A new category of blog posts for 2019, where I will be writing about gaming in general, or other games besides SWTOR and LOTRO. These gaming posts will happen as/when I get inspiration!
Gaming, especially MMOs, is not simply a beginning to end playthrough. The mere act of playing online gives you the chance to interact with other players and with NPCs in the world your character lives. One way to do this is through emotes. Emotes are actions designed to express and emotion, feeling or opinion. Many […]
Sometimes trying to explain Fibromyalgia, my chronic pain condition, can be really difficult. The main problem is it’s not just one thing, but a body-wide malfunction that causes goodness knows how many symptoms and byproducts. What I’ve found even harder is trying to explain it to gamers I come across when chatting to them in-game. […]
It comes in waves, but gaming rarely gets positive media attention. Whether it’s the latest in the lootbox saga or games being blamed for allegedly altering human behaviour, the perception being published is that gaming is mostly negative. In reality, gaming – both as a passtime or as a career – is a life choice […]
I am in the process of drafting a cross-game blog post this week. In it are various life lessons reinforced by those games. But I have to remind myself of one in particular: defeat is nothing to be ashamed of. As many know, I am not shy about being honest and transparent about my health […]
I wish I could remember where I first saw this. An in-joke in online gaming is that MMORPG is an acronym which stands for: Many Men Online Role-Playing as Girls! I even saw in a game-wide chat people laughing that girls in games are “myths”. Sure it was a joke – and I know many […]
