This whole thing exists because we like talking to each other. The cameras just happened to be on.
KAOS
&
LACE
JAMIEKAOS
ANIE_LACE
Actual humans. Questionable judgment.
JamieKaos + AnieLace
A duo with a microphone and no idea where the topic went.
The games change. The projects change. The content definitely changes every time Jamie opens another tab or Anie asks the question that sends the conversation somewhere better. The constant is us playing together, arguing, laughing, and building around the people who make logging in worth it.
Kaos and Lace is the show, the articles, the guides, the streams, the Discord, and every “quick little project” that somehow turns into three nights of work.
We take the game seriously and laugh at ourselves constantly.
The people behind the handles
Jamie and Anie, exactly as advertised.
Two people, too many projects, and very little chance the original topic survives.
@JamieKaosTHE KAOS
Jamie
Will find one tiny problem in WoW, lose an entire weekend fixing it, and then insist this was the efficient option.
Protection Warrior. Orc enthusiast. Heavy-things enjoyer. Jamie likes systems, game design, cosmic horror, and having opinions with enough force to qualify as weather.
Most of the time he is playing WoW, talking through whatever has lodged itself in his skull, or turning a minor annoyance into a project because accepting that something is clunky has never really been his thing.
Sometimes that project becomes an addon. Sometimes it becomes an article, a guide, or a forty-minute tangent that started with one completely different question.
Anie can turn a bad pull into a running joke, a quiet voice chat into a three-hour conversation, and a group of strangers into an actual community.
She plays Beast Mastery Hunter because apparently one pet was never going to be enough. She is a podcaster, storyteller, creative brain, and the person most likely to ask the question that turns small talk into something worth talking about.
She is warm, sharp, curious as hell, and fiercely protective of her people. Anie makes people feel welcome without forcing it, remembers the human behind the character name, and has no problem protecting the room when someone forgets how to behave. The conversation may wander, but people leave feeling like they belonged there.
“Come for the gaming. Stay because we got distracted for three hours.”
Hand of DiscordWe started in WoW, wiped on bosses we had no business pulling, and learned the people mattered more than the pixels.
Chaos and Lace CartelWe wandered into Ashes of Creation, rebuilt the community, ran a guild, and got enough stories to last several lifetimes.
The knuckle testAnie pointed out that KAOS and LACE are four letters each and would work as knuckle tattoos. There was no longer any discussion.
Back to AzerothAshes imploded. WoW called. We came home with the name, the community, and far more infrastructure than any sane married couple needs.
How the community works
A clubhouse, not another fucking job.
We're adults with jobs, families, limited game time, and varying tolerances for nonsense. The Discord is a place to talk about the show, WoW, the articles, the projects, and whatever tangent took over this week. Find people to play with, ask questions, talk shit, and treat people like people. Jamie and Anie are not rebuilding a guild bureaucracy or volunteering to manage everybody's entire gaming life.
