1UP.com is reporting that the new Lara Croft model (as in human model, not the mesh) has been unveiled to the world. Apparantly she's taking lessons in archeology so she can answer…um…archaeology questions that will inevitably arise. Yeah. Because those are the questions she'll be getting from the target crowd of 12-40 year old boys. [...]
I may have mentioned somewhere else on this blog that I am a flake. If not, gentle reader, you have certainly inferred it by now. It should therefore come as no surprise that less than a month after re-activating my EQ2 account, I am seriously considering de-activating it. In fact, the decision is pretty much [...]
It is apropos that I should get my first “Happy Valentines Day” greeting from LLPOF. The conversation then went something like this:
LLPOF: Happy Valentines Day Amber.Me: Thank you. Happy Valentines day back at ya. You and the wife doing anything tonight? (oh you just had to ask didn't you?)LLPOF: Yeah, we're gonna go to dinner [...]
I was probably about 10 or so when I first saw Fawlty Towers. I didn't understand a lot of it, but Cleese's physical humor and energy immediately grabbed me and I was a fan. Oh, he did this little thing called "Monty Python's Flying Circus" too. I'm a big Monty Python fan, but when I [...]
One of the better online comics is GU Comics. I like Woody's style, and most of the time he's funny. Actually he's probably funny all of the time, and I'm just occasionally lame and don't get it.
Woody's been penning some online ads for Dark Age of Camelot lately. Like this one. Now is it just [...]
Over at Legal Affairs magazine, Julian Dibbell has written an article wondering if gamers “should pay real-world taxes on virtual treasures.” The argument goes like this: If I kill a monster or player in an online game and am rewarded with the Hammer of Uberness, and I then sell it on Ebay for $20, then [...]
According to this MSNBC article, AOL has “released a study…showing that U.S. women over the age of 40
spend nearly 50 percent more time each week playing online games than
men and are more likely to play online games daily than men or teens.” It's an older article, but it got me to thinking. And I'm not [...]
Blizzard apologizes. Kudos to them, and I'm glad to see them step up to the plate and admit fault. It takes a big person to apologize, but it takes almost an act of god for a big company to apologize. Enough said, they did the right thing, and if you cancelled your subscription over this [...]
I like playing massive online games more than any other type of computer game. I am horrible at first person shooters, my capacity for real-time-strategy ends at about the time I finish de-foresting and pillaging the environment, and I cannot seem to get the hang of console controllers and their “triangle-left-lower-button” combinations. By all rights [...]
The bad news is that his replacement started today. This guy who I shall call LIAR-LIAR-PANTS-ON-FIRE, or LLPOF for short, is simply too incredible to believe. On his first day my boss brings him by and introduces him. He's mid-to-late thirties, and has this annoying habit of bobbing his head all the fucking time. It's [...]