EQ: Oceangreen Hills and Oceangreen Village

I’ll say straight out that I can be slow sometimes. Even after all the clues from the last update, even after I knew that the Herald of Druzzil Ro would be sending me into Norrath’s past, I didn’t really connect the dots, right away. I landed in a place called Oceangreen Hills, and the area … Read more

EQ2: GU49 live!

Via Taymar at MMORPG Info (always a fantastic place for information about EQ2 and other games), EQ2’s game update 49 — the last one before the expansion — is live. GU49 introduces guild halls, multicore support, and more. Perhaps another chapter in the Anashti Sul world event? I THOUGHT they were doing a tailoring update … Read more

EQ2: The return of Anashti Sul?

The EverQuest 2 GU48 world quest deals with, from the evil side, anyway, discovering who is responsible for the death of a Qeynosian Seeress who died mysteriously just before she was to make a pronouncement. All the signs point to work by Bertoxxulous’s disciples, but the high priest of the god of disease swears that … Read more

How to tell if you’re a coder, part 1.

Step 1: Start browsing the games Xfire claims are installed on your system and come across a children’s version of that old game, Mastermind: Step 2: Spend 15 minutes writing a program in Python to solve it for you. Step 3: Suddenly realize you missed the point of the puzzle in the first place 😛 … Read more