Rampaging Through the Plains in Valheim | The Ancient Gaming Noob
Having defeated Moder, we were set to move into the plains biome of Valheim. The plains biome holds a bit of lingering terror for us, it being the home of deathsquitos and fulings and lox and a place where we keep managing to wander into while still too low level, requiring elaborate rescue mission..
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EverQuest Starting Points – Is Blackburrow a Dungeon, a Zone, or a City? | The Ancient Gaming Noob
I want to start this by saying that Blackburrow is the home to the Blackburrow gnoll clan, but I feel like gnolls are not, perhaps, the most notable or obvious mob in the range of fantasy creatures. Do I need to explain gnolls? I mean, they don't even have their own Wikipedia page, having to&h..
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Seeking the Compromise Monitor Size | The Ancient Gaming Noob
What is the ideal monitor size? I know, it varies. Everybody has their own needs and desires. But I have been thinking on the whole monitor thing lately. A few years back I ended up with a Dell U3415W 34" 3440x1440 resolution monitor, one of the curved variety, from work because IT didn'..
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Friday Bullet Points about Legal Battles, Stupidity, and Cataclysm | The Ancient Gaming Noob
It is a cold Friday in March, I turned a year older this week, and I am in a bit of a mood for no good reason besides being a cranky old guy. So perhaps it is time for some bullet point bile. New York Times Imposes Its New Wordle Order The self-proclaimed "paper of…
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EverQuest Starting Points – Under Qeynos in the Aquaduct | The Ancient Gaming Noob
I've briefly written about Qeynos, the first city of Norrath, at least in my heart. But I cannot move further afield until we get to the bottom of the city, for underneath the city lays the Qeynos Aquaducts. While there was a whole front yard of mobs to work on before north Qeynos, snakes, ske..
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A Rescue and the Search for Moder in Valheim | The Ancient Gaming Noob
Valheim's boss based progression system... the next tier of gear and upgrades necessary for conquoring the next biome requires something from the current biome's boss... means that knowing where the next boss is located is a key aspect to moving forward. We had been pretty lucky so far. E..
Five WoW Special Server Ideas | The Ancient Gaming Noob
It appears that based on the success of the first pass at WoW Classic, which was hugely successful to the point of probably saving the WoW team from more layoffs in a time when retail was just failing to hold people with Shadowlands, that the whole "special rules server" idea is here to st..
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Pokemon Go Now Lets You Use a Lucky Egg at Friendship Milestones | The Ancient Gaming Noob
I wrote previously about the angst and frustration at trying to time friendship milestones in Pokemon Go. These can be the biggest single xp events you have in the game and using a lucky egg will double the amount of experience you get... if you time it right and don't mess it up. The fact&hel..
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Back to Blizzard for some Friday Bullet Points | The Ancient Gaming Noob
I pretty much spent all of February ignoring WoW, Blizzard, or anything related. The call of Valheim and the need for a break was strong I guess. I suppose it is time to take a minute to catch up with a new month on hand. And hey, it is Friday, so bullet points look like…
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February 2024 in Review | The Ancient Gaming Noob
The Site WordPress.com always wants to make sure I have something to write about in this section every month. This time around I am back on about email subscriptions. Last month I was complaining that they were only getting delievered to my inbox every other day. This month... that stopped complet..
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Tickets Available Today for EverQuest Fippy Fest 2024 | The Ancient Gaming Noob
Fippy Fest is coming! Wait, what is Fippy Fest? On Saturday, June 15th 2024, Enad Global 7... erm... Daybreak... no, not quite right... Darkpaw Games, the Enad Global 7 studio under the Daybreak Games... and I snicker every time I say that aloud as it sounds like "they break games" when I ..
Valheim and the Stacking Incident | The Ancient Gaming Noob
I have on my list of things to write about the effect of the mods we have chosen for our current run through Valheim, how they have worked out and how they have changed our play style. There have been some obvious impacts. I wrote about the six we initially chose a while back, but…
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Quote of the Day – The Fourth A stands for… what now? | The Ancient Gaming Noob
It's a very big game, and we feel people will really see how how vast and complete that game is. It’s a really full, triple… quadruple-A game, that will deliver in the long run. -Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, justifying Skull and Bones’ $70 price point What to say about Skull and Bones? I wasn�..
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Stock Options and the IPO | The Ancient Gaming Noob
I have been saving this post for this day because it is a special day, the anniversary of my experiencing the Silicon Valley dream; the IPO! Been there, done that, and literally got the T-shirt. What else can I say? Well, a lot of things it seems. 30 years ago today Global Village went public&hel..
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Friday Bullet Points with EVE Online Summits, Patches, Kickstarters, and Treaties | The Ancient Gaming Noob
Once again I have some bullet points about New Eden related topics on Friday. The EVE Online login server was down earlier today (I had half a dozen updates in my email from the EVE Status alerts page) but things seem to be up and running, so off we go to the bullet points. The…
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Some Co-op Crafting Survival Game FOMO | The Ancient Gaming Noob
This whole round of suvival game focus started for me because the makers of No Man's Sky, Hello Games, announced their coming title, Light No Fire. The promise of that got me worked up on the genre once more. That led to me looking into some possible Valheim alternatives... Valheim being my cu..
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Don’t Put the Obliterator next to your Base Buildings in Valheim | The Ancient Gaming Noob
It is always fun to find new thing in Valheim when returning. I was up at the trader to sell off some of the plunder from the crypts out in the swamp that had been collecting back at base when I noticed her had a Thunder stone for sale... cheap. I couldn't remember what a…
Bonemass and Mountain Fever in Valheim | The Ancient Gaming Noob
I guess all replays of a game that is centered on progression will inevitably be quicker. The learning curve and (some of) the mistakes have been marked out or made already and you often know what the next upgrade brings and that drives you to move forward. So it has been going for me. Look,&helli..
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EverQuest Starting Points – What Can I Even Say About Qeynos? | The Ancient Gaming Noob
Through pixels dim, a vista grand, Qeynos unfolds, a promised land. Cobblestone streets, a bustling throng, Where merchants hawk, and bards sing strong. -Google Gemini, trying to make some Norrath poetry Qeynos will always hold a special place in my image of EverQuest. It was the first "city&q..
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Quote of the Day – But Think of the Shareholder Value! | The Ancient Gaming Noob
Our overruling principle is to always maximize shareholder value in any given situation. -Embracer Group, Calendar Q4 2023 Financial Report This past week the train wreck that is the once ominously (and now tragically) named Embracer Group declared that sure, they were laying off staff and cancellin..
