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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...

Dissecting New MMO Content

Jan 4, 2014

Another recent topic on Twitter has been hopes from Star Wars The Old Republic's players for content from the game in 2014. It will be a year of many new game releases with new stories and worlds to tempt away the players of existing MMOs. Many of us hope this will...

Is It Me? Or Is It Game Design?

Jan 3, 2014

I've been reading a few blog posts and articles lately about how the MMO population has started to age. I've read nostalgic posts about how great MMOs used to be and how there used to be that One Game to rule them all and now there isn't anymore. I've decided that it...

My Current SWTOR Character Customizations

Oct 18, 2013

This started with a friend asking me for a list of what one of my characters was wearing. While I was grabbing that, I started screen shotting all of my current characters because I really like the way most of them look right now. Gone are the days of being stuck with...

NBI Poetry Slam

Oct 10, 2013

MMO Gypsy Syl has launched a challenge this month for we geeky bloggers to wax poetic. She did ask... I admit, I really enjoy filk music. I like adding my own words to the catchy tune of someone else's music. What's the fun of writing bad poetry if you can't ruin...

Games People Play (While Playing Games)

Aug 21, 2013

I have been thinking about MMO grinds lately and how much I start to hate a game once I start to hate its more grind-y elements. If you think about what you are asked to do in your character's "free time" to satisfy some faction or impress some group, it tends to be...

Happy 10 yr. Anniversary Knights of the Old Republic

Jul 15, 2013

In honor of the KOTOR 10 year anniversary, I took a little trip into its legacy. KOTOR's heirs, Star Wars: The Old Republic, a weary Smuggler and her revived HK-51 droid toured Taris today. Malak did quite a number on this once over-proud city planet. We traveled the...

The Day of the Dusters

Jun 23, 2013

Today I broke down and bought the Troublemaker Duster for my Smuggler in SWTOR. I had been eyeing it for a while and the price finally came down from the "hell no!" range into the "okay, this is excessive for vanity but I'll get it anyway" price range. I've been...

When Games Go Free To Play, How Do Existing Subscribers Feel?

Jun 18, 2013

I have been thinking about how different I feel as a subscriber of two games that have both gone to a Free to Play model after their initial releases as subscription games. The way I feel as a customer is very different between Star Wars: The Old Republic and Rift. In...

Is This Thing On?

May 31, 2013

Oh hey there. Look at what I found in my browser favorites list, the link to my blog dashboard. I have been highly unmotivated to spend time on this thing lately haven't I? With summer and way too many games on my docket, I don't see that changing much. But I took a...