Monthly Archives: March, 2010
Every Topic Under The Sun
There’s been a lot of little hot topics roaming around these here webs lately, and while none of them seem compelling enough to do a full-fledged article over, I thought I’d comment briefly on each: [deep breath] Facebook MMO Domination: All of the sudden, it seems that everyone’s fixating on Facebook as the “next big …
Happy Days in LOTRO
Just two things that made me really happy in LOTRO yesterday: I finally got my lifetime subscription! I won the spring lottery! I’ve never had a lifetime sub before, but knowing that I’m in LOTRO for the long haul makes it worthwhile to me — and I have the freedom to put it down when …
Middlers
For all of the shockingly many MMORPGs I’ve played over the past decade, it struck me last night how shockingly few of them I’ve ever leveled a character all the way to the end. That paltry list includes World of Warcraft (3 characters), Warhammer Online (1 character), and, um, um… I guess that’s it. Just …
LOTRO: A Trip to Bag End
Bag End is perhaps one of the most iconic fantasy homes of all time. In LOTR and The Hobbit, it functions much like taverns do in many a D&D tale: a launching point for a greater story, a meeting place for a party of adventurers, a place of exposition and groundwork. I’m a bit ashamed …
/AFK – PAX Empire Edition
Like a small virus unleashed by a monkey on an unsuspecting population, the Penny Arcade Expo has exploded into an unstoppable juggernaut of a gaming contagion. Well, at least we have the opportunity to be dazzled by pretty lights before we embrace the sweet taste of death. Corpse Run oogles Age of Conan with his …
In Which Syp Tells You To Go Elsewhere
Happy first day of spring, or as we celebrate it here in Michigan, little Ice Age! I’m sending you on a quest for 500 XP and a fancy baseball cap to check out a few things I’ve written this week. Yesterday, Massively posted both a LOTRO article I wrote on the Shire and a Fallen …
Picture of the Day
The No Elf Club is *always* sick of elves! But The Pixies is a pretty good band…
No, You Didn’t Invent This Class [classic repost]
I’m a guy and I do fall into the “know it all” trap at times. It’s partially an ego thing, because it feels good when you know more than someone else and you can show off that knowledge, and it’s partially because you feel like you’re in competition with everyone else so you don’t come …
