Tech Support

Brief programming note: this doesn’t count as my Blaugust post (obviously) but I am having a tech problem. Pingbacks stopped working. My last pingback was May 21, 2o13 (when sorting through comments on the menu). I don’t recall what (if anything) I changed then. I did notice that a few people HAVE tried to ping…

SKYNET – Turing AI

I was reading an article over at TAGN (which I do often – and I’ve linked to him quite a bit recently so not linking that post directly today – may be accused of over-linking!!) The article is his play through of  Civ 5 with friends online and what happens to their strategies when anyone…

EA Innovating?

I have a Love/Hate relationship with Electronic Arts. When I was a young gamer on my $3500 386 SX-16 (price is a date reference. I worked all summer to afford it..) getting a box with the EA logo was getting a good game. It was synonymous for me. They really did have some blockbusters. Perennial…

What About Jack?

The fun of Blaugust (even in this early stage) is that I am planning ahead on posts knowing I am trying to do one a day. So at the end of my day I am thinking about what I read, watched, and/or experienced and thinking what fits in a post? And although this has always…

Blaugust!

Thank you, and damn you, Aggronaut. At the same time, challenge accepted! [WildStar voice, cupcake. And yes, all WildStar players are groaning now..] Blaugust is a blogging challenge to post every single day. Every. Single Day. Personally, I am a once a week kind of blogger, sometimes slide in an extra post or two. This…

Yes, Still Playing WildStar…

.. and my highest character is only level 18. This is where the sub fee can be frustrating - especially in a game branding itself as “hardcore” and not alt-character friendly. It is a long journey in WildStar and my limited playtime and wanting to understand WHERE to invest my time has lead me to a…

Dragon Age : The Birdcage

Sorry, that was the most sensationalist title I could muster. News this week, on the heels of Canada’s Pride Week in Toronto, is that Dragon Age: Inquisition will have the first openly gay party member for the series – Dorian. The events aren’t even close to being linked, just a happenstance coincidence (no doubt.) I’m…

MMO Loyalty

Loyalty (in MMO gaming terms) comes in several forms from consumer to the game. Here are three gamer type examples – there is a lot of in between, and parts of each, but for the most part most gaming is done in and around the three below examples. I am giving them names so we can…

River – High Latency Life

I am shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden passing of one of our community members – Chris “River” Cavelle. Rivs authored High Latency Life and I personally thoroughly enjoyed interacting with him. I read him weekly and participated on his blog (and he here sometimes too.) He had an engaging style of blogging…

Another Missed Opportunity

I woke up with an email from Arenanet this morning. I was legitimately intrigued. GW2 is a game I bought, and I played up until level 40 – and burnt out because the solo leveling grind just wasn’t fun for me. I loved the aesthetics, and most of the combat (the weapon swap LAS wasn’t…

Spammy McSpamertons

Holy bejezzus. (that PG enough?) Spent a week working and not playing or blogging, came back to my blog with thousands of spam messages caught by askimet. Anyone (much smarter than I?) care to explain how the nonesens-ish posts somehow create clickthroughs or traffic? And how many Michael Kohrs bags need to be spammed anyway?…

Player Servers

Is SOE trying to be a company for the people suddenly? The idea of separate server rulesets is not new in MMOs with PVP, RP, PVE and other combinations but they don’t go far enough to offer real player choice. While not released (and just being discussed) I am liking the thought that SOE will give…

Quote worth Quoting

I love reading Bio Break’s quote of the day and read Syp’s blog daily. Sometimes I find quotes on other blogs I really enjoy, so I may throw one up now and again. Here is one I read today! “SOE has sent a message that H1Z1 isn’t just another Zombie-themed survival sim where the story…

40 Man Raids (Redux)

There is plenty of healthy debate about WildStar bringing back 40 man raids. This is also connected to a broader raid difficulty discussion. I will share my raiding experience and opinion. (Since you asked) EQ – I was on the testserver and as such, raids were a server wide event for the most part – there…

Zombie Defcon Orange

I like zombies. When I checked my tags I was sad to see that I actually only have 4 posts that talk about Zombies. And while I have a Zombie category, I typically only categorize by design house.  Of course, I did change my tag system to a series of misguided, oft-not-funny, sarcastic remarks since…