The British Big Freeze of 2010

Via Twitter from Ysharros. It really IS cold. This is a NASA satellite image from today.

The British Big Freeze 2010

Truly epic.

In which it is still very cold.

It’s the nothingness. The whiteness. The endless…ness. Stretching on beyond the human imagination. Desolation of the soul! OH MY GOD!!!!

The Mighty Boosh – Tundra Rap

And that was pretty much the story of my walk into town today. Except with less dancing, and more nervous shuffling over icy surfaces.

Dragon Age announces expansion. Awakenings!

While the Return to Ostagar paid add-on is still delayed for the time-being, Bioware has just announced the first full expansion for Dragon Age. In Dragon Age Awakenings you are tasked with rebuilding the Grey Wardens. Me, I’ll see if I can get them to have a little bit more respect for life, as I’m pretty sure murdering anyone who decides not to drink their foul poison or asks too many questions is not doing them any favours in the […]

Baby, it’s cold outside.

No, seriously. This isn’t a come-on. If you go out there you’ll either freeze to death or be devoured by hungry yeti.

The five day weather forecast for Norwich doesn’t hold a single day where it gets above freezing, so everything is continuing to mount up. Our current weather is taking me back to when I lived in Indiana, USA, where winter meant a lot more than the usual British grey skies with drizzle, and the occasional short-lived snowday.

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Ratonga vs Octagorgon

Maltheas’ splendid week of questing has continued with a final victory over Octagorgon in the Cove of Decay.

Maltheas faces the Octagorgon in Everquest 2

It’s hard to get a sense of scale in that picture. Octagorgon is still a good safe distance away, sitting in his favourite comfy sunken galleon. He is quite ridiculously large.

A famous undercon, he sits there looking all green and heroic level, luring in the unwise. As soon as you attack him, […]

EQ2 Extreme Questing Leaderboard

After my last post, not having a proper leaderboard to show niggled away at me, so I’ve cobbled this together. Seeing as EQ2 Players no longer has the functionality to let you set your own level ranges for the leaderboards, and all:

A combination of the top questers from the 30-39, 40-49, and 50-59 ranges leaves Maltheas in a respectable 8th place. The 50-59 range puts in a surprisingly poor show, but perhaps folks who get to that level […]

Maltheas – Extreme Quester Update – Lion Mane Helm Edition

When last we checked in on Maltheas, extremiest of all extreme Everquest 2 questers, the leaderboard looked something like this:

He was doing pretty well, the highest placed 30-something in the world, with only 3 people of 50 or less ahead of him.

Sadly, the new and “improved” EQ2 Players website will now only allow me to create leaderboards within my own level tier, instead of choosing the level range for myself. This makes it almost entirely useless for […]