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I’ve mentioned before that I do most of my writing on the weekends. I write the bulk of the articles on my days off, and then go over them a bit the evening before they go live.

This weekend I did nothing but play City of Heroes. I filled up a whole server just making new characters and playing them to level 3 or 4, then dumping out and making another.

I fully realize the showing off your character is barely one step removed from drawing a picture and putting it up on the refrigerator. However, since this is pretty much all I did, it’s all I’ve got. So, with apologies, here is what you’re getting instead of posts this week:

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “A Weekend of Sloth”

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I know this game is much anticipated by many readers. I don’t know what the actual subscription numbers are like, but I’ve come to think of it as the “other” World of Warcraft. It seems to have the same ratio of fans (many) to detractors (very few) and the same level of long-timers that have been playing for ages. As with WoW, I have invites to just about every server out there from various friends and readers. So once again I just blindly rolled the dice and picked a server at random.

I’m on Liberty.

I’m a few days into it now, but I’m still several days from writing about it. Still, I thought I’d give a heads up.

EDIT: Based on advice in the comments below, I’ll probably be playing on Freedom, too.

UPDATE: Wow. Freedom is indeed much different. Just hit level 6 and the crowds make for a very different experience.

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.