YAR! is a nostalgic MMO word for me. YAR! Was the rallying cry of my EQ test server guild, The Grove. Anytime anyone logged in there was a /gu of YAR! And usually the same number of responses per number of guildies on. I carried YAR! to DAOC and again to WoW in the guilds I…
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Start With Why
I try to read a book a month. These books are mostly non-fiction and are business or personal growth related. I love thinking in general (its a gift, I tell you) and as such picking up books and reading and learning feels like I am developing both personally and professionally. Someone once told me that…
Diffusions in MMO Gaming
I just read an amazing book and while I am saving that for another entire post one part stuck out to me. That part was in regards to the explanation behind how, and what rate, new technologies spread throughout societies. That explanation is called the “Diffusion of Innovations” and was written back in 1962. It was…
Rally Caps
Murf and I chatted about baseball not too long ago, and I was recently treated to a 19 inning, walk off win marathon from my home team Toronto Blue Jays, against our dreaded rivals, the Detroit Tigers. It had a lot. A lot of intentional walks (the Jays lineup is down 3 starters so once you…
Gender Stereotyping My Dogs
Blaugust has been fun and I am surprised I made it this long. I already have made more posts in August than all of July. I find myself writing a bit quicker, and leaving it all on the page. My old style was write most of it, leave it, revisit, edit edit edit… now It’s…
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…
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…
Celebration of Life – All Things Come to an End
I still click and visit River’s site over at www.highlatencylife.com even though he has passed. Sometimes it’s just out of habit and other times its to see if anyone else has stopped by to say something nice, or share a story. Of course, the site has gone quiet and I was saddened to see this.…
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…
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?…
The Newbie Blogger Initiative
I am not “officially” participating in the NBI this year and it definitely has nothing to do with not being interested – this year is just bad timing for me with a whirlwind of work and family commitments I’ll barely get around to posting (but am trying!) All that being said, I think it is…
I Must Have Been Trolled =)
I took down my last post – turns out the guys I was running the WildStar dungeons with must have been trolling me. I have read the truth and turns out the medals are grouped base. After the run I asked what everyone else got and they told me differently. So, I was either trolled…
Interwebs Issues
Just a short service announcement – I have been having server issues. My site has been down intermittently. This has caused the Nasdaq to plummet and world oil prices to rise. My apologies. Don’t give up on me! Seems to happen randomly and I’m looking for answers. On a side note – I got access to…
EQN:L Closed Beta
Just posting here for anyone interested! I will be playing on the COURAGE (US) Server (assuming it is still there) and will be hoping to claim land near some friends. With this in mind, if you find a place to claim, please post it here! I am at work today *ahem* so I won’t be…
My Influential 15
One of my favorite blogs to visit is The Ancient Gaming Noob (TAGN) and he recently posted an Influential 15Â list – started by another blogger and other sites are also playing along. The parts I read indicated not too many rules, but just do not overthink it – only take 15 minutes, and list…
Askimet Showing Cracks?
Askimet has been a great, free, spam stopper on this blog since I started it in 2008. In fact, it has stopped 62,479 comments from being spam. (which is ~62x the REAL comments I have received!) Lately I am squashing spam comments that are sneaking through – and I have rarely ever had to do…
Dry Spells and Random Stuffs
This happens to me often with gaming – I hit dry spells. This occurs when life gets too busy and/or games get a bit dry for me. Thankfully, right now I am in the former – just busy. This, in turn, makes blogging more challenging because if you aren’t playing then there’s not much to…
Corporate Governance
This sat in drafts and I never got around to finishing it. Now the info is really outdated, but still – wanted to talk about companies that make games really briefly. First, we have this nice reminder of EA being voted worst company to work for (again) Then, we have FUNCOM being raided for suspected…
Soft Posts
I have been travelling for work the past couple of weeks (and doing so until this weekend) so I haven’t been working on my masterpiece (*cough cough*) in EQN:Landmark. And I am missing the game. My travel PC is a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 and as I have mentioned in the recent past, I love…
Measuring The Same Thing Two Ways
Interesting observation as I was travelling through the USA and watching Olympic coverage. Canada counts good medals as the ultimate qualifier (odd considering their demeanor) for medal standings. Most gold medals is first, if tied use silver as a tie breaker and then bronze as the “rubber match”. A country with just 15 gold medals…
A Dark Room
What a great little text/flash/ascii game. There is a lot to do and discover once you get past the idle games part, and I was disappointed one of my discoveries led to the end of the game – I felt I had more to learn and discover but I actually “won” (by accident. I thought…
I Has Christmas
Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holidays. Time to reflect. Time to love Time to remember Time to blog. Best to you and yours and a fantastic 2014 is in store for us all. I promise.
Hearthstoned
Full disclaimer – I am not big on card games. Actually, to be more clear – fantasy hard games. I didn’t play Magic: The Gathering, or Pokémon, or any of those fine pastimes. Pull my nerd card if you have to. I did play quite a bit of Texas Hold’em and other traditional card games…
WRIP
I’ve been doing a bit of housecleaning around here and have tagged some of my blogroll with a new designation -WRIP. Writers Resting In Paradise! It’s over half the list now itself. I spent a lot of time clicking, reading, and commenting on those blogs even though they haven’t updated in 6 months or longer…
200 Posts
Not incredibly special considering some of  the other options but the truth is there were a few times were it looked like I would never hit it. 200 posts over 5 years isn’t a ton, but hey, that is my on again off again post style. Trying to fix that – don’t hate! Maybe if I…