Stardust Mini-review
Magical, funny… a great film. If you liked Princess Bride, you’ll like Stardust. The Golden Compass looks fantastic as well. Why can’t filmmakers do science fiction as well as they do fantasy?
Best. Review. Ever.
“The screenplay is attributed to three writers. That means if the film’s funny parts were divided evenly among them, they each wrote zero.” From Eric D. Snider’s review of “Daddy Day Camp”. Not that I was planning on seeing it anyway 😛 Andy and I are going to see Stardust tonight, though… Neil Gaiman… how … Read more
Neopets: Fire Faerie Quest Completed
Random quests in Neopets have some odd repercussions…. like not being able to use the Shop Wizard to search for items to, say, finish the quest… …. so I went to the auction house… cheap scarf there, and maybe I’ll win it, but I decided to browse through some player shops and found a scarf … Read more
Baphomet meets the Mint
LinuxMint, that is… Baph (my Linux machine) was getting less and less stable… so much stuff on it… she needed to be cleared up. I had just been fiddling too much with it! So I backed up everything, went to DistroWatch.com, looked at all the new & notable Linux distros, and settled on Linux Mint, … Read more
Want an MMO? Roll your own.
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