arbitrary posted this on March 12th, 2010.
Categorized as MMOs, Updates, birthdays, bored of raiding, casual play, friends, lotro, personal, random, status, turning 40, warcraft, world of warcraft, wow.
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So blogging has fallen a bit by the wayside. I went to London/Reading to visit family and haven’t really got back into a schedule yet.
Add to that a bit of a turn from LotRO – I’ve been there, done that. I have 750 Dol Guldur medallions now and no weapon or emblem decent enough to spend any of them on. I can run through Sammath Gul without standing on a bone pile with my eyes closed. Volume 3, Book 1, was a small distraction – but didn’t do what I wanted it to. We’re raiding Barad Guldur, and making good progress, but raiding has diminished for me somewhat, and I think in the future I won’t be quite so gung ho to go twice a week. Ah yes, the casual vibe has started to catch me…
…I still log onto LotRO almost daily and do some of the daily quests to level up yet another emblem. They’re all rubbish. I feel, as I do it, as if I’m wasting my life. I really hate the LI lottery these days. And then I realise I’m raiding with what I consider rubbish and no-one cares, so why should I struggle to upgrade? Why pursue the Symbol for crafted 2nd Age items, when it may just be a wasted piece of crafting that someone else craves a lot more than I do?
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arbitrary posted this on October 16th, 2009.
Categorized as Codemasters, Fall Festival, blogs, cats, contests, diesel, harvest festival, links, lotro, personal, raids, random, randomness on a friday, stupid cake contests, vets, work.
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Overtime for me at work, which excuses the current tranche of quiet on the blog. And so.. a bit of random is good for the soul:
First – go to A Casual Stroll to Mordor and read their Harvest Festival guide. I am a known hater of in-game festivals, but even I did a few of the festival quests last night, while waiting to kill the Evil Turtle of Moria (hrrm, I wonder if he was corrupted by The Watcher living so close by).
We’re raiding tonight, I’m working tomorrow also – should make for some interesting times… hope there’s something easy to cook for dinner!
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arbitrary posted this on August 29th, 2009.
Categorized as MMOs, blogging, dn, lotro, raiding, ramble, random, rohan, update, world of darkness.
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Did you notice how directly after saying I’d come back to the blog, I kind of vanished down to London? Ha ha.
I’m at Spinks’ house overnight though, reading through Vampire: the Requiem (it was the Masquerade in my day!), and thinking I need my own copy. But that also I should update as to what I’m playing and where, before I get back to commenting a little on MMOs.
I’m playing LotRO exclusively now. I tried WAR again for the 10 days, and didn’t do much more than play Nordenwatch and Gates of Ekrund. Both very enjoyable. There’s a lot of fun around the game, but without my old guild and the people I wanted to say hi to, I found it tricky to stay for a long period.
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arbitrary posted this on August 7th, 2009.
Categorized as frodo, frodo's journeys, lotro, maps, maps of middle earth, middle earth, random, scans, turbine.
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Another quick aside…
I mentioned on twitter recently(ish) that I’d picked up a cool book in our library sale that followed Frodo’s journeys through Middle Earth*. And I promised I’d provide a couple of scans. Well, after a little searching through our strange Tolkein collection, I found it. And as I want to post them on twitter, a couple of scans I took this morning:
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arbitrary posted this on June 29th, 2009.
Categorized as Instance, bio break, captains, dark delvings, gurvand, hard-mode, links, lotro, random, syp, sypster, twitter.
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