The Trouble with Time
There isn’t enough of it. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. More specifically, the issue this time is the fact that the time between Lost Ark and Elden Ring’s release dates is...
Lost Ark by way of Screenshots
I don’t often do ‘screenshot posts’. I find I am generally fairly happy to just include them in my usual posts as I go. Even if they don’t always precisely match the content under...
The Variable Difficulty of Lost Ark Abyss Dungeons
The Abyss dungeons might just be my favourite type of content in Lost Ark so far. Er- except for when it’s island adventuring instead. I swear to God, if I’m not careful — and...
Sparking my Lost Love for the MMO Genre
I think this is going to be a difficult post to write. There’s a lot to unpack here for myself, before I can hope even to begin articulating it to you. You see, for...
Three Days with Lost Ark
Lost Ark is down right now. It went down for a 4-hour maintenance window to prepare for general availability about 9-hours ago. So I suppose now is as good a time as any to...
XCOM 2: Blogger Succession Game — Mission 25: Operation Sweaty Star
These mission names… What gives, XCOM 2? UnwiseOwl just before me got ‘Operation Swamp Queen’ but I think this one of mine takes home the charming cake this time around. More fortunately though, unlike...
Nuh-uh, Valstrax!
At the end of ‘Nuh-uh, Narwa!’ I noted there was still more I could do in the game. There were more Apex creatures to be hunted and there was a creature still to be...
Book Review: Rise of Empire by Michael J. Sullivan
One of the things I love most about Sullivan’s work thus far is how well he keeps each story so self-contained without losing interconnectivity into the overarching narrative.
Time to Loot Journal: January 2022
This has been a month of monsters in the best possible way. Despite not coming out until Jan 13th, almost mid-way through the month, Monster Hunter Rise has absolutely dominated my gaming this month....
Nuh-uh, Narwa!
That right there? In the featured image? That’s me as the returning hero. Narwa is no more. I am done with the main story of Monster Hunter Rise which was locked behind Hunter Rank...
Lost Ark Launching with More Content Than Anticipated and People Aren’t Happy About It
The January Lost Ark Update finally dropped (normally it comes early each month) and, amongst other things, it has confirmed there will be more content included from the get-go than anyone suspected. The thinking...
Will I Ever Return to WoW?
With Kotick at the reigns, this had a very simple answer. No. Kotick, the man who threatened to have his former assistant killed. The man who when faced with allegations of sexual assault of...
