Septic woes

ADMIN NOTE: Sorry, everyone. One of the “joys” of owning a house in the woods is that sometimes major maintenance needs to be done. This time around it involves septic pump and drain field, and necessitates things like dealing with the county for permits and inspections, getting Verizon to relocate their cables, arranging for driveway …

On a more positive note…

Though some of you may not believe it, I tend to have decently realistic self-awareness. I am acutely aware of most of my shortcomings, and I have a pretty good idea of how I come across to people, both in my writing and in my social encounters. Thus, periodically, I look back at my blog …

Gear again (sorry)

The more time that passes in WoW, the more I appreciate the Mists of Pandaria expansion. Lots of reasons for this — it was the last great one for hunters, there was no nonsense about spending a year in “immersion” before you could fly, we had the awesome noodle cart, I loved my little Sunsong …

When raiding dies

Last night we made 25 attempts to kill heroic Uu’nat in Crucible of Storms. Notice the term “attempts” — no, we did not kill him. We managed to scrape up 15 raiders, and Blizz had even made a few minor nerfs to the fight aimed at smaller raid groups. But still we were unsuccessful. We …

The Reforging Paradox

Over the past few expansions, Blizz has developed what I consider to be a condescending and patronizing brand of gaslighting that is really starting to grate on me. For want of a better term, I will refer to it as the Reforging Paradox, named after an early example of the phenomenon. That is, back at …

Memorial Day 2019

  This is a game blog, and I studiously try to avoid making it anything else. But each year I post this Memorial Day message, because I used to be a soldier, and some of my brothers and sisters in arms are gone from us forever because they made the greatest sacrifice a human can. I …

Perspective

I am sometimes accused of hating this game, usually something along the lines of, “You clearly hate the game, why don’t you just quit playing?” I don’t really mind the accusation — I can see where people who do not know me and just read this blog once in a while might get that idea. …