The other day I spent three hours listening to part one of Julian Dorey's interview with former CIA officer John Kiriakou. Disgusted by the torture methods employed by the agency, he blew the whistle and was promptly put in prison for 30 months.
The interview is in two parts, and full disclosure, I haven't had the time to watch the second part, which is also three hours long, but I'm sure it's good.
I learned a great deal from part one, and figured some of you might be interested. With that said, enjoy.
That's that and all that. Join me again next time and until then, have a great week!
I've played World of Warcraft since it's early days. I have also been away from the game many times, even for years, but sooner or later, I have always returned.
The beauty of a game like WoW is that you can play it how you want to (within reason). Some are almost pure PvP'ers, others spend all their time in the auction house making fortunes buying and selling goods. Raiders, transmog hunters, explorers, completionists, the list goes on.
Today I want to share two players with you. Both are Youtubers, and the first is Pathalerix, who's Goldlocked series has taken off in a big way. His deal is this; his character is at first stuck in Elwyn Forest until he can earn enough in-game money to buy a WoW token. Then he gets to move on to an adjacent zone, and so on. I have learned a great deal from watching Goldbound. I highly recommend it.
The second channel is Manaburst who decided to only level up in dungeons, nothing unique per se, but he's soloing the dungeons, starting with Deadmines at level 9! This ongoing play-through has also taught me a thing or two, and I heartily recommend this channel.
Both of these gamers and Youtubers have created a challenge for themselves that is inspiring and awesome despite being pretty masochistic at times. They may not be the originators of these challenges, I simply don't know, but they are examples of how you can come up with a new way of playing a game beyond what the devs intended, much like my own project of clearing Sniper Elite 5 without taking any damage. There are new and interesting ways of playing our favorite games if we use a bit of imagination.
That's that and all that. Join me again next time, and until then, have a great week!
