It leaves a nasty taste..

I feel violated. Last night wifey and I sat down to watch a movie, ‘The Human Centipede’. I knew it was going to be a shocker movie, something along the lines of ‘Hostel’, but it was worse. I guess there were some artistic aspects and a pompous critic may say it’s ‘a journey through the doors of consciousness, exploring the depths of Human depravity’, but quite honestly that’s poppycock. It’s pretty damn sick and actually made me feel a little ill at times. It’s very weird indeed. I have seen in real life much more gross and gory things in law enforcement, but watching it on the screen for fun, well, it’s just not my cup of tea thanks. Sick film and I suggest you stay away. For what it’s worth, the wifey loved it and even says it’s in her top ten now. This worries me! I wonder if I should take note that her top ten also includes ‘House of a Thousand Corpses’ and ‘The Devils Rejects’. Disturbing.
Mental note: Sleep now requires one eye open.

Speaking of wifey, it looks like she has now quit EQ2 permanently and has followed her friends to RIFT, downloading the game last night. I knew this was a perma thing when I logged in to having all her coin in my inbox. I’m now a lot of plat richer. Not that there is anything to buy nowadays. I’m still feeling my way round the new expansion but I’m finding I don’t have a lust to head to the new zones every day. Yesterday for example, I didn’t visit Velious at all when I logged in and instead headed over to Pillars of Flame to hang out with my Bro for a bit. Even though I was a bit of a spare part as wifey downloading RIFT made my lag range anywhere from 2 to 10 seconds behind, I still had fun just hanging. We headed in to The Clefts of Rujark too just to make sure Merecraft got all the AA and big quests done in there. We still have to head back to do ‘Scornfeather Roost’ instance but aside from that there isn’t too much left to do in there. I’m looking forward to when he heads to Tenebrous Tangle as I haven’t done the Cloud Mount questline on Volt yet. I love that zone also, great fun. Basket quests and freeing frogs from Scaleborn tower captivity remains my lasting memory. Although I have already done the Claymore questline on Volt, I’d be more than willing to accompany my Bro through it. It’s incredibly long and arduous, but leads you nicely through TT and The Barren Sky and the instances in both. Good storyline too.

This coming Saturday, the guild are heading to The Court of Al Afaz raid zone for some fun. I’m looking forward to that. I’m trying to provide some earlier raid content as those are the levels folks struggle to get groups/raids at and are the best levels for them to start learning raid strats. Yeah, I know the historic mobs are pretty much tank n spank but it’s good to start indoctrination in to the basics at an early stage. That way you know that if you can master things like ‘stay behind the tank at all times’. You know, the real simple stuff that gets everyone killed if not abided by in later tiers. Aside from all that it’s always fun to simply hang with my guildies. I kind of plan on doing progression raiding for a while until Velious raiding becomes a bit more run of the mill. Taking the guild to SF raid zones will achieve little at the moment. The loot dropped from the mobs that we could tackle as a guild has already been superceded by the Velious quest legendary gear. So, we’ll be doing some tier 7 then 8 raids after Court of Al Afaz. It’s always fun re-visiting the old raid zones.

Right, that’s it for today, work beckons! I’ll be online tonight no doubt with wifey trying out RIFT. I certainly won’t be watching any movies with her anyhow. My choice next time. I think it’s going to have to be Toy Story 3.

Be well.