In a game where you have multiple choices on character archetypes to play, be it D&D or Pathfinder or Warcraft or any RPG, the concept of "balance between the class options" is a dangerous and seductive fun-killer.

Put simply, if one were to successfully balance all possible options between a number of classes so they're all equally balanced with ( Read more... )

OMG!

The best update for World of Warcraft since the day they gave raptors jump and swim animations! With the new patch, there are RAPTOR HATCHLINGS to be collected as pets!

There's a buncha other stuff in this patch too, but all that garbage PALES.

RAPTOR BABIES!!! OMG SO CUTE! MUST GATHER THEM ALL!!!!!

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So it looks like Sam Raimi is going to be the director for the World of Warcraft movie.

I go on record now proclaiming this to be the best video game movie of all time. Because Sam Raimi is awesome. But I do wonder how he's going to sneak his car into the movie...

So I switched to a Mac last December after my PC died and the backup PC died. Probably, partially at least, because with a PC you can upgrade parts and if you're like me and your computer building skills have atrophied, you're good at breaking stuff or not putting things together right ( Read more... )

It's my least favorite part of my favorite season of the year: Snow day. It's not a lot... maybe an inch or two, but it's enough to make driving treacherous. Not only due to the icy roads + the frequent steep hills, but because everyone else on the road is coping with the same problem. Snow's a magnifier; it magnifies bad drivers' habits, and there ( Read more... )

AUGH!

Downloading the new patch for World of Warcraft (the patch that's the preview for the new expansion, so it's Kinda a Big Deal), but my DSL is stupid slow. I've been forced to download manually from a non-blizzard source, and while that allowed me to avoid the 12 hour download the Warcraft client was giving me... it's still a 4 hour download.

I' ( Read more... )

I hit this point with World of Warcraft a half year or so before the last expansion. I've pretty much done everything there is to do in the game without taking it up to the next step (join a big raiding guild to do the giant end-game dungeons... no thanks), and alternate characters tend to bore me. Fortunately, Age of Conan's coming out in about a ( Read more... )

So my primary World of Warcraft server is Kilrogg, which apparently has problems during peak play hours maintaining stability. I say "apparently" because I usually miss the peak hours because I play the game later at night. In any event, I've had relatively no problems with the game (be it lag, obnoxious other people, or instability). I'm not sure ( Read more... )