Author: Ben

I’m Benjamin (“Ben”) Cohen and I’ve got a fairly extensive background. I’ve spent most of my life with and around computers. (I literally grew up crawling around computer room floors, since my mom was a Systems Engineer for IBM back when computers were larger than most modern appliances and slower than your phone from several years ago.)

My Love-Hate Feelings for MMOs – Final

[This is the last part of a series of posts which started here: My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part I. If you didn’t start there, you probably want to.] My Ultimate Realizations The title for this series was carefully…

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My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part VI

[This is part of a series of posts which started here: My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part I. If you didn’t start there, you probably want to.] Battle for Azeroth As I said in the last post on this…

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My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part V

[This is part of a series of posts which started here: My Love-Hate Relationships For MMOs – Part I. If you didn’t start there, you probably want to.] Building a New Main With my new PC up and running and…

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Idea and Word Association-Spaghetti

“What the heck does that title mean, anyway?” Word Association I expect most people are familiar with the concept of “word association“, not just the game, but the idea that we have a tendency to link things together in our…

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My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part IV

[This is part of a series of posts which started there: My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part I. If you didn’t start there, you probably want to.] The Long Lull Having felt the need to turn tail and run…

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My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part III

[This is part of a series of posts which started here: My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part I. If you didn’t start there, you probably want to.] Next Stop – Spreadsheets In Spaaace! The reference here is definitely an…

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My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part II

[You probably should read My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part I first, if you haven’t already, just so you can get context on this one.] Jumping on the World of Warcraft Hype Train When we left off, dear reader,…

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My Love-Hate Feelings For MMOs – Part I

I very much have a love-hate relationship with MMOs, and I’ve had one for well … far, far, far too long. It seems, typically, to be based around winding up feeling incredibly bored and then trying to find something to…

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Mystery Letters

Caitlin knocked at the front door of the house then caught herself and used the key to open the door. Even after a year of being back in the home she grew up in, some habits died slowly. The twenty-two…

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The Portal – Response

I don’t normally write anything for a writing prompt, but I’ve been horribly unproductive and torn between simultaneously wanting to “create” something yet also having nothing banging around in my head that wanted to turn into words. So … in…

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It’s Been A While…

Yeah, I know. I haven’t really added anything here because I’ve been in a serious lull / rut. As I’ve joked with a few people, after getting “Untimely Encounter in Kethyras” finished, my muse kinda checked out, saying “Welp, that’s…

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Spring 2023 Anime – What I’m Watching

It’s that time again! Actually, it’s already past that time, as pretty much all of the Spring 2023 anime series have already had three or four weeks to get episodes in. To look at it on the positive side, though,…

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