How is your gaming going? 

I got two gold medals for healing as Ana today in teams that included Mercy. I am either improving as Ana, or they were just crap Mercies. (Mercy's healing is an auto-locking stream, Ana's is sniper/grenade based.)

How have y ou been keeping? Getting excited for Hallowe'en?

You're improving, you're improving, obviously.   

Me? Meh.  *Pricks up ears at thought of Halloween* Actually, I saw a good cannibal film called We Are What We Are recently. It was more creepy and atmospheric than gory. Would you know any other good chilling films? Never too early to get in the  mood. 

I dunno about chilling, as opposed to gory... I think I've exhausted my supply of recommendations.

Not been watching a lot... of anything...

Are you ok?  You sound a bit down in the dumps. 

Yes, Summer isn't really telly watching season.

Yeah. I'm fine... schools are back shortly. So, work has restarted...

Basically only watched three tv shows all summer; Last Week Today, The Daily Show, and Poirot. Been more gaming, and youtube... Lots of youtube...

Ahhh *nods* How are you feeling about going back to work ?

Youtube is addictive - especially cute animals. In fact wish I hadn't mentioned it as I'm getting the itch now.  *folds arms, tries to think of something else* 

Let us not talk of work... XD

Youtube for me is the let's plays... Actually, there's something I can recommend for hallowe'en. Markiplier's horror game let's plays. Any Amnesia one, or an RPG one like Mad Father, The Witch's House, Misao or Blank Dream. Also Five Nights at Freddy's... It can be funny watching him react to the jump scares on face cam.

Thank you, I will check them out as the nights draw in 

How is Pippin doing? 

Yay.

Pippin is just dandy. I googled the kicking out the flooring thing... apparently it's just something females do. Like, "I want this over here" *kicks it haphazardly*. I'm going to try her on wood shavings... easier to hoover and quieter. *nods*

 That's cute. She's redecorating, in her own hamster-y way. [ Though it's not much fun to clean up probably ].

And hang on ... didn't you buy her a huge bag of bedding already? I didn't realise hamsters were so high maintenance. 

Flooring and bedding are different. Also, regular cleaning outs occur. It's cheep though, I used a fifth of a 50p pack of wood shavings.

Ah I see *nods* that's not so bad.  

Indeed. Most of it piled up in a corner when she tried to kick it out... I'll admit to a bit of schadenfreude when she got up for a pee and realised she buried her toilet area.

 Awww she's like a moody teenager who won't clean up her room. No boiled egg treats for you, madame!!! 

She is indeed.  *nods* Sensible museli for a week! Yoghurt drops must be earned. *nods again*

Tough love lol. I was messing, hitting the random button on reddit and ending up reading about hamsters as pets vs guinea pigs and rabbits. Consensus is that hamsters aren't that affectionate or rewarding as pets... in fact they were called the devil's fluffballs or something like that. Think it was their cannibalistic attitude to motherhood that swayed people 

Still, Pippin is awfully cute 

Nice new avi...who's he?

Yeah. Apparently rats are the best rodents to have as pets. Devil fluffballs, I'm calling her that now.... affectionately of course.

Avatar is of Archmage Khadgar. It's from promotional material for the next World of Warcraft expansion. There was a three part animation (One about Khadgar, one about Gul'dan, and one about Illidan.) and a four part audio drama (again featuring Khadgar and Gul'dan... they are important.), this is from the artwork that displayed during the audio drama. The Legion are coming, which I'm weirdly happy about... apart from that one spoiler... let's not talk about that spoiler.

Sounds brilliant this warcrafty thing   

It is. I unlocked the selfie camera on my Rogue character... and I always have her go find Khadgar for selfies with the Archmage. Because I'm a massive dork.

See? He looks so happy about it too! *ahem*

I hope we can still use it in Legion, because I need a selfie with my king (Genn Greymane)...

 How great is that. Art imitating life, sort of? 

Sort of. I was really annoyed in the movie they didn't age Khadgar up (he gets an age boost of sorts when he's 16... manages to reverse it when he's about 50...). I wanted silverfox Khadgar. (Although, to be fair, he wouldn't have been. He goes young - elderly - silverfox... and silverfox is as recent as Warlords of Draenor.)

I am rambling. Sorry.

  Nah, its important! Characters have to look right, or it gets on your nerves big time. 

That's true... I did get a bit "Khadgar has blue eyes... I know because I've looked... a lot... *ahem*"... Garona didn't look Orcish enough (She's supposed to be half Draenai too, but the decided to make her actually half human. Although, weirdly, they made her in game lover her dad. Bit skeevy. )

I think I saw Genn's dad. There was a human that was all "No to your Alliance." Genn's dad started the whole isolationist Gilneas thing, and Genn would've been young then too, like Varian Wrynn (King of Stormwind, leader of the Alliance). He didn't look like he fit at all. Too modern looking for this pseudo-medieval setting (even if Gilneas is more Victorian leaning after 30 odd years behind a wall). I'm hoping it wasn't him for that.

The gryphon was perfect though. I had bumped mine for a red drake, because it looked cooler... After the movie I started using my gryphon again. Movie gryphon was adorable.

You never asked for a lore lesson. I'm afraid you got one. Oops.

Been watching the telly sports?

Sounds like an amazing world to go into *nods*.

Haven't gotten into this Olympics really, have you? Felt a bit nostalgic when I saw the fencers though... my foil hand felt twitchy . [Though they're approximately one million times better and faster than I ever was].

Quite interested in the new footy season with all the new managers etc. Celtic under Rodgers, err you reckon he's made an ok start?

I don't watch the Olympics myself... ever. Of course, if my wee cousin Joshua ever goes I'll have to watch the badminton. *gripes*

I haven't really caught any football yet, and Im not going to base anything on scorelines alone. Been too busy playing Overwatch. (I need to unlock Symmetra's Olympics emote before the 22nd. I won't be able to after that, and her regular ones are crap. And... it's random... )

 Ummm... sounds like fun. 

Dammit I need something to get into like that  I'm in between stuffs at the moment.  

Never between stuffs... always too many stuffs... Eat? Sleep? No, stuffs.

 Ah yes, there's a world of stuffs. I'm pining for the top level stuffs that calls to your soul and has a pleasing hint of darkness... like Mad Men, maybe Better Call Saul at it's best. G.O.T. and TWD, even those tide me over. 

Maybe... maybe... I'll have to read a book or summat!!! 

*recommends A Song of Ice and Fire*

*strokes chin*  Good suggestion Hitch, but I fear all the differences would mess with my tiny mind.  

Just think of the show as badly written crack fic. That what the rest of us do.

Legion pre-expansion questlines have begun. I have sadness. (Remember that spoiler I would not talk of? It happened.) Also, kind of joy because I got to fight alongside Genn Greymane for the first time since my starter zone. And a little annoyance because where the frig was Khadgar? Maybe he could've stopped said spoiler happening.

*shouts "For Gilneas!" and runs off to do her dishes before bed*

 Oh my! Exciting stuffs! I can't compete with that... emmm... I made chocolate brownies, sort of. First time I've made anything chocolatey at home. They were nice.

Brownies are good. I find tray bakes difficult. *nods* Were they tasty? : )

They were, thanks. They're a sort of nutty low carb version, with cocoa powder and sweetener, no actual chocolate. 

I rarely stick to a recipe, preferring to freestyle it / chuck things in as I go along, a la Swedish Chef 

Ah I see. Nutty is not so good... in a food sense... Freestyling is good, that's how I make mac and cheese... blob of this, spoonful of that, millions of cheese... and they say cooking is a science.

I have used too many ellipses.

Erm, maybe you're catching it from me  I do that ..... a lot

How are your gaming adventures going. Also is that fluffy little reprobate still trashing her cage ? 

Maybe so.

I have defeated two Burning Legion invasions (I need 6 for the achievement), discovered the Horde Warchief (It's an Orcish title. The head of a clan is a Warchief. But the last Horde Warchief was a Troll called Vol'jin.) died as well as my faction leader. Sylvannas Windrunner (Undead, formerly a Nightelf, Queen of the Banshees) is taking over as Warchief. My faction... There's a nice statue of Varian Wrynn outside the castle in Stormwind (main Human city). His son Anduin has taken over as king of Stormwind... but no word if he's taking over as faction leader as of yet. He is very young, maybe naively pacifist, not sure many would go for it. I have heard rumours Genn Graymane (Worgen, WoW version of a Werewolf) will become faction leader. He's also a king (of Gilneas... which was a Human city. There's a lot of story there... let's just say, he has a lot of reasons not to like Sylvannas.), older... maybe not wiser but militarily capable. His country isn't long out of a period of isolationism though... his dad built a wall, but I think he was starting to see things his more liberal son's way... the cataclysm bring the wall down (and all that followed. ) helped move things along.

Umm... you got another lore dump. *ahem*

Pippin is doing dandy... she hasn't been kicking stuff out, but she seems to have gotten lazy about making her bed. Taking after me I fear.

 No, its great stuffs. Probably the closest I got to that, was the LOTR trilogy. I loved the immensity of the world. You found yourself imagining staying on in certain places with certain characters, after the main characters had moved on. Game of Thrones too, come to think of it. To be moving about in such a fantastical strange world, well I can really see the appeal. *nods*

Pippin  Hey, maybe that's just how she rolls  [ooh an unintentional pun].

There's a nice level of immersion I think. I often wonder how the "paladin pals" (Dwarf and Bloodelf paladins, Gidwin Goldbraids and Tarenar Sunstrike) are getting on, it was nice to see them and Fiona again in the Draenor expansion. Just a pity that when Fiona (Worgen priest) joins your garrison as a follower they aren't hanging around too. Although, that said, even if Gidwin is favourite... he tends to end up unconscious/trapped/captured. I miss Thassarian (Undead Human death knight) too. Haven't see him since Wrath of the Lich King... unlikely to be in Legion.

And whilst it is nice to imagine being in these fantasy lands, fighting alongside heroes like Archmage Khadgar... Sometimes it's to imagine a quiet tea/sake drinking session with Hanzo Shimada from Overwatch too.

She seems to be rearranging her whole cage. She's moved her toilet area to where her bed used to be. Food store to where the toilet was (don't worry, this was after hamster safe detergent wash.)... Dunno what she's up to.