Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Tipa While I love MMOs, the idea of playing a game where wanton killing is the only path of advancement just seems morally wrong. If anyone acted like that in the real world, they’d be shut away. Yet in MMOs, it’s meant to be heroic to kill as much as you can, until killing itself becomes … Read more
Anski at Always Go Right blog wrote today about ShutterCal, a new social site. In this one, you take a picture every day, and post it on an online calendar. Plenty of people doing this on Flickr, but similar to NaNoWriMo, this one subtly nags you to take and post a picture. I’m not totally … Read more
Stargrace wrote that everyone who plays Vanguard was given a camel. I’ve never had a camel before. They say about Vanguard, that you can just pick a direction and start walking, and nothing’s going to stop you. Anyplace you see, you can walk to. So I got some provisions from the kind merchants at the … Read more
Not surprisingly, the weekend continued the EQ2 fun from the week. The Shadow Odyssey is the most “different” EQ2 expansion yet, but I can’t yet say HOW. But it is. Different. If y ou play in the TSO places, you are playing in a very different kind of game than if you play elsewhere. So … Read more
Of the four elemental planes, the plane of earth is the most unusual and certainly the scariest. Strange, silent, deadly creatures lurk everywhere; some burrow underground, and pop up to attack you as you pass. The Rathe Council has abandoned the plane to meet and discuss things in their own sub-plane, leaving their larger plane … Read more