Come for the games, stay for the drama.
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
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
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