[WoW] It’s Early Access to Midnight day!

Today is the release of Midnight early access – in about 8 hour or so. There’s no down time scheduled, and it should just be a switch that gets turned on where we’re suddenly able to access things (if you own a copy of Midnight, that is). The “real” launch happens a few days from now.

I wrote a paragraph here about how I was going to switch my main in Midnight to a druid, and instead I’ve just deleted the entire thing. I have no idea who I will play in Midnight, even though it’s just a few hours away. I’ll just have to wing it.

I would also really like to shift my focus from gold making (which has been my main focus for about 10 years now) to collecting. I’d like to have a single character who has progressed through each and every expansion. I’d like to focus on collection transmog, the pets I’m missing, mounts, and just completing game content.

Despite the fact that I am quite proficient these days at making gold, I am not much of a quest person. There are plenty of factions I’ve never earned reputation for and I’d really like to work on all of that. Whether or not I actually WILL do these things remains to be seen. The thing is to be a ‘true’ collector you really need to focus on more than one character (If you’re doing one faction you need at least 4 characters to cover each profession – so that you can collect all of the recipes in the game). Either way, I’ll be playing multiple characters. I do want to have a ‘main’ though. Honestly choosing who to play is always the most stressful part of this damn game for me. I get such anxiety over it, for absolutely zero reason.

Anyway. Midnight is coming, yes I’m excited, and I will be in game. Feel free to say hello! I’m Stargrace#1783

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

[Life] Let’s Talk about TempusGameIt

As most people in my circles know (and probably a good number of folks who are not in my circles) I LOVE statistics. I play EVE Online for the spreadsheets, and even in games where you wouldn’t think there are spreadsheets, I will create spreadsheets. So. Many. Spreadsheets.

So it should come as no surprise that I was sad all those years ago when the few apps that used to track gameplay, shut down. There have been a few since then but none of them really did what I wanted them to, or they would only track a game with very specific requirements, like sure steam games are tracked through their interface and technically you can add games outside of steam – but it still wasn’t quite what I was hoping for.

Then I happened to catch part of a conversation over on Mastodon from Kevin, the creator of TempusGameIt. My interest was immediate.

Not only does TempusGameIt track your game play – but it also tracks your time idle. I LOVE this feature. Why? Again, it’s just that warm fuzzy feeling that I get from looking at statistics. Especially since I am to and from my computer all.day.long. Now I had an accurate representation on how much time I was ACTUALLY spending gaming. Active time vs. idle time.

Needless to say I absolutely love this game tracker. Kevin is also very open to suggestions, and actively works on his passion project as frequently as life allows (which is of course never frequent enough, but isn’t that how it is for all of us these days..) – I honestly can’t say enough good things about this project.

If you’re looking to track some game play sessions, check it out. I’m not being asked to make this post or endorsed in any way, I’m just a statistics loving gamer. If you happen to also like statistics, and are looking for something that might help track your gameplay sessions, TempusGameIt might be for you.

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

[WoW] Gold Making – Week 8 (2026)

Sales were a little slow this week, just over 3 million gold made, but some big ticket items moved which is always lovely. Pets have taken quite a hit lately and I barely sold any, but transmog and recipes are still going strong as ever.

Sometimes it’s just people buying up multiples of an item to resell it themselves which I am perfectly fine with. I have a lot of stock, and so long as it sells for the price that I’ve got it listed for, that’s all that matters to me. If someone wants to buy up all of said item and relist it at higher than what I had it for then more power to them.

Midnight is just around the corner, and everyone seems pretty excited. Me, I will keep on doing what I do, which is NOT selling Midnight things, but I will probably start to add some items from The War Within to my stock. I tend to deal in older items, and leave the auction house PVP to the bigger goblins who have more at steak. Slow and steady.

I will not reach my goal of having 100,000,000 liquid gold, but I’m happy where I am right now, which is just over 80,000,000. Perhaps that is a challenge for Midnight. As always, take care and happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.

[BDO] Guilty Pleasure Gaming (again)

You know those games you love to play that you are pretty convinced that no one else in your circles plays – but you just absolutely love it so much? That’s Black Desert Online, for me. This game is grind city, with a billion and one systems to learn that only get more confusing the longer you play – and yet there’s still something that draws me in.

Let me be completely honest though. I’m doing very little ACTUAL game play. What I’m doing is logging in, setting up for fishing, and then going afk for 15 hours until I come back to bags full of fish. Then I take a portal and go to a far away land and sell those fish, earning around 2.5 billion silver each day. I reached Guru 10 which was a nice accomplishment.

My TempusGameIt statistics show just how much time I spend AFK, and since you might not have heard of this app before, I’ll be doing a blog post about that in the near future, too.

Anyway, comfort gaming. BDO is the perfect game. It gives the illusion of me making progress without actually spending a lot of time actively playing – which I completely understand sounds backwards as far as gaming goes, but does seem to work for me on a very basic level. It’s a lot like an idle game, at least the way I’m playing lately. The thing is, the game CAN be as hands on or off as you’d like and sometimes when life is busy I want that very familiar feeling of gaming but I just don’t have the energy or the free time. With this ‘idle’ gaming, I feel like I’m making progress and working towards something. Why is that important to me? No idea, but it is. So, while the world is crazy hectic and has a lot of moving parts, I’m just hanging out with my fishing rod, and for now, that’s enough.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

[EVE] New YouTube Series: Between Bookmarks

After some humming and hawing, I decided I would start posting readings of my blog posts with a bit of EVE Online game play over on YouTube. I don’t know if anyone will actually be interested, but we’ll see how it goes. Here’s the link! It’s my first time doing this, so please have a bit of patience while I get settled.

Fly your way!