
Time is a lot more resilient than people think. Free will? Free will is a joke. There’s a reason Starfleet doesn’t like people flitting back and forth through time — it’s because when you do, you realize what a sham this “reality” thing is.
And by-the-by? The Federation and the Klingons have a secret slingshot mechanism set up around a star in the Eta Eridani sector. Pretty much everyone is going back and forth through time whenever they like. We’re not supposed to tell you about that, but we’re the Federation News Service, and YOU have a right to know.
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Wizard101: Halfway through Celestia!
We’ve been through the Stellarium, the Lunarium, the Floating Island, the Celestia Base Camp, the Grotto and half a dozen other mini-worlds in Celestia. Quests have been shoveling experience points at us, and we’re level 56 and starting to get some gear upgrades — most recently, school-specific wands that add an incredible boost to the … Read more
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Endless Trials

Last night, Team Spode continued our adventures in Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Three Barrel Cove. It’s the next step in the Barrel Cove series, and we can’t wait to get started on Four Barrel Cove. Yay, pirates!
Well, these pirates put up a fight, this time. But what got us in the end wasn’t pirates at all, but a simple game of Chutes & Ladders…
Star Trek Online: S2E4 “Everything Old is New Again”

After defeating a rogue hologram and a couple hundred Devidians in last week’s episode, “What Lies Beneath”, the Federation News Service traveled into the past to take on the deadliest enemy of them all — Starfleet! With some pluck, courage and help from an unexpected friend, we did manage to complete our mission.
Learning to mod: Minecraft!
I’ve been teaching myself the basics of modding Minecraft. So I’ve been toying with with Minecraft file format, and as a first test of my Python libraries, I turned all the dirt to obsidian, all the water to lava, all the trees to brick and their leaves to sponge. Just… because I can. Now everyone … Read more