blaugust 2019
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Last day of Blaugust 2019
The number in my archive for August shows “32” (33 once I hit “publish” for this post). I didn’t publish a blog post every day, but I had days with more than one blog post. So altogether, I did post once a day… and two extra posts for good measure. It’s been refreshing, fun, and…
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Screenshot Saturday: WoW Classic Launch
Home again. This time for real. The image below was taken five minutes after WoW Classic launched. This was on the second German PvE server, Razorfen. We have since switched to Lakeshire which hasn’t had any bad queues so far. Razorfen’s queue has calmed down as well, though, since Blizzard increased the servers’ capacity. The…
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Guild Wars 2 Announcement
Here I am, disappointed with the recent development of Guild Wars 2. It’s not a bad game, just not a good game for me anymore. But I am still watching the Twitch announcement, hoping to see something new to arrive in Guild Wars 2. Other than “more of the same”. We already know the next…
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My least favourite classes to play
Rakuno recently wrote about his least favourite class – or a class he refuses to play – and since I’ve now been pondering and wondering which class to play in World of Warcraft, it’s a fitting topic for me as well. My answer is two-fold. I would have listed very different classes 2.5 years ago…
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Mad Tower Tycoon and Project Highrise – What’s the difference?
(Updated: Jun 2020!) I bought Project Highrise back in 2016 and have played it for 56 hours. This number seems oddly low as I thought I’d sunk in much more time than that. I also bought all of the game’s DLCs. So when I saw the announcement for Mad Tower Tycoon, I was a bit…
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Screenshot Saturday: 7 years of GW2
The first characters that were created during the headstart are celebrating their 7th birthday. Now my warrior is proudly wearing armor that’s worth more than 700 gold only because of the dyes applied (Abyssal Forest, Enameled Longevity and Bloodstone Indigo)! Every character that reaches their 7th birthday receives a Victorious Dye Kit which lets you…
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Paeroka’s Ponderings: Why I stopped liking Guild Wars 2
What to do when you’re actually just waiting for your nostalgia trip to start in World of Warcraft Classic? I thought I’d like to advance my guardian further into Mirkwood. But then I saw somebody tweet about their 7th anniversary gift in Guild Wars 2 and here I am, cleaning my bank, wondering which dye…
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Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (August 2019): Who wants my money?
Two Point Hospital announced their next DLC, Close Encounters, a couple of days ago. It’ll release on August 29 and is currently on sale both at Steam and at Fanatical (no idea if it’s available anywhere else). I love this game and have sunk a lot of hours into it and pre-purchased the two previous…
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First Impression Review: Equilinox
This is probably not a “first impression” piece, since I’ve been playing Equilinox for 30+ hours by now. But I still think it deserves more attention than just a few screenshots here. Equilinox has been developed by ThinMatrix, a single indie developer. “Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game which allows you to create and…
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Real Neat Blog Award questions from Rakuno
There’s the Real Neat Blog Award going around at the moment and I’ve been tagged by Rakuno – a couple of days ago, actually. So, here are my answers to his questions. My 7 questions chosen for my unfortunate victims people whose answers I am curious about! 1. What is your favorite game? (It can…
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WoW: Ding 120
My warlock finally hit level 120. In a previous post I accidentally claimed that she’d never hit level 60 back in vanilla which isn’t true. She was my first level 60, but I ran to a PvE server as fast as I could and that led to me forgetting about her more or less (I…
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Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (August 2019): Blaugust participants
Do you know when we had our last Bookahneer’s Geekwatch? In June 2018. And before that, in September 2016! I tend to forget it exists… Less than two weeks of Blaugust left and I am still trying to catch up with all the participants this time. I have counted 68, including me. I did manage…
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Screenshot Saturday: Tropico 6 – again
For some reason, the way I’ve played in Tropico 4 and 5 leads to bankruptcy and my Tropicans not voting for me anymore. In other words: Game over. I gave up on the game in the meantime, because losing the same mission over and over again wasn’t fun. But I love Tropico and I just…
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Cooking experiments: Noodles
For years, bookahnerk’s family went to this little Italian shop where the owners had a special recipe for pesto. They always bought their pesto there and sometimes even sent some to us. Now that we’re living in the same city, we could go there on our own and we have done so a few times.…
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Parkasaurus Early Access: Where is the game now?
Parakasure went into early access on Steam in September 2018 (I wrote about my first impressions soon after). Thankfully, the game’s developers are still here and they are active and slowly, but steadily improving the game! Ever since Folk Tale, I have been more cautious when investing in early access games, though. Folk Tale’s developer…
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