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Tipa Thanks for the heads up from MMORPG.com; I’d have missed this gem from CNN. It’s partly old news about SOE’s “G.I.R.L.” (Gonna Insult Roleplaying Ladies) program. I don’t know what it really stands for, but from what I understand, SOE feels women don’t play games or work on games, so they want to encourage more … Read more
Tipa Hawthorne at the NPR Science Friday Pavilion I think this blog could use a lot more news about Second Life, don’t you? I haven’t run Second Life for quite awhile; according to my blog, I was still insanely running Gentoo Linux because I thought I was this hardcore Linux guru, which I am not. … Read more
Massively has been running a feature on newly-discovered EQ2 lore dealing with that famous EQ1 dungeon, Guk, the ancient home of the Frogloks. Guk was just off the troll newbie grounds in EQ1, and was one of the two high level dungeons in the original EverQuest, the other being Nagafen’s Lair, AKA Sol B. EQ2 … Read more
If you don’t read Order of the Stick, you’re just missing out on the best Pen and Paper gaming webcomic out there. Click on the comic for the full thing, or on the link to start from the beginning.
I was aghast to find that after Vanguard GU 4 that I no longer had eyelids! Crikey! Was I going to have to go everywhere with a damp cloth over my eyes? I petitioned, of course, and got my reply this morning. You can read it below, but take a good long look at that … Read more