WoW – Just visiting
When Warlords of Draenor came out, I was not very interested in it. I had played since some time mid-Wrath of the Lich King until near the end of Mists of Pandaria, and had thence transitioned to Eve...
View ArticleMinecraft: Genesis
Minecraft started as my two oldest boys’ (11 and 9 years) newest obsession. It was something I’d meant to try since it came out, but there was never time. After the obsession blossomed into a...
View ArticleDispatches from Shadowmoon Valley
The Shadowmoon valley of yore. Well, time-altered yore.. or something. I’m settling into the groove of playing an elemental shaman again. I prefer classes that have a rhythm. Not a rotation, per se,...
View ArticleA House on the Hill
In an earlier post, I talked about the beginnings of the Minecraft server I put up for myself and my older kids on our internal house LAN. We delved out a cave complex, set it up with all the...
View ArticleEve Online: Blog Banter 66 – Art Style
In which I make my first attempt to participate in a Blog Banter! The question is: Eve Blog Banter 66 – Caldarification The art team has been working on many art assets recently and there has been talk...
View ArticleWorld of Warcraft fin (for now)
Aaand the experiment is over, almost as soon as it started. I cancelled my subscription, pending another period when I have a little more time. In Eve my alliance made some attempts at capturing...
View ArticleEve Online: Genesis
This was adapted from a post I made in my alliance forums in response to a question: do you remember the reason and the first time you played EVE? I remember all three times I started Eve! The first...
View ArticleBlog Banter #67 – CCP X
I am CCP X There has been a catastophic accident in the CCP Offices in the style of the Robbie Coltrane movie “The Pope Must Die”. A leftover open bottle of Brennivin hidden behind a filing cabinet...
View ArticleSeveneves – A Book Review
Seveneves is only a fitting title for the second half of this book. And yet, the first half of the book, in my opinion, is the better half. That might be down to my tendency to enjoy disaster/castaway...
View ArticleThe Best Sport: Pod and Planet entry
This is a story for the Pod and Planet fiction writing contest. I wanted to participate last year but didn’t get my story done in time. I’m excited to enter this year. Thanks to the judges and...
View ArticleBB 69: Because of Space-Magic!
Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 69th edition! For more details about what the blog banters are please visit the Blog Banter page. ————————————– Because of Space-Magic CCP...
View ArticleMinecraft: A project takes shape
A while back I ran out of Minecraft projects that I want to work on immediately, and sort of drifted away from it (in my nomadic fashion). But then one day my attention was drawn to this, for some...
View ArticleA Minecraft Project, part II
In my last installment, I described my idea for a villager bazaar with – ideally – at least one of each kind of villager, and enough of them to spawn an iron golem, which could then be harvested for...
View ArticleEve Online Blog Banter #71: Too Many Ships Spoil the Sandpit?
Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 71st edition! For more details about what the blog banters are please visit the Blog Banter page. Too Many Ships Spoil the Sandpit? We all...
View ArticleThe Player of Games – Review
My Eve alliance (A Band Apart) has a Slack chat system, and within it a channel called #books. I look to the folks therein to help me choose what next to read, and overwhelmingly they had great things...
View ArticleBlog Banter 72: The roadmap to…
Blog Banter 72 – This is the Road (map) to….. Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 72nd edition! For more details about what the blog banters are please visit the Blog Banter...
View ArticleEve Blog Banter 73 – The Other Eve Game?
Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 73rd edition! For more details about what the blog banters are please visit the Blog Banter page. Blog Banter 73 – The Other Eve Game? So...
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