There’s a zen like state to it, I tell you. I originally titled these “Spring Cleaning!”, but it was never spring and there is a far more cathartic feel to these posts for me. Like letting go of the past. Or, getting really drunk and forgetting to go to work! My other posts in this…
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Unbeknownst Dueling Bloggers
Screen captured this on my phone from my “Blogs That Feed” widget updater sidebar. Only one can be right.
Spring Cleaning – Blog Draft Posts Part 3
Continuing this series until I get rid of all of my blog drafts in one form or another – either to complete the post, or kill it outright. This is part three of this series with parts one and two linked right there. Not Buying the New Console – 9/2/2014 The snippet I had written for…
Make Me the Hero. Or Don’t.
Being a Hero I am a happy, artifact weapon wielding druid. They look amazing. I feel amazing. The quest was decent to get them. I am on my way in Legion. … and all of that is ruined by the crowd of other druids in my class hall that look exactly the same. I know…
Real Hot Mess
I’m struggling finding fun in gaming right now. It is definitely not for a lack of trying, I have been buying games like crazy and giving them a good chance to hook me. I even made blog posts about it, to try and drum up some momentum to get into a game or two and…
Spring Cleaning – Old Post Drafts #2
Continuing my Spring Cleaning project – here is my second post as I go through my drafts folder and decide to keep (and finish) old post thoughts or delete them away. The first post in this series is here. “I Don’t Use Steam Much Anymore” (8/7/2014) Steam is that ultra convenient platform that I have…
Spring Cleaning: Old Post Drafts (Part 1)
All bloggers have a bunch of post drafts started that either get revisited and completed or sit in post purgatory, waiting to be further inspired or expanded. I hate letting those linger. I have a slew of them in my folder and for funzies decided to go through them and either finish them off or delete…
Spam Posts as a Measure of Popularity
All of my spam posts caught in my Askimet filter are about two games right now, split pretty much right down the middle. Blade and Soul and Runescape. Most of them are  about selling gold in those two games. What does this mean? Is there really that big of a market for gold in either that…
Worst Enemies and Lists
Happy New Year! I have been playing my same old boring games, but feel compelled to update briefly. This post is composed of two subject matters, and two lists! Gaming List Fallout 4: I am 45 hours in and just went back to the main story line. I just did the Glowing Sea, as a…
Day One is Tomorrow
I last posted about how I am going to post more about my personal health journey and things I learned that worked for me. This is very fitting being New Years Eve today, with a whole host of resolutions to be made by a big chunk of the world to start tomorrow! And most of…
I Has Happy Holidays!
Hi Everyone. Just a quick note – I am on a beach right now not thinking about blogging, but spending time with my family and thinking about the world. There is so much unrealized potential and I hope as a global community we start treating each other the way we need to. Â I wish nothing…
Where to Fit(bit) In!
Blogging has been a struggle as of late – I am playing four games, four of which are “out of date”, and I am plodding along at my own pace within them. I am not discovering anything new about these games (or myself playing them) and all of that adds up to the deeper questions…
Santa Isn’t Real
Well, the cat is out of the bag. Oh, not for me. I knew about that a long time ago. Give me some credit. My 10 year old asked the big question last night as we were getting him ready for bed. He is in a grade 5/6 split class (due to Ontario regulations on…
Half Pregnant
They say you can’t be half pregnant. Â This is what slows me down from blogging, the thought that you are either in or out. I’m on the line. It has been awhile since I have posted and like most excuses reasons, they are varied and plentiful. It was partly time, passion, focus, desire and gaming.…
History is Important
I appreciate learning the history of things. Often, I think this comes with age. It’s not enough to just live in moment amongst the new – a lot of amazing things have happened in our world. Learning about them is important. I travel quite a bit for work and pleasure and when I get an…
Goalie Equipment and Mask Design
I am not sure if I have mentioned it here before, but I am a hockey goaltender. I spent my life playing the position and even now that I cracked the big four oh, I still play two to three times a week (in the winter). It’s fun exercise, allows me to still draw on…
Talkback Challenge #1 : How GamerGate Affected Me
I have mostly avoided participating in the major discussion threads surrounding #Gamergate for the sole reason that I find the internet a terrible place to have meaningful, open discussion on serious and important topics. I realize how silly that is as someone who blogs quite regularly and participates in a lot of blogs – perhaps…
Darkest Dungeon EP11- Revisiting the Crew
It’s been a while so figured I’d update you on all the excitement from team BlogNation in Darkest Dungeon. What have the kooky blog kids been up to? 60 weeks, that’s what! That is a lot of fun I have had in this game. Around 40 hours and counting, which is still longer than I…
Liebster McLiebsterton Awards
Awards are awesome! Â Especially ones that share more things about the blogging community. I had never heard of the Liebster award (so I had to google it) and here is how it typically goes: Post the award (check) Post 11 facts Answer the 11 questions Tag others – ask my own 11 questions! I have…
A Guild’s Life
I often enjoy how perspectives change. This is just a self evaluation, even on this blog. Back in 2008 when I started blogging I closely followed and often agreed with Wolfshead and Tesh when it came to virtual worlds and the opportunities that existed in our space to make games that had meaning. We were all very…
Pay Beta/Alpha
I often review old posts – it is a fun way to see what I was jabbering about back over half a decade (sounds so much longer when put that way). I was reviewing some old posts when I randomly came across this one: Introduce a New Phase in the Development Cycle The premise of the…
Sony Sells Everquest
I didn’t see this story making the rounds in BlogNation and probably due to the Massively and WoW Insider closing news – which I do want to address briefly. While said so much better by so many in our space, the loss of those reporting sources will be missed. I checked both frequently weekly. WoW…
2015 Digital Goals
I dislike resolutions because in the wrong mindset they can feel like impossible obstacles to overcome. There are a lot of standing jokes/memes out there surrounding impending resolution failures. Nonetheless it is good to set goals as long as they are realistic. So here are mine. 1) Post 3x a week on average. I loved…
Pronouns
This post was originally started about 10 months ago – I found it deep in my “drafts” list (it is actually the oldest draft I have left). I sometimes resurrect these posts under my “Draft Necro” series because hey, not all posts deserve to rot away in draft folder hell. I typically preamble them in…
The Year That Was 2014
I normally don’t do these posts, but it was a very good year and I feel like sharing. I am going away to Europe for Christmas for two weeks and as I tie up my professional and family life here in Canada before next week there probably won’t be a lot of blogging or gaming…