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Tipa The reason for this is because we needed to temporarily disable your website earlier today to prevent it from effectively “crashing” the webserver; your site was receiving a large number of hits to PHP scripts and was basically preventing other customers websites from loading. I have unsuspended the account now and the website should be … Read more
Openedge1 over at Simple and Complex was listing off a bunch of upcoming MMOs and he noticed that there’s been a sea-change in the MMO world; games are shifting toward a PvP focus, for better or worse. Made sense; there’s a cycle going on here. MMOs have their roots in MUDs — Multi User Dungeons, … Read more
I finally hit 31 in Rock Band last night after about a dozen duels of which I lost two. Huh? Levels? Grinding? PvP? Yeah, this is Rock Band. If you start exploring the Multiplayer menu in Rock Band, and avoid the unsatisfying “Band” player matching, where you and three random strangers from Xbox Live slowly … Read more
Well, if you insist upon knowing the truth, I spent the weekend learning to twirl drumsticks. Yes, really. Poring over Youtube videos, dropping sticks onto cats, sending them helicoptering across the room. I can do it, though. I can twirl drumsticks the standard (what some call, boring) way. There’s variations so you can do little … Read more
The AB roleplay channel last night was filled with people getting ready for Erollisi’s Day, and while Stargrace and I were talking about how the denizens of Norrath enjoyed their holidays, I couldn’t help thinking back to what was once the World of Warcraft’s newest roleplaying server, Kirin Tor, where I played both a husband-hungry … Read more