WoW

he blessed the raids down in Africa

July 28, 2010

Shamus explores the Barrens. The whole zone is so clearly African savannah themed, that everytime I go there the Toto song plays in my head. And now, so will all of you! But I assume that the game designers were well aware of this possible connection when designing the quests. Look at the lyrics: I [...]

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a guild of their own

July 17, 2010

It’s amazing how many people I know who play World of Warcraft. Even Shamus is getting sucked back in I was thinking aloud a while back about how I’d love to start a guild named for Haibane Renmei. Most of my toons are Alliance, so I think a Horde guild would be fresher, and I [...]

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Wrath of the Lich King sale at Amazon

April 6, 2010

This is annoying, because I just bought it a few weeks ago for five dollars more – but Amazon has WotLK on sale for $29.99 right now. No idea how long that will last, so if you still haven’t snagged it, this is the time. After seeing Dalaran, I am SO over Shattrath City.

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Shamus boldly goes

March 20, 2010

Cool – Shamus is going to do Star Trek Online after he finishes up with LOTRO. I think his first character looks quite promising: I just got WotLK, so I think I will focus on WoW for now. But if theres another MMO I’d jump to, it would be ST:O, so this is great.

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Star Trek Online – temptation

March 9, 2010

UPDATE – the sale is over. Star Trek Online is now priced at $39 (still $10 off retail). It’s bad enough that I got hooked on World of Warcraft. Now I see Amazon is selling the new Star Trek: Online MMO for a ridiculous 45% off – $28instead of $50. Man, though, it looks cool. [...]

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Spider Man 4 dies so that Warcraft may live

January 17, 2010

I don’t really care about the news that the Spider Man franchise under Sam Raimi’s hand is over, except for the much more important fact that it frees Raimi to work on the Warcraft movie instead. As Harry says at AICN, I feel confident in saying that the next film we’ll see from Raimi is [...]

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Willow goes to Azeroth

December 29, 2009

Unfortunately I got stuck on the Earth for rather longer than I intended. I came for a week and was stranded for fifteen years. — Ford Prefect These words of warning apply equally well to Azeroth as Earth, as does the Guide entry which read in full, “Mostly Harmless”. That mostly bit is key, as [...]

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Razorfen Kraul

September 28, 2009

So, back in Azeroth I had a really enjoyable run through Razorfen Kraul with a winsome nelf priest friend of mine; the high point had to be the armada of snufflenose gophers we were parading arouund. The low point was getting those gophers to actually do their job. My warrior is level 34, on the [...]

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Azeroth and Anathem

September 22, 2009

Now that Ramadan has ended, I’m taking up my geeky pursuits again. I’ve got a copy of Anathem from the library and added some game time back to my Warcraft account. I have to confess that it’s a hard choice Just saw the movie 17 Again starring teen heartthrob Zac Ephron and former teen hearthrob [...]

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your age vs your level

August 15, 2009

As my main character’s level approaches my age, I am struck by how the leveling process is both a metaphor for youth and also an escapist fantasy. In life, as you age you get stronger, faster, smarter – up to a point, and then you plateau out, and then gradually decline in most of those [...]

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