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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...

Oddly Discontented the Starfield Edition

Sep 8, 2023

I took a walk around the first nice city we get to in Starfield last night. It is quite pretty at night and it was a peaceful walk. I talked to a few people, did some shopping, looked around the Lodge and then I just signed out of the game... I stared at my library...

Looking Forward Beyond Blaugust

Aug 31, 2023

Today I am using one of the Blaugust prompts to not only plan ahead for my blog writing, but to talk about an upcoming game. The prompt is "What are you looking forward to the most over the course of the next year?" I have a hard time coming up with "the most" for any...

Wrapping up Blaugust 2023 With Lessons Learned and Achievements

Aug 30, 2023

The final week of Blaugust is reserved for talking about lessons learned - a week that acts as a bit of a cool down so that we can share our own experiences with this year's blogging. While I haven't earned every achievement on the list, I'm happy that I met my...

What Motivates Us – Game Achievements

Aug 27, 2023

I've been thinking about what makes me finish games, what makes me play them again, and what makes me leave them to gather dust. I used to feel compelled to at least finish a game I'd started, finish reading a book to the end, or clean my plate. I'd consider myself a...

Blaugust Week 4: The Irony of My Lack of Motivation

Aug 24, 2023

Here we are in the week of Blaugust dedicated to motivation, and I have put off writing anything for 5 days. The irony is not lost on me. I hope I'll still get in a second post this week, but just sitting down to write this one has only happened because it is Blaugust...

Appreciating Game Communities Part Two

Aug 16, 2023

I want to show some appreciation this week to the glue that has held my MMO experience together. Game communities and guilds are the reason I've kept playing MMOs. Group content and raiding have held my interest in some games well beyond the point where the content in...

Blaugust 2023 Week 3: The Creators of Community

Aug 14, 2023

Week 3 of Blaugust is creative appreciation week. There are so many ways to define who and what to appreciate during a week like this one, and yet it is one of the hardest weeks for many of us to do. Who do we shine the spotlight on? Is it fellow bloggers, game...

Getting Weepy, in a Good Way

Aug 11, 2023

I am not ashamed to admit that a good book, show, or game can make me absolutely bawl. In fact, I LOVE that they can make such a profound emotional connection with me. When I first read Guy Gavriel Kay's final book of the Fionavar Tapestry series, the Darkest Road,...

Blaugust2023 Week 2: Getting to Know GamerLadyP

Aug 7, 2023

Welcome to week 2 of Blaugust 2023. So far I am on track for my goal this year, which is to post at least twice a week during the festival. I've also managed to read and comment on several posts for our other participants. As of this morning's update from Belghast, we...