Come for the games, stay for the drama.
This was the fight I mentioned a few posts back, the one that takes an hour. We opened with Venril Sathir, a fight we weren’t supposed to finish on the first pull, since the Leviathon timer from before hadn’t expired yet. Having the flag, I sat out and worked on redecorating my apartment with Dera … Read more
Monster’s Den is a nice enough little Flash game — you assemble a party, and go on to wtfpwn a randomly generated dungeon a la Rogue/Nethack/Moria and other similar games. Each room can contain nothing, treasure, a healing altar, or an encounter. One “boss” encounter per level can drop epic gear. The challenge to this … Read more
Yeah, i know the song isn’t THAT hard, and Stone Temple Pilots’ “Vasoline” in the same set was a lot harder, and this is mostly an endurance test with only a couple of “gotchas”, but still, this beats my previous solo score on this song by over a hundred thousand points and so… now that … Read more
I’d never done the Court of Korocust before. It’s a simple instance at the bottom of Chardok — collect three ground spawns and one mob drop, then summon a named, once for each member of the group. Fun part where you have to be sent to prison to collect one bit from a cell there. … Read more
When Wired ran a story headlined “Apple Plotting an Avon Power Play“, all I could think was, “Damn that Avon! Which side is he ON?”. Of course, he’s always on *his* side, but then I wondered why they mentioned Blake’s 7 in a “Cult of Mac” article. Turned out they meant the cosmetics company. Ouch. … Read more