all-in-one post, because i can. well, to be honest…there’s only three bullet points in this post.

the first point…i hadn’t mentioned this earlier, but i’d actually quit world of warcraft, didja know? i’d quit four months ago, but my subscription didn’t actually end til august 20th. now that august 20th is past, my quitting of is official! which was a long-time coming. nothing against world of warcraft, but i’d played it for 6 years. and the game mechanics grew old a long time ago. i didn’t notice…or didn’t care to notice, until one night in a raid i came to the cathartic and sad realization that i spent more time staring at the action bars than i did at the actual action happening on screen. from then on i just decided to quit. to be honest, my life didn’t change drastically. i think i’d always been pretty good about not letting my mmo gaming life adversely affect my social life. so no longer having the mmo time sink bore little influence on my day to day (except now having even more free time). i played other games during my free time now…including torchlight, dragon age 2, mass effect 2, and the current flavor…deus ex human revolution. the game is seriously boss (the second point). damn the game is gorgeous. i’m already in my second go-thru…already finding numerous things i missed completely the first time around.

if you haven’t played the game, the above image is of heng sha, one of the cities featured in the game. it’s essentially shanghai on steroids.

speaking of august 20th, the third point is that i actually did something for my birthday this year. and when i say something, i mean the same as i did for my 30th and 31st (but not last year…i was feeling anti-social). sake and food at en…word.