But I’ve been playing Spore a lot, hence the absence.
How is it? Mini-review: It’s like going on a date with a cute girl. She’s smart, funny, makes you laugh, very easy to be around her and you two have a blast. Then you take her home at the end of the evening and realize she’s really a man. As in, she actually has male equipment in the crotch locker. So what do you do? Call it off then? Or go through with it anyway so you don’t finish destroying a great date?
That’s what I’m debating.
In non-gaming news, got ourselves a cheap telescope yesterday. Thought I’d get my oldest son interested in science with some hands-on observing time, and we had a great time with it last night. The moon wasn’t up when we went out, unfortunately, but I could show him the disc of Jupiter, a couple of stars and told him how to spot the Milky Way, and what it was.
It was a very nice night that made me warm and fuzzy. One of the most honored and solemn duties of any geek is to pass the torch to future generations. I feel I’ve started doing that last night.
I was totally going to translate that last post in honor of the holiday, but I discovered that my diction does not convert well. It was just the same with a few “t’” and “be”s.
I have several government meetings on Friday. I will see how many of them are observing the holiday.
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I removed a half-dozen or so sites from the blogroll due to inactivity. If I should re-add you, add you in the first place, remove someone else who has been silent (or not discussing gaming/internet/online gaming), etc., comments are open.
Those who have been purged are saved, just not displaying. Re-adding is easy.
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Two years ago today, I started blogging about MMOs at my old blog, Existential Worlds, though I haven’t written there since joining the KTR staff, June 9th, 2007. It really hasn’t seemed like a long time, but it has been rewarding. I have met so many amazing people, many of whom I now call guild-mates in Casualties of War.
Thanks again to Ethic for welcoming me to his little soapbox in cyberspace, and thanks to all the readers and bloggers who make this hobby so engaging.
~Cyndre
The Large Hadron Collider goes live today. Some people have been concerned that it will accidentally destroy the planet (see first reference), if not a good chunk of the universe. Such worries are overstated; there is an infinitesimal chance that it will destroy part of France.
Just in case, though, watch this site. If the message of the day at “Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?” changes, take the relevant precautions.
: Zubon
HT: Daniel Drucker
Update: xkcd rings in again.
Ardua reminds us about Warhammer 40K. Coming sometime to MMO, yes? In particular, he reminds us of the TV Tropes page for the game. Even if you know nothing about 40K, a category I share outside one RTS, this will give you a sense of the setting that went from “Warhammer in space” to “darker Warhammer in space” to “the World of Darkness is a bunch of fairies that fart rainbows” to “Cthulhu is a fairy who farts rainbows” and then one step beyond for the latest edition. You can still see the six WAR factions (one of which was eaten by bugs).
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And then there was the story of Charles. Chuck, like so many of us, spent too much time online. How much is too much? Let me put it to you this way. When he got down on one knee to propose to his girlfriend, he told her how he felt in words that just sprung from his heart fully formed. He explained that he would never give her up or let her down. He would never tell a lie, never hurt her. She realized it before he did: “Excuse me, are you Rickrolling our engagement, and doing it badly?!”
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