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Why Seek Spoilers – The Effect of Datamining

Last night, I went on a little expedition online. I knew that FFXIV had datamining, but that its role was pretty constrained because the game’s data is… Read more “Why Seek Spoilers – The Effect of Datamining”

The wait for the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Endwalker, is about to get very, very exciting. First and foremost, there are just eighty days remaining before… Read more “Endwalker in Eighty Days – The Road Ahead”

The Shards of Domination system is a damn-near perfect microcosm of the kind of problems that modern Blizzard has with game design. That is what makes them… Read more “The Shards of Domination – A System-Solution to a Blizzard-Made Problem”

I know that right now is technically Lessons Learned week, and I’m supposed to write something about all the things I learned doing Blaugust this year and… Read more “Blaugust Day 29?! One Last Motivation Post”

It’s been a while since I sat down and wrote a post that was solely about the ongoing ATVI lawsuit from the state of California. Until such… Read more “The Ongoing Activision-Blizzard Lawsuit”

I want to start this post very simply – I really, really enjoy Final Fantasy XIV. I think it is a fantastic MMO and a breath of… Read more “Great Community, By The Way – The Other Side of Toxicity”

Okay, so when I went to bed…this morning, let’s be real, I was expecting to write a very, very different post today. I was gonna talk about… Read more “The Good, Great, Really Good News of Patch 9.1.5”

It’s been nearly two months of patch 9.1 in WoW now. One of the big, marquee features of Shadowlands was Torghast – this attempt at bringing a… Read more “Revisiting Torghast 2.0 – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly”

One of the things I think is both really good but also sometimes bad about the internet as a set of technologies, is that it never forgets.… Read more “Staying Motivated – Documenting Growth”

It’s Staying Motivated week for Blaugust 2021, and for me, today marks a pretty good occasion to discuss why I write. However, if I write all of… Read more “Staying Motivated – Extrinsic Motivation (A Blaugust 2021 Theme Post)”