to get home to play tonight!
 
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Looked up Mezarkabul on youtube real quick. Now I am not a metalhead but this is GOOD. Me likey a lot.
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I keep it broad.  I do everything from Within Temptation to Napalm Death to KMFDM.  I discuss the entire spectrum of metal.  Let me know if you want added to the mailing list or want any or all of the back catalog.
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Napalm Death and KMFDM, especially the latter, have been long-time favourites in the broad genre that is metal. Pentagram is totally new to me and I enjoy it. Thanks for the discovery :D
 
I keep reading about Metal Monday but I know next to nothing about it. I don't do mailing lists though, since my adress is both my personal and business e-mail.
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Metal Monday is my own little personal initiative.  I keep a list of email addresses to send them to and I spotlight a new band every single Monday.  Also, for the next few weeks (since I'm on what I consider to be my "world tour" and I'm spotlighting bands outside the arc of steel, I'm also catching up the bands on Wednesday that I did early when this was just a little email thing I sent to a coworker to tell him about awesome metal bands.   :lol:
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Well, I can't do any exceptions when it comes to mailing list so feel free to just mention the name of the band(s) on Monday and I'll look them up! I've been craving some metal music lately and found myself bouncing back and forth between Megadeth, Nitro and Pitchshifter. All three being different sub-genre of metal so it covers a little bit of ground.
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Howdy everyone!
 
So what time will the game go down? I have read the email and the associated links but I didn't see a time. Just that they will be down 12-24 hours.
 
Anyone?
 
OK as soooooon as I posted this I found it >.<
 
5 am Pacific.	
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 OK as soooooon as I posted this I found it >.<
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Because Monday, right?
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Gah, too excited to work today!  ThaydFest is gonna be so awesome now.
 
It's a good thing I've been able to hide in my office all morning at work so far.  People might think I was losing my mind.	
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Chua confused now. Saw two Morning Coffee threads. Not possible, no no no.
Chua suggest post here since Chest was first. Chua advice Chest not to create Morning Coffee every time, others want to do too sometimes.
 
Chua also started with new breakfast routine and made Yoghurt with Banana and Kiwi this morning.
Although more healthy, experimental science shown that Chua becomes more hungry at lunch, so must control food intake at lunch.
Chua running more science to see if missing ingredient in breakfast to control hunger.
 
No WildStar from Chua's side, outside trying out bit of PvP.
Played 3 games and won all three, slowly accumulating points for AMP and Ability point.
Chua not playing tonight due Pen and Paper round....
 
Also Chua writing article on  blog soon about LARP last weekend :)
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Bacon, that's what's missing :)
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Oh man...Cirinde, you're lucky it's dinner time soon.
 
Y'all have a tendency to make me hungry right as I'm getting back from lunch. ;)	
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Oh man...Cirinde, you're lucky it's dinner time soon.
 
Y'all have a tendency to make me hungry right as I'm getting back from lunch. ;)
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			I am going to kick this thread up so someone makes a new one. Won't be me.	
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I am going to kick this thread up so someone makes a new one. Won't be me.
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			New thread open :) https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/115890-10-14-morning-coffee-green-eggs-and-ham-edition/	
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