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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...

Shrinking Pains

Sep 18, 2012

Change, oh how we loathe it sometimes. I'm writing this to say farewell to the glory days of SWTOR's endless servers and the concept I had of how my legacies and character concepts would work, and to grumble about it. In the early days of long queues and many servers,...

Gaming is Not A Long-term Commitment

Aug 29, 2012

I’ve come to a realization recently that I am an old-fashioned gamer. Not the tasty cocktail or ice-cream sundae kind of Old-Fashioned either, but the stodgy get-these-kids-off-my-lawn kind. I’ve been watching people game-hop and finding myself annoyed at those pesky...

SWTOR Event Goodies

Aug 15, 2012

I hope to update this over the next few days to share a few of the goodies from doing the latest Star Wars: The Old Republic's live event. For now, I had to share a picture of my good fortune from yesterday's kick off day. I'm not sure how often these little guys will...

It Is The Little Things That Count

Aug 6, 2012

I took advantage of the chance to try out The Secret World MMO during its free weekend event. While I hadn't intended to post anything about my trial, I really don't feel I had enough time to give it a fair chance, I did come away with some general impressions and...

What Else Should I Do When I Can’t Sleep, But Blog?

Jul 15, 2012

It has been a while since I've felt like writing. I couldn't sleep and have been chatting about MMO content in Twitter this morning. Twitter is often a good source of blog fodder, since it is hard to hold a long meaningful discussion in bits and pieces, but often...

Non Gaming Related Tribute

Jun 17, 2012

I don't have kids and at this stage in life the chances are pretty slim. One thing I do regret is not seeing my husband be a dad. He is pretty cute with my nieces and nephews and tends to be one of those favorite uncles. My parents have both passed away and I'm...

Enough With The Armchair Game Developing

Jun 8, 2012

Enough with the armchair quarterbacking and back-seat driving regarding MMO features at launch or even at the early stages of a game. I do it myself, wondering why X feature, which is well known to be a popular one, or Y feature, which That Other Game has aren't in my...

NBI Wrap Up – So Many Shiny New Blogs

May 31, 2012

I am really impressed by how many people took the leap and decided to start new blogs during this month. Bravo! I'm also impressed with the breadth and quality of the advice posts and encouragement from sponsor sites. I hope those veterans and the new guys like me...

Are MMO Players Just Too Fickle?

May 23, 2012

I've had various thoughts going through my head lately regarding my current MMO, Star Wars The Old Republic. Thoughts about vanished guildies, low populations, MMOs, grind in games, end game content, etc. I've had a few Twitter discussions about what an MMO should...