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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...

Book Titles…Halp!

Aug 12, 2014

I have an entire room full of books. As I browse the shelves I realize that not only does my own book need to eradicate misspellings, keep point of view correct, fix any tense issues and entertain, but it also needs a spiffy name and decent cover art. I have no...

I Kinda Miss Nostalgia

Aug 11, 2014

I read an interesting post on Massively today about Wildstar's random factor and how it has chosen to structure its endgame. It struck a few chords with me. There may have even been a light bulb popping into existence over my head. I realized a while ago that while I...

Screen Shot Sunday: The Memorable Deaths Version

Aug 10, 2014

I don't have a lot of time today, but I thought I'd take a short walk down memory lane to share a few screen shots. One of my favorite character death shots comes from my WoW days. I know it was a graphical glitch, but these columns and the boss that tossed us around...

Strong Female Character Traits

Aug 9, 2014

Is it just me, or do strong female characters often come across as being portrayed overly prickly and confrontational? I've been reading a series of books recently, written by a husband and wife team under the name Ilona Andrews, the Kate Daniels books. I have been...

Pete and Repeat

Aug 8, 2014

As I played through the ME3 Omega DLC again last night, I started thinking about why I am willing to play single player games and DLCs over and over again, but have such a distaste for daily quests in MMOs. I don't want to hate daily quests or reputation grinds. I...

How Important Is One Person to Shaping Vision and Content

Aug 7, 2014

Today saw another big loss of talent at Bioware. Casey Hudson, who has been part of the development of many of my favorite games has been given a fond farewell by the studio's general manager. While Casey's words in the message are upbeat and positive in tone, I can't...

Non Sequiturs and Other Nonesense

Aug 6, 2014

Have you ever thought how many every day things have been designed by people with gorilla arms? I mean seriously... you reach into the back of your dryer to pull out that elusive last sock and think to yourself, "geez, I don't have gorilla arms!" don't you? Well, I...

In Game Events: Rakghoul Season Again

Aug 5, 2014

They say that variety is the spice of life. It is one of the reasons I both love, and then sigh sadly over, repeating in game events. Unless they manage to feel fresh each time, eventually those events I really loved the first time around start to bring back WoW rep...

Great Music Makes Good Games and Movies Great

Aug 4, 2014

I have this theory. Oh, you want me to tell you what it is? Surely my title said it all and I can be done blogging today, right? No, well then let me elaborate a bit, with song... (Queue up the mix tape. Yes, I totally stole that from GotG.) Do you really think Conan...