Metagames and League of Legends

Obviously, every competitive game has a metagame to it.  Certain dominant strategies rise to the fore, granting an advantage to the innovators who developed them, leading to a period of scrambling where other players seek to implement this new strategy, while looking for counters. But I’ve never really paid any attention to them, prior to [...]

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Blizzard: Stop Screwing Around and Make a Game With my Necromancer Class

That is all.

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Inflation, or Why It Ain’t

Peter Boockvar posted on The Big Picture a note about inflation: It puts into context why some scratch their heads about the big fears of deflation that is causing the Fed to act as they are in terms of money printing. As can be seen, the cost of living, aka CPI, is down just .7% [...]

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Why I Dislike Gold as an Investment

Gold has been pimped by a portion of the investment community for ages.  Gold is a strange substance, culturally.  It inhabits very little of the production for most goods, yet is classically one of the highest demand “rare” substance.  Now I don’t think I’ve ever seen a gold bug not pimp gold.  Seriously, never.  No [...]

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Time to go back to WoW

With Cataclysm hitting in less than 2 months, I’m probably going to head back into Azeroth on a more consistent basis.  In addition to making sure I have a server to land on, this means making sure I understand the healing model properly.  Math will be forthcoming on this.  In the meantime, what does everyone [...]

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A Tangential Comment, Completely Unrelated to the Source that Spawned It

I was reading this article about a suggestion to the US government on how to reduce domestic spending significantly through various efficiency enhancing moves, such as IT infrastructure improvement, and was amused by the article referring to “the cash-strapped U.S. government”. This is a bit like calling Chase or, more appropriately, the Fed cash-strapped.  Seriously, [...]

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Cataclysm in December

Apparently, we get Cataclysm in December.  You likely know this. I wish I could say I was thrilled and excited.  For whatever reason, this time, I’m not.  The quest stuff really is cool.  The new zones are lovely and well-crafted, and the redone old zones simply sparkle from polish. But meh.  Don’t care right now. [...]

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