Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, 'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, 'art sure no craven. Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!' Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.' -- The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
I play on 1 computer & watch the stream & channel on another computer. I do eventually see messages even if I don't respond immediately.
MMOs I've been playing: APB: Reloaded & EVE-Online. I play a number of single player/multiplayer games... I still need to finish BioShock Infinite... I may do some Rocksmith again, but it completely takes over my audio & I can't talk to viewers :( .
My "not playing" image is from http://www.quickmeme.com/Do-you-think-this-is-a-game/ - I laugh every time I see this serious cat.
motherboard: MSI H77MA-G43
cpu: Intel i5-3470 Quad-Core 3.2 GHz
video card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 FTW 4GB GDDR5
ram: Corsair G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600
capture card: AVerMedia C985 Live Gamer HD 1080p
monitor: ASUS VH242H 23.6" 1920x1080
vodka: 1 part UV Cherry Vodka, 4-5 parts UV Blue Vodka. Makes a nice purple color.
The Secret World (TSW) has not required a subscription since December 2012. However, a subscription does offer some small benefits*.
How to describe TSW? Take the conspiracies of the real world and dump them into an H.P. Lovecraftian horror realm and add in some mystical magical mutations. Not only that, but send real tweets to an in game character and you just might get a reply. Solve in game mysteries with real world websites - the Town of Kingsmouth's tourist site, the Monsters of Maine blog (that ended right before he entered the mist), etc.
Follow the main storyline or do repeatable side missions. Some missions are more normal for an MMO, but then there are also "sabotage" and "investigation" missions that require paying attention, searching the area for clues, looking up biblical passages, hunting down myths about King Solomon, etc.
*membership benefits include: 1) item with a 100% xp increase for 1 hour with a 16 hour cooldown; 2) $10 worth of bonus points every month; 3) a membership item-of-the-month given out monthly; & 4) 10% discount on items in the store.
Marvel Heroes 2015 is free to play. You can unlock all heroes and team-ups with either in-game crystals you pick up or with real money. Costumes and bank expansions will cost you money (the developers need to eat too). The developers are actively working on new content and re-balancing some of the older characters to match the new game mechanics.
People keep asking me what character they should start with. Check the list of characters and see if you can start with one that costs 600 Eternity Splinters as otherwise you'll have to save up the splinters to get the character. Second day login reward is a box of 400 Eternity Splinters (so you could buy 1x 400ES hero or 2x 200ES heroes). Once you've started playing, the Eternity Splinter vendor also has a random character token for 175 splinters so that's another option (this is random, so chance you'll get an unlocked character again - this duplicate token can be used to upgrade the ultimate power).
Suggested starting characters (600ES each):
The following characters I've leveled to 60 so far:
Once I get a lot more characters to 60 I'm thinking I'll play through again with a couple. So far Hulk, Rogue, Squirrel Girl, and Storm are on that list. They were just really fun to play (Rogue was a bit of a pain to plan until I stole all the skills I wanted).
GTA5: Online is where I've been spending some of my time lately. I'm part of PimpNizzle's (Playa Regulators [PIMP]) and TYSONrk's (IEEEEDIOTS [POOP]) crews.
Environment mods: Chatterer, Squad Texture Reduction Pack, Universe Replacer
Enhancement mods: Tac Fuel Balancer, Kerbal Alarm Clock, Docking Alignment Indicator, Editor Extensions, Sub-Assembly Manager, Enhanced Navball, Crew Manifest
Parts mods: MechJeb, Kethane, Aviation Lights, Kerbal Attachment System, Engineer Redux, Protractor