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4 65 A Con at the Con

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4 65 A Con at the Con Not a great toy for kids Twenty-Twenty I woke up on Goldenrods couch and was certain something was picking my eyeball out of its socket. Jarred from sleep in a frenzy of blinking, the haze lifted. A spider-bite reaction at 2:00 am gave the sensation of a thousand eyelashes stuck in my eye. Sleeping bags apparently offered little protection from insects, even from within the comforts of honest-to-god living quarters. Bugs get what they want. I washed my eye out in his kitchen sink, struggling to keep the volume of my late-night disturbance to a minimum. Eventually, my eyelid twitched less, returning to its usual hyper kinetic state, and I caught a glimpse of the moon from the window above the sink. I decided to slip out back for a quick breath of fresh air. Even in the dead of night, the warmth of California was a pleasant break from Colorado�s altitude. Jealousy set in. I had no qualms when traveling to the coast for business. The heat was wonderful. I also missed...

3 65 Questionable Ethics

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3 65 Questionable Ethics Gunsmokeco earns the #1 position in the world for restoration shamans on Blood Queen Lanathel, World of Logs Dissecting the Queens Demise It was big news for Descendants of Draenor. Really big . A small time, not completely casual, not entirely hardcore, just your average run-of-the-mill 25-Man raiding guild had managed to claim some celebrity. It wasnt exactly Wall Street Journal material, nor was it even WoW Insider worthy, but it was the biggest news among our little raiding community. Each week, I diligently loaded reams of combat data into World of Logs, a website that analyzed our performance, scrutinized our players, and gave us a window into knowledge we would otherwise be left in the dark about. Each week the process repeated; thousands of guild/raid leaders analyzing the performance of their respective raiders. Sitting on such a wealth of data brought interesting...and often surprising...analytical comparisons to light. Each player could be ranke...