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Tipa EQ2 Community Relations manager Ryan “Blackguard” Schwayder is leaving SOE to return home to Denver. Ryan was an expert navigator of those turbulent waters that separate the devs and the players. He was a player, and just wanted to help make a fun game. His humor, intelligence and enthusiasm was contagious in his official and … Read more
I was originally going to do a few blogs; one for gaming, one for Linux/IT/work stuff, and one just for personal stuff. Instead it all got glommed into this one! Probably a mistake, but whatever… I was reading an article on Linux.com about some guy’s experience with Gentoo and why he moved to Debian. I … Read more
With the new expansion coming out tomorrow, Crimson Eternity has been busting its butt trying to get as much progression as possible done before the pause as everyone levels to 75. This has meant near daily Demiplane of Blood raids as well as quick excursions to older places like Anguish and our old friends in … Read more
I promise, I’ll get back to fun EQ2 (and EQ1!) stuff soon. Just… well, I usually prepare and write the blog entries on Baphomet, whom you may remember as my Linux computer. Ever since I accidentally updated a file I didn’t mean to update, Baph has been getting sicker and sicker. First Amarok wouldn’t play … Read more
So… that postcard I made a few days ago and wrote about here is ready to be mailed. But the printers say our address list has some bad postal codes; in particular, Canadian postal codes have had the last digit truncated. A little investigation, and I find out what’s happened. Our obviously US-centric database restricts … Read more