2020 as a year is going to be the butt of jokes for a long, long time. It was a thoroughly exhausting, sometimes sad and depressing year… Read more “Looking Ahead – Some 2021 Predictions for WoW, FFXIV, and Gaming Technology”
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Alts and the Threads of Fate – My First Shadowlands Alt at Max Level
It’s the demon hunter namesake of the blog, which still feels weird. So over the last weekend, I leveled and geared my Demon Hunter, my second character… Read more “Alts and the Threads of Fate – My First Shadowlands Alt at Max Level”
MMO Controllers and You – My Summary of Two Weeks Using The Azeron Classic Gamepad After 11 Years of the Logitech G13
MMO controllers seemed like they could be the next big growth market in PC peripherals. Those hopes were high in 2009 when Logitech released the first G13s… Read more “MMO Controllers and You – My Summary of Two Weeks Using The Azeron Classic Gamepad After 11 Years of the Logitech G13”
Sidenote: The Hilariously Simple and Dumbfounding Way In Which I Now Have a Geforce RTX 3080
It was a Friday like any other in the COVID-19 world. At 12:32 PM PST, one of the technology inventory tracking Discords I follow went off. An… Read more “Sidenote: The Hilariously Simple and Dumbfounding Way In Which I Now Have a Geforce RTX 3080”
Loot Is Loot – A Look At Shadowlands Rewards Today and What The Future May Hold
Loot is loot is an overriding, new/old philosophy that the WoW team has put into full effect with Shadowlands. With Warforging systems all the way up to… Read more “Loot Is Loot – A Look At Shadowlands Rewards Today and What The Future May Hold”
Sidenote: My Hilarious, Awful, But Amusing Experience Trying and Failing to Get a Radeon RX 6900 XT
This last Tuesday, I had a mission. On Monday night, I took a sleep aid, passed out at 7 PM, and waited to awaken early on Tuesday… Read more “Sidenote: My Hilarious, Awful, But Amusing Experience Trying and Failing to Get a Radeon RX 6900 XT”
A Guide To Soloing Torghast, Tower of the Damned
Something of an interesting theme has been developing in comments I’ve seen regarding the reception of Torghast in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. My impression has been very… Read more “A Guide To Soloing Torghast, Tower of the Damned”
The First Runs of Castle Nathria
This week was my guild’s first serious raid in about 7 or 8 months. First tier raids are always sort of…odd. They tend to be weighty things… Read more “The First Runs of Castle Nathria”
Shadowlands: The First Alt-Friendly Expansion Start in Years
Something has been sort of clicking about the design of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, since I’ve been level 60 and playing around on my new raid main.… Read more “Shadowlands: The First Alt-Friendly Expansion Start in Years”
Sidenote: The Abysmal Supply of PC DIY Components in Late 2020
As I noted in my last Sidenote post about my own system build, I am at the point a lot of builders are currently – waiting for… Read more “Sidenote: The Abysmal Supply of PC DIY Components in Late 2020”