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Gaming

Overcoming Tanking Anxiety in FFXIV

One of the common posts on the FFXIV subreddit seems to be from new tanks or players learning to tank for the first time who are struggling with anxiety about the tank role. While it’s front and center and in the spotlight, I firmly believe that the role of tank is one of the easiest…

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Introducing nya.pub

Today I’m pleased to formally announce the launch of nya.pub – where you can get your own subdomain for your internet-connected service or site, powered by FreeDNS. Really, I have been providing the nya.pub domain to be used as one of many domains available in the shared domain registry on FreeDNS since May, 2015, when…

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Gaming

Switched Off: Why I’ll Wait and See on the Switch

I’m a big Nintendo fan. Zelda, Pokemon, and Mario were some of my constant companions from my childhood through today. I’ve taken chances on Nintendo hardware in the past, such as buying Wii U relatively early, and I’ve owned at least 5 DS and 3DS devices since they came out. Nevertheless, I haven’t purchased a…

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Gaming

HONK HONK – Jiffy Cleared A12S

At 2:35 a.m. Eastern time on January 24, 2017, just 25 minutes before weekly reset, we finally got it! Jiffy of Cactuar cleared A12S! We did it! It was a long, long raid night. We started our raid around 8:30 p.m. as usual, but we felt we were getting so close to the clear that…

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Anime Conventions Gaming

New Year, New Priorities

It’s hilarious looking back just about one year ago, when I was devising some arcane complicated formula for how I would score my monthly progress in working on my backlog of games, especially since 90+% of my gaming time this past year has been focused on Final Fantasy XIV. Since my FFXIV character is basically…