Here is a thing that I think the gaming community and also The Internets In General have difficulty understanding: “criticism” and “censorship” are not the same fucking thing. Actually, hold on; before we go any farther I think I maybe need to say that again. “Criticism” and “censorship” are not the same thing. And, just as importantly: “disagreement” and “censorship” are not the same…
So last week SWTOR launched patch 1.3, which not only does some awesome stuff with crafting but also adds a per-server flashpoint group finder, which makes me so, so, so happy. This is after there were free population-consolidation server transfers (though all of my servers were origins, so I lost some of my I Started Playing Two Weeks Before Launch For A Reason You…
For the vast majority of my life I was the only ladytype in a social group full of men because my hobbies were those considered by the western world to be traditionally masculine: I loved working on cars, playing football, the nutritional science of beer, live blues and metal, and, most especially for our purposes, any and all gaming. Like, I had a vast…
So there’s a thing that’s been going around lately, and I have been SO GOOD and sitting on my hands and letting other folks Fight The Good Fight and say the things that need to be said because, as with I am sure many of you, there is a part of me that feels maintaining community harmony is more important than dealing with the…
Finally relinquishing my MMO raid time means I have time to spend on all of the single-player games I’ve been piling up in my library for years upon years upon years. I’m a classical adventure enthusiast, so it needs to be said that GoG is a present just for me. I’ve been cycling through some Sierra classics, like Quest for Glory (whyyyy is V…
So my Good Twin Liore, because she enjoys tormenting me, said that she wanted to see what I came up with re: Gnomageddon‘s Sixth Screenshot meme, because I have this thing about screenshots, and that thing is that I take A LOT of them. The conversation in IRC when she mentioned this to me went like so: <Aro_> … oh god WHICH SIXTH? How…
Tonight is the first Tuesday in almost seven years that I have been at home and available and yet have no scheduled WoWery afoot. It feels weird. According to the account transaction history on wow.com, I have been paying for this game since December 2004, and you guys, that is a long-ass time. It’s such a long time that I healed in my first…
As a WarCraft II player, the fall of Deathwing is a story point that has been driving me for a dozen years. Betrayal of the best and brightest is a standard literary trope, and one that tends to resonate well with me; add in some incomprehensible cosmic horrors and it’s basically a hardwired switch straight to the centers of my DO WANT story-consuming brain….
If all 4.3 had given me was transmogrification, I would be the happiest camper in the whole wide world. In fact, it’s one of the few things that’s making me happy right now because I am sad and cynical and bitter and they can pry my lovely WC2 lore out of my cold dead hands, BUT THAT IS FOR ANOTHER POST. Anyway. Transmogrification. I…
It didn’t even occur to me until right this second that I probably should have written this post for Brewfest, but that’s because very little occurs to me around Brewfest time that isn’t NEDE MOAR RAM RACING. ANYWAY. There is a thing going on right now in my awesome guild full of awesome people where they troll me absolutely mercilessly about beer, and specifically…
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