Author Archives: baudattitude

Country Roads, take me Homefront.

Posted on June 6, 2011 by baudattitude

A couple of months ago, I bought THQ’s Red-Dawn-inspired shooter, Homefront, played it for a little over two hours, put it down in disgust and immediately got sucked into Rift. Last night, I decided that I would pick it back … Continue reading →

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Breaking my own rules

Posted on June 5, 2011 by baudattitude

I have a pretty hard and fast rule when it comes to MMORPGs; I don’t do trade skills. Trade skills – or professions, or crafts, or whatever the synonym is for a particular MMO – are often touted as an … Continue reading →

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Ding!

Posted on May 11, 2011 by baudattitude

So I hit 50 in Rift yesterday, with a hair over 120 hours /played.  That’s kind of slow by Rift standards, I guess. I started on April 14th, so that’s a little over 4 hours a day?  It’s a little … Continue reading →

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Adventures in PC Cooling

Posted on May 2, 2011 by baudattitude

OK, I will admit up front that there is very little adventurous about making your PC cooler.  PC components get hot, they need to be cooler or they die, and even though there is a massive industry built around this, … Continue reading →

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I’m better at Wedding Anniversaries

Posted on April 29, 2011 by baudattitude

…somehow I missed that this thing had actually passed its fourth anniversary back in March without me noticing. Whoops. Normally I’d say something like “in my defense, I was incredibly busy with school” or the like, but I was actually … Continue reading →

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Be careful what you ask for.

Posted on April 27, 2011 by baudattitude

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m spending my days post-graduation but pre-real-job working as a help desk technician for the school, which means that I occasionally have to interact with students. Generally I am actually quite a nice person, but today … Continue reading →

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Apparently, I’m a jerk

Posted on April 26, 2011 by baudattitude

I don’t PvP. The thing that attracted me to the original Everquest – that attracted a lot of people, actually – was that it was, in comparison to it’s predecessors, a mostly PvE game, where your enemy was the environment … Continue reading →

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There’s a (Home)front Coming…

Posted on April 21, 2011 by baudattitude

It’s probably not fair to write a review of Homefront after only playing through three levels of it. There are, after all, seven levels and I’ve played plenty of games that didn’t really take off until fairly late in the … Continue reading →

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My iPhone is tracking me (and it turns out I’m really boring)

Posted on April 20, 2011 by baudattitude

So, there have been a couple of articles in the news today about how iOS devices constantly record your approximate location based on cell phone tower triangulation and how it’s stored in a file on your computer and how this … Continue reading →

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Destroying Something Beautiful

Posted on April 20, 2011 by baudattitude

I don’t pay a lot of attention to the things that get us through our lives.  Take television, for example – I don’t see television as anything all that amazing, though there must have been a time when television stations … Continue reading →

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