Month: October 2025

The End of Streams – Again

It seems like no matter how hard I try, I just can’t get live streaming my gaming sessions to stick. There’s a number of reasons and some things are unavoidable like health problems, and being married to a first responder, being primary caregiver to two high needs kids, and keeping any sort of schedule just sort of flies out the window. I need schedules.

Some of the issues are within my control, but I can’t do anything about them. Things like my energy level, what time I stream, what I stream. It seems like every few years I try to make a dive at it again, manage for a few weeks, and then give it up for whatever reason it is that time around.

I used to write about video games professionally (back when magazines still existed). I used to work for a video game company (You remember Carbine Studios? NCSoft?) and I desperately cling to trying to do and be something besides just ‘mom’. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what I do, but there are many days I feel lost and very alone.

What’s the solution? Well, besides professional help and working on ‘me’ the only real solution is to just keep trying – but trying and growing in different ways that make sense given my situation. What does that even mean?

In my very specific case, that means I’m not going to try to live stream to twitch any more. I am going to try to record and post content to YouTube, on my own schedule, when I can. I can record sporadically throughout the day here and there when I have the moments, and do the audio at night when the house is a bit more quiet. I can learn how to edit, and still scratch that scheduling itch. I also want to continue to grow with my art, and I’ve been posting to Cara and Instagram, and doing a little bit of drawing every day. I’d like to get back on track with my reading journal, and posting updates over on my book blog. I have a lot of FOMO when it comes to streaming. I watch a lot of twitch streamers throughout the day while I do other things. I see their enthusiasm and love for their games and community. I see them get sponsorships, I see them get noticed.

Why write it all out here? Well. I just wanted to get it out, honestly. It was too long to put on Mastodon, and now I can just move forward.

Legion Remix – It’s Happening

At the time of this post, wowthing.org is telling me that I’ve got 51 out of 168 items that I want from remix – which is pretty great considering I’m not max level yet, nor have I completed all that much. I know a lot of my friends are already 80, and I’ve seen people begin farming the bronze tokens required to make all the purchases – but I’ve been going nice and slow.

Some of that is my own choice, some of that is because for most of the first two days I couldn’t really play. The game was having a TON of issues and then my main character was inaccessible and locked when trying to transfer the bronze to another character went horribly wrong. I think it’s mostly all sorted now (or at least my character is released from the void, so that’s nice) and last night I was able to make a bit more progress.

I’m also still trying to poke around on retail, I did NOT get the brewfest mount this year (at the time of this post there’s 4h left of the event) which was a huge disappointment considering how much I tried. I think Blizzard’s decision to try to reduce the pressure by only letting you have one attempt each day just increases the pressure for those of us who didn’t get it, RNG has never been a friend of mine.

Are you playing Lemix (the name I’ve seen it called lately) and if so what class have you opted to go with? I’m probably going to create at least one of each class, but for now I’ve got a 56 Demon hunter, and a 30 Death knight. We’ll see what else makes the list.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Gold Making – Week 40 (2025)

It was a great week for sales, but that might have also been because for once I kept up with all of the auctions and reposted them properly. Or tried my best, at least. So the gains for this week were 12 million, and I did about 90k worth of purchases. Mostly crafting materials which have seen a sharp increase ever since the Midnight recipe components started floating around.

Most of the sales were smaller items, a lot of transmog, less pets this time around but I think that’s because all of the ‘good’ deals I had going have already sold. The Blackrock Bulwark sale is especially nice, almost 1 million gold from that alone. I also worked on my own recipe collection a bit, and overall, it was just a great well rounded week while we wait for Legion Remix to begin. I’m interested in seeing how that affects the market, will sales go down as the masses move off to the newest shiny, or will collectors decide it’s their time to shine. We’ll just have to see!

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.

Midnight Spoilers: What’s up with Pet Battles?!

I know most of us have moved on from Twitter, but for World of Warcraft information sometimes that’s the only place I can get it from. I am not in the Midnight Alpha – but tons of content creators I follow are, and this little bit of information that was released really stood out to me.

MrGM posted about how pet battles in Midnight have changed – at least when it comes to capturing. You no longer battle 3 pets in the open world and attempt to cage, instead you just.. throw a cage, and catch it. The new method removes pet battles from the equation – at least for Midnight. This is NOT retroactive to other zones.

As someone who really enjoys pet battling, and who enjoys capturing pets, this troubles me. I’m concerned that Blizzard is going to slowly phase out pet battles all together. I’m concerned that they’re done with one of the only aspects of the game I interact with on an almost daily basis.

In comments (of course) there is a LOT of speculation, comments like it’s because of Nintendo. I’m not sure if I’d go that far, we’ve seen pets move to the very end of the line in a number of expansions now and I’m just worried that this will be one more system that they cut out completely.

Thoughts? Let me know in comments. As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.