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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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But they didn’t actually announce the expansion itself, which seems odd. They have two posts up covering features of the upcoming Wolves of Mordor expansion, as well as having given MMORPG.com an exclusive interview about the features, but didn’t actually make any sort of fuss about “Oh, by the way, we’re going back to Mordor with the Wolves of Mordor” thing.
Lord of the Rings Online
Sure, they mentioned it, even gave a bit of insight, but it was absolutely not a full throated announcement of co…
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Aywren's Nook - Gaming and Geek Blog
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In a previous video I where talked about social anxiety in FFXIV, one of the top responses I heard was that folks wanted to roleplay, but either didn’t know how to start or were too afraid to try it. I pulled together a number of tips based on my own experience, and suggestions of others in the RP community, to make this follow-up video.
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These days, my primary "third place" is my local game store (LGS).
For those unfamiliar, an LGS is a small independent retailer of physical gaming merchandise that can include board games, card games, tabletop games, and role-playing games. Not every LGS serves all of these categories of gaming in great depth, but most will carry at least a few product lines of all of the major brands in each space. If you're new, you'll probably be able to get what you need to get started in whatever floats you…
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Endgame Viable
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Morning! It’s a gray and dismal rainy start to this Monday morning, the start of another work week. And, for me, the start of a new work sprint.
I already regret putting the Blaugust day in the post titles. I was trying to make it easier for anyone counting, but it really looks ugly.
MRI Complete
Yesterday I drove clear to the other side of the city to get an MRI on my neck. I drove a complete circuit around the circular bypass highways around the city.
The MRI itself was uneventful, and took ab…
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theTangentSpace
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Earlier this year I found myself suddenly coveting a retro handheld, possibly thanks to reading about joelchrono’s adventures with them. If you’re not familiar, they’re small gaming devices, typically running Linux or Android, that are designed to play old games from an SD card. It’s a pretty crazy market — there are several Chinese companies churning out multiple new models each year, and usually when you buy one it comes with thousands of games pre-loaded, which these Chinese companies obvious…
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Cubic Creativity
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Since Planeswalker Decks seem to always come out in pairs, here is the flipside to the Planeswalker Deck “Chandra, Pyrogenius”, which was all about going Aggro with vehicles. The Planeswalker Deck “Nissa, Nature’s Artisan” takes a slightly different approach, being … Continue reading →
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fyr.io - Everything (title & summary)
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Why am I doing Blaugust? Answering the week one prompts!
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Lyons in Beta
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I've been wanting to redesign my website for some time. The turn-key 11ty "starter blog" I was using before was probably perfectly editable, but who wants to try and understand someone else's mistakes when you can start from scratch and make all of your own mistakes! At the same time, ever since I stopped streaming[1] (which was fun in its own right but was mainly to support podcasting) I've been missing the design-y aspect of streamer layouts. Two great problems that go great together right? I…
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Earlier this week at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, the State Department showed a map of Africa with six countries highlighted. Each country was identified incorrectly along with the funding amounts. Reuters suggested it was created with OpenAI tools; the State Department took “full responsibility” and blamed a “team member.” At least, … Continue reading Basic Geography →
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MMO Casual
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I didn't start with Vanilla. I know that's practically heresy in some circles, but it's the truth. The expansion that actually pulled me into World of Warcraft and never let go was The Burning Crusade.
Picture where I was. Everybody I knew was already max level, already geared, already talking about a game I'd never touched. So I rolled a character and started the long grind to 60, through the same Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor zones that hadn't really been touched in a while by everyone else. T…
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Words of the AgingGamer
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Avowed is an expansive RPG by Obsidian, the folks who developed Fallout New Vegas and the Pillars of Eternity series. Set in the same world as PoE, Avowed places you in the boots of a Godlike who has been chosen by the Emperor of the Aedyr Empire to figure out what is going on with the Dream Scourge, a plague affecting the Living Lands.
I am not considering this post as a full “review” of Avowed as I am writing it several months after completing the game. My memory is flawed and I don’t think it…