Acid for Blood

Corvus has a great post with some examples of what forum posts would look like if life was an MMOG:
Passing the bar is too hard! How do you expect people to access high level lawyer content if you make it struggle to get there? Nerf the bar!!
Lawrence R.
The stat bonuses to popularity don’t stack […]

I went into the Fissure of Woe for the first time ever as part of the women-only Girl Power Hour, which is run by the Girl Power [GP] guild. I played my Necromancer/Mesmer (Spiteful Spirit Nuker build). We had 4 Monks, 1 Warrior, 1 Ranger, 1 Elementalist, and 1 Necromancer/Mesmer. I forgot most of their […]

Friday, 23rd March marked the launch of The IRIS Network. “The IRIS Network? What’s that?” you say? The IRIS Network is a new website that brings women, other underrepresented gamers, and their friends together to discuss, network, and share perspectives in an inclusive, safe (zero tolerance for harassment, etc.) environment. People who enjoy electronic and/or […]

It’s Thursday, and my stuff isn’t here yet. I was told it would be here. Today. It’s not. It’s somewhere in southern California. The truck got held up because they had to make a delivery in Arizona yesterday. Apparently the weight of my belongings, including my car, was a “small” shipment for the company, so […]

Following on from a previous post containing unconfirmed information, we now have official details of the Guild Wars expansion, Eye of the North, and the sequel to Guild Wars is in the latest issue of PC Gamer, now in the hands of subscribers. Some interesting points follow.
Guild Wars: Eye of the North (GWEN)

Christmas 2007 release
Is […]

Despite my crippled play (my roll-up portable keyboard is not as nice as a hard keyboard) on the laptop and an unco-operative mouse, I did manage to complete Guild Wars Factions (finally!) with my Canthan Warrior/Mesmer over the weekend. With extreme difficulty, I Henched Raisu Palace. I spent the better part of the day stubbornly […]

I still don’t have my stuff. The delivery of my furniture, (the rest of my) clothes, car, and more significantly, my computer, has been unavoidably delayed until the 22nd. I am still camping out in an empty flat.
I was looking forward to having a chair to sit on and a bed to sleep in. I […]

Unbeknownst to me, as a non-regular reader of Kotaku (though this probably has to change because reading game news is now a part of my job, and because Josh says they’ve been getting better lately), they fixed their commenting policy so that the unwashed masses are allowed to make a comment. I was unable to […]

I don’t read Kotaku anymore (and I started reading Kotaku in 2004) mainly because of Florian Eckhardt (and partly because of their elitist commenting policy), so I found out about this post, courtesy of 100littledolls. Apparently Brian Crecente looked for women game bloggers, but couldn’t find many. ORLY? 100littledolls serves up a good sized list […]

I am in California. I think I will need a fortnight (perhaps more) to make my empty flat more home-like. Normal activity to resume at some point thereafter — especially when my computer arrives (I’m posting from my notebook). I have no furniture, I have no bed, I have nothing to cook food in, but […]