King for a Day
Well, I managed to actually get a character to the level cap in Rift scarcely 24 hours before the Storm Legion expansion releases tomorrow. Like Wilhelm, I went with the full year subscription option...
View ArticleThe Storm Arrives…and Off Come My Pants
No posts for months and then two in two days? I know… So, Rift’s first expansion, Storm Legion, launched this evening. I managed to hop on after dinner and got patched in about an hour, more or less....
View ArticleRIP: Sir Patrick Moore
News comes of the passing of Sir Patrick Moore, the great British amateur astronomer and author at age 89. The Independent article linked here and the wiki give a general overview of the remarkable...
View ArticleFae Yule is Coming!
With Fae Yule coming up soon in Rift, this weekend was time to start getting into the spirit. With the addition of player dimensions (housing) this year, that means just like in RL, decorating for the...
View ArticleWhat a difference a day makes
Reaper? BDR? Shocked! Shocked I say… Suffering from the same fate as Wilhelm, slogging through the French heavy line, I did manage to finally get to the mountain top of the 90mm gun. Coupled with the...
View ArticleThought For the Day: Gaming Middle Age
A rather frightening thought passed though my mind this evening: was I past Gaming Middle Age? A quick working definition– Gaming Middle Age is the age at which, assuming average life expectancy, one...
View ArticleRearview Mirror
Greetings from Everlook, ca. 2007, when getting there meant something and not just to the Timbermaw… Apparently blogging or at least the MMO blogging community is dead. Or something. Well, I’ve never...
View ArticleBoom Goes the Dynamite
In which the author (in this case, the dynamite) learns yet again, that there can be no short cuts in Eve… To bring the reader up to speed: Longtime carebear industrialist, mission runner joins...
View ArticleLemons/Lemonade
The Continuing Saga of the deployment to Delve… After this last weekend’s ill fated jump into “nonbat” in 1DH, I was feeling a bit frustrated. I never seemed to have a ship that I could fly that was...
View ArticleHow I Eve…
Internet spaceships is serious business… no really, they’re in there somewhere So the Delve Campaign continues… Having just missed the Great 6VDT-H Battle in Fountain being only able to reach the rear...
View ArticleRegression to the Mean
After our successful run to our forward base in Curse, I finally had at least one doctrine combat ship, a Harpy, and my Viator blockade runner, in theater. Owing to time zone issues (US West Coast),...
View ArticleTo Build or to Explore…
I seem to be splitting my time in Valheim between base building and exploration. I enjoy base building immensely and my server mates indulge me by providing copious quantities of materials so I can...
View ArticleTroll Magnet
Fortunately, I’m wearing all metal… Ever had one of those days? I guess technically in Valheim, every day is one of those days which is sort of the point I guess. Working from home during lockdown has...
View ArticleA Year in Lockdown–Part I
A series of long, non-gaming posts. Mostly to just document this extraordinary time. The Gathering Gloom It was just about a one year ago when the world here changed. The COVID...
View ArticleA Year in Lockdown — Part II
A series of long, non-gaming posts. Mostly to just document this extraordinary time. Part I is here. Life in the Bunker Continuing from last time– During the spring while the supply chain was...
View ArticleOn April 1st, We Ride.
Holidays in online games… I usually rely on Wilhelm to keep track of these sorts of things. Some love them, some hate them. For me it definitely depends on the game, the holiday and how inspired the...
View ArticleWorldliness
Yes, the blog lives. Technically, at least. Life gets busy and complicated, but when it eases up a bit or a topic strikes my fancy… well here you are. On the heels of the announcement of WoW’s Wrath...
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