When MMOs Compete for Your Dollars…

Hard on the heels of NCSoft’s impassioned plea to get my back into City of Heroes, Mythic is hot to have my amazing kung fu Bard and Minstrel action back into DAoC. Unbeknownst to them, I have come back to DAoC twice already. The newbie grounds are vast wastelands; nobody I know plays anymore… all … Read more

The Episode of the Beast

Yesterday was June 6th, 2006 – 6/6/6 – and naturally, the entertainment industry was full of devil love for the day. The entire pointless remake of the Omen came out; Slayer kicked off their Unholy tour; and Doctor Who woke Satan. The Doctor and Rose interview Sauron to replace Rose’s ex-boyfriend Mickey, left in a … Read more

City of Heroes

Paragon City needs me back! City of Heroes is letting all the retired superheroes out of the superhero stasis chambers from now until the end of the week. I got a little excited when I read the email. There were some good memories in there… I found City of Heroes repetitive after awhile. But flying … Read more

Rakuraku Dinokun!

A long long LONG time ago… like half the rest of the world, I was crazy about virtual pets. My favorite? Rakuraku Dinokun (or Friendly Little Dino). My old blog from around 1996-2000, Penultimatum, was disappeared (and the domain name stolen, STOLEN, by someone else!), but the Internet Archive had bits and pieces… including some … Read more

GMail

We have severe problems with e-mail at work. We use Outlook 2000. Named not for the year it came out, but for how much mail you can have before Outlook sticks a revolver in its mouth and pulls the trigger. Pass 2000 megabytes of mail, and it's gone. Corrupted. Without a hope of retrieval, unless … Read more