The Life of Wighar Stamfaste

A heavy cold

This years winter was heavy compared to how it has been the last 10 or so years, and I have indeed missed the chill of a real winter season, an oddity though is that I have been struck with a heavy cold this year and its a first for a very long time, last time I had one this bad was when I was like 15-16 years old.
During a cold I will often blend about 1L of hot water with a flavor enhancer or normal household orange juice that upon consumption will increase my inner-body temperature to battle the cold from within, Warm Chicken Soup or indeed most soups for example will do your body good during a cold as it keeps the body hot.

The Games of old

Looking around in my game collection I found my Sid Meier’s Pirates! box, all CDs still in superb condition, so having a bit of nostalgia I installed the game and began to play, to my surprise however the game seemed to have constant loading pauses during play, like it was loading things every 0,3~0,5 seconds thus making the game visually lag, not sure if its my graphics card, anti virus or anything else that makes this behavior, I started to check what I could possibly turn off to make it run smooth as it should, tried all compatible modes and there was no difference at all.

I tried turning off all antivirus and internet security software and apps, I unplugged my computer from the network prior to turning everything off of course.
This did nada as well, So I am currently stuck with a superb game with a constant graphical lag like state… oh well, guess I’ll find a solution for it later.

Dedication and Explaination

Onward to the world of Online Gaming, as many of you may have seen and read in my posts earlier that I started to run a site for Dedicated Game Servers, which are paid for by public donations and the ad revenue from the Google Adsense program that I have on my blog and the community forum here at stamfaste.se

I did get a few question about “what stamfaste.se is?”, questions like “Is Stamfaste.se a Company Name?”, “How many owners does Stamfaste.se have?” and “Is Stamfaste.se for sale”…
Well first of Stamfaste.se is simply a Website I created and is owned by me, and is used as a project platform for various web based projects by me and my friends, I do not see Stamfaste.se as a company or anything like that, mostly cause I have no idea how to run a company and besides I don’t ask for anything in return for usage of the site, as I explained in earlier posts and such all money that comes in to Stamfaste.se in donation or ad revenue are used for Stamfaste.se server payments and such.

A question I got from a friend was “Have you thought of joining a Affiliate program?”, I have indeed thought about it, though I am not sure I understand them enough to consider them, mostly it’s cause I can’t be bothered to read thru several pages of license / ToS documents with a dictionary to join one, and in most cases you need to join the program to get to see what you actual get to utilize or what is required of you…

The Community and Association

Wish I had so much to write that I could type a post every week instead of whenever I get a feel to do so, but that is how it is, other than Stamfaste.se I am also an administrator for Thesecondsun.org as Head Community Manager, thus I take care of the forums and most community management requirements that the community may need or want.

Though lately I haven’t done much as I am backing of my role to basic management control keeping the forum up and as of late fixing so that the forum is a part of the community rather then the base of the community.

The community being a MMORPG player Association means we have guilds in multiple MMO’s trying to keep a stable and friendly community between the games, as of recently I was given the guild leadership of the World of Warcraft Guild “Children of Twilight” by the Game Master as our leader had been offline for a extended period of time and It was noticed that my bank alt that was in the guild still had the most activity in the guild, I hope that I can restore parts of the guild with a council command structure where my character has a central role but I put the overall command to the council.

I don’t have much else on my mind right now but I hope to make a longer post next time, so see you all then and please do visit my webshop Stamfaste.se Webshop

The Second Sun

For the last 3½ years I have been the Head Community Manager for The Second Sun an MMORPG Player Association, it has been a rough ride now and then, but also a rewarding experience to solve problems and battling spam robots.

The Second Sun as an idea started some time in the end of summer in 2005 with a discussion amongst the now founders of The Second Sun an MMORPG Player Association in the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies where we were all members of the guild DeSun, Some time prior of this event a part of the guild had moved on to World of Warcraft and in discussion we came up with the idea to make a sort of place where we could combine and communicate with our friends no matter game, thus The Second Sun was founded, and in start of 2006 me and fellow guild member Akotha bought the domain thesecondsun.org.

These days we no longer play Star Wars Galaxies where everything started due to SOE’s reforming the game with the NGE Publish of the game, I no longer see it fit to complain on SOE destroying the game for many veteran (and paying) players, I have described this so many times I no longer see any good reason to give them the pleasure of being trashed by me anymore.

but I can still point you to articles about the NGE.
Wired.com: http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2005/12/69816
massively.com: Dredging up the past – the Star Wars Galaxies NGE re-examined

~Let’s move on to something else~

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to me, yeah, it will be my birthday this Wednesday the 21st of October and its the 26th one, 26… feels like it was just yesterday I turned 20, time runs away with you and so does the things you thought you would have done by this time when you were younger.

I imagined it all, being married, having a great job, being a good father and pretty much such, some of you might see the list in front of you of things you thought you would have done by now, short to say nothing of them has happend but it does not mean I have given it up, it will just take longer to achieve them.

In truth most give up such dreams from the childhood when they get older and might not remember that list until later in life like myself.

~My mind has gone and I shall follow~

Television and volume control

I find it strange that volume vary so much from programs to commercials, for example, I am watching CSI – New York on TV with pretty much standard volume, then there is a commercial and they are booming out of the television at such that i have to go down something like 4-6 bars to get it to normal volume level and of course when the show is back on you have to pull up the volume again… it’s like this on most channels exception for SVT 1 and SVT2 which are public access channels.

Now being a techie kind of person I belive there would be a normalizer taking care of the volume, but apparently it dosen’t..

I don’t know, I think it would be more logical to have commercials and shows on the same volume level, what is the problem?, I ask as I have no knowledge of such things.

I wonder what you the read think about the things I write about, do you have any questions or suggestion on topics that would be intresting.

until next time “may the force be with you.”