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This blog post has been brought to you by an exclamation mark. Or rather several of them, working in unison. Chas and I used to joke that we should subtitle this blog “perpetually late to the party.” I mean in some ways our entire WoW experience has been basically about playing catchup. I’m pretty sure . . . → Read More: making an art out of being late My last guide to gold making was fairly well received, but to my horror I realised that I had missed an extremely important source of one hundred percent authentic gold making secrets. All over Azeroth, there are NPCs who will buy Gnarled Claws, Tattered Wolf Pelts, Broken Fangs, and Troll Sweat, all for real hard cash. From this . . . → Read More: The NPC Guide to Gold-Making The aftermath of the WoW gender discussion / explosion seems to be lingering, this time touching on the politics of blogrolls, and the people we choose to put on them, and, of course, take off them. I think a fair few of us involved in the discussion have received a number of emails and comments, . . . → Read More: oh no, not again Rambly post is rambly – this is bit about Fallout, a bit about WoW, and a bit about stories. In my usual late-to-the-party way, I’ve finally got round to playing Fallout 3. I tried to play it a bit on the house Xbox 360 when it first came out – and although your first view of . . . → Read More: looking for stories in all the wrong places So a couple of days ago Wulfy wrote a post about Atheism in Azeroth which got me thinking. It’s kind of received wisdom in Ye Traditionalle Fantasy Worlde that there are no atheists, because being an atheist means denying the existence of God or the Gods, and in a fantasy world they provably exist. As Wulfy points out, . . . → Read More: He’s Not the Messiah, He’s a Very Naughty Boy We’re all used to seeing Azeroth as a world of high fantasy and mythic adventure. What we tend to forget is that it can also be a world of … epic romance! Coincidentally, we recently uncovered a selection of the works of Thunderbluff’s most prolific and best selling romance novelist, Isadora Grimtotem. And, finally, we present this not uncontroversial . . . → Read More: Romancing Azeroth So there’s been another spike in feminist commentary in the Blogsphere, which recently wound up with Pewter putting up an open post in order to address Men’s Issues. As one might expect, the comments on the original post are a mixed bag, one part people genuinely engaging with the concept and one part “wah wah nobody understands . . . → Read More: What About the MENZ? I’ve thrown myself enthusiastically into having a main again by embarking on a succession of entirely pointless rep grinds. I feel pretty ambivalent about rep grinds as a general rule – yet there is some strange, masochistic part of me that is drawn to them. (For the record, 24th August, 2010, still not king . . . → Read More: grindhouse blues I’m baaaaaack (in case my posting didn’t clue you into that on its own), and I temporarily lost my WoW mojo. Mainly I’ve been leveling Comfrey via LFG (more on this in later posts, I’m sure) and although that’s been educational and not entirely un-fun (largely thanks to SAN) I became rather detached from my . . . → Read More: not all those who wander are lost Hi, you’ve got through to Righteous Orbs. Tamarind and Chastity aren’t here to write updates right now, due to the Edinburgh Festival. In the meantime here is a picture of a kitten. This is a picture of a kitten. Back in a week, after which time I confidently expect Cataclysm to have a firm release date, and the DK . . . → Read More: Out of Blog Autoreply |
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