Paeroka’s Ponderings: What’s new in this year’s Halloween festivities?

21 Oct 202221 Oct 2022

I love and hate festivals in MMOs. In general, I think that most MMOs capture the spirit of the respective festival quite well. This is especially true for the Halloween…

11 years of Nerdy Bookahs!

12 Mar 2022

...and another year has passed. Nerdy Bookahs has been around for 11 years today and even though I stopped playing and writing about Guild Wars 2 in between, this game…

Turn-based games to the rescue!

6 Aug 2021

Baby girl arrived about a month ago and since then, quite obviously, my free time has been severely limited. When she is sleeping, since she absolutely refuses to sleep in her…

Meanwhile in German WoW Classic…

22 Apr 202122 Apr 2021

After the latest patch, I logged on and got very annoyed as without a warning, all addons had been reset. Why was that? As much as I love using addons,…

10 years of Nerdy Bookahs!

13 Mar 202113 Mar 2021

It's hard to believe that this blog has been active for 10 years now. Before that, I blogged a bit on Livejournal and that was only about World of Warcraft…

Promptapalooza No. 20: Tell us about some of your hobbies outside of the realm of your specific niche

29 Aug 2020

This is part of the Promptapalooza. Today's prompt comes from Ace Asunder: "Tell us about some of your hobbies outside of the realm of your specific niche." One of my…

Promptapalooza No. 8: Share characters that tell us something about you

8 Aug 202023 Aug 2020

This is a post belonging to the Promptapalooza. I'm using Tessa's prompt: "Share characters that tell us something about you." I've found this prompt rather difficult at first because I…

Promptapalooza No. 6: Tell us about your favourite quote

8 Aug 2020

I've been very busy with work, as I expected. So the blog had to suffer. But here's me trying one of the prompts of Promptapalooza. This one was posted by…

I have finally chosen a main character for Guild Wars 2

20 Jul 202020 Jul 2020

Since before the game's launch (August 2012), I've been switching between the mesmer and the warrior as my main characters, not knowing which one to choose and focus on. I…

Send help! – Games I’ve been playing in June

3 Jul 2020

I bought both Project Hospital and Old World a couple of weeks ago. One evening, I couldn't decide if I wanted to play Project Hospital or continue playing Old World.…

Top Five most viewed posts

2 May 2020

After the Top Five game series, there's now another top five: the most viewed posts. SDWeasel of Unidentified Signal Source started it, I think. Naithin from Time to Loot followed…

Do I even like gaming?

1 May 20201 May 2020

I first saw the Gamer Motivation quiz in Kluwe's blog (I'm Not Squishy) and it looked interesting, so I took that quiz as well and this is my result: So…

9 years of Nerdy Bookahs!

15 Mar 2020

I didn't miss this year's anniversary, but since we're currently in the process of moving, there was simply no time to care about the blog - except for that short…

2019 in screenshots

15 Dec 2019

I've previously done this in 2015 and wanted to do it again this year, because it seems like a fun thing to recapture the gaming year this way. It may…

Real Neat Blogger Awards – from Indiecator

8 Sep 2019

I was tagged and asked to answer a few questions from Indiecator this time. Which one of your posts was the most fun to write? Why? Definitely the underwear fashion…

Real Neat Blog Award questions from Rakuno

21 Aug 2019

There's the Real Neat Blog Award going around at the moment and I've been tagged by Rakuno - a couple of days ago, actually. So, here are my answers to…

Cooking experiments: Noodles

16 Aug 2019

For years, bookahnerk's family went to this little Italian shop where the owners had a special recipe for pesto. They always bought their pesto there and sometimes even sent some…

Blaugust: Perfect time for spring-cleaning

6 Aug 2019

Now that Blaugust is here and there are so many new - and veteran - bloggers in one place sharing their advice, asking questions, musing about the do's and don'ts,…

MMOs are weird virtual worlds… – Where’s the toilet?

29 Jul 2019

With the exception of very few MMOs, there are simply no toilets or just in general bathrooms in MMOs. Apparently, there is no need for hygiene? From the top of…

Recipe: Couscous-Chili

1 Apr 201931 Mar 2019

I cannot believe it's April already! Thankfully, I noticed this month creeping up on us on time to choose a dish for our annual tradition of being a cooking/baking blog…

8 years of Nerdy Bookahs!

17 Mar 201917 Mar 2019

I kind of missed our blog's anniversary. I know it is in March, but I thought it would be this weekend when it was on March 12. I guess it…

Spot the hobbit!

26 Jan 2019

I think I understand why hobbits prefer staying at home where they know their way around...

Games I want to play again this year

4 Jan 201911 Jan 2019

I know that if there is one thing I don't have, it's time. Free time, that is, that I can devote to things like gaming. On the other hand, when…

Personal Top 11 of 2018

30 Dec 201830 Dec 2018

The last time I've done such a list was in 2016. I started this blog post with the title as "top X", because I have no idea how many games…

Christmas baking: Spekulatius and chocolaty chocolate cookies

14 Dec 2018

I recently translated two of my Christmas cookie recipes into English and decided to post them here as well in case somebody else wants to give them a try. The…

Real Life happening (Blaugust Post 2)

12 Aug 2018

I can't really make a post about gaming when I haven't played many games, right? We've had our first anniversary last weekend and since we also moved to Hamburg earlier…

Bookahnerk’s honey-mustard glazed chili-duck

1 Apr 201829 Mar 2018

You know the drill by now: It's time for a new cooking recipe! This year, I sat back and watched bookahnerk prepare it as he always does this one dish.…

Today’s Recipe: (Hessian) Green Sauce

1 Apr 201713 Apr 2017

Regular readers may know that I am from Germany and to be even more precise, I am from Hessen (best state in Germany, of course - well, at least geographically,…

Six years… wow

12 Mar 201715 Apr 2017

Today marks our 6th anniversary of the blog. We have posted a total of 593 published posts (594 as soon as I hit "publish" on this one) which means that…

Personal Top 9 of 2016

12 Jan 201729 Jun 2020

I have seen several people and gaming sites make their "top x games of 2016" and when wondering which games I would put on my list, I thought: "Oh well,…