I’ve been thinking about this for quite a while now. How I would phrase this, if I would phrase anything at all. If there was any point to it or it was just to clear my own head. I can’t seem to fully make up my mind.

I’m having major problems wrapping the situation around my head. I can’t seem to find the logic and as such I’m feeling rather lost about the whole thing. I still can’t believe this happened in our country. Our quiet little country. The overal impression seems to be that no one is overly surprised some crackpot went pop in his head and decided to kill a bunch of people, these things happen from time to time. It’s the part where it happened they can’t for the life of them understand, and neither can I.

We have never ever been attacked like this. Not even during WW2. Sure, the nazis came and took over, but it happened rather quietly and with restricted loss of life. We’ve never had bombs flying off in the middle of our capital and we’ve never had someone chase us around with a gun shooting everyone he could find to point at. These were some of the things we never expected to see in our country, because as far as terrorism and psychopaths were concerned we were Snoozeville.

Before anyone had taken any responsibility, before anyone fully understood what had happened and before anyone knew there was a shooter running crazy at the youth camp the speculations were of course pending towards the muslim extremist community. We still had problems understanding exactly what this extremist community all of a sudden would have against us seeing as we hadn’t made any aggressive moves towards… anyone really. Words flew how it “had to be them” and how we would stand united against this enemy. Supportgroups on multiple online meetingplaces like myspace and facebook began to spawn how we would be united against this common enemy, but still somehow fight against hate and racism. Even other countries started to openly offer help against this terrorist cell we’d clearly been a victim of. Random people on facebook uttered their meaningless tales of “Told you it was gonna happen, just a matter of time before they attacked us and they did!”

Then the news came. The man responsible was a white Norwegian man, Conservative Christian.

Oh how quickly people forgot their previous statements and decided to rant on about how we don’t have death penalty and how he’d only have to serve 21 year (maximum prison sentence in norway). They’re forgetting a crafty detail though. The charges he was brought up upon gives the jury the ability to sentence him to 21 years PLUS custody until “it is considered safe for the public to release him”. I imagine that’s gonna be when he leaves in a box. Whether it being a result of old age, suicide or “interaction with inmates” remains to be seen.

I see friends rant and fume on facebook. I understand their anger, but I don’t feel any myself. I want the logic. I want the explanation. I want some sense made of it so I can process what has happened and move on. Something tells me I’ll never fully get the explanation I ask for. The logic that I need.

I’m not entirely sure what’s going to happen after this.

Every single week when someone pugs to zerg Sartharion for the drake mount I try to make sure I join in. It’s a fun mount that I wouldn’t mind having. Both the black drake from 10-man and the Twilight drake from 25-man. Sadly, the First 25-man version I did ended with the raid leader ninjaing the mount.

But yesterday night I did another zerg. Not only was I amongst the top 3 in dps, I was also the only one who survived! As I’ve made it through the exit and rolled on the drake and whatnot I cheer in raid chat “I survived! Woot!” a couple of the others point out “And you got the drake, you lucky bastard!” I hadn’t even noticed. I just naturally assumed I lost the roll. But I didn’t. I really did win.

I flew around circling Dalaran for at least 30 minutes playing with it. Even though I already have the red and bronze drake mount, and the albino drake on my tank, I still thought this particular one was better then all of them. Go figure.

Furthermore I joined an ICC 25-man pug. These pugs usually ends at the first wing since people tend to drop or ninjalog by the time we finish Deathbringer Saurfang. The resto shield of Lord Marrowgar -finally- dropped and I won the roll against another resto shaman with only SEVEN points. I was so excited, finally I didn’t have to farm for a new shield anymore.

I’ve been farming ToC 10 and 25-man every week to see if it would drop. Unfortunately, either the groups were so shitty they never made it to the bosses that drops the shield, or it didn’t drop at all. Frustrating to say the least. Especially since it’s one of the very few lower item levels I had that were starting to become obsolete compared to the content I was running. I had already been chatting about it on vent while the group was forming, so when I won the shield several people were almost as excited as I was, and one guy enchanted it for me on the spot.

And later today.. I’m healing the Lich King in 10-man. I’m hoping we’ll get him down, cause it’s an achievement I’ve been wanting to have ever since it got out, and this is one of my few opportunities before I go on vacation.

Wish me luck!

I’ve noticed a very peculiar coincidence. And I’m quite convinced it’s a pure coincidence.

I have 3 WoW accounts. One is on EU servers that I created back in 2006 when I first started playing. My Enhancement/Restoration Shaman has still not reached level 80 for a variety of reasons. One of which being that I didn’t reactivate that account until just recently after closing it down in 2007. It’s currently hovering at level 65 as I have yet to bother levelling it or.. buy Wrath of the Lich King for that account…

My two other accounts are on US servers. My main account there is with my toons in specific, obviously. The other account is with M’s toons that he levelled. He sadly got massively burned out and started playing Age of Conan instead. The traitor…

The coincidence I’ve noticed are as following, because of these three accounts I have three different emails attached to them obviously. NONE of these three emails receives any kind of “Blizz Spam”. And by “Blizz Spam” I mean those fake emails regarding upcoming expansion, betas, account suspensions and whatnot. My OTHER email account however, that is not signed up for any of that stuff just recently over the past week received no less then 15 emails telling me that

1) My account has been banned for 3 hours for buying digital gold, please click link to appeal.
2) A Faction change on a character is pending, please click link to confirm.
3) Blizzard has chosen YOU to participate in the Cataclysm Closed Beta, click link to confirm.
4) Blizzard has picked YOU to receive a new shiny pet no one else wants, click link to retrieve pet.
5) You have been banned for 72 hours from Aion (wtf, I don’t play Aion) for buying digital gold, click link to appeal.

It should be mentioned I found all of these emails in the one email account I have that does not have any wow accounts connected to it, and they were all located in my Spam-Folder were Gmail had been kind enough to automatically ditch them.

I did not click any links, I only hovered the mouse over to see which specific link it would REALLY take me to. And none of it belonged to World of Warcraft, Battle.net or Blizzard at all.

To never click any links should always be rule one when dealing with emails you’ve received. Even if Blizzard WERE to send you an email asking you to log in, you should always type in the address yourself in your web browser.

That being said, I bought an authenticator from the BlizzShop. I’ve attached it to both of my US accounts. It’s fully possible to have multiple accounts connected to the same authenticator. I remember this being something I was concerned about when I first purchased one. I didn’t really want to buy three seperate ones.
The further good news is that even if you’re in Europe playing on US servers you can still buy it from the EU-shop and use it for your US accounts and vice versa.

I’ve never been hacked though, and I’m quite happy for that. Not that my toons are superawesomely geared or anything. I’d just be very sad if something happened to my favourite hobby that I spend a lot of time on.

And to finish off, Magdeline is finally a Kingslayer. Congrats!