This will come as no surprise to listeners of NCP, but I’m kinda addicted to World of Warcraft.
I say kinda, because I don’t play though the night knowing I have to get up for work the next morning, or pee into a bottle that sits beside my desk because I don’t want to miss out on the dungeon finder popping, or get anxious if I don’t play for a few days, but this wasn’t always the case. Yes, I admit I’ve had 24 hour marathon play sessions, made use of an empty bottle on at least one occasion, and had trouble concentrating the next day if I finished playing the night before and my toon (character) was only 1 or 2 bars away from leveling, but that was in my earlier WoW days. Being married to a non-WoW player means that I have the joy of being able to spend time with her, so WoW has been relegated to a weekend only, and no weeknights situation and that’s more than ok with me. And besides, I’m an old man now and I need my sleep!
That doesn’t mean that I’m no longer a loyal player. Whenever other obligations don’t interfere, I am at my PC traveling the world of Azeroth, and happy as a pig in mud. Other games may temporally distract me (like SWToR) but I always come home to WoW.
So to that end I thought I might occasionally post some thoughts here about my highs and lows of playing the world’s most popular MMORPG, and even write down the sometimes ridiculously detailed character biographies I have for my toons. I know, bloody RP’ers… 🙂
I can’t guarantee it will be a regular thing, but they’ll be up every now and then. I might even be able to coax our resident WoW Yoda to post a story of two.
And, if you have a WoW experience, or character bio you want to share please feel free to post it in the Comments section. I would very much like to read them!
Howdy comics fans. For my review this week I am looking at Blackacre: Volume 1: An Errand into the Wilderness by Image Comics.
Image continues to be my favourite comic publisher. From Alpha Girl to The Darkness to Saga (if you are not reading Saga get on it!), the comics that are coming out from Image are of a very high quality both story and art wise.
Blackacre Volume 1 comprises the first five issues in this ongoing series.
The story is relatively complex but the use of an epilogue at the beginning was a great move by the writer. The epilogue works perfectly as an exposition device so when the story kicks in a few pages in the comic I knew what was going on.
A quick synopsis of the epilogue:
The USA as it known today has collapsed
A shadowy well-funded group known as Excorp struck a deal with the government for some undisclosed land
While the rest of the country descended into chaos, Excorp created a new secure super city called Blackacre.
Welcome to the fortieth instalment of Who Review, my ongoing quest to review all available episodes of TV’s longest running SF series, Doctor Who. This week, the Doctor makes his first post-exile journey in Carnival of Monsters.
Get ready to set Phasers to Fun (yeah, I went there) and jump to Warp Factor over 9000! (yeah I know I mixed franchises – don’t judge me!) because Captain James T Kirk himself – Mr William Shatner – is coming to Oz Comic-Con!!!
Melbourne fans thought they were going to miss out when he was only confirmed for Perth & Adelaide, but apparently he loves us so much he’s coming back!
If you didn’t already have enough reasons to go to this year’s Oz Comic-Con, with their amazing line up of guests, then you definitely do now 🙂
We’ll be there (I wouldn’t miss this for anything) and we hope you’ll be there too.
This will come as no surprise to listeners of NCP, but I’m kinda addicted to World of Warcraft.
