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Hard Mode

August 27, 2026August 27, 2026 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

The online MMORPG “World of Warcraft” is currently in it’s 12th expansion “Midnight”, and it’s 2nd “Race for World First” for their raid “The Venomous Abyss”. As of this writing the top 3 Guilds are all 6/8 of the Mythic Difficulty at the second week, with the penultimate boss causing them the intended difficulty with their paid-for gear and 317 item levels.

“Back in the days”, meaning between 2013 and 2014 I participated in WoW’s 5th expansions “Mists of Pandaria”s final raid “Siege of Orgrimmar”. As a guild we had cleared many raids, and a majority of raiders decided to continue to the hardest content that was available at the time: Heroic. Unlike current hardcore guilds that take them weeks our journey took almost a year of pain, money, and more pain.

1,000,000 Gold in World of Warcraft

February 13, 2025February 13, 2025 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

I wish this was a guide, but it’s not. This is more like the “announcement of an achievement”.

This morning I finally crossed into the Millionaire territory in World of Warcraft.

The First **LF: NOLF

May 18, 2023May 18, 2023 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

Once upon a time I used a program called WinMX to download my warez, including music, movies, and games. One game I accidentally downloaded was No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Way, which was an ISO that I was able to use DAEMON Tools to play. Upon playing this game I immediately fell in love with the Genre and Playstyle.

Liars Dice

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

Thanks to the Pirates of the Caribbean I’ve been introduced to this game that uses dice and a wager component, with the movie using “years of service” as it was the only thing the pirates aboard the Flying Dutchmen had as currency. As a young 20-something I used to Play 7’s and 11’s, where if you rolled 7, 11, or a pair you’d get to tell someone to drink. A simple game that I don’t want to pass to my youth just yet, and I feel a simple gambling game is better to pass along.

Liars dice is easy:

Learning Docker: Take 1

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

It was time. I’ve been waiting for enough time to learn Docker and begin to get familiar with it. I’ve heard of it, seen it in action, and thought it was the coolest thing in the world and I had to learn it. I decided to take the dive off the actual Docker ship and descend into the depths.

So, I found a YouTube video from the Docker YouTube video channel (link: https://youtu.be/iqqDU2crIEQ). Albeit it provided me some terminology and knowledge, it didn’t really tell me everything I wanted to know, like some under-the-core or how docker did the docker thing. I learned how to build, ps, port forward, docker hub, and a Dockerfile, but then they went to docker-compose and I got lost.

So, after sitting on that video and registering all the information I decided to set a goal: Load minecraft in a docker container. This shouldn’t be difficult, as it requires java, some source files, and that should be simple.