Kaylriene

A More Thorough Investigation of Crafting and Gathering in Final Fantasy XIV (The All-80 Edition)

So I did it, yesterday before going to bed. With Blacksmithing at 80, I now have a full slate of jobs at 80 on my FFXIV character!… Read more “A More Thorough Investigation of Crafting and Gathering in Final Fantasy XIV (The All-80 Edition)”

This is a post I’ve been thinking about for a while! Through the Sidenote series, something that comes up as a recurring theme of sorts is how… Read more “Sidenote: PS4, Xbox One, and AMD – The Dark Decade of Gaming Hardware”

I just watched most of the Sony livestream for the PS5, which included a handful of brief game trailers and then the thing I actually really wanted,… Read more “Immediate Impressions – The PS5 Future of Gaming Event”

This one is a short one, because I wanted to chronicle it and found it interesting. Over the course of this week, a series of photos purporting… Read more “Sidenote: The Leaked (Potential) Design of the Geforce RTX 3080”

My months-in-the-works post on how the starting experiences of MMOs are often a deterrent to new players prompted a lot of great discussion, but in particular, I… Read more “On Starting Experiences – Addendum 1 of 2 – Learning to Play (Or Not)”

A new week, more things to be hyped about, so lete’s go! FFXIV – All Things Tradeskill: I’ve been having a blast spending large chunks of my… Read more “Weekly Hype Train! Week of 6/9/2020!”

So I mentioned recently that I haven’t really been playing WoW. That has been true, a vast majority of my time in games has been in FFXIV.… Read more “Sometimes Home Is Where You Least Expect It – My Experience Leveling a WoW Alt Now”

Okay, so 27 years ago (no wait, it was January 2020), I promised a post on my experience playing Everquest II. What I’m about to say is… Read more “When The Starting Is Slow, No One Gets Started – MMOs and New Player Experience”

Hey, so this one is a smidge late. I have two items off the top – firstly, obviously, the world has kind of a lot going on… Read more “Hype Train for the Week of 6/2/2020”

I’m a night owl and can’t help it. I’ve aimed to do one creative thing a day as of late, and when that isn’t animating in Blender… Read more “A Random Set of 1 AM Musings About The Upcoming Shadowlands Stream and Blizzcon 2020 Cancellation”