So I've been playing WoW again, probably the most hardcore playing since the fabled pvp grind of 2005, but I've got much more out of it for the same effort this time around, the game is just so much better in so many ways. There's still a absolute ton of legacy content lying around though, after all the game just celebrated its 5th anniversary so the original content is looking pretty frayed around the edges. That's the reason I'm so looking forward to the next expansion, probably more than I have done for the other two: In "Cataclysm" it's resetting and redoing all embarrassingly old content, making the whole game shiny and new. If bliz can manage to renew properly, so that it doesn't just feel like a slapdash coat of paint on the same tired stuff, then it's difficult to think how any other MMO could ever take Warcraft's crown.
For the moment though, I've hit a gear wall. Until the next patch hits in a few weeks the only thing I can reasonably upgrade is my weapon, which Bliz seems to enjoy making as rare as rocking-horse shit. Apart from logging on every week for a Raid to try my chance with the drops, I've been playing Dragon Age: Origins instead, easily the best RPG since Neverwinter Nights 1, or Gothic 2, maybe even the best since Baldur's Gate 2 back in 2000! Good times. Some how I also need to find time to process the 300 pictures I took while out last weekend, plus the 200 from my holiday in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago, plus read the latest Wheel of Time book, which by all accounts has not suffered at all from the death of its original author. Woop!
In other news, I'm now 28. Probably undeniably an adult. Woe.