Back in college, my friends and I went through a Tabasco sauce craze. Each of us carried around little trademark bottles of that spicy delight to all of our meals, liberally dousing the flavor right out of whatever we were eating and replacing it with hotness. Eggs, pizza, casserole — nothing was safe from the Tabasco invasion. Why am I sharing this? Because my stomach is celebrating the fact I’m past this phase, even though the scars endure.
Welcome to another /AFK, my weekly roundup of interesting and well-written blog posts:
- Bootae’s Bloody Blog — RIFT beta weekend
“This is one great looking game and my initial concerns about the art direction have been completely washed away.”
- A Casual Stroll to Mordor — Thoughts on the legendary item system
“So I was quite let down by the actual system. But at this point they have spent too much on it, so I don’t see huge changes like that as possible. But I do hope for smaller tweaks to the system.”
- West Carana — DDO: From Tobasco to Denise and Super Mario
“Super Mario dungeon? Yeah. That’s Team Spode’s name for a dungeon that consists mainly of jumping, swimming, puzzle solving and traps.”
- Common Sense Gamer — Is Rift hype meter too high?
“In other words, we have a warped sense of what is real.”
- Casual is as Casual Does — And now for something completely predictable
“No, maybe our problem is that we have to talk about everything so much and so often that we’ve already played Rift for three years in our heads.”
- Wolfshead Online — MMOs were originally designed to be social experiences
“When players don’t need each other it breeds anti-social behavior and it results in the devaluation of other players. Players become nothing more than advanced NPCs.”
- KIASA — I’m too sexy for my shirt
“I’m not wearing any underwear while writing this. Welcome to my fantasy, people.”
- ETCmmo.com — Valentine
“Nothing like some exciting new content to draw me back into my favorite games.”
- Spinksville — Creating and measuring good communities in games
“This just means that in game and cross game communities are getting more important, not less.”
- The Once and Future Geek — Titan Conjecture
“With MMO fans frothing at the mouth for details on Blizzard’s mystery MMO –codenamed Titan- any and all official information is going to be hyper analyzed, and premature predictions will abound.”
- We Blog Spitfires — Old dog vs new pup
“Oh the wickedness of marketing, how I deplore you.”
