A Wild Meme Appears

By Kaelynn | February 17, 2012 | Posted in the WOW Community

The “Sixth” meme has been traversing the WOW blogosphere over the past day or so. I was somewhat hoping that I could get out of this one, but when Daraia tagged me I found myself jumping on the bandwagon. Gnomeaggedon started the chain and set the following rules:

Go into your image folder
Open the sixth sub-folder and choose the sixth image.
Publish the image! (and a few words wouldn’t hurt, though I dare say I couln’t stop a blogger from adding a few words of their own).
Challenge six new bloggers.
Link to them.

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Letting Go of Power Auras

By Kaelynn | January 23, 2012 | Posted in Addons, Guide

The Power Auras section of my site was the one set of pages with consistent traffic, long after I let my blog collect dust. Ironically, I stopped using Power Auras last June. I wrote several drafts on the topic but never finished. It’s time to stop procrastinating.

What am I using, if not Power Auras Classic?

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Here It Goes Again

By Kaelynn | January 16, 2012 | Posted in State of Affairs

*Brushes off the cobwebs*

I think I’ve officially scared off any readers that I once had. A four-month absence does tend to convince people that you’re gone .

I don’t have any good excuses, and any explanation would be long, rambling, and entirely devoid of interesting content. Let’s just skip to the TLDR: I was burnt out on WOW, video games in general, and feeling utterly uninspired.

I’m not going to make any promises this time about writing weekly or outputting loads of useful WOW guides. I’m just going to write when I feel like it, and about any topic that interests me. The span and scope of the content may vary. I am going to make an effort to filter less — to stop listening to the voice in my head that leads me to leave drafts sitting around for weeks or months because they “aren’t done yet”.

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Trolling Headline Is Trolling

By Kaelynn | September 20, 2011 | Posted in Raiding, WOW

Grimmtooth recently commented on a post that Massively had published under its “Soapbox” column – an opinion piece titled, “How raiding turns you into a horrible person“.

You can immediately tell from the title that the post was intended to cause controversy, to incite emotion. In other words, it was a big fat attempt at trolling.

Despite knowing that the post is blatantly laid bait, I’m going to bite. This Soapbox post is representative of all the negative attitudes I’ve seen on the rise lately in the community. I’ve read the Negative Nancy posts about the death of WOW, about the plethora of subscribers quitting. I’ve read the posts from people complaining that some bloggers are being too negative. I’ve even read the posts from bloggers complaining about those that complain about the negativity. I’ve just sat back and shaken my head in dismay.

But this post, I just can’t resist speaking about. Grimmtooth rebuts it nicely, but I feel the need to chime in as well.

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The Rest of the Video Game World

By Kaelynn | September 14, 2011 | Posted in Geekiness, Other Games

I remember the days when I played other video games besides WOW. For the past few years WOW has sucked up nearly all of my gaming time. The problem is that if I’m in the mood for gaming, I’ll log into WOW because I have things I “need” to get done. If I’m not in the mood for WOW, I’m usually not in the mood for any game.

And yet there are a few releases coming around the corner that actually have me excited. They have me promising myself yet again that I will play something else. Whether I actually accomplish that or not remains to be seen. I think part of the energy and excitement comes from being surrounded by non-WOW gamers at PAX. It reminded me that there is a whole other world out there that I have been only on the fringe of.

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PAX: Everyday I’m Hustlin’

By Kaelynn | September 5, 2011 | Posted in Geekiness

I recently attended my first ever geek convention. Jardal and I took a trip out to Seattle to attend PAX, one of the largest gaming conventions in the country. Jardal is a huge fan of the Penny Arcade duo Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik (also known as Tycho and Gabe), who started the annual convention, and has been wanting to go for several years. I’ve been wanting to go to Seattle for a while, so we planned a weeklong vacation to coincide with PAX.

Consequently, I’ve had this song stuck in my head for over a week now. Apparently it’s a traditional part of PAX to play “Everyday I’m Hustlin’” when the Penny Arcade guys come out on stage. I’d never heard the song before, but now it’s unfortunately embedded itself deeply in my mind.

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Shaman Style: Dungeon Set Look-Alikes

By Kaelynn | August 22, 2011 | Posted in Guide

There has been a lot of exciting news lately – from transmogrification, to void storage, to tank threat changes. Although there has been plenty of dissent from those that seem just generally unhappy with the game (or aren’t even playing WOW anymore), most of us appear excited.

The collector in me is squealing with glee at the thought of my assortment of old gear that is stuffed in my bank finally being useful. I love having a reason to do old content! Now’s the time to begin forming our gear wish lists, and farming pieces from all areas of Azeroth (and Outlands).

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