A Strange Thing Happened on the Way to Aika

I made a grave miscalculation in the flurry of F2P MMOs I downloaded while looking for some brief weeknight fun to fill the gap left by Mass Effect 2. I was on a breather from Aika, and decided to download Wizard101, which I played for a month or so upon release. I had forgotten how [...]

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Aika Closed Beta #2

In my search for a F2P alternative to play when I cannot duo in Star Trek Online, I have come across Aika, the new offering from GPotato that isn’t Allods Online. Aika has just begun its second Closed Beta and has a planned release of Spring 2010 (then again, Allods still shows a planned release [...]

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Not Dead Yet

However, I have been temporarily widowed by Mass Effect 2: my partner has been enjoying this far more than he did Dragon Age: Origins, and it shows, as he just finished up the storyline last night after days of dedicated play, and is about to start his second playthrough with a new character (“this time, [...]

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The skirt is not a lie

With the Original Series Uniform skirts now available for both captains and their bridge officers, my character’s ensemble is now finally complete! Yardwork calls to me this weekend, so I will not likely be able to rank up from Lt. 9 to Lt. Commander for another week, but progress is being made….

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In No Particular Order

Here are a few things that have gotten me thinking over the past few days while I try to find the time to actually get in game and knock out some story missions (I just met Miral Paris and she was positively divine). Van Hemlock’s Podcast #88, in which John and Tim discuss various Star Trek [...]

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STO on a Mac? STO on a Mac!

(Sorry, I still have nightmares about “Enchantment? Enchantment!”) Thanks to this enterprising fan, I am now happily playing Star Trek Online in Mac  OS X instead of using Bootcamp on my iMac.  I had been having problems with dropping frame rates with my Windows install for no particular reason, forcing me to stop playing once [...]

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Sparse Happenings

The adventures of the intrepid captains at Chez Casual Does have not been many and varied this week. Aside from creating a few character presets with the intention of using them on subsequent Bridge Officers, I was refraining from logging in pending the arrival of my Joined Trill bonus race retail key. My better half, [...]

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