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We at the moment are previous the 18 yr mark right here at TAGN. I suppose that’s the royal “we” or some such, as a result of it is just me on the writing finish of issues. However you, the reader are additionally alongside for the experience, and a few of you for practically the entire span of this nonsense.
Anyway, WordPress.com acknowledged my time right here.
They’ll rely to 18
A minimum of they’re extra constant on that entrance than they’re on the put up streak entrance, the place I had one other month of seeming RNG produced notifications. They bounced between three and 4 digits and by no means as soon as obtained nearer than 6 days from the precise rely… or both precise rely, since there are two, as soon as for UTC and one for Pacific time.
However I may show it wasn’t simply this weblog. My different weblog, EVE On-line Footage, went again to common posts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday after Blauguast, however stored getting every day put up streak bulletins properly into the month… which have been, as you may count on, fully fallacious. Once more, numbers bounced round between 24 and 31 till it lastly realized there wasn’t a streak occurring anymore and gave up.
Ultimately, because the month closed out the streak numbers for this weblog settled down and began incrementing by one once more, seemingly primarily based on the Could 2023 put up that modified days once I moved the time zone of the weblog from UTC to Pacific time. So possibly they fastened one thing… although once I return to Could 2023 now I don’t see an empty day anymore. Who is aware of what’s going on. I positive don’t.
At this time is both day 496 or 1,696, relying on which begin date I need to take into account… wait, these two can’t be precisely 1,200 days aside. Now I’m once more suspicious of the calculation.
One Yr In the past
I did my finish of Blaugust wrap up put up in addition to the seventeenth weblog anniversary put up.
Enad International 7 was making obscure guarantees of a brand new EverQuest title at a advertising and marketing presentation. They have been additionally speaking about making H1Z1 a factor once more. And we heard that there can be no remaster for LOTRO, which meant no console model. I additionally tried to make one thing out of the relative income chart they displayed through the presentation.
The occasion group took a tour of WoW Traditional Hardcore. The perma loss of life possibility gave the entire thing a rigidity. I posted some notes from the expertise. Nonetheless dying and having to begin over once more wore on me fairly shortly.
Again in Wrath Traditional the joyous journeys buff was again as we waited for ICC. The ICC replace would carry the Dungeon Finder into the sport. We have been additionally milking the veritable fireplace hose of honor in Wintergrasp.
And in retail, the fan primarily based was getting itself labored up round what the subsequent growth must be about.
In EVE On-line there was the invention of the historic Jovian stargates in 4 programs. They ended up pointing on the new Zarzakh system. I went and visited Zarzakh in the course of the evening… although it’s all the time evening in area I suppose.
There have been additionally the CSM18 elections and the beginning of voting. The final day to vote was additionally the final day to order the twentieth anniversary collector’s version.
We have been preparing for a September EVE Fanfest as properly. There they introduced the Havoc growth and modifications it will carry to faction warfare. Additionally they introduced the outcomes of the CSM18 election. I wrote a complete EVE Fanfest abstract/response put up to attempt to nail down all they mentioned and introduced.
I additionally appeared into August 2023 destruction from the MER and questioned why characters within the sport nonetheless had attributes.
In Pokemon Go they have been providing up a grasp ball. I additionally performed Pokemon Go at an erupting volcano and on the southernmost level within the 50 states.
In my Telephony Tales collection I wrote about getting a modem and beginning a BBS and about turning that into some jobs, together with one at International Village Communication,
5 Years In the past
There was the standard anniversary put up, this time for 13 years.
I summed up the labors of Blaugust 2019, linking out to everyone.
It was September and there have been 5 MMO information objects I used to be nonetheless ready for.
Dawn put PlanetSide Area into early entry.
Standing Stone introduced the Minas Morgul growth for Lord of the Rings On-line.
In Pokemon Go, Niantic added Pokemon from the Unova area.
In EVE On-line we have been coming to the tip of the blackout in null sec. The month-to-month financial report for August confirmed that it has a massive influence on ratting and mining. I adopted up with a put up exhibiting the modifications since January.
On prime of the blackout, CCP modified cynos, solely permitting regular cynos to be lit by pressure recon ships, which instantly shot up in worth.
All of this generated a number of dialogue about how CCP ought to “repair” the sport, which I felt was anticipating an excessive amount of from the corporate at this level. There isn’t a going again to the 2013 peak numbers.
Amid all that, Asher known as the Reavers collectively for a deployment to the east. We handed by way of Legacy area, the place we have been allowed to make use of their bounce bridges, as a result of they wished us on the market to assist them with their very own warfare.
In WoW Traditional the occasion group scraped collectively sufficient silver to create a guild. After some begging for signatures, Crag Boar Rebel was born.
I checked out our progress per week into WoW Traditional. Ula had discovered the white kitten already. Then we have been off to Westfall. I additionally had a druid working by way of the evening elf starter space.
We leveled up sufficient to go in the direction of the primary occasion, Ragefire Chasm. That imply attending to Orgrimmar. We obtained in and to the occasion, solely to search out out that the assembly stones didn’t summon again in vanilla, wrecking our first plan. We made one other plan and managed to get everyone in for our first dungeon run. Ula even made a video of the run.
Then we began making ready for the Deadmines whereas doing a little extra working round Azeroth.
Blizzard was providing free realm transfers already to attempt to shift folks off of crowded servers. Then there was a DDoS assault that made issues even worse, and a layering exploit… possibly. Extra servers have been added, arrests have been made, and Blizz put out some movies about making WoW again within the day, which I put collectively in a single put up. By the tip of the month issues have been beginning to relax a bit.
I gave the impression to be having fun with the entire WoW Traditional expertise, as far as I may measure. And so did lots of people. SuperData mentioned it was driving subscription progress. I attempted to check the expertise to the EverQuest development server experience.
And, lastly, I did a bullet level put up concerning the LOTRO Legendary server, Homeworld 3, how Google Stadia will fail, and the EVE Echoes alpha.
Ten Years In the past
Blizzard mentioned no to its Titan venture.
ArcheAge went dwell, was overwhelmed, and pissed off some folks. However everyone is completely satisfied now, proper?
Future additionally launched and although I went nowhere close to that, I used to be interested by Bungie’s seven design level.
Mission: Gorgon was coming to the tip of its second Kickstarter marketing campaign and it clearly wasn’t going to make it. Then again Protection Grid 2 was headed for launch despite the fact that Hidden Path didn’t make all of their Kickstarter stretch objectives.
Additionally on the developer entrance, Notch bought Minecraft to Microsoft for two.5 billion {dollars}. Microsoft has since milked it for all it’s value… which turned out to be rather a lot. And Notch got here out as a horrible racist as a result of that’s what you do while you get wealthy I assume.
Rift was set to hitch the insta-levels membership as a part of their Nightmare Tide growth announcement.
EVE On-line had the Oceanus launch. All of us do not forget that, proper? Parlez-vous français?
In the meantime the Lords of Null Sec put our their Null Deal proposal. In precise area, we left Delve but once more to come back dwelling and clear up Deklein. We have been out numbered at one level, however we ended up with a pleasant op on the finish of the month.
As a part of my Pokemon binge I completed up Pokemon White Model 2. I nonetheless suppose that could be a horrible identify, however it was entry within the core Pokemon RPG collection.
In World of Warcraft I managed to get the Brewfest Kodo. Nonetheless, my Loremaster venture began to collapse within the Blade’s Edge mountains. Nicely, we had extra particulars about Warlords of Draenor to fuss over.
The technique group was placing on a shameful show in Complete Warfare: Rome II.
I used to be questioning how lengthy you needed to be away earlier than an MMO modified a lot it grew to become like a international nation.
For the weblog itself, I used to be on to the third iteration of my sidebar feed and it had been eight years since I began running a blog. And eventually there was a evaluate of the primary Blaugust.
Fifteen Years In the past
I regaled readers with a put up concerning the Adventures of Opus and Mopar Mac, which concerned driving round Cupertino at evening.
There was a quick second of nostalgia for Infocom video games… or a minimum of for the adverts. Truthfully, I feel the adverts have been higher than among the video games.
I used to be questioning if being there on day one was a requirement for MMO gamers. It appears to be a factor for a lot of gamers.
I used to be nonetheless speaking about my days of taking part in TorilMUD, with an outline of attending to Kobold Village and the good bronze armplate smuggling get wealthy fast scheme.
Turbine introduced the Siege of Mirkwood growth for Lord of the Rings On-line, which introduced out somewhat guilt in me, since I hadn’t even gotten to Moria but. I’ve since made it, however it took me a very long time. Siege of Mirkwood although, that ended as much as be an curiosity killer for me.
Turbine additionally went dwell with their free to play program for Dungeons & Dragons On-line.
Then there was WoW. We have been actually on a WoW binge that September. After the point out of a heroic model of Deadmines coming with Cataclysm I put up a ballot about what occasion we didn’t need to see made heroic, and the outcomes have been… unsurprising. Everyone hating on the gnomes once more. (We ultimately obtained a pet battle model of Gnomer although!)
There have been pirates and Brewfest and I managed to get my chef’s hat and all of the sundry cooking achievements. There was additionally corpse spam and phasing and possibly a unified public sale home. I feel we obtained that ultimately, proper? Out in Northrend the occasion group ran by way of Ulduar and the Oculus. and trial of the champion.
And, lastly, there was the three yr anniversary of the weblog, with the standard spherical of stats and trivia.
Forty Years In the past
Infocom launched the textual content journey model of Hitchhikers Information to the Galaxy. It grew to become one in every of their uncommon titles which I performed fully by way of. I ended up proudly owning a bunch of their video games however Zork might be the one different one I completed. In HHGTTG getting the Babel Fish was such a second that I purchased the T-shirt they supplied that mentioned, “I obtained the Babel Fish!” I nonetheless have, in a drawer someplace, the “Don’t Panic!” button and the peril delicate sun shades that got here within the unique field.
One Hundred and Thirty-five Years In the past
Nintendo Koppa, later the Nintendo Enjoying Card Firm, and ultimately Nintendo Co. Ltd., was based in Kyoto, Japan.
Most Seen Posts in September
- Honolulu is a Pokemon Go City
- Fight Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin Lives on at GoG.com
- Degree 45 at Final in Pokemon Go
- Timing these Fortunate Eggs for Friendship Milestones in Pokemon Go
- August 2024 in Assessment
- Pokemon Go Vivillon Assortment Accomplished
- Two Hundred and Seventy Million Ability Factors
- Fight Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin Meets Its Finish
- Answering Gaming Questions with AI – Discovering a Heat Ocean in Minecraft
- Uldum and Finishing the Cataclysm Overland Zones
- Pokemon Go Now Lets You Use a Fortunate Egg at Friendship Milestones
- Alamo teechs u 2 play DURID!
That previous Alamo put up hasn’t been on the record for some time. Any individual should have linked it on Reddit once more.
Search Phrases of the Month
gamer blogs
[Never seen one…]
greatest video games to obtain free after replace my nintendo dsi at present
[Is the download service even still working?]
minecraft the best way to discover heat ocean
[I have a post or two about that. See above.]
what number of greatest buddy to levvel 37 in pokemon o
[~60 without lucky eggs but including the xp for other levels]
stormwind embassy location
[Somewhere besides Stormwind?]
камень суммона силитус вов
[TIL: WoW in Russian is BOB]
симулятор Гея
[Why simulate that?]
Recreation Time by ManicTime
No Man’s Sky fell off the record… and I couldn’t inform you why actually. Final month I used to be logging in each different day, then this month I simply stopped. Not deliberate, simply the way in which it labored out.
- WoW Traditional – 47.81%
- EVE On-line – 29.02%
- Fight Mission:Barbarossa to Berlin – 10.61%
- Fight Mission:Pink Thunder – 4.44%
- Stars Attain – 3.24%
- EverQuest – 2.38%
- Glaxicus – 1.27%
- World of Warcraft – 1.23%
This was additionally a month the place I used to be gone for per week, so complete time performed was down, even when the variety of titles performed was up. I imply, I’ve months the place there are solely three or 4 on the record.
Fight Mission
One thing of a “then and now” expertise as, in response to ManicTime, I performed a piece of each Fight Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin, obtainable now at GoG.com, and Fight Mission: Pink Thunder, the fashionable successor to the previous. Typically talking, I choose the older title as a result of its simplicity, scale, vary of models, and its general familiarity. I’m glad it has gotten the GoG.com therapy.
EVE On-line
I feel I spent extra time twiddling with excessive sec alts and doing AIR dailies that doing something within the growth into Catch and past. I imply, I did one thing on that entrance. I’ve 5 fleet participation credit and I’m on two kill mails… I used to be there to kill two POCOs… however I don’t really feel like I spent all that a lot time undocked out in null sec.
EverQuest
I keep on with the Overseer factor. My druid is now degree 109 primarily based on me simply logging in and doing that. He’s now my highest degree EverQuest character ever, although with a degree 100 enhance and solely Overseer expertise, it isn’t like I may play him or something.
Galaxicus
I must do a put up about this one later this week. The sport, which is an try and carry again an previous on-line sport from the 80s, is on the market on Steam, however I don’t need to spend time right here attempting clarify it. A put up might be forthcoming… although I assumed I might get to it this month. Subsequent month for positive! [Late breaking news: Post now written, will publish this week.]
Pokemon Go
We performed in Hawaii. That was a factor this month, and it was sufficient for me to achieve a couple of quarter of a degree of xp. Now I simply should get to work on the duties I want to complete up earlier than I can advance to degree 47.
- Degree: 46 (degree, 54% of the way in which to 47, 1 of 4 duties full)
- Pokedex standing: 851 (+16) caught, 862 (+15) seen
- Vivillon Evolutions obtained: 17 of 18 (want Meadow!)
- Pokemon I would like: Some lacking ones from the older Pokedexes
- Present buddy: Gyarados as a result of I want candies
Stars Attain
I used to be accepted into the present spherical of play checks and they seem like prepared to let folks “share their experiences and display photographs” up to now. It isn’t actually a “sport” but; we’re not in any respect being let unfastened on the world however being contained to particular issues that, whereas attention-grabbing and enjoyable, fall wanting the promised “entire” of the imaginative and prescient and pillars introduced. However I can play check.
World of Warcraft
I did log into retail and do extra than simply accumulate a twitch drop. I stepped foot into Dragonflight content material and… properly… I’m on the first quest hub. I’m additionally a degree and a half previous Shadowlands… and the extra space between me and that growth the higher.
WoW Traditional
I had one thing of a return to WoW Traditional within the again half of the month after it kind of falling off the wagon for a bit. After I obtained by way of the overland zones I used to be hit by a way of bleakness on the prospect of there being one other 4-6 months to go earlier than Blizz lastly wraps up Cataclysm. I’ve no want to work on alts, a minimum of not till they put Joyous Journeys again in to hurry issues up. However then I discovered some objectives in gearing up for dungeons, so began logging in for that and the comedy of Wintergrasp and Tol Barad.
Coming Up
October will carry all of the Halloween associated occasions in video games throughout, naturally.
In EVE On-line there are a variety of issues occurring, as I discussed on Friday; CSM19 elections, ATXX, and the Crimson Harvest occasion. It can even be the drop useless date for adopting the Equinox null sec modifications, whether or not they suck or not. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how that performs out. Being in one of many massive blocs, we’ll adapt. We all the time do. However will it spark the rejuvenation that CCP desires? Reply hazy, ask once more later.
October will even see among the run as much as the twentieth anniversaries of each EverQuest II and World of Warcraft. Have to begin enthusiastic about what which means to each titles, given the very totally different paths they’ve taken.
However principally it is going to be Halloween I suppose.
