Anna Bell

Pausing a game in order to briefly step away is crucial part to a healthy gaming/life balance for many of us, but that doesn't mean Diablo 4 got that memo.

I don't exactly want to complain about the embarrassment of riches we currently face.

Y’all got anything going on today? Any special embargos lifting or whatnot?

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The idea for this discussion stemmed from the very careful, excellent research by Christian Thoma and Phil Ulrich in our Diablo 4 characters series.

It’s funny, when a game makes radical changes, sometimes there are little quirks you don’t realize until later. Sometimes a mechanic will change so that something that didn’t work before does now, and sometimes it alters your playstyle drastically because of it.

Anyway, if you like Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds, now you don’t need to have a churn slot open if you’re playing minions just for Magnetic. If only I had known…

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What is a best friend other than a social version of power rankings? Best of luck to all of you who sportsball.

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It’s the time of year again where I’m trying my best to not burn out before the end of the school year, while also simultaneously burning myself out by trying to cram an entire summer worth of work into the next few weeks. And then, when summer hits I’ll spend all day ferrying kids around between activities while also trying to make them do enriching things and also prevent skill backslide while they’re out, and also trying to keep current on my own life at the same time.

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Nothing in particular happens today. Oh, right. The patch.

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I can be a little strange living in a place where your climate is just a tad ahead of everyone else’s. I’m starting to see posts from friends and family in Upstate New York talking about how it’s almost spring and they’re so excited, lots of discussion about the upcoming Rochester Lilac Festival, marking the true beginning of spring. Meanwhile, I’m over here already breaking out the shorts, booking summer camps, and battling mosquitos.

On the flip side, it does make me feel oddly on the ball and prepared. Maybe I should try to schedule things a few months in advance more often.

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The "daily routine" is a fairly popular content genre among lifestyle influencers -- but you don't usually see Twitch streamers light a candle for intention and check their bullet journal before they start their daily grind, headshotting plebs in artfully composed shallow depth of field.