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Thoughts on the Coming EverQuest II Anashti Sul Time Locked Expansion Server

In this “Year of Darkpaw” and all things Norrath, I haven’t spent much time writing about EverQuest II, the younger sibling of the EverQuest duo.  But it is part of the year with its 20th anniversary landing in November. As part of the celebration on the EQII side of the house, there has been a planned special server on the roadmap since the start of the year, with June as a launch target.  We…

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#Echoes of Faydwer #Time Locked Expansion Server

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Web Banking, The Acquisition, and the Start of the Great Decline

My problem with writing the next post about my time at Edify is figuring out what is even worth mentioning.  I posted how I got hired there and then how I went on to avoid what I had been hired to do in order to dig into speech recognition.  From there I could write a whole series of posts about various technologies I worked on, from text to speech and controversies over what “US Spanish” really…

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#Edify #S1 #Security First

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EverQuest Starting Points - Highpass Hold and Kithicor Forest

Time to move a couple more zones closer to Freeport as the trip from Qeynos reaches its literal, if not figurative, peak in Highpass Hold. Welcome to Highpass Hold, have your passport ready Highpass Hold is also a dividing line in several ways.  It splits Antonica in half, the west being the domains under the influence of Qeynos, the east favoring Freeport.  It also represented a similar division…

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#EverQuest 25th Anniversary #Highpass Hold #Kithicor Forest

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Friday Bullet Points about the Timeline into Summer for World of Warcraft

We had roadmaps for WoW retail and WoW Classic that Blizz posted a while back. They have even updated now and then. World of Warcraft retail 2024 roadmap This week though we got some hard dates for entries, so I thought I would do a bullet points post to go through the upcoming event dates.  Is everybody on board? Of course, we did hear just yesterday that one thing NOT on the 2024 roadmap is…

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#Cataclysm #Dragonflight #Mists of Pandaria #Pandaria Remix #Plunderstorm #The War Within

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BlizzCon 2024 News... There Will Be No BlizzCon 2024

Blizzard announced earlier today that there would be no BlizzCon this year. BlizzCon in Blue This is a particularly odd announcement as the somewhat regular autumnal event would have been poised to celebrate both 30 years of the Warcraft franchise as well as 20 years of World of Warcraft, the undisputed most profitable and popular title the company has ever produced.  And you could throw in the…

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#BlizzCon #Microsoft

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The Mistlands in Valheim are Pretty... Once you get rid of all that damn Mist!

I feel like we are kind of stalling out on Valheim once more.  More than “kind of” really.  Conan Exiles showed up and ate into our play time in a big way, and now WoW Classic Cataclysm is approaching and it feels like the group will pick up with that once it lands.  Plus, of the four of us, only Potshot and I really invested much time in either of those first two titles. And that is fine.  Our…

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#Mistlands #Mods

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EVE Online's Equinox Expansion to Arrive June 11th

The Upwell Consortium is at it again, with new structures poised to change New Eden. Yesterday, after a short teaser countdown, CCP released a video and a dev blog announcing the next expansion for EVE Online. Equinox – Seize Control – June 11, 2024 Named Equinox, it is slated to go live on June 11, 2024 and bring with it some of the promised/threatened changes for null sec.  All of it is…

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#Equinox #Upwell Consortium #Upwell Structures

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Embracer Group Announces Plan to Re-Arrange Deck Chairs

Yesterday the bumbling CEO of Embracer group, Lars Wingefors, announced that the company would be split into three groups in an attempt to distract from his disastrous handling of the company over the last year, which was based on a business plan that seem to have all the sophistication of: Buy a bunch of companies ?????? Profit! All of which led to the need to lay off more than 1,400 people,…

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#Asmodee #Capitalism #Coffee Stain #Embracer #Lars from Mars #Lars Wingefors #Middle-Earth Enterprises

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Wake up sweetie, Cataclysm Classic is Almost Home...

So we know Cataclysm Classic is on the way.  We have the timeline, with dates already pinned down for all the major milestones.  In a little over a week the pre-patch will arrive and it will be time to decide if we’re in on another WoW Classic adventure. WoW Classic 2024 Roadmap – April 9 revision I find it a bit amusing that on social media Blizz has been pushing the idea that this will be a…

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#Cataclysm

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The Contested Seat - Every Vote Counts

I wrote back in late February about how my congressional district was experiencing that most rare of events, an election without an incumbent.  Our congress critter of the last 30+ years finally decided to retire… though I will give them credit for doing so before they were too infirmed to do the job, like our late senator, who had no business running in her final election. There are few more…

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#Elections #Politics #Voting

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Thoughts on the Path to Dune Part 3

Just out in front of all of this I am going to say if Peter Dinklage doesn’t get cast as Bijaz I am going to be extremely disappointed.  I mean, he can’t get ALL the dwarf roles, I know.  But I also think his body of work shows him to be well suited for this particular part. So yeah, it has been confirmed that Denis Villeneuve will be bringing us a third film in the Dune saga based off of the…

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#Dune #Dune Messiah #Dune Part 2 #Dune Part 3

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Progressively More Annoying Friday Bullet Points about Video Game Business

It is going to be one of those Fridays where I am going to uncork a bottle of frustration and rant a bit about various business deals and statements, each of which has managed to make me progressively more annoyed.  When I started this post I thought I might have to divert to Twitter to add in some of the more recent screw ups Elon has made.  But no, the video game industry continues to provide,…

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#Annie Delisi Strain #EG7 #Enad Global 7 #Ethan Gach #Jeff Strain #Lars Wingefors #Matthew Karch #Mike Ybarra #Private Equity #Ranting #The Crew #Toadman #Ubisoft #Vox

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Our First Dungeon Run in Conan Exiles

The sandbox nature of Conan Exiles… figuratively speaking, though there is also a lot of actual sand in the virtual world of Conan and the map is a big rectangle, which lends itself to the metaphor as well… means that there really isn’t a story or anything to point you towards a particular goal. You can hang about doing things like base building or crafting or whatever… at least on a PvE server…

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#The Dregs

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Now Playing - Balatro

Ars Technica informed me last week that there are 861 rogue-like deck building games on Steam currently.  Given that was a few days ago, there are probably half a dozen more there now. I feel like the term “rogue-like” (or roguelike, as it has become one word for some) has been diluted of its early meaning, which was literally a game like Rogue, which included a bare few essential elements, and…

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#Balatro #rogue-like

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EverQuest Starting Points - East Karana and the route to Freeport

I am going to towards Freeport for real now, starting from East Karana, which was a crazy scary place back in the day.  I remember being high enough level to feel confident wandering North Karana and crossing the bridge into East Karana and seeing all the stuff wandering back and forth there… all higher level and more dangerous that North Karana mobs… and scurrying back across the bridge to the…

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#East Karana #EverQuest 25th Anniversary #Highpass Hold

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Mounts and Mods and DLC in Conan Exiles

As I mentioned in the last post, Potshot managed to find some foals out in the wild and, as all things in the world of Conan Exiles respawn in the exact same location, a very MMORPG aspect of the game, he was able to go out and grab a selection of mounts for us. Foals are somewhere around there… I honestly didn’t do any of this and even the wiki is pretty vague on how you actually acquire the…

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#DLC #Mods #Mounts

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Collecting my Level 100 Heroic Character in EverQuest

As part of the EverQuest 25th anniversary rewards package (listed out here) was a level 100 heroic character upgrade for Daybreak All Access subscribers.  Since I am subscribed for the Year of Darkpaw and my wanderings through old Norrath, I had one available to me but the offer only lasted until April 20th. I did not want to waste it, but I have also not had great experiences with the EverQuest…

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#EverQuest 25th Anniversary #Heroic Character #Insta Levels