Blue Screen of Death!

I'm pretty sure anyone with a Windows computer has, at some point, come across the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). In the moment, it is the scariest thing in the world, especially if you were in the middle of something important. Say, while writing your final essay three hours before it's due. Or after a long session of important work stuff and just before you were about to save. Or while you're in the middle of a brand new game and you're trying your best to kill the evil Son Of Something-Or-Other before it kills you.

Or, you know, something equally important. (Though I think the last one just about tops the list, really.)

Anyway. I got the BSOD yesterday, while playing the amazing newly-released MMO, Guild Wars 2. (Yes, I can already hear some of you rolling your eyes. Yes, I know that sentence doesn't make sense.) Say what you like, I'm loving it. Everything is beautiful, the gameplay feels great, and it doesn't have that endless, needless pressure to get to the highest level you can as fast as you possibly can. There is so much to see and do that you truly get to enjoy levelling up, rather than rushing through it.

Of course, as I said, it was only recently released. And it's still having, shall we say, teething problems. Thankfully the problems aren't as bad as those from Diablo III (where I had to spend three hours just trying to connect to a massively overloaded server, and by the time I got in, I had to turn it off after just twenty minutes of play time. Massive. Fail.). But one of those is the BSOD. Thankfully, this appears to be a fairly rare occurrence, and mostly happens when people try to overclock their computers.*

So I'm going to go play for another hour. Or two. And then I'll finish my blog design, honest! Really! Maybe...

* I don't know how to do this. I'm not even entirely sure what it means. Hope I wasn't doing it by accident.