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Diablo IV Initial Impressions
So Blizzard opened up the Diablo IV beta to the public for this weekend. Since I didn’t pre-order the game, I felt this would be a good time to give it a spin to see how it would play and whether or not I’d splurge. Right now, there’s definitely good points but I have to…
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Not The Best Day But I Tried
Work was blase as I was inundated by trying to make something that has bad requirements work from a technical point of view using three shitty frameworks done through our favorite indy mudshow language javascript. Things became a mess later on as production issues surfaced where I couldn’t really do much without getting distracted and…
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Aliens: The Perfect Movie or Inherently Flawed?
Every year, I watch the classic James Cameron movie Aliens as a sort of nod towards reminding myself why I got into creative writing in the first place. Also, it’s simply one of the best movies of all time and possibly my favorite. However, on this viewing, a few things stuck out to me that…
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Diablo 3: Patch 2.7.5 PTR for Season 28
Called Rites of Sanctuary, the next season for Diablo 3 introduces a shrine where you make various sacrifices to customize an account-wide series of powerful seasonal buffs that range from quality of life improvements to defensive/offensive adjustments. As my time has become more limited as of late, I decided to use the PTR as my…
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Disney’s The Black Hole: Movie Review
This probably is my biggest guilty pleasure of a movie. While Star Wars was the cool film to love as a kid of the 80s, The Black Hole was something people ignored or ridiculed mostly denigrating it as a Star Wars knock off. The accusations were well deserved as the movie itself in retrospect did…
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LinkedIn: Interesting Post on Individual Contributors vs Management Pay and Importance
A previous coworker linked an article written about effectively elevating the importance of the individual contributor. The key points were to recognizing the importance of the role through increasing the pay scale as opposed to encouraging that type of person into moving into a managerial role, which has been the traditional way one continues to…
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Clash of Clans: Taking A Break
Decided to not play this month for Clash of Clans especially with regard to the Gold Pass. $40 + other microtransactions hurt and Clan Games severely burnt me out. Felt that the rewards for this month simply weren’t worth it and that I just needed an overall break from the daily grind. I might load…
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Clash of Clans: Last Day of Clan Games
With a day left for Clan Games winter edition 2022, I ended it with a little over 32k points total, marking Tier V rewards + bonus as well as finishing up Raid Weekend the other day. I think if I didn’t have this break, I’d probably be completely burnt out just because of how many…
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Clash of Clans: Ongoing Winter 2022 Clan Games
Clan Games is continuing and I’ve managed to hit Tier I rewards and am honing in on Tier 2. Along with that, we have Raid Weekend, which I will probably do because of how I have more time right now with my vacation starting. Even though I’m feeling a little burnt out in general, I…
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Clash of Clans: Clan Games and Christmas Gifts
A new round of Clan Games comes tomorrow, which admittedly feels a bit early. However, as ’tis the season to be clashing, we do have a special 7 tier system of rewards with the maximum number of points per account reaching 5k. Thus, Tier 6, for instance, would at minimum require a clan of 10…