Of Video Games and Reclamation: The Butt of the Joke, Take #2,357

A while back I was introduced to the web comic Looking For Group (LFG), published by Blind Ferret (the name of which is highly problematic, and is quite telling of later attitudes). While it has a concrete and unique story line, the comic is heavily based on WoW – the classes, the races, the environment, [...]

Of Video Games and Reclamation: Moving On

Yes, you read the title right. I won’t say that I don’t like WoW anymore, because that’d be a lie. But I will admit that it’s been wearing on me as of late. With the pigeonholing and simplification of specs, constant references and examples of racism that are essentially encouraged through quests, and the continuation [...]

Of Video Games and Reclamation: The Unseen Advantages of DID

Back in the day, on another server in the different era of patch 3.3.3a, we mained a Survival hunter. Or, well, one of us did. The rest of us didn’t find a whole lot of enjoyment in hunters, though the general knowledge and occasional gameplay would seep through. But for whatever reason, hunters were what [...]

So. Patch 4.0.1.

Hasn’t finished downloading yet. Not sure how I feel about it already. On one hand, it’ll probably be interesting. New talent trees to play with, of which I have been dreadfully interested in since the beta trees were released. I kind of want to see how soul shards work now. And the ability to call [...]