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A four panel collage show the transition of two characters from EverQuest to World of Warcraft. On the top is Aethmal, a white haired elf. In the left shot, he is wearing blue armor and wielding a gold and silver sword in the game of EverQuest, while in the right shot, he is wearing dark grey and blue armor with skulls in World of Warcraft. On the bottom is Seralin, a red haired elf. In the left shot, she is wearing red armor and dual wielding two small swords, while in the right shot, she is wearing grey armor with glowing green skulls on the shoulders and two large swords sheathed on her back in an x position.

I created Aethmal in 2001 and Seralin in 2002. They both started out as characters for EverQuest, but have been my main OCs for most everything since. There's also an extended family tree of characters that I dip into regularly, but never with the frequency that I come back to Aethmal and Seralin.

Of course, after finally beating Chronos for the first time, the story decides to go in a direction that hits a particular soft spot for me at the moment. So I guess I have to finish it now...

I keep hearing this. As someone who did not enjoy the first, it's making it tempting to give it a try a bit down the road.

I don't think I'm going to force myself to beat it like I did the first game. With it already feeling like a slog, I don't look forward to having to do multiple runnings beating the game just to get the real ending.

Screenshot of a Hades 2 dialogue screen. Melinoë stands on the left, with a dialogue box of her saying "I'Il get him, Headmistress. I swear it. All that you've taught, I'll bring to bear. And no matter the obstacles that stand in the way, Chronos shall fall by my hand."

Hades 2 is a much better game than the original, but it still suffers the same pain points for me. By the time I'm ready to focus on the last boss, I'm bored of the process to get to him. 30-45 minutes of gameplay that starts to put me to sleep, just for a few minutes of fighting.

Love this piece so much!

I'm starting to work through my homework assignments in my dreams while I nap. I don't know how I feel about this...

A little late for Monday, but all the same!

First Timerunner down, 11 more to go!

I hope one day we have a COVID vaccine that doesn't give me 24 hours of feeling truly awful. Although it has been good excuse to catch up on sleep.

Back-breaking.

Guess it's time for the monthly reminder of how much of the Internet is reliant on Amazon not having issues with their servers.

Back when I did freelance web development, I didn't enjoy but still had to use Javascript for many layouts I was implementing. It's a weird feeling seeing how just about anything I did back then can now be done in pure CSS.

Flexbox and grid CSS features have been a game changer.

WoW's limit seems to be that you can lose your plot after some time, but your house is always saved. So even if you lose the land it's on, you can get a different one and plunk your house back down just as it was.

Not sure if this only for public neighborhoods, or private ones too.

Every time I think about going back to the game, I’m reminded that my house is long gone due to not having a subscription. And it makes me sad, as I spent a lot of time getting that plot and designing it.

I don’t think I can ever go back and play again knowing that it’s all lost.

Sam Rivers, Limp Bizkit Bassist, Dead at 48 Sam Rivers, the founding bassist of Limp Bizkit, has died at age 48.

Rest in peace, Sam Rivers. You were a huge inspiration to me as a bassist, and I’ll always enjoy going back to listen to you and Wes riff off each other.

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The possibility of working at JPL was a primary driver for me to go back to school. It is painful to now watch it get gutted, along with what is happening at every other scientific agency in this country.

We'll be paying for this for at least a generation.

Happy Lemix #mogmonday !

Two-image composite of twin Blood Elves. On the left is Aethmal, a white-haired male wearing the robe version of the Blood Elf heritage armor with two swords on his hips. On the right is Seralin, a red-haired female wearing the armor version of the Blood Elf heritage armor with two giant glowing swords on her back.

Legion Remix giving me the perfect opportunity to go back and play as Aethmal and Seralin in their pre-Void Elf days. Great opportunity to lean heavy on that Blood Elf background, with the wonderful heritage armor available to them.

#legionremix #warcraft #wow

My original answer? 1.

My answer when I saw their's an achievement mount for leveling every class to 80? All of them...

My two cats are doing their best to defend the house against them! Although I think the bugs are learning to stay higher up on the walls where they can drive the cats mad...

First graduate homework: design a chip for tracking days of months on a Martian calendar. This can't be bad...

- Martian Decade: 6 669-sol years and 4 668-sol years.
- Leap Years: Odd-numbered years or years divisible by 10.
- Average Year Length: 668.6 sols.

More Leap Years than non...

Ok then.

What absolute idiocy this all is…

YouTube video by OberstKrueger Cyberpunk 2077 - Dealing with Royce

Cyberpunk 2077 is a flawed game, but there are some great moments within it. What an incredible use of the first-person viewpoint to heighten tension.

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You did an incredible job on this one!

I find this project both appealing to my design sensibilities, and appalling to my sense of time management. I do have a soft spot for that era of OS X and would enjoy sticking to it, but keeping the whole setup secure would take more effort than I'd care to put in.

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At this point, I'd take Mary and some of the other writers getting together for a novel to finish out the trilogy. Just anything to let us have some closure on Jensen and know where the third game would have gone.

It wouldn't replace a full and proper sequel. But it would be enough.

There are a couple that are definitely worth drawing. But there's also a few bosses that are just hyped up versions of normal enemies that could be skipped.

I enjoyed earning my first Master's degree, and am excited to have the opportunity for another in a new field. But jumping into computer engineering when both the industry and my school are learning how to navigate these "AI" tools makes me nervous.

It's a lot of change to deal with all at once.

Two app windows lined up together on macOS 26 Tahoe beta. The front window has a softer corner to it, allow the app behind it to peak out, highlighting the mismatch in design.

For whatever other issues Liquid Glass has (I do like it overall), the mismatch in window border radius between apps compiled against macOS 26 and those that are not bothers me the most.

I know it will work itself out in the long run, but my eyes just can not unsee it whenever it's on my screen.