Also, procreation.

That has to be amongst the most horrifically, hideously tacky objects in existence - I’m honestly conflicted as to whether it should be put in a museum, or thrown into a pit of bottomless darkness and then sealed up underneath several thousand layers of lead, steel and concrete.

It came out while I was working on my psych bachelor’s, and one of my friends was really into it, so I started playing, but mostly casually - then Hurricane Katrina hit, and my school (and, well, city) ended up underwater, and closed down for what wound up being 6 months of repairs. Between evacuating with just the…

Dead Rising 2 is even worse in that respect, given the whole game takes place in a small-ish hybrid of the Vegas Strip and a Pedestrian Mall, completely quarantined off from the rest of the world, and yet the place is so flooded with zombies, it makes Disney Land on a summer weekend look empty by comparison - there’s…

The old eternal party hunt did make actually reaching an instance something special, especially for someone like me, as a member of a small guild with people from various time zones.

There really needs to be a pug dragon disciple, with little stubby wings and a miniature grimoire hanging around his neck.

This looks delicious.

That idea reminds me of Log Horizon (an anime in the sucked-into-an-MMO genre):

Given that he’s 43 now, I’m thinking he’s just planning ahead so he can retire at 50. 5 years + 2 years of wiggle-room to ensure a proper ending seems like a good plan.

...damn.

Unless you just really hate the core gameplay, you’ll end up spending a couple hours just on the first planet, and at least 20+ before things start feeling same-y; at least, that was my experience, and I was playing at launch, and there’s apparently a lot more to do now.

Wah - I quit before Cataclysm, and never turned back or checked to see what changed, but that sounds like a seriously different place from the wide, flat savannah filled with quillboars (at least I think that’s what they were called, the spiky folk with the dungeon to the south near thousand needles, assuming that…

Honestly, people like you are why there will always be war - no matter how happy and at peace with each other the majority of the world is, there will always be someone like you, ready to take issue with the most minute and meaningless of things, make their stand, and keep shouting until the mob mentality sinks in…

Hey, there was end-game at launch - no raiding as such, but there was UBRS, LBRS, Undead Strat... I distinctly remember feeling quite badass after my mage finally had that full armor set, after doing what felt like a million runs☺️

That’s no longer a thing? Is everyone just running around max-leveled these days?

As someone who grew up in Germany, where butter is still just butter, salted butter drives me nuts, mainly because, half the time I grab butter at the store, I inevitably end up grabbing salted rather than unsalted by mistake: that salted is generally just labeled as ‘Butter’, and unsalted labeled as ‘Butter -…

I’m not a parent, and this article (and the many, many others like it) makes me terrified of becoming one.

I remember the days when rolling shaman was easy-mode... Then again, that was over a decade ago.

God, I remember leveling my first two characters to 60 in Vanilla (Mage and Warrior), and it just took SO. DAMNED. LONG. You’d finish every quest in every zone you were leveled for, grind until you reached a level appropriate for the next zone, rinse and repeat until your fingers bled. It didn’t help that I leveled my…

People like big numbers, but only as long as it’s within a scale they can easily understand - if the numbers get so big they no longer fit into your mind’s scale of reference, they are treated as abstract information, and stop being impressive. Above a certain size, the numbers all start to look the same, because your…