Warrior Poet

Weekly tweets for 2010-08-29.

August 29, 2010

This egg recall is another example of why we should buy local foods when possible. Also, to avoid non-free-range chickens. # "It was live in the street in Washington, DC, which is more dangerous than Baghdad." http://is.gd/ez9H6 (via @drjonboyg) # John Mellencamp: luddite. http://is.gd/ezpNs # So the Facebook Places argument boils down to people upset [...]

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WyldKard’s weekly tweets for 2010-08-22.

August 22, 2010

The best part of Wegmans. http://tinyurl.com/22npstd # Haven't shopped at Wegmans for over 8 years. College kids are still buying ramen, cookie dough, and Coors Light. Some things never change. # Zagat is on crack: thinks Five Guys beats In-N-Out as America’s Best Fast-Food Burger. http://bit.ly/bW5hRx # Does anyone really think that Apple is going [...]

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Getting started with Trollbloods.

July 15, 2010

In retrospect, we shouldn’t have titled our last piece “A quickie primer on Circle of Orboros,” because it was more a response to a “getting started” article than a faction “primer.” We’ve corrected this titling scheme here, in which we’ll highlight a similar community article. This one’s by a Press Ganger and a vocal authority [...]

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A quickie primer on Circle of Orboros.

July 13, 2010

With Privateer Press’ Hordes MKII book hitting shelves later this month, many gamers are scrambling to pick up a Hordes faction to either supplement their existing Warmachine faction, or simply to get started with WarmaHordes. While we previously settled on Khador and Legion of Everblight, we’ve gone back to our original Hordes faction, Trollbloods. That [...]

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Warmachine & Hordes faction popularity.

June 25, 2010

Awhile back, using data from the Privateer Press Forums, we compiled data on which Warmachine/Hordes (WarmaHordes) factions were the most popular. This was when the release of the Retribution of Scyrah first began, so the data has obviously changed since then. Still, the afore-linked spreadsheet remained a good indication of WarmaHordes faction popularity. iBodger, meanwhile, [...]

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This is why we’re not excited by Starcraft 2.

May 18, 2010

Commenting on the “polish” behind Blizzard games, SynCaine likens every Blizzard product as being a rehashed version of old IP. Says SynCaine on Blizzard’s next product: …what happens when you apply the Blizzard business model to a Blizzard game and play it really, really safe? You get StarCraft 2, a highly polished port of SC1 [...]

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