Chris "Syeric" Coke

Ah, summer. The sun is out, the grass is green, flowers are blooming. Students everywhere are loving life right now. Two months off from school to do with whatever they’d like. It’s a little different for me as a first year substitute. I’m so used to having something going on during the summer (college, work, …

Tags: books, greg keyes, name of the wind, neil gaiman, patrick rothfuss, reading, summer doldrums, tad williams, tim powers

Rewind: So You’ve Decided to Go Casual

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August 3, 2010

The following post was original published here on September 30th, 2009. When the blog turned a year old, I noticed that it was one of the top posts on the site (along with being one of my personal favorites). Except, when I posted it, a lot of you hadn’t discovered us yet. So, here’s a …

Tags: Aion, Casual, grouping, humor, i. MMORPG, leveling, LotRO, pugs, wow

I’ve Hit the Sticking Point Again in WoW

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August 2, 2010

a. MMORPG, b. Console, d. Everything Else

Over the last couple of days, and partially due to Syp‘s great Road to Mordor columns, I’ve been playing more LotRO than I have in the last quarter year. As I reloaded the game, I couldn’t but feel a little deja vu. I’d been here before, reloading the game exactly as I had almost a …

Tags: blizzard, game hopping, heroics, Lord of the Rings Online, LotRO, mmo nomadism, raiding, things to do at endgame, turbine, World of Warcraft, wow

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Blizzard Should Be Held Accountable For Damaging Player’s Computers

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July 30, 2010

a. MMORPG, b. Console, d. Everything Else

Short and sweet, but I had to chime in on this one. It seems that Starcraft 2 was released with a devastating bug in the menu system that’s causing some player’s video cards to overheat. Blizzard has acknowledged that the problem is related in menu systems not including any kind of FPS cap, causing some …

Tags: blizzard, sc2, sc2 kills video cards, starcraft 2, starcraft 2 damaging player computers, starcraft 2 overheating

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Why “Quit” an MMO?

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July 30, 2010

a. MMORPG, d. Everything Else

I just finished up the last few lines on this week’s article for Lagwar (it’s a good one, too, if I do say so myself – link incoming soon) and, as I re-read, I noticed mentioning how I “quit” Darkfall, once in the past. I don’t understand why we use that word. Does anyone really …

Tags: console games, console vs mmo games, darkfall, gamer culture, i quit posts, leaving a game, perculiarities, quitting, returning to games you've left, World of Warcraft, wow

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The Multiverse – Episode #23: “The Little Things are Best in Space”

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July 28, 2010

Hey gang, Another week, another Multiverse! This week we touch on the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning trailer, FFXIV’s recommended requirements, the cast of DCUO, and more! We have a clarification from last week, too. It seems that the reported 200k new subscribers for LotRO were actually beta applicants. Still impressive, in my opinion! Thanks to …

Tags: 38 studios, atmosphere, aventurine, bioware, cataclysm, darkfall, dc universe online, ffxiv, immersion, kingdoms of amalur, Lord of the Rings Online, LotRO, mass effect 2, multiverse, music, podcasts, square enix, turbine, World of Warcraft

One Year of Game by Night

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d. Everything Else

July 28, 2010

Look at this, the one year marker for this site has come and gone and I didn’t even notice. Sunday was this blog’s first birthday and I’m very happy with how this past year has gone. During that time, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Darren, Tobold, and Larisa. I’ve started a podcast and found …

Tags: milestones, one year mark, PSA, the blog

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My First Great Adventure in Darkfall

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July 27, 2010

Wow. That’s all I can say after tonight’s run in Darkfall. Just, wow. I logged in fairly late to run through a couple of starter quests with a good friend who just downloaded the trial today. After killing goblins for a few minutes, I suggested heading out towards a skeleton camp a little ways outside …

Tags: baron mordegan, darkfall, darkfall online, found minions

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Two Crashes in Two Weeks; The End of Dragon Age and Vanguard; The (re)Beginning of Darkfall

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July 26, 2010

I’ve had the worst luck with hard drives these past two weeks. First, I had one die on me right after recording Episode 22 of The Multiverse. I went out, caught a couple of 500GB drives on sale at Best Buy, put them in, and was happy with my new terrabyte. Yesterday morning, however, I …

Tags: aventurine, computer crashes, darkfall, darkfall online, dfo, formatting, LotRO, wow

d. Everything Else, f. Reviews

A Spoilerish Discussion of Inception

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July 24, 2010