There’s a funny thing happening in my guild. I logged on late the other night to hopefully luck into a quick instance run (didn’t happen), and there were four people from my guild on. I didn’t recognize any of them. I vaguely remembered reading someone’s app from a little while ago, but that’s all. I mean, […]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Game Terms Overcome
I saw the following title on my gmail homepage: Wired: Awesomely Bad Defense Trinkets, Part II …and thought, “A WoW theorycraft article in Wired?! Is this a parody or…?” It’s funny, because of course the word trinket existed before WoW. However, in the last three years, I haven’t seen that word once outside of a WoW context, […]
Choose Your Post-Major-MMO-Patch Chat Adventure
1 You log on. It’s patch day! None of your addons work. There are all kinds of new toys and changes to enjoy, and you can’t wait to explore the content. At some point, you travel to a major city. Goto 2. 2 You are in a major city. There are other characters all around you, […]
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My Compulsion is Infrastructure
Seven weeks after we started our Horde side project (leveling being friendly to frequent pauses and sudden stops), my wife happened to walk by my computer while I had my character select screen up. “What are all those Horde characters?!” she said. “Oh! Well, here’s my auction house alt, and my grinding alt, and–” “I thought this […]