Tipa – Page 512 – Chasing Dings!

EQ2: Failure Cascade

November 30, 2007 by Tipa

I didn’t want to talk about Winterwing before she finished the Butcherblock quest line, but while I was messing up an alliance between the Timorous Deep and Butcherblock aviaks, I looked up and caught the end of a partial eclipse of the sun as the un-blowed-up moon Drinal passed before it. Whichever artist did the … Read more

SF: Playing for Keeps

November 29, 2007 by Tipa

I don’t game all the time, though you wouldn’t know it from this blog. I also enjoy reading, dinking around with 3D renders, playing real instruments (gotta keep my pennywhistle skills up should I find an Irish band without one), writing fiction…. Anyway. I planned awhile back to try and branch out to perhaps other … Read more

Vernor Vinge’s “Rainbow’s End” free to read… so go read it

November 29, 2007 by Tipa

Way back in the 70s, Vernor Vinge wrote a short story called “True Names” which is about a bunch of people who hang out in a virtual world, talk, hack, have fun… until some of them start dying, one or more of them may not be human at all, and the only way to find … Read more

EQ2: Okay, a Sarnak, a Goblin and a Burynai walk into a bar…

November 29, 2007 by Tipa

A Sarnak, a Goblin and a Burynai walked into a bar, and seeing all were of an adventuring type, decided to form a guild together. They went on many adventures, and after awhile, realized that though they really liked each other, they had different goals. The Sarnak loved exploring and seeing new places. The Goblin … Read more

Rock Band: Online

November 27, 2007 by Tipa

I checked the Buzzkillaz gamer score last night on Xbox Live and… well, we’re lacking. It showed that we’d unlocked everything up to the tour jet, but all those solo achievements were missing, since we’ve been playing it in band mode since we got it.