Stories
8 entries. 9,810 words.
2012-07
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UltrViolet in The Secret World.
2012-07-07.
This is what my main character looks like in The Secret World.
He makes me laugh whenever I look at him. I just wish I could have made him with a pot belly.
FYI combining shotgun and sword seems like a bad idea, now that I’ve already committed to it. I was going to use the shotgun for AoE attacks and the sword for single-target attacks, but there’s no compelling need to split them up like that.
- MMORPG
- Stories
- Theory
2014-04
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Trying New Things In May.
2014-04-30.
The Newbie Blogger Initiative runs through May, so, to celebrate, I thought I would try a couple of new things and see what happens.T-Day StreamingI’m going to do a regular stream during the month of May. The stream will run Tuesdays and Thursdays at roughly 7:00 PM Eastern Time for about an hour, starting on May 1. You can find me at http://twitch.tv/endgameviable.Why would I do such a crazy thing? Well, everyone else is doing it, and we are all slaves to trendiness.
- Administration
- Stories
- Streaming
2014-05
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ArcheAge – Austera Trade Run.
2014-05-29.
As an elf, in order to get your 16×16 farm design in ArcheAge, you have to complete four Trade Run quests. I’m assuming it’s the same for humans, and basically the same pattern if you’re one of the Eastern factions. (I don’t know of any other ways to buy these scarecrow plots … I have seen people with multiple plots but I don’t know how they got them. I haven’t been able to find them for sale on Mirage Isle.
- MMORPG
- Status
- Stories
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ArcheAge – PvP Jamboree.
2014-05-30.
I got a chance to experience a little bit of large-scale PvP during the ArcheAge Livestream: Beyond Bloodlust a while back. They invited everyone to go to Halcyana to fight it out while they talked about PvP.
Since I’m not feeling terribly witty or verbose, here are some screenshots to commemorate the event:
The battlefield. Tab, shoot, tab, shoot, tab, shoot.
Returning to the battlefield after getting killed.
The inevitable result of all PvP in every MMORPG.
- MMORPG
- Status
- Stories
2015-08
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A Dream About Enemy Base Infiltration.
2015-08-03.
Blaugust Day 3
It’s Sunday morning as I write this. I had the strangest dream last night. That’s not unusual because, honestly, a lot of my dreams are strange. I think the scientific explanation of dreaming* involves your subconscious re-processing things you’ve experienced, but that doesn’t explain a lot of my dreams. Quite often I see things in my dreams that I have no memory of ever seeing, hearing, or experiencing before.
- Musings
- Stories
- Writing
2016-08
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LotRO Volume 1, Book 11: The Search for Narchuil.
2016-08-31.
For the one or two folks out there looking for non-Legion posts, over the weekend I completed another book in LotRO: Volume 1, Book 11.
(Spoilers ahead if for some reason I’m not the last person in the world to do these quests from c. 2007.)
LotRO is a great game to play in the morning with your coffee when you don’t have anything pressing to do for a few hours.
- MMORPG
- Status
- Stories
2016-11
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An Election Day Tale.
2016-11-09.
This is a long tale of my voting experience this morning. I tried to keep it entirely non-partisan and focus on what I saw, heard, and felt, but if you don’t want to risk it, feel free to skip. (But in return, you have to read every other one of my posts for the rest of time! Just kidding.) I wrote this fairly quickly by my standards, and normally I would spend about four years editing something this long, but I wanted to post it before the results started coming in.
- Politics
- Stories
- Writing
2019-01
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The Fall of Bekarlogem – Dwarf Fortress.
2019-01-20.
I imagine if you draw a Venn diagram of “people who play Dwarf Fortress” and “people who are programmers,” the two circles would overlap quite a bit. Unfortunately for me, I’m a programmer, so I think I’m more vulnerable to this DF sickness than most people. Playing the game is quite a bit like using a text editor, considering how much you use the arrow keys to select things in rhythmic patterns.
- RPG
- Single-Player
- Stories