Come for the games, stay for the drama.
It seems to be fashionable these days to basically rewrite WoW, with some changes, and then claim they are not competing with WoW. Except, you know, they want a few million of their subscribers to switch over, and they have added lots of things to their game to explicitly make it similar to WoW, like … Read more
When I got home last night, my son was all smiles and grins. He’d finally passed the test of skill needed to join a prestigious online clan in Call of Duty 4 — having to kill ten opponents — real people, mind you, not AIs — in a specific death match, and to have twice … Read more
I just heard the news that SOE might be considering an EverQuest movie. Now, I love EverQuest and have been playing since 1999; nearly eight years devoted to that game or its sequel. But you won’t find me warming a chair when it opens. I’ll tell you why.
My struggle to remember to watch TV continues. Last night, I installed MythTV on my Linux box, Baphomet. MythTV is an open source, free software solution to give Tivo-like capability to computers of all sorts. I don’t have a video capture card yet, but I went ahead and installed it anyway. Brought up the program … Read more
A dwarf with a Ukraine accent (go figure) started a love advice column on Kirin Tor. Well, it’s not as good as “Dear Creature…” could have been, but what the heck 😛 so I asked her for advice, and she replied! The whole thread is here at Free Service: Love & Fashion Advice — Dear … Read more