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Hi! I guess I'm looking for a buddy! Will anyone be playing Wildstar (early release midnight PST tonight!) or is anyone active in any other MMOs? The time I get online at home, I spend gaming, and I've been an MMO/PVP fanatic for the last 15 years. I'm playing Marvel Heroes right now, and been playing League of Legends regularly for the last couple years. I wasn't super impressed with Elder Scrolls Online, so been waiting for Wildstar. I'm going to give weight-loss a serious shot this June, and would love a gaming friend that can keep me encouraged and motivated fitness wise as well. Probably a guy is best, simply because my girlfriend wouldn't like me getting too friendly with random girls online. She hates my gaming and nerd stuff, so that is a challenge alone for me. The relationship has isolated me a bit, so I don't have much of a social circle to draw support from. I'm going to start my first challenge June 9th and do my best to document all my efforts. I just turned 30, about 5'11 and 300-310lbs (I don't want to look yet!) and 50 lbs came in just the last five months. Unemployment floored my energy and motivation, but back to work now and hoping to improve my life. Who's with me!!! <flex>

Hi Guys, It's a way off but I was wondering about what people thought of Elder Scrolls Online? I'm probably going to go console with it, when I have decided on which one to get..... Anywho, for those that don't know, there are 3 Factions: The Ebonheart Pact consists of: Nords Argonians (Lizard people) Dunmer (Dark Elves) The Daggerfall Covenant consists of: Redguards Bretons Orcs The Aldmeri Dominion consists of: Altmer (High Elves) Bosmer (Wood Elves) Khajiit (Cat people) So which race (and therefore faction) would/will you be? For me probably Nord all the way.

You know what? I find it hard to play games, do work, stick to things without a goal more tangible than "you did it!" It's why, despite loving it dearly, I've never got past Venice in Tomb Raider 2 (especially since my brother SPOILED THE ENDING FOR ME). And it's why if I don't see immediate silly results, I do badly whenever I try to get fit - including the last time I tried a nerd fitness challenge. The one exception seems to be Guild Wars. I can and have played that solidly for days without getting bored, even if it's just monster bashing, because I get shiny things. So, mostly inspired by the RPG IRL post, I am making a game of my own. I have to translate the monsters and missions in the game into Things That I Can Do That Don't Actually Involve Killing Animals. For example, in order to get a shiny present from a generous NPC called Nicholas, I have to give him five skale fins (Skale are man-sized, blue, web-fingered water monsters). In order to get five skale fins, I have to kill a number of skale (I roll a dice to see how many I have to kill per fin). To defeat each skale, I have to walk a mile. Therefore, in order to get my shiny present, I have to walk anything between five and thirty miles. I want proper Quest Rewards in the form of SHINY THINGS. So every time I get through a day sticking to a healthy eating and exercise plan, I put a gold star on a chart, and whatever money I can spare (even if it's just a few pennies) in a jar. (Gold stars make me very happy indeed; I think I might be part dragon a way back.) When I get enough skale fins or gargoyle skulls or whatever it is to give to Nicholas, I can take the money from the jar and buy A Quest Reward, or bank it to save up for a better quest reward. I have a list of them, and they're the equivalent of better armour or weapons or fun sparkly things: a sports bra that actually works, a pull-up bar, 15kg dumbbells and a nerd fitness T-shirt are on there at the moment. Some of them have restrictions: I can't buy this particular pull-up bar until I'm under 90kg, so it involves meeting specific targets. I have nowhere near worked it all out yet, but when I do it will be awesome, and I'm only being a little bit fluffy and naive about that. I need to use my imagination more and come up with my own adventure storyline and creatures and NPCs, which I reckon I can make a pretty good job of with enough time! I have the good fortune to live in Edinburgh, which is made of hills glued together with staircases, and has some very pretty pieces of countryside around it; so lots of my monster-killing tactics are area-specific - I have to touch the Royal Observatory to kill a bone dragon, and the observatory is up a hill which made me want to puke last time I climbed it - but I'm sure it'd be possible to fit the idea to any place, and WHEN I get it to work, and WHEN I get user-friendly, I'd love to make it a free resource. So this week, I am writing up lists of monsters and how to beat them, drawing cut-out icons so you can actually have a little stack of skulls or hides or helmets blu-tacked to a big shiny chart, which I will also make. And, until I get the game up and running, I'm earning my gold stars and banking my gold coins, and we'll see how it goes! My diet is currently: Breakfast: Porridge oats with milk and nutmeg and not with a truckload of sugar. Lunch - Hemp protein powder mixed with a fruit smoothie, plus some actual food. Dinner - 50% vegetables, at least 25% protein, and no more than 25% complex carbohydrates. ...coming to a total of something between 1500 - 1800 kcal. No gold stars if I undereat or overeat. We're going for an Apollo-13-the-earth-is-in-the-tiny-window-controlled-burn thing here. (I tried paleo, but as a vegetarian I found it way more difficult than I would if I could just grill some fish, so I'm saving that battle for another day and just cutting the junk food out for now.) Here's my weekly exercise plan: Mon: Walk the 3 miles home from work (and I only take bus fare for one way so there's no way of getting out of it!) Tue: Beginner Bodyweight Workout Wed: Beginner Bodyweight Workout Thu: Walk to Sci-Fi Society meet-up, do not buy delicious nachos in pub by not bringing money. Fri: Beginner Bodyweight Workout Sat: Rest; do some cooking Sun: Go walking round the park with my friend, who said she wanted to do a buddy system and may well be regretting it now I'm nagging her to do stuff... And here are some other things for general disinterest: I am 5 foot 3. I am 16 stone 4 (somewhere around 105 kilos). One day I will be really flaming strong, and will be able to carry things up mountains to do SCIENCE to those mountains. I will be a serious capital-R Ranger, as in an RPG ranger type and also an actual ranger. In a park and stuff. With trees. (I like ecology a lot. I like field ecology even more despite all the midges.) I would like to fit into clothes I can afford (I hate paying £30 for a dress because I can't find a £10 dress in a size 24). And I will not have to dangle shiny things in front of my face to make me do stuff. I'm vegetarian and like cooking so expect the occasional recipe. Please reply with suggestions for ways to battle monsters, and as soon as I get stuff together I'll try and upload it! Oh, and if anyone wants to buddy up, let's go monster-bashing! (Oooooh, that was a lot of text. They won't all be like this.)