Category: Computer/Console
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Warcraft Classic
It has been many years since we have routinely played Warcraft, but the recent launch of Warcraft Classic managed to call us back. The “new” version is from the 2004 era – no heirloom gear for fast leveling, minimal quality of life improvements, and relatively high death rate. But it is fun, at least for…
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A Whole New World (again)
Over this last weekend, there was a bit of a world-shattering event on the Atlas game server we play on – due to a previously unknown bug, all player data was corrupted and lost. Despite a long weekend of troubleshooting with Grapeshot and G-Portal, the admins who ran the server set were forced to give…
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New world in Atlas
As we continue our adventures in the Atlas online game, the server we currently play on suffered a catastrophic outage. In the process of updating maps and islands, the entire save file was corrupted, meaning it was effectively an unexpected progress wipe. Not really a big deal, gave us a chance to clean out the…
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Atlas 1.5
Switching topics over to the video game arena, today is the release of the long awaited Atlas 1.5 “MegaUpdate”. If you are not familiar with Atlas, it is a survival sandbox game with a pirate theme – and one that continues to hold the attention of our family. Up until recently, we were playing on…
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Sunset over the bay
Living in Ohio, we don’t get much time at the beach, which is part of the attraction of the Atlas game we have been playing. Since every land is an island, there is lots of ocean and beach time. So much so, with the graphics, I can almost smell the salt-water at times. In particular,…