Monthly Archives: September, 2010
Bargain Bin Posts Week: Forum Battle Round 1!
This was a weird little experiment I was messing with back in September 2009… I meant to get a lot more samples than just WoW and LOTRO, but kind of lost interest after doing these first two. In a new limited series here at Bio Break, we’re going to put the official forums of various …
Picture of the Day
Mist rising in the Old Forest. Also, thar be a bar!
Picture of the Day
IMVU: Topical! Exciting! Slightly forbidden! Idiotic Twilight reference aside, what really amused me about this ad is that it says “Find Your Bella” — not “Find Your Edward”. So I’m guessing that this is marketed to guys, with the implied message of “Are you looking for a girl to bite to death during a solar …
Why I Love My Wife
My wife is in charge of the family finances, mostly because she has a knack with budgeting and debt reduction that I lack. We both agreed on a pretty straightforward budget that includes a bi-weekly “allowance” for each of us to use for non-family essentials (entertainment, lunches, etc.). So today I go up and say, …
Bargain Bin Posts Week: EVE Online — The Hope For The Future Of MMORPGs?
Huh… here is an example of “I have no idea what happened.” It’s a fully-written post that for some reason, never got published. This topic’s been done before and since, but here’s my take: Time to take a break from the Fallen Earth Love Fest (don’t forget to buy your t-shirt at the Bio Break …
The Adventures of Sype: Wuv, True Wuv
Our representative caught up to the fabled Lore-master as he lounged about in Staddle, haranguing the locals while taking long droughts out of his bottle. He squinted against the noon-day sun. “No more cooking!” he warned as our courier approached. The messenger shook his head silently and drew out a letter from his satchel. “This …
Bargain Bin Posts Week: The Three Audiences
This botched article is an example of an idea I that never really materialized, and I could never really get a handle on. I was thinking of how difficult it was for developers to make games for a widely diverse range of players, and wondered if they lump us in simplistic categories. On one hand, …
Bargain Bin Posts Week: What If World of Warcraft was Delayed Until Late 2005?
I never did get this speculation column off the ground, but I’ve chewed on this particular topic quite a bit over the years. What if Guild Wars and EQ2 didn’t have to compete with WoW in 2004, but had more time to establish themselves — not that they did poorly in the first place? What …
Bargain Bin Posts Week: Playing Against The System
I actually liked this article a lot when I rediscovered it. Basically, I was taken in with this Cracked post that painted MMO systems in a bad — but pretty true — light, and formulated a strategy as to not be taken in by the “unfun” aspects of MMO addiction. It’s no secret that, above …
Picture of the Day
What you’re looking at here is an honest-to-God line that’s formed outside of Strider’s room in the Prancing Pony, because access to the room borked and nobody could get in to continue their Volume 1 Book 1 quest. Lots of frustrated folks, indeed.
