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Author: Fred Smith

is the senior video games editor and is our resident grammar and punctuation czar. He prefers to define his career choice as “pending”. His hobbies include basketball, writing, and video games. He is employed by a regional chain hardware store as a salesman/peon.

December 7, 2010 Fred Smith, World of Warcraft

How To Make Money (Gold) In Cataclysm

With the imminent release of the latest World of Warcraft expansion looming on the horizon, I’d like to spend some time talking about that thing that makes the world go around. Cash. Money. Dinero. Yeah, gold baby. Specifically, I want to give you a couple ways to make a TON of money in the first couple weeks…

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October 5, 2010 Uncategorized

Minecraft (subtitle: I was one of those 143,932 people)

I’d heard about Minecraft through a few different avenues, but it took Penny Arcade making a comic about it to convince me I needed to try it. The first time I tried to play the website was down, replaced with a plain text explanation that amounted to “I’m making so much money right now, be patient.”…

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September 18, 2010 Random

Did MySpace hack Facebook, or did I go crazy for five minutes?

And for the “what-the-crap” moment of the evening, we bring you this. Seriously people. What. The. CRAP? (Please note, it was back to normal less then five minutes later.)

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September 7, 2010 Fred Smith, Starcraft 2, Video Games, What I'm Playing

What I’m Playing (and doing)

It couldn’t last forever. After almost three months of weekly posts, I’ve gone AWOL for the past two weeks. This happens to coincide with a new role I’ve taken on at work, which involves me learning a completely new set of skills and working a lot of long hours. That’s not my excuse mind you.…

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August 17, 2010 Starcraft 2, Video Games

Easy Starcraft 2 Strategy: Void Ray Rush

A standard Protoss build in Starcraft 2 almost always has a basic framework of ground units to start the build. From a basic army of Stalkers and Zealots the natural progression takes you to a Robotics Bay and Immortals/Colossi/Observers. These units are almost indespensible in games that last more then 15 minutes. Any build that…

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