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About Me
- Dàchéng
- Stormwind, Azuremyst Realm (EU)
- 大成
I'm a mage on the Azuremyst EU WoW realm. I started writing because I couldn't easily find many blogs relevant to beginners like me. I'm still writing just for the fun of it.
Blogs I Read
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Is this thing on? - Hi. It is November all of sudden and it has been 7 months since I last posted. Wow. Sorry about that one. A short and quick update: The stream is up and ...7 hours ago
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Fallout 76 Prototype X-01 Power Armor Crafting Guide - A guide to acquire and craft the Fallout 76 Prototype X-01 Power Armor. Prototype X-01 Power Armor Prototype X-01 Power Armor is one of the best Power Ar...8 hours ago
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World of Warcraft 14th Anniversary Celebration - We are past the middle of the month which puts us into the time when Blizzard starts celebrating the anniversary of the launch of World of Warcraft. While...9 hours ago
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Pictures On My Wall: OWW - *Occupy White Walls* is open for business at last. It took a while. Demand so outran expectations the servers were "*on fire*" according to the Steam page...10 hours ago
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FFXIV: Blue Mage – Thoughts on the First “Limited” Job - So now that the Fan Fest Live Letter officially dropped info on the new Blue Mage job coming in patch 4.5… let’s talk about it and what it means to be a “L...11 hours ago
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Getting Famous - I’m taking a little break from WoW this weekend to try out the new Sims 4 expansion Get Famous. It’s a lot of fun if you like the Sims. In this expansion I...13 hours ago
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TANKFEST 2019 - Well Bovington are starting the promotion early:- See the best display of historic moving armour in the world, 29 June – 1 July, at The Tank Museum, Bovin...13 hours ago
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Wheeled Vehicles Q&A on Wargaming FM - Wheeled vehicles are coming to World of Tanks, that no one can deny it and this week Wargaming did a Q&A about wheeled vehicles on Wargaming FM. We finall...15 hours ago
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What is in a Name? - Creating a code name for a project is tricky. You want something that is easy to remember but doesn't give away what the project is. On a few occasions dur...17 hours ago
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Pick-up Groups and MMOs - Star Trek Online has recently revamped group PVE activities and rebranded them Task Force Operations. These are just instanced events designed for five pla...1 day ago
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Lies my Parents Told Me - Something has fundamentally altered in the Azerothian landscape over the last couple of years. I’d be hard pressed to work Continue reading →1 day ago
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Pokemon: Let's Go Ballistic - As I have a Nintendo Switch, I am watching the most talked about releases on that platform. This week that would be Pokemon: Let's Go. And if you go to a s...1 day ago
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Sailing the seas (in MMOs) #IntPiPoMo2018 - This is a schedule post so please allow for a delay in any replies to comments. As I set off to sail around sunny islands in real life, I was reminded of t...1 day ago
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I got’em - I don’t even want to think about how long it took but now they’re mine! I joined a PuG for a fresh Temple run just on a whim. I had no expectations becaus...1 day ago
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What’s the Deal with Maintenance Windows? - Just a bit of a rant today… Yesterday morning I woke up in expectation to do some leveling with my Warden in Lord of the Rings Online. I had planned out ...1 day ago
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Happy 14th birthday, WoW! - Today marks the first day of a 2 week event to help celebrate World of Warcraft’s 14th birthday. As has become tradition, upon logging in today I received ...1 day ago
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New Stuffz - EQ2 released it's 14th expansion this week. It has a bit more bulk and outdoor/overland zones than the past two, so I love this aspect. There are many ...2 days ago
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FFXIV Shadowbringers Expansion and Blue Mage - FFXIV is having it's Fanfest this weekend, and it announced the latest expansion, Shadowbringers: I do like that FFXIV teases things, rather than stating ...2 days ago
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Bowing to Design - “Probability as a measurable degree of certainty; necessity and chance; moral versus mathematical expectation; a priori an a posteriori probability; expect...2 days ago
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Transmogrification Classic Last Day!! - Today is the absolute last day to get your entries in for the event! You only need to create 8 outfits – I am sure you can do that in a couple of hours. I...2 days ago
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The Eternal Blade Saga Book 2, Chapter 33: The Escape - We only had a moment to gather anything that was important to us. Everything of value to me was already on its way to the bank for safe keeping so I didn’...2 days ago
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LOTRO: I am all that is Minstrel - Lord of the Rings Online’s progression server proved to be so captivating that I haven’t been playing much of anything else this past week. That’s fine by ...2 days ago
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Hellgate Disappointment - If you have read my blog for any length of time you will know that I have a hot burning and undying love of the game Hellgate London. I played it original...2 days ago
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Cloth Uldir: Check! - Today’s run through the second wing was extremely gratuitious. I had a couple of weapons to go on cloth alts – a stave and a dagger, also shared by shaman ...2 days ago
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The End Comes for Nirn - I finished the endgame for the original portion of The Elder Scrolls Online yesterday. While the final battle at the endgame --and afterwards, your persona...2 days ago
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RDR2 – The Dream Dies - Plot spoilers? Can you actually do that for a prequel? RDR1 is the closing chapter of the American frontier, the end of the West. RDR2 is the same theme,...3 days ago
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Universalism Fallacy - I dunno if “universalism fallacy” is actually a thing that exists, but I’m making it exist courtesy of this post. I first started thinking about this when ...3 days ago
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LOTRO Legendary and other progression servers prove something - New post at the new place3 days ago
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S3E45 - Fallout 76 & Multiplayer Gaming - “Fallout With Friends” - *Fallout 76 & Multiplayer Gaming* In this episode: - Void has been playing Fallout 76, Red Dead Redemption, and Draglia Lost which has gotten him thi...4 days ago
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World of Tanks Reddit Q n A - Hey everyone! Wargaming NA helped set up an official Q n A on the World of Tanks sub reddit today with WG RU developers to answer a ton of questions. I...4 days ago
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WoW Classic Demo Coverage - I mentioned that I didn't buy a BlizzCon ticket myself but was very curious about what other people would have to say about the demo. Somewhat to my surpri...4 days ago
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Alligator - Here’s the SID tune I made for Vandalism News #68. It’s my second in GoatTracker and 8580 SID chip only. Thanks to Cris Ekstrand for recording it on a real...4 days ago
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PvP Pet battling vs Crooked - It was Pet Battle week last raid week, and Crooked told me it was a good time to get pet battling and get some of those PvP pet battle achieves done. I was...5 days ago
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TW:W2 – Curse of the Vampire Coast DLC thoughts - The latest DLC for Total War: Warhammer 2, “Curse of the Vampire Coast” is out, and I’ve been messing around with it for a bit. Overall its more of the sam...5 days ago
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Mailbag: Parts of an MMO - Hello Mr. Koster! I have a school project that requires the input of an expert like yourself. I know you usually don’t reply to students, but hopefully yo...5 days ago
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Great Moments in Trolling - NGU Idle is a relatively entertaining idle game. Its developer also explicitly trolls players in-game. There is a “troll challenge” where random annoying t...1 week ago
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The Impossible Thief - So a character concept I am utterly in love with, just in general, is that of the “impossible thief.” Basically, a thief that can steal more than just item...1 week ago
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Rethinking MMO Mobs - One downside of MMOs is that the sheer length of time we spend playing them can tend to serve as a microscope for any issues the game has. Minor annoyanc...1 week ago
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A lull at 3 months.. is it me or you? - My blog’s been quiet because I’ve been struggling to find positive things to say about WoW. My draft folder is full of posts with catchy titles such as ” W...1 week ago
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Blizzcon Thoughts: WoW Classic - I was never a hardcore player of MMORPGs. I had trouble setting into each and every one, and the only ones that I stuck with for any serious length of time...1 week ago
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Streaming Podcast tonight: Storybricks - We had a request to talk about Storybricks on the streaming podcast, so we'll do that tonight. We'll be starting around 8 PM Eastern and going for about ho...1 week ago
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All Things Geekery Podcast S2E11: Destiny 2 -The “DEEP FRIED” State of The Game - Welcome to Season 2 Episode 11 of the All Things Geekery Podcast: Destiny 2 – The State of The Game In this episode, the Geeks jump back into Destiny 2 and...1 week ago
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WoW Classic: Are you yearning for the good old, bad days? - As revealed during this year’s Blizzcon, WoW Classic is coming summer 2019 and will be part of the regular WoW subscription, with no additional costs to ...2 weeks ago
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BlizzCon 2018 Day 1 Thoughts - The first day of BlizzCon 2018 is in the bag, and well, opinions are a bit mixed, it seems. Thought I’d go over some of the announced content and talk abou...2 weeks ago
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Podcast 41: How Video Games Prepare You For Success - My guest and I explore how video games teach and reinforce skills psychologists have found to be important for success in work and life.2 weeks ago
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Game Review – Police Precinct - Ever wanted to know what it’s like to work for the police? Never could take that step into their shoes but always wanted to know what it was like? Police P...3 weeks ago
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Mythic+ Currency Added in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.1 - Battle for Azeroth has been strange for me, in regards to mythic+ dungeons. In Legion, the dungeons were fantastic, and with the exception of a couple, I e...3 weeks ago
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Island Expeditions – Pet Edition - Okay, sure there are cool mounts and transmog dropping from Island Expeditions but if you’re like me and in it mostly for the pets, you may just want a q...4 weeks ago
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The Story Goes On - What a nice long and enjoyable break from blogging after Blaugust. It wasn’t really my intention to take an entire month off following that craziness. It ...1 month ago
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Battle for Leveling - It's been a few weeks since the release of Battle for Azeroth, and I have finally completed leveling my Horde and Alliance character. As with most recent r...2 months ago
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Hunter Transmog: Dark Iron Hunter - It’s been a while since I did a transmog post, but now that I’m a Dark Iron Dwarf I’ve been trying out some new stuff. I posted this one on Twitter and a b...2 months ago
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Screenshot Saturday: This Week in Games - *Everquest 2* This fight took place in The Caves. I'm working the caves with my Fury. I'm trying to find my way up one more level from where I am, and wh...2 months ago
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Tholgrin’s Introductory Guide to Smacking Things, Part I: Attacking - Or, So You Want to Be a Melee Perhaps you’re new to Dungeons & Dragons Online. Perhaps you come from a long line of spellcasters and are just now branch...2 months ago
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Bittersweet - 2018 has been a very mixed bag so far. In March, my Father died. It was hardly out of the blue as he had lung cancer but still it managed to catch me off g...3 months ago
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The waning moments of Legion … - I find myself coming here and reading old posts. Back when stories were told and poems were frequent. Yeah, not by me, those other guys. I don’t like my la...4 months ago
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Artists of Azeroth Zine Contributions - Many, many moons ago, I submitted both writing and artwork to a World of Warcraft fanzine called ‘Artists of Azeroth’. Since the published hard copies are...4 months ago
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Darkstar in the Wattpad Rankings - Sorry that I haven’t been super active here lately. Most of my free-time creativity has been filtering towards making content for Second Life. I’m still po...5 months ago
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Tinker Bits III: Scourge of the Skies Steampunk Metal Meeples - OK, we’re live! Thank you all for stopping by and checking out the preview last time, and please spread the word on this project! We’re looking forward t...6 months ago
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Anniversary scavenger hunt guide – year 11 - Just when you thought they were done, they throw you one more, and these may be some of the most difficult and most widespread hunts we’ve seen. This set t...6 months ago
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Fifth Times the Charm – Pixels & Dice #64 - Today we talk about our experiences with “Dungeons & Dragons” 5th Edition, what we like, and how we feel it compares with some classic pen-&-paper roleplay...6 months ago
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The Blog Has Moved - Just a notice that posts will no longer be updated at this URL. If you would like to continue following the blog, and stay up to date on other content cre...7 months ago
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Happy (Con)trails - Well, well, this place has gotten a bit dusty. *looks at the last post* DECEMBER! I have been neglectful, even missing my blogoversary. True that RL has k...7 months ago
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Mortal Empires, Part XX - Druchii Incursions - Previous: *Mortal Empires, Part XIX - Star Crossed Lovers* With the Chaos invasion well in hand, Franz turned his attention to two other pressing matters. ...7 months ago
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Developer Tales: Aggressively Moderating Aggression - One of the things that I loved about my work on Eon Altar is it taught me a lot of other skills and brought to me many different experiences that I didn't ...8 months ago
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Rage Against the Barbarian - I have been thinking about barbarian a lot lately. As part of an endeavor begun here with the invoker, I have doing a fresh archetype pass for all the clas...9 months ago
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Thinking About Those NPC Alliances – Grey Moon - One thing that I have noticed in DDO is the number of alliances that our characters make with various NPC characters. One of these alliances is with the Gr...9 months ago
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Best of Both Worlds - I want to share an example of how where I game has a way of merging with where I live, where I vacation and where I choose to be when not “at the keyboard”...1 year ago
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Rumblings in the Nexus… - Um…hello again! Yes, yes, I know it’s been a while. An unconscionably long while. But last week (ish), as I’m sure you’re all aware, the Nexus stirred and ...1 year ago
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Postcards From Azeroth: July 2017 - Hi guys! I’ve been trying to convince myself to blog since my last post so give me a little slap on the hand for going so long. That’s how habits are for...1 year ago
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Pantry Name and Shame: Curry - This guest post was written Max Nash, who is on Twitter at Morality_Police. We’re also, like, married and stuff. Liore and I are in a never-ending war with...1 year ago
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Back? Maaaybe - Turns out self-hosting wasn’t such a great idea. Maybe I’ll start posting here again, now and then. Though probably not in rhyme.Filed under: Misc., Site T...1 year ago
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That’s it folks. - So my one year of Ancient Mana is coming to an end. After debating with myself if I wanted to pay for a new year, my laptop basically died. Meaning I had...1 year ago
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A Bedtime Story, or How I Came to Love Tuft & Needle, the Company and the Mattress - This blog was a restart for me when I moved back in with my parent’s a few years ago. My previous blog was so gaming-focused that real life never felt on-t...1 year ago
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My Secret Shaker Shame - I have a terrible confession to make: for all of my harping on over the years about how fad foods make me angry, I’ve succumbed to probably the worst fad...1 year ago
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The potential of the e-sports industry (and the people who don’t understand it) - Dear e-journal, Whilst my studies previously had a diminishing effect on my activity on Gamers Decrypted I am now finding that for the next two-three wee...1 year ago
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WoW Weekly: Dear Lord, It's Been a While - *WoW Weekly is a biweekly-ish, self-absorbed look into the things I've been doing inside the game and out. From mount farming and r...1 year ago
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Here Be Dragons - Pic opens in new tab: My Magic DragonKnight. He is the coolest ever :D I know “everyone” is stamina nowadays, but that´s no fun so we keep on going ;) I st...2 years ago
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The Story So Far - Art by SleepingFox - This is the story so far in pictures. What I played, what I enjoyed the most, and how things changed. It's weird to me that I have people in my guild that ...2 years ago
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Legion of love! - This morning I was reading a post on Blizzard Watch about act of kindness in wow. It struck a chord with me because I recently start to do some group conte...2 years ago
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Resetting Markets to Make Gold in Legion - First off, I guess I should explain what I mean by resetting markets. When someone tries to undercut the lowest price on the market but leaves a large gap ...2 years ago
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Legion is well done and I like it - *In fact, I play it a lot right now. Already 3 days /played at level 110.* Now, there’s a real possibility that it can’t keep me long-term, like every exp...2 years ago
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God Eater Resurrection: A Very Fantastic Value for $0 - Many, many months ago, Rhiss tried to talk me into playing two games together. One of them was Battleborn, where Rhiss failed. That one got to a point of “...2 years ago
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DDO Players – Mystic Vale Review - Mystic Vale comes to us from Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) On the surface it’s a Deck Building game, but like an onion (Side note I hate onions) it h...2 years ago
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Simply Understanding - In life you choose your path. There are things you don’t put in the way, but you choose to either hurdle them or avoid them. You can hurdle it by screaming...2 years ago
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The Division, Overwatch, and Occupying Time - Dear Reader, The Division continues to be denigrated in various media outlets, and I continue to play it and enjoy it all the same. I’ve been pretty consi...2 years ago
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WoW Token Pricing - I just saw something that makes me want to capture it in a post. Over on WoW Token Info. The buy price of a token in the U.S., today, is 41,699 gold. In Eu...2 years ago
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F*!#in' Up - What does World of Warcraft have in common with Microsoft? A general inability to do good expansions/OS releases one after the other. Using my rough calc...2 years ago
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Earn Cash While You Shop or Surf The Internet - One of the biggest problems of moving to a new country is finances. I can't work here in St Louis yet as my work permit is still processing and the cash ...2 years ago
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The Summer Wind ... - *... came blowin' in from across the sea* Time has moved on since the summer and we’re now smack in the middle of autumn. My summer this year was simply ma...3 years ago
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Gamescom 2015 Toys to Life Report - I spend most of my gaming time these days on toys to life franchises, which I am slowly introducing to my 2-year-old daughter as a way to populate her doll...3 years ago
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[Bloggy Xmas] [Gaming Communities] But above all, be kind! - Thanks to Syl at MMOGypsy for organising a BloggyChristmas Advent calendar and sequence of blogs. So we’re all going to be talking about community! Like a ...3 years ago
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The Big Project: WoW Machinima film starring Anna Chancellor, Jack Davenport, Joanna Lumley, and BRIAN BLESSED - So yes – the big project that took me away from the Melting Pot is FINALLY OUT! TRAILER – Death Knight Love Story Pt 1 – Jack Davenport, Anna Chancellor, J...4 years ago
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Not a chance. He's taking the fall for their internal culture coming to light.
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