Kontroversial Keith: Saying It and Meaning It.
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Lego: Is the Company Direction Misguided?
As an avid, life long collector of Lego, I feel compelled to speak on the direction of the company in recent years. I think overall Lego is quite possibly the best toy ever invented. What it inspires is unparalleled and the company deserves a great deal of credit for creating generations upon generations of inventive…
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World of Warcraft: The Legendary Waste (of a Gem), Problems with LFR Drops and Ideas for Improvement
With Patch 5.2 on the horizons, I ended up upgrading my Paladin’s two handed sword Starshatter using my Valor Points. I had been hesitating up until this point because I had hoped that I would have acquired the Sha Touched axe in LFR. Having run Sha of Fear around 13 times on my Paladin, I…
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World of Warcraft: Ghostcrawler, Gym Membership, Subscription and Theories
I read a very disturbing post on Wowhead which described Ghostcrawler’s theory on the speed of the game, gym memberships and content: The problem is the pace that players used to play to be able to keep up is not even close to current requirement Used to from when? Cataclysm didn’t ask players to play…
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World of Warcraft: Thoughts on Making Gold in Mist of Pandaria
There’s numerous guides on making gold in World of Warcraft, most of them involve heavy amounts of farming. While having gold in the game is critical to performance, I view it as a residual of what you do in the game as opposed to a focus. As a result, I tend to not be bothered…
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World of Warcraft: What to Do At Level 90 for PVE
You just hit level 90 maybe finishing Townlong Steppes on your journey. The game opens up the doors and you have far more options now since you no longer are in the tunnel of gaining experience. What should you do? This post is geared towards newer players or even players interested in figuring out some…
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The Zend Framework: Problems with Controllers, Models and Domain Modeling
In talking with an ex-colleague, I realized that there’s a lot of confusion that takes place in these so-called MVC frameworks. What I’ve noticed is that many have different interpretations of what the Model-View-Controller looks like (typically only getting the view portion correct in implementation). Most controversy in architecture revolves around the Model and the…
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World of Warcraft: How I Am Preparing For Patch 5.2
More than likely Patch 5.2 will be released next week. Today, Blizzard released a new preview video of the upcoming patch and many articles in the past week have set the tone in getting our appetites wet for battle. Yet, the question is how one can prepare for the upcoming patch. Most of the patch…
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World of Warcraft: Death Knight at 90 and Moving Shaman Up
I managed to hit level 90 earlier on my death knight. I figured that it was important to get a few more toons up to 90 before the next patch hits just to start preparing them. I quickly got some PVP gear, along with the 476 chest piece and the crafted 2 handed weapon. Also,…
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World of Warcraft: Tank or DPS for Leveling?
Currently, I am homing in on level 90 with my death knight in World of Warcraft. That’ll mark my 4th level 90. It took me slightly longer to work on my death knight as I had prioritized my other 3 90’s much higher. However, getting slightly bored of dailies and with the patch approaching quickly,…