Sometime ago, Blizzard announced Real ID, a system where people could communicate with their friends in ways that were previously impossible. If you had permission (which is to say someone's email address and the ability to get them to say yes) you could talk to them with Real ID regardless of faction, realm, or game. The first two only really ( Read more... )

Car exploded a little bit. Power steering's gone. I don't know how serious (read: expensive to repair) the problem is. I'd like some suggestions as to a long term solution.

Thanks!

I want to say I had a great time at PAX, and I did, but that's not the whole truth.

The truth is I'm not really sure what I'm feeling, only the broad stroke that I don't like it.

We'll see where we go from here. Maybe I just need food.

Normally, I am staunchly anti-pirate. Being of a ninja-like persuasion (one might say ninjesque), pirates have no place in my heart. They are sea rats and brigands, barely fit for those floating masses of jetsam they call "ships". However, even pirates are afforded a port of safe harbor with me, sometimes ( Read more... )

I want to take some time out of your busy gaming schedule to talk about a couple of things: Child's Play and Heroes Without Borders ( Read more... )

Let's talk about responsibility.

There are very few things in life we have to do, and they mostly include automatic responses from our nervous system. That being said, there are things we should do, and we largely lump these things together in a category of things we call "being responsible". These involve getting a job, paying your taxes, ( Read more... )

This is a blog written by a gamer. This is a blog designed to be read by gamers, and to be contributed to by gamers. I want gamers to connect over this, and maybe get some enjoyment and some thoughtful discussion going about this blog. That's my hope ( Read more... )

Both of my families (the one I was born into and the one I chose) are pretty awesome ( Read more... )

This week, patch 3.3 went live for WoW. MMO-Champion had been predicting it for a while, and we all knew it was going to be messy and chaotic like patches often are, but out of the stampede of players, clamoring to get new content, something amazing arose. In the hubbub and the hoopla of tens of thousands of people trying to storm the new five-man ( Read more... )

Gaming wouldn't exist today without the internet. It has changed the way we share information, the way we communicate, and the way we live our lives, totally and completely. Gaming in particular is affected thanks to ability to play online, and to share information about games in such diverse mediums as IRC channels or blogs. Working at an ISP, I ( Read more... )