Archive for June, 2008
Headed to Seattle - Permanently!
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008I’ve been meaning to do a post for the last few days and have just been too busy, but I wanted to briefly mention that I’m moving to Seattle for a new job! I was out there last Thursday for an interview with Projectline, a marketing consulting firm, and they made me an offer on [...]
Food for Thought: When to Say When
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Monique of Girls Don’t Game wrote an autobiographical post about her experiences as a hardcore raider in the well-known WoW guild Death and Taxes recently, and it really got me thinking. I’ve been a semi-hardcore raider in a serious raiding guild since sometime in March of this year. It was sometime in April, I believe, [...]
This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities
Monday, June 16th, 2008I just finished reading Jim Rossignol’s This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities, and I wanted to take a moment to write about my impressions of the book. Right from the start, you can tell that Jim is a talented writer who succeeds in vividly describing the settings and the people he encounters in his [...]
Back with Some Cool Surprises
Saturday, June 14th, 2008I just got back from my week-long “vacation” at North Dakota’s Boys State (it’s a mock ND-government that teaches boys about participating in government, responsibility, civic duty, and good citizenship), where I was the counselor for the newspaper. I say “vacation” because my average working day there was 12 hours long, topping out at 15 [...]
Balance? Screw Balance. I Care About Fun.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008I was just reading Michael’s interview with Warhammer Senior Designer Dan Enright, and one quote from him in particular jumped out at me as being so amazingly true, simple, and obvious that it boggles my mind that I’ve never been able to put the same sentiment (which I’ve definitely had) into words. From Dan:
“I’m not [...]
Why I’m Not Excited for Blizzard’s Next Big Thing
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008I’ve been a Blizzard fanboy for as long as I can remember—well before World of Warcraft ever came out I was playing Warcraft 2, Diablo, Diablo II, and even some of their older, more offbeat games like Rock N’ Roll Racing and Blackthorne. It seems like everything they touch turns to pure gold, and I’ve [...]
On Writing Well
Monday, June 2nd, 2008After submitting five years of papers and presentations at college, over a year of blogging (both informally and professionally), and getting a bunch of random writing experience picked up from various other projects, I like to think that I’ve had a good bit of experience with writing. Some of it has been fiction, but the [...]
Interesting Two Months for EverQuest and EverQuest II
Monday, June 2nd, 2008I thought it was really interesting to see today’s announcement about SOE’s Living Legacy campaign. In case you haven’t seen it, any player who’s ever had an EverQuest or EverQuest II account will be getting their account reactivated for two months, receiving all expansions released until now, and getting a few other nice perks.
The perks [...]