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Heading into April, I was pretty impressed with the trading post this month. Both garden-themed mounts were excellent, with the arboreal snail being the standout. And what Harry Potter fan wouldn&#

Not willing to part with LOTRO entirely, I went a week or so go by and then dipped back in to make a little adventuring progress on my Minstrel. I see that Update 48 and its new zone is in testing,

It's 6:30 am. Groggy and waking up, I head into the basement and put in the earbuds of my iPod Nano 7th gen before getting on my exercise bike for a half-hour spin. The random assortment of 4 ...

When my gaming PC was knocked out of commission permanently last week, it threw me for a loop. Suddenly, I didn't have access to most of my MMOs and other games and had to make do while I sta ...

I think it's high time for another Rimworld adventure -- and another crack at its hard mode, Naked Brutality, where I start with a single character who has no gear, no clothes, no resour ...

Around the turn of the century, I juked pretty hard into CRPGs -- and later, MMORPGs -- and left JRPGs in the dust. I know that they kept coming out and still do today, but I was satisfie ...

Last Christmas, my father-in-law -- a tech geek if there ever was one -- absolutely surprised me with the gift of an Airpods Max. At first I was kind of lost for what to do with it, as I ...

March 2026 in review Not that you need to be privy to my personal life, but March was simultaneously one of the more difficult and more packed months I've had in a long time. With all of that ...

Instead of kicking off today's blog post with more adventures in MMOs, I have to announce the sad demise of my gaming computer. The other night I heard some very disturbing noises and my hard ...

Taking a week off LOTRO definitely helped to relieve some of that internal pressure to progress and perform, but I didn't want it to be long-term. With another zone on the horizon, I didnR ...