Monthly Archives: April 2008

PS3 love

Way back in the day, I was a Sega per­son. Like every­one else at my col­lege, I had a Gen­e­sis (Jenny), but I fol­lowed Sega into the Sat­urn (good sys­tem, far too expen­sive, some mem­o­rable games), and the Dream­cast (out­stand­ing sys­tem, some fan­tas­tic games). Then Sega came to an end due to their own pricing, […]

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The lure of large-group raiding

My casual/raiding guild is start­ing to build up to 25-man con­tent. They’re raid­ing with a bunch of ex-guildies who have drifted through a hand­ful of other guilds before run­ning out of options and try­ing to start their own. This splin­ter guild doesn’t have enough peo­ple to raid even Kara, never mind their goal of beginning […]

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Infectious Thought: Raid encounters

(Warn­ing: infec­tious thoughts are dif­fi­cult to root out once they take hold.)Most sim­ple raid encoun­ters are kind of like a magic bukkake scene, espe­cially with many flashy cast­ers in the raid. (If you don’t know what bukkake is, don’t search for it while you’re at work.)Apologies.

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Minipets are joy

I have to admit that my most cov­eted drop that I want from Magister’s Ter­race is the phoenix minipet. Minipets are prob­a­bly the sil­li­est thing in World of War­craft. A non-combat pet. Win­dow dress­ing. For my wife, I think minipets are about 20% of why she plays the entire game. When I passed on the […]

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Game Riding Shotgun

What hap­pens when you’ve got two gamers (me and my wife) who can’t play a game together, but you both want to play? Some­one rides shot­gun. This can be due to the game being single-player, or more recently, due to the need for some­one to hold an infant. The per­son who rides shot­gun doesn’t have […]

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