The next STO event is following hard on the heels of its current 14th Anniversary event — tomorrow the first of 2024 Event Campaign starts, with Pahvo again as the theme. The announcement: Hold the Line at Pahvo! By Ambassador Kael | Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:00:00 AM PST The living planet of Pahvo is once again … More STO 2024 Event Campaign ..read more

A little something different today. There has been a noticeable uptake of new players in Guild Wars 2 in the past few months, with a lot of them asking for advice and suggestions on Reddit. Quite a few asked what makes GW2 different from other MMORPGs, and while many veteran players have offered their own … More The Longest Road – A Guild Wars 2 Story from Reddit ..read more

I’m going to keep it short and sweet today, because I only want to note that I have finally completed the Star Trek Online 2023 Event Campaign! Yes yes, I would’ve finished it a lot sooner if I hadn’t completely missed Event Campaign IV in August, but that’s okay! So gaze upon the glorious loot … More 2023 Event Campaign Complete ..read more

It’s been a while since I posted anything! Did you miss me? For anyone who’s curious, it hasn’t been a fun three months. Some of you may recall I have been dealing with some vision problems for a few months, but they got worse in July. After multiple appointments with doctors, optometrists and ophthalmologists (including … More Belated Catchup ..read more

Yesterday ArenaNet announced the next expansion for Guild Wars 2, called Secrets of the Obscure, will be released August 22, 2023. Here is the trailer. So let’s start off with a bit of background information. After the release of End of Dragons in early 2022, ArenaNet announced that they are moving away from their previous … More GW2 Upcoming Expansion – Secrets of the Obscure ..read more

If you use Reddit at all, you may notice your favorite Subreddit has gone “private” today. And it’s not alone; it’s probably part of an organized mass 48 hours “blackout” in protest to Reddit’s new pricing policy. Here is one report that explains the details. You can find a host of similar reports all over … More The Great Reddit Blackout of 2023 ..read more

Part 3 of the 2023 Event Campaign is live — between June 8 and Jun 29. It’s confusingly packaged under the name “Flagship Celebration Event”, as if it’s a completely different thing, but noooo, it’s not. Here is the official announcement. But there is another announcement about an upcoming feature called “Advanced R&D Consoles”. This … More Event Campaign 3 is Live… and Advanced Consoles ..read more

I’m a bit behind the ball here, but on February 28 2023, ANet released the biggest (and much anticipated) Guild Wars 2 patch since the End of Dragons expansion last year. It’s available for free for everyone who has purchased EoD, and here’s the trailer by the way. As I previously noted, the aptly-named End ..read more

You will have to take my word for it (for now), but Heidy is a bit of an artist. Granted, I haven’t been very productive in the last few years so I don’t have anything new to show, but I used to be pretty prolific back in the day. Some day I will show off ..read more

The last month and a half had been brutal, as I was hit with a couple of different health issues that are still going on and unresolved. Until I get to see a specialist in March, I will be dealing with said health issues, which is the main reason why I have been negligent on ..read more