Monthly Archives: August 2008

The Offseason

By GoW | Published: August 15, 2008

Is being a sports fan sim­i­lar to play­ing World of War­craft? No. But hav­ing sea­sonal dura­tion hobbies is!

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Some GM Advice

By GoW | Published: August 12, 2008

I read a great arti­cle over at the excel­lent Chick GM about offi­cer lead­er­ship styles and what makes a good offi­cer. It made me think about what I val­ued in GMs and offi­cers, and what I learned as GM. It took me a long time to come up with my online lead­er­ship style, and longer still […]

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This Blog is Powered By…

By GoW | Published: August 10, 2008

A num­ber of peo­ple who visit here are blog­gers them­selves, so I thought I’d just describe what tech­nol­ogy makes this blog work on a new sta­tic page. I’ll keep it updated as times change.

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Dynamic Duos

By GoW | Published: August 8, 2008

One of the great joys of WoW is how couple-friendly it is. My wife and I are suck­ers for some coop­er­a­tive mul­ti­player, and we haven’t looked back since we set up her account. We play together all the time, doing dailies, farm­ing mobs, instanc­ing and raid­ing (although we’re learn­ing that being new par­ents isn’t really […]

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Pixeljunk Eden is joy

By GoW | Published: August 6, 2008

This review is going to fail. I’m a big fan of words and writ­ing, but some­times they just fail, and describ­ing what sim­ple joy actu­ally feels like is one of those times. Rather than try to describe the mechan­ics of the game or what it’s about, I’ll work on why I like it.

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