Monthly Archives: April, 2011
Quote of the Day
“This post made me visit WAR’s website. I just don’t get what they’re trying to do here. The latest news on the front page shows a date of 9/1. They also have a link to ‘Paul’s Video Blog’ which shows 2009 as the most recent update. They keep saying ‘WAR is alive and well’ but …
Monday Night Noob #2: Spiral Knights
Monday Night Noob is an ongoing series where I try a game I’ve never played before every Monday evening and write up my impressions on Tuesday. Spiral Knights has been popping up on my radar on and off for the past month or so, although I didn’t really understand what the game was. So for …
Queuetastic!
“It was as if a million voices at once said ‘Meh.’” ~ poster on the RIFT forums Now that we’re safely out of the first month of post-launch insanity, hopefully we can restore some of the balance of discussing both good and bad aspects of RIFT without being labeled as a “hater” or “fanboy.” I …
Picture of the Day
This is from a project a guy did where he took tons of pictures of people in malls in 1989, and is now putting them together as a book. You can look at several of these pictures on Facebook. Ikari Warriors was AWESOME.
Nesting Instinct
My mother always said that I have a very strong nesting instinct. Wherever I live, even if it’s just for a few days, I have a compulsive drive to make my space my own, to set it up just so, and to make it as comfortable as possible. When you nest, you change and rearrange …
Random thought of the day
Sometimes I wish that upcoming MMOs could be treated just as games and not the Superbowl.
Sweep up those generalizations!
One thing that irks me — and I’ve been challenging myself to stop doing — is to making sweeping generalizations on behalf of others, especially a lot of others. Gamers love to debate and discuss, true, but I’ve noticed a temptation to throw in comments like “most” or “many” or “others” as unqualified references in …
Returning to Middle-earth
I’ll admit that my interest in the pre-production saga surrounding The Hobbit got old after a while, but my interest is certainly re-kindled with the release of a 10 minute behind-the-scenes look at the sets and props that Peter Jackson just released. It’s absolutely bizarre to think that it’s been an entire decade since Fellowship …
Quote of the Day
“Looking back, what amazes me is that I never ran out of things to do. I didn’t encounter any of the major problems that have led me to quit new games in the past — mainly grind and not having enough content.” ~ MMOGC re: RIFT
