I posted one of these a year ago: time once again

[dorchadas]

NAME: Brian. I have no special attachment to it, but it's my name.
AGE: Thirty-six later this year.
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Video games, Japanese language & literature, kagura, tea, reading, coding (just started), fashion (mostly monochrome, minimalist, or what gets called "goth ninja"), tabletop RPGs (especially Exalted, Shadowrun, and Call of Cthulhu), cooking and food in general, and occasionally anime (especially iyashikei slice-of-life stuff), work, Judaism, or my hopes, dreams, and fears.
FANDOMS: I don't know if anything applies, since I rarely post about anything fannish. The Legend of Zelda, I guess--I'm playing through all the games in Japanese in release order for practice. Warcraft. Exalted. Tolkien. Kirby (the pink puff, not the comics artist). Lovecraft. I keep most of my fandom stuff over on my Tumblr, though.
LOOKING FOR: The kind of long-form, daily-life-interested community I remember from LJ a decade ago. Twitter is all hot takes, Tumblr is all memes, and Facebook is mostly articles. I like hearing about people's lives--if you only post about your fandoms, I probably won't have much to say.
WHAT DO I POST ABOUT: Mostly about my daily life, Japanese and coding (I'm studying both), and video games (I write a long post every time I beat a game). Sometimes about religion.
ANYTHING ELSE: My journal is mostly (though not entirely) public. I lived in Japan for three years, in a mountain town northeast of Hiroshima City. The personal feature I'm most proud of changes between my hair (long and red) and my voice (I've been told I should do radio or read audiobooks).

Comments

[firewhispers]

Hey. Mind if I add you? My name is Devin and I'm 24.

[dorchadas]

I don't mind at all!

[philosophercat]

Hi! I'm Sophie and also 36. Come have a look see, potential friend!

I do have rather a lot of fandom posts at the moment since I'm doing some Warcraft RP, so I understand if that's not what you're looking for. I'm just getting back into journaling regularly.

[dorchadas]

Warcraft, you say?

I don't know that I count as being in the fandom now, but I played Warcraft I, II, and III, World of Warcraft for six years (2005-2011), read a couple of the books, and I've played in a Warcraft tabletop RPG game. That's definitely one thing that won't turn me away from your posts.

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[philosophercat]

That's fantastic! I'm still relatively new. I started during Warlords of Draenor. I enjoy talking to folks who were there from the start- so you'll have to tell me EVERYTHING. :P

I haven't played the tabletop game but I hear a lot of the material that's going into the next expansion was established in it (ex. Jaina's brother?).

Did you hear that they're bringing back Vanilla WoW?

[dorchadas]

I did! But I don't know if I have the time, nowadays. Hours seem more valuable at 35 than they did at 22...

I haven't actually been paying much attention to Battle for Azeroth, other than hearing some friends who still play complain about going back to the Horde vs. Alliance well again. I do vaguely remember Tandred Proudmoore from the RPG, though...

How was Warlords? I remember when it was announced thinking that the time travel was dumb but the previews of old Draenor looked great, but I never really followed up on that.

[philosophercat]

Yeah, I'm not a great fan of the faction war, tbh. We all know it's going to be an expansion about the Old Gods, really (N'Zoth's minions are already popping up in the beta). I believe we're in act three of the WoW story as a whole. It seems like they're setting things up for The End.

When I played Warlords everyone hated it. They had good reason to... There was a content drought so everyone at end game was bored out of their minds. And it was clear they have cut the middle of the story so there are some obvious continuity problems. They are picking up on the story in BfA, though: the Orcs from AU Draenor will become a playable race sometime during the next expansion.

[dorchadas]

That wouldn't surprise me. I'm amazed they found enough material for 14 years already, much less with another expansion after (cutscene) fighting Sargeras. I always figured that Azshara would be first...

Oh, the Old Gods. I'm glad that with only playing half-way through Cata, I didn't have to deal with the Old Gods being the secret villains behind everything. I fought C'Thun and Yogg-Saron and that was enough for me.

Still a ton of "Oh, they went insane and now we have to kill them" bosses, it just wasn't because of the Old Gods.

[philosophercat]

It's surprising that Azshara will be a mid expansion raid boss for BfA. I would have thought she would get top billing especially when it seems like we're running out of threats. There's mostly just the Void left after this (and as you say some assortment of [Name] went mad because Space Squids).

There's also the route where the players are threats. We're seeing some of that in the beta. On some of the new islands, players will be confronted by enemies who make a fair point that the player is killing Azeroth by picking at her scabs while she bleeds out.

I'm hoping they tie up the WoW story in maybe one more expansion, open legacy servers for the various expansions, and announce Warcraft 4 or something (a single player RPG would probably be too much to hope for...).

[dorchadas]

At this point, I think the players being threats make sense. The average WoW character has killed so many dragons, demons, gods, and other beings of power that they themselves are probably on the verge of going crazy so they must be killed.

I've wanted a Warcraft IV for a decade and a half! Whether I'll ever get it...I don't know. RTS games aren't very popular anymore.

I'd say they'd make a MOBA, but Heroes of the Storm already exists.

[omnipotent]

You seem interesting. I'd like to add you, if that's okay.

[dorchadas]

Sure! Added.

[helvetica]

Hey! I added you :) I write about my daily life and am looking for more of the same! I like video games, reading, and cooking and heaps of other stuff!

[dorchadas]

Sounds great! Added.

[throughdoors]

In my 30s too, and also into longform journalling and talking about video games and stuff I am studying. Mind if I add you?

[dorchadas]

Not at all! Added

[morgenstern23]

Adding you. :)
I'm 42 and from Scotland. I don't post much because I barely have anyone on my list on here yet. I very much miss what LJ used to be like and hope to eventually find some of that magic again here. I like when people post about their lives and I can get to know them as actual friends.

[dorchadas]

Sounds great! Added!

[pear_of_anguish]

Hi Brian! I'm Sam! (lol) I'm going to be 44 this July. That is funny bc I play my games (some of them) in Italian bc I enjoy the translations. (Like in Pokemon Moon in the beginning your mother says that you slept like a little snorlax LOLOL) I have dark auburn hair. It's not long but... heh. Added!!!

[dorchadas]

Gaming is a great motivation for language practice, albeit with a kind of limited vocabulary. I can talk a whole lot about the songs of the Goddess and treasure and sacred swords, but that won't help me in the office.

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[pear_of_anguish]

I want to get into either Skyrim or WoW... my nephew wants me to join his server. God love him. <3

[tuulentupa]

Hi! I realize it's been quite long since you made this post, so if you're not anymore looking for new people, that's fine. I'm Tuuli from Finland, reaching 40 next year and kind of baffled about that. I got on LJ some 15 years ago, and miss those days, too. Also, studying Japanese at the moment.
There's more about me here if you're interested.

[dorchadas]

Six months in Kyoto? How was it? I've been there half-a-dozen times (most recently in 2016), and it's probably my second-favorite large city in Japan after Hiroshima.

And that sounds great! Added.

[tuulentupa]

Too short time! I loved it so much. It was in fact my first time in Japan, so I wasn't quite certain which university to pick... but I had this feeling Kyoto might be the place for me, and was I correct or what. Loved that city. I'm not saying that I wouldn't have wanted to come home, I did miss Finland after half a year, but at the same time I really wouldn't have wanted to leave. Not to mention that I was just about to reach that phase where I get my mouth open in Japanese and actually could start talking... and then I had to leave. So annoying.
I really like the way Kyoto's a mixture of old and modern, and also has nature so close. All those mountains. (We don't have them here.)
I had only a one-day trip to Hiroshima, so I didn't have to to get to know that city too well. Would like to go there again some day.

[grayswandir]

Hi! I realize that this is a really old post, but I was scrolling back through the community and ran across it, and your journal looks really interesting. Hope you don't mind if I add you. :)

[dorchadas]

I don't mind at all!