Kontroversial Keith: Saying It and Meaning It.
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The Truman Show: A Conversation with A Higher Being
I didn’t know about The Truman Show for years but discovered it this past year after watching a few conspiracy videos on the Illuminati (yes, I find the subject matter fascinating but I don’t take everything at face value thankfully). What drew me to The Truman Show though was the idea of questioning our own…
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World of Warcraft: Mist of Pandaria’s Philosophy, Reflections on Postmodern Society and My Own Life
“Slow down” and “enjoy life” is the constant message you’ll hear from the Pandaren folk in World of Warcraft. The oddball conspiracy theorists (including that personality quirk inside of my head) might be quick to point out that this is some Illuminati/government/elistists tactic to pacify the gaming masses. Or is it a reflection upon how…
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World of Warcraft: My Current Progress and Experiences in Patch 5.2
We’re now about to get into the 4th day of Patch 5.2 for Mist of Pandaria. Much of what I’ve been doing (outside of helping a friend level up a bit) is focusing on gearing my guys up further and doing dailies on my newer 90 level toons. I’m attempting to avoid Heroics and seeing…
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World of Warcraft: What to REALLY Do in Patch 5.2
There are a ton of cutting edge guides talking about all the new things for Patch 5.2. With all the information available, it can be overwhelming. But what these guides do not reveal is what you, the casual PVE player, should or can be doing in Patch 5.2. First, the raid schedule shows that like…
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Lego: Is the Company Direction Misguided?
As an avid, life long collector of Lego, I feel compelled to speak on the direction of the company in recent years. I think overall Lego is quite possibly the best toy ever invented. What it inspires is unparalleled and the company deserves a great deal of credit for creating generations upon generations of inventive…
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World of Warcraft: The Legendary Waste (of a Gem), Problems with LFR Drops and Ideas for Improvement
With Patch 5.2 on the horizons, I ended up upgrading my Paladin’s two handed sword Starshatter using my Valor Points. I had been hesitating up until this point because I had hoped that I would have acquired the Sha Touched axe in LFR. Having run Sha of Fear around 13 times on my Paladin, I…
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World of Warcraft: Ghostcrawler, Gym Membership, Subscription and Theories
I read a very disturbing post on Wowhead which described Ghostcrawler’s theory on the speed of the game, gym memberships and content: The problem is the pace that players used to play to be able to keep up is not even close to current requirement Used to from when? Cataclysm didn’t ask players to play…
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World of Warcraft: Thoughts on Making Gold in Mist of Pandaria
There’s numerous guides on making gold in World of Warcraft, most of them involve heavy amounts of farming. While having gold in the game is critical to performance, I view it as a residual of what you do in the game as opposed to a focus. As a result, I tend to not be bothered…
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World of Warcraft: What to Do At Level 90 for PVE
You just hit level 90 maybe finishing Townlong Steppes on your journey. The game opens up the doors and you have far more options now since you no longer are in the tunnel of gaining experience. What should you do? This post is geared towards newer players or even players interested in figuring out some…
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The Zend Framework: Problems with Controllers, Models and Domain Modeling
In talking with an ex-colleague, I realized that there’s a lot of confusion that takes place in these so-called MVC frameworks. What I’ve noticed is that many have different interpretations of what the Model-View-Controller looks like (typically only getting the view portion correct in implementation). Most controversy in architecture revolves around the Model and the…