Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Tipa Everyone complains about MMOs, but nobody does anything about them. The Guardian reports today about Multiverse, a platform for developing your own MMOs. Now, making a MMO is a massive job. Art assets, customizable UIs, game balance, quest design, encounter scripting and AI… these are all really, really hard things, and while Multiverse may make it … Read more
According to this post over at Ars Technica, Vista will be pushing a couple of updates that should, among other things, make games work better under Vista. I haven’t been able to play EverQuest (1) since I got my Vista laptop — it just refuses to get past the patcher. It’s clearly crashing when EQ … Read more
So, my Neopet, Spitefur the Xweetok, was running around doing all his morning chores, when while at the Shrine of Colzac, a fire faerie appeared and demanded Spitefur find her scarf. Come ON! She’s a FIRE FAERIE! What the heck does she need a scarf for? Sheesh. And even worse, the Shrine gave me nothing … Read more
Then apparently I’d be voting for Dennis Kucinich. Pick Your Candidate pegged him as holding my position on nearly every issue aside from Net Neutrality. His Wikipedia entry describes him as a vegan who opposes a knee-jerk military response in the Middle East, is for universal health care in the US, and so on. Good … Read more
I raised two kids, and I don’t think either one of them got much out of school. My son, in particular, was shuffled through a ‘special ed’ system far more concerned about teaching kids to behave well in school than in learning to think and solve problems. I talked to both my kids’ teachers about … Read more