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PVP in a nutshell.

I know there are many people who see the term *PVP (player vs player) cringe and avoid anything tagged with it like the plague. If you're not prepared, it can leave a bad taste in your mouth.

At the very core of PVP you have a simple game of action vs reaction. And I'm not talking about the reaction you get with your first shot of cheap tequila. I'm talking about one player's actions, prompting a reaction from another player or group of players. ...

What do modern MMO's lack that the classics didn't?
Some of these "classics" for me were games like:

Bard's Tale
Dungeon Master
Zork I-II-III
Pool of Radiance
Eye of the Beholder

"Revelations, a ton of bricks, one cup of coffee later - Adventure was reborn."

As I sat down to breakfast this morning and contemplated my next quest to begin creating in the Neverwinter foundry; I began to ask myself what ...

For this entry, I'm going to talk about phases. Periods in my life where I've been gung-ho on random stuff, only to eventually have that interest crash and burn.

We've all had them. Insatiable urges to pelt our neighbors with water balloons when we were 8. Listening to the popular music because it was cool when we were 12. The list is exponentially large.

Here, I'll talk about a few of my phases, as well as interests that my parents are somehow still convinced is a ...

Warning: This one may get touchy. I'd just like to point out that these are solely my views. I really do not want to spark a debate with a blog entry.

Over the last few years (and rapidly over the last couple of weeks), I've decided that the United States of America has a huge problem with its citizens 'losing their faith' so to speak.

Now yes, the US is a big country, and it's to be expected that there is a broad spectrum of views from its citizens. In my situation, ...

This blog is going to be a little different. Okay, a lot different as you can tell by the title. I figured maybe some people would be interested in seeing an immigration in action, so I'll start this little blog series, which I titled "Immigrant in the Family".

So, to start: the details.

I, Haldri, currently a citizen of Minnesota, am moving to Sweden. Not a big change, you say? Well, it kind of is. More on that in a later blog.

The primary reason ...