What's with all the fancy character names?

I'm just your average, college-educated, psuedo-intellectual, and I like fancy words. Oh, and toilet humor... lots and lots of toilet humor.

Your site sucks!

Not technically a question, but thanks for the constructive criticism.

Truth be told, I've worked hard at getting this site to look exactly the way I want it to look... So I'm pretty proud of it.

That being said, I'm well aware that the underlying HTML/CSS is fugly as hell. I'm using tables for layout, heavily using the span tag, bold, italics, funky CSS, dated everything. Etcetra and so forth.

The reason for this is because this site is a derivative of my FFXI site, and re-uses much of the code from there. That site was made in 2004, and it, in turn, was based upon an even earlier ClanAM site from 1998. Basically, I've got a good 17 years of cruft and crap built up in the code on this site, and I'm lazy, impatient and full of hubris, so I sure as hell ain't gonna fix it.

Just be glad I'm a backend developer and move on.

What's your favorite GW2 job?

At the time of this writing (Sept, 2015), I'd have to say Ranger and Guardian are my favoites. Ranger is just hella fun to play, versatile as hell, and has great survivability. Meanwhile, Guardian is frigging amazing to play at WvW when you're spec'd right.

FFXI vs GW2, discuss!

Meh, the two games are really quite different (even if GW2 bogarts a lot of the look of FFXI). GW2 is infinitely more casual than FFXI, except in the case of WvW which has some incredible depth to it.

I like them both, but for different reasons.

Will there ever be a big ClanAM for GW2?

Back in FFXI, I ran a large linkshell for Clan of the Angry Monkey. In GW2, I started a ClanAM guild the first day I started playing. However, it's been fairly small and reserved for ClanAM friends playing GW2, and we really haven't reached any sort of critical mass that would allow us to do guild events and things.

Will I ever try to grow ClanAM in GW2? Never say never, but probably not. ClanAM in FFXI was very time consuming, and I'd routinely have to play for long stretches at a time while I led large events. Meanwhile, my life has changed since I played FFXI. I have a daughter now, who demands a lot of time from me, and generally my life is busier. Right now, I just don't have the time for a big ClanAM in GW2.

That being said, I'm getting excited for some of the new content in HoT which requires groups of people to participate in. I might need to grow GW2 or join another guild to do the stuff I want to do in HoT.