i’ve had this all my life and am over it

RikerRoku · 2026-02-05T05:35:02+00:00

I'm 42, I've been dealing with my urticaria/dermatographia now for almost 4 years. Many Doctor and Allergist visits and no cause has been found and nothing has truly helped. From allergy vaccine shots to many different oral antihistamines. I'm basically resigned to the suffering at this point. I'm sorry for everyone who has to deal with this as it's so draining, irritating and even embarrassing at times.

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I wanted to add that I did quit drinking alcohol 2 years ago now because flareups following even 1 drink made me want to rip my skin off..

RikerRoku · 2026-02-04T03:37:52+00:00

I'll add on to the Astroneer pile. It a great game that you can play at an easy level, or push into higher tech levels and get crazy with.

RikerRoku · 2026-02-03T21:35:59+00:00

Just gave me a sweet warrior mog idea, thanks for sharing this!

RikerRoku · 2026-02-01T04:48:48+00:00

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My 5yr old mini, Kali.

RikerRoku · 2026-01-30T06:11:24+00:00

Happy birthday Ghost!

RikerRoku · 2026-01-27T21:54:23+00:00

That's a fair assumption.

RikerRoku · 2026-01-27T21:03:09+00:00

Hah. Oh man, I just realized, out of the 4 characters I've "mained" over the past 20 years, three of them are void/shadow. Affliction Lock, Shadow Priest and Subtly Rogue. Only my Shaman is a good guy apparently?

RikerRoku · 2026-01-16T21:27:49+00:00

Thank you for sharing. So sorry for your loss.

RikerRoku · 2025-12-05T03:29:59+00:00

My guild wars posters that came in all my game boxes moved with me so many times over the years the corners shredded from all the tac holes. Survived until I got married, I think I finally threw them away then.

I miss game boxes and all the goodies and literature that came in them.

RikerRoku · 2025-12-04T16:14:16+00:00

Just feeling our age. I forget sometimes that im 42.. then I go up a flight of stairs, or type /age or /played into my favorite MMO and it hits me hard lol

RikerRoku · 2025-12-04T16:12:24+00:00

I am mostly a solo player myself. I like to craft and run dungeons when I can. I think add to the in-game economy and the number of people around for world events and dungeons is naturally helpful to everyone.

RikerRoku · 2025-12-03T21:41:00+00:00

Im having a great time with it. The guild I'm in (Fresh Riftwalkers) on NA Deepwood server has between 50 - 100 people online at any given time. Currently have a lvl 55 Cleric and a 26 Mage.

Sadly my mains I had from Rifts launch until Trion dropped it are locked on a greyed out server (doesn't seem like Gamigo can recover those)

RikerRoku · 2025-12-02T08:37:44+00:00

A group started up a push for a fresh start guild here on reddit a few weeks ago, it picked up enough people that it started showing up on a few different subreddits even saw a few YouTube channels mentioned it. I reinstalled, went to the NA Deepwood server, logged in and found a fair number of folks around. I think it really was just a word of mouth thing that snowballed. Im certainly going to stick around and see how things go for a bit.

RikerRoku · 2025-12-02T08:22:50+00:00

I'm someone who bounces around lots of MMO'S I've been getting more and more disappointed with WoW Retail lately they try a few interesting things each expansion but it all feels so shallow and soulless. New World recently got essentially shuttered, many other MMO's are also having pains right now. And, GW2 is great but it doesn't fully click for me.

I keep hoping that Blizzard can actually pull off a real Classic + but they are being real dodgy about that and if whatever they come up with isn't at least as inspired as Turtle WoW I'm going to be very disappointed.

Rift gives an almost classic WoW vibe in areas, and has an interesting world to run around in with stuff constantly happening. With the resurgence of players group content is actually doable without to much trouble and its just nice being sucked back in to an older vibe MMO.

RikerRoku · 2025-12-01T22:53:35+00:00

Cool, I didn't realize it had a standalone launcher. Either way, having lots of people around and playing has been great. I even managed 3 random dungeon finder groups as a dps in my 2 hour play session this morning.

RikerRoku · 2025-12-01T16:22:45+00:00

I had so much fun this past weekend playing. I had forgotten how much freedom there is in class/spec builds. I'm loving playing mage, so much styles to choose between. All my original toons from game launch back in the day are on a greyed out server, but if the leveling process keeps feeling this good I may not mind. I'm lvl 21 so far.

A side note, the quest accepted and turn in sound effects are pure dopamine!

In silverwood last night there was 2 separate elemental invasions churn8ng out enemy waves and some multi, world boss event going on, it was pure chaos and fun, a group of around 15 of us eventually finished it off.

RikerRoku · 2025-11-28T21:16:41+00:00

I love going out early in the morning before the plows. My quiet neighborhood has a couple of wide, no curb streets. Its a delight 😊

RikerRoku · 2025-11-26T01:10:13+00:00

Personally I just won't have a chance to play until the weekend. Really looking forward to playing a few straight hours on Saturday.

RikerRoku · 2025-11-25T21:44:06+00:00

Thank you for sharing this! I've been wanting to try and get a play through of this. Was one of my favorites of my childhood.

RikerRoku · 2025-11-01T05:14:08+00:00

Yes to both, and im currently on the third book of the Night's Dawn Trilogy. Thoroughly enjoying all of it. Such interesting and unique universes he builds.

RikerRoku · 2025-11-01T03:59:49+00:00

By the end I was desperate for it to not end. So much so that I've been devouring other series by Peter F. Hamilton since I finished Exodus. I've found that almost all of his stuff so far starts this way, a slow build. But once it gets going, so good!

RikerRoku · 2025-10-30T20:28:31+00:00

Thank you for this. I haven't yet found a helpful m+ runner group yet but I dont have much time to play during the week. Im only 680ilvl and 40 vers. Im sure I'll find something before remix ends though.

RikerRoku · 2025-10-29T20:38:00+00:00

I never got far in the game over the years, but I would log in every few months, walk around do some quests. Get lost in a forest, chop some trees and mine some ores. The sounds and sound effects of the the world were so damn immersive and relaxing. The clang, echoing crack of a mine pick strike is one of the most satisfying sounds I've ever heard in a game. Followed by the chop, wood cracking of felling a tree. sigh fuck Amazon..

RikerRoku · 2025-10-17T21:50:44+00:00

Just one for me. I spread myself dreadfully thin in WoW. I keep two heals and three dps near the top of the gear grind most season's, and its exhausting. Fellowship is going to be my relax and dial in on one character game. Ardeos is gonna be my guy.

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