Nobody Reads This

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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Well, this is one of my biggest hiccups yet! About two months since my last post, 3 major international holidays and my own birthday have come and gone and I’m now riding some coursework deadlines…. Where does that leave this blog?

Well I’ll try is all I can say

Maybe the things I post will become much shorter and constitute primarily a few thoughts or links but I will certainly try to post a little more.

Since my last post I bought Arkham Horror and played a few games and enjoyed them, however it’s brutally heavy duty for the person generally in charge of running it which is inevitably me. I shall coax another few games out of it but will force the materials into the hands of the other(s) willing to pick up some of my slack.

We actually picked up Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game to and have played about ten games … While we learned to play we were hammered as the humans but these days we find some careful control and fairly restrained cylons can lead to an easy game. It’s very easy to get crushed or breeze through depending on how bold or outrageous the cylon your opposed to are.

Hmmms. I like this game and will likely keep you informed.

I’ve also hammered Modern Warfare 2 and 100%’d it finishing many of the tougher challenges solo on veteran, I’m enjoying the online and I’ve prestiged once (and will likely continue to do so) but I feel like some of the prestige sacrifices are a bit overly savage. I’d make it so that you unlock more and more challenges, but not that they reset your progress of them but rather just lock off the weapons until the respective levels.

Anyway, that’s enough from me, hopefully you’ll see me soon.

Happy new year.

Regards,
James~

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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I took some time yesterday to look around a Forbidden Planet to attempt to identify a few games to pick up to contribute to our collection of board games. I find that we tend to enjoy these more depending on how abstract they are. One of my key mistakes in all of this was joining the website Board Game Geeks because they are so incredibly jaded about anything that isn’t a non-competitive Euro-circle-jerkathon. Which is great and all, I love a game of Ticket to Ride like nobody else, but I also adore mass violence and exterminating my enemies.

I identified a few likely candidates to pick up, pretty much all of which were destroyed by BGG’s various reviews, well except for one… In the original run up:

• Comuni
• Zombies!!!
• Battlestar Galactica
• Arkham Horror
• Risk 2210 (overpriced at like £40)
• Various Euro-pop games like Catan, Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride

Whilst the Euro-pop games are pretty much universally accepted as great classic games, we’ve played them electronically. Not to say I wouldn’t still love to play Seafarers of Catan or such derivates, but if I’m going to shell out between £20 and £40 for a board game (Anymore and I might as well buy that god damn £55-60 WoW one) BGG says I should hands-down get Arkham Horror.

That said, the BSG one has pretty good reviews but the format seems tired to me. It has dispelled some of the shroud of “Licence Meh” but still not enough for me to indulge this time around.

Tomorrow I think I shall price up Arkham Horror and convince myself to buy it.

That, or look online for a copy of Pandemic.

Regards,
James Reynolds.

Oh, and I haven’t played WoW for over a month. Sorry Focus.

Oh, and I should start a mailing list for anyone still crazy enough to be reading.

Further Reading:
Twilight Imperium
Agricola
Dungeon Lords
Power Grid
Pandemic
Puerto Rico

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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Me and this blog are a love hate relationship because on the one hand I adore jotting down interesting and humorous events of my life for all to see but on the other hand when I take a leave of absence from it for whatever reason I feel incredibly guilty, almost as though I’ve left the dog at home and gone on vacation … Except the dog has no food and I’ve locked him in the basement.

Honestly though, two things have lead to a lapse in activity; I finished my work for Exrox and moved back to my home town ready for my final year of University and I’m playing a lot more WoW now. At some point in the not too distant future I’ll upload a few of my killshots which include – at last – a Yogg Saron and also my server first kill of Anub’Arak 10 man (and the looting of the awesome 10-man version of the Chieftain’s Caster mace).

In fact I’ve been away so long that I trialed for a guild, failed the trial, trialed for an even better guild and have now been accepted as  a full-time raider. Focus are a long-standing guild on Turalyon (EU) and I look forward to many successful endevours with them in the future … Even if they had registered over 150 wipes on Yogg and only 1 kill

But in all seriousness, I love this blog to death but at the moment I’m enjoying my time so damn much I just don’t float over here to tell you about it, so in case of huge silences again do drop me a line. I read all comments and emails that I get sent, so please do.

Lok’tar Ogar,
JamesR.

Oh, and I fucking hate Goblins and so does Mark :p

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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Today is my last Friday working for this company and the work-load has ramped up so I apologize for falling behind yet again, it often feels like you sit down to spend five minutes of your day (on break I suppose) to write some notes about what you did recently, only to have the IT-equivalent of an Atomic-S**t- explosion take place just ten feet from you and the universe as we know it imploads.

There’s also the fact that I have to pack all my shit up over the next 7 days, 2 of which I’m raiding – 4 of which I’m working and at least one of which I’m hungover. Needless to say, my caffeine intake will spike and for once not because of some Rare-drop I convince myself I must have.

I suppose an Ulduar 25 update is in order, according to some sources (but not Rawr) I got what is thought to be the BiS Helm for a Holy Paladin. Needless to say I’m chuffed but also needless to say I’m very very poor now with only about 250g to my name. The item I got was the Ancient Iron Heume (What kind of a word is heume…) with the Intellect+Mana return proc Meta gem and a +16 Intellect yellow gem. It drops from the council, one of the bosses I don’t mind as much but generally causes grief because an interrupter slacks and the raid effectively gets shelled causing trouble for me.

I did see our 45,000+ Hit-point tank take a 58k hit yesterday, needless to say I was not amused and we wiped it up.

Later on I did some number crunching and decided to buy an Emblem of Conquest item and my choices were between the belt (28 Badges) and the neck (18). Both were nice upgrades but I let Rawr make the call for me and I upgraded the neck. I grabbed my Frozen Tear of Elune (omg lorelulz) and logged for the night.

We got both Hodir and Thorim down so Sunday evening is Freya and Mimiron. I think that makes it only 3 bosses before Yogg’saron which I will begrudgingly take part in. In the not to distant future I’m going to start combing my chat logs from WoW for some great anecdotes, so keep tuned in for that but until next time – Die safe.

Regards,
JamesR.

I’m a Healer, not your errand boy.