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Tipa It’s crafting week in the MMO blogosphere. I hated EQ1 crafting, but have been a big fan of it in other games that treated crafting less as a pointless way to dispose of millions of plat and more as an important game mechanic. Tailor in DAoC; carpenter in FFXI Online; tailor and leathercrafter in WoW; … Read more
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
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
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
Aggro Me linked to a website for making your own inspirational posters. He shared some; here’s some of mine… from the perspective of a cleric in a raiding guild on EverQuest 1… Emeralds aren’t free, you know… It’s amazing how much you can get done in between presses of the Complete Heal key… Buh-bye!