Yay, got my second Edge of Night for my rogue last evening. Working on the last dinar quests now.
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Admit it, when I am long and gone from these forums, you will all remember my epic typos with joy and amusement.
That is my legacy here 
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I hope i understood the purpose of this thread, and what i write might fit in here.
I want to share the story of our guild Reallife get together, and how by the power of the holy light the event did not end with sad people.
We had a Reallife meetup of our classic-Wow guild 2 weeks ago, met at some huts in the mountains.
It was certainly great to meet all those guys IRL, since i only knew a few personally so far.
Always great to see that the shy mage player is looking like a big pumping Hulk that rather would steal your girl then your loot, or that your guildlead in RL is the dictionary definition of chillout.
Two of our guildmates, two brothers, where having a huge accident on the Autobahn on their way. During heavy rain a stupid driver lost control and crashed them, leading to a totally destroyed car. But by the blessing of the holy light, we had 5 priests and 4 paladins already at the location, nobody got any serious harm.
One of the guys even joined us the next day, directly after he could leave hospital.
If you ever have the opportunity for a RL guild get together, you should take it.
Meeting the boys and girls, drinking, talking, barbecueing and singing together for a weekend was really nice.
Even managed to produce a memeworthy face of our guildlead during a groupphoto.
I hope this post fits this thread, and if so, i would be happy if someone else might share some experiences of RL meetings 
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Posts like this are what this thread is for. To hang out, chat, get to know each other…
And eventually devolve into sharing recipes
Also, on a side note, I just learned that Canada invented the Hawaiian pizza. For shame, Ontario. For shame eh.
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Welcome! Coffee is over there (careful, gnomes swim in one of the pots), the pillow fort is usually pretty comfortable, and hopefully you’re not on a diet, or at least have some willpower to avoid trying to make all the recipes that get shared.
That’s an awesome story. Of the guilds I’ve been seriously involved with, one was a bunch of co-workers, so we saw each other a lot. Another, the one I really wanted to get to meet, was spread out way too much across the country, so it really put a bind on meetups. I know Mastadon here lives kind of close to me, and there are a couple other forum regulars over the years that are somewhat close; someday, I may try to arrange something. Maybe.
And on the subject of recipes, I need to make some stuffed mushrooms (since I have some mushrooms that I need to do something with):
12 whole fresh mushrooms
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Clean mushrooms with a damp paper towel. Carefully break off stems. Chop stems extremely fine, discarding tough end of stems.
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and chopped mushroom stems to the skillet. Fry until any moisture has disappeared, taking care not to burn garlic. Set aside to cool.
When garlic and mushroom mixture is no longer hot, stir in cream cheese, Parmesan cheese, black pepper, onion powder and cayenne pepper. Mixture should be very thick. Using a little spoon, fill each mushroom cap with a generous amount of stuffing. Arrange the mushroom caps on prepared cookie sheet.
Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the mushrooms are piping hot and liquid starts to form under caps.
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Now you got my attention!
and hopefully you’re not on a diet, or at least have some willpower to avoid trying to make all the recipes that get shared.
Well, then i have to share something healthy i guess.
Mustard Vegetables:
-Onions
-Garlick
-Zucchini
-Leak
-Salt
-Pepper
-Nutmeg
-Oil
-Yellow mustard
Start by cutting Onions and Garlick, start frying them in a pan with some oil.
Add the cut Zucchini and Leak, and roast all of it till it got some nice colour.
Add Salt & Pepper to your taste and a small amount of ground Nutmeg.
Finish it off with a good chunk of yellow mustard, and let it cook for another minute.
Its delicious, and my favorite vegetarian dish, even tho i come from a family of hunters and usually my diet consists of meat.
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Hey! Quit trying to make us eat healthy! It’s bad for me.
(Seriously, that’s going into my recipe file)
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I have done that, I spent a weekend with my old guild in Olympia, Washington. They even bought me a plane ticket so I could come. Best weekend ever.
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It does. Welcome to the Lounge.
I haven’t met anyone in person. I’m house-bound due to health. The guilds I’ve been with on my NA licenses have included players in England, Canada, United States, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand. It really makes it hard to meet up.
I’m in Nova Scotia. I play both NA and EU licenses. Being on the East Coast of Canada the ping between here and the English EU servers is slightly higher than the ping between here and the West Coast NA servers. I think I still have more 60s on my EU account than on my NA account.
I know some of the ones who post in the lounge have met at a couple Blizzcons.
My brother used to play with his friends. I was in the same guild as them once. I knew them before WoW though.
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uff, that sounds indeed hart to get together.
For events like meetings im really glad to live in central europe, in our case we had players from germany, netherlands, austria and switzerland, and set the meeting point in germany. nobody had much of a problem with travelling, and we organized it so that people from afar got picked up from a trainstation by those who arrive by car.
i wish you all the best and good health.
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Oh yeah, a lot of us older regs have met in-person at a few Blizzcons! I also used to go to the same uni as an old guildmate, and I’ve definitely been to visit my significant others, whom I met in the game.
I just adore traveling, ha.
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I do envy the connectivity of Europe.
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the connectivity is nice, but sometimes it feels… stuffed. Like traffic can be horrible, especially in germany where people tend to drive like madlads all the time.
Either you are jammed in traffic, or there is the alternative, people drive like they have a death wish.
I once worked for several months in canada, and having everyone driving around with a constant speed was so much more enjoyable then having to watch out for fools thinking that no speed limit means they have to try out driving at 280+ km/h.
Also whilst traveling through the US and Canada, oh boy the nature and emptiness there is so darn beautiful. I prefer having beautiful nature and less populated areas during my vacation, and i will never forget the wonders of nature i visited whilst traveling alongside the West Coast.
And in general people seem to be more … friendly and honest in general.
Central europeans can be pretty closed up people.
Might also be the bias of someone living here, that tends to seeing more of the negative.
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The biggest difference is your public transportation. Better planning, better funding. U.S. has next to none in comparison.
But yeah, we’re also really spread out, so we’ve definitely got a lot of wild space. It’s worth just taking a tour of the national parks just by themselves!
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Oh yeah the national parks. Such beautiful places. Visiting old faithful in yellowstone, the beautiful but smelly hot springs…
Puclic transport is better, i agree, but i think alot of that has to do with being less spread out.
Im no experct in infrastructure planing, but i assume having a good public transport system is way easyer and cheaper if everyone is closer together.
Also even in germany, outside of dense areas public transport can become… interesting. Like taking 2,5 hours of time to travel to a place by bus and train, instead of 25 minutes by car.
Or having no way back until the next day unless you leave at 10pm or earlyer.
I think something like autonomous cars that fill on regenerative energys might be the transportation solution for the future.
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I mean as far as I know it is pineapple and Canadian bacon… >.>
I do enjoy a pineapple pizza now and then, not apologizing, though if I have my choice I usually go for the BBQ Chicken pizza with Gorgonzola, cilantro…
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No fruit or fish on pizza.
Way back when, in my pizza slinging days, we had a regular that would order a small with anchovies, no cheese. Anchovy pizza absolutely needs cheese - it helps absorb some of the stench. I couldn’t imagine delivering something that smelly.
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Tired from the heat, but managed to get out and about for the first time in a couple months today! Very happy.
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Don’t forget, they call thinly sliced ham Canadian Bacon.
I’m sensing a forum vacation in someone’s future.
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