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The Long-Form Storytelling of World of Warcraft and Where it Fails – My Definitive Sylvanas Redemption Rant

I love nerdy shit. Let’s be real, as my blog here has grown, I’ve expanded topics a lot from WoW guides and theorycrafting to WoW analysis, to… Read more “Sidenote: I Got A New Smartphone, So I Have Thoughts on SOC Reviews and Hardware Platforms (Ramble Incoming)”

In part 1 of this series, I discussed the history and implementation of Mythic Plus, and the core ideology of the mode of play. In part 2,… Read more “The State of Mythic Plus Part 3/3: Where We Go From Here, In WoW Or Other Games”

Yesterday, I wrote a big honking post with the history and explanation of Mythic Plus dungeons and some general pros and cons to them as I saw… Read more “The State of Mythic Plus Dungeons, Part 2/3: Season 1 of Shadowlands”

I am often stuck feeling rather conflicted about my enjoyment of games made by modern-day Blizzard Entertainment. On the one hand, there was a point in time… Read more “Some Analysis Of Blizzard As Sinking Ship, Based On The Recent Departures”

Over the last 5 years or so, a new mode of play has created an additional pillar in World of Warcraft’s endgame content – Mythic Plus (or… Read more “The State of Mythic Plus Dungeons, Part 1/3: Their History and Current Implementation”

When the beta for Shadowlands started, with me in the first wave of invites, one of the first things I had a strongly negative opinion of was… Read more “The Maw – A Pre-9.1 Design Analysis and My Review”

Instead of a spoiler-laden post about the content of patch 5.5 (it’s pretty good!), I wanted to start with the nerdy stuff I was unironically more excited… Read more “Sidenote, Sorta: The Technical Enhancements of Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5”

Chains of Domination hit the PTR yesterday, which I’ve already written a little bit about. Today, though, after some more hours put in (until a quest bug… Read more “The Downsides of Patch 9.1 So Far, As Told By The First PTR Build”

I was so determined that FFXIV was going to get my attention today, and yet, I haven’t logged in yet and I’m fiending for 9.1 so much… Read more “The Highlights, Midlights, and Low Lights of the Early Patch 9.1 Datamining and PTR Play”