I have gone widescreen and I will never voluntarily go back.

With the money I saved from not upgrading my graphics card (which is flying now that the processor bottleneck is gone), I picked up a midline 23' widescreen monitor. I say midline because it doesn't have, like, 500,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio or 2 ms response time -- I'm not particularly worried in funding things I'll never even notice.

Playing WoW alone is a mile and half worth of distance through the backroads of Awesome County; my monitor space has gone from cluttered with bars and windows to wide-open expanses of pure gameplay. I did OS as part of our mounts-for-all guild project, and was able to fully take in the entire expanse of Sartharion's lava pool. It turns out it's oddly hypnotic.

I also picked up Fallout 3 (I am so freaking contemporary) and have been enjoying that quite thoroughly. (I wanted to pick up Mass Effect, too, but it wasn't available.) You might be interested to hear that Bethesda put up large poster advertisements depicting the modified American flag and DC landmarks ravaged by war and bomb detonations in the busiest Metro station in DC. And perhaps amazed that as near as I can tell, only one person actually complained about it.

What the hell else should I be picking up for the PC now that I know I've got the power to run it all?

MTV finally released Daria on DVD, a decade-ish after the show ended. My god, ABOUT TIME. I know why it took so long, but damn, I don't care, they should have made it happen long ago. I appear to be the only one absolutely thrilled about this release, though. At least that I know.