EQ1 Progression Servers

Why would someone want to restart from scratch on the EverQuest progression servers? To be challenged, and to compete. Current content is so hard and tedious and it breaks people. Being the first to gear up and take down Vox and Nagafen – I predict both will be dead within a month – is something … Read more

Faves Changes

Removed Dead Ranger blog. Guess the Dead Ranger finally got tired of waiting for Vanguard. Removed the Prophetic Fate link. I took down the message board for the guild – I hosted it here – so the link no longer worked anyway. Guild was dead. Removed my Java Applets page. I do need to get … Read more

Down… er… Up With Pooterism!

Whilst perusing (it’s important to use Britlish when talking about) the BBC NEWS website, I read an article about blogging; in particular their own blog. Down With Blogs! they screamed. Including their own. But what was this mention of something called “Pooterism”? Journalists have their own takes on blogs – broadcaster Mark Lawson, for one, … Read more

Speaking to Nagafen

Five hours. Multiple trips into the pre-expansion EQ2’s end game zone. And more kindness and generosity than I had any right to expect. And yet I encounter that time and time again in EQ2. I belong to a no-name guild, driftwood they acquired when Eternal Carnage merged with them, and everyone but me left again. … Read more

Blue Oyster Cult and EQ2

Anyone who knows me knows my favorite rock band… Blue Oyster Cult. My kids love them, too, because growing up, what choice did they have? My daughter claimed “Hot Rails to Hell” was her favorite song when she was little; my son still sings along to “Godzilla” (and guess what song ALWAYS has to appear … Read more