During the early summer months, my gaming time (and writing time as well as you can see) is usually severely limited because of a change in priorities. Namely, my children are here for their annual summer visit. While I can’t play AoC for hours like I was, I can still get in some gaming here and there. Here’s what I’ve been up to.
Mario Kart Wii
It’s probably not quite as good as the GameCube edition of the game, but it’s dang close. In my book that still makes it one of the 10 best video games ever. I can’t tell you how much enjoyment my family and I have derived from this franchise. All ages seem to be able to enjoy it and there is actually a higher level of understanding that you can gain that gives it the depth that most adult gamers require for their enjoyment. Been playing a lot of this.
The title of this article is a question posed by a member of our AoC guild. The trigger for this question was that he and 3 others were waiting for a slow-spawning boss for a quest. They were standing near the spawn waiting when the boss spawned and a solo player immediately got to it and tagged it. So their group had to wait I don’t know how long for the boss to respawn, when the “offending” player could have just asked into the group and they all could have had it. It seems like this sort of antisocial behavior has been growing more prevalent in recent years. It’s not a new phenomenon though. I remember being a dark elf enchanter in Everquest and there was a guy (not a dark elf) killing guards inside Neriak. As I ran past him, I got a tell; “Give me Clarity.” Excuse me? “Effing give me Clarity!” Umm, I don’t want to. This resulted in a huge string of profanity directed at me. If he had been even a little courteous I would have surely buffed him. As it was, not so much.
It’s been a little while since I wrote about AoC and what’s going on there. A lot has changed as I see it so let’s get started;
According to a brief article over at 
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