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Farewell to Frost

We are into season 2 of WoW's Midnight expansion and I'm finally benching my Frost Mage. What can I say, I'm stubborn and my mage has been Frost spec long before Frost was cool. Frost Mage has been controversial in the most recent expansion. Sometimes the damage is...

Blaugust 2026 Wrap Up: Meeting My Goals

My participation in this year's festival was never about doing a daily blog post. There are several participants who did hit that milestone and I will edit this post later to share the stats that are being gathered from the participants. My plan this time around was...

Blaugust 2026: Lessons Learned Group Project

I had it in mind that the final group project was August 31st rather than August 30th. A day late is about par for the course for me this month. August went by FREAKY-fast this year. I will post separately about my overall goals for this year's festival. For this...

Blaugust Staying Motivated Week

Motivation, goals, achievements... all things that gurus tell us we should have, track and celebrate. For today's group project, rather than a non-blogging achievement that I'm especially proud of, I'm going to write about an achievement tied to having a goal, and...

Blaugust 2026 Group Projects – Blind Choice

This topic idea from Lucky Instar's blog can be done at any time during Blaugust. "Announcing a group project called Blind Choice - to introduce a bit of randomness to your blogging adventure. Also writing about my own entry for it, which ended up being about weird...

Blaugust 2026 Group Projects: Dungeon Crawler Carl Achievements

(Note, there are some spoilers in this post if you haven't read past book 4 in the Dungeon Crawler Carl books)Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl books have become very popular in the past few months. I've seen ttrpg games based on them and talk of making a TV...

Standard Armors in SWTOR

Jun 11, 2015

I always wondered why the designers made all of the white quality armors in Star Wars the Old Republic, that you can buy from light, medium and heavy vendors on most planets. They give armor values, but no stat boosts. They've always seemed useless to me, until now. I...

The NBI 2015 Safari: My Roundup and Rejects

May 30, 2015

The Screen Shot Safari has been a fun way to participate in this month's Newbie Blogger Initiative. I hope that many of you found some great new blogs to read and new bloggers to enjoy and follow. I have yet to even scratch the surface of the fun posts that are out...

Pixel Places I’d Love to Visit The Bonus, Bonus Round – #NBI2015Safari

May 30, 2015

Well, Murf threw open the floodgates today and since there is one category left that I haven't used, Landscapes, I figured I'd add a shot for it. This one was amazingly hard to narrow down to one choice. In the end, I picked a game I hadn't featured yet and an...

Pixel Places I’d Love to Visit The Bonus Round – #NBI2015Safari

May 30, 2015

I know, I've already done 4 screen shots, but we have an extra Saturday this month, so I am going for the bonus round. Today's choice is Epic Achievements and mine is not exactly... traditional. However, I felt pretty epic at the end of this, like I'd fed the masses...

Pixel Places I’d Love to Visit Part 4 – #NBI2015Safari

May 23, 2015

This week I am picking the Hero/Villain option for my screen shot. Yesterday, BioWare celebrated 20 years since they were established in 1995. There were many tweets reminiscing about their games, stories, and fun times. I had been toying with the idea of doing a hero...

The NBI Talkback Challenge: What Made Me A Gamer?

May 17, 2015

I think I will bite for this week's talkback challenge. I also think I'm going to limit this to talking about becoming an online/computer gamer, rather than a gamer in general. I'm pretty old school when it comes to gaming. I've been playing tabletop games for longer...

Pixel Places I’d Love to Visit Part 3 – #NBI2015Safari

May 16, 2015

It is week three of my NBI 2015 Screen Shot Safari. The safari themes I have left are: Landscape, Selfie, Epic Achievement, Heroes or Villains. You would think these are the easiest to do but they aren't. With amazing game graphics these days, settling on a single...

Pixel Places I’d Love to Visit Part Two – #NBI2015Safari

May 9, 2015

Week two of the NBI 2015 Safari, and I am reaching back to old memories and screen shots again. This one is of Rift, a game with many wide open vistas and beautiful places. I managed to catch five Earth Rifts active during an event. They almost look inviting from...

SWTOR Tip: How to Not Get 12 Times XP

May 5, 2015

Shaddoe at MassivelyOP shared a tip today in his Hyperspace Beacon post that I found extremely helpful, so I thought I'd pass it along. Edit: Update. This module has been changed and is no longer necessary. The Gree White Acute Module vendor is gone now. I've seen a...