A Philosopher’s Work is Never Started

On Basic Nukes
Fire
Ok, ok, hold up… I’ve got this… this brilliant idea, see? Why don’t we… I mean, this is just a suggestion, but why don’t… well, see, I’ve got this ball of fire. Look at it. It’s all burney.
So what if I… what if I threw it? Like, at the bad guy? Throw it [...]

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Five Facts About Mages

The most powerful weapon you have in WoW is knowledge. Knowledge of classes, of game mechanics, of enemy mobs, and how they all work together.
In an effort to fight ignorance, I present to you a list of things that all non-mages absolutely must know about us and how we work.
1. If you mark something with [...]

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Hi There, Remember Me?

Hey, there, loyal readers of my pointless ramblings! Welcome back to the blog I used to update frequently!
I’d like to say I was busy with this, or that, or dealing with University or something, but none of that’s true.
I’ve been playing tons of Rock Band 2, Sins of a Solar Empire, and TF2. With WoW [...]

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Generation Zombie

Culture is a wondrous thing. It evolves, spreads, infects, going nowhere and everywhere all at once leaving steaming piles of strange references and weird societal behaviour.
We could talk all day about how urnial etiquette is different from one nation to the next (eye contact, from what I understand, is universally banned), but I’m here mostly [...]

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Swimming Upstream

Rational thinking would have us believe that “casuals” are ruining gaming. Companies like Nintendo and Popcap appeal to the lowest common denominator, spend next to nothing making these games, and make gigantic wads of cash from them.
Thus, making these smaller casual games is more profitable, and so more and more companies make them, abandoning the [...]

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Incanter’s Absorption

This has been knocking around my brain for a while, so I’ll spell it out here.
Mostly, I’m looking at the possible power of Incanter’s Absorption in a raiding environment, and how it interacts with that Frost Warding talent that’s sucked for so long… and, of course, how all that works together with constantly tossing up [...]

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Suspension of Disbelief

In an effort to practice reviewing stuff before reviewing “Arthas: Rise of the Lich King”, I review other stuff to practice my trolling critiquing.
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Many, many people like to throw words around like “illogical” and “preposterous” when discussing movies. It’s used as a sort of catch-all phrase for “stupid”.
Essentially, saying something is illogical conveys two meanings. [...]

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Liquid Cookie Cutters

I get a lot of questions like “should I get Imp. Scorch?” or “is Incanter’s Absorption worth it?” “or “where should I put point X and Y? Is it worth dropping Z?”
The answer is short, and may be disappointing to some of you:
I don’t know.
How can I know? I’m not you, I’m not in your [...]

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Get These Damn Orphans Out of My Damn Killing Grounds

I wondered. I really wondered.
The quality of horde in battlegrounds has deteriorated extremely fast. Horde went from utterly destroying alliance, every single damn battleground, to unable to kill Balinda overnight.
I thought maybe it was patch 3.1. Maybe all the good hordies are off raiding Ulduar. After all, Horde did suffer a general dip in PvP [...]

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Friday Night Shenanigans!

Normal people do things like go outside and… whatever it is people do outside on Friday’s.
Honestly, I don’t know. Throw paper airplanes around? Poke lumps on the ground with sticks? I haven’t been outside since January, so I really have no idea.
Meanwhile, I, in my infinite wisdom, decided to do stuff in WoW.
Did some more [...]

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