Juxtaposed Life

Last night, or shall I say early this morning, I had another fun play session in Lord of the Rings Online. This time I was playing my new hunter a human female names Laurwynn. I went with human again for two reasons: First my daughter wanted “my girl” to look a bit like her. We…

This post was born when I realized my last post started in with my character at level 6, and did not talk at all about the processes to get there. When I first saw the thread on Quarter to Three, I got my client patched up. It took a while but was a painless process;…

Tom Chick, over at Quarter to Three, proposed an Lord of the Rings game night where once a week forumers would come together in the virtual world of Lotro and adventure together. I played Lotro for about a month at launch, and while I had fun I felt alone. See none of my regular online…

The other day my inbox greeted me with a message from SWG. Apparently as a part of a promotion my account has been re-activated, and I was invited to come back and give the game some attention. Overwhelmed with emotion, I rushed back. Ok, maybe not overwhelmed, but there was a bit of emotion; fear.…

I really dislike achievements in wow that are not really things players achieve, but instead are more like battles against the random number generator. Seriously, if we are going to have such items on the achievement list they should have a dynamic value assigned to them. What I mean is if I catch a “rare”…

Yesterday I opened the door to Twitter and with that I am now connected to facebook, twitter, this blog, my various emails, and linkedin. I am starting to wonder how much is too much connectivity. *shrug* I do know that all this instant communication and inter connectivity does make me want a phone with internet…

Warhammer Online has a “recruit a friend” program I was able to take advantage of to give the game a peek. Thus far I have made it past installation and into about ninety minutes of gameplay, and have not hated it. After the initial installation last night, I created a character and played for about…

Wrath of the Lich King has been out for over over a month now, and there have been a lot of comments about it being the “easy” expansion. In one way I have to agree, since I have had my priest at level 80 for three weeks of the five week since launch, and have…