Archive for the 'Misc' Category

Apologies for the Silence; Alpha-Beta!

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I apologize to my readers for having been rather quiet lately. I’ve been searching for a new job and that’s taken up quite a lot of my time. I’ve also been busy recruiting for the guild. It’s an endless and burdensome chore in the summer months. I think I’m going to go insane if I […]

PlusHeal

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Several healing bloggers have banded together to create and moderate PlusHeal: a forum community explicitly for healers. While the goal is not to detract from my own blog, there are some healing-related topics I am not interested in writing about on my blog. Hence, I’ve thrown my name into the hat of moderators at PlusHeal […]

Video Games As Art

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

My entry into this discussion comes two years after its height, but it is relevant as a precursor to an upcoming column I will be writing that addresses the presentation of storylines and plots within WoW. But in order to justify some of the statements I will be making throughout this upcoming column, I must […]

Twisted Nether: Bringing the Blogosphere Closer Together

Friday, June 6th, 2008

I’m not sure I exactly want to get “closer” to certain members of the WoW blog community. However, most of us are benign, even if we’re opinionated. And some are even extremely interesting (not me, obviously). So I’m all for supporting the intentions of Twisted Nether, which hopes to highlight various topics and posts circulating […]

I’m Back; The DAoC Experiment

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

The past two weeks have been extremely busy with finals, work, raiding, guild leadership, real life issues, my Lost addiction, and other things I’m not at leisure to discuss. I’d also been conducting an experiment with DAoC, basically evaluating its current situation to solidify or change any points made in my earlier contrasting juxtaposition of […]

My Favorite Machinima

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I’m honestly not a big fan of machinima. Most of it is dry and uninteresting. And for those that do stand out, it’s typically for the wrong reasons. For example, The Internet Is for Porn is considered one of the staples of WoW machinima by a lot of players. But the primary feature of the […]

My Newest Source of Amusement

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

This has been my source of amusement for the past several hours:

It makes a funny noise, much to the chagrin of my guildies. It also pretends to fly.

Proudmoore Wins the SSO Race

Monday, April 28th, 2008

My server, Proudmoore, activated the epic gem vendor last night. This means we’ve won the SSO race.

It’s a bittersweet accomplishment. While I’m glad we’ve won, after having lost the AQ race despite our initial lead, it’s ultimately insignificant. It’s not going to attract top raiders or PvPers to our server. The only thing I’m genuinely […]

How Do You Spell Irony?

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I was surfing around WoW sites last night after the raid, and I came across this ironic gem from Nihilum’s site.

If it’s not obvious, take a look at the ad and read what the article is about. Essentially, Nihilum is offering people a download containing a list of gold selling web sites they can copy […]

Quality Trumps Schlock

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Writing an introductory article, I’m led to consider the words of Jasi (a.k.a. Steve V), a contributor on World of Ming at Gameriot. He writes:
Ming is no different than any other professional media giant,(Except [sic] for the Racism [sic] and general insults, that would generally never fly). Whatever sells, sells, there’s nothing else to it. […]