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WoW: Day Three

So Day One of WoW was getting a new character up to level 15 so I could run instanced dungeons, Day Two was spent burning through dungeon after dungeon and getting a handle on How To Heal And How To … Continue reading

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Teddy Ruxpin Sold Separately

OK, no.  I lie.  This post is actually about the less-well-known WoW: My wife has been trying to get me to play WoW for several months now, and what she ACTUALLY wound up convincing me to do was to re-up … Continue reading

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More Pony Merch

I will not acknowledge any shame for liking the Equestria Girls MLP-spinoff movies.  They’re a pretty naked attempt to get a piece of the fashion doll market by stretching the improbably-popular Friendship Is Magic series to its limits, but they … Continue reading

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What it’s like playing #EQ2 in 2016

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I’ve gotten hooked on Everquest 2 again.  This is my third or fourth time playing, I think, starting when Sony gave me a free copy back in 2006 as an apology for … Continue reading

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I regularly make poor snack decisions

The last time I had a Crystal Pepsi, it was July of 1992 and I was standing at a gas station on the outskirts of Palestine, Texas, waiting for the Greyhound to come by and get me the heck AWAY … Continue reading

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In Which I Confront a Hoarding Problem

I have realized that Everquest 2 is, at its heart, a complicated game about inventory management in which you occasionally fight monsters. I will explain. My wife has been steeping in pre-release hype and events for the forthcoming WoW expansion, … Continue reading

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I went grocery shopping

Sometimes, when I want to throw up a post with minimal effort, I make fun of foreign snack food.  Since I just went to the not-terribly-local Korean market yesterday and BOUGHT a bunch of foreign snack food, it seemed like … Continue reading

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Test Your Might

A couple of games off the backlog recently. First, Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, which really wasn’t stuck on to the backlog for very long.  I preordered it, it showed up on the release date, it sat on the shelf … Continue reading

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End of Ripping Project

So, one of the bad things about the last decade of writing down more or less whatever came into my head at any given time is that I can look back to 2009 and drag up posts like this one: … Continue reading

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Splatfest Results, and WiiU Image Uploading

So, let’s start by getting this out of the way: Boom indeed.  But, to be fair, it was awfully close, so we shouldn’t look down on the heretical Callie devotees with TOO much scorn. We will need someone to shovel … Continue reading

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