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Path of Exile 2 Early Access Hype

Path of Exile 2 Early Access Hype - Yesterday was the full reveal about what would be available in Path of Exile 2 Early Access and now I am hyped as hell.

Good Morning Folks! Yesterday was an event from Grinding Gear Games that gave us the complete picture of what the Path of Exile 2 Early Access would look like. Essentially in two weeks, we are going to be able to play the game in a relatively finished state with a fully fleshed-out endgame. As far as ARPGs go… the king up to this point has been Blizzard with the Diablo series. GGG is gunning for…

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Trade but Without Trading

Trade but Without Trading - Resorting to Scouting Reports and Beastcrafting Maps in a very slow and unpopulated Path of Exile Trade League.

Hey Folks! I’m getting a bit of a late start this morning on putting up a daily blog post, which is probably bad considering I hard skipped writing anything yesterday. I’ve been continuing to roam around in Path of Exile while I figure out what I want to tackle next, and made some significant progress on chipping away at my final atlas unlocks. One of the big things about this league is that I…

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Dead Event League

Dead Event League - Futzing around with the Path of Exile Event League, the $30 Early Access Buy-in Announcement, and Dune Prophecy series.

Good Morning Folks. After wrapping up Veilguard I have now uninstalled the game to free up space for whatever comes next and am back futzing around with Path of Exile. I wrapped up my second voidstone and I gotta say… I am somewhat impressed at how much better I am now at doing these first two. It gives me hope that maybe at some point in the future the last two will be a similar cakewalk. I…

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Veilguard Stuck the Landing

Veilguard Stuck the Landing - Last night I finished Dragon Age Veilguard and attempt to skirt the line of talking about the ending

Good Morning Folks. Last night I stayed up a bit later than normal and finished Dragon Age Veilguard. This morning I am going to attempt to walk a narrow line of talking about the events of the game without going into a lot of details. There are absolutely going to be spoilers, but I am going to try my best not to spoil exact plot decisions. I will however talk about some of the general decisions…

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we have fun here in Thedas

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AggroChat #500 - Information Deficit

AggroChat #500 - Information Deficit - This week we talk about Unnamed Sound Voltex Clone, Beatmania Simulator, Beastieball, Dragonquest 3 HD-2D, and how weird Soulframe is.

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! This week we talk about Episode 500 and the ramifications of recording that many shows.  From there Ash talks a bit about Unnamed Sound Voltex Clone and Beatmania SImulator on his further descent into rhythm gaming.  From there we talk a bit about Beastieball’s early access as it steps ever closer to the full release. …

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Failing Some Goals

Failing Some Goals - This morning I talk about completely failing my reading goals and then a bit of progress in Path of Exile Necro Settlers League.

Folks… I have completely fallen off the wagon this year when it comes to books. I finished Apostles of Mercy in August and then just have not kept up with things. It really fell apart during my lead-up to Dawntrail in Final Fantasy XIV since my chosen vehicle for consuming books is playing an audiobook in the background while I grind away at an ARPG or similarly narratively vacant game. Playing…

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Cats and Companions

Cats and Companions - Snuggling Cats, Dragon Age Veilguard Companions, and a couple of cool trailers for Guild Wars 2 Content Drops.

Good Morning Folks. We had one of those weird early morning deliveries before I woke up, and I was too slow removing the box from the bar after unpacking it. As a result… Josie now lives here. I spent most of last night snuggling with this goober while Gracie was on my legs. Especially now that it is getting colder, as soon as I sit still for more than a few minutes I end up with a cat. I am…

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This Account Doesn't Exist

This Account Doesn't Exist - This morning I talk about finally nuking my dormant Twitter account, Bluesky, Feeds, Starter Packs, and still loving Gamepad.club.

There is a certain irony in the fact that it took me this long to actually go through with deleting my Twitter account, given how much effort I put into my final days of properly using the platform in trying to convert folks to Mastodon. I stopped regularly using the site in 2022 and even went so far as to deactivate my account… up until the point where folks warned me that after a certain period…

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Missing Delve

Missing Delve - I find myself going back to the mines as I am missing a lot of the raw currency and item drops that I am used to getting there.

Good Morning Folks! I am still on the Path of Exile NecroSettlers Event nonsense and honestly… I am finding myself missing Delve considerably worse than I thought I would. It is not necessarily that I am missing the activity… I am missing access to common stuff that I am simply not finding in maps. Up until this point I had largely been avoiding Delve since the changes to this event are largely…

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Necro Settlers Event Fun

Necro Settlers Event Fun - This weekend I needed some comfort gaming and jumped on the Necro Settlers Event League bandwagon in Path of Exile.

Hey Folks! I gotta admit I am still reeling from last week but luckily I am off today… so it means I get an extra day to decompress. Since the world still feels like shit, I needed to retreat into some very familiar comfort gaming, and the Necro Settlers Event league in Path of Exile has fit the bill. This is a bit weird for an event league because there is no fixed end time, so it has…

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AggroChat #499 - Pokemon Hearthstonification

AggroChat #499 - Pokemon Hearthstonification - Ammo Returns, Pokemon TCG Pocket, Monster Hunter Wilds Beta, Path of Exile Necro Settlers Event, Brighter Shores, and GeekGirlCon 2024.

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! We are all reeling a bit from the past week, but we start off things with the joyful return of Ammo from her trip to Japan.  She spends a bit of time talking about all the arcade hopping and wonderful food that she found along the way. From there we dive into the furious growth of Pokemon TCG Pocket and how it has…

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Automotive Packing

Automotive Packing - Vehicular woes, Path of Exile league reboot event, Brighter Shores early access, and still more Dragon Age Veilguard.

Morning folks. This is how my yesterday/today is going. Essentially I was supposed to go to a retirement party for the person who originally interviewed me. I left the house with plenty of time, and decided to swing by the pharmacy to pick up a prescription so I would not have to fight lines on my way back home. I rolled down the window and about halfway down I heard a snap, and a grinding… and…

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Too Many Charizards

Too Many Charizards - Cats, Pokemon, and 80s Nostalgia while trying to recover from the last two days and get back into the swing of blogging.

Good morning folks. The last few days have been pretty hard to get through, and as such I have not blogged. I am still here and I am still okay-ish. I figured we could all use something cute, so I am starting off this post with my snuggling goobers. I’ve spent most of my time downstairs with my kiddos the last two evenings and it is not uncommon for them to arrange themselves in this pattern with…

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Veilguard is Pretty Great

Veilguard is Pretty Great - After roughly twenty hours, I talk about some of the things that I really like about Dragon Age Veilguard and some of the things I dislike.

Hey Folks! On Friday I talked a little bit about my very early experiences starting a new character in Dragon Age The Veilguard… or I as I seem to keep shortening it to just Veilguard. There was a heap of negative press surrounding this game ahead of its launch and if you spend time on Reddit or YouTube you would be convinced that this is quite possibly the worst game on the planet. Ignore these…

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AggroChat #498 - Rogue Missle Command

AggroChat #498 - Rogue Missle Command - This week we discuss Utopia Must Fall, Nodebuster, Wayfinder, Windblown, I Am Your Beast, Tactical Breach Wizards, and Return of Reckoning

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! We are back after a week off last week due to too many being out. When we do one of those weeks missed we have a truly stupid number of topics to discuss, and this week is no exception.  We start off talking a little bit about Xenoblade Chronicles X getting a Switch release date, and Utopia Must Fall the game that you get…

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siblings in "horror": dumb-ass edition

cursed | friday the 13th | lost boys 3 | hansel & gretel: witch hunters

codependent | blood-soaked | haunted | ride-or-die | damned