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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...

I Got To Be The Cool Aunt

Aug 3, 2014

I love how games span generations. I had a fun day of sun and water yesterday and an evening of food and family, and I got to be the "cool" aunt. Yep, when I said my Nostromo keys were worn so much you can't read them anymore and mentioned how excited I was at...

Boosting a Twitter Idea

Aug 2, 2014

I'm going to try to schedule this to post for me tomorrow while I am BBQing (and roasting my skin...) in the sun tomorrow. @Lethality has a little experiment going to chat about interesting gaming topics, but overcome the 140 character limit from Twitter. Check out...

Time Passes

Aug 1, 2014

Time, time, time, see what's become of me... If I could save time in a bottle... ...But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do, once you find them... ...Like the red rose of summer that blooms in the day Time passes slowly and fades...

Jack of All MMOs, Masters of None?

Jul 28, 2014

Liores from Herding Cats got me thinking today. And of course, whenever Twitter's 140 character limit can't encompass my rambling, out to the blog I ride... Her post, "MMOs are dead and I don’t feel so good myself" did a good job of capturing my melancholy over MMOs...

Where Have All The Game Posts Gone (Long time passing…)

Jun 23, 2014

Even though I should have a lot of time on my hands lately, I actually haven't been gaming much. I dabbled in Wildstar (still can't get into this game), did a little bit of Defiance (inventory management still drives me nuts), played a bit of SWTOR (nothing feels new...

Love the Star Wars Fandom

May 4, 2014

I love seeing the Star Wars fans come out in droves today to wish each other a happy Star Wars day. My Bounty Hunter and her intrepid crew have a wish for you.

Accentuate the Positive?!

Apr 19, 2014

Been doing a little bit of Wildstar beta this weekend and I am sadly appalled at the character models. I was expecting cartoonish, I was expected exaggerated, I was even expecting large breasts on the female toons. I was not expecting how the movement and posture...

How Perception Shapes Reality, or Expectations FTW/FTL

Jan 26, 2014

We have another one-week-at-a-time in-game event in SWTOR, and opinions on it have been very mixed. Some people love it, some people hate it, some people think it is okay... the usual mix of Opinions. Me, I think the event is fine, but I went in knowing what the event...

Crafting For Fun And Profit?

Jan 5, 2014

Word of warning on this post, I am not all that enthusiastic about crafting in my MMOs so keep that in mind when you read my opinions about this topic. Maybe this is because I've never played a game where crafting was exceptional, or maybe I just don't enjoy a certain...