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Shintar

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Avid MMO gamer and long-time blogger. Star Wars: The Old Republic is my main game, but I'm also a casual World of Warcraft player. My SWTOR blog: swtorcommando.blogspot.com My WoW blog: priestwithacause.blogspot.com

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Star Wars: The Old Republic @swtor.com · 29/09/2026
Mark your calendars and join us for another Let's Play Livestream on October 1, 2026 at 1pm CT / 6pm UTC! We will be going over new changes coming to the PTS and hopping into some Warzone queues! www.twitch.tv/swtor
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The war between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire spreads to new worlds! Dangerous fringe groups rise in the dark corners of the galaxy and Darth Malgus pursues an unknown plan… Unravel these ...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's take a break from all the hype around WoW Forever for a moment and instead talk about... Brewfest: #WorldofWarcraft
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One More For Sausages!
Let's take a momentary break from all the excitement about WoW Forever to talk about... Brewfest. I've repeatedly said on this blog that I o...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did you know that in Masters of the Force, SWTOR's character creator will regain its background? Just a fun tidbit from the PTS:
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Return of the Character Creation Hangar
One of the reasons Legacy of the Sith's launch back in 2022 was pretty rocky was that 7.0 introduced a lot of unexpected changes to the user...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
While I'm very excited about #WoWForever, one of the things I'm the most excited about it also something I worry about - some musings on the subject:
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My Forever Social Conundrum
As part of being excited for WoW Forever, it was natural for me to start thinking about questions such as what I'll want to play and how... ...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today I celebrated a little milestone on my #SWTOR blog, publishing my 1500th post there. As I've done on previous occasions, I use this as a bit of a dump for random blog facts:
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1500 Posts About SWTOR
I used to make a celebratory post on this blog every time I'd published another 100 posts , but I got out of the habit after hitting...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A collection of some World of Warcraft Forever reactions that I found amusing: #WoWForever
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Meme Monday: WoW Forever Memes
I'm going to steal Redbeard's Meme Monday format for a day, since he seems unlikely to be using it for this particular subject. I've been b...
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ChashXp @chashxp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I replayed Legacy of the Sith and speculate what might happen in Masters of the Force! #SWTOR theoldrepublicerafanblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/20/l...
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Looking Back on Legacy of the Sith
I recently finished replaying Legacy of the Sith and I’m glad I did. I had forgotten it took the devs four years to fully release the latest expansion. The first story update was in the year …
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A post that I've been working on for a while, looking back at #SWTOR 's most recent era in its entirety:
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The Legacy of Legacy of the Sith's Story
What made me happiest about the release of Legacy Reborn , beyond the fact that I thought it was a very good story update on its own merits,...
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Intisar - This Week in Aurebesh @thisweekinaurebesh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This Week in Aurebesh: I Dare Damnation! At long last, I share my review of "Legacy Reborn" the finale to Star Wars: The Old Republic's current expansion. I discuss the gameplay and the story. I speculate on the future and even managed to sneak in two Aurebesh and Mandalorian translations. #SWTOR
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I Dare Damnation - Legacy Reborn Review - This Week in Aurebesh
Intisar reviews "Legacy Reborn" the climatic story update of SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith expansion. Don't miss the extra Aurebesh and Mandalorian translations.
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I couldn't resist taking at least a brief look - no talk about new content or anything like that, just some observations about graphics and user interface: #WoWForever
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Taking a Peek at the Forever Beta
Only a few days ago I responded to a commenter that I didn't care about the beta, but I did preorder and have access to it. So naturally, af...
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Blizzard Watch @blizzardwatch.com · 17/09/2026
It did not escape our notice that there was no news about WoW Classic at BlizzCon. Not that we aren't happy about WoW: Forever, but we have to wonder... what's next for Classic progression and anniversary realms?
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What can we expect for the future of World of Warcraft Classic progression servers?
Throughout BlizzCon 2026, we received plenty of information and news about the huge reveal of World of Warcraft: Forever, the roadmap for the rest World of
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Also, I made a feed for World of Warcraft Forever because I wanted to see more people's reactions to it: #WoWForever
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The one reaction to Classic+ I didn't expect: confusion. An attempt to clear things up for anyone who's still wondering: #WoWForever
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Why WoW Forever? Let Me Explain.
I was ready for the Classic+ announcement to spark a lot of different reactions, but the one I absolutely did not anticipate was befuddled ...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In #SWTOR, I'm still doing testing on the PTS, and wanted to write another post about why I love the new difficulty toggle so damn much. Here it is:
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I Was Wrong About Levelling Difficulty
I'm now up to having spent a double-digit number of hours testing the overworld difficulty toggle on the PTS, space-barring my way through v...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As I finally calm down a bit about the WoW Forever announcement, it's time to get "controversial" instead: I think sky elves are totally fine, actually.
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Skyborne Are Fine
Not everyone was as pleased with the WoW Forever reveal as I was - which, to be honest, was to be expected. They did manage to hit a lot of...
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MassivelyOP @massivelyop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Casually Classic: Basking in the glow of World of Warcraft Forever
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Casually Classic: Basking in the glow of World of Warcraft Forever
I like to think that it's good form and basic graciousness to be excited about game reveals that aren't for you but bring a lot of joy to a certain group. FFXIV announces Evercold? Not my MMO, but…
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Both of my MMOs are doing things I love; I feel so spoiled right now. ❤️
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Blizzard Watch @blizzardwatch.com · 13/09/2026
It's time for our favorite BlizzCon column: Rachelle's astute analysis of presenter fashion. Some people dressed like what I thought a princess looks like when I was little. Some people look like they pulled something off their floordrobe and forgot it was BlizzCon. Not judging, just saying.
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BlizzCon Fashion: Rating the Opening Ceremony Outfits
Welcome back to the fashion contest Blizzard employees didn't realize they were competing in! Well, except for Holly; she definitely knew. Hey, visuals mat
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My first impressions post: #WowClassic #WoWForever
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Classic+ Is Real: Warcraft Forever
I was hoping to watch the livestream of the BlizzCon opening ceremony only briefly to catch the WoW news but soon realised that they were do...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Holy shit, it really is all the things people asked for. The trailers nearly made me cry. Can't wait.
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Time to find out the truth about what @wowclassicdevs.blizzard.com have been up to for the past couple of years!
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World of Warcraft @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com · 12/09/2026
Opening Ceremony kicks off at 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT! Catch the biggest BlizzCon 2026 updates as they happen: www.youtube.com/warcraft www.twitch.tv/warcraft
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today on "Shintar randomly gets interested in some numbers": Can we use Conquest leaderboards as indicators of server population? I gave it a go! #SWTOR
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Server Populations Based on Conquest Points
I mentioned in a previous post that I wasn't that busy during the last Total Galactic War, and as a result I ended up poking around on the ...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's a week until BlizzCon! Some thoughts on what I expect and look forward to:
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Final Pre-BlizzCon Thoughts
We're a week away from BlizzCon now, and I don't think I've ever looked forward to it with this much anticipation. I've always enjoyed the s...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm continuing to spend a lot of time on the #SWTOR PTS, so here's a post mostly about the experience of testing the new ops boss - no spoilers about the fight, just a lot of (self) reflection:
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Adventures on the PTS, Part Whatever
I continue to log into the public test server almost every day. I've never been this engaged with testing anything in SWTOR before; it's qui...
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☀️ @stel.energy · 01/09/2026
i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just a bit of a ramble about the start of #SWTOR 's newest Galactic Season and this week's Conquest event Total Galactic War.
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GS11 Start & Total Galactic War
Galactic Season 11 started last week, and for the first time since Galactic Season 2, I'm only aiming to complete it on one server. (While I...
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ChashXp @chashxp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I watched several YouTube videos of gamers playing Swtor for the first time! theoldrepublicerafanblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/w...
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Watching Players Try Out SWTOR For the First Time
I’ve been watching a lot of recent videos on YouTube of gamers trying out Swtor for the first time. The game is in a pretty healthy state right now with plenty of updates and modernization up…
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Star Wars: The Old Republic @swtor.com · 27/08/2026
In celebration of the launch of STAR WARS Zero Company™, players can login to receive BR-0, a new mini-pet inspired by the Astromech Operator, BR-1! Congratulations again to our friends at Bit Reactor and Lucasfilm Games! www.swtor.com/info/news/%5...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Some early casual thoughts on WoW Midnight's patch 12.1:
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Hope You Like Snakes
Midnight got its first major patch almost two weeks ago now, and I'm kind of conflicted in terms of how I feel about it. I've enjoyed what I...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Curious what it's like to level a new character on the PTS with the new overworld difficulty toggle cranked up to master? Let me tell you! #SWTOR
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Testing the Open World Difficulty Toggle on the PTS
Yesterday Eric Musco did a let's play stream to talk more about the new overland difficulty toggle coming with 8.0 . I wasn't able to watch ...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Some random thoughts about Midnight housing (from someone who hasn't been too enamoured with it): #WorldofWarcraft
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A Second Look at Housing
For all the fun I've been having with Midnight, its main new feature, player housing, has largely fallen flat for me. I made a few posts ...
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Blizzard Watch @blizzardwatch.com · 13/08/2026
We're giving away a customizable Stoneforged Sentinel mount to celebrate #WorldofWarcraft patch 12.1, now live! For a chance to win reply with your best story of falling to your death in WoW. Maybe this mount could help. Won't know until you try. Contest ends August 18 at 12pm eastern. #WoW_Partner
An image of the Stoneforged Sentinel mount in World of Warcraft, a bird with white feathers, blue eyes, and bronze armor.An image of the Stoneforged Sentinel mount in World of Warcraft, a winged lion with dark stone skin, glowing golden eyes, and gold armor.An image of the Stoneforged Sentinel mount in World of Warcraft, a toothy dragon with a pale brown stone body, green eyes, and steel armor.An image of the Stoneforged Sentinel mount in World of Warcraft, a bird with black stone feathers, green eyes, and jeweled rings on its talons.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic @swtor.com · 18/08/2026
Galactic Season 11 “Light and Shadow” begins today! Here's everything you need to know about the season. www.swtor.com/info/news/ar...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just had to make a short little post about the reveal of the name of the new #SWTOR expansion as well:
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8.0 Is Called "Masters of the Force"
I was just thinking the other day that it's a bit odd that the devs have given us this much information about 8.0 at this point, but we sti...
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SOTOR Podcast @sotorpodcast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
SOTOR Podcast - "145: Old Republic, New Rules" is now available. Enjoy! #swtor www.buzzsprout.com/63927/episod...
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145: Old Republic, New Rules - State Of The Old Republic Podcast
This week on the show, Broadsword held a livestream to talk about the first real details of 8.0. Classic SWTOR is coming. Well — sort of. I'll explain. Game Update 7.9.1, Light and Shadow, is going…
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I couldn't quite resist checking in on a flavour of #WoWClassic after all, but where I ended up was surprisingly unexciting:
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Checking in on Hardcore
I hoped that merely writing about my current feelings about Classic would be enough to calm that particular itch until BlizzCon, but that h...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We have a name!
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
While I'm excitedly looking forward to 8.0, I also still have some thoughts on Legacy of the Sith as a whole that I want to write down. Here's one aspect of that: the characters #SWTOR
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Ranking Legacy of the Sith's Major NPCs
I said that I'd have more to say about Legacy of the Sith now that its story has finally wrapped up. One of the things I wanted to go into i...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
WoW Midnight gets its first major expansion patch next week. Before we all dive into that, I wanted to take a moment to look back on how the expansion's first season has gone for me:
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My Midnight Season 1
As we're approaching patch 12.1 and with it the start of Midnight's second season, I wanted to take a moment to reflect a bit on Season 1. M...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
OK, I couldn't stay incoherent for long - I had to make a proper post about it. Definitely read if you have any interest in operations in SWTOR at all!
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A Dev Speaks - Great News for Fans of Operations
On Wednesday my ops team went on the PTS to try out the first boss of the new operation there. I won't go into too much detail because I do...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
OMG I'm over the moon to see the operations developer post on the forums, not to mention him saying that Broadsword SPECIFICALLY BROUGHT HIM BACK to work on more ops stuff. Incoherent with excitement! #SWTOR
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Intisar - This Week in Aurebesh @thisweekinaurebesh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My latest post is not very #SWTOR related (I've got plenty to catch up on that front!), but I wanted to write about how my long delayed decision to cut the cord with Adobe lead to a desire to turn some of my illustrations into stickers. Stickers you can buy! www.generic-hero.com/ThisWeekinAu...
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Taking the Current When it Serves - This Week in Aurebesh
Intisar discusses the creative challenges of switching to a new computer and how it lead to the creation of the "This Week in Aurebesh Sticker Shop."
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In SWTOR news, I've been having fun by...
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Goofing Off on the PTS
Immediately after Thursday's dev stream , the 8.0 PTS went up, and I've actually been hyped to play on it. I didn't used to be someone who c...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Over in #WorldofWarcraft, I'm suffering from...
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Pent up Classic Energy
I haven't written much about Classic in recent months, but I'm still thinking about it a lot. Especially in the shower for some reason. You ...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I really enjoyed today's SWTOR dev stream in general, but there was one announcement in particular that was very much a personal highlight for me:
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A More Classic Experience in Our Future
Today was the day of the long-awaited dev stream giving us the first details about 8.0. The devs didn't mention anything about the story or ...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic @swtor.com · 30/07/2026
8.0 content is now available on the Public Test Server! www.swtor.com/info/news/ar...
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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Some WoW players focus on improving their gear, on M+ rating or on clearing raids. My goals this expansion have been profession-related: #WorldofWarcraft
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Midnight Profession Goals Achieved!
The other day I was very pleased to finally get this pop-up: For the uninitiated, that's the achievement for raising every primary professio...
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