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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...

New SWTOR Class Specific Quests in 3.0 – Spoiler Free Reactions

Dec 24, 2014

Finally got one of every class far enough in the new content to see the side quests that were unique to each class. It was nice of them to put together such a highly requested bit of content, but it was just that, a tiny bite. They brought several of the voice actors...

Has It Really Been 3 Years?

Dec 20, 2014

I can never remember the official release day of games these days, what with pre-orders and early access play... but folks are saying today is the 3 year anniversary for SWTOR. So I set off my fireworks and stared into the sands of Tatooine, kicked a smuggler or two,...

SWTOR: Why Have My Companions Turned Into Dress Up Dolls?

Dec 19, 2014

I've had a chance to get a couple of characters to level 60 in the newest Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion, seen their short class quests and one for the Imperial Agent, and started the slog through the Forged Alliances flashpoints, yet again, on my Jedi Knight....

Dragon Age Inquisition: Save Your Sad Splinters

Dec 8, 2014

You get a few items in your "valuables" in DA:I that are a bit odd (red border). I finally found a use for one of those, the "Sad Splinters" you pick up when you assault a keep and break down the front door. I still haven't figured out a use for the "Too Many...

No More Words Left

Nov 30, 2014

I'm going to let this picture say it for me because I'm pretty much done with trying to string together words that make sense, at least for a few days...

Leave the Hinterlands, Seriously!

Nov 26, 2014

So, as I suspected, Dragon Age: Inquisition has absorbed all of my free time. Sadly, there has been less of that free time than I'd have preferred, but I've had several projects hit me at the same time DAI did... I spent a lot time gathering shards to open doors in an...

SWTOR Trophy Art for PVP-How to Claim Your Decorations

Nov 15, 2014

Some of the new wall decor is already in the game. The art labeled trophy art for each of the PVP matches is set to pick up. If you haven't done much PVP over the years you may not have the required achievement. If you have then you will need to pick it up the same...

My Crazy November

Nov 1, 2014

This year my blogging friends helped convince me to give National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) a try. Having already written over 50,000 words earlier this year, I felt confident in joining up to write the sequel to my first book. After a morning of stutters and...

SWTOR Decorations: New Slot Machine

Oct 22, 2014

The 1 credit limited time purchase for the slot machine decoration from the Binary Star reputation vendor has gone live in today's patch. I figured I'd take a quick shot of it and post for those of you who are decorations-mad like I am. Okay, I'm not quite "mad," as...