I play a free MMO game called Shaiya for an hour once a week, when there is a score-setting contest between the guilds. Otherwise I don't play real-time games much. Ah yes, Might and Magic, I remember the first versions of that one. Nostalgic.
A Song of Ice and Fire is good, in its realism; he wasn't going to add any magic at all first, but apparently his agent talked him into adding magic or the readers wouldn't buy the novels. I read the first novels way back when. But the last one is a let-down, not a single issue is resolved. "Dance of Dragons" makes you think she gets control of those damn dragons finally; but no, it's false, the dragons just sit on rooftops in the sun, sometimes eating a sheep or two. He even removed 100-200 pages in the end to "start the next novel with a bang", meaning everything is just treading water so people will be more eager to buy the next book. In about five years or so. He has mostly given up on his own series. Very depressing. Hope the series will be finished before the author inevitably dies of a heart attack.
Actually I never liked that "fear leads to" quote, I thought it sounded like fast-produced, feel-good philosophy that a real centuries-old creature wouldn't say. People can make it any direction they want: "Fear leads to adrenaline, adrenaline leads to victory, victory leads to wealth, wealth leads to ice cream." Therefore, fear is ice cream!
Hey, just when I turned my head to the TV the film froze, just now. Yesterday a street light went out just when I was passing by under it. I don't want to claim that I'm an electromancer, but ... let's see if this works on computer dice too.
if ATL wins ill be surprised.
I think I'm definitely done playing the franchise after the 6, I'll just remember the 1,2,3 as my favorite PC games ever! 
