Promptapalooza No. 20: Tell us about some of your hobbies outside of the realm of your specific niche

29 Aug 2020

This is part of the Promptapalooza. Today's prompt comes from Ace Asunder: "Tell us about some of your hobbies outside of the realm of your specific niche." One of my…

Promptapalooza No. 24: The origin of my online name

23 Aug 2020

This Promptapalooza prompt was shared by Magi from Indiecator: "How did you get the name that you regularly go by online, and what if anything does it mean?" Years ago,…

First impressions of Parkasaurus 1.0

22 Aug 202024 Aug 2020

I didn't put it in the subject line, but this is a post for Promptapalooza: Write that one post you wanted to write so often, but always postponed. Finally do…

Promptapalooza No. 16: My earliest memory of Guild Wars

15 Aug 202016 Aug 2020

This Promptapalooza prompt was shared by Syp from Bio Break: "What is your earliest memory related to one of your core fandoms?" I decided to tell you about Guild Wars,…

Promptapalooza No. 11: Tell us about your physical creative space

15 Aug 2020

The 11th Promptapalooza prompt came from Krikket on Nerd Girl Thoughts. "Tell us about your physical creative space, and how it influences your content creation." Obviously, I did clean up…

Promptapalooza Prompt No. 10: What’s your process when creating a blog post?

9 Aug 2020

This year, we are not doing a traditional Blaugust trying to write 31 blog posts in a month. Instead, we're sharing blogging prompts, one each day. Yesterday's prompt came from…

Promptapalooza No. 8: Share characters that tell us something about you

8 Aug 202023 Aug 2020

This is a post belonging to the Promptapalooza. I'm using Tessa's prompt: "Share characters that tell us something about you." I've found this prompt rather difficult at first because I…

Promptapalooza No. 6: Tell us about your favourite quote

8 Aug 2020

I've been very busy with work, as I expected. So the blog had to suffer. But here's me trying one of the prompts of Promptapalooza. This one was posted by…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (July 2020)

29 Jul 202029 Jul 2020

If you still play LotRO, then you probably haven't missed their recent server issues. We still don't really know what happened, but it went on for a long time. Now…

Playing a random game: Democracy 3

12 Jul 202012 Jul 2020

Thanks to the various integrations available, GoG Galaxy shows me all the games I own on GoG, Battle.net, Origin, Steam, Twitch, Epic and Uplay as well as Guild Wars 2.…

Screenshot Saturday: Waaagh!

9 May 20209 May 2020

As I said... favourite class. It feels good to "be back". And apparently, with returning to LotRo once again and WoW Classic, it's the year of MMO nostalgia.

My top five MMO classes

7 May 202020 Jul 2020

There seem to be a few "top five" lists going around and with my recent post about returning to Lotro and figuring out which class I actually like, I thought…

When did Lotro sneak back in?

5 May 2020

A couple of days ago, all of a sudden, me and some friends started playing Lotro again. I don't even remember who started the conversation or who decided to return…

Top Five most viewed posts

2 May 2020

After the Top Five game series, there's now another top five: the most viewed posts. SDWeasel of Unidentified Signal Source started it, I think. Naithin from Time to Loot followed…

ESO: Ding 50 for the first time!

1 May 20201 May 2020

My templar's been in her mid-40s for such a long time and I never could quite make myself play her - other than doing crafting dailies and maybe one quest…

Do I even like gaming?

1 May 20201 May 2020

I first saw the Gamer Motivation quiz in Kluwe's blog (I'm Not Squishy) and it looked interesting, so I took that quiz as well and this is my result: So…

Games I’ve been playing – April 2020

30 Apr 2020

I just got used to it being April and then this month is over already. But since we got to spend so much time in our new flat, I can't…

[Civ VI] Long Live the Queen! – Turns (21 – 30)

29 Apr 202029 Apr 2020

Naithin had the idea to start a Civ VI succession game and I jumped at the chance to participate! The rules, short and sweet (you can read all of them…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch: Free stuff in MMOs

29 Apr 202029 Apr 2020

Lord of the Rings Online extended its period where you can play all content - that is: all quest packs - for free. You can now play the game without…

Trüberbrook, Driftland & Detective Di

27 Apr 2020

Three games in one day... Feels like Christmas! Bookahnerk finally chose the games he wants from this month's Humble Choice - and two of these games went to me! I've…

Updated blogrolls

26 Apr 2020

Blapril has been going on for weeks and I just now realized that I still had the Blaugust 2019 participants linked on the right side of my blog. I now…

Screenshot Saturday: Deshaan in ESO

25 Apr 202025 Apr 2020

There's not much to say about this. I just liked the view. The citizens rebuilding their village while there's something brewing in the distance. My templar is level 48 now,…

What’s the point in housing?

25 Apr 2020

In a post musing about the problems with housing in MMOs, Roger from Contains Moderate Peril said that you can ask 100 players and will get 100 answers as to…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (April 2020)

23 Apr 2020

Tropico 6 released a new free update with several bug fixes, but with it also came the ability to cross play between GOG, Steam and Origin. MacOS will follow later.…

My Five Favourite Game Series

22 Apr 2020

Krikket posted about her five favourite game series (this topic is apparently going around in Twitter, but I haven't seen it there yet) and I like the idea so much…

ESO: Gloomspore Guar Calf in my Crate

21 Apr 2020

Today's login reward (if you logged on every day this month) is a preview of the Gloomspore Crate. The reward in that is the Gloomspore Guar Calf, a non-combat pet.…

Jumping back into Trove?

19 Apr 2020

Back when Trion still owned their games, they released one more class for Trove (they did a lot more than just that, but this is one of the things). I…

Eliza…

18 Apr 202018 Apr 2020

I got this game, Eliza, a few weeks ago. It's a point and click adventure/visual novel, so it's possibly right up my alley. I want to play through all of…

Making my own wine in Terroir

18 Apr 2020

A few days ago, I looked at the Kickstarter of Chinatown Detective Agency and as I wrote in my blog post about the game, I downloaded and played not only…

Screenshot Saturday: Level 46 in ESO

18 Apr 2020

I'm slowly making my way to level 50 - which will lead towards the CP grind, apparently. But it's still nice being able to just explore the game, do a…