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A nice, crispy salad

So I’m here at work, eating my lunch (a chicken strip salad, if you must know), and contemplating my future with gaming. Not that you really needed to know that, but I thought I would share. Anyway, regarding that salad… 1 Half bag of chopped lettuce 1 medium Tomato, diced 1 Chicken strip, cooked Cook […]

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Well, that didn’t last long

Recently, I have talked about my desire to return to “World of Warcraft”, despite all of my disdain for Blizzard and the game itself. I talked about “Addictive Nostalgia”, the recurring nature of cycling from one MMORPG to the next, and so on. In the end, I found it to be a near-certainty that I […]

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So, now what, LOTR-fans?

If you have been living under a rock, as I mostly am, Amazon cancelled their planned “Lord of the Rings”-based MMORPG, after they had difficulty renegotiating contracts with Tencent. Well, that sucks. But it also raises a lot of questions for LOTR-fans, who were eagerly awaiting this title. First off, where do we go from […]

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Someone hand me an icepick!

Someone please tell me… Is it too late to start pushing overly positive reporting on various MMORPGs? This is going to sound a bit odd, I’m sure, but it seems like I have a bit of a problem with my coverage of gaming, especially the Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games, which used to be what […]

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Running out of Patience

What the heck happened to the “Lord of the Rings Online” Community Management team? Over the last few years, the LOTRO forums have been a shining example of “How Not To Manage An Online Community”, with their CMs being either apathetic, passive-aggressive, or outright rude to players there. They treat nearly every post from players […]