The new WoW update included lots of new options for transmogs for gear. After way too much time thinking and playing, I got my Level 100 Blood Elf Hunter some sexy new gear:


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WHY WE’RE WINNING: SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS AND THE NEW CULTURE WAR

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The routine, the arguments, have become far too familiar. A woman or a handful of women are selected for destruction; our ‘credibility’ and ‘professionalism’ are attacked in the same breath as we are called ugly, slut-shamed for dismissed either as stupid little girls or ( Read more... )

So yesterday I got a text from Todd who apologized for not having sent an xmas present because he hadn't finished it and because he actually wanted my help with it.... Which is, we're making a game. We're making an Early Modern Poets Battlecard game ( Read more... )

"Do You Want to Date My Avatar?" / The Guild

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So downloaded a huge new patch for WoW. I'm so prepped for Wrath of the Lich King, and only four bubbles left to go before I hit 70 ( Read more... )

Another full house this weekend, though under better circumstances mostly. Scott's Aunt Dorothy and cousin Ethan came to visit as Ethan had a scholarship tour of A&M through the weekend. We also have our friend Melanie staying with us for the moment due to unpleasant sewage issues at her home. It's fun though--kind of like having a small party all ( Read more... )

Here.

Quite cute actually. Too bad he doesn't realize people still play it these days. (Scott found the link while searching for online tabletop gaming links.)

Da-yamn it is WoW-like.

Today we finished binding all our printings. We each got about four copies of "An Account of the Death of Thomas Hitchens," two of John Smith's "On Composing," and two on "A Sermon on the Death of George the II." Then we took a quiz, cleaned a lot, played Quadrats, and had pizza ( Read more... )

Memorial to Gary Gygax hereResearch going well. I'm finishing up a short article about the school's SF collection for submission to JFL, and my next project is a history article "50 Years of Texas Cons." Y'know, the fun ones with the geekery, not the, er, scary ones ( Read more... )