Let them listen to cake

Posted on October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 by Julie Whitefeather

Let them listen to Cake… The best thing about MMOs is the community – that is assuming you have a community of regular games you talk to all the time. Recently one of The Older Gamers in World of Warcraft introduced me to a new musical group called “Cake” in a round about way. […]... Read More

You can buy the pants but you have to wear them here

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Julie Whitefeather

News recently passed our newsfeed of the very last Blockbuster store left in America (And yes, we prefer to get our news about the U.S. from BBC World News). You can attribute it to cable, as some may do, or to streaming video like Netflix, but the more I stream videos the more I […]... Read More

Goosestepping into Teldrassil

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Julie Whitefeather

I keep seeing this picture in my mind when ever I see Sylvanas Windrunner when I log into World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. As Fran has said, it is certainly a love/hate relationship. Just before Sylvanas burns the World Tree she looks at another of her many victims and says “This is War” to […]... Read More

/spit

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Julie Whitefeather

“Blizzard is more interested in telling you their narrative then letting you make your own narrative” – IGN, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth: How WoW has taken the World out of Warcraft /spit /slap That’s about all you can do to an NPC (non-player character) in World of Warcraft that is marked as “essential” […]... Read More

The Great Retcon

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Julie Whitefeather

My grandfather used to call it “telling someone to go to hell and make them like it” – what I am talking about here is what I have come to think of as “the great retcon” by Blizzard. Retroactive continuity – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which […]... Read More

Haters Gonna Hate

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Julie Whitefeather

“Haters gonna hate, ainters gonna aint”-The Interview Once you lose your audience, its hard to win them back. Still, as we have often seen, once it becomes popular to hate something, be it a movie, a game or a person, it begins to pick up speed. Eventually it’s like people hopping on the […]... Read More

Price and the Heavy Price

Posted on July 11, 2018July 11, 2018 by Julie Whitefeather

Let’s be clear. ArenaNet didn’t “fold like a cheap card table“, she wasn’t “thrown to the wolves”, and she most certainly is not a victim. Mike O’Brien, president of Arenanet, most certainly did not fail to lead. As has been pointed out, Derior’s comment did not exist in a vacuum, and most certainly neither did […]... Read More

Tomorrow a feather duster

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Julie Whitefeather

There is a line that that Tina Turner delivers in one of her movies where she says “Today, cock of the walk, tomorrow a feather duster” – truer words were never spoken. Perhaps its the way Jessica Price said “next rando asshat who attempts to explain the concept of branching dialogue to me–as if, you […]... Read More

It pays to know total nerds

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Julie Whitefeather

It pays to know total nerds. That’s what saved the day recently when a company that otherwise is known as “overweight livestock” overwrote our site with a save from 2009. Why they felt the sudden need to overwrite our data is beyond me. When we asked them to restore it to 2018 we were told […]... Read More