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Sanctum of Domination – 9/10 Heroic, Some Thoughts

Early in the raid tier, my thoughts on Sanctum of Domination were a little scatter-shot. I’d been pugging it and doing things very inconsistently – a boss… Read more “Sanctum of Domination – 9/10 Heroic, Some Thoughts”

There’s something vaguely interesting about the idea of blogging in 2021. On the surface, it’s a dead format, right? Long-form thoughts? Psh. Everyone has microblogging or vlogging.… Read more “Blaugust 2021 – Lessons Learned Part 3: Blogging and Community in 2021 and What I’ve Gained From Them”

During Blaugust, most of us end up throwing up some buzzer-beater posts. You’re maybe not sure if it works, or if it feels right, but you’re on… Read more “Blaugust 2021 – Lessons Learned Part 2: My Best Performing Blaugust 2021 Posts”

“Content” feels sort of arms-length to the actual stuff I wrote in the last month, but as Blaugust enters the wind-down week, I wanted to break my… Read more “Blaugust 2021 – Lessons Learned Part 1: The Content I Wrote”

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”

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”