Good morning and happy Monday from the Pacific Northwest! With the temperatures here cooling down to around 50-60 degrees, and the clouds rolling in for most of the day, it's setting in. Yep, it's fall. I'm so glad that so many people showed up and competed in the Olympics this time -- it's always wonderful to see. And it's interesting that we've had such a long time since a major war; although it's kind of expected for this time of year w...

Good morning and happy Monday from ~~the Pacific Northwest!~~ oncall hell! Because of this, this week's newsletter has been written by several players from the community, and all I really did was organize it for you guys. It'll be great! The plan is to have one of these once every five weeks -- not that I'm oncall every five weeks (only once every 10-12), but I'm also taking the opportunity to literally take a break and relax a bit more,...

Good morning and happy Monday from the Pacific Northwest! I managed my time at least a little bit better so I happily managed a near deadline post today pretty comfortably. Plus, I'm sleeping at a healthy time tonight! It's a little bit more of a quiet week all things considered for the news, but I hope everyone's had a great one -- it's the Olympics hype edition of the newsletter and I'm really looking forward to see the community come al...

Good morning and happy Monday from the Pacific Northwest! You wanted a newsletter, you'll get a newsletter, even if it kills me. I'm sure you're all really excited about this newsletter for no particular reason. I know it's all fun and games when everyone posts all their stuff on Sunday night but man, I think the real issue is I'm very poor at planning when to write. Quite literally, Literal "The" moment I hope this is enough text to sati...

Good morning and happy Labor Day from the Pacific Northwest! That is, unless you're not American, then happy September. How boring of an introduction for you. This week has been sort of a whirlwind with lots of crazy things happening all around the server. That's not to say the next month isn't going to be quiet either, there's quite a few things lined up for the next couple weeks as well. I would usually have more things to say but I don'...