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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
Sitting here listening to call in shows on NPR (“On Point”) and thinking about podcasting. For all that it’s a 21st century, Internet-age technology, podcasting is amazingly non-interactive. You and some friends gather in some virtual meeting place, talk about some stuff, and then send it out into the world… but it’s a panel discussion … Read more
Last Tuesday, the second progression gathered for our second time in Paludal Caverns. Back In The Day… I start out so many sentences about the EQ groups that way? And yet, you really can’t go to these old places without saying that a lot. Every camp we moved to carried with it a dozen memories. … Read more
With my EQ2 raiding career at an end — I just don’t have the time for a six day a week raiding commitment any more — and the EQ1 guild up and running now, it’s time to start adding back in the other games I want to play. I love EQ1 and always will, but … Read more
I feel a little like a relic at this moment. Everyone is talking about Age of Conan, Warhammer Online and Wrath of the Liche King, and I realized… I have no interest in any of them. I have a coworker in the AoC closed beta, but going around in gangs randomly ganking people wasn’t that … Read more
There’s a fine line between ‘research’ and ‘ah, what the heck. game on!’. I crossed that line several times yesterday. Wanting to check out any recent Mythos changes (and there are some coming soon), I logged on, intending just to run around. But I wasn’t the same person that was just casually playing and had … Read more