Eat and Play!

It's been a while since I've done a shared topic from BA, and this one is really on the spot for me. "Top five foods for mmogamers", suggested by Amerence from Amerencelovewow. More contributors can be found here.

My game playing sessions are fairly long, with breaks for this or that, but generally lasting the whole day. Hence, any form of regular meals is out of the question. I don't require them anyway. Starting with the fluids that are necessary though:

Coffee and drinking water--Lots and lots of coffee! I grew up on the stuff, drinking so much of it I'm sure I've made a dollar or two for several of the corporate giants. In fact, my body probably would not know how to function without it. Drinking water is another must have, there's usually a case of the bottled kind around, and always natural, never flavored. The third option reserved for late evenings should they materialize, is tea. I do love a warm cup of tea as the day winds down.

With any form of regular meals being unusually rare, snack items are the preferred choice of solid food. This comes out to be a choice of availability mostly, whichever of the general stock I have laying around.

Cookies: There is perhaps some distant link of Cookie Monster blood in me, especially for the chocolate chip kind. Secondary are the creme filled assortments with preference for vanilla and lemon, ocassionally peanut butter filled.

Snack cakes/pastries, pretty much any kind here, I'm not that fussy. Chips, which must be the original, name brand regular chips. The secret is in the salt content :) And of coarse, PopTarts. And I almost forgot (omg!), donuts!!! Plain, powdered and chocolate, they go soooo well with the coffee.

Candy: must be chocolate, preferbly dark. Although, Milky Way and 3Musketeers bars will suffice in a pinch.

Perhaps the most solid food on my gaming desk at any given moment is the club style peanut butter and jam sandwich. Yep, it's got to be club style. Almost a viable meal in itself. And it must be jam, not jelly, preserves are acceptable. Other sandwiches found floating thru would be hot dogs and deli type meats, with all the fixin's of coarse. Got to squeak some veggies in somewhere once in a while.

Guess that about sums it up for my gaming foods. I don't go hungry and I don't gain weight, so all is good. So tell me, what goodies do you have close at hand for your gaming sessions?
~"Snack-a-lots" Sol


Is it snack time yet?



Shared Topic Time!

Kamalia suggests: "do your alts know each other?" "I've always considered that my various characters know each other. Each one of them may not personally know every single one of the others, but they are all connected in a web of family and friend relationships...If your characters do know each other, what kind of relationships do they have, and how did those relationships come into being? If they don't, what functions do your different alts serve?"


I love this week's suggested topic, and will have difficulty trying to keep it from becoming a wall of text. Not that I'm an RP'er, which I'm not. More because, all my characters in game have their distinct personalities, habits and 'family' traits. In past posts, I've spoken of the many alts as "Sol's Kids." Perhaps a bit of background here will help, so join me after the jump and get to know a bit about the family.

Shared Topic: Blog Azeroth

Recently, I decided to join up over at the Blog Azeroth community. I've been going there as a visitor for some time now, and really like their approach to shared topics, so took the plunge and joined.


The past weeks' topic was "What is your favourite race in WoW?" Suggested by PVE Rogues.

I've been playing WoW for some 4-1/2 years now, probably gone through most of the races. Certainly all of the alliance ones, and a few horde side. It is difficult now to choose one particular favourite race. Back in the beginning though, it was the Night Elves that captured my attention right off. What little lore and story I read about them, the magic and shapeshifting druids got me hook-line-and sinker.

My first character, and only one to level cap to this day, is a night elf druid. In spite of all the alts to follow during those years afterwards, Sol remained, still is and always will be, my "first love." He certainly aged through all the muck and mire of this ol' noobish gamer. :)

The array of alts to follow Sol the first couple of years grew in numbers to a point where they were completely un-manageable and out of control. The quest of sifting and sorting slowly came into being. Those that I just couldn't seem to play with any form of agreeable nature found their way to the infamous D-E-L-E-T-E button. It seemed that ranged casters held a better surviveability rate than most others.

With the coming of the Shattering and eventual Cataclysm, things have become much more refined. Although I certainly don't consider myself any sort of loremaster, I do really enjoy much of the lore and history of the different races and this plays a fair part in my alt selections now, as well as their class. The somewhat recent addition of Khrox, a dwarf BM hunter, has led me down that dwarven road of lore and I've taken quite a liking for them since. Sol had previously gone through all the Twilight Highlands quests, which probably sparked the initial interest. He just loved doing the wedding chain between the two clans, and their personalities can be quite humorous at times.

Then their is the human mage, Kaimara. Now, as humans go, there is nothing overly special about them beyond fast leveling and the usual human natures. I never took much of a liking to their King Varian, and have forever prefered Ironforge over Stormwind. Mage-dom was on my mind at the time though and human seemed the quickest way to go. There since came along with Cata, the Nelf mage. Both have survived the paring knife though and it's really Kai's abilities and personality which keep her hanging around. In contrast for the humans though, there is a priest which has since been relagated to banking alt. (that would be "priest", as in "Mana-Hog!")

If I really had to put my races into some sort of favourite listing, I guess it would kinda sorta go like this, ATM: Night Elf >Dwarf >Human. With me though, all things are subject to change at any moment. (Orc lore has been rather interesting of late :) )