Anna Bell

I went on vacation last Saturday, and we’ve had a great time, going to Niagara Falls on a train, hitting up with Adirondacks for some outdoorsy fun. We even went swimming in a waterfall! I’ve been largely out of the loop in terms of information, but I’m sure there’s not a lot of stuff that happened I need to catch up on.

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Before you think I'm about to abduct a few dozen puppies to make myself a coat or something, failure is a natural part of playing video games.

Over time I’ve started really leaning in to ambient noise soundtracks while I’m working. I’ve done this for a long time, just keeping WoW open while I double check things, so I get all the little chimes from nearby lanterns, or the occasional jingling of horsetack in certain towns and cities. However, now it’s becoming a real necessity for–

Wait, what was I saying? Oh, right, I use the birds chirping soundtrack in Spirit City a lot, and Plant Daddy, also just those youtube videos intended for cats with ambient outdoor noise. Having something neutral like that really helps me focus, when I’m being asked by my kids for–

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The next Overwatch 2 crossover event begins July 9, and so far their collaboration with Transformers has featured a whole lot of gorgeous artwork and character concepts.

Funnily enough, the final book in the set of three updates to 2024 Dungeons & Dragons isn't coming out until 2025.

Blizzard has been great about laying out the timing of their upcoming releases lately, so it's not surprising that, ahead of World of Warcraft's launch of The War Within expansion, we already have a start date for season 1: September 9, though, as this is a global release, for certain time zones, this will be September 10.

I popped in to a store to get more red hummingbird food (my local hummingbirds are spoiled brats) and was simultaneously surprised and overwhelmed that all the summer outdoors stuff has been shoved off into one little clearance corner, while the rest of the seasonal section is now devoted to back to school shopping. I should not have to compare notebook paper rule sizes while slathered in sunscreen.

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The short story Trials is another offering from the upcoming compilation The Voices Within, and it concerns more characters we've watched grow up through the World of Warcraft timeline -- Thrall, his wife Aggra, and his kids Durak and Rehze.

It's a bit of a meme that my Steam wishlist has become a little, shall we say diplomatically, notoriously unwieldy.

Back in November 2022, talks broke down between Blizzard and their publishing partner in China, Netease, leading to all of Blizzard's active services being suspended in the country as of January 2023.