Archive for the 'Links Of Interest' category

SPORN!

Jul 31 2008 Published by under Links Of Interest

Hahahahaah.

Sorry for all the links instead of posts, but my hands are a bit tied at the moment. Will post for real soon.

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Way To Confuse The Issue

Jul 29 2008 Published by under Just Thinking, Links Of Interest

Ben Silverman makes me sigh, but this link makes me laugh.

“Fat Princess” kind of amuses me. Yes, it’s another dose of the same old, same old. Yes, it’s sexist and vaguely stupid. No, you’d never see a game where you feed chocolate to a male character and make him slower in combat. But if you DID, it would be funny. And that’s really my point. It’s just funny.

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Huh. Guess It's Like Second Life After All

Jul 29 2008 Published by under Links Of Interest

Slate pees all over Google’s new world.

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Not Surprising.

Jul 22 2008 Published by under Links Of Interest

They hired game designers to improve the weapons platform.

Wonder when the Army will realize they need community managers?

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Related To My Last Post:

Jun 24 2008 Published by under Links Of Interest

Hahahahahahaha.

“But according to the search service, he said, “people are at least as interested in group sex and orgies as they are in apple pie.””

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Plus ca change…

Jun 05 2008 Published by under Links Of Interest, Meta Community

This link amused me, particularly “What are some other things I should know?” I feel like this should be made into a pamphlet, and it should be provided to those new to MMOs in some sort of welcome basket, along with asbestos underpants and chicken nuggets. It was last edited on April 15, 1997. This tidbit was at the bottom:

Final Word

   Playing a mud of any sort is NOT a right. The people who run the game
   and the people who owns/runs the system that you are playing from are
   not required to let you play. If you abuse your privledge [sic] of playing,
   there are good chances that it will be taken away.

Side note: Chicken nuggets are the ultimate one handed food.

Edited – ooooooooookay, the link’s not working, and it’s not working from the place I got it from (http://www.dikumud.com/links.aspx) either. I’m looking for another copy now.

Edited again – I love you, Wayback Machine! http://web.archive.org/web/20050828045301/http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/mud-faq/diku/

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My Top… However Many

May 28 2008 Published by under Just Thinking, Links Of Interest

I was included in a Top Twenty list of MMO people. I was tremendously flattered. I haven’t sent Brucie any money in months, and he still included me.

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Nerds. Shut ins. Man children.

May 27 2008 Published by under Links Of Interest

Thanks for the link, Walt!

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Everyone Will Be Part of a Social Network OR DIE

May 12 2008 Published by under Links Of Interest, Meta Community, Related To Work I'm Doing

Google gets in the act. GoogleSpaceBook!

Wonder what this will do, if anything, to the walled gardens.

FWIW, my vote is “not much.” Look at internet dating – you have eHarmony and Match, and you also have Jdate and Atlasphere. (The latter is a site, with a dating service for people trying to live their lives by Ayn Rand’s philosophy. Wow, a dating service for those who say they’re into open marriages, but later turn out to be less enthusiastic when they get moved to the back burner for a younger sex toy?) Look at internet news. You have the CNN, the BBC, and yet people read Matt Drudge on purpose. Just saying, sometimes people want to specialize.

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Gamers For A Cure, Part 2

Apr 10 2008 Published by under Links Of Interest

I am filled, FILLED I SAY, with loathing for Verizon, Sprint, Long Fence, moving in general, and above all, Maryland. But I finally have a real internet connection, my yard is beagle proof, and really, Maryland is pretty nice except for the weird smell of Yankee you get this close to the border.

It is in support of one of my favorite Yankees that I herald my return to blogging today.

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