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Okay, time to take a step back from stressing about deleted email accounts and breathe. What I can do directly about that is done anyway...

So, there appear to be some neat little cosmetic toys out for the 11th anniversary of WoW in-game, but I don't see anything that makes me want to log in to get it. I'm also waiting on checking out the new content in FFXIV.

GW2 has... settled some. I'm less grumpy about it, but it's also losing a little of the HoT luster. Mostly, I'm just not spending much time with it on a daily basis right now. I still did guild missions on Sunday, though some of them are a bit buggy right now. The first raid comes out this week, and it's appearing that I'll miss out on that for the foreseeable future. I'm interested enough that I would try to do it, but my schedule doesn't line up well with others'. ARIN picked up a guild hall Saturday (and let me say that's so ridiculously-much easier with one maw spawn per wave than two), though I have trouble seeing the upgrades happening quickly. That's all fine.

Mostly, I've sunk play time into Fallout 4 the last several days. The engine feels a little aging, as it still seems to be built on the same groundwork as 3 and New Vegas, though things do look somewhat better, at least. And I'm so happy for a broader color palette. Sure, the green-brown look to everything sort of fits the theme, but it's so much nicer to be able to look up at a nice blue sky once in a while. Power armor is a bigger part of gameplay, though you still have to mind the fuel cells so I don't use it much. And there's settlement building/management in the game, which has a lot of potential but isn't well explained. I reached a point yesterday where *spoiler* flew over, and it was impressive. Overall, it's been an entertaining game thus far.

Suppose I might also mention a push to start a D&D game online, though I find myself wondering if that's going to work out now with schedule changes for those who would have been involved.

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